In addi­tion to our other announce­ments about our spe­cial pre­view night events we thought you’d also love to hear about what’s going on in Cocken­zie House…

Three Sculp­tors in the Garden

© Jenny Pope

This is a response from three local sculp­tors to the unique coastal loca­tion and his­tory sur­round­ing Cockenzie.

Jenny Pope is an artist based in Leith. She makes del­i­cate porce­lain pieces as well as large con­crete forms. She is inspired by beach combing, collecting and respond­ing to inescapable changes in our lives. Cur­rent work com­bines the struc­ture of bones and rock for­ma­tions with eroded surfaces.

Ettie Spencer is a sculp­tor who works mainly in the out­doors mak­ing gen­er­ally large-scale often, tem­po­rary pieces. Using a vari­ety of mate­ri­als rang­ing from the indus­trial to things that grow, she is inter­ested in explor­ing our rela­tion­ship to both the nat­ural and urban envi­ron­ments and how the two inter­act and affect our lives. Past projects are doc­u­mented on her website

Richard Webb is a sculp­tor who makes robust out­door works of clay and steel, often fired together. Mass, pres­ence, and marks made by peo­ple in the past and present are themes that con­tinue in his work.

Jonathan Wood will be per­form­ing live at the Sculp­ture open­ing at Cocken­zie House. He is a musi­cian who has been writ­ing songs for 40 years. He per­forms songs which are both sen­si­tive and hard-hitting, evok­ing aspects of our psy­cho­log­i­cal, emo­tional and polit­i­cal lives, in a modal style rooted in blues, jazz and folk music.

Pre­view infor­ma­tion:
Vis­i­tors will be able to help them­selves to free juice. Wine and beer will be on sale by the Cocken­zie House Her­itage Group at Cocken­zie House.

Fri­day 1st June: 19:30 — 21:00

Image on pre­view page — © Ettie Spencer