SKIN OF THE CITY - Architecture Fringe 2025

Skin of the City is the most recent iteration of the ongoing project, Erratic Drift, an evolving body of work about humans’ interrelations with the urban lithic, about stone and cities. 

Glasgow/Madrid-based artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar, with Madrid-based landscape architect and ecological thinker, Malú Cayetano, turn their attention to the hard, stony and manmade surfaces of urban environments: strata of concrete, asphalt, granite, sandstone, and brick, marking out a city’s boundaries, forming membranes between street and earth, between within and outwith.

At the core of the project is an installation of 3000+ fragments of stony matter that have flaked, chipped or crumbled from the walls, pavements and roads of Glasgow. The fragments are installed on the gallery floor, to form a lithic map of the city.

Skin of the City reflects on how, like our human skins, the city’s skin is continually changing and decaying – and being patched…