SKIN OF THE CITY - Walk 2

Artists guided walk reflecting on Dalmarnock’s lithic landscape starting at Bridgeton Cross and ending at French Street), with Minty Donald and Nick Millar. The walk culminates at Strange Field, French St where participants are encouraged to view the exhibition Skin of the City. Click here to book your free ticket.

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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 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,…