Dr Andrew Demetrius
@demetrius-art.bsky.social
Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
Dancing Oaks
Gallery 495, Cellardyke
12 July - 30 September 2025
Open 24/7
I am showing new work at the Gallery 495 phone box community exhibition space by Cellardyke harbour, about ecology, pedagogy, and public art made in response to the local landscape of the East Neuk.
Gallery 495, Cellardyke
12 July - 30 September 2025
Open 24/7
I am showing new work at the Gallery 495 phone box community exhibition space by Cellardyke harbour, about ecology, pedagogy, and public art made in response to the local landscape of the East Neuk.
July 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Dancing Oaks
Gallery 495, Cellardyke
12 July - 30 September 2025
Open 24/7
I am showing new work at the Gallery 495 phone box community exhibition space by Cellardyke harbour, about ecology, pedagogy, and public art made in response to the local landscape of the East Neuk.
Gallery 495, Cellardyke
12 July - 30 September 2025
Open 24/7
I am showing new work at the Gallery 495 phone box community exhibition space by Cellardyke harbour, about ecology, pedagogy, and public art made in response to the local landscape of the East Neuk.
A reminder that the Tory propaganda (press) are vile misogynists, regardless of Labour’s despicable policy.
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A reminder that the Tory propaganda (press) are vile misogynists, regardless of Labour’s despicable policy.
Highlight of the Mike Nelson show @fruitmarket.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Highlight of the Mike Nelson show @fruitmarket.bsky.social
Life, apparently.
June 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Life, apparently.
Now available for Edinburgh birthdays, weddings, barmitzvas, etc.
June 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Now available for Edinburgh birthdays, weddings, barmitzvas, etc.
Spot the eider nesting.
April 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Spot the eider nesting.
Modern nature.
March 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Modern nature.
“Yeah, I’ll put the barcode sticker right there…”
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Yeah, I’ll put the barcode sticker right there…”
Finish at David Harding’s mighty concrete Henge, 1970, a new town modernist response to the local Neolithic landscape.
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Finish at David Harding’s mighty concrete Henge, 1970, a new town modernist response to the local Neolithic landscape.
Readymade concrete sections and brick were repurposed with artistic intent.
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Readymade concrete sections and brick were repurposed with artistic intent.
Sculptures designed for incidental play rather than “play sculptures”. Works were often named by the community.
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sculptures designed for incidental play rather than “play sculptures”. Works were often named by the community.
Entering Pitteuchar precinct and more play oriented sculpture.
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Entering Pitteuchar precinct and more play oriented sculpture.
After a necessary but rather disappointing Americano we moved on to Grass (Poetry Circles), 1977, by David Harding, Alan Bold and Hugh Grant. Sadly in poor condition with text only legible thanks to the moss.
February 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
After a necessary but rather disappointing Americano we moved on to Grass (Poetry Circles), 1977, by David Harding, Alan Bold and Hugh Grant. Sadly in poor condition with text only legible thanks to the moss.
Lunch break in the shopping centre, home of Children’s Tiles with space age motifs.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lunch break in the shopping centre, home of Children’s Tiles with space age motifs.
Passing hippos and the Heritage.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Passing hippos and the Heritage.
David Harding, Industry, 1971.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
David Harding, Industry, 1971.
Art in architecture, cast concrete panels by Robertson and John Gray.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Art in architecture, cast concrete panels by Robertson and John Gray.
Art in infrastructure, Malcolm Robertson and Alan Bold, Life Cycle underpass mural. Now a bat roost.
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Art in infrastructure, Malcolm Robertson and Alan Bold, Life Cycle underpass mural. Now a bat roost.
Walking from Balfarg henge to David Harding’s Henge in Glenrothes, beginning with the new town Neolithic at Balbirnie stone circle #publicart
February 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Walking from Balfarg henge to David Harding’s Henge in Glenrothes, beginning with the new town Neolithic at Balbirnie stone circle #publicart
7/7 The poetry goes some way to offset the wall’s robust solidity, as the wave-shaped symbol moves left with each descending line, suggesting the motion of waves passing through the letters. Note: the green paint is a later addition.
February 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
7/7 The poetry goes some way to offset the wall’s robust solidity, as the wave-shaped symbol moves left with each descending line, suggesting the motion of waves passing through the letters. Note: the green paint is a later addition.
5/7 The poem ‘Wave’ was originally realised in book form, an example of concrete poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed in part or entirely by visual means, using form, pattern, letters, words and typographical devices.
February 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
5/7 The poem ‘Wave’ was originally realised in book form, an example of concrete poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed in part or entirely by visual means, using form, pattern, letters, words and typographical devices.
2/7 Wave Wall (1977) was a collaboration between Barns and artist-poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, a substantial buttressed concrete retainer onto which five poetry stanzas were sandblasted in Latin, German, Italian, French, and English.
February 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
2/7 Wave Wall (1977) was a collaboration between Barns and artist-poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, a substantial buttressed concrete retainer onto which five poetry stanzas were sandblasted in Latin, German, Italian, French, and English.