Artist Directory
Out of the Blue currently houses over 200 artists, arts organisations and other creative businesses at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Abbeymount Studios, NMR Studios (Niddrie Mains), Meanwhile in Leith and Out of the Blue Music Studios. The list below is a selection illustrating the range and quality.
Artists: To update your directory entry or add content, email marketing@outoftheblue.org.uk
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Laia Jufresa grew up in the cloud forest of Veracruz and spent her adolescence in Paris. In 2001, she moved to Mexico City and discovered she didn’t know how to cross a street. She’s been writing fiction ever since. She is the author of the short stories collection El esquinista and the novel Umami, which has been translated to English, French, French pocket book, Italian, Dutch, Turkish and Polish, with the Finnish and Danish versions forthcoming as well. It was chosen as the best first novel in Spanish at the 2016 First Novel Festival in Chambéry, France, it was the recipient of a PEN Translates Award and a finalist of The Best Translated Book Award 2017. Laia’s work has been featured in several anthologies as well as magazines such as Letras Libres, Pen Atlas, Words Without Borders and McSweeney’s. In 2014 Laia was invited to write chronicles for the crossing Border Festival in The Hague, and in 2015 she was invited by the British Council Literature to be the first ever International Writer in Residence at Hay Festival in Wales. For it’s 30th anniversary the festival selected “30 young novelists, scientists, philosophers, performers and activists who are astonishing and inspiring to join us in Hay. These writers and thinkers will help imagine and shape the world in the next 30 years”. Laia is honored to be one of them. She has also been named as one of the most outstanding young writers in Latin America as part of the 2017 project Bogotá39 and from Mexico by México20.
Lighthouse Art Therapy
Categories: Arts Education, Uncategorized Lighthouse Art TherapyThe Out of the Blue Drill HallContact: Manny Soora
What is Art Therapy?
Through the process of art making, we can explore our own thoughts and feelings in a non-judgemental way, exploring our emotions that are sometimes difficult to discuss.
Areas that I can help with are: mental health, low self-esteem, depression, relationships, bereavement, eating disorders, self-harming, suicidal thoughts, bullying. I offer 1:1 and group sessions for adults and children in person or online.
Children’s surface pattern design and illustration
Lost Map Records
Categories: Music/Sound Engineering Lost Map RecordsOut of the Blue Drill HallLOST MAP RECORDS was established in 2013, from The Pictish Trail’s caravan home on the Planet Eigg (56°54’N, 06°10’W). A brand new micro-label and collective unshackled by style or genre, it was formed with a pioneering spirit to reassess how we discover and explore music amid the disorientating digital geography of the 21st century.
Lost Map was able to immediately give shelter to an uprooted tribe of amazing artists including Rozi Plain, Kid Canaveral, Seamus Fogarty, Randolph’s Leap, eagleowl, Monoganon and Pictish Trail. It’s those names and many more yet to be encountered that will lead Lost Map on its creative adventure, through physical and digital releases, events, festivals and all destinations in between.
Louise Gray
Louise GrayThe Out of the Blue Drill HallPainting, mostly in oils, in Edinburgh and East Lothian. Inspired by the light, weather and seasonal phenomena. Occasionally also by strange beasts and plants.
Each painting is influenced by the preparation of the surface and materials, often based on very old recipes and techniques.
As a contemporary jeweller, living and making work in Edinburgh, my current work is based on abstract mark-making. Inspired by the spontaneous compositions of debris washed up on beaches along the East coast of Scotland, it is centred around Wabi Sabi aesthetics. Finding beauty in the ephemeral, imperfect nature of these formations, they are developed into jewellery using mixed-media mark-making as a tool. The jewellery that results from this process is intended to appear as abstract, sculptural drawings that can be worn on the body. Techniques such as enamelling, etching and patination are used to create a subtle, muted colour palette that focuses of depth of texture and tone, as well as a wire inlay technique that allows me to drawings directly into sheet.
