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Scotsman
20-05-2025
- Scotsman
16 magical beauty spots in and around Edinburgh that are well worth a visit
People travel from all over the world to visit the Scottish capital and take in the stunning views and scenery that it offers. We have taken a look at 16 magical beauty spots in and around Edinburgh which prove that our city's status as one of the most picturesque in the world is wholly justified. Many of these spots are perfect for a quick walk when you're trying to escape the hustle and bustle on your lunch break, while others can be visited on a day trip when you need a slightly longer escape into nature. Take a look through our gallery to see just 16 of many beauty spots in and around Edinburgh. 1 . Jupiter Artland Jupiter Artland is a contemporary sculpture park about half an hour's drive from Edinburgh. The 100-acre site combines artwork with nature in a striking way, including this piece by landscape architect Charles Jeneks. Photo: Jane Barlow Photo Sales 2 . Arthur's Seat Arthur's Seat is a focal point in the city and anyone who climbs in can take in beautiful panoramic views of the city from the top. | Third Party Photo: Third Party Photo Sales 3 . Princes Street Gardens Princes Street Gardens is in the heart of Edinburgh city centre and offers stunning views of the Edinburgh skyline. | National World Photo: Callum McCormack Photo Sales 4 . Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a beautiful and tranquil spot in the city where visitors can see a variety of plants from around the world. | Visit Scotland Photo: Visit Scotland Photo Sales Related topics: Edinburgh
The Herald Scotland
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
How ‘gay' penguins at Edinburgh Zoo inspired me
There is a serious intent, though. His is a body of work whose aim is to challenge the idea that queerness is unnatural, and is inspired in part by the story of 'gay' penguins at Edinburgh Zoo. Those penguins aren't alone in forming single sex bonds. Crabs do it. Giraffes do it. Even elephants do it. 'These animals have all been identified scientifically as having same sex pairings, whether it's penguins or cats,' Mr Baldock explains to your correspondent on a walk round the show ahead of its official opening. 'I've made them as animals with a slightly mythological or folkloric element.' Mr Baldock has titled the exhibition Wyrd. It's an old word and therefore a nod to the show's folkloric roots, hybrid animals being a staple of myths and legends the world over. But it also suits the show's author. Jonathan Baldock working on a piece from Warm Inside (Image: Leon Foggitt) 'Weird is a word which has been used to describe me,' he laughs, standing surrounded by his works. 'So I liked reclaiming it and giving it power. I thought that was very beautiful.' There's more to it than just that though. 'From a queer perspective we identify with the monsters,' he adds. 'They're creatures which are often outside the laws of society and they're rule breakers, so I have imbued these animals with these powers.' Among the cast of animals populating the space are unicorns, a double-headed giraffe, two roosters and a pair of snails. Other creatures are of more indeterminate origin. Most are made from sack cloth, giving them a homespun look which suits the overall aesthetic and speaks to Mr Baldock's artistic practice: his other inspiration for Wyrd is the crafting and toy making manuals popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by companies such as Clothkits, and he says he has fond memories of watching television with his grandmother while practising crochet and macramé. Read more The works themselves are circled around a central space, some of them large, others small. But let the eye travel and there are more surprises in store – such as a bird's nest perched on the high mantle-piece with two eggs inside. Many of the works, the eggs included, share the features of Mr Baldock and his partner, Rafał Zajko. Sometimes it's their ears or faces, other times their hands or feet. When the exhibition ends in September, one of the pieces will be cast in bronze and given a permanent home at Jupiter Artland, host already to outdoor works by art world luminaries such as Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Jim Lambie, Rachel Maclean and Cornelia Parker. Let's hope it's the penguins – though the well-endowed unicorns would also make a nice talking point. Wyrd is a new commission and this is its world premiere. But also on show in Jupiter Artland's Lower Steadings space is Mr Baldock's 2021 installation Warm Inside, a collection of cocoon-shaped baskets covered in wool woven by him and suspended from the ceiling. Weird in a different way, they contain more ceramic body parts, though offsetting the spookiness is the lavender seeds which fill some of them and scent the space. Or maybe not: lavender has long been used in funeral rites. So is this womb or tomb? You decide. Wyrd and Warm Inside are at Jupiter Artland until September 28 and July 27 respectively. Screen time One of the lesser commented on aspects of film festivals is that the lucky attendees are often seeing films which are going to be in cinemas in a few weeks anyway. In the most egregious examples it can be a matter of days between a festival 'premiere' and a massive multiplex roll-out. It's not commented on because nobody likes to shatter the illusion of the film festival as a rarefied space for consideration of the cinematic arts. Conversely, however, it's often the case that films with no distribution deal or no slated release date are shown at festivals simply because someone likes them. It's always heartening when you see such a film and love it – doubly so when it does finally make it into cinemas. Lollipop was such a film for me. I saw it at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was blown away. 'Part howl of rage, part redemption song,' was the opening line of my review for The Herald. Lollipop stars Posy Sterling as a young single mother just out of prison and trying to rebuild her life and her relationships with her two young children – not easy in the Catch-22 hell which is the UK's social work system. Written and directed by Daisy-May Cooper, whose own family experienced homelessness, it's an absolute doozie and certainly the best film Ken Loach never made. And now to the point: it's being released in cinemas on June 13. Do watch it. Read my lollipop review here And finally Music, dance, theatre and Britpop come under the scrutiny of The Herald's arts critics this week. Mary Brennan leads the charge with a five star review of Songs Of The Wayfarer at the Tramway in Glasgow. Part of Dance International Glasgow 2025, a Tramway-curated festival of cutting-edge contemporary dance, it was performed by disabled choreographer and singer Claire Cunningham to the 1883 song cycle by composer Gustav Mahler which lends it its title. Read it here Meanwhile it was music by Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Rachmaninov which Keith Bruce heard performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, though the programme's main event was the Scottish premiere of a new trumpet concerto by Scottish composer Helen Grime. Read it here Slightly louder and generally trumpet free was a 30th anniversary celebration by Supergrass of their first album, I Should Coco. That was at a Barrowland which, for once, did not quite rise to the occasion, says Gabriel McKay. Click here to read Finally to theatre, and Neil Cooper was in his usual seat(s) for a play which is much admired in Scotland – Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo, here in a new Scots translation – and another, LIFE, which is now touring after a successful run at last year's Fringe. Both one-person shows, they were at Òran Mór in Glasgow and Edinburgh's Studio space respectively. Read our Mistero Buffo review Read our LIFE review
The Herald Scotland
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
New exhibition to inspire young people to think and act creatively
Jupiter Artland's stunning Ballroom Gallery has been transformed into a zoo of hybrid animals formed from textile and clay. Artist Jonathan Baldock has transformed the likes of penguins, giraffes, crabs and elephants into fantastical hybrids of folkloric and mythological creatures. The title of the exhibition takes the old Norse word 'wyrd' to not just mean strange or different but as an exceptional otherness that is tied to destiny, fate and transformation. Your Art World 10 May-2 November. Entry free. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL. Young people across Scotland have created a dazzling range of artworks for this exhibition. Groups of school children have made inspiring installations while individuals responded to an open call to share their art with the world. At the heart of the exhibition is a goal to inspire and empower young people to think and act creatively while also trying to demystify the creative process and make art accessible to everyone. Watercolours of our Beautiful Fife Coast 10-28 May. Entry free. The Scottish Fisheries Museum, St Ayles Harbourhead, Anstruther KY10 3AB. Yolande Kenny's latest exhibition in Fife has been inspired by the coastlines in the kingdom. Her artworks include small details and portray stories, particularly of how the local animals and birds relate to people going about their everyday lives. Each scene on display in her paintings exemplifies how we all fit into the world together. Works in Progress 10-15 May. Entry free. Whitespace, 76 East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, EH8 9HQ. Works in Progress is an exhibition of collaborative artworks by students at the University of Edinburgh. The works on display were created through, and in response to, a series of intergenerational conversations between each pair of students. The exhibition aims to foster dialogues between different student populations and raise awareness for the unique challenges faced by older students. You're a House of Many Rooms and All the Secrets Deep Entombed Within You, I Know a Few 10-13 May. Entry free. Sett Studios, 127 Leith Walk, EH6 8NP. As the title of the exhibition suggests, the artists on display have explored ideas and meanings around parts of ourselves and other people. Each of the artists on show uses a different discipline to explore the theme making for a vibrant and diverse exhibition. Grid 10-18 May. Entry free. Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, EH6 6ET. Grid is a collection of exciting new works from painter and printmaker Alan Chapman and contemporary jeweller Eleanor Symms. Discover multi-layered, complex and vibrant artworks that combine structure and geometry with colour and impression and see how these two disciplines can come together. Solange Pessoa 10 May-22 September. Entry free. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE. Solange Pessoa (Image: Solange Pessoa) A major new presentation from one of Brazils' most renowned living sculptors is on show at Tramway. This solo exhibition is her first major presentation in a UK institution and consists of large-scale sculptural forms made from ceramic, bronze and Hebridean fleece produced between Glasgow and Minas Gerais, Brazil. There's several clusters of sculptures set up around the vast gallery space that have all been inspired by diverse materials and forms ranging from seedpods, nests, plant life, erratic boulders and Scottish bronze age standing stones, to large-scale sculptures from raw sheep's wool. DIG 2025: RADIOMATON 14-17 May. Entry free. 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE. Delving into truth, construction, media contamination, fake news and the body's role in perceiving information, RADIOMATON is an immersive, participatory digital installation that invites participants to step into a photo-booth-like cubicle where they are challenged to simultaneously repeat words from a live radio broadcast and mimic on-screen gestures. Julie Brook: Artist talk and screening 16 May. Entry from £6.50. The House Arts Collection, 108-110 Napierhall Street, Glasgow, G20 6HS. Since 1989 Julie Brook has been living and making artwork in remote landscapes in Scotland and has also made sculptural interventions in landscapes further afield - working in Italian and Japanese quarries as well as different parts of the desert in Libya. Brook is holding a talk, presentation and screening of a short selection of some of her work on film as well as a short documentary of her life and process. Coming Storm 10-11 May. Entry free. Leith Makers, 105 Leith Walk, Leith, EH6 8NP. Coming Storm (Image: Esther Cohen) Artist Esther Cohen has put together a collection of hand painted tiles, some created back in 2023, as well as new works made this year. Combining her love of dramatic landscape painting with her father's heritage as a respected ceramicist, Cohen has produced original hand painted tiles that capture the beauty of the Scottish seascape and landscape. Alongside the original tiles, the exhibition has a number of woodblock and limited edition prints to discover.
Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
'Extraordinary' park near Edinburgh named among Britain's best hidden gem attractions
Watch more of our videos on and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now An Edinburgh attraction has been named among the UK's best that most people haven't heard of. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... It comes as The Telegraph put together a list of hidden gems to visit on your next day trip. Introducing the feature, the newspaper writes: 'Forget the British Museum and explore one of tlesser-known sites on your next domestic break. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'From a Victorian mansion in the Cotswolds and heading under ground in Suffolk to modern art on the outskirts of Edinburgh and celebrity pubs on the Thames, these attractions all come recommended by The Telegraph's destination experts and span the entire nation. 'They promise not only a queue-free experience, but the chance to explore like a local and discover corners of Britain the crowds often forget – what's more, some are entirely free to visit.' Jupiter Artland, an award-winning contemporary sculpture garden located just outside Edinburgh, off the A71 at Wilkieston,features in the list. Here's what The Telegraph had to say about Jupiter Artland. 'You'll find an entirely new perspective on modern art in this extraordinary sculpture park set in a wooded estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh (take Bus X23 to the gates). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Moving around, on and through works of world-class artists like Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Ian Hamilton Finlay is uniquely absorbing, with children (and adults) welcome to get up close, touch, even swim in a work of art in the Joana Vasconcelos Gateway Pool.' See the full list of the UK's best little-known attractions at The Telegraph's website. Get all of the latest news from the Capital as it happens throughout 2025 — sign up for our breaking newsletter today! Click here to sign up 👇
Scottish Sun
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
‘Extraordinary' Scots attraction named one of the most underrated in the UK
It wasn't the only Scottish attraction that made the list GOT TO GO 'Extraordinary' Scots attraction named one of the most underrated in the UK AN "EXTRAORDINARY" Scottish attraction has been named among the most underrated places across the UK. Scotland is home to several unique and quirky places, so it's no wonder that many receive nationwide attention. Advertisement 7 Jupiter Artland is located in Livingston, just outside of Edinburgh Credit: Alamy 7 The Cells of Life areas by Charles Jencks Credit: Alamy 7 It is full of amazing sculptures like Gateway by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos Credit: Alamy 7 It also has an intricately designed swimming pool Credit: PA And a new study has found that one standout location actually ranks among some of the top underrated spots across Britain. Experts at The Telegraph have ranked the 12 best spots after exploring the country. They compiled the list by considering attractions that have a special quality that makes them worth visiting but are also quiet enough that "you don't need to shuffle shoulder-to-shoulder with the masses for a grand day out". And one of these is Jupiter Artland near Livingston in West Lothian, which the experts describe as "extraordinary". Advertisement This is a huge sculpture park which is packed full of woodland walks, rolling hills, sculptured greens, pools and caves. The attraction, which most people have never heard of, is set over 100 acres of woodland and meadows. You'll find an entirely new perspective on modern art in this extraordinary sculpture park Experts at The Telegraph And it's home to a massive collection of artwork from some of the world's best-known artists, including Antony Gormley and visiting exhibitions from the likes of Tracey Emin It's only open from May to September, and during this time visitors can explore the vast array of exhibits and sculptures whilst taking in fabulous countryside views across the Pentland Hills. Advertisement Several of the artworks incorporate islands or terraced slopes. For example, there is a humanoid steel sculpture by Anthony Gormley or brave a caged hole by Anish Kapoor called Suck. The five-star Visit Scotland-rated attraction was founded in 2009 by owners Nicky and Robert Wilson. Secret 100 acre woodland walk just outside Edinburgh At the time, the pair were on a mission to provide a free school visit for every child in Scotland and tens, if not hundreds, of thousands have passed through the gloriously lavish sculpted gates since. Various artists were given the freedom to express themselves in the landscape and create what is an astonishing outdoor gallery. Advertisement This includes the 'Life Mounds', which are visible when entering the park. Praising the park, the team at The Telegraph said: "You'll find an entirely new perspective on modern art in this extraordinary sculpture park set in a wooded estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. "Moving around, on and through works of world-class artists like Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Ian Hamilton Finlay is uniquely absorbing, with children (and adults) welcome to get up close, touch, even swim in a work of art in the Joana Vasconcelos Gateway Pool." Advertisement But Jupiter Artland wasn't the only Scottish attraction to make the list. Kilmartin Glen in Argyll and Bute was also praised by the experts as being "evocative" and "magnificent". The glen, carved by glaciers in the last Ice Age, is located between Oban and Lochgilphead, surrounding the village of Kilmartin, on the west of Scotland. Britain's best underrated attractions HERE is the full list of The Telegraph's best attractions that most people have never heard of across the UK. Southern Cemetery - Chorlton, Manchester Kerdroya, Colliford Lake - Bodmin Moor, Cornwall Woodchester Mansion - The Cotswolds Jupiter Artland - Edinburgh The Thames Path - London St Peter and St Paul's church - Pickering, North Yorkshire The Regency Town House - Brighton Johnny Wood and Borrowdale Yews - Borrowdale, Cumbria Castle Acre - Norfolk Kilmartin Glen - Argyll and Bute Salmesbury Hall - Salmesbury, Lancashire Grime's Graves - Suffolk/Norfolk It is home to at least 250 ancient monuments, 150 of them pre-historic. Advertisement Nether Largie standing stones and Temple Wood stone circle are some of the best examples of standing stone monuments in Scotland. The Telegraph said: "It's hard to find ruins quite as evocative as those of Kilmartin Glen on the west coast of Argyll. "Begin by overlooking successive burial cairns from the roadside, then pass through fields of black-face sheep to a prehistoric collection of stone circles, cist chambers and henge monuments that are older than Stonehenge, older even than the Great Pyramid of Giza. "Perhaps, though, the wooded glen's most wonderful feature isn't its extra layer of Neolithic or Bronze Age remains, or the rock art sites that are denser than anywhere else in Britain (there are more than 800 at the last count). Advertisement "The most magnificent attraction is that its stories are still being unearthed from the soil by archaeologists — and so much of this history is still waiting to be discovered." 7 The attraction has been named among the best underrated places in the UK Credit: Alamy 7 The Weeping Girl statue at Jupiter Artland Credit: Alamy 7 The standing stones at Nether Largie in Kilmartin Glen, which was also mentioned on the list Credit: Getty
