Juli Bolaños-Durman x The Farm Shop

Edinburgh & Grymsdyke Farm

Summer 2023

Spirited Waste III embodies this experimental dialogue between unwanted objects collected from the local community, the artist’s personal library of glass collected from around the world and Grysmdyke Farm’s rich material archive. 

These three-dimensional portraits of courage, come together to materialise into spirited beings; driven by a courageous act of compassion and reinvention.

The objects created are inherently imprinted by the farm's ethos of communal and collaborative approach and how these essential connections between the rawness of design processes, making and situation guide them into becoming authentic objects depicting their place of origin and time.

Furthermore, Juli’s one week visit to the farm with her portable hand-cutting lathe, informed the mark-making inspired by the walks through the field of beautiful wild flowers mixed with wonderful sculptures from previous architecture students. The constant reference to structures and how the problem solving of the Farm is mostly through an architectural lens, guiding the artist into being influenced by this and therefore, imprinting the collection.

By giving breathing space to waste material, these have a chance to become anew with lots of capability for charm and depth. The ultimate purpose is to invite a shift in our perception on the potential of the waste and how we can reimagine it into something of beauty.

Series of 10 sculptures –

Materials: Found Glass with hand cut-details inspired by the Farm, Discarded Copper Wire and objects collected from Grymsdyke Farm's workshop and its surroundings.

Measurements:

Smallest – 28H x 30W x 11D cm

Biggest – 43H x 27W x 18D cm

Photography: George Baggaley & Jaro Mikos