Earth Matters

Earth Matters is an exhibition organised by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in creative partnership with Susanna Beaumont, Design Exhibition Scotland.

Thirty contemporary artists, designers, and makers have come together in Inverleith House gallery, at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, for a remarkable celebratory exhibition. Partnering their new pieces with historic works, Earth Matters is a multidisciplinary salute to soil. It marks the 300th birthday of James Hutton, the “father of modern geology” who transformed world thinking about the very ground beneath our feet. 

It is a particularly fitting place - and event - for Hutton’s tercentenary. Soil is one of the most powerful agents for supporting life and storing carbon. It is dynamic, complex, alive with fungi, bacteria, and other organisms. And it has been a medium for art down the centuries and around the world. 

Earth Matters features work by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Louise Bennetts, Stevi Benson, Stefanie Ying Lin Cheong, John Clerk of Eldin, Constanza Dessain, Joan Eardley, Nancy Fuller, Cara Guthrie, Ilana Halperin, James Hutton, Adam Johnston, John Kay, Tania Kovats, Viv Lee & Jonathan Wade, Becky Little & Tom Morton, Sekai Machache, Maria McStay, Kevin Andrew Morris, Kelly Murray, George Perry, Carol Rhodes, Natalie Taylor, Graeme Todd, JL Williams, Clare Woods, Eleanor White, Alberta Whittle, Crunch Willoughby, Fiona Young, and more.