Show me how you love by Eilidh Weir

It starts with your sons and the moths in the garden and ends with every being that has ever taken a breath or grown a leaf.

The enormity of that love takes place across quilts, stitched and woven baskets and mended textiles. Every stitch an act of celebration and grief.   

For the once tiny feet that fit into little socks, and the hands whose toil produced them.

For the plants who provide homes to our most necessary insects, so often yanked or sprayed with ecosystem toppling poisons. 

For the land bearing the consequences of our greed, and demand for convenience.

Show me how you love offers an alternative way of existing and caring. 

It integrates ecological thinking, story telling and traditional textile techniques and explores decomposition, biodiversity, repair and overlooked systems that sustain every day life.

Eilidh Weir is a multidisciplinary artist based on the edge of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. They graduated from GSA in 2007 in illustration and after years working in design and slow fashion, has found their way back to story telling. 

Their practice is deeply inspired by gardening and close observation of ecological systems.

Composting, soil life, insects and weeds all inform work that explores relationships between people, materials and the natural world. 

Alongside studio practice Eilidh facilitates workshops in mending, reuse and textile skills with a wide range of organisations and communities, encouraging more thoughtful relationships with making and materials.

Preview on Friday 10th July 6-8pm. Open to the public Mon-Fri 9-5pm.