It is possible that the words of the 19th C naturalist John Muir have never been so pertinent as they are today. He undoubtably viewed the natural world from within nature saying, ‘Most people are on the world not in it: From our position within a global, yet increasingly disparate culture, perhaps it is timely to ask where we place ourselves in relation to the nature of our surrounding environments?

The theme and ethos of this open exhibition is inspired by John Muir’s writing and has drawn together 28 established and emerging contemporary artists and poets from across Scotland and beyond.

Drawing & painting, sculpture, film and artists books are installed within the whitewashed stone walls of, what would previously have been John Muir’s garden, individual works contributing to a burgeoning ecological dialogue embedded in the very fabric of this place, John Muir’s Birthplace in Dunbar.