Collective – Scavenger Collective

Posted on 11/10/202511/10/2025 by scavco

Summer Workshops: August 2023

During the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2023, we embarked on our first series of workshops aimed at engaging the public with the arts through the circular economy. The workshops expanded on themes introduced during the production and showcase of our exhibition in June earlier that year. Our aim was to connect the public with our methods of production, thereby engaging people with our process.

Over four days, participants had the opportunity to learn a method of paper making, intaglio printmaking using discarded tetrpaks, weaving from scrap materials and mending their clothes with spare/scrap thread and patches of fabric.

We’d like to thank everybody who helped to organise these events, and all the creative everyday people who took part.

Posted on 08/04/202508/19/2025 by scavco

Memory Town

On the 25th of March, 2025, we hosted a workshop in collaboration with the HOUSE LIGHTS* exhibition in the Whitespace Gallery.

Participants were invited to recall places of importance from their past and recreate them from their memories. We made prints using recycled packaging and tetrapaks to construct a collaborative “Memory town”, with each individual image coming together to form a tapestry of collective memory.

Memory can form new truths that are separate from the moment in which we are remembering. Certain aspects are exaggerated and amplified, others completely omitted, based on what holds emotional significance to us. And so, we become an unreliable narrator in our own story. The workshop aims to confront this head on, allowing unreliability to take physical form through the “Memory town”.

Posted on 05/25/202508/19/2025 by scavco

Scavenger collective: Inaugural Exhibition

Cover image: Patchwork Logo, by Arley Stuffins

FEATURED PIECES

Corner Chair – Alicia Gerhardstein

Rope Chair – Delan Aribigbola

Rope Lamp – Delan Aribigbola

Contributors
Alicia Gerhardstein
Arley Stuffins
Cath-Wren Abbess
Delan Aribigbola
Issy Pountney
Leoni Dimond
Matilda Bull

Posted on 05/15/202508/08/2025 by scavco

Bring your clothes back to life!

In April 2025, we hosted a workshop in collaboration with Sketchy Beats Café, centring around reviving old clothes with lino prints.

Participants were given a series of books, photographs and objects as inspiration. Some chose animals, some chose buildings in their area, some even made up their own design from scratch. What drew everyone together was the novelty

This didn’t stop our scavengers from creating high quality prints within a few hours. Leaving the workshop space, participants had essentially gotten a two-for-one deal; a new skill, and a garment brought back from the dead.

A massive thank you to Sketchy Beats Café for allowing us to use the space, and for every talented person who took part!

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