EAFS CONTEXT MAP
An overview of some of the cultural factors that shape, and are shaped by the land in Dumfries & Galloway.
The 2013 and 2015 festivals were both deeply rooted in the landscape of Dumfries & Galloway but the 2013 festival covered much of the region, hills, coastline, rivers and forests. The 2015 festival aimed to create an interesting debate and discussion but focused on one area in Upper Nithsdale that sits just above the valley and below some high hills, a good place for contemplating the future. In 2013 we worked with many landowners and managers including Barony College, Forestry Commission Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage. For the 2015 festival we had full access to Morton Castle and its surroundings and were able to set up a temporary community thanks to the Duke of Buccleuch.
Matt Baker was deeply involved in the development of an environmental art map for the programme in the first festival. The multilayered map was an artwork in itself. For the 2015 festival Matt worked closely with artist/architect Andy McAvoy to produce user friendly maps which helped people connect to the EAFS community at Morton Castle and the wider landscape. Good mapping has been crucial to help people connect confidently with the land and the region.
NB – not all these sites are accessible to the public
Focus Points
Associated with ideas, events and connections
1. Luce Sands – ancient gathering place
2. Logan Garden – botanical gardens
3. Portpatrick – closest port to Ireland
4. Purgatory Burn – boundary of leper colony, Glenluce Abbey
5. Corsewall – gardens laid out in troop formation of Battle of Corunna
6. St. Ninian’s Cave – shoreline retreat of Scotland’s first saint
7. Wigtown Martyr’s Stake – Covenanting site
8. Dry Stone Walling Association – founded in Fleet Valley
9. Gatehouse of Fleet – planned settlement
10. Anwoth Kirk – ruin and Wicker Man film location
11. Rhonehouse – ancient horse fair
12. Alternative lifestyles – Laurieston, Orchardton, Kilquanity, Wickerman
13. River Doon/River Dee watershed
14. Wigtown – book festival town
15. Kirkcudbright – artists’ colony
16. Sanquhar – Covenantors’ Declarations
17. Devil’s Beef Tub – covenanting and reiving
18. Sources of Clyde, Annan, Tweed – between Elvanfoot and Moffat
19. Lochwood Oaks – ancient woodland
20. Samye Ling – Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
21. Scots Dyke – Scots/English border
22. Durisdeer – Duke of Queensberry tomb, Covenanter graves and Roman Road
23. Knockengorroch – World Ceilidh
24. Red Kite Trail
Survivals
Remains from other times
1. Mull of Galloway – earthworks
2. Kirkmadrine – early medieval monuments
3. Cairnerzean Fell – Bronze Age Settlement
4. Whitefield Loch – Crannog
5. Torhouse Stone Circle – Kirkowan
6. Whithorn Priory – Early Christian Centre and School of Sculpture
7. Barsalloch Fort – earthwork
8. Knockman Wood – Neolithic Cairns and Corn Drying Kiln
9. Cairnholy – Neolithic Burial Monument
10. Trusty’s Hill Fort – Pictish symbol carvings
11. Mote of Urr – earthwork
12. Dunragit – one of the most important Stone Age sites in Scotland
13. Polmaddy – pre 1700 village
14. Lochrinnie Mote and Bailey
15. Sweetheart Abbey
16. High Banks, Kirkcudbright – Cup and Ring marked Stones
17. Caerlaverock Castle
18. Glenluce Abbey
19. Glenlochar Bastle and Fermtoun – Reiving stronghold
20. Ruthwell Cross – earliest Anglo-Saxon inscription
21. Burnswark – Roman Fort and Ballista siege
22. Lochmaben stone – gathering place and marker
23. Mote of Mark – early medieval Fort and Metal Foundry
24. 12 Apostles Stone Circle – Holywood
25. Nith Bridge Cross – Thornhill
26. Promontory Fort – Caspin
Force Fields
Resources and energy in landscape
1. Salt Pan Bay – smuggling site
2. Loch Ryan – industry and military
3. The Scares Islands – gathering plastic and guano
4. Garlieston – practice site for D-Day Landings
5. Galloway Forest – commercial plantation
6. Ken Valley Hydroelectric Scheme
7. Tongland – Galloway Car factory and hydro power
8. Dundrennan – military zone
9. Polwhat Rig and Gallow Rig – Windfarms
10. Wanlockhead and Leadhills – lead mines
11. Loch Doon – Aerial Gunnery School 1916
12. Clyde Wind Farm – Elvanfoot
13. Corncockle Quarry – historic sandstone quarry
14. Chapelcross – former nuclear power station
15. Proposed Data Farm – Ecclefechan
16. Open Cast Mining – Crawick
17. Minnygap Wind Farm – Ae
18. Gretna WW1 Munitions Factory
19. Dalbeattie Granite Quarries
20. Creetown Granite Quarries
21. Robin Rigg – offshore wind farm
22. Stevenscroft – Biomass Power Station, Lockerbie
23. Buccleuch Estates – largest private landowner in Britain
People and Places
1. Miss Flora Stuart of Mochrum – pioneer Belted Galloway cattle breeder
2. William Nicholson – poet ‘The Brownie of Blednoch’
3. Gavin Maxwell – author and naturalist, Monreith House
4. John McNellie – author ‘The Wigtown Ploughman’
5. John McTaggart of Borgue – author ‘The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia’
6. James Beaumont Neilson – Hot Blast Iron Making – monument, Ringford
7. James Clerk Maxwell – physicist, Parton
8. Emerson and Carlyle – poets, stayed at Craigenputtock
9. Robert Burns – poet, Ellisland
10. Old Mortality – sculptor, Dumfries, Newton Stewart, Balmaclennan
11. J. M. Barrie – playwright, Dumfries
12. James Hogg Poet – St. Mary’s Loch / Ettrick Forest
13. Hugh MacDiarmid – poet, Langholm
14. Kirkpatrick McMillan – inventor of the bicycle, Keir Mill
15. Robert Burns – poet, Dumfries
Contemporary Environmental Art
1. New Luce ‘Nineveh’ – Matt Baker
2. Rosnes Benches – Dalziel and Scullion (in progress)
3. Dark Skies Residency – Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman
4. Striding Arches – Andy Goldsworthy
5. Star of Caledonia – Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks (in progress)
6. Penkiln Burn – Bill Drummond
7. Creetown – various works: Hideo Furuta, Iain Cant, Alex Rigg, The Stove (in progress)
8. Cairnsmore / Dromore – Matt Baker and Mary Smith
9. Crawick Artland – Charles Jencks (in progress)
10. Look North – Andy Goldsworthy
11. Shinglehook – Matt Baker
12. Wickerman site – Trevor Leat and Alex Rigg
13. The Ploughshare – Will Levi Marshall
14. 7 Stanes – Gordon Young
15. Galloway Forest Park – Colin Rose, Matt Baker, Doug Cocker, Jim Buchanan and others
16. Grizedale Forest Sculpture
17. Little Sparta – Ian Hamilton-Finlay
18. Garden of Cosmic Speculation – Charles Jencks
19. Glenkiln – Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Jacob Epstein
20. Millenium Cairn – Andy Goldsworthy
21. MacDiarmid Memorial Langholm – Jake Harvey
22. Wanlockhead – Buchanan + Varley (in progress)