Jupiter Artland

Categories: places, art

Date: 09 June 2010 19:47:52

For my birthday outing this year, I chose to go to Jupiter Artland, which I discovered randomly after doing a Google search to try and find out if there were any Antony Gormley sculptures in Scotland. It is in the grounds of a private posh house near Edinburgh, and as you walk round the grounds (mostly forest, but some open ground as well which itself has been turned into a huge installation called Life Mounds) you keep coming across random bits of sculpture. Two of my favourite sculptors (Antony Gormley and Andy Goldsworthy) have pieces here, but there were plenty of other things to discover.

I have put a couple of pictures up here, but also done a flickr gallery of selected photos (I took nearly 200, I'm sure you'll be amazed to hear!) here. It's well worth a visit. I think it's only open in the summer, Friday to Sunday, but if you get the chance and it's a nice day it's a lovely serene place (well, apart from the constant sound of planes, as it's not that far from Edinburgh Airport). You can get round the entire site in around 2 hours. This giant orchid sculpture (called "Love Bomb") was one of my favourites - it's 12 metres high and absolutely bonkers.