Sat 16 Aug
|St Mary's Cathedral
Drawings for a Regenerative Cathedral
A set of original digital prints set and wall-based ink drawings, exploring a ‘regenerative’ cathedral during the climate crisis. By Sarah Gittins and Jonathan Baxter, with resident art project A+E.
Time & Location
16 Aug 2025, 10:00 – 16:30
St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Pl, Edinburgh EH12 5AW, UK
About
Seven A1 digital prints set within a landscape of wall-based ink drawings. The work explores Donna Haraway’s understanding of tentacular thinking and the cathedral’s rebranding as a Regenerative Cathedral.
Entangling these two ideas through prints and drawings we ask what a Regenerative Cathedral might look like, taste like, feel like, smell like, sound like, and move like if it adopted a tentacular-regenerative response to the climate and ecological crisis? Specifically, we ask:
How can this place support multispecies flourishing? How can the cathedral respond to the triple crises of climate change, species loss and wider environmental collapse? In what small but significant ways can the cathedral be a beacon through difficult times to address contemporary environmental and social injustices?
Some of the drawings show the ways in which the cathedral community and its art and ecology programme have already undertaken action to support human and more-than-human flourishing. Other drawings envision…