Come to the Dark Side of the South Side outdoor exhibition launch for a chance to chat about local history and legend while admiring the history and art exhibition created during workshops at Southside Community Centre.
Dark Side of the South Side is a heritage community art project created by Beetroots Collective for Edinburgh 900, and inspired by the research of a local Edinburgh Southside historian and writer, Diarmid Mog.
Beetroot’s artists Marta Adamowicz and Robert Motyka organised art workshops, where participants created illustrations for a local history exhibition while discussing history, lore and legends of Edinburgh’s Southside with Diarmid Mogg. The workshops were a great way to get to know the neighbourhood and its dark secrets, and provide a route to discover the history of buildings that are still standing or might have long ago perished.
The 2025 edition of the project was presented as an outdoor exhibition in the heart of Newington, on the Southside Community Centre.
Marta Adamowicz is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and illustrator of Polish origin, based in Glasgow. Her artwork has been a part of many, prestigious festivals and exhibitions in Scotland and London. Her work is concerned mainly with social issues and the natural world.
Robert Motyka is an award-winning Projection Artist, Video Creator and Lecturer with over 20 years of experience in the creative industry. He’s a human rights activist supporting migrants’ rights and the Polish LGBT+ community.
Diarmid Mogg is a writer and researcher in Edinburgh. He is the author of the websites Tenement Town (tenementtown.com), and the award-winning Small Town Noir (smalltownnoir.com), which tells the life stories of the ordinary people featured in a cache of old mugshots from one small Pennsylvanian town. He is currently writing a non-fiction book about the lives of the people involved in a 1905 murder in a Glasgow tenement.
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