

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Student Beach Walk, Seaweed Foraging and Guided Exhibition Tour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am – Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for Beach Foraging and a Guided Exhibition Tour - a collaboration with the University of St Andrews’ Environment Network.About this EventJoin the St Andrews Botanic Garden in collaboration with the University of St Andrews’ Environment Network for a Beach Foraging and Curator’s Tour!Starting on East Sands in front of the Cheesy Toasty Shack at 10am, we will be following the guidance of local foraging expert, Tony Wilson, to explore the coast’s kitchen. The adventure will continue in St Andrews’ Botanic Garden where attendees are invited to a free curator tour, learning about the biodiversity mission and research journey of our town’s beautiful botanic garden.Come February 25th at 10 to learn more about our natural world ??About the ExhibitionSt Andrews Botanic Garden is pleased to present ‘Treasures of the Deep’, a week-long group exhibition at the Boiler House. The exhibition features historical specimens from our algal collections, contemporary artworks, and diverse cultural perspectives on seaweed.This exhibition is part of a three-month programme called ‘Treasures of the Deep’, inspired by our ongoing research into the history of St Andrews Botanic Garden as part of SABG Across Time. Using our algae collections as a starting point, the programme brings together artists and scholars for conversations that offer new perspectives on our relationships with the natural world - past, present, and future.The specimens on display provide insight into the Garden’s extensive herbarium, especially its historic seaweed collections. Although often attributed to a principal collector, these collections represent a wider network of contributors, some of whom remain unrecorded. Alongside the renowned Victorian Margaret Gatty Collection, the Garden holds the former University collection and works from local collectors, including Helen Blackler and James Jack. This exhibition presents a small selection, offering an introduction to the richness of these archives. While originally compiled for scientific study, their display also highlights their artistic and cultural significance.Seaweed has influenced society, culture, and science for thousands of years. In Scotland, interest in seaweed is growing across research, literature, art, and business. Collecting and working with seaweed has long connected people with nature and each other. Its unique and unpredictable qualities continue to inspire creativity.The artworks in this exhibition explore seaweed as both material and subject. We are pleased to partner with Edinburgh Printmakers to present works that demonstrate a range of printing techniques, including photogravure, monoprint, stencil printing and dyeing, cyanotype, seaweed and squid ink and salt printing, and screenprinting.Seaweed (film) by Julia Parks examines the folklore, ecology, and history of seaweed in northern Scotland. Oban Seaweed Gardens’ Sea Ceilidh features photographic prints of six collective members swimming in a circle, symbolising nature’s connective forces. Their installation, created with seaweed and microalgae ink, reveals the diverse colours of seaweed and highlights the fleeting, light-sensitive, and ever-changing nature of pigment.Seaweed Poems by Helena Hunter brings together algae, language, and ecology. Each poem, composed with found, dried seaweed, explores human relationships with marine plant life. Based in the North East of Scotland, Portia Knight’s practice engages with collecting and cataloguing, opening a dialogue with Victorian seaweed collection traditions.Ellen Martin’s prints combine art and design, using a range of printing techniques with textiles and seaweed. Employing screen printing and cyanotype processes, Nicky Sanderson’s work draws on the intertidal zone and marine environments.Ocean 2 by David Faithfull is an interactive environmental installation that addresses concerns about microplastics and marine pollution through printing with seaweed, squid ink, and sea salt. With a background in biology and landscape design, Alison Grant’s We Are Ocean series explores seaweed and the ocean as dynamic planetary forces, reflecting on planetary systems and interconnected ecologies.In the coming months, the Garden will continue to display specimens from the collections, including at the SABG Across Time: Share Your Memories event on March 21. The public is invited to explore the research to date and share personal memories of the Garden.Special thanks to our partners Streamtec and Edinburgh Printmakers, as well as Jillian Galbraith, Rina Anshina, and Anna Vegh.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: St Andrews
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: St Andrews Botanic Garden
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- **full address**: St Andrews Botanic Garden, Canongate, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am
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