On the outskirts of Edinburgh the grounds of one country estate have been turned into a haven for contemporary art.
Jupiter Artland at Bonnington House, Kirknewton, features site-specific work of the scale normally reserved for large art galleries or public spaces. In fact it’s a private collection owned by Robert and Nicky Wilson, who opened it up to the public in 2009. Many artists found in the Tate Collection have made a home for their work here, and this film highlights a few of these: Antony Gormley’s enormous ‘expanded field’ sculpture, ‘Firmament’; Laura Ford’s eerie ‘Weeping Girls’; Cornelia Parker’s spectacular ‘Landscape with Gun and Tree’ and Jim Lambie’s ‘A Forest’.
We spoke to Nicky and Robert about how the artists responded to the site, and filmed some gratuitously beautiful Scottish scenery.
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