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We had a lovely morning at Cample last Friday for our February Meet & Make session. Led by Kate, the group spent time creating small accordion books using recycled cardboard, inks and folded paper - making pocket books and sketchbooks for drawing and painting. It was great to see so many inventive covers and creative approaches emerging around the table.

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After the session we gathered for a light lunch, enjoying a batch of delicious bagels freshly baked by our intern Trinity in Cample kitchen... they didn't last long!

Thanks to everyone who joined us 🙏

Our Meet & Make sessions take place on the last Friday of each month, offering a welcoming space for creativity, conversation and making together. Our next session will be hand-dyed eggs, celebrating the arrival of spring! Tickets can be booked via our website (link in bio).

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02/27/26

We’ve just come to the end of our second February residency at Cample Line, welcoming Minty Donald and Nick Millar for a week of place-based research in partnership with Nithraid, initiated by EcoArt. Working with the River Nith and its wider catchment, Minty and Nick explored the provocation: “a river is not a line on a map.”

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Their time here was spent thinking about how rivers are named, mapped and imagined - and how we might understand water as something seasonal, mobile, sensorial and more-than-human. Their conversations have moved between tributaries with evocative local names - cleuch, gutter, grain, sware - and larger questions: What does it mean to name a river? Who gets to name it? How might we relate differently to water if we didn’t reduce it to a line?

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As part of their research, they also visited the archives at Drumlanrig Castle, meeting historian David Munro and studying historical maps of the Nith and its tributaries. They were struck by the individuality and artistry of these early maps - intricate keys, detailed colour coding, distinct styles, even occasional flourishes and imaginative elements.

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Minty and Nick’s practice often asks how we might collaborate with water, stone or landscape, and how inherited systems of representation shape our relationships with the more-than-human world. We’re grateful to have been part of this unfolding dialogue, and look forward to seeing how their research develops towards Nithraid 2026.

Our thanks to Minty and Nick; to Nithraid and EcoArt; to David Munro for generously sharing his knowledge of the Drumlanrig archives; and to the River Nith itself 🙏

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01/30/26

We’re really looking forward to welcoming Catherine Street to Cample Line next week for a week-long residency taking place from 2–8 February.

Catherine will be using her time here to focus on collage, sound and performance, developing new work on paper and carrying out quiet, wintery sonic explorations of Cample’s surroundings. We’re delighted to have her as our fourth February resident, continuing a residency programme that has become a regular part of our year.

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As part of the residency, Catherine will also lead a collage-making workshop on Saturday 7 February, 1–3pm (booking required).

You can find full details about Catherine's residency and workshop on our website.

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Catherine Street is an artist based in Edinburgh. Her previous projects include collaborative work with NHS Dermatology in Edinburgh, a film commission for LUX Scotland celebrating the work of Margaret Tait, and solo exhibitions at The Reid Gallery (Glasgow School of Art) and Sierra Metro in Leith. She has undertaken residencies at Hospitalfield, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and previously at Cample Line as part of Rough Mix with Magnetic North.

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01/26/26

Our first film screening of the year takes place on Friday 13 February, and we’re delighted to present Samsara, a remarkable and immersive work by Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño.

Described as “a transcendental experience”, Samsara unfolds in two parts across two continents. Shot on 16mm film, it offers a deeply sensory cinematic journey through spiritual belief, ritual, and cycles of life, death and rebirth.

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The film moves from a Buddhist temple in Laos — where prayer and daily life unfold alongside a young man reading from The Tibetan Book of the Dead to a dying woman — to Zanzibar, where a young girl names a newborn goat Neema (Arabic for “blessing”), and everyday work, care and generational knowledge shape community life.

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Between these two worlds is a sensory intermission, in which audiences are invited to close their eyes and experience a shared moment of light, colour and sound — a passage between one dimension and another.

As Wendy Ide has written, Samsara is “unlike anything else you will experience in the cinema” — a film best encountered collectively.

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01/26/26

Samsara (2023, 113 mins) Friday 13 February 7–9pm (doors open 6.30pm) Tickets: £8 / £5 / £2 (sliding scale) Complimentary refreshment included

You can watch the trailer and book tickets via the link in our bio, visit our website, or call us on 01848 331000