Extraction

11th April - 26th July 2026

Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh

"Extraction explores how energy systems shape culture, land and belief, through work by artists Carol Rhodes, john gerrard, Marguerite Humeau, Siobhan McLaughlin and John Latham. Their practices are set in dialogue with Jupiter’s own layered landscape, where traces of the shale gas industry, North Sea petroleum economy and contemporary renewables are simultaneously visible.

Rather than presenting energy history as linear progress, Extraction reveals a repetitive cycle built on belief, optimism and inevitability. Each energy era produces material wealth, cultural identity and technological confidence. Each eventually becomes residue, memory or monument. This exhibition investigates and reflects upon the emotional and ideological structure of energy systems, considering labour, identity and landscape without nostalgia or triumphalism. After the erosion of energy systems, what remains is infrastructure, waste, altered land and symbolic fragments."

"Siobhan McLaughlin works from the ground up. Works from the ground up. Her paintings are made using earth pigments gathered directly from the Five Sisters Bing, the vast red shale heap that dominates the West Lothian skyline within view from here. Turning waste, pollution and cast-offs into medium, McLaughlin weaves the deep history of extraction together with present questions of biodiversity and resilience. Her practice asks what it means to look carefully, and generatively, at what has been left behind."

See the full exhibition text and artist list here

See exhibition write up in The Art Newspaper by Louisa Buck here