Skin of the City is the most recent iteration of the ongoing project, Erratic Drift, an evolving body of work about humans’ interrelations with the urban lithic, about stone and cities.

Glasgow/Madrid-based artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar, with Madrid-based landscape architect and ecological thinker, Malú Cayetano, turn their attention to the hard, stony and manmade surfaces of urban environments: strata of concrete, asphalt, granite, sandstone, and brick, marking out a city’s boundaries, forming membranes between street and earth, between within and outwith.

At the core of the project is an installation of 3000+ fragments of stony matter that have flaked, chipped or crumbled from the walls, pavements and roads of Glasgow. The fragments are installed on the gallery floor, to form a lithic map of the city.

Skin of the City reflects on how, like our human skins, the city’s skin is continually changing and decaying – and being patched and replaced. It considers the consequences of covering the earth with hard stony matter: limiting biodiversity and exacerbating the effects of flooding or heat. It reflects on the toxic burden permeating the skins of many post-industrial cities.

The Skin of the City exhibition is accompanied by a series of walks and events, alongside a screening programme.

Skin of the City is one of three events for Architecture Fringe 2025 hosted by New Future Construction School.

The Skin of the City exhibition opening times:

June 10th-14th: 14:00-17:00
June 15th: 11:00-17:00
June 16th: Closed
June 17th-22nd: 11:00-17:00

Accompanying events and screenings:

June 14th - 11:00-14:00 – "Whose cathedrals are we building?"
June 14th - 14:30-16:30 – Walk 1
June 18th - 18:00-20:00 – Lithic Lens | Architecton (+ short)
June 19th - 18:00-20:00 - Show and Tell
June 20th - 18:00-20:00 - Lithic Lens | Last Things
June 21st - 11:00-13:00 - Walk 2