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On September 1, 2019, four artists – two Chinese and two British – gathered at Haymarket railway station in Edinburgh, en route for Oban and thence to Carscaig on the Isle of Mull. It was planned as the first stage of an international collaboration involving residencies, travel and exhibition.
The four, Kate Downie, Helen Goodwin, Ju Hongshen and Professor Xu Yun, had taken part in other exchanges and projects in China and Europe.
Goodwin, currently based in Brighton, worked from 1999 to 2007 in China, where she had met the two Chinese artists. Downie had completed two previous residencies in Beijing in 2010 and 2013, and it was during the latter that she had met the Chinese duo.
Their time at Carscaig was brief