Stéfanie Bourne’s Red Herring Shop has moved from the Empty Shop to the Brander Garden.

Deveron Arts have created a swapping stall where you can exchange your vegetables, herbs and fruit with other local produce of kinds and varieties you might not find in your garden. Come and have a look, give and take for free.

The Brander Garden is situated at the back of the Brander Library, The Square. Go around the building to McVeagh Street. The first entrance on your right is a white gate which leads you to the garden with the swap stall and to Deveron Arts’ office.

Swapping time 9.30-5pm weekdays from now til 2 October 2010.

About Red Herring

For her residency, Red Herring at Deveron Arts in summer 2010, Stéfanie Bourne is currently looking into food-mileage and carbon labelling.

The project is a three month action research process engaging professionals and the general public on a learning journey concerning food distribution. Understanding the implications of food mileage can be realised by following a product through its distribution process; from the choice of material, packaging, manufacturing, processing route and method of distribution. Each of these stages contributes to the footprint of carbon emission for each product, and therefore constitutes the mileage undertaken by this product.

Bourne will investigate the individual decision making process and address the billions of acts we are doing in our everyday lives that have an impact on food distribution. The final journey will take place on the 2nd of October 2010 and a return journey is planned to France for 2011. You can follow her project and contribute at her ²blog.

Stéfanie Bourne lives and works with her family in Brittany, France. She studied Environmental Art in Glasgow under David Harding and since then worked extensively in Scotland, France and other European countries. In 2004 she participated in the acclaimed Artists at Glenfiddich programme and recently installed an interactive public art work for the Contemporary Art Biennial, “Ce
qui vient”, in Rennes.

Stéfanie???s multidisciplinary approach explores the nature of art in the public space and proposes interactions that underpin her
work. She is one of the leading pioneers of collaborative arts in Scotland which manifests itself through immersion and investigation. These discursive works, of mainly oral forms, are revealed in the public space.Working on the informal, relational, and oral aspects of art; Stéfanie Bourne???s methodology is
based on the integration of already constituted groups in her artworks.

www.stefaniebourne.net/