Slags, bings and pipelines: Edinburgh landscape offers fitting backdrop for exhibition on fossil fuel extraction
Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper
April 2026
This dramatic terrain makes Jupiter Artland a perfect setting for Extraction (until 26 July), an exhibition that explores the impact of our seemingly insatiable need for power—a show made all the more topical by the current energy crisis caused by the US-Israel war.
Yet Extraction is not just another polemic against fossil fuels and nor is it an environmental manifesto. Housed in Jupiter’s gallery spaces but in dialogue with its outdoor surroundings, it brings together the work of five artists who each in different ways present a more nuanced view of energy histories. These histories are regarded not so much as linear progressions than as repetitive cycles built on ideas around wealth, technology and cultural identity. The artists in Extraction reflect on the cultural and ideological as well as the environmental legacies of energy systems and the landscapes, both physical and emotional, that they shape. […]