Thanks to all who came to the #Shooglyholm floating sculpture launch. After a speech by artist Jenny Pope, songs by Sarah Jane Gibbon and Emma Grieve and poetry by Silus Dowdy the sculpture was attached to its mooring by Mark Shiner and Flo Ungaro.
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Orange buoy with Shoogly Holm written on it with permanent marker.
Close up of brightly coloured sail material with stitching. 🧵
Join us TODAY at 3pm at Stromness Museum pier for the Launch of the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture. Everyone’s welcome, expect a chat about the project, singing, a poem or two and cake, and to see the sculpture up close. 🌊 🍰 🎶 #stromness #resilience #climatecrisis #floatingsculpture
Join us for the #shooglyholm floating sculpture launch this Sunday 12 April at 3pm on Stromness Museum pier. There’ll be sharing, singing, reciting and feasting! 🌊🎶🥃 🍰
Poster that reads: Shoogly Holm Floating Sculpture Launch Event. Sunday 12 April at 3pm th Stromness Museum Join artist Jenny Pope to launch the sculpture with cake, poetry, song and a toast. Stromness Museum, 52 Albert St, Stromness KW16 3DH Tel: 01856 850025 / Email: custodian@stromnessmuseum.org.uk www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk
The #ShooglyHolm mooring, an underwater hotel welcoming Stromness sea-life since last autumn, will be topped with a floating sculpture designed by artist Jenny Pope during an uplifting launch event on the Stromness Museum pier, on Sun 12 Apr at 3pm. ℹ️: shorturl.at/CE1EH
Shoogly Holm underwater mooring covered by seaweed
Rope to buoy covered by seaweed
Some red seaweed underwater
A squid on the seabed
Karen Boswarva of Seasearch.org.uk in Orkney discovered a different world under the sea at the #ShooglyHolm mooring and surrounding seabed on Sat, thanks to some recent south westerlies and sunshine. She also took seawater samples for the planktonproject.org.uk 🌊 🪸🦑
Shoogly Holm sketched diagram by Jenny Pope
Katy Firth & artist Jenny Pope discussed #ShooglyHolm on BBC Radio Orkney 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sprx hear all about artistic collaboration with museums, and how citizen science can help people engage with the environment, at 35-44 mins. #citizenscience #marinehabitat #artscience #stromness
The #shooglyholm project with artist Jenny Pope, our “Oceans – Wellbeing – Youth” work with West Mainland Youth Group, Snorkel Safaris, Shoreline Rambles and digital exhibition Living Wrecks: The Marine Life of Scapa Flow all feature in this Museums Galleries Scotland blog post.
Scuba Diver next to te mooring.
View of the beach and sea where mooring is installed.
Ceramic octopus covered in seaweed and marine life.
Marine life on the mooring.
Karen Boswarva & Seasearch Orkney surveyed #ShooglyHolm after 1 month underwater. See how the wee octopus has changed and the marine life in artist Jenny Pope's mooring. 📷: J Kakkonen & Elaina, Seasearch Orkney. ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp (@artecology-iw.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social)
Ceramic octopus with a smiling face.
Are yours the hands behind this happy #shooglyholm octopus? Project artist Jenny Pope would love to know! It’s a lovely, welcoming face for marine life making it their new underwater home. 🐙 🌊
#ShooglyHolmℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
Article in The Orcadian: ‘Underwater bug hotel open for business’.
Read all about it! Stromness Museum features in 3 articles in this week’s The Orcadian, which cover the recent #shooglyholm mooring launch, the new Stromness Energy Safari walking trail and the 'Astrolepis of Stromness' discovered by geologist Hugh Miller as the 'Orkney Object' in the newspaper. 🗞
Shoogly Holm buoy marker, awaiting the floating sculpture.
Ceramic objects to be immersed in Stromness harbour, providing habitat for marine life.
Frame to be submerged as a mooring for the Shoogly Holm floating sculpture.
People Preparing to sink the mooring.
Local creative Samantha Clark spoke to artist Jenny Pope for 'The Life Boat' newsletter, to discuss the collaborative #ShooglyHolm project, finding resilience and buoyancy through making, and ‘Art in an Emergency’.
🔗: lifeboat.substack.com/p/art-in-an-emergency
#ShooglyHolmℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
" Tentacular Flamboyantia "
"Perposteri Junkulus "
"Seaweed Rosy Dew Drops"
Some fantastic creations from artist Jenny Pope's #shooglyholm workshops with Orkney Blide Trust members, who were inspired by one of our shoreline rambles!
ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
(@creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social)
View from the boat
Shoogly Holm mooring
Ceramic pieces in the mooring
Sea life
Snorkelling to the #ShooglyHolm underwater sea-life hotel! 🤿
ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
📷 by Karen Boswarva & Katy Firth
(@creativescots.bsky.social, @jpopstudios.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social )
Left to right: Jenny Pope, Dr Gareth Davies of Aquatera and Katy Firth of Stromness Museum
Far left: Ali Skene of Aquatera reading some Robert Rendall poetry
The boat at sea beside an Orkney flag
The boat securing the mooring, as the Graemsay boat passes behind it.
The #ShooglyHolm sealife hotel is open! Thanks to all who helped build the mooring's ceramic village, and those who toasted its launch today with @jpopstudios.bsky.social, a wee dram and some homely Orkney poetry.
ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
(@creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social )
Jenny Pope with Shoogly Holm and Poppy the dog.
The #ShooglyHolm mooring is ready, and Poppy the dog is very excited! Join us tomorrow, Sat 20 Sep at 9-10am to toast its launch with a wee dram, some Orcadian poetry and a few words by artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social.
(@artecology-iw.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social)
Jenny Pope & Katy Firth working on the mooring.
Jenny Pope & Katy Firth working on the mooring.
Community-made ceramic pieces.
Today @jpopstudios.bsky.social is working on the #ShooglyHolm mooring, inc. attaching community-made ceramics. Pop by to say hello before 3pm!
Project partners: oisf.org, blidetrust.org.uk, aquatera.co.uk, emec.org.uk, @creativescots.bsky.social, @artecology-iw.bsky.social, kerrianneflett.com
Shoogly Holm mooring frame
SHOOGLY HOLM Part II: Mooring Installation with artist Jenny Pope 19-20 Sept 2025 Everyone’s invited to drop in and see the installation of a new mooring and sea-life habitat in Stromness Harbour. Outside Stromness Museum: Fri 19 Sept 10am-3pm Public viewing of mooring construction completion, including the attachment of community-made ceramic pieces fired by Kerrianne Flett, with Jenny Pope mortaring these inside frames donated by EMEC. Outside Stromness Museum: Sat 20 Sept 9-11am Launch of the floating sculpture with the help of a boat into Stromness Harbour. Jenny Pope will toast this underwater bug hotel with a wee dram, some Orcadian poetry and a few words. Stromness Museum, 52 Albert St, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3DH Tel: 01856 850025 Email custodian@stromnessmuseum.org.uk www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk
Join us this Fri 10am-3pm at the Museum, to see @jpopstudios.bsky.social completing the #ShooglyHolm mooring construction, inc. attaching community-made ceramics.
Project partners: oisf.org, blidetrust.org.uk, aquatera.co.uk, emec.org.uk, @creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social.
SHOOGLY HOLM Part II: Mooring Installation with artist Jenny Pope 19-20 Sept 2025 Everyone’s invited to drop in and see the installation of a new mooring and sea-life habitat in Stromness Harbour. Outside Stromness Museum: Fri 19 Sept 10am-3pm Public viewing of mooring construction completion, including the attachment of community-made ceramic pieces fired by Kerrianne Flett, with Jenny Pope mortaring these inside frames donated by EMEC. Outside Stromness Museum: Sat 20 Sept 9-11am Launch of the floating sculpture with the help of a boat into Stromness Harbour. Jenny Pope will toast this underwater bug hotel with a wee dram, some Orcadian poetry and a few words. Stromness Museum, 52 Albert St, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3DH Tel: 01856 850025 Email custodian@stromnessmuseum.org.uk www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk
You're all invited to see the #ShooglyHolm mooring and sea-life habitat installation in Stromness with artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social next week. 🌊 tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
(Project partners are oisf.org, blidetrust.org.uk, aquatera.co.uk, @creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social)
Shoogly Holm is a floating sculpture created by artist Jenny Pope, designed to be a habitat for marine life and a source of citizen science data for Stromness Museum and the Orkney International Science Festival. The project is a collaboration between Jenny Pope, Stromness Museum, Orkney Blide Trust, and the Orkney International Science Festival.
The #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture project with artist
@jpopstudios.bsky.social features as a 'Peedie Tale' in this week's The Orcadian newspaper. Read all about it! 🗞️
Project partners are oisf.org, BlideTrust.org.uk, Aquatera.co.uk, @creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social
People making making underwater bug hotels
Artist Jenny Pope at work
We're busy with our drop-in morning. @jpopstudios.bsky.social is chatting about the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture project & making underwater bug hotels with folk. Our Climate Change Exhibitions & Outreach Officer Katy Firth is talking about seaside wildlife.
Two girls getting creative during one of Jenny Pope's workshops.
Jenny Pope working with a workshop participant.
Tomorrow's a drop-in day, Sat 26 July 10am-12pm. Artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social will share citizen science, the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture, her drawings, models & process. Project partners: Orkney It'l Science Fest, Blide Trust, Aquatera, @creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social
Shoogly Holm mind map
Look out for @jpopstudios.bsky.social this Stromness Shopping Week, who’s hoping to chat about climate change, sealife and her #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture. Project in partnership with Orkney It’l Science Fest., Aquatera, Blide Trust, @creativescots.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social.
Artist Jenny Pope
Small ceramic sea-life habitats
Renewables Revolution poster.
Make ceramic pieces for the #ShooglyHolm sculpture mooring by @jpopstudios.bsky.social:
🕧 2-5pm today, Robert Rendall building, #StromnessShoppingWeek Renewables Revolution day.
🗓️ 10am-12pm Sat 26 July at our Drop In. Funded by @creativescots.bsky.social, technique from @artecology-iw.bsky.social
3 small ceramic sculptures
Artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social is leading workshops with The Blide Trust this week, helping members combat eco anxiety & make ceramic sealife habitats that'll join the #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture, in partnership with Orkney It'l Science Fest., Blide Trust, funded by @creativescots.bsky.social
People snorkelling in the sea
Thanks to Kraken Diving for today’s snorkel safari. We saw jellyfish, crabs, eels, wrasse, sticklebacks & more. All recorded by Seasearch Orkney and enjoyed by artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social, who’s creating a #shooglyholm floating sculpture funded by @creativescots.bsky.social.
📸 Lisa Williamson
The Orcadian newspaper 10 July 2025, page 13.
Read all about it! Artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social’s
#shooglyholm floating sculpture project features in this week’s The Orcadian newspaper 🗞️ (project in partnership with oisf.org and blidetrust.org.uk)
Shoogly Holm Launch Event on Tue 22 July 2025 at 7.30pm. Jenny Pope will present her inspiration, research ideas and progress for her project Shoogly Holm. She will describe how visual art can become an intentional habitat for marine life and a starting point for citizen science. She will be joined by Jenni Kakkonen, from Orkney Harbours Marine Environmental Unit to explain local marine colonisation and settlement. A chance for an informal conversation and discussion with local people and visitors. Entry is free though booking is required. Please book your tickets.
We're hosting the launch of @jpopstudios.bsky.social's #ShooglyHolm floating sculpture project on 22 July, where she & Jenni Kakkonen of orkneymeu.co.uk will discuss local marine life and conservation. Project in partnership with oisf.org & BlideTrust.org.uk. Details & booking: shorturl.at/7wUzz
Group snorkel in the Stromness sea.
Join our Snorkel Safari with Kraken Diving, Sun 20 July to learn about life under the waves. You can chat with artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social about her #ShooglyHolm sea sculpture project, delivered with Stromness Museum, The Blide Trust & Orkney International Science Festival. shorturl.at/pDiNU
Sea life underwater
Artist Jenny Pope at work.
We’re working with artist @jpopstudios.bsky.social, who’s creating a Shoogly Holm floating sculpture with Orkney folk that’ll be home to sea life while gathering data for Stromnes Museum & Orkney International Science Festival (OISF).
#ShooglyHolm is in partnership with OISF & The Blide Trust.
