The artists in Dear Earth aren’t resigned to despair but instead embrace a sense of discomfort which looks to a future with creativity and purpose in mind. Each work in this exhibition reflects care for the planet and the value of our efforts to save and understand it, offering a glimpse of hope and positive change.

Dear Earth features work by Ade Adesina, Helen O’Brien, Jeni Reid, Jenny Pope, Naomi Mcintosh, Scott Hunter, Susie Johnston, Will Carey and Zoe Hamill. Each of these artists have reflected on their own relationship to a fragile and precarious world, and through their practice have found a way to respond. Brought together with different perspectives from across Scotland, they explore an experience many of us can relate to.

Drawn from OnFife’s collections, the exhibition features works by leading Royal Scottish Academicians, including Elizabeth Blackadder RSA, John Houston, Frances Walker, Anne Redpath, William Gillies, John Bellany, Kate Downie, William McTaggart RSA, and the Scottish Colourists, among others.

Many of the artists represented were born in Fife or have strong and lasting connections to the area, making Living Colour a celebration of both national artistic achievement and local cultural heritage.

• Get creative with the dinosaur magnetic mix up
• Transform yourself into a burrowing bunny or fantastic fox
• Try your hand at fossil hunting and find buried treasures in the dig pit
• Lose yourself in a good book in the underground tree burrow
• Watch Mary Anning – Fossil Lady, a short film about the famous palaeontologist Mary Anning and her fabulous fossil finds, created and performed by Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre. Scroll down to see a trailer for the show.