'Trashion' exhibition opens at Scottish Maritime Museum
09 June 2025
We were delighted to be at the Scottish Maritime Museum on Saturday 7 June for the opening of the 'Trashion' exhibition.
The thought-provoking intergenerational community exhibition challenging everyone to help look after our planet open has been curated by a group from Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre with the support of the Museum team.
It was made possible by the additional support of Keep Scotland Beautiful and the Our Heritage, Our Future programme.
The exhibition, which centres on ‘fashion art’ pieces created using rubbish, explores the marine pollution emergency caused by industry, fast fashion and our own personal choices and invites everyone to think about the small changes we can all make in response.
Katie O’Donnell, our Communities Manager, said: “We know that clothing is the most environmentally damaging type of household waste and our Upstream Battle® campaign has highlighted the damage caused to our precious blue spaces by our consumption habits.
“We were delighted to bring our knowledge together through Our Heritage, Our Future to support the members of Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre to realise their vision of creating an exhibition to draw attention to the urgency of climate change, particularly in this vulnerable coastal area.”
Jennifer Pless, Community Engagement and Development Officer at the Scottish Maritime Museum, said: “It has been hugely rewarding to work with members of Irvine Seniors Forum and Discovery Group and Irvine Youth Legacy Centre on our latest community-led exhibition.
“The group has made a hard-hitting but encouraging and personal statement with ‘Trashion’.
“Together, they took ideas and themes from the Museum maritime heritage and arts collections and added their own thoughts on climate change to create outfits that tell a story about our impact on the environment and their hope to make a difference in everyone’s daily actions.”
The exhibition will be open until 3 August so please do get along and visit. Entry is included in museum admission.
Our Heritage, Our Future is working with communities across Scotland to explore, record and protect their heritage, and to take action locally on the impacts of climate change. Keep Scotland Beautiful worked alongside the Scottish Maritime Museum during the project to support skills development by delivering an accredited qualification in building exhibitions.
