Christina Neuwirth Christina is a writer and project lead. They write the blog, make drawings, and will continue making artworks about the towers.
christinaneuwirth.com
Maria Stoian Maria is a comics artist and project lead. She made this website. She produced photographs for this collection, and will make comics and drawings for the project.
mariastoian.com
christinaneuwirth.com
Maria Stoian Maria is a comics artist and project lead. She made this website. She produced photographs for this collection, and will make comics and drawings for the project.
mariastoian.com
Felicity InkpenFelicity is a visual artist inspired by science currently based in Leith, Edinburgh.
@felicityinkpen
Laura F
40-something, rough year led to photography as a hobby/focus, bonus if others enjoy the images too.
@isitjustmeorisleithgiant
Malcolm Cruickshank
Malcolm Cruickshank is an interdisciplinary artist working in a broad range of media. He often uses recycled or otherwise unused materials and tries to present his work in a way that challenges the viewer.
@malccruickshank
Jim Cowan
Artist and arts facilitator based in Leith. I explore uncanny spaces through my work, often as a way to understand new places. I like to think of the resulting images as sitting somewhere between the real and fictional.
@jimscowan
Sirui Zhang
Sirui Zhang is an illustrator and visual artist currently studying MA Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. Her practice explores colour, objects, environments and spatial perception through illustration, painting and experimental image-making.
Daisy Mason
Daisy Mason is a Leith local and arts worker.
@daiz.y (tattoo by @homer.loves.marge)
Paul Fuller
Photographer and filmmaker based in Portobello.
@pf_photographer
Kateryna Ustiuhova
Kateryna is a Ukrainian writer based in St Andrews, Scotland. Her work explores displacement, belonging, folklore and the strange forms a new home can take. She writes short fiction and contemporary retellings of Ukrainian folk tales.
@dvonarodgena
Lynne MorrisLynne is an amateur artist attending Leith School of Art and has lived in Leith for 20 years.
Izzy IrvineJournalist working in Leith
Rosie Aspinall Priest
Rosie is an artist, researcher and writer based in Edinburgh. They are currently based at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, developing work exploring queering our relationship to the cosmos.
@rosie.a.priest
Megan Hancock
Textile artist based in Leith
@commuknits
Luke HollandLuke Holland is an Edinburgh based photographer. He specialises in street photography, exploring the interplay between people, light and architecture. His work has previously been shown as part of 2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions at the Scottish Portrait Gallery.
@l_holland32
Gillian WebsterGillian is a writer from Edinburgh who also enjoys photography, Pilates, and travelling.
@small_acts_of_sabotage_
Nitzan Levenberg
Nitzan, a sociologist, has been living in Edinburgh for the past seven years. She is fascinated by the night sky and adores sunsets.
Pam Thorburn
Pam Thorburn is an artist who sketches regularly around Edinburgh with the Edinburgh Urban Sketchers group. She also creates paintings in her home studio, focusing mainly on the still life genre.
@pamthorburnart | www.pamthorburnart.co.uk
Hrishitonoy
I am illustrator and ocassional zine + bookmaker. My practice generally investigates the processes behind that make up archives, collections and langauges. I really enjoy worldbuilding and have more recently started using print and publishing to help the voices in my head speak up.
@hrishitonoyd | hrishitonoy.cargo.site | hrishitonoy.bsky.social
Guy Puzey
University lecturer and translator.
OscarA passerby who usually sees the Yellow Towers on Fridays.
Michael J Durnan
@durnanmichael
Sarah Gorman
Sarah Gorman is a heritage and built environment specialist from the Scottish Borders. Her work focusses on redeveloping historic and traditional buildings across the south of Scotland and central belt.
Tara Jennings
Hi I'm Tara, from Mayo, Ireland. nail artist in leith Edinburgh for past few years, i studied illustration in bcfe Dublin and i really enjoy doing a wide range of art styles on my clients nails ~ creating fun nail designs.
@tarajnailsx
Everard DavyI am a retired journalist. I spent much of this summer visiting my daughter and her young family in Granton. Urban sketching is a great way to really observe the landscape.
nkassiaKasia is a Polish artist and illustrator based in Leith. She draws things she feels and hopes someone else gets it.
Alejandro Basterrechea
@alebphotographer
Joan McN
Mostly a nature photographer, but I like to take photos of Edinburgh, things that come and go, and things old and unusual
@joaniemcnaughton.bsky.social
Colin CohenRetired.
www.missingportraits.wordpress.com in βeta
Emma Swiffen
Emma Swiffen is a Glasgow-based poet, whose work has appeared in Fleet and has been longlisted by the Young Poets Network.
JudithOnly recently (in my 60s) allowed myself to draw and paint as I grew up feeling only skilled artists could do so. Trying not to apologise for it being 'not very good' and just enjoy sketching things for my own journal. My main creative outlet is dressmaking and textiles.
@judithrosalind
Daniel Fennell
(Leith Athletic Social media)
@leithathletic_connected / Leith Athletic Connected on Facebook
Chris ‘dink’ Williams
Chris is a professional cartoonist (dink) whose work appears in publications such as Big Issue and Private Eye.
@dinktoons
May
I am no artist but have provided three offspring and six grandchildren with creative opportunties throughout their lives and always enjoyed the outcomes. When I saw the free barstools I was inspired to submit a bit of fun, having loved the yellow towers all along and heard about your site through my artist son.
Joad Hughes, Kieran Roscoe, Mary Gray, Sophie Bryan
The four of us met at the Trinity Community Croft and share a love of gardening and yellow towers, along with our fellow critters.
Agnes Pachacz
SecretYellow
Sarah Hutton
Sarah Hutton is an analogue and alternative photographer based in Edinburgh.
@35arah | www.sarahphoto.co.uk
Laurie PierceI overlook the Port of Leith. Since moving here late last year, the towers have been a constant companion. Vibrant by day, winking at night, they are somehow joyous in all their industrial rigidity. I will miss them when they leave.
Deirdre ConwayAn Edinburgh resident with a glorious view out her window. I do bit of writing in my spare time outside the day job.
Eleanor BuffamEleanor Buffam is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer, and musician based in Leith.
@eleanorbuffam
Daniel Orejon and András Sata
Rosemary Way
Retired and enjoying time to paint
Alph Thomas
I'm an ancient old git who has spent too many years writing and taking photographs
Claire Seaman
Claire Seaman is a local artist who mostly views the yellow towers from Wardie Bay and Newhaven. Claire generally paints animals but was drawn into this project by the sheer scale and 'otherness' of the yellow towers.
Charlotte Brady
Charlotte Brady is an Edinburgh resident and a member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. She likes beach walks and surprise yellow towers.
John Gilchrist
John Gilchrist is a city bus driver and photographer based in Edinburgh. He spends much of his working life seeing the city from the road, where familiar streets, buildings and unexpected structures become part of an ever-changing urban landscape.
Facebook: johngilchrist.jg
Alice Tarbuck
Alice Tarbuck is a writer based in Edinburgh.
Amy Oliver
I am a UK based self-taught conceptual artist and experimental photographer, and founder and curator of The House of Smalls, a little women-first gallery in Stockbridge.
@fragilityofself
Monty from Leith Walk polisbox popups
Monty likes taking photos on her old Android phone. She also runs Leith Walk polisbox - a pop up space for people with great ideas to get out into the world.
www.leithwalkpolicebox.com | @leithwalk_popups
Sharon Hutton
Nadia Williams
A local since 2004, I have lived and worked in Edinburgh and Leith in a variety of industries. I remain fascinated by the character of Leith and watched it's metamorphosis over the last two decades.
Jim Jarvie
An amateur photographer with a keen interest in action addressing climate change
Jo
Resident of Dockside
Aria
Will Hewitt
Documentary filmmaker based in Edinburgh
@willhefilmit / willhefilmit.com
Astrid McIntyre
Astrid completed her Masters in Architecture in 2025, and now practices as a Part 2 Architectural Assistant, and works freelance as an Architectural Designer. Having taken to photography during university now spends weekends out with her camera.
@astrid_mcintyre | @_studioAJM
Gavin Gilroy
Hobby photographer in and around Edinburgh
@gav_in_chi
Jess Lindsay
An Irish girl, new to Edinburgh, but familiar and friendly with the Yellow Towers.
Mark Steven
Mark Steven is a writer from Cornwall who has lived and worked in Edinburgh for more than twenty-five years. His work has been published by Black Bough Poetry, UK Hillwalking and in the anthologies of the Edinburgh writing group, Twisted Colon.
Sashalb
Long term Leifer - seen it grow and change
Regan Burles
Regan is a Leith resident who loves introducing friends and visitors to the yellow towers.
Chris Belous
Photographer interested in analogue methods and image manipulation. Maker and breaker of things.
Nazaret Ranea
Nazaret Ranea is a poet from Málaga, Spain, based in Edinburgh. Named one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars, her debut collection Nettles (Drunk Muse Press, 2025) explores themes of migration, nature, and work. She has performed on BBC Radio Scotland and at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and StAnza, where she was 2025 Poet in Residence.
@nazasphotodiary
PWP Dunne
PWP Dunne lives in Leith, bakes bread in Fife and writes small stories everywhere.
Romana Docherty
I value sharing reality with the world, breaking down misconceptions by using art as a means of peeling away the veil that society, the hierarchies & the media wishes upon us, this is the core of my artistic practice & everything else an extension upon it.
Lottie
A local Leither!
Emily McLeishEmily McLeish is an Edinburgh resident and regular admirer of the Leith skyline.
Jim Bennett
Victor Meldrew wanna be.
@james.be277
Mike Howard
Edinburgh based photography student
@insta16mag
Timothea Armour
I am an artist and writer living in Leith. I don't normally draw things involving straight lines.
@royorbisoninspace
Stu Anderson
Stu is a photographer originally from the Highlands but has lived in Leith for a decade. He primarily works with film.
@stugone
Jo
Rachel Wallace
Tom Duffin
Rosie
MP
Michele
A Lyall