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Highlands: Eden Reeve imagines a future Scotland, littered with robotic ruins

On wandering around the D&AD New Blood festival last week, I discovered the work of Eden Reeve, a recent Illustration graduate from the Edinburgh College of Art. Appealing to my obsession with all things dystopian and apocalyptic, it would seem the concept artist enjoys similar interests as her artworks centre around themes of sci-fi, space and the "expectations of the future".

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A mechanical creature with skeletal limbs treads across a snowy wasteland towards a distant futuristic city shrouded in mist, in Eden Reeve's illustration from Highlands

For this particular body of work, entitled Highlands, Eden created a series of illustrations set in a future Scotland. "Throughout the Highlands and the Pentlands of Edinburgh, scattered robotic ruins and marks have been permanently left in the landscape," she explains. "Highlands focuses on themes of organics meeting technology, the old and new, and the idea of consumption and pollution."

She continues: "The plot follows a wanderer and her friendship towards three P.1.G Farming Units she has found in an undisturbed part of the northern Highlands, tending to an abandoned village. The antagonist, the Cat Sith, roams the landscapes in search of power and energy to consume. When the P.1.G's are forced to leave their secluded, self-contained village they embark on a new adventure."

These incredible pieces are initially sketched in pen and then developed further in digital formats such as Photoshop and Blender. Her sculptures are all 3D printed and hand-painted. Discover more of her work at edenreeve.com.

A massive metallic circular tunnel entrance glows with internal light as a small figure stands before it in a desolate, dystopian landscape with aircraft debris scattered nearby
A massive weathered robotic structure stands abandoned in a barren Scottish highland landscape with golden grassland and distant mountains under hazy sky
A tilted robotic spacecraft sinks into turbulent waves along a misty Scottish coastline, with rocky shores and mountains visible in the distance
A wanderer and robotic farming units traverse misty Highland terrain beneath towering mechanical ruins in Eden Reeve's dystopian Scottish landscape
A robotic creature with trailing cables runs across a snowy landscape towards a distant futuristic city shrouded in mist, from Eden Reeve's Highlands series
A 3D printed P.1.G Farming Unit sculpture with a blocky grey body, four stubby legs, protruding antenna and dried plant material emerging from its surface
A black 3D-printed robotic creature with elongated limbs and mechanical joints stands over a prone figure in Eden Reeve's futuristic Scottish landscape series
Three grey robotic P.1.G Farming Units with white faces and green plants growing from their heads, shown from different angles against a dark background
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