Guest review: Some kind of love – actions and reactions to living on a damaged planet

Exhibition review by Dave Pritchard Cull (part of Fire Complex). Video and audio installation. Photo: Dave Pritchard “It’s past the size of dreaming” declared Cleopatra, in a different story of love[1] – but as efforts to grapple with enormities go, the exhibition reviewed here (and however/wherever it may next ripple onwards) is a gem that... Continue Reading →

Reblog – James Aldridge: Walking Out

This blog is from James Aldridge and discusses his river-focused practice and his thinking about beavers and their practice, imagining how they are connected. Over the last few months I’ve been parking up and walking out from some of the towns and villages sited along the Bristol Avon and its tributaries, as they run through... Continue Reading →

Earth Climate Scotland – Viviana Cecchia

Recording of Viviana's presentation which focuses on her unique perspective on 'the ecological turn', a move towards a more ecologically connected art institution, one that can expand towards multispecies understanding. https://vimeo.com/1121159934 Viviana Checchia is currently Director of Void Art Centre in Derry, where she instigated a living practice of Social Permaculture. Viviana is also Co-Director... Continue Reading →

Earth Climate Scotland – Deirdre O’Mahony

This is the video of the first Earth Climate Scotland (ECS) discussion with artist Deirdre O'Mahony, talking with over 30 participants about her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. https://vimeo.com/1112887154 Deirdre O’Mahony is a visual artist living in Ireland. Public artworks X-PO (2007- ) and SPUD (2009–2019) both... Continue Reading →

Guest Essay: Cabrach Reconnections, an art project investigating how people live in a specific place

This photoessay has been developed by the artists Mary Bourne and Lynne Strachan to highlight the Cabrach Reconnections project, started in 2021 and ongoing. You can follow @cabrachreconnections on Instagram. For details of the event on Sat 14 June 2025, see below the story. Introduction The Cabrach is a remote depopulated area of desolate beauty... Continue Reading →

Guest Review – Dave Pritchard on ‘See Here Now: Art in a Time of Urgency’

“…as an act of defiance as a way to care as a way to think differently as a capable future as a way to find out what’s in it for the forest…”Extract from “What’s in it for the Forest?  The Writing on the Wall” – text exhibit by David Haley Jools Gilson in Weathering by Mary Wycherley (2023).... Continue Reading →

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