#arts4treescapes

The NERC led Treescapes Programme specifically articulates a requirement for Arts & Humanities involvement. The Programme Ambassadors are using #treescapes and we’d encourage practice-led researchers in the arts, curating and producing to use #arts4treescapes to discuss the programme and to highlight relevant practices and projects.

For example, as a ‘starter for 6’, the following are all significant, widely-published researchers working through practices with significant engagement with trees, woods and forests in arts, performance and literature:

Collins+Goto‘s work with the Blackwood of Rannoch:
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Amy Cutler‘s Leverhulme Fellowship on trees and forests
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Cathy Fitzgerald‘s work with the Hollywood Forest and promotion of continuous cover forestry policy in Eire
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Dee Heddon‘s Walking Library
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Amanda Thomson‘s work including A Scot’s Dictionary of Nature
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In terms of the ways that cultural programming speaks to #Treescapes there are two current examples worth considering:

Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s programme Shades of Tay, undertaken in partnership with The Enchanted Forest and including including The Birch Tree Speaks by Timberlake Wartenbaker, A Man Stands in a Forest by Peter Arnott, and Beautiful Boy by Douglas Maxwell.

The Hayward Gallery’s current exhibition Among the Trees (introductory video below)

Look out for #arts4treescapes on Tw (and probably Insta too)