Su Grierson has, with the assistance of Jan van Boeckel, collected her blogs from her residency in Fukushima Province in Japan which were posted to ecoartscotland. She has added a lot of new images which did not originally feature. The blogs describe her time meeting and living with people affected by the tsunami and nuclear... Continue Reading →
Oil, photography
Following up on Louis Helbig's presentation at Edinburgh College of Art comes Suzaan Boettger's review in Brooklyn Rail of three books of photography of oil landscapes, Burtynsky's Oil, J. Henry Fair's The Day After Tomorrow: Images of our Earth in Crisis, and Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America. The review addresses the approaches of the... Continue Reading →
Tar sands and restorative justice
Louis Helbig's talk on his project Beautiful Destruction yesterday afternoon at Edinburgh College of Art brought together some interesting elements: environmental destruction in remote northern Alberta, national economic benefits, the role of the arts, the relevance of this to Scotland, Jim Hansen's arguments about tipping points in climate change, the need for civic discourse and... Continue Reading →
Banner
We've just updated our banner. It's a remix by Betsy Davis, who did it last year for ecoartscotland's residency in Tent at ECA. The colours are from the landscape of Lewis, where Betsy had been developing an installation in the landscape.
From Fukushima – Pt.7
I am now at Narita airport heading home with some final thoughts on my 10 week art residency in Fukushima province in Japan. After my previous blogs Chris Fremantle asked me what is ‘normal’ in Fukushima. Well, that depends on whether you are a displaced person living for the last two years in temporary accommodation... Continue Reading →
Steep Trail Walk & Talk in St Andrews botanical garden
Steep Trail, the ongoing art and ecology programme inspired by the life and work of John Muir, has an exhibition of work resulting from residencies in China, plus an opportunity to 'walk and talk.' Winter Walk & Talk, Sat 2 Mar 2013, 1.30pm, St Andrews Botanic Garden (Canongate, St Andrews). Linked to FCA&C's exhibition Steep... Continue Reading →
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