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 →
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 →
Review of ‘Thinking with the Harrisons’
Iain Biggs has reviewed Anne Douglas and my book 'Thinking with the Harrisons' on his blog here http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2024/10/thinking-with-the-harrisons-re-imagining-the-arts-in-the-global-environmental-crisis-leuven-university-press-october-9th-2024-a-review/ He says of our project ...they write both as observant participants working from direct first-hand involvement in the Harrisons’ processes, and from a researcher’s concern with rigorous creative ‘thinking with’. Thinking that in the course of their... Continue Reading →
Guest Blog: What happened to celebrate World Bog Day? A report from the Shetland Isles
Raising awareness and appreciation of Scottish Peatlands Carys Mainprize and Kerry Morrison.Education and Communications Officer and Socio-Ecological Artist StandLookTwistThrowQuadrat crosses airQuadrat landsI lookWhat’s in thereCotton grassesSedgeSphagnumHeatherSundewsSlugInsects – tinyWaterPeatQuadrat landsWhere quadrat fallsI drawSeven timesKerry Morrison 2024 Peatlands inspire action, whether that be education, the restoration of degraded peatlands, the uncovering of past life, or creating work... Continue Reading →
‘STUMPED: an opera about mythology and deforestation’ Guest Review by Rachel Clive
...meta moments don’t just add a bit of humour, they also urge us to think more deeply about the place of art in exploring human understandings of deforestation. Each myth (or mythical extract) that is shared in STUMPED shines a different light on this understanding, often highlighting human connections historically with individual tree species. STUMPED... Continue Reading →
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