This is a guest piece by artist Ruth Hardinger on artist Aviva Rahmani's Pushing Rocks blog. "The global warming potential of CH4 has been upgraded by IPCC to at least 86 times stronger than CO2 during a 20 year time frame of this gas, and 105 times stronger over a 10 year time frame. Methane,... Continue Reading →
Camilla Nelson: An Oakwoods Almanac in Review
There is much to explore in this Almanac of entries, some more sculpted than others, compiled by the poet Gerry Loose as he wandered the familiar and foreign oakwoods of Sunart and Saari in 2007, 2008 and 2010. An Oakwoods Almanac is arranged in two parts. The first, ‘Sunart’, takes its name from the... Continue Reading →
Donald Urquhat – Recurring Line
Donald Urquhart’s drawing, RECURRING LINE, in full visibility phase at the Irish Museum of Modern Art RECURRING LINE : NORTH/SOUTH A line, measuring 1 x 100 metres, was delineated and planted with Common Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis). The line runs due north and south. Each year, as winter yields to spring, the work announces its presence... Continue Reading →
Samantha Clark on Brett Bloom’s Petro-Subjectivity
Samantha Clark, artist and currently Phd student of creative writing, attended Camp Breakdown Break Down this summer at SSW and has responded to Brett Bloom's book 'Petro-Subjectivity: De-Industrializing Our Sense of Self' in the following text. Drawing on variously Ursula Le Guin, mysticism and Deep Ecology, Henry David Thoreau and Murray Bookchin, Clark's riff on... Continue Reading →
Anne-Marie Culhane: Earthwalking
Editor's Intro: Anne-Marie Culhane creates events, performances and long term projects that invite people into an active and inquiring relationship with each other and the earth. She works as artist, activist and collaborator across a range of disciplines. Culhane conceived of Earthwalking through an Exeter Enquires residency co-ordinated by Arts & Culture at the University... Continue Reading →
Wallace Heim: ‘Art & Ecology Now’ review
ecoartscotland has just published a pair of blogs by Dr. Wallace Heim reviewing two important publications on art-science collaborations focused on the environment. Wallace very kindly also looked at Thames and Hudson's new book Art & Ecology Now. Below is her response. There’s a confusion in form in Andrew Brown’s Art & Ecology Now,... Continue Reading →

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