During 2017 we published articles on a wide range of projects ecoartscotland is involved with, new commissioned writing, reports from various artists, as well as sharing articles from other blogs. As part of ecoartscotland's ongoing work with the Land Art Generator Initiative we toured the exhibition of the Glasgow project to the Tent Gallery at... Continue Reading →
Culture Conversation – Culture and Climate Change
The Scottish Government is currently involved in 'early engagement' on a new Cultural Strategy for Scotland. In early November, Creative Carbon Scotland hosted a discussion as part of the Scottish Government’s consultation on the development of a new Culture Strategy for Scotland. Joined by arts and sustainability practitioners working across a range of contexts, we... Continue Reading →
Beautiful Renewables: LAGI Exhibition at RGU, Aberdeen
Can renewable energy become not merely infrastructure but a feature of place-making? What can architects, artists and designers bring to the transition to a post-fossil fuel economy? Can creative approaches contribute to the commercialisation of new renewable technologies? These are some of the questions that the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) is asking and... Continue Reading →
LAGI Glasgow exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art
Land Art Generator Glasgow exhibition Tent: Art, Space and Nature, Edinburgh College of Art 8-21 September 2017 The award winning Land Art Generator Glasgow project, developed in collaboration with ecoartscotland, explores creative approaches to using renewable energy in urban contexts as part of place-making approaches to regeneration. The Land Art Generator Glasgow project focused on... Continue Reading →
Understanding a place “without shortcuts”: exploring the Tim Robinson archive
This essay from Cathy Fitzgerald explores what ecological art might mean through the work of Tim Robinson and the context in Eire.
The Hollywood Forest Story : An EcoSocial Art Practice | Co. Carlow Ireland
I’m staying near Bearna village, which is on the edge of the ecologically significant Moycullen bog area in the West of Ireland. On such occasions the basic act of attention that creates a place out of a location would be renewed, enhanced by whatever systems of understanding we can muster, from the mathematical to the mythological, by the passion of poetry, or by simple enjoyment of the play of light on it. Here is a gateway to a land without shortcuts, where each place is bathed in the sunlight of our contemplation and all its particularities brought forth, like those mountainside potato plots gilded by midwinter sunset in the valley of the stone alignment.
Tim Robinson ‘A Land without Shortcuts’, The Dublin Review 46 (Spring 2012), p.43
2017 has seen me spending many months away from Hollywood forest. Now, I find myself exploring a remarkable archive, a body of work…
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