This is the video of the first Earth Climate Scotland (ECS) discussion with artist Deirdre O'Mahony, talking with over 30 participants about her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. https://vimeo.com/1112887154 Deirdre O’Mahony is a visual artist living in Ireland. Public artworks X-PO (2007- ) and SPUD (2009–2019) both... 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 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 →
BD Owens reviews ‘Assuming the Ecosexual Position’ by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
Photo credit Julian Cash and Design Credit Sandra Friesen Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have taught us all more about ecosexuality than perhaps any other artists. Their new book Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth As Lover, reviewed by BD Owens, opens up their development of this practice in new, joyful ways. BD's review of their... Continue Reading →
Sanctuary 2021: Spoor – interviewing the curators
https://vimeo.com/576390791 Sanctuary Lab has provided an experimental space in the Galloway Forest Dark Skies park in South West Scotland since 2014. In a wide ranging discussion Jo Hodges & Robbie Coleman discuss Sanctuary. It is digitally dark as well as free from light pollution. We feel small. Criteria for success fall away. Note there are... Continue Reading →
occasional papers #5 WetlandLIFE
articles published on WetlandLIFE and artists are now collected in ecoartscotland occasional papers #5
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