Background The Dark Skies/ Biosphere Project aims to explore the role of artists practice in a meaningful promotion of this beautiful area of Galloway, which has attracted both Dark Skies Park Status and is aiming to secure Biosphere status by Spring 2012. Dark Skies Park means it is one of the best places in the... Continue Reading →
Co-Producing PAR+RS
Creative Scotland has just formally announced that I have, along with Trigger (Suzy Glass and Angie Bual http://www.triggerstuff.co.uk) been appointed as Co-Producers for PAR+RS http://www.publicartscotland.com, Creative Scotland's public art development project. So I've got a provocative question to start the ball rolling, is public art a subset of visual arts or is it everything across... Continue Reading →
Serpentine Gallery: Marathon of Gardens
The Serpentine are holding a Marathon of Gardens on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October featuring a fascinating line up of speakers from Charles Jencks and Dan Pearson through to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Guiseppe Penone via Fritz Haeg and Brian Eno.
Wasteland Twinning
Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep - join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners). Most of... Continue Reading →
Brief to make KEYSTONE XL an international issue
Brief for a campaign extension Bill McKibben's team along with a number of other NGOs and activist groups in the US and Canada have been campaigning to stop Obama signing off the Keystone XL project. The extension of the Keystone pipeline is a fundamental to the development of tar sands oil. Tar sands are one... Continue Reading →
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen. Sonja Hinrichsen makes ephemeral works of great beauty. These include walking in snow to create patterns. These are reminiscent of neolithic marks on stones near Kilmartin, Scotland. Her most recent work is also ephemeral, but is the result of working in the Three Gorges in... Continue Reading →

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