Looking for the source of the Clyde in Lanarkshire, 2010. Photo Chris Fremantle Basia Irland is one of the foremost artists working with ecological systems and she is currently writing a series of blogs, Basia Irland | Voices, for National Geographic, each of which speaks for a river, imagining the world from the perspective of... Continue Reading →
Wallace Heim: documenting art science collaborations focused on environments Pt.2
The second of Wallace Heim's reviews of recent publications on art-science collaborations focuses on Field_Notes from the Finnish Bioart Society. Going someplace unfamiliar for an adventure, and doing this with a group of strangers, is an ancient exercise to stimulate human learning and imagination. This suspension of the everyday for the inspiration of the new... Continue Reading →
Wallace Heim: documenting art science collaborations focused on environments Pt.1
Wallace Heim, editor of the Ashden Directory and Ashdenizen Blog for 20 years, has reviewed two books, documenting art science collaborations focused on environments. Imagining Natural Scotland is the publication associated with a programme for the Year of Natural Scotland. Creative Scotland working with Scottish Natural Heritage and other partners put out a call for... Continue Reading →
Patrick Lydon: What Would Happen if We all Grew Food?
In a blog for Resilience.org Patrick Lydon paints a picture, I'd like to start off with a story about a woman I know who works full time, takes home a below-median income, and raises two kids in Silicon Valley. This woman also has an organic garden in her tiny back yard, partially for her own... Continue Reading →
Opportunities: Interns to work on Environmental Art Festival Scotland 2015
The Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) has two Internships (with stipends) to help with the 2015 Festival at the end of August - one focused on Design and Mapping and the other on Production. Themes for the Festival this year are: Inventiveness, foolishness and generosity as a way of understanding the world Food, clothes, shelter... Continue Reading →
North Light Arts: Alchemy of Soil
North Light Arts is delighted to present the ‘Alchemy of Soil’, an outstanding exhibition by the Scottish artist Natalie Taylor at Dunbar Town House Museum and Gallery, East Lothian from 23 May – 21 June 2015. Dunbar is probably best known for being the birthplace, in 1838, of John Muir, one of the world’s best-known... Continue Reading →

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