Thanks to Anne Douglas for alerting us to this exciting development in Brighton. It's great to see ACE commiting support to an ambitious arts & ecology programme. Following receipt of a £75,000 award from Arts Council England, Brighton's ONCA Centre for Arts and Ecology will be launching eleven new projects over the next two years... Continue Reading →
Reflections on Clyde Reflections: a film installation by film-maker Stephen Hurrel and social ecologist Ruth Brennan
Sian Sullivan was one of the speakers at the Clyde Reflections seminar at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art last month. She just published this blog further articulating her own thoughts on Stephen Hurrel and Ruth Brennan's film - an exemplary art science collaboration.
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 →
Basia Irland | Voices
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 →

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