Collins_Goto_Edwards_FutureForest2015 We are pleased to highlight the Report just released by the Collins and Goto Studio and Forest Research entitled Future Forest, The Black Wood, Rannoch, Scotland. It features reflection and findings from a year long artist-led creative inquiry into the ecological and cultural meanings and values associated with the Black Wood of Rannoch in... Continue Reading →
Mandy Haggith, ed., Into the Forest: An Anthology of Tree Poems (Glasgow: Saraband, 2013), pp. 280. Into the Forest, cover image by Carry Ackroyd (by permission Saraband) An early linkage between literature and ecology in the recent revival of nature writing, Kim Taplan’s book Tongues in Trees (1989) investigated the connection between humans and woodland,... Continue Reading →
A Critical Forest Art Practice
Tim Collins and Reiko Goto's project, The Forest is Moving, exploring, listening and responding to, imagining, learning from, touching, sleeping in, filming, photographing, walking in and with, the Black Rannoch Woods, is ongoing at the moment. They have been posting to the Imagining Natural Scotland's blog (where you can find blog posts from other projects... Continue Reading →
Trees, mother trees and interactions
This short film opens up a different understanding of forests and the interactions between trees facilitated by fungi - inspiring stuff reinforcing the importance of respecting the complexity of forests across both species diversity and age diversity. Professor Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia highlights the importance of Mother or Granny Trees in these... Continue Reading →
Eden3: Trees are the Language of Landscape
Exhibition - April 22 to May 25, 2013 Tent Gallery, in Art Space and Nature Edinburgh College of Art Evolution House (corner of Westport and Lady Lawson Street) Edinburgh, EH1 2LE, Scotland Phone: 0131 651 5800 Hours: Tues-Fri 12noon to 4:45PM or by appointment on Saturday. The Collins & Goto Studio presents an on-going series... Continue Reading →
Tree species maps for European forests
European Forest Institute - Tree species maps for European forests: useful resource on major tree species down to the 1km level accessible as GIS data. The UK's Forestry Commission makes their datasets available (thanks Tim).
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