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Sexy Peat Exhibition
December 18, 2013 newsCreative Carbon Scotland, Creative Scotland, Partnership, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scottish Natural Heritage, Sustainable Scotland
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Highland Print Studio in partnership with Cape Farewell currently has an exhibition of contemporary visual art at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh called Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin, celebrating the ecology and heritage of the Lewis blanket bog and highlighting the significant role that peat plays in global climate regulation. The project also celebrates the Gaelic heritage relating to the bog and the significance of the bog to the people who have lived with it.
Beyond their initially austere or barren appearance the peatlands reveal an abundance of colour, texture and life forms in constant interaction with dynamic weather systems. These features have inspired the people who have lived with the moor for generations. This project will investigate and celebrate that land, those people and their heritage.
The exhibiting artists are:
Anne Campbell
Jon Macleod
Kacper Kowalski
Deirdre Nelson
Murray Robertson
Fabric Lenny
Alex Boyd
Find out more about the artists involved in the Sexy Peat project here.
Sexy Peat is part of the Year of Natural Scotland, a partnership between EventScotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and Creative Scotland.
The exhibition runs from 8 November 2013 – 26 January 2014
Image: Christine Morrison, http://www.christinemorrison.co.uk/
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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.
In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.
We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.
Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:
Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public's emotions, values and ideas.
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Open Call: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – ARTIST OR CREATIVE PRACTITIONER
August 3, 2013 ecoartscotland, Open Calls2014 Commonwealth Games, Ambitions, Artist In Residence, Aspirations, Breath Of Fresh Air, Community Members, Concept Proposals, Contract Holder, Forestry Commission Scotland, Fremantle, Inner City, Interventions, Legacy Project, Local Community, Natural Environment, Optio, Participatory Workshops, Partner Organisations, Scottish Natural Heritage, Visual Representations, Woodland Park
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Corgarff, 2013, Photo: Chris Fremantle
This has a deadline of 10 August 2013
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – ARTIST OR CREATIVE PRACTITIONER
The Forestry Commission is inviting tenders for 'A Breath of Fresh Air' which will see two artists or teams of artists appointed to support the development of a new woodland park encourage local residents to get involved, get active and be inspired by their local woodland green space.
As part of the Creative Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage funding for Year of Natural Scotland 2013, Forestry Commission Scotland has been awarded funding to support two unique Artist In Residence opportunities which will form part of an exciting project to develop a new inner city woodland park as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games Legacy.
A Breath of Fresh Air will see two artists or teams of artists, with a passion for the natural environment, appointed to support the development of a new woodland park and raise awareness within the local community of what benefits access to woodlands green space can bring.
The artists will work closely with staff from both Forestry Commission Scotland and Clyde Gateway to understand the aspirations of the project and with local residents and organisations to ensure the works produced reflect their views.
There are two contracts available. Contract 1 will require the contract holder to:
Organise and deliver a range of interactive / participatory workshops with local community members from across the city linked to the Commonwealth Woodlands Games Legacy project.
Create a range of concept proposals (Minimum 4) for two permanent installations and a series of linking sculptural interventions, including models and visual representations where appropriate, inspired by those communities and the partner organisations ethos and ambitions for the project.
Produce a public display of the options to allow feedback on the preferred option.
Work with the project board to identify the preferred option for development,
Work with the design and construction team to develop tender documents and installation requirements to allow the chosen works to be fabricated and installed as part of the wider project (to be funded out with the residency).
Ensure that the proposed installations are designed in a way which is durable, requires minimal ongoing maintenance and reduces the opportunity for vandalism or miss-use
Contract 2 will require the contract holder to:
Organise and deliver a range of interactive / participatory workshops with local community members and identified groups.
Create a range of temporary works which are inspired by the local community.
Showcase the work of both the artist themselves and those who contributed to the workshops in a range of locations which will draw attention to the project and raise the profile of the benefits of access to woodland green space.
Both residencies must relate their works to the unique offering of the new Cuningar Woodland Park as a flagship Commonwealth Woodland and the role access to woodland green space can play in encouraging healthy lifestyles.
The estimated total value of the contract is around £8k for contract 1 and around £6k for contract 2. This excludes t&s costs which will also be paid to the successful bidders.
The anticipated contract start date will be:
Contract 1: 1st September to be completed by 1st January
Contract 2: 1st November to be completed by 1st February
For further enquiries regarding this contract please contact Tom Wallace no later than 10th August 2013
To express your interest and to request more information please contact Tom Wallace no later than 10th August 2013 with submission by 14th August @16:00hrs
Tom.wallace@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Cuningar Loop, Clyde Gateway URC, Bridgeton Cross, Bridgeton, Glasgow Deadline for submissions: 4pm, 14th August
Artist Brief: finalairbrief
ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.
It has been established by Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate with On The Edge Research, Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
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Creative Scotland: Insights & Ideas: Natural Scotland
June 14, 2013 ecoartscotlandAcular, Art Festival, Commission Artists, Creative Cafe, Curators, Dome Tents, Dumfries Galloway, Eco Dome, Edge Research, Fauna And Flora, Forestry Commission, Fremantle, Hogarth, John Muir, John Muir Birthplace, John Muir Trust, School Of Art, Scottish Natural Heritage, Theoretical Texts, Yolanda Aguilar
If you are looking to find out more about artists and the Year of Natural Scotland, check out the Insights & Ideas creative cafe event on 6 June. Creative Scotland: Insights & Ideas: Natural Scotland.
2013 is the Year of Natural Scotland. Come along to the June Insights Cafe to hear about exciting projects and activities taking place. Our speakers will talk about how, by working with partners like The Forestry Commission, artists can help explore and celebrate natural Scotland.
An overview from Scottish Natural Heritage on the Year of Natural Scotland
Yolanda Aguilar, Smallpetitklein – discussing TENT:acular, an outdoor event with dancers exploring the history, fauna and flora and a scavenger hunt around Tentsmuir Nature Reserve, culminating in a spectacle performance in a series of Super Eco Dome tents.
Jan Hogarth, Wide Open – introducing the Environmental Art Festival, a new, Dumfries & Galloway wide event celebrating the regions strengths in environmental art.
Jo Moulin, John Muir Trust on the John Muir Birthplace Museum and John Muir Day.
Tickets for the event are free of charge, but spaces are limited and must be booked in advance. The event begins at 2pm and registration will be open from 1.30pm on 6 June.
For further information, please contact insights@creativescotland.com, or visit http://june13insights.eventbrite.com/. The deadline is Thursday 06 June 2013 at 12:00.
14 ways to look at Scotland
February 8, 2013 Announcements, Ashden DirectoryArtistic Diversity, Artistic Life, Botanic Gardens, Deeside, Director Chris, Dooks, Environmental Arts, Loch Lomond, Loch Lomond Scotland, Natural Diversity, Photographic Project, Professional Dancers, River Tweed, Scottish Government, Scottish Natural Heritage, Spring Fling, Tabula Rasa, Television Director, Walking A Line, Wetland Park
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from The Bothy Project
Wallace Heim writes: The Year of Natural Scotland, an initiative led by the Scottish government, connects the country's natural diversity and its artistic life. Their economic incentive is to develop tourism and the events industries. The means to do this include 14 arts projects across every region of Scotland.
The projects, supported by Creative Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage, will share £500,000 to create events, poetry, walks, films and installations that combine the country's natural and cultural life.
An outline of the projects shows their geographic and artistic diversity. The longer list of organisations, groups and communities that are collaborating on each project shows the social reach of this economic programme.
The projects:
NVA presents Island Drift, a lighting and photographic project on the islands of Loch Lomond.
Scotland's Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Argyll, the Borders and Dumfries & Galloway will develop writing and walking residencies.
Wide Open and Crichton Carbon Centre, Spring Fling and the Stove will present an International Environmental Arts Festival based on themes of land and energy.
Walking a Line by Dunbar North Light Arts is a year-long site-specific project of walking, marking and recording in the environment.
Sound Out@Seven Lochs will compose music and soundscapes for a new planned wetland park near Glasgow.
Smallpetitklein Dance Company will present an outdoor event with professional and non-professional dancers around the Tentsmuir Nature Reserve.
Tabula Rasa will bring together artists, environmentalists and people working on the River Tweed.
Tiny Geographies, by composer and television director Chris Dooks, will gather local stories and music for festivals in Aberdeenshire and Deeside.
For Natural Bennachie, three artists will work with scientists to celebrate the heritage of this north-eastern landmark.
My Place in the Natural World will involve young people in Aberdeen and creative digital media.
The Highland Print Studio and Cape Farewell will deliver the exhibition Sexy Peat celebrating the Lewis blanket bog.
Composers Inge Thomson and Lise Sinclair will create Da Fishing Hands, a project featuring song about Fair Isle's fishing grounds and their changing and sustainable use.
Sweeny's Bothy / Bothan Shuibhne is an off-grid retreat for artists, writers and the public, involving events, walks, residencies reflecting on wild nature and contemporary culture.
In addition to these projects, in the Autumn, the Year of Natural Scotland will host a major conference, 'Reading the Landscape' exploring the representation, mis-representation, imagining and re-imagining of nature in Scotland.
"ashdenizen blog and twitter are consistently among the best sources for information and reflection on developments in the field of arts and climate change in the UK" (2020 Network)
ashdenizen is edited by Robert Butler, and is the blog associated with the Ashden Directory, a website focusing on environment and performance.
The Ashden Directory is edited by Robert Butler and Wallace Heim, with associate editor Kellie Gutman. The Directory includes features, interviews, news, a timeline and a database of ecologically – themed productions since 1893 in the United Kingdom. Our own projects include 'New Metaphors for Sustainability', 'Flowers Onstage' and 'Six ways to look at climate change and theatre'.
The Directory has been live since 2000.
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Year of Natural Scotland
December 10, 2012 ecoartscotlandCaption, Creative Places, Creative Practitioners, Curators, Dot Org, Ecology, Edge Research, Festivals, Fremantle, Homecoming, International Networks, Local Authority, Major Cities, Research Associate, Rural Network, School Of Art, Scotland Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Poetry Library, Snh, Theoretical Texts
Bing across the road from the Dalmellington Iron Works. Photo Chris Fremantle
2013 is designated as the Year of Natural Scotland. We know that the Scottish Poetry Library is planning a programme around this theme, and Creative Scotland are partnering up with SNH for a conference. We've listed below some information which we've been able to pull together. Of course, like Homecoming, this is about tourism, but maybe it could be more?
If you want to tell us about projects or programmes you'll be running during 2013, or resources that you think might be useful to share, just email us chris at fremantle dot org.
EventScotland listing of Festivals currently signed up to programme Year of Natural Scotland events.
Scottish Natural Heritage has grants programmes geared up for the Year of Natural Scotland.
Creative Scotland's Creative Places Awards for projects outwith the major cities during 2013, with a special emphasis on the Year of Natural Scotland.
Creative Scotland are also planning a major conference to highlight the ways that artists and creative practitioners affect the way we imagine natural Scotland.
Scotland's Rural Network wants to know what the top 5 nature based things that each local authority area has to offer. Help them by making suggestions for your area.
Funding Natural Heritage Projects
August 25, 2012 ecoartscotlandCurators, Ecology, Edge Research, Education, Foundations, Fremantle, Funders, Funding Sources, Grants, International Networks, Lottery, Public Sector, Research Associate, Robert Gordon University, School Of Art, Scientists, Scottish Heritage, Scottish Natural Heritage, Theoretical Texts, Trusts
Scottish Natural Heritage publishes a guide to various funding sources for natural heritage projects – included are schemes that support on the ground action as well as communication and education. This guide covers EU, Public Sector, Lottery as well as Trusts and Foundations and can be found here.
Also worth checking out is the website of the Environmental Funders Network, and in particular their publication, 'Where the green grants went.'
Creating climate change parks – greenspace scotland
July 8, 2012 ecoartscotlandChallenges, Climate Change, Curators, Ecology, Edge Research, Fremantle, Greenspace Scotland, International Networks, Partnership, Research Associate, School Of Art, Scientists, Scottish Natural Heritage, Theoretical Texts
A new e-resource launched today by greenspace scotland, in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage, will help park and greenspace managers respond to the challenges of climate change by creating 'climate change parks'. Full story at creating climate change parks – greenspace scotland.
February 23, 2011 ecoartscotlandBee Decline, Bees, Bumblebees, Chemical Cocktail, Colony Collapse Disorder, Curators, Edge Research, Freefall, Fremantle, Industry Involvement, Murder Mystery, Mystery Deepens, Nicotine, Pesticide Industry, Research Associate, Risk Assessment, School Of Art, Scottish Natural Heritage, Theoretical Texts, Uk Environment
Scottish Natural Heritage's recent video on the importance of bees.
Bee decline could be down to chemical cocktail interfering with brains http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/22/chemicals-bees-decline-major-study?INTCMP=SRCH
Bee briefing http://www.soilassociation.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=RXLEm9WXrHk%3D&tabid=439
$15 Billion Bee Murder Mystery Deepens http://www.businessinsider.com/colony-collapse-disorder-still-unsolved-lead-researcher-had-connections-to-bayer-2010-10
"Nicotine Bees" Population Restored With Neonicotinoids Ban http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/nicotine-bees-population-restored-with-neonicotinoids-ban.php
EPA memo reveals concern that pesticide causes bee deaths http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=79910
Beekeepers want government to pull pesticide http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/beekeepers-want-government-to-pull-pesticide-1107701.html
Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US decline http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/03/bumblebees-study-us-decline?INTCMP=SRCH
Pesticide industry involvement in EU risk assessment puts survival of bees at stake http://www.corporateeurope.org/agribusiness/news/2010/11/16/pesticide-industry-future-bees
Vanishing of Bees provide details on the EPA leaked documents http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Mrm9Y6khk
Thanks to Nazim Merchant and the World Development Movement for these links. Please add comments with other links and information.
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