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During 2017 we published articles on a wide range of projects ecoartscotland is involved with, new commissioned writing, reports from various artists, as well as sharing articles from other blogs.

As part of ecoartscotland’s ongoing work with the Land Art Generator Initiative we toured the exhibition of the Glasgow project to the Tent Gallery at Edinburgh College of Art and also to the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

Newton Harrison working with The Barn, Banchory on the ecological health of the Dee and Don Valleys. The video of the lecture Newton gave has now been put online.

• We helped the Wetland Life project recruit artists and we look forward to providing an update on this work during 2018.
• We published a number of guest blogs including,
• Focusing on ‘wonder’, we published a curator’s reflection on the Murmur exhibition by Jonathan Baxter.
• The Connecting with a Low Carbon Scotland conference, the culmination of the research programme funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh was written up by Professor Anne Douglas. The Research Report is due to be published in the Spring.
• We reported on The Same Hillside,  the result of the art science collaboration between Professor Pete Smith and Gavin Wallace focused on ecosystem services assessment, and on A Field of Wheat, Culhane and Levene’s project that enabled us to participate in producing food.
• Juliet Wilson reviewed Camilla Nelson’s Apples and Other Languages.
• Minty Donald reviewed the Collins and Goto Studio exhibition A Caledonian Decoy.
• Ewan Davidson reviewed the Center for Genomic Gastronomy’s Gut Gardening.
• The year started with a series of blogs from Holly Keasey during her participation in the Water Rights residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute which you can read backwards by following this link.
• We also appear to have failed: we tried to persuade the Leverhulme Trust to maintain its Artist in Residence Award Scheme – unfortunately there is no sign that this worked although a lot of people wrote letters and a-n also commissioned a piece from us.
• During 2018 we have a number of articles in the pipeline including:
• A report on the Landscape Research Group’s recent Landscape Justice Debate
• More on wetlands including blogs from Hannah Imlach who was in Flow Country in the North of Scotland and Rob Mulholland from Cheng Long Wetlands in Taiwan.
• The final reflection from Holly Keasey on her Water Rights residency.
• A review of Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses.
• A response to A Non-Cartography thinking through the social mess of climate change, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Issue #10
• More on the work with The Barn and Newton Harrison.

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