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Photographed Jan - March 2023

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This poem was written late at night in candle light. Inspired by my own climate anxiety and how this can be brushed off by those who remain dismissive of the crisis we face - very often my lovely Mum.

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Over the last couple of months we embarked on making a short documentary about climate change. We had the opportunity to witness the effects of our changing climate firsthand and to meet the people on the front lines of campaigning for action. The film wouldn't have been possible without the support of WWF.

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I thought to include this collection of photographs taken on New Years Day 2023. 20 trees which once stood tall. Each one still unique and a trace of the landscape which existed before. The main drivers of deforestation in Scotland are as follows ; animal agriculture, logging and mining. Often, the causes of ecological collapse can feel far away in distant lands. I hope to complete a study of drawings from these images and evidence the deforestation happening local to where I live.

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During this drawing session, I only recognised a handful of faces. The majority of my peers were initially strangers to me. We recorded one another's posture, expressions and listened to a song from the soundtrack of their lives. At the time, I didn't think any of my drawings were any "good". However, I realise I captured some kind of essence of each of my peers proving to me a drawing can feel different each time we look upon it. I have met so many like minded individuals on this module - it is an experience I will cherish and reflect upon moving forward with my practice. This is my ecological drawing community.

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Initial Drawings

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Empathy. Appreciation. Imprint

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Botanic Garden Visit -

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Plein air practice is core to what I make because it is experiences that occur out of doors 'in nature' that awake in me the desire to respond creatively.

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David Attenborough enters the woods, revealing a host of hidden marvels amongst the trees.

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Dronley Community Woodland submitted an asset transfer request to purchase 50 hectares at Dronley Wood. The purpose of the request was to maintain and enhance the rich and diverse environment in the wood, develop its educational, recreational and timber resource, increase community capacity, skills and confidence, exploit innovative opportunities and generate a range of other long-term benefits and values to society.

Decision notice

Documents and maps

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Dronley Community Woodland submitted an asset transfer request to purchase 50 hectares at Dronley Wood. The purpose of the request was to maintain and enhance the rich and diverse environment in the wood, develop its educational, recreational and timber resource, increase community capacity, skills and confidence, exploit innovative opportunities and generate a range of other long-term benefits and values to society.

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This was such an inspiring seminar where we traced our breath using gestural marks. We followed the rhythms of different meditative breathing techniques and it was fascinating to see how each of the group responded. I enjoyed this so much that I chose to include it at the beginning of my own sensory drawing workshop with my MFA classmates. This was something I was considering prior to the session during drawing ecologies so it was incredibly beneficial to experience this initially for myself. This learning will remain a point of reference as I continue to navigate and evolve throughout my wider practice.

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Public Preview; 24th March, 1-7pm Show runs; 25th March - 16th April, Thurs-Sun, 12-5pm
This month Generator Projects is so excited to bring you new works by Glasgow based artists Oktavia Schreiner and Murphy Scoular. Both artists explore boundary spaces and the ways humans impose order on the world, drawing on lived experience, otherness and outsider perspectives. Scoular is interested in challenging the distinction between natural and unnatural, linking this to Queer theory and narratives of control; in Schreiner's work, visitors are invited to consider divisions between religion and science, proof and fiction.

Oktavia Schreiner was raised in Berlin by an atheist, scientific family. She then moved to a very small, medieval, catholic Southern Italian town. Here, she was faced with understanding the two juxtaposing experiences. Using rituals and symbols, Schreiner invented her own religion and through this form of imaginary play began to make sense of the world around her; exploring the boundary between science and religion, 'proof' and 'fiction'. She learned there is power in storytelling

In the first half of the room, two large earthenware columns mark a site of wildness and the unknown: a forest, deep and uncontrolled. More, Less, Magic, Transparency, their inscriptions read. Not running into freedom. The words written onto the colourful clay can be read in any order, different for each visitor's approach. The phrasing is ambiguous, suggesting freedom as a space that can be inhabited (or not), and an uncertainty about whether the experience ought to be desired.

A large archway sits in the centre of Schreiner's exhibition, creating a link to the historic past and signifying a transition between outside and inside, human-made and natural, and between the past and the future. Inside are ceramic sculptures of forget-me-nots, an important symbol for Schreiner, representing vessels that contain stories of the past, asking not to be forgotten.

On the far side of the gallery, The invention of religion and the order of the planetoids is a single sculpture, drawing influence from planetary diagrams and a desire for mankind to understand their position in the cosmos. Each planet holds imagery from the religion that Schreiner invented in Italy as a child.

Next to this piece is Confession. This sculpture is like the forbidden apple, representing the original sin that led Adam and Eve to be banished from the Garden of Eden in exchange for knowledge. Split into sections, it allows the visitor to look inside and see beyond the object. There is a confessional hatch cut into the apple vessel which can also be looked through, linking rituals of the confessional to modern day science and practices of therapy. Schreiner uses the story of Adam and Eve to represent anthropological transition, such as the settling on the land by hunters and gatherers or the emergence of capitalism.

Murphy Scoular has created an immersive installation inspired by bower bird nests. Their work dissolves the barriers between manmade and natural, and explores technology and ecology through a queer lens. Scoular encourages visitors to question why distinctions exist and how they might be used to exert power and control behaviour. Scoular's core belief is that 'Nature' is a political term, existing only to exclude and punish the 'unnatural'.

Scoular argues that conceptual divisions between natural and man-made have been used for hundreds of years to create a hierarchy. The perceived value and complexities of man's craftsmanship have been used to justify the existence of God and to create the illusion that man is not only separate to, but above, nature. This viewpoint is not only challenged by the emergence of climate change but also by an emergent trend in thinking that challenges dichotomies.

Whilst the Queer experience is at the core of Scoular's work, this piece expands to challenge how society has been encouraged to view some behaviours, sexualities and identities as less natural than others. These distinctions are widely used to encourage normativity and discriminate against those that do not conform.

Scoular describes bird's nests as innately Queer. Bower birds build nests using found materials in a feat of complexity that straddles natural and unnatural boundaries to create a complicated architectural structure. It is very much both (and neither) 'natural' and 'unnatural'. Scoular explains that building a home despite its unnatural appearance is essentially very Queer, as is finding a home in unlikely places.

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CERTAINTY//MAYBE Public Preview; 24th March, 1-7pm Show runs; 25th March - 16th April, Thurs-Sun, 12-5pm This month Generator Projects is so excited to bring you new works by Glasgow based artists Oktavia Schreiner and Murphy Scoular. Both artists explore boundary spaces and the ways human