Local Success in Imagining Natural Scotland project funding

Good news that one of our leading local artists has been awarded funding as part of the Imagining Natural Scotland project! Jo Hodges won the award for her proposal 'A new EIA for Natural Scotland: Environment, Imagination and Aesthetics' - INS is one of the flagship initiatives of 2013 Year of Natural Scotland and involves projects created in collaboration between artists and scientists.

this weeks announcement from INS:
Now that all the applicants have been notified, we are delighted to be able to announce the successful applications to the Imagining Natural Scotland project fund.
The quality of entries to the INS project fund was extremely high, and with over 100 entries to assess, deciding which projects to select proved extremely difficult. However, after careful consideration and much discussion the fifteen projects selected were as follows (in no particular order):

1/ 'Caledonia: the Forest Is Moving, Breadalbane' - Collins & Goto Studio  www.collinsandgoto.com

 

2/ 'Dreaming Scotland' - Lowri Potts http://flyingpizza.wordpress.com

 

 3/ 'Mirror Lands' - Mark Lyken www.lykenlove.com

 

4/ 'A new EIA for Natural Scotland: Environment, Imagination and Aesthetics' - Jo Hodges  www.johodges.co.uk

 

Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman - Biosphere Drinking Fountain (part of Dark Skies Residency 2012- ongoing)

 

5/ 'Montrose Bay: The Changing Coast' - Jean Duncan

 

6/ 'Wild Land' - Simon Fildes

 

7/ 'Thinking like a Mountain' - Esther Woolfson 

 

8/ 'Search Film' - Duncan Marquiss

 9/ 'Through The Looking Glass – Clyde Reflections' - Stephen Hurrel  www.hurrelvisualarts.com 

 

10/ 'Portraits of Scots Pine' - Marcus Leotaud  www.leotaud.com 

 

11/ 'Water of Life' - Rob St John 

 

12/ 'Graphic Archaeology' - Lisa Mackenzie, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 

 

13/ 'Making space for water: a poetry of place' - Hazel Lesley Harrison

 

14/ 'Barnacles – Fish or Fowl' - Philippa Mitchell  http://philippamitchell.blogspot.co.uk/ 

 

15/ 'Tales From The River Tweed' - Bright Club  www.brightclubscot.org 

 

Mark Lyken and Teo Moneyless - 'Forms and Spaces' (Recoat Gallery)