Forest Bound (Autumn / Winter 2022 / 2023) was a UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Juan Pablo Lobo-Guerrero) project in collaboration with the Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Equality Council (ELREC). I was the lead artist, and. Written in Film documented the project.
This project featured in the haus_a_rest (zine) Community Art issue 46
… tiny pockets of ancient woodland… It’s all here, it’s untouched
John Williamson in Dartmoor Emergence Magazine https://emergencemagazine.org/film/time-travel-in-britains-last-remaining-rainforest/
The project aimed to create spaces where communities that face additional barriers to access nature/outdoor spaces could interact with forests. I worked with the Edinburgh and Lothians Racial Equality Council @ELRECUK inviting members of Edinburgh’s Chinese, Syrian and Polish communities to walk in forests with us and respond to it through art and conversation.
We visited the Black Wood of Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and Roslin Glen, outside Edinburgh.
Forest Bound was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) as part of the Growing Roots 2 call.
We organised forest walks and a workshop session where we used visual arts to explore people’s connection to forests and begin conversations on how these overlap with key biological processes such as adaptation and resilience. Material from the activities was curated and was displayed at a community group art exhibition in Edinburgh from the 14th to 18th of February, 2023.
Forest Bound is a science-art project, the brainchild of Juan Pablo Lobo-Guerrero Villegas, Plant Ecological Genetics Research Associate at the Centre for Ecology and Technology @CEH.
There is more information on Tamsin’s website here.
Walking without a donkey 