Some Sobering Facts - Viking Energy Wind Farm
I go through phases when I'm obsessed with facts about the Viking Energy Wind Farm in Shetland. Perhaps this compulsion to collect...
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Dec 29, 2023
Winds of Change - Public Film Screening
I've been slow in gathering my thoughts and time for posts on this Blog as it's been an intensive year. So, before 2023 ends I want to...
Dec 11, 2022
Conversations and Creative Writing: A Workshop Around the Energy Transition
I attended this wonderful workshop at the Shetland Library on 10 December 2022. It was organised by Cato Draaisma who is a postgraduate...
Aug 3, 2022
Peat landslide at Viking Energy Wind Farm
In July there was a new peat landslide on the Viking Energy Wind Farm construction site along a section of cable trench at the Mid Kame...
Jul 29, 2022
The Common Wealth of Wind in Shetland
I take the title of this Blog entry from James Marriott's Blog, 'Cambo and Viking Energy: The Common Wealth of Wind in Shetland', which...
Nov 21, 2021
Learning from Arctic Russia
Recently I participated in the annual Relate North 2021 Symposium, Everyday Extremes, hosted by Tomsk State University. I love these...
Nov 21, 2021
Viking Energy is in effect an offshore wind farm
There is so much interesting material in this piece, The Shetland Islands: Renewables and Corporate Interests, published by the Renewable...
Nov 7, 2021
Relate North: Everyday Extremes
I'm looking forward to this annual event which will be the ninth symposium in the annual series of symposia and research exhibitions...
Sep 12, 2021
20,000 Volts Under the Sea
I like Mark Hodgson's writing very much. In this piece he looks at the subsea cable that is necessary for the Viking Energy Wind Farm to...
Aug 15, 2021
Solastalgia
I've been reading about solastalgia because it seems to identify the pain that many in Shetland feel in response to the Viking Energy...
Aug 10, 2021
Vulnerable Thoughts in Peripheral Places
I was in dialogue with Dorothea Rust for the exhibition Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautifully which has enriched, guided and inspired...
Aug 10, 2021
Installation Photos of Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautifully
I am so pleased to have been able to visit the Shetland version of the exhibition. We didn't have a private view, unlike in Switzerland...
Aug 9, 2021
Timely Reminder of Scale
I am reminded of the series of images that I think Mike Finnie prepared a fairly long time ago that show the relative height of the wind...
Aug 3, 2021
Exhibitions are open!
Hidden Flowers Bloom Most Beautifully is open in Shetland and Switzerland. In each exhibition I have a film, selection of digital prints...
Jul 13, 2021
Landscapes of Mutability
The online exhibition is now live! You can see it here. The exhibition is part of a research project at the University of Glasgow. On...
Jul 9, 2021
An outside perspective on the Viking Energy Wind Farm
I am not sure if this is the place where I should share interesting articles about Wind Farms. I am planning to create a Resources page...
Jul 9, 2021
Arrived in Switzerland!
I'm delighted and relieved to find out today that my contribution to the Special Edition publication for Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautiful...
Jul 8, 2021
Who are the artists in dialogue for Hidden Flowers Bloom Beautifully?
I want to credit the artists and organisers of the exhibition Hidden flowers bloom beautiful because we are getting nearer to the final...
Jul 3, 2021
Off to Switzerland!
Yesterday I posted a box of cards made of this image to Switzerland for the Special Edition of work by artists in the exhibition Hidden...
Jun 29, 2021
Getting Started
The Invitation to take part in Landscapes of Mutability marks the starting point for #LandscapeInPain. It's only early stages of the...
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