Looking North Through Art: Siobhan McLaughlin
Join artist Siobhan McLaughlin for this online talk on Tuesday 7th November! Free tickets are available now!
About Looking North Through Art: Siobhan McLaughlin
Looking North: Alternative Approaches to Landscape and Energy Ethics in Scotland is a public engagement programme that brings together artists, nature writers and ecological conservation projects from Scotland and beyond. In unscripted conversations, our speakers reflect on mainstream narratives surrounding those central themes. In doing so, we hope to highlight some of the ways in which one can engage with environment, climate change and energy related questions through an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the arts and humanities. We thus hope to contribute to ongoing efforts of adding such perspectives to a public discourse that is dominated by the natural sciences, innovation, and the economy.
The third part of Looking addresses our central themes through the lens of care, healing & regeneration. This is to acknowledge the interconnectedness of this planet’s ecosystem as well as the interdependence of all its inhabitants, including ourselves. Environmental, public and personal health are closely intertwined. Together with our speakers we wish to explore ways in which healing, care and regeneration provide a framework of being with our surroundings and planetary co-inhabitants. By pursuing positivity rather than neutrality, as in net zero for example, we wish to present care, healing & regenerating practices as central to constituting a shared sense of agency, empathy, and engagement – all of which we believe to be crucial in a healthy society that shares this space peacefully with other beings.
ABOUT SIOBHAN MCLAUGHLIN:
Siobhan McLaughlin is an artist and freelance curator based in Glasgow. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2019, and has since received multiple awards, including the SSA Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award at the RSA, a film commission from the Tate’s British Art Network and the VAS from One to Another Cornwall Exchange Residency.
Experiencing landscape through walking constitutes an integral aspect of Siobhan’s artistic practice. Impressions of her surroundings and her place within it are translated into paintings that comprise of sewn-together remnant materials and paint whose pigments the artist often gathers on location. Working in this way presents an interesting response to the question of energy ethics in art making.
Just like the landscapes she takes inspiration from, Siobhan’s paintings are the result of slow, multi-layered processes in which human and environmental histories are entangled. Given her artistic practice, and the scale of many of her works, the physical components of Siobhan's artistic practice feel tangible. Yet ever since a pedestrian accident, working in this way has come at the cost of physical discomfort and adversity which contrasts with conventional understandings of healing in nature and art.
In addition to her career as a visual artist, Siobhan has also curated the highly acclaimed centenary retrospective of Scottish artist Alan Davie, and more recently the group exhibition Scottish Landscapes: A New Generation, both at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh.
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