'Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories & Transformation' comprises an Exhibition of practice-led research (to be complemented by a Symposium) held at the Lighthouse, Glasgow (25 Jan-22 March 2020). Embedded within the exhibition is research-led practice integral to diverse projects – individual and collaborative – that the 16 member of GSA’s Reading Landscape research group have been undertaking since the Group’s inception in 2014. The exhibition utilised the gallery as a dynamic space where reflexive curatorial, creative and theoretical practices relating to current debates in landscape research were investigated by the artists and explored with a wider public over the exhibition period, creating an important framework for new practice-led and applied research to be disseminated to diverse audiences.

This was an opportunity to bring together a number of works to respond to the research questions of the exhibition. In particular, contested and landscape, heritage and spectrality, and material transformation. The photographs have been assembled using a diffractive practice of temporal re-cutting. Working in this way, I aim to disrupt anthropocentric, ocular paradigms of human-world relations, generating a space in which practice-as-writing resists individual vision to inscribe the image as diffracted, distributed, polytemporal array. For Practising Landscape: Land, Histories, Transformation, I presented a combination of previous and new work which has as its connective tissue, the question of landscape and time. This resonates through the work either through the exploration of the polytemporal, or the spectral or, in more recent work, following Karen Barad, the notion of thick or queer time. The photographic images themselves were shot in a number of locations in Moray, northern Scotland and also on the island of Jersey.