Michael Mersinis

• Lecturer in Fine Art Photography
• Fine Art-Photography

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Book or Monograph

Olive Tree

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Olive Tree. Pheon Press, Glasgow. ISBN 9781738527557

Hours

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Hours. Pheon Press, Glasgow. ISBN 9781738527533

Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 3: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Material Agency and Meaning

Carter, Justin, McCausland, Onya, McNally, Danny and Robertson, Frances (2024) Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 3: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Material Agency and Meaning. Practicing Landscape: Field Guide, 1 (3). Reading Landscape, Glasgow. ISBN 978-1-7385275-6-4

Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 2: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Landscape as Archive

Wall, Gina, Hale, Alex, Mersinis, Michael, Brind, Susan and Bird, Nicky (2024) Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 2: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Landscape as Archive. Practicing Landscape: Field Guide, 1 (2). Reading Landscape, Glasgow. ISBN 9781738527571

Operations

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Operations. Pheon Press, Glasgow. ISBN 978-1-7385275-0-2

Spider

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Spider. Pheon Press, Glasgow. ISBN 978-1-7385275-1-9

Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal

Mersinis, Michael, Hodson, Elizabeth, Harold, Jim, Brind, Susan and Bird, Nicky (2024) Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal. Practicing Landscape: Field Guide, 1 (1). Reading Landscape, Glasgow. ISBN 9781738527540

Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers

Bird, Nicky, Brind, Susan, Carter, Justin, Evans, Brian, Elkovich, Carol, Greated, Marianne, Harold, Jim, Hooper, Alan, McMullan, Shauna, Mersinis, Michael, Punton, Lesley, Thomson, Amanda and Wall, Gina (2023) Pedagogy of Place - A Field Guide to Reading Landscape for Artists, Architects, & Designers. Intellect Books, Bristol.

Book Section

Common Ground

Carter, Justin and McCausland, Onya (2024) Common Ground. In: Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 3 Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Material Agency and Meaning. (2024). Landscapes of Energy and Extraction, 3 (3). Glasgow School of Art - printed by J Thomson, Glasgow. Production support by Good Press, Glasgow, pp. 5-47. ISBN ISBN 9781738527564

Surface Tension

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Surface Tension. In: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Landscape as Archive. Practicing Landscape: Field Guide (2). Reading Landscape, Glasgow, pp. 42-51. ISBN 978-1-7385275-7-1

Silk Town

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Silk Town. In: Practicing Landscape: Field Guide No. 1 Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal. Practicing Landscape: Field Guide (1). Reading Landscape, Glasgow, pp. 8-26. ISBN 978-1-7385275-4-0

'From Mimesis to Symbiosis' in Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal

Hodson, Elizabeth (2024) 'From Mimesis to Symbiosis' in Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal. In: Practicing Landscape Field Guide No 1. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow. ISBN 9781738527540

Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal - Foreword

Brind, Susan and Bird, Nicky (2024) Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal - Foreword. In: Practicing Landscape Field Guide: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction: Mining the Animal. Practicing Landscape Fieldguides, No. 1 . GSA/Good Press, Glasgow, Glasgow, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781738527540

The Subtle Condition of the Baroque

Mersinis, Michael (2022) The Subtle Condition of the Baroque. In: The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional. Disko Bay, Denmark. ISBN 978-87-970520-9-9

Age of Man

Mersinis, Michael (2016) Age of Man. In: Age of Man. The Photographic Earth Sagas, 2 . Earth Saga Press, Glasgow.

Article

Dusk to Nighgtfall (Hydra Island)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Dusk to Nighgtfall (Hydra Island). artEDition, 1 (1).

Thinking in Photographs with Michael Mersinis

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Thinking in Photographs with Michael Mersinis. Suboart Magazine, 1 (27). pp. 94-105.

Featured Artist: Michael Mersinis

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Featured Artist: Michael Mersinis. Suboart Magazine, 1 (13). p. 42.

Transmissions for Ukraine

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Transmissions for Ukraine. The Institute of Network Cultures (INC).

Transmissions for Ukraine

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Transmissions for Ukraine. The Drouth.

Birds do not Sing

Mersinis, Michael (2015) Birds do not Sing. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 10 (1). pp. 58-67. ISSN 1862-6033

Conference or Workshop Item

The Midpoint – a most European Approach, thinking through formative moments in UG education

Mersinis, Michael (2025) The Midpoint – a most European Approach, thinking through formative moments in UG education. In: GSA Learning and Teaching Conference 2025 Diverse Learner Journeys: Supporting Students to Succeed, 10-06-2025 and 11-06-2025, Online.

Sustainable Voices – Longform Content for Insights (Student Partnership Project with Tom Gibson)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Sustainable Voices – Longform Content for Insights (Student Partnership Project with Tom Gibson). In: GSA Learning and Teaching Conference 2025 Diverse Learner Journeys: Supporting Students to Succeed, 10-06-2025 and 11-05-2025, online.

Acts of Making / Acts of Transgression II

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Acts of Making / Acts of Transgression II. In: Delightful Fun: a Cedric Price Thinkbelt for our Times, 6th -22nd June 2025, The Briggait, 72 Clyde Street, Glasgow G1 5HZ.

The Olive Tree – Symbol, Icon, Object of Dispute

Mersinis, Michael (2025) The Olive Tree – Symbol, Icon, Object of Dispute. In: Practicing Landscape: Field Notes, 22 April 2025, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

Appear to Disappear - Photography and Sculpture (A Relationship in the Negative)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Appear to Disappear - Photography and Sculpture (A Relationship in the Negative). In: Casting Shadows - A Thing Consumed By Light, 26-02-2025, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

Blue Sky Publishing, Blue Sky Printing - Publishing Guides for the Field

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Blue Sky Publishing, Blue Sky Printing - Publishing Guides for the Field. In: Reading Landscape Field Guides Book Launch, 14th November 2024, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

On Being a Respondent

Mersinis, Michael and Harold, Jim (2024) On Being a Respondent. In: Reading Landscape Field Guides Book Launch, 14th November 2024, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

Reading Landscape Field Guides #1-2-3 Book Launch

Mersinis, Michael and Brind, Susan (2024) Reading Landscape Field Guides #1-2-3 Book Launch. In: Reading Landscape Field Guides #1-2-3 Book Launch, 14th November 2024, Annex Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art.

Acts of Making / Acts of Transgression

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Acts of Making / Acts of Transgression. In: Delightful Fun, 3 December 2024 -13 December 2024, The Glasgow School of Art, Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery and Bourdon Lecture Theatre.

Transmissions for Ukraine: Art as Weapon and Tool of Change

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Transmissions for Ukraine: Art as Weapon and Tool of Change. In: Wild Research, 13th & 14th September 2024, The Revelator, Glasgow.

Navigating the Unknown Unknowns in the Field(s) of The Image

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Navigating the Unknown Unknowns in the Field(s) of The Image. In: GSA L&T Conference: Creative Education as a Creative Sustainable Practice, 05 June 2024, online.

Politics of Land and Strategies of Resistance

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Politics of Land and Strategies of Resistance. In: Politics of Land and Strategies of Resistance, 20 December 2022, online.

This is not Tourism - the work of Anastasiia Piatakova

Mersinis, Michael (2022) This is not Tourism - the work of Anastasiia Piatakova. In: This is not Tourism - the work of Anastasiia Piatakova.

Biographies / Biography - Michael Mersinis

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Biographies / Biography - Michael Mersinis. In: 11th International Photography Symposium, 30 November - 2 December 2022, The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

Image as a Form of Resistance

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Image as a Form of Resistance. In: Image as a Form of Resistance, 28 September 2022, online.

Life to Work

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Life to Work. In: Biography to Work, 2 December 2022, The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

Portfolio Reviews

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Portfolio Reviews. In: Portfolio Reviews - The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 3 Dec 2022, The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

War and Dissent - Biography and Current Work

Mersinis, Michael (2022) War and Dissent - Biography and Current Work. In: War and Dissent - Biography and Current Work, 26 September 2022.

Mining the Animal - Silk Town

Mersinis, Michael, Hodson, Elizabeth and Harold, Jim (2021) Mining the Animal - Silk Town. In: Practicing Landscape: Landscapes of Energy and Extraction, 26 November 2021, Online.

‘Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation’, symposium 2020 - Session 3: Histories Respondent

Laoide-Kemp, Seán, Crowdy, Joe, Robertson, Frances and Mersinis, Michael (2020) ‘Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation’, symposium 2020 - Session 3: Histories Respondent. In: ‘Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation’, symposium 2020 - Session 3 Histories, 20th November 2020.

The Photographic Event as Pictorial and Imaginative Space

Mersinis, Michael (2016) The Photographic Event as Pictorial and Imaginative Space. In: Northern Light: Landscape Photography and Evocations of the North, Monday 4th - Tuesday 5th July, 2016, Sheffield Hallam University - Department of Media Arts and Communication.

Reading Landscape - Two Artists on Recent Work

Mersinis, Michael and Bird, Nicky (2016) Reading Landscape - Two Artists on Recent Work. In: GSA Research Day, 19 February 2016, Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art.

Family Ties Network Presentation - Subject Missing

Mersinis, Michael (2015) Family Ties Network Presentation - Subject Missing. In: Family Ties Network Presentation - Subject Missing, Friday 20th November 2015, http://familytiesnetwork.wordpress.com/events/.

Family Ties: Subject Missing

Bird, Nicky, Brodie, Ann, Gonzalez, Laura, Butler, Jaqueline and Mersinis, Michael (2015) Family Ties: Subject Missing. In: Family Ties: Subject Missing, 20 November 2015, The Glasgow School of Art, UK.

Making up the Family Album

Mersinis, Michael (2015) Making up the Family Album. In: Family Ties Network: Subject Missing, 20 Nov 2015, The Glasgow School of Art, UK.

The Threshold of Practice

Mersinis, Michael (2015) The Threshold of Practice. In: CRD Launch Conference, 13 Nov 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Album / Argento

Mersinis, Michael (2015) Album / Argento. In: Material Culture in Action: Practices of Making, Collecting and Re-enacting Art and Design, 7-8 Sep 2015, The Glasgow School of Art, UK.

Photography as a Threefold Sign

Mersinis, Michael (2011) Photography as a Threefold Sign. In: 3rd Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, 4-7 Jun 2012, Athens, Greece.

Photography in the Era of the Moving Image

Mersinis, Michael (2011) Photography in the Era of the Moving Image. In: 3rd Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, 4-7 June 2012, Athens, Greece.

Artefact

Man (on phone)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Man (on phone). [Artefact]

Street Tattoo

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Street Tattoo. [Artefact]

Olive Tree / in Situ I, II (2023-2025)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Olive Tree / in Situ I, II (2023-2025). [Artefact]

Tree Shadow (reworked) 2025

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Tree Shadow (reworked) 2025. [Artefact]

Migrant Olive Tree (relocated sapling from Gaza’s olive groves)

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Migrant Olive Tree (relocated sapling from Gaza’s olive groves). [Artefact]

Flea Market Painting

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Flea Market Painting. [Artefact]

Garage, 2023

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Garage, 2023. [Artefact]

I Long for- and Fight- (και ποθήω και μάομαι)

Mersinis, Michael (2024) I Long for- and Fight- (και ποθήω και μάομαι). [Artefact]

Work exhibited at Photiq Gallery Print exhibition 2024

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Work exhibited at Photiq Gallery Print exhibition 2024. [Artefact]

Selection of work presented in Suboart Magazine

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Selection of work presented in Suboart Magazine. [Artefact]

Skarbyntsya {СКАРБНИЦЯ} vol III (Fundraiser Event for Ukraine 2024)

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Skarbyntsya {СКАРБНИЦЯ} vol III (Fundraiser Event for Ukraine 2024). [Artefact]

Bits + Bytes

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Bits + Bytes. [Artefact]

Work exhibited at group exhibition "Night Shift"

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Work exhibited at group exhibition "Night Shift". [Artefact]

Work exhibited in group exhibition "Class Matters"

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Work exhibited in group exhibition "Class Matters". [Artefact]

Work exhibited in the group exhibition "Salon D' Inclusion"

Mersinis, Michael (2024) Work exhibited in the group exhibition "Salon D' Inclusion". [Artefact]

Intercept / Tool, Intercept / Proof (diptych)

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Intercept / Tool, Intercept / Proof (diptych). [Artefact]

Skarbyntsya {СКАРБНИЦЯ} vol II (Fundraiser Event for Ukraine 2023)

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Skarbyntsya {СКАРБНИЦЯ} vol II (Fundraiser Event for Ukraine 2023). [Artefact]

Works exhibited in the group exhibition ‘The Art of the Possible'

Mersinis, Michael (2021) Works exhibited in the group exhibition ‘The Art of the Possible'. [Artefact]

Soufli - Silk Town (Images)

Mersinis, Michael (2018) Soufli - Silk Town (Images). [Artefact]

Postcards from Home

Mersinis, Michael (2016) Postcards from Home. [Artefact]

Show/Exhibition

‘You are a memory, I am your shadow’

Harris, Ashanti, Ishaq, Asuf, Broomes, Mele, Mersinis, Michael, Zhaya, Nadia and Shetti, Shalmali (2023) ‘You are a memory, I am your shadow’. Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow - G3 6RQ., 22 September 2023 - 04 October 2023 [Show/Exhibition]

Dispatches to the Front Lines (proposal for Tranmissions)

Mersinis, Michael (2022) Dispatches to the Front Lines (proposal for Tranmissions). Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilzen, Czech Republic, 16 November 2022 - 23 December 2022 [Show/Exhibition]

Argento - Reconstructing A Family (Album)

Mersinis, Michael (2017) Argento - Reconstructing A Family (Album). Vilnius Photography Gallery, Lithuania, October - November 2017 [Show/Exhibition]

Postcards to Cuba Exhibition

Mersinis, Michael (2016) Postcards to Cuba Exhibition. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Scotland and The National Art School in Havana, Cuba, 11 November 2016 - 16 November 2016 [Show/Exhibition]

Paper Boat

Mersinis, Michael (2016) Paper Boat. Bushwick Studios, 345 Elderl Street #114, Brooklyn, New York, October - November 2016 [Show/Exhibition]

Convocation

Mersinis, Michael (2013) Convocation. [Show/Exhibition]

Stations of the Green

Rodger, Johnny, Miller, Mitch, Mersinis, Michael, McCaughey, Peter, Munro, Gordon and Sinclair, Ross (2013) Stations of the Green. New Glasgow Society Gallery, 26 April -17 May 2013 [Show/Exhibition]

Birds do not sing – the Culloden Moor project

Mersinis, Michael (2011) Birds do not sing – the Culloden Moor project. Culloden Moor Visitor's Centre, Inverness, UK, April 16th [Show/Exhibition]

Landmarken

Mersinis, Michael and Reitmeier, Maximilian (2011) Landmarken. Weltraum Gallery, Rumfordstrasse 26 80469 Munich, 01-30 April 2011 [Show/Exhibition]

Heart of The Matter

Mersinis, Michael (2010) Heart of The Matter. MacLellan Galleries, Glasgow, September 2010 [Show/Exhibition]

Terra Nullius

Mersinis, Michael (2010) Terra Nullius. [Show/Exhibition]

Ithaca

Mersinis, Michael (2009) Ithaca. [Show/Exhibition]

Image

Chalkis

Mersinis, Michael (2018) Chalkis. [Image]

Video

Silk Town

Mersinis, Michael (2018) Silk Town. [Video]

Audio

Sustainable Voices 1 - Interview with Iris May & Gwendolin Kircali

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Sustainable Voices 1 - Interview with Iris May & Gwendolin Kircali. [Audio]

Sustainable Voices 2 - Interview with Julia Ashe & Mimi Bhogal

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Sustainable Voices 2 - Interview with Julia Ashe & Mimi Bhogal. [Audio]

Sustainable Voices 3 - Interview with Jane Karweick & Gretchen Hammell

Mersinis, Michael (2025) Sustainable Voices 3 - Interview with Jane Karweick & Gretchen Hammell. [Audio]

Experiment

Practicing Landscape 2 - Loch Ossian Fieldwork

Punton, Lesley, Brind, Susan, Bird, Nicky, McBride, Christina, Robertson, Frances, Brownrigg, Jenny, Mersinis, Michael, Watt, Hugh and Currall, Alan (2018) Practicing Landscape 2 - Loch Ossian Fieldwork. [Experiment]

Practising Landscape 1- Peripatetic Seminar Series

Brind, Susan, Bird, Nicky, Carter, Justin, Greated, Marianne, McBride, Christina, McMullan, Shauna, Mersinis, Michael, Thomson, Amanda, Punton, Lesley, Watt, Hugh and Brownrigg, Jenny (2015) Practising Landscape 1- Peripatetic Seminar Series. [Experiment]

Teaching Resource

Pedagogy of Place: Michael Mersinis - Evental sites and latent places

Mersinis, Michael (2023) Pedagogy of Place: Michael Mersinis - Evental sites and latent places. [Teaching Resource]

Other

all these dreamings now hidden

Mersinis, Michael (2024) all these dreamings now hidden. Seedlings, London.