Amanda Thomson

• Lecturer
• Fine Art-Painting & Printmaking

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Book or Monograph

A Scots Dictionary of Nature

Thomson, Amanda (2018) A Scots Dictionary of Nature. Saraband Books, Glasgow. ISBN 9781912235186

One Year

Reeder, Elizabeth and Thomson, Amanda (2016) One Year. Groundloop . Essay Press, USA.

Book Section

Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach

Thomson, Amanda (2018) Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach. In: Print Matters : An anthology of critical writing on prints and printmaking since 1986. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526125750

21 Revolutions, Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library

Thomson, Amanda (2014) 21 Revolutions, Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library. In: 21 Revolutions. Freight Books, Glasgow, pp. 92-93. ISBN 978-0-9522273-3-5

Impact 8: Borders and Crossings: the artist as explorer Chapter title: 'Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach'

Thomson, Amanda (2014) Impact 8: Borders and Crossings: the artist as explorer Chapter title: 'Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach'. In: "Borders & Crossings: the artist as explorer. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Glasgow. ISBN 1 899837 70 1

Kelo

Thomson, Amanda (2014) Kelo. In: Landing Stages. Ashden Directory, pp. 78-79. ISBN 978-0-992950613

Article

ox-e'en

Thomson, Amanda (2018) ox-e'en. The Willowherb Review, 1.

I like the unpath best: art-practice-writing and the creation of complex, generative and complicating forms and contexts

Thomson, Amanda (2017) I like the unpath best: art-practice-writing and the creation of complex, generative and complicating forms and contexts. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 10 (1). pp. 77-94. ISSN 1753-5190

Making a place: Art, Writing, and a more-than-textual approach

Thomson, Amanda (2013) Making a place: Art, Writing, and a more-than-textual approach. The Geographical Review, 103 (2). pp. 244-255.

Walking Among the Dead Amongst the Living

Thomson, Amanda (2012) Walking Among the Dead Amongst the Living. Performance Research, 17 (4). pp. 27-32. ISSN 1352-8165

Conference or Workshop Item

Making and doing: new approaches to the archives of hands and feet

Thomson, Amanda (2019) Making and doing: new approaches to the archives of hands and feet. In: Making and doing: new approaches to the archives of hands and feet, 1 November 2019, University of Glasgow.

Wild Words

Thomson, Amanda (2019) Wild Words. In: Wild Words, 25th October 2019, Highland Bookshop, Fort William.

A Scots Dictionary of Nature

Thomson, Amanda (2019) A Scots Dictionary of Nature. In: A Scots Dictionary of Nature, 13 September 2019, Nairn Community and Arts Centre.

Publishing Scotland Scottish Writer's Showcase

Thomson, Amanda (2019) Publishing Scotland Scottish Writer's Showcase. In: Scottish Writers' Showcase, 22 August 2019, University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.

Words Carried on Waves

Thomson, Amanda and Gange, David (2019) Words Carried on Waves. In: Words Carried on Waves, 16 August 2019, Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Languages of Belonging

Thomson, Amanda (2019) Languages of Belonging. In: Languages of Belonging, 18 July 2019, Glasgow Women's Library.

Scots Syntax Atlas Data hack: mapping language use in the 21st century

Thomson, Amanda (2019) Scots Syntax Atlas Data hack: mapping language use in the 21st century. In: Scottish Syntax Atlas Datahack, 10-11 June 2019, University of Glasgow.

An evening with Jim Crumley and Amanda Thomson

Thomson, Amanda and Crumley, Jim (2019) An evening with Jim Crumley and Amanda Thomson. In: An evening with Jim Crumley and Amanda Thomson, 25 May 2019, Waterstones, St Andrews.

Launch event for Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Art Writing, Paraliterature and Intrepid Forms of Practice

Thompson, Susannah, Edbrook, Laura, Figgis, Laurence and Thomson, Amanda (2018) Launch event for Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Art Writing, Paraliterature and Intrepid Forms of Practice. In: Art Writing, Paraliterature & Intrepid Forms of Practice - Launch Event, 22 Nov 2018, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.

A Scots Dictionary of Nature: Launch, Reading and Discussion

Thomson, Amanda (2018) A Scots Dictionary of Nature: Launch, Reading and Discussion. In: Launch of A Scots Dictionary of Nature, 11 October 2018, Grantown Museum, Grantown-on-Spey.

Wigtown Book Festival, Main programme event: A Scots Dictionary of Nature

Thomson, Amanda (2018) Wigtown Book Festival, Main programme event: A Scots Dictionary of Nature. In: A Scots Dictionary of Nature, 27 September 2018, Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown.

SKI - Sharing Knowledge and Insight presents: The War of the Locust 1940-45: an interdisciplinary approach to the archive of the Anti-Locust Research Centre

Thomson, Amanda, Fletcher, Rob, McInerney, Greg and Brown, Kat (2018) SKI - Sharing Knowledge and Insight presents: The War of the Locust 1940-45: an interdisciplinary approach to the archive of the Anti-Locust Research Centre. In: The War of the Locust, 1940 - 1945: an interdisciplinary seminar, 26 April 2018, Glasgow School of Art.

The War of the Locust, 1940-1945: an interdisciplinary workshop

Fletcher, Robert, Thomson, Amanda, Brown, Katherine and McInerney, Greg (2017) The War of the Locust, 1940-1945: an interdisciplinary workshop. In: The War of the Locust, 1940 - 1945: an interdisciplinary workshop, 8 December 2017, University of Warwick, UK.

I Like the Unpath Best: Art-Practice-Writing and the Creation of Complex, Generative, and Complicating Forms and Contexts

Thomson, Amanda (2017) I Like the Unpath Best: Art-Practice-Writing and the Creation of Complex, Generative, and Complicating Forms and Contexts. In: College Arts Association Annual Conference, 15 - 18 February 2017, New York, N.Y, USA.

A little hungry, a little thirsty: Contemporary Art, Writing, Form and Practice (Session Co-convenor)

Edbrook, Laura, Thomson, Amanda, Reeder, Elizabeth and Thompson, Susannah (2017) A little hungry, a little thirsty: Contemporary Art, Writing, Form and Practice (Session Co-convenor). In: College Art Association (CAA) 105th Annual Conference, 15-18 Feb 2017, New York, NY, USA.

A Fine Arts Practice Based Research - Research into practice into form; mixed methods and interdisciplinarity

Thomson, Amanda (2015) A Fine Arts Practice Based Research - Research into practice into form; mixed methods and interdisciplinarity. In: Creative Practice Conference: Making Research, Researching Making, 10 - 12 September 2015, Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark.

Hidden performance and quiet encounter: solitary and social discoveries of place in the remnant pinewoods of Abernethy.

Thomson, Amanda (2015) Hidden performance and quiet encounter: solitary and social discoveries of place in the remnant pinewoods of Abernethy. In: Performing Place 3, 19th - 20th June 2015, University of Chichester.

Printing the Storied Landscape: An Expanded Field of Printmaking that takes account of the Space, Constructedness and the Temporalities of Place'

Thomson, Amanda (2015) Printing the Storied Landscape: An Expanded Field of Printmaking that takes account of the Space, Constructedness and the Temporalities of Place'. In: Southern Graphics International Conference, March 18 - 21, 2015, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

An other wild: some thoughts on making place, and making art

Thomson, Amanda (2015) An other wild: some thoughts on making place, and making art. In: Landscape, Wilderness and the Wild, 26 - 28 March 2015, Newcastle University, Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.

Seeing the wood and the trees: becoming art in a becoming forest

Thomson, Amanda (2014) Seeing the wood and the trees: becoming art in a becoming forest. In: Reading and Exhibiting Nature - International Conference, February 2014, University of Westminster, London.

Seeing the wood through the trees: doing art and anthropology in the forest - Panel session with Professor Tim Ingold, Dr Jo Vergunst and Jennifer Clark.

Thomson, Amanda (2013) Seeing the wood through the trees: doing art and anthropology in the forest - Panel session with Professor Tim Ingold, Dr Jo Vergunst and Jennifer Clark. In: New Observations, Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film, 13 June 2013, University of Edinburgh.

Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach

Thomson, Amanda (2013) Making a place: art and a multi-modal, multi-disciplinary approach. In: Impact8: borders & crossings - the artist as explorer: International Printmaking Conference, 23rd August -2nd September, 2013, University of Dundee.

Walking as Markmaking

Thomson, Amanda (2012) Walking as Markmaking. In: Drawing Out 2012 Transdisciplinary Conference, 28th - 30th March 2012, University of the Arts London: Chelsea College of Art and Design/ Wimbledon College of Art.

The making of a place: art, making and the value of the more-than-written

Thomson, Amanda (2012) The making of a place: art, making and the value of the more-than-written. In: Canadian Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting, 28th May - 2nd June 2012, Wilfred Laurier University/ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

I plant a lighthouse here

Thomson, Amanda and Reeder, Elizabeth (2011) I plant a lighthouse here. In: Contradictory Woolf, the 21st Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, 9 - 12 June 2011, University of Glasgow.

Artefact

Abernethy Suite II

Thomson, Amanda (2018) Abernethy Suite II. [Artefact]

Paradox

Thomson, Amanda (2015) Paradox. [Artefact]

UPCASTING

Thomson, Amanda (2015) UPCASTING. [Artefact]

Dead Amongst the Living: Fieldguide - 2nd Edition

Thomson, Amanda (2013) Dead Amongst the Living: Fieldguide - 2nd Edition. [Artefact]

Show/Exhibition

The making of A Scots Dictionary of Nature, a talk and discussion

Thomson, Amanda (2019) The making of A Scots Dictionary of Nature, a talk and discussion. Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 24 March 2019 [Show/Exhibition]

Locust War

Thomson, Amanda, Fletcher, Robert, Brown, Katherine, McInerny, Greg and Carter, Julian (2019) Locust War. Nation Museum Wales, Cardiff, 19 March - 18 September 2019 [Show/Exhibition]

On landscape, people and place - in conversation with Elizabeth Reeder

Thomson, Amanda (2018) On landscape, people and place - in conversation with Elizabeth Reeder. Sligachan Hotel, Sligachan, Skye, 26 November 2018 [Show/Exhibition]

A Scots Dictionary of Nature - Amanda Thomson in conversation with Robbie Guillory

Thomson, Amanda (2018) A Scots Dictionary of Nature - Amanda Thomson in conversation with Robbie Guillory. Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 7 November 2018 [Show/Exhibition]

Ripples on the Pond

Thomson, Amanda (2015) Ripples on the Pond. Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, May 2015 - Feb 2016 [Show/Exhibition]

Traces: an exhibition of archival interventions

Thomson, Amanda (2015) Traces: an exhibition of archival interventions. Centennial Museum, Sheguiandah, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada, 9th - 30th May 2015 [Show/Exhibition]

Sea Change

Thomson, Amanda (2013) Sea Change. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, November 2013 - January 2014 [Show/Exhibition]

21 Revolutions, Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library

Thomson, Amanda (2012) 21 Revolutions, Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library. Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, September 2012 [Show/Exhibition]

Spaces & Places: Visioning McLuhan @100

Thomson, Amanda (2011) Spaces & Places: Visioning McLuhan @100. Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, June-July 2011 [Show/Exhibition]

The World as Text: a summer reading room

Thomson, Amanda (2011) The World as Text: a summer reading room. Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, USA, June - August 2011 [Show/Exhibition]

Thesis

In the forest, field and studio: art/making/methodology and the more-than-written in the rendering of place

Thomson, Amanda (2013) In the forest, field and studio: art/making/methodology and the more-than-written in the rendering of place. PhD thesis, University of Aberdeen.

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]

Other

On Genre-Bending Essaying: Catalyst Conversations and Workshops on the Potential Impact of Experimental and Hybrid Writing in Scotland: P.I. Dr Elizabeth Reeder, University of Glasgow

Reeder, Elizabeth and Thomson, Amanda (2017) On Genre-Bending Essaying: Catalyst Conversations and Workshops on the Potential Impact of Experimental and Hybrid Writing in Scotland: P.I. Dr Elizabeth Reeder, University of Glasgow. Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In darkness there are no landmarks

Thomson, Amanda (2017) In darkness there are no landmarks. Unpublished.

REPORT: Impact8 International Printmaking Conference: Focus on Scotland in IMPRINT: The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia, Vol. 48 No. 4, 2013

Davis, Jan and Thomson, Amanda (2013) REPORT: Impact8 International Printmaking Conference: Focus on Scotland in IMPRINT: The Quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia, Vol. 48 No. 4, 2013. Print Council of Australia, Australia.

Working Creatively with sound and image: residential workshop - contribution to a Creative Practice Primer: [a]bridged

Thomson, Amanda (2010) Working Creatively with sound and image: residential workshop - contribution to a Creative Practice Primer: [a]bridged. Experimental Research Network.