This artwork comprises text works, digital prints, polaroids and research journals resulting from a collaborative process undertaken by Susan Brind, Jim Harold and Alex Hale. Our research process- carried out over a period of 3-4 years at Hamiltonhill Claypits, Glasgow - involved a combination of practice-based and archival research, deep mapping and site writing. The collaboration has formed a case study for the International Network for Contemporary Archaeology in Scotland, asking: What can our collaborative, cultural understandings of the changes (disruptions, ruptures and reclamations) witnessed at Hamiltonhill teach us about how we conceive and position landscape?

Hamiltonhill has a layered history: from rural landscape, once beyond Glasgow City bounds, to canal-scape and industrial hub, to post-industrial wasteland, now an eco-nature reserve. Our repeated visits - involving conversations, reflective events, sensings and recces - have accrued into palimpsest-like layers of experiences and meanings - not always logical - of a landscape in flux. We have questioned historical, political, social, cultural, aesthetic and environmental, as well as ‘more-than-human’ readings shaping attitudes to landscape: this landscape, this place. The texts and images presented for the exhibition, 'Practicing Landscape: Field Notes', an exhibition of works in process and resolved outcomes by members of Reading Landscape, are just one manifestation of works emerging from Brind, Harold and Hale's research process.

For more information about our collaboration see the INCAScot website: https://scarf.scot/incascot/

• https://readingthelandscapesite.com
• https://scarf.scot/incascot