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.