Earth Month 2025 - Cultures of Action: Engaging with Greenspaces for Art Practice

Join us for this a special satellite event for “Earth Month 2025: Cultures of Action”.

Guests are invited to join an interactive workshop on engaging with local urban greenspaces in terms of art practice with Two Isles at Goethe-Institut Glasgow, located directly next to Kelvingrove Park. Two Isles is the creative and scientific symbiosis of artist Pippa Thomas and scientist Miranda Bane. Driven by a shared interest in human nature interactions and restorative action, Pippa and Miranda work together to address creative and artistic agency in ecological actions.

The workshop will focus on observational practices, encouraging to explore more of a local ecological narrative when engaging with greenspaces in the local context. Guests are invited to our historic venue at 3 Park Circus, where they can  explore, together, the state of nature in the UK and will be invited by Pippa and Miranda to share their own knowledge of and connect to nature. The group will discuss local ecology and how art is entwined with narratives of the natural world, as well as sustainable art practice in terms of ecology. For the second half of the workshop, the group will head outside and explore the local ecology through observational drawing at a couple of different nearby sites.  The event will finish up with a reflection discussion. 

All visitors are welcome, no previous knowledge is required to participate. We are looking forward to an inspirational evening, opening new perspectives on our urban greenspaces!

• Materials will be provided and there will be tea and coffee. 

About Two Isles:
 
Miranda Bane is an expert in pollinator ecology, citizen science and nature connection. With a PhD in bumblebee foraging behaviour and pollinator community robustness, she has been working across the research, conservation and policy space since 2014. As a director of the Pollinator project charity and member of the British Ecological Society, Miranda strives to transform scientific knowledge into meaningful action, collaborating with artists, policy makers and community groups. “We know what we are doing to the earth – now is the time to respond”.
 
Pippa Thomas is an artist, facilitator and community practitioner based in Glasgow with 10 years experience working within the 3rd sector. Pippa’s art practice explores the parallels between the treatment of women and nature; using food, manufacturing and paper waste, she explores the concepts of domesticity, mending and consumption, whilst accepting the ephemerality that comes with generating works from pre-used matter. She has exhibited with galleries and organisations in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow and completed a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art 2013, going on to study at The Royal Drawing School in London 2022.