Dalziel + Scullion
Breath Taking
Photographic Billboard Project - Nationwide May 2005
Dalziel + Scullion were commissioned by Deveron Arts Fellowship Projects to make an artistic response to the debate surrounding the planning proposals for over 200 new wind turbine sites in rural Britain. The artists devoted the Fellowship to extending their investigations into the complex relationship between mankind and the natural world.
Taking as a starting point the current debate surrounding planning proposals for wind farms, the artists invite us to contemplate the shifting environment and increasing urbanisation of the population and consider the impact, both social and cultural, of these developments.
The project encompassed the placement of 11 bill board sites across the UK, a publication and a conference on the topic of Energy, Landscape, Wilderness and Growth.
Billboard Sites
Aberdeen: Market Street | Birmingham: Fazeley Street | The Cabrach: The Gouls | Dundee: East Dock Street | Edinburgh: Waverley Station | Glasgow: Glasgow Central Station | Liverpool: Hanover Street | London - Bethnal Green Rd and Blackfriars Rd | Manchester: Fairfield Street | Newcastle: Gallowgate Car Park | Pitcaple, A96
Supported by: Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council for England, Sigrid Rausing, Innovation in Architecture Fund/The Lighthouse
Conference: Energy, Landscape, Wilderness and Growth
22 May 2005, from 4 pm, Ex-Servicemen's Club, Gordon Street, Huntly
Guest speakers:
Dalziel + Scullion, artists
Mel Gooding, writer, curator and lecturer on art, nature and architecture
Dr David Miller, Landscape Modeller from the Macaulay Institute for Land use
Ruaridh Nicoll, novelist and columnist for The Observer
Paul Shepheard, writer and architect, author of The Cultivated Wilderness. Find his essay on breath taking here.
Dalziel's and Scullion's Biography