Earth’s Canvas: Exploring Geology in Creativity at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London Tuesday 17- Wednesday 18 September 2024.

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This event will bring together diverse disciplines to explore the impact
of geology on creative observation, articulation, expression and
outreach. Inspiration includes landscape, the subsurface, geological
processes, deep time and the Anthropocene. In-person presentations and
performances will run in parallel with skills workshops along the
following themes:

Art, sculpture and illustration
Poetry and literature
Music and song

The meeting seeks to explore the role of geology in the creative
process. While performance and exhibition underpin contributions to the
event, we seek to understand the journey contributors followed and
experienced from their initial inspiration to the final artwork (artwork
in its broadest sense). We seek to hear the narrative of how geology has
influenced the creative process which may be through interactive
presentation, Q&A or written description to accompany artworks.

The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics is one of the sponsors and Alyson Hallett, Patrick Corbett and Glenda Rome are all  taking part.  

Attendance is invited from anyone with an interest in geology and an
interest in the arts to demonstrate how these disciplines can and do
inspire each other. 

Full details are at https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/09-Earths-Canvas. 

To register go to https://bit.ly/GeolSoc_register and for the evening concert at https://bit.ly/GeolSoc_concert.

Convenors
Lucy Williams – Rockhopper Exploration
Steve Garrett – Guitarist
Emma Jude – Fine artist
Patrick Corbett – Heriot-Watt University/Scottish Centre for Geopoetics
Peter Dolan – Dolan & Associates Ltd

The Geological Society of London is a charity relying on the support of its members and your support of this event would be most welcome, joining those who are interested in promoting greater links between arts and sciences at this ground-breaking event.

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