Current work-in-progress projects and expeditions:

• ‘Where We Are is Here’ project developing a printed publication, events, and exhibition in collaboration with glaciologist Oddur Sigurdson at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Iceland. 2023. Next expedition to Iceland in May 2024 to film on the Solheimjökul glacier, all going to plan!

• SurvØY - Building a creative island almanac in collaboration with artist Jonathan Ford - Creative Scotland Open Art Commission 2021-2024.

• ‘Restore the Shore’ printed manual publication and film funded by North Isles Landscape Partnership, Historic Environment Scotland, Lottery funded.

  Next film showing - 17th February 2024, Cromarty Hall, Stromness; The Cable End, Hoy, April tbd; Westray and The Kelp Store, Papa Westray.

• About to go on an expedition in February 2024 to Malaysia to collaborate with Dr. Jarina Mohd Jani following her work with the Mahi Meri, observing their annual sea ceremony. Then on to NZ to stand on a Southern Hemisphere glacier again.

• Uillinn West Cork Art residency - June 2024. working with the Fair Seas advocacy group on Lough Hyne.

Current or recent reading material:

Glaciers and Landscapes - David E Sugden and Brian S. John.

Earth Emotions - New Words for a New World - Glenn A. Albrecht

On Time and Water - Andri Snaer Magnason

Geographic names of Iceland’s Glaciers: historic and modern by Oddur Sigurdson and Richard S. Williams Jr.

The Dance documentary about the making of Mám - by choreographer Michael Keegan Dolan

Farm Fatale by Philip Quesne

https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/programme/event/farm-fatale

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/seawalls-nature-based-alternatives-us

The Crystal Desert - David G. Campbell

While the Fires Burn - a glacier odyssey - Daniel Schwartz

Comets - photographs from the Rosetta Space Probe - Jean Pierre Bibring and Hanns Zischler

The Song of the Dodo - Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction- by David Quammen

Reliquiae Vol 9 No 2 - Corbel Stone Press

Archipelago, a reader - edited by Nicholas Allen and Fiona Stafford

Vast Expanses, a history of the Oceans - by Helen M. Rozwadowski

Ice Rivers - by Jemma Wadham

Lost Woods - by Rachel Carson

Interesting talks I have listened to online recently:

SHRE: Oceans, Art and Environmental Defenders.

Karen Barad - Re-membering Time'/s for the time being. Recording soon on the IMMA website:

https://imma.ie/whats-on/karen-barad-remembering-time/

Linnean Society talk with atmospheric scientist Markus Rex from the icebreaker expedition to the arctic during the pandemic.

https://members.linnean.org/events/6241e197b085e80008f1633b/description