Education, the Arts and Climate Change.

This in-person event hosted by the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making and Stirling University’s Art Collection will explore the challenges and affordances of education which responds to the affective dimensions of living on a Fragile Earth. The event will be held in the Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling within the exhibition space of ‘This Fragile Earth’ . This exhibition showcases Contemporary Scottish artists’ responses to living as part of a Fragile Earth.

The format of the event will include academic perspectives from research and practice on themes of climate change education, the arts and the emotions. The second part of the event will be facilitated by Georgia Rose Murray, who will draw on her experiences as an artist and educator, including painting as part of the Czech Centre for Polar Ecology, which is situated beyond the Arctic Circle.

The Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making (SCRCM) develops and undertakes original research into curriculum making, engages in knowledge exchange with policy makers and practitioners to develop the curriculum across education systems, and disseminates research through face-to-face events and webinars.

Georgia Rose Murray is an artist, researcher and educator who has exhibited in the UK and internationally.

Her work depicts her fascination with the sublime effects of light and darkness on the natural landscape. Her holistic processes are guided by conscious and subconscious observations and by a visceral awareness of the mystical; the works explore our human existence on Earth in connection with the spirit world.

Brought to the University in collaboration with the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, this exhibition focusses on a group of pioneering Scottish artists who as early as the 1970s and 1980s were responding to the threat of climate change. They are painters Frances Walker (born 1930) and James Morrison (1932-2020); visual artists and constructivists, Will MacLean (born 1941) and Glen Onwin (born 1947); artist/filmmaker Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946); and expeditionary artist and photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946).

The exhibition is open to the public Monday-Friday 9am -5pm or by appointment.

Getting Here

Pathfoot is on the University of Stirling Campus, FK9 4LA and can be seen up on the slope on your left as you enter the campus by the main entrance.

You can get to the campus by bus, bike or car and parking is free for the first two hours of your visit. For more comprehensive advice on how to get here please visit https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/art-collection/visitor-information/.

The building is an accessible building, with spaces for blue badge holders to the front and rear of the building. More information is on our website, but if you have any questions about access, please email Emma at [email protected] or give us a phone on 01786466050.

Host or Publisher Art Collection, University of Stirling