The Land as Other

As part of the biannual Impact 12 conference, printmakers were invited to collaborate with environmental scientists and humanities scholars and respond to new deep-time environmental histories in Wales, language, a sense of place, the re-wilding movements and the positioning of Cymru by outsiders (notably tourists) as ‘Other’ with issues including migration, displacement, colonialism and citizenship, and a sense of loss.

Co-curated and co-led by printmakers Dr Veronica Calarco (Lecturer, Printmaking, School of Art, Aberystwyth University), Judy Macklin (creative fellow at Centre for the Inland, La Trobe University and Lincoln Centre of Water and Planetary Heath), Professor Mark Macklin (Distinguished Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln) and Dr Lucy Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), this curated exhibition will address and make a novel intervention on the conference theme of ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’.