Can't access the Member's area? Have you renewed your membership? New password now in place!
Members log-on above for Job info, Diary dates, latest Journal, Members Directory, News and Forum.
The Landscape and Arts Network was launched in 1993 by artist Francis Carr with the aim of bringing together landscape architects, engineers, architects, artists, educationalists and ecologists: in effect, all those individuals, professional or otherwise, who feel passionate about improving and sustaining the quality of our urban and natural environment. Through an ongoing programme of seminars, visits, conferences and meetings it helps to broaden the context in which we understand art and landscape and continues to inspire practitioners of all kinds and break professional boundaries.As a network one of its founding aims is to encourage collaboration and cross-fertilisation, both in theory and practice. Creativity is at the heart of its agenda, offering unique opportunities for members to explore and relate to a variety of challenges.
A comment from member Linda Gordon on the latest LAN Journal :-
Journal 44 is a great read.
I found Anna Heineman’s article about Mel Chin, an artist I did not know about before, extremely interesting and encouraging. But I would like to put in a word for Andy Goldsworthy, who would not be described as an ‘ecological artist’, but who none the less over his career, has had an enormous and profound effect on changing sensibilities, perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards the earth and its non-human life-forms. No, I am not president of the Andy Goldsworthy fan club, but he simply is not an artist who ‘ just uses the land as a canvas’. And as far as I am concerned, and thousand of others too, all his work is a statement about the earth – whatever one might think about individual pieces. His language is different, appeals to a different part of our psyche – one does not necessarily need to be overtly activist, or even collaborative, in one’s art-making, in order to reach the parts that other artists don’ t reach.
Robert Smithson – well, maybe Anna Heineman has a point there. I don’t think he cared a great deal about our ecology and sustainable living – though he was asking the questions and he was confronting people with the issues in a big (if unsustainable)way.. . Spiral Jetty is an important landmark in every sense of the word, and for many reasons.
Just thought I would regale you with my opinions. Here’s an enjoyable brief overview of Andy Goldsworthy’s work: www.redstarcafe.wordpress.com/2008/02/.
Some photos from the latest online Journal 44 The Hopeful Earth Issue, now only available by joining Landscape & Arts Network.
 |
Landscape & Arts Network Services
is a not for profit company, wholly owned by the Landscape & Arts Network Ltd, incorporated in September 2003 to allow its Directors to further the aims and objectives of the Charity through commercial opportunities. |
 |
Gunpowder
Park, Located within the Lee Valley Regional Park, at the top of Greater London, Gunpowder Park is the largest outdoor space in the region dedicated to arts and the environment. Transformed from its former use as a munitions factory, these 255 acres of public open space will host unique and innovative cultural and commercial activities throughout the year. |
Become a member and support the activities of Landscape &
Arts Network and get immediate access to the latest on-line Journals. This
website and the Journal can only exist with your support.
Click Here To open a printer friendly
application form.
For more information about the benefits of Membership go
to ABOUT US
JOURNAL
44
The cost of producing the Journal
(even online) is increasing and we are aware that the Journal is very
popular with the 'general public' when placed on the Public Web site, so in
future the Journal will only be available to Members. The cover page only,
of each Journal (go to Journal page) will be viewable on this public web site. If you care about
the work of the Network and want to see it continue and develop, please give
your support by joining (Ordinary membership £26 per annum, that's 50p per
week). If you join now your membership will run to Oct 31st 2009. Have
trouble remembering to renew? Then ask the membership secretary about
setting up a standing order. Click here for a Membership Form.
The Landscape &
Arts Network has been a registered charity (No. 1073173) since January 1999.
(A company limited by guarantee No. 3431516 since 1998.)
Web site by
bosami Last
updated 16th June 2008