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27 May 2013
Landslides in Art Part 18: Elena Damiani
The latest edition of the Landslides in Art series, featuring the work of Peruvian-born artist Elena Damiani
20 September 2010
Landslides in Art Part 7 – Jennifer Williams
Regular readers will know that I occasionally highlight a piece of art featuring landslides. This is usually a piece of visual art (such as this and this), but occasionally it is a song or even an installation. This time I thought I’d feature a piece of art by the American artist Jennifer Williams, who paints environmentally-orientated pieces using acrylic on birch panels. Jennifer works mostly in the Pacific Northwest, where …
9 May 2010
Landslides in art: Part 6 – this time a song!
Regular readers will have seen the occasional posts in which I feature the occurrence of landslides in art (previous examples here, here, here and here). You may also remember that I featured a project by artist Kane Cunningham to turn a landslide / erosion threatened house at Knipe Point in Scarborough into a work of living art. Well, singer-songwriter Anne-Marie Sanderson has written a song about the project / house, …
3 March 2010
Landslides in Art Part 5
I apologise for the lack of posts of late. I am currently in Pakistan to visit the Attabad landslide, courtesy of FOCUS Pakistan. I will post on that soon, and of course there has been a great deal happening in the landslide world whilst I have been in the field. Anyway, this is the latest in my series on landslides in art. The previous parts can be found here:Part 1Part …
25 February 2010
Coastal erosion as art
The Guardian has a slightly bizarre article today. It is entitled “The art of watching your house fall into the sea”. It tells the story of artist Kane Cunningham, who has bought a bungalow on the cliff edge at Knipe Point near to Scarborough. This site has been featured here before as recent landsliding has threatened to destroy a number of houses. He says in the article: “I’m going to …
10 December 2009
Landslides in Art Part 3
This is the latest in my occasional series on the depiction of landslides in art. The previous parts of this series are here:Part 1Part 2 Today I turn to a classic painting from the 19th Century, painted by Lord Frederic Leighton, entitled “On the Coast, Isle of Wight”: This oil sketch, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, shows a stretch of the Isle of Wight coastline in southern …
7 December 2009
Landslides in Art Part 2: “Landslide” by Chiura Obata
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Landslides in Art Part 2: "Landslide" by Chiura Obata
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
2 January 2009
Evaluating coastal erosion using art
The BBC is carrying a quite interesting story at the moment about the use of artwork from the nineteenth century to evaluate rates of coastal erosion. The story originates from Robin McInnes, who is an established figure in coastal management. Robin was the Coastal Manager for the Isle of Wight, in southern England for many years, during which he led the way in terms of developing an understanding and management …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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