Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies

Robson, Amy

Abstract

In this paper landscape painting is developed as a mode of enquiry through which to explore the tensions inherent to landscape. Set on the high street in a small market town and undertaken by individuals with varying artistic experience, this methodological experiment explores the tensions between the non-representational and representational realms of landscape. By using Elizabeth Grosz’s writings on art, I develop this landscape painting methodology through an understanding of art and artmaking as intensifying sensation. Here, Grosz’s ideas become the foundation for a participatory arts method that decentres the human, whilst remaining focused on the presence of pleasure within landscape. It is by drawing together methodological experimentation and feminist theory that I revisit feminist geographies’ already existing interest in pleasure in/through landscapes through a more-than-representational lens.

Citation

Robson, A. (2025). Reckoning with landscape tensions, reflecting on creative methodologies. Cultural Geographies, 32(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241274281

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 27, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Aug 19, 2024
• Publication Date: 2025-01
• Deposit Date: Aug 22, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 22, 2024
• Journal: Cultural Geographies
• Print ISSN: 1474-4740
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0881
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-55
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241274281
• Keywords: landscape art, participatory methods, creative geographies, feminist geographies, painting, landscape, nonrepresentational theory, creative methods, Elizabeth Grosz
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2763528