How can photography, decomposing underpants and a pile of fridges help us see the places around us through different eyes?

Over the past five years, artist and photographer Ted Leeming has been exploring Scotland’s changing relationship with rural and urban land through an evolving photographic enquiry.

Moving beyond traditional photography that tends to focus on the visual elements of the landscape, this project investigates how images can reveal hidden relationships between people, nature, history and the decisions that shape the places we inhabit.

This talk offers an insight into the creative process behind the work - from a 3000 mile immersive cycle around Scotland to visual storytelling and mapping generational land use change to burying underpants! It explores how photographers can move beyond documenting what is visible, to questioning what is unseen, overlooked or taken for granted.

An invitation for photographers, students and anyone interested in how creative practice can help us imagine different futures for the places we share.

For a additional, more in depth dive into the thinking and research that sit behind the project, why not also come along to Ted’s talk on 30th September, Our Place in Time. You can book that event here.

About Ted

Ted's practice focuses on issues relating to nature, climate and place. Through photographic and increasingly multi-sensory methods he explores the systemic tensions and competitions driving land use conflict – and the regenerative practices already resolving them – to start conversations that shift decisions towards ecological and cultural resilience. For more on the various elements of the exhibition and related projects, please visit

www.exploring.place

Getting Here

Our Hosts and Sponsors

This talk is part of a full day of events which has been made possible with the generous support of the staff from Macrobert Art Centre and the Art Collection at the University of Stirling.

Through the course of the day there will be a series of exhibition views, talks and opportunities to meet with Fabrizio Gianni and Ted Leeming, in the morning at Macrobert Arts Centre, and in the afternoon with Jess Holdengarde and Morwenna Kearsley, at the Pathfoot Building in partnership with the Art Collection.

You can find out what's on at Macrobert Arts Centre here and learn more about the university's fabulous Art Collection and their events here.

Getting Here

This event is open to all and will be held in Macrobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling.

Information on getting here, access and parking is available here.

Thank you to all of our partners, sponsors, artists and friends of the festival who together make these events possible.

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