Susan Brind

Susan Brind serves as a Lecturer and Researcher in Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art's School of Fine Art. Her work bridges artistic practice, landscape theory, and interdisciplinary fieldwork, with recent focus on energy extraction sites and environmental perception.

Her research centers on environmental art and landscape studies, particularly through the Practicing Landscape Field Guide series (2024) examining energy extraction's material agency. Key interests include:

• Liminal spaces in border regions (Cyprus, Arctic)
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with archaeologists
• Placemaking through nomadic dialogues
• Coffee as a cultural medium in transnational contexts
• Material agency in environmental perception

Brind co-founded the Creative Centre for Fluid Territories (CCFT), facilitating projects across Scotland, Norway, Cyprus, and Kyrgyzstan. Her 2020 Pedagogy of Place field guide establishes frameworks for landscape reading in artistic practice. Recent work analyzes Arctic borders (Northern Light, 2018) and Orkney's archaeological landscapes (Points in the Ambience, 2022).

Her advising extends through CCFT's nomadic dialogues and GSA's Practising Landscape seminars, fostering collaboration between artists, archaeologists, and communities. Major initiatives include the National Island Plan Embedded Artist Commission (2021) and Scalan Mills interdisciplinary workshops (2018-2019).

Brind's laboratory is the Creative Centre for Fluid Territories, operating as a mobile platform for:

• Cross-border placemaking projects
• Field-based artistic research
• Community-engaged landscape interpretation
• Development of pedagogical field guides

Current work explores energy landscapes through the 2024 Practicing Landscape trilogy.