Listening to the Earth, Artists’ Reading Lists

Listening to the earth brings together an intergenerational group of 10 artists who work with the earth as both subject and material. The earth is a site of extraction, but also a source of nutrition, healing and connection. In multiple cultures, the earth is from where life begins and it is to the earth that our mortal remains return. We understand who we were by searching under the earth for traces of the past. But the earth also carries insights into where we are now and enables us to imagine where we might be going.

Artists and curators taking part in Drawing Room’s exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their work.  This list has been compiled for Listening to the Earth, which brings together an intergenerational group of 10 artists who work with the earth as both subject and material.  Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in the Library and Research Centre.

Click here to download a PDF of the Reading Lists.