Aerial Landscapes is the culmination of four years of development instigated by a one-day event exploring contemporary artists’ engagement with the Five Sisters’ Bings. In discussion with APG founder Barbara Steveni two artists, Onya McCausland and Nicky Bird, and two art historians, Katherine Jackson and Joy Sleeman, presented their investigations into John Latham’s approach to site from above as manifested in his 1975–76 APG placement with the Scottish Development Office. This publication pulls together these presentations and discussions shaped by work in the archive of Flat Time House. Together the texts convey four distinct perspectives on aerial landscapes and combine the historical and first-hand with the archive.
The book launch, held on 30th November 2023, was accompanied by a display of art works and archive materials informing and reflecting on the publication, selected by the contributing artists and art historians from their own work, the John Latham Archive and John Latham Collection at Flat Time House, London.
For further information and documentation of the display in Flat Time House, see Aerial Landscapes, 30 November – 15 December, 2023 and the FTHo map of works.
Aerial Landscapes
by Katherine Jackson, Onya McCausland, Joy Sleeman and Nicky Bird
A 94 page publication
33 illustrations, 17 full colour, 16 B&W
210mm x 148mm (portrait)
Flat Time House, 2023
Edition of 300
ISBN: 978-0-9957231-3-9
Edited by the authors & Linda Schofield
Designed by Robert Mead
Supported by
The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London; The Glasgow School of Art; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Leverhulme Trust; University of Toronto; New Media Scotland and the John Latham Foundation.
TOP IMAGE: Aerial view (detail), Ordnance Survey Photo Mosaic Sheet of Midlothian by the RAF, February 1960. Reproduced with permission of the National Library of Scotland.