Tomorrow at the National Gallery @robsaintjohn.bsky.social is performing field recordings, drones, spoken word by the good people of Lancashire & live viola d’amore played by Scott King. Landscape w people. I'll be interviewing Rob, free in, come along: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...

This Friday at the National Gallery in London www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/frida...

Two weeks until KRANKENHAUS opens w a @thequietus.com double bill of moving image & words: Me & @robsaintjohn.bsky.social on the fragile body in militarised landscapes from Örö to the Cumbrian coast. @jahduran.bsky.social & Sapphire Goss on death & subterranean Liverpool. krankenhausfestival.com

It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Uncanny Landscapes podcast episode - an interview with Rob St John about his work listening to landscapes and communities. uncannylandscapes.substack.com/p/listening-...

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

News of the Are You Lost? installations across Bowland this summer. Film, sound, textiles made with people and place. www.robstjohn.co.uk/portfolio/ar...

My good pal @robsaintjohn.bsky.social was on Countryfile last night - sharing the joys of the Forest of Bowland, from 19 mins 30 secs: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The new Are You Lost? podcast is out today, featuring amazing young people from Yes Hub in Nelson talking about access to Bowland and Pendle, connections to nature, and their everyday lives. Tune in! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

‘Listening is slow, careful work. Generational work. Epochal work.’ Director & choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with @robsaintjohn.bsky.social which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04/ever...

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

The new Are You Lost? podcast features chats with walking guide and historian Nick Burton on the Nick of Pendle and archaeologist Dr Rick Peterson at the Fairy Holes Cave above Whitewell in the Forest of Bowland. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

'A symbol in the sky – a moon, star or cloud formation – acts as an anchor ...They are illusions of balance and peace formed through temporary stillings of a world made increasingly strange.' @robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW

Enjoyed chatting with Benjamin Tassie for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM. Strange and enjoyable to look back on a decade of destroying sounds and putting them back together again. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/fu...

New sound installation opening at the weekend in York, alongside an exhibition of Rose Ferraby’s new work. Geophone drones, pipe organs, bells, hydrophones in the flooded river etc etc Free, and on until late 2024.

Friday! Morecambe! @robsaintjohn.bsky.social & I are performing a live collaboration in response to his work on the Finnish island of Örö: Rob's films & sonics, me reading about the universal in military ecologies & the human body & desire set against it. Free in. jwllrs.eventcube.io/events/53488...

Looking forward to this. Collab with @luketurner.bsky.social at Lancashire's best new art space on 1st Dec. Words, films, sounds on islands, military, sexuality, new naturez etc. And its free! j-e-w-e-l-l-e-r-s.net