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Free event. Scottish writer and artist Amanda Thomson joins us for a conversation about the ties between language, landscape, and belonging.

Connected to our Opening Night film Lost for Words, this intimate event draws on Amanda's award-shortlisted book Belonging: Natural Histories of Place, Identity and Home and her years spent among Scotland's forests and wild places.

In a shared space of words, images, and gentle reflection, Amanda invites us to listen closely to the natural world and consider how we name, know, and care for the places we call home.

📚 Amanda’s books will be available to purchase at the event courtesy of Montrose’s independent bookshop Ink & Quill.

About the speaker:

Amanda Thomson's interdisciplinary practice fuses creative non-fiction, printmaking, photography, and video work. Her art explores how we locate ourselves in the world, examining notions of space, place and belonging through the Scottish Highlands where she lives.

Thomson holds a PhD in interdisciplinary arts practice from the University of the Highlands and Islands, with doctoral research exploring Scottish forests and how we come to know place through art-making and ethnographic practice.

Her books include A Scots Dictionary of Nature (2018) and Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home (2022), shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. She contributes to The Guardian's Country Diary and served as Artist-in-Residence with Cairngorms Connect (2022-2024), a landscape restoration project exploring ecological belonging.

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