Category: Our Collective

Our Three Patrons of the Wild Mountain Collective

John Wolesley John is a leading figurative landscape painter who is exhibited widely in Australia. He uses unique techniques of watercolour, collage, frottage, nature printing and other methods of direct physical or kinetic contact to find ways of collaborating with the actual plants, birds, trees, rocks and earth of a particular place. Back in the [...]

Welcoming Henryk Topolnicki to the Wild Mountain Collective

All religions will pass But this will remain Simply sitting in a chair And looking into the distance —Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov Henryk:  As an artist, I do this myself quite a lot. That space between your mind and what is out there—to me this is the most creative space. You need to allow yourself that [...]

Welcoming Inge Riebe to the Wild Mountain Collective

Much of my life I have felt my role is as a translator, sometimes of languages, sometimes between people at odds, and most often between cultures. My primary discipline is anthropology with a strong interest in oral history. Some of my work has been in Aboriginal Heritage in Australia, which has enabled me to connect [...]

Welcoming Eliot Reynolds to the Wild Mountain Collective

When life gets out of balance, Eliot reconnects to the earth by taking long barefoot walks in the bushland, visiting local waterfalls and letting the cold winter wind wrap her arms around him in loving embrace. Eliot Boyd Reynolds is a music composer, player and producer with 35 years of music and TV industry experience [...]

The Aesthetic Beauty of the Universe—Jasper Lepani

  Photography is a field which has developed immensely over the years; from a highly specialized knowledge of equipment and composure, to instant post-processing and 4K high definition cameras that barely take up more than couple of millimetres on the back of your phone. The world of photography has become an ever more crucial cog [...]

Touching the Earth—Welcoming Martin Roberts

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as fountains of life (John Muir, in Louv, 2011, p.46). Martin Roberts is [...]

Welcoming Lorraine Shannon to the Wild Mountain Collective

I was delighted to hear of, and then be invited to join the Wild Mountains Collective as I have been involved in environmental issues for many years, first as an active member of ASLE – the Association for Literature and the Environment which was founded in the USA but has since become an international association [...]

Honouring the Kangaloon Ecologies Group

The Wild Mountain Collective kicked off on the inspiration of Charles Massey’s Call of the Reed Warbler, the “manifesto for uncivilisation” by the UK Dark Mountain Project, founded by Paul Kingsnorth as a self-confessed recovering environmental activist, and the work of Dave Abram with his US based Alliance for Wild Ethics. However our deepest roots [...]

Memories of Wild Places

Back in 2005 I was living in Nelson, a small lifestyle town on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand—said to have the best weather in all of New Zealand. Clear sunny skies and in winter to the west you could see the towering snow capped peaks of the Southern Alps. I [...]

Welcoming Ian Brown to the Wild Mountain Collective

Can art change the world? I’ve never liked this question, its too simplistic. History and common sense say that almost anything can provoke change in society, from the smallest event or trend to the cataclysmic. But mostly it happens from a combination of many accumulating ‘nudges’. I often think about the famous quote from Margaret [...]