is an oceanographer, mathematical ecologist, and artist in Glasgow.
A zine about not seeing the ocean even when you’re looking straight at it. This grew out of a collaboration with painter Michelle Campbell: the zine is folded out of an A3 sheet and unfolds to display a poster of Michelle’s eponymous painting on the reverse.
A performance script, group-authored by the Waterways Collective on the River Spey in 2024, performed by David Overend in Edinburgh and Cromarty, zine-ified by Neil. PDF version (4.5 MB)
The Waterways Collective is a group of artists and scientists who came together in 2024 to see where we’d get following wild salmon journeys into the Scottish landscape, out across the Atlantic, and up and down food chains. Info on our past events and projects is at waterwayscollective.org.
Kittiwakes and many other UK seabirds have declined rapidly over several decades, alongside declines in the energy available in the ocean food chain that supports them. Agnes Olin’s PhD project (2018-2020) focused on sandeels as a link in this chain, looking upward to their spatial association with trends in kittiwake numbers, and downward to changes … Read more