Eliza Coulson
Curator / Writer / Researcher / Walker

Co-editor of Gallery Bagging
MLitt Curatorial Practise in Contemporary Art, Glasgow School of art

Eliza Coulson is a Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary curator, writer and artist with a wide range of interests that are carefully interwoven under the themes of disability and inclusion, communication, ecology, and walking art practise as forms of creative research and pedagogical exploration.
Curatorially, interests lie in opening dialogues that contribute to the accessibility of working with artists and audiences to invite the body to enter environments that support collective memory and experience through chronic illness. Where the artist, audience, and landscape become one, in an act of understanding space beyond the confines of ableism. Particularly centring this around our shared emotions and alternative experiences of being.

writing

Next [synonym] session, workshop March 23 2024 - book tickets
'In the Ending of Nerves' exhibition, curator May 2024

upcoming work

projects

My current work explores relationships between walking and living with chronic illness and how that can be a tool for communication. By creating 'walking scores' that focus on the landscape of the body as being traversed through the land - a dialogue is created between walking and body. This work is a continuous practise. As Chronic illness is not a static being. To find out more click

walking score, 2023

Weaving Bodies began as a personal exploration
of complex and multifaceted layers, chronic illness, neurodivergency, grief, connection and
communication in context of land, belonging and kinship. I found myself conducting a series of initiated conversations and walks with the artists that delve deeper into the insights of making, movement, connecting with the body, acts of nurture and care, aimed to explore this journey of discovery with an ecological focus. This project expanded into a publication, soundcloud and physical exhibition.

Comfort Circles is an exploration of both walking and Queens Park,
through being the artist and the curator, these carefully compiled elements consist of writings, mapping, photography and conversation. Comfort
Circles begins to piece the relationship with myself and walking together.
By using the practise of conscious walking, I am able to activate a method,
I and everyone, subconsciously do all the time. it also seeks to ask, do we connect
to urban landscapes, is this relationship different than a relationship built in
‘rural’ nature?