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.

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

upcoming work

Walking Scores is an exploration of our interactions with the non-human world as a chronically ill person seeking to create a connection with body and landscape as a kinship between two beings. Using the walking scores to depict a communication of the traversing, a language of the body and the combing of thoughts that have been generated by taking the time to listen intuitively to the body. The score sculpts a picture of the land and the body. This project will seek to ground the chronically ill body.

Having Lyme Disease, has enabled this attentiveness toward the internal dialogue and development of an external dialogue between the person and the land traversed that has allowed for the becoming aware of thought and feelings of the body in a moment of meditative grounding which I am trying to channel into my work.

I should add it is non-exclusive ‘walking’ as forms of bipedalism, with this added sense of belonging in the conversations of accessibility within environmentalism.

Walking Thoughts
video : 4m 21

I walk to comb through thoughts. Contemplation. Creating scores, that focus on observational moments of my body. Perhaps moments I change direction, or an incline adjustment of the knees and ankles. I focus on being intuitive with the body, a focus on the body as landscape as I traverse the land.

The voiceovers include a conversation with myself and artist Ellen Crofton as we walk and talk, in the background as you can hear snippets of our conversations, recored as captured liminal spaces. Transient thoughts.

Poem by Ellen Crofton.