Now · Glasgow · October – November 2026
Horse | Tree | Earth
A working horse and cart carry native trees from the Whisky Bond, by the canal and Applecross, to Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve, where they are planted with friends, collaborators and the community. A new project by Reiko Goto Collins.
- Sun 18 Oct & 15 Nov 11am · walk and tree planting
- 22 Oct – 20 Nov Exhibition at Clay Café
- Fri 23 Oct 5–7pm · exhibition opening
Artwork emerges as a critical, creative reflection upon experiences that are unique and true.
Tim Collins & Reiko Goto Collins, environmental artists working together since 1985 · About the studio
Selected work
2022–
HAKOTO / portach / bog
A pair of ‘body instruments’ of wood and fleece, worn to measure and hear indications of life force in tree leaves, and since 2023 in the sphagnum moss of Irish bogs.
2008–19
Eden 3 · Plein Air
Listening to the language of trees: a sculptural instrument on a painter’s easel that renders a leaf’s photosynthesis and transpiration as sound.
2019–20
Lough Boora
Deep mapping the cutaway peatlands of the Irish Midlands: bogs, energy, art and landscape futures, for Offaly County Council.
2012–17
The Black Wood of Rannoch
Art with, rather than in, one of Scotland’s ancient Caledonian pinewoods: residencies, deliberation and the film Decoy.
1996–2005 · Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh projects
A decade at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University: art-led research and public dialogue about post-industrial land and water, among the most cited projects of the practice.
Reiko Goto Collins talks with Dave Spence about the intentions, process and methods behind HAKOTO: wearing an instrument to hear a bog breathe.
The studio has made films since 2010, from A Tree is a LIVING Thing to Decoy and the HAKOTO performances.
Listen
PLEIN AIR makes a tree’s breathing audible: light, photosynthesis and transpiration, played as sound. Four recordings:
Birch 3 June
Oak 14 July 2017
Hawthorn 3 June 2017
Elderberry 14 July 2017
The LP Plein Air | Silva Datum Musica (Gruenrekorder, 2019) is in the shop.
Forty years of practice
1985–
San Francisco Bay Area
Early public works and installations, many with Reiko Goto: Headlands Center for the Arts, Capp Street Project, Alcatraz, Aqua Pura for the San Francisco Arts Commission.
1997–2005
Pittsburgh
Research within the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University: Nine Mile Run and 3 Rivers 2nd Nature.
2005–
UK · Scotland from 2012
The Caledonian pinewoods, the Black Wood of Rannoch, Irish bogs, and the instruments PLEIN AIR and HAKOTO.
Writing & talks
Article · 2025
Natural soundscapes as a disciplinary bridge
Thornhill et al., with Collins and Goto, Ecosystems and People.