Bioregioning Tayside
“Bioregioning reframes the way we see the places where we live and work, helping us reconnect to and restore the ecological systems of which we are a part and upon which we all depend.”
Clare Cooper, co-director Bioregioning Tayside
The concept of a bioregion helps us to see the unique places where we live and work with new eyes, so that we can:
- realise that where we live is shaped first and foremost by the natural, geographic environment
- remember the primacy of those natural systems in facilitating our survival and the value therefore, of protecting them
- reconnect with those natural systems, and each other, through the unique places where we live
- re-orientate our human activity in our locality – economic, social – to promote resilient environments and livelihoods
- restore the natural systems on which we all depend
Bioregioning Tayside – Reimagining Tayside as a Living Bioregion
Open Call: Artist/Illustrator Competition £1000 prize & commission contract
Opens 10am, 4th March, closes 5pm, 10th April 2026
We are launching an open competition to find an artist or illustrator who can help shape a distinctive visual language for Bioregioning Tayside, one that grows from the land itself. We are seeking work that listens to the river, the soils, the coastlines and hills; that recognises the intricate patterns of watersheds, food webs, seasonal cycles, and human communities woven together across the Tay catchment. This is an invitation to interpret Tayside not as a map of administrative borders, but as a living, breathing system, dynamic, interdependent and alive.