Reiko Goto Collins

A person ties something onto the branch of a tree in a garden area. There is a circle made up of wooden benches.

A framed messages and a box sit on top of a wooden table in an outdoor area.

A person writes down something on a piece of paper leaning on a wooden table, next to a white box.

On a stack of bricks there is a sign displayed that reads 'Write your wishes here' on a chalkboard.

A4 sized artworks are displayed on a white wall. There is a see through curtain covering one of the archways into the space.

A4 sized artworks are displayed on a white wall.

The back of a person sitting on a chair watching a film on a screen, in a dark panelled room. The still on screen is a woman standing in a well lit room with a object fixed to her arm, standing in front of a tree.

An panelled room with an armchair surrounded by large plants. There is a light rug on the ground.

Organic-like artworks are displayed on a white wall, some are hanging up on a string across the room.

Organic-like objects are displayed on a table covered by a light blue tablecloth.

A photo of an outstretch arm and hand which is covered by a device with visible batteries, wiring and tubing. In their palm they hold a leaf below part of the machine.

A woman waring a sunhat and insect net sits in outside in an area surrounded by trees. In her hands she holds a machine which is connected to a tube.

A woman stands below a tree with green and red leaves in a courtyard. Attached to the branches of the tree are pieces of white paper.

Reiko Goto Collins is an accomplished environmental artist with over three decades of experience developing empathic relationships with living creatures. Her artistic practice is informed by the philosophical ideas of Edith Stein and Charles Sanders Peirce, and she has published articles on her work with horses and trees. Her current work is focused on HAKOTO, a body instrument and performance based on listening to processes of photosynthesis and transpiration in a single tree leaf. Earlier work with trees and the environment includes the sound sculpture Plein Air and work on semi ancient forests in Scotland, Future Forest: The Blackwood, Rannoch Scotland; Sylva Caledonia 2016, and Caledonian Decoy 2017.

Reiko is a principal at the Collins & Goto Studio in Glasgow and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University. She is a visiting research fellow at Bath Spa University and an international associate of the RMIT Arts and Ecologies Research Network (AEGIS), in Melbourne Australia and is a board member of the Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve. This year, besides her work for GI she is participating in the Landscape, Ecology & Environmental Research Residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre and the MQ Artists-in-Residence Program: Art & Ecology, Vienna.

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Reiko Goto Collins

Peace Arbour

Glasgow Women's Library