Dialogues and Doings: Sketching the Relationships Between Geography and Art

Abstract Geographers have engaged with a huge variety of art practices in the study of a range of different geographical themes. Using a series of examples including painting, mixed‐media art and contemporary participatory works this paper explores three of these themes: landscape, critical spatialities and participation. Two different, although often entwined methodological approaches are set out, ‘dialogues’ whereby geographers interpret and analyse art works, and ‘doings’ in which geographers become exhibition curators, collaborate with artists and even become creative practitioners in their own right. During its course the paper considers the potential of the geographical study of art works to contribute to contemporary disciplinary debates around embodied experience, practice and more‐than‐human worlds. The paper also points towards a series of resources to help guide further study.