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Dark Mountain: Issue 28 - Autumn 2025
Our twenty-eighth issue is a full-colour special issue on uncivilised art.
This spring a team of editors set out to create a collection of visual art that would act as a retrospective, a catalogue of the many genres our books have showcased since 2010: photography, illustration, graphic literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, land-based artworks, making, installation, ritual and performance. A collection of artwork that included written testimony, practice, interview, memoir and prose poem. We wanted it to be a celebration of the artists who hold out for a certain way of being in this collapsing world: true to the transformative power of creativity, to the love of the Earth, and the material of life itself.
What happens shift your attention away from the shiny surfaces of industrial culture, to a perception of the world co-created with all planetary beings who dwell in deep time? What happens when you follow the artists as they span dimensions, move through the land, disturbing and liberating our vision?
You find yourself in a book in the shape of a tree: leading from the forest canopy to the heartwood to the seeds of the future that lie on the leafy floor. You edge across branches that take you back in time to the illuminative script makers, or down into the underbelly of civilisation where women fall into holes, subvert road signs, throw paint, walk across mined and burning land. You descend into the roots, the core mycelial practices these artists hold in times of unravelling: collaborations with lichen, with microbes, with stalks of wheat, mountain slate, seaweed, horse and crow; in the studio which is a darkroom, and also a cliff, a river, a desk before a luminous window.
You look up…
Artists Simeon Ayres, Tom Baskeyfield, Monique Besten, Madeleine Bavley, Jacob Bush, gustaf broms, Peter Cameron, Anne Campbell, Jim Carter, Quin de la Mer, Nina Elder, David Ellingsen, Meesha Goldberg, David Hamilton, Nicholas Holt, Bruce Hooke, Tony Humbleyard, Basia Irland, Thomas Keyes, Ryder Kimball, Daniel Mack, Danielle Macleod, Liz Miller-Kovacs, David Lauer, Ibby Lanfear, Thomas Little, Nastassja Noell, Carole Padberg, Oliver Raymond-Barker, David Robinson, Caroline Ross, Bridget Rountree, Kala Stein, Kyle Scheurmann, John Schmitz, Rima Staines, Ruby Taylor, Clare Thomas, Jordan Tierney, Liz Tooey-Wiese, Geraldine van Heemstra, Moira Villiard, Walking Forest, Kate Walters, John Weeden, Kate Williamson, Forest Woodward, Cally Yeatman
Writers: Joshua Bergamin, Roger Bygott, Adelaide Crosby, Aaron Ellison, Erika Howsare, Ethan Koss-Smith, Neale Inglenook, Lisa Kahn Schnell, Emily Levang, Alexander McMaster, Mat Osmond, Diana Renner, Amy Rusch, Neil Rusch, Roc Sandford, the 181, Eric Zeigler
Editors: Art editors: David Ellingsen, Mat Osmond, Caroline Ross. Text editors: Charlotte Du Cann, Neale Inglenook. Production: Charlotte Du Cann.
Covers: ‘Salmonberries’ and ‘Spring Studio by Kyle Scheurmann
Dark Mountain: Issue 28 is a paperback book, 256 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper.
ISBN isbn 978-1-0683853-1-5
This spring a team of editors set out to create a collection of visual art that would act as a retrospective, a catalogue of the many genres our books have showcased since 2010: photography, illustration, graphic literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, land-based artworks, making, installation, ritual and performance. A collection of artwork that included written testimony, practice, interview, memoir and prose poem. We wanted it to be a celebration of the artists who hold out for a certain way of being in this collapsing world: true to the transformative power of creativity, to the love of the Earth, and the material of life itself.
What happens shift your attention away from the shiny surfaces of industrial culture, to a perception of the world co-created with all planetary beings who dwell in deep time? What happens when you follow the artists as they span dimensions, move through the land, disturbing and liberating our vision?
You find yourself in a book in the shape of a tree: leading from the forest canopy to the heartwood to the seeds of the future that lie on the leafy floor. You edge across branches that take you back in time to the illuminative script makers, or down into the underbelly of civilisation where women fall into holes, subvert road signs, throw paint, walk across mined and burning land. You descend into the roots, the core mycelial practices these artists hold in times of unravelling: collaborations with lichen, with microbes, with stalks of wheat, mountain slate, seaweed, horse and crow; in the studio which is a darkroom, and also a cliff, a river, a desk before a luminous window.
You look up…
Artists Simeon Ayres, Tom Baskeyfield, Monique Besten, Madeleine Bavley, Jacob Bush, gustaf broms, Peter Cameron, Anne Campbell, Jim Carter, Quin de la Mer, Nina Elder, David Ellingsen, Meesha Goldberg, David Hamilton, Nicholas Holt, Bruce Hooke, Tony Humbleyard, Basia Irland, Thomas Keyes, Ryder Kimball, Daniel Mack, Danielle Macleod, Liz Miller-Kovacs, David Lauer, Ibby Lanfear, Thomas Little, Nastassja Noell, Carole Padberg, Oliver Raymond-Barker, David Robinson, Caroline Ross, Bridget Rountree, Kala Stein, Kyle Scheurmann, John Schmitz, Rima Staines, Ruby Taylor, Clare Thomas, Jordan Tierney, Liz Tooey-Wiese, Geraldine van Heemstra, Moira Villiard, Walking Forest, Kate Walters, John Weeden, Kate Williamson, Forest Woodward, Cally Yeatman
Writers: Joshua Bergamin, Roger Bygott, Adelaide Crosby, Aaron Ellison, Erika Howsare, Ethan Koss-Smith, Neale Inglenook, Lisa Kahn Schnell, Emily Levang, Alexander McMaster, Mat Osmond, Diana Renner, Amy Rusch, Neil Rusch, Roc Sandford, the 181, Eric Zeigler
Editors: Art editors: David Ellingsen, Mat Osmond, Caroline Ross. Text editors: Charlotte Du Cann, Neale Inglenook. Production: Charlotte Du Cann.
Covers: ‘Salmonberries’ and ‘Spring Studio by Kyle Scheurmann
Dark Mountain: Issue 28 is a paperback book, 256 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper.
ISBN isbn 978-1-0683853-1-5
256 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2025
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