A wildlife film has inspired an art project in Dundee, Scotland, celebrating the city's natural beauty. A film featuring Dundee's wildlife has sparked an art project celebrating the city's natural beauty.

A BBC wildlife documentary has prompted Turner Prize-nominated artist Heather Phillipson to create her work for this summer's Art Night Festival in Dundee.

Phillipson's work, tentatively entitled "Dream Land", will be on display at the University of Dundee's Cooper Gallery from 16 June to 1 July.

Phillipson will be present at an Art Night gathering at the gallery on 24 June.

Art Night will then give the film to Dundee's McManus art gallery.

The organisers stated that "Dream Land mixes documentary wildlife footage, imaginative leaps of thought, and wildlife facts that are nearly unbelievable".

Helen Nisbet, artistic director at Art Night, said: “The work, typical of the artist, will be beautiful and meaningful, and it is an integral part of our Art Night programme, which will be unveiled in full next week.”

Sophia Yadong Hao, director and principal curator at the Cooper Gallery, added: “Right here in Dundee, the remarkable Scottish urban planner Patrick Geddes spoke in a farewell lecture to his pupils in 1919 of the ‘wonders of the winds, the clouds and rain, the beauty of woods and fields’.

“Reconcilable with Geddes' understanding of the essential interconnectedness of us with nature, Cooper Gallery is delighted to be working with Heather, an artist who delights in transmitting priceless visions of how we understand and reimagine the world we share with the diverse wildlife.

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