Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara)
Sea Change is a four-year Cape Farewell programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles
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Sea Change 2012
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Air falbh leis na h-eòin /Away with the Birds. Hanna Tuulikki, Geoff Sample
Artist Diary - Thoughts from a Small Isle
Thoughts from a Small Isle – Producer Suzy Glass Yesterday I took the ferry from Canna to Mallaig. And then drove from Mallaig to Glasgow. Six hours of travelling solo, and a lot of time to think about three stimulating days on a fascinating island. Canna is the smallest of the Small Isles.... Read More ›
Ditty Boxes. John Cumming
Artist Diary - Companionship, Hardship
There is only so much expansion one can take. We go into our dying with a handful of memories, as an explorer might take a knife, a flint, length of cord and a twist of tea into the wilderness… Who we are is not in our obituaries but in those final items. Andrew Greig, At... Read More ›
Bird Yarns. Deirdre Nelson
Artist Diary - First Arrivals
20 May 2012 Wool and patterns have been posted out to a variety of interested knitters and the big tern knit has begun. I am hoping the knitters will document the process and write a few words to share their experience of being involved in Bird Yarns. Julie Robertson has already been blogging the arrival... Read More ›
CARBON 12
4 May – 16 Sept 2012
CARBON 12, Cape Farewell’s new exhibition opens at Espace Foundation EDF, Paris on 3rd May, with work focusing on the vital exchange between artists and scientists. The exhibition encompasses biodiversity, atmospherics and oceanography – earth, wind and sea. Five artists who have worked with climate scientists exhibit their artworks alongside the scientific enquiry. Artists Lucy... Read More ›
Na Fir Chlis (Aurora Borealis)
21 May 2012
Na Fir Chlis / Aurora Borealis is collection of Gaelic poems by Rody Gorman, inspired by Cape Farewell’s 4-week expedition across the Hebrides in 2011. Read More ›
Things Unspoken
23 May – 13 July 2012
Things Unspoken presents new work by Edinburgh-based artists Anne Bevan and Andrea Roe at the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London. Both artists work across areas of human and animal behaviour, natural history and the environment, and their work evolves through processes of making and exploring that are associated with the scientists they often work alongside.... Read More ›
Landscape Scar
Jennifer Wilcox
Landscape Scar by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›
Bird Yarns Exhibition
21 – 24 June 2012
Bird Yarns brings Mull’s community of knitters together with textile artist Deirdre Nelson in response to the changing migration patterns of seabirds across Scotland’s islands. Working with local wool from Ardalanish, Mull, and recycled materials, the knitters will create a flock of ‘lost’ arctic terns on Tobermory Pier and provide them with a Mull welcome... Read More ›
Pop-up Café
21 – 24 June 2012
This summer chef Oliver Rowe cooks local produce in a Pop-up café on Tobermory beach. Read More ›
Barra Maps
July 2012
Barra Maps is a digital mapping project by Glasgow artist Stephen Hurrel, in collaboration with human ecologist Ruth Brennan (SAMS), Iain Mackinnon and Barra fishers. Drawing on local knowledge of uncharted coastal and maritime topography, the project will explore the relationship between language and landforms, and the intimate relationship between people and place. Read More ›
‘Particle’ (Things Unseen)
3 Aug – 16 Sept 2012
Solo exhibition by Anne Bevan with Shetland Arts (Bonhoga Gallery) and the Shetland Museum and Archive (Pier Store). An installation of sculpture, print and video exploring the microscopic world of our shores and oceans, from the North Atlantic to the Sea of Japan. Read More ›
Ditty Boxes
7 – 28 Aug 2012
Shetland/Orkney sculptor John Cumming and Shetland furniture maker Cecil Tait collaborate on Ditty Boxes, an installation based on the hand-made sailors’ boxes designed to hold treasured possessions on hazardous ocean voyages. The ditty boxes will travel across the islands to arts venues and community centres in 2012. Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds)
September 2012
Hanna Tuulikki’s Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away with the Birds in Gaelic) is a vocal piece investigating the relationship between the Scottish Gaelic tradition and bird communities. It specifically focusses on the imitation of birdsong in Gaelic folk song, evoking the sounds, movements and interactions of several species of birds within a Hebridean landscape.... Read More ›
Wild Gaelic.
Às an Tràigh / From the Shore
A collection of Gaelic songs inspired by the animal and bird life of Scotland’s islands, compiled by three acclaimed Gaelic singers, and drawing on the Tobar an Dualchais archive of oral recordings. Julie Fowlis is an award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from North Uist and now based in the highlands of Scotland. Julie was... Read More ›
A Gaelic Song. Mary Jane Lamond
Artist Diary – Expedition
Watch Mary Jane Lamond, Jo Royle and Julie Fowlis in footage from the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›
Blue Bonnets. Ian Stephen
Artist Diary – Expedition
Blue Bonnets, a poem by Ian Stephen filmed during the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›
Balranald. Ian Stephen
Artist Diary – Expedition
A poem by Ian Stephen written during the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›
