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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2012/13 Events Calendar
Exhibitions, Events, Performances
The Swan Northern Isles Expedition
In August 2013, Sea Change sets sail with two crews of artists and scientists from Orkney to Shetland via Fair Isle. Sailing on 113-year-old community owned Shetland Fyfie The Swan, the journey will take us around Scotland’s most northerly coasts and islands. Further updates to follow. Read More ›
Peatlands Project: Sexy Peat – Tir mo Rùin 2013
Highland Print Studio and Cape Farewell: Year of Natural Scotland 2013
Highland Print Studio is working in partnership with Cape Farewell to deliver an exhibition of contemporary visual art called Sexy Peat, celebrating the ecology and heritage of the Lewis blanket bog and highlighting the significant role that peat plays in global climate regulation. Led by Lewis artists Anne Campbell and Jon Macleod, the project will... Read More ›
Above Me The Wide Blue Sky – David Harradine / Fevered Sleep
The critically acclaimed Fevered Sleep and David Harradine transform the Young Vic with Wide Blue Sky, set within a stunning multi-screen film installation with a captivating soundscape drawn from nature. Above Me The WIde Blue Sky A man whose memories are carried by birds. A woman whose children have grown with the trees. A... Read More ›
A celebration of GalGael
Sunday 27 January 2013, Govan, Glasgow
An afternoon of song and story about boats, journeys and navigating change, in celebration of GalGael’s traditional boat-building and furniture-making project in the heart of Glasgow’s former shipbuilding community. With Bird Yarns, Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac, Mary Smith, Inge Thomson, Hanna Tuulikki, Nerea Bello, Allan Macdonald, Nuala Kennedy, Kathleen MacInnes, Alec Finlay. ‘ What a... Read More ›
Things Unspoken / Things Unseen. Andrea Roe, Anne Bevan
Publication forthcoming
A two volume publication to launch in 2013. Things Unspoken. Things Unseen will include contributions from Kathleen Jamie, Dr Jeremy Mynott, Dr Andrew Kitchener, Janice Galloway, Alan Spence, Jen Hadfield, Robert Alan Jamieson, Prof Kate Darling. Edited by Jane Warrilow Further information: capefarewell.com, andrea-roe.com, annebevan.co.uk Supported by eca/University of Edinburgh, Cape Farewell, Hope Scott... Read More ›
It’s the Skin You’re Living In installation tour 2013 – David Harradine / Fevered Sleep / Fuel
See the film here, via Fevered Sleep
See the film here: It’s the Skin You’re Living In It’s the Skin You’re Living In is a multi-format film project, that explores and challenges existing images of climate change. Shot in a series of locations from the islands of Svalbard in the High Arctic to a kitchen in a house in London – via... Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds: Tectonics Festival, Culture Show
11 May 2013
Hanna on the Culture Show with Janice Forsyth http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s8vt9 http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/1365 ‘A complete and immersive evocation of place and sense, an attempted re-imagining of wilderness landscapes both without any human involvement and filled with the echoing resonances of history and tradition.’ (Review of work in progress performance at Tramway, David Pollock, Northings.) Hanna Tuulikki’s Air falbh... Read More ›
Bird Yarns inspires ‘Tern’, by musician Mick Slaven: Listen here
Deirdre Nelson: Artist Diary March 2013
Tern, written and performed by Mick Slaven Listen here Copyright control Mick Slaven, 2013: www.trickyhat.com/mick-slaven.html Riding the Breeze Bird Yarns made a brief landing at Letham Nights in Fife late last year and managed to share the stage with Coal Town Daisies and The Bevvy Sisters. Letham nights aims to bring high quality music to... Read More ›
Hear Stephen Hurrel on Radio 4
Listen on BBC iPlayer
Listen to Stephen Hurrel discussing his artist residency at the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty. Part of BBC Radio 4′s Saving Species series. Read More ›
Dùthchas na Mara – Belonging to the Sea
Downloadable publication by Iain MacKinnon, Ruth Brennan, Stephen Hurrel
New research on island fishermens’ relationship to the sea suggests cultural roots to Sound Of Barra dispute A new book investigating the cultural background to the ongoing maritime conflict in the Sound of Barra in the Western Isles is being published this week. The book, called ‘Dùthchas na Mara’ (‘Belonging to the Sea’), highlights... Read More ›
‘Particle’ (Things Unseen). Anne Bevan
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. Anne has collaborated on the project with Dr Kate Darling from the... Read More ›
Ditty Boxes. John Cumming, Cecil Tait in Travelling Light at An Talla Solais, Ullapool
20 April - 19 May 2013
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 have now travelled from Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, to Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, and on to Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, before returning... Read More ›
Topologies of Air – Ruith Na Gaoithe. Shona Illingworth residency at Taigh Chearsabhagh
Symposium/event November 2013
‘…the act of envisioning an object or an action in terms of an ecology or lifecycle (whether in a banal commercial sense or within a creative research project) ultimately challenges the classification of that object as a product.’ Jill Bennett, Living in the Anthropocene, 2011 Shona’s project for the Cape Farewell Sea Change project will... 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): Port nan Ròn. Rody Gorman
Publication
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. Port nan Ròn Na bodaich a bh’ ann air feadh Eilean Mhuile, Càite bhon t-saoghal a dh’fhalbh iad uile? Dh’fhalbh iad uile-gu-lèir, nach bu duilich, Thar a’ Chuain Mhòir... Read More ›
Things Unspoken. Anne Bevan, Andrea Roe
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... Read More ›
Oliver Rowe’s Pop-up Cafe on Tobermory Beach
22 June 2012
This summer chef Oliver Rowe cooks local produce in a Pop-up café on Tobermory beach. Read More ›
Mapping the Sea: Barra. Stephen Hurrel
Publication and Installation
Mapping the Sea: Barra is a project by Glasgow artist Stephen Hurrel, in collaboration with Barra fishermen. 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. Stephen will present a video installation based on the collecting... Read More ›
Alison Turnbull Exhibition
10 March – 5 May 2012
“My exhibition at Talbot Rice brings together recent paintings and drawings, shown in the White Gallery, with a new installation created for the Round Room. The exhibition is conceived as a lexicon of looking, a series of encounters that are displaced and then echoed as one moves through the different rooms and spaces. Painting and... Read More ›
Às an Traigh – From the Shore. Mary Smith, Mary Jane Lamond, Julie Fowlis, Andy Mackinnon
St Kilda film project
An interweaving of Gaelic songs, stories, memories and reflections on relationships between people and place on St Kilda, compiled by three acclaimed Gaelic singers, and drawing on the Tobar an Dualchais archive of oral recordings. A collaboration with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, and filmmaker Andy Mackinnon. Mary Smith is... Read More ›
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