Alice Starmore, Donald S. Murray
Lewis artist, designer, photographer and author Alice Starmore writes in Earthlines of the cultural and ecological values of peatlands, and the threats they face not only as a result of climate change, but from the installation of large-scale windfarms. http://www.earthlines.org.uk/Assets/Text,%20pdfs/AliceStarmore.pdf SPHAGNUM MOSS Sphagnum moss remembers. It recalls the touchdown of each lark that tumbles... Read More ›
Arts & Ecology Issue, edited by James Brady: http://www.greenworld.org.uk/
See the article by Ruth Little on the Sea Change programme, along with pieces by Clive Adams, Dave Pritchard, Peter Gingold and Wallace Heim, and Jai Redman: www.greenworld.org.uk Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Thank you to everyone involved in Sea Change 2012: artists, arts and science organisations, local communities and funders. Here’s a map of some of the artist-led activity over the year; as Scotland debates the important issue of political independence, we’re voting for the ecological interdependence of people, places and resources! Wishing everyone a happy... Read More ›
Artist Diary: Daniel Warren
No film can be too personal. The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments. Size is irrelevant. Perfection is not an aim. An attitude means a style. A style means an attitude. Free Cinema 1 manifesto, February 1956 I’m not really one for writing a diary or a blog, and there are already good writers involved... Read More ›
Machair is a complex eco-system situated on low-lying coastline, comprised of sand with a high proportion of shell fragments (sometimes 80 or 90 % making it fertile). Machair has developed with the effects of strong winds combined with just the right amount of rainfall and, most crucially, the involvement of people and their grazing... Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Tags: Arctic, Barra, climate change
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 ›
Tags: birdsong, event, Gaelic, music, performance, seabirds, song, storytelling
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 ›
Tags: community, ecology, exhibition, seabirds
20 April - 19 May
Ian Stephen and Christine Morrison present new work, supported by Sea Change, as part of Travelling Light at An Talla Solais, Ullapool, an exhibition and art activities inspired by the sailor’s ditty box. http://www.antallasolais.org/travelling-light An Talla Solais Market Street Ullapool IV26 2XE Acts of Trust wins award in British Awards for Storytelling Excellence The... Read More ›
Hanna Tuulikki's Audio Diary
11 May 2013 9 voice version of Air falbh leis na h-eòin ‘highlight’ of the Tectonic Festival, Glasgow! Hanna and the birds: in the Scotsman: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/celebrating-birdsong-the-colour-and-complexity-of-avian-airs-1-2915930 19 April 2013 The creation of Air falbh leis na h-eòin: Hanna on tumblr 14 January 2013 Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary: Meeting Mary New research... Read More ›
Tags: birdsong, Canna, community, Gaelic, John Lorne Campbell, music, performance, seabirds, song
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 ›
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 ›
Tags: art, exhibition, Gaelic, ocean, storytelling
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 ›
Artist Diary - Arctic terns descend on Glasgow Botanics!
Birdyarns is gathering supporters and followers with each and every landing, each time making connections in new, exciting and unexpected ways . Recently singer Jo Mango (uk.myspace.com/jomango) got in touch having spotted Creative Scotland’s post about the birds landing in Glasgow. Much of her songwriting involves birds in one way or another so she... Read More ›
Tags: Arctic terns, art, community, knitters, Mull, recycled, seabirds, wool
Artist Diary: Geoff Sample
See Olivia Uney’s Canna photographs: http://www.cannamousephotography.co.uk 8 June 2012 Listen to White-Tailed eagles, Canna. Recorded by Geoff Sample The deep throb of the ferry’s engines provides an accompaniment to the journey and transports us from the known mainland to the unknown island. Leaving the harbour we leave man-made noise and a wide-open Atlantic insular horizon... Read More ›
Tags: White-taled eagle
Artist Diary: John Cumming on Ditty Boxes at the Künstlerhaus, Dortmund
24 February 2013 On the invitation of Imi Maufe and Rona Rangsch, joint curators of this themed exhibition, The Ditty Boxes formed part of “Voyage – sea journeys, island hopping and trans-oceanic concepts “, at the Künstlerhaus, Dormund. I travelled, via Copenhagen, to Dortmund for the hanging and opening of this show. Most of the... Read More ›
Tags: art, biodiversity, climate, ditty box, ocean, Orkney, sand eels, seabirds, Shiants, terns, Western Isles
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 ›
Tags: climate, ecology, event, exhibition, mapping, ocean, storytelling
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 ›
Tags: ecology, Gaelic, music, song, storytelling
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