Meeting Point is the artists’ Jake Harvey & Helen Douglas‘ sculptural interpretations of the 3 billion year old Lewisian Gneiss complex of North Uist. Working in the mediums of gathered and recycled stone, photographic image/print and book form, the artists have created distinct bodies of work from their research focus: taking shape in the form of three-dimensional floor, wall, vitrine and shelf art works.
Their study of the Lewisian Gneiss complex, affiliated landscape and geological shaping has revealed some common threads in their research and making. In the process, elliptical meeting points have evolved as well as distinct individual responses through their personal sensitivities, different ways of working and chosen media.
Read Kate Robinson’s review in ArtMag: Everything Flows
and the September 2025 review in Scottish Art News: Helen Douglas & Jake Harvey – Meeting Point within the Lewisian Review
Please join us for the opening preview of Meeting Point: within the Lewisian, in Taigh Chearsabhagh on 18th July, 7pm. Refreshments are sponsored by North Uist Distillery and Hebridean Smokehouse. All are welcome to come along for a first look at this stunning work.The preview includes the launch of the exhibition publication MEETING POINT Within the Lewisian. The hardback, full-colour publication of 96 pages, richly illustrated with photographs of the artists’ work and insightful essays, is now available from the Taigh Chearsabhagh shop and via our online shop for £20 (+£5pp). The artists and Taigh Chearsabhagh gratefully acknowledge funding towards the publication of this book from: the RSA Blackadder Houston Fund, the Henry Moore Foundation, the James Hutton Institute and the Hope Scott Trust. For more details, visit our online shop.
Jake Harvey and Helen Douglas will also lead a gallery tour of the exhibition, on Saturday 19th July from 2-4pm. Book your free ticket below for a deeper insight into their study and interpretation of some of the world’s oldest rock, here in the Western Isles.
Douglas and Harvey have sought to communicate a geologic understanding of deep time and the titanic powers at work in the terrain of North Uist to reveal their own respective truths about the living language of Nature. Juliet Kinchin
Meeting Point is free to view in Galleries 1 + 2 from 19th July – 27th September, open Monday to Saturday 10 am – 4 pm. If you would like to support our continued programming and enable us to keep offering free events, please consider making a donation to Taigh Chearsabhagh.