nature’s first/islands around us trine pedersen + tero kontinen
3 islands – 2 artists – 1 exhibition
Is a thing lost… /Bheil rud caillte…
Bheil rud caillte… mas aithne ca’ bheil e?
Is a thing lost… if you know where it is?
Cuan Uibhist – The Secret Sea
As part of the Scotland’s Islands 2011 and to support creative development among island arts graduates and students, Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts in conjuction with the Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath has created a collaborative residency project entitled Cuan Uibhist – The Secret Sea.
Echo
Peter White and Jon Miller
Fragility of Flight III – Sea Wings
Jocelyn Anne Rabbitts
Communication & Transport
How did people made journeys across and between islands? What routes did they take and what methods of transport and communication were used?
Tìr
Celtic Neighbours exchange project
Land, Water and Language – Chris Drury
The Land and Water project began in September 2009 when Chris Drury and Andy Mackinnon (Taigh Chearsabhagh’s curator and filmmaker) made a two day trans-Uist journey by canadian canoe across the island, from the south-west coast to Lochmaddy on the north-east coast.
The Outer Hebrides – Made in Holland – Fred Schley
In 2009, Taigh Chearsabhagh invited Fred Schley to come to the Outer Hebrides for a short residency to enable him to create the body of work in this exhibition.
Hebridean Pieces – Tina Vanderwerf
Hebridean Pieces presents an unpopulated landscape in which only what is discarded remains. The exhibition presents an installation of photographs and found ceramic.
Taobh an Iar – Dòmhnall Fearghasdan
Taobh an Iar is a retrospective exhibition of the exceptional creativity of the late Donald Ferguson.
Seall Bhallaigh : An Island Revealed
An exhibition exploring the archaeology and recent history of the fascinating Hebridean tidal island of Vallay, North Uist.
The Hover Fields – Charlotte Watters
The title of this exhibition, The Hover Fields, refers to the indefinable connections between emotions, knowledge, memory and reality of landscape.
Bardic Voyage – Andrew Ward
Ullapool-based artist, Andrew J Ward, brings his Bardic Voyage project to Taigh Chearsabhagh.
Soundings/Doimhneadhan – Sarah MacIntyre
“My recent work explores themes of charting, marking and signaling in relation to the landscape and how we move within it. The Hebrides, Uist in particular, have strongly influenced my work offering a unique contrast and closeness in proximity between land and sea.”
Early Works – Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy creates sculptures in the landscape, using nature as the raw material and subject of his work. A National Touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery brings together a series of 15 colour photographs of these works, made between 1977 and 1979. Drawn from the Arts Council Collection, the exhibition comes to Lochmaddy in June as part of an extensive UK tour.
Fragility of Flight
The Fragility of Flight highlights the environmental links between suspected declining bird populations in the Uists and climate change in a project combining ornithology and origami.
The Roar O’ Human Shingle – Helen MacAlister
MacAlister’s new body of work investigates how language defines a culture. Making Gaelic and Scots references from significant writers such as Sorley MacLean, Burns and MacDiarmid.
Changing Places: Metal House/Forest House – Ettie Spencer
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I have for some time been pursuing ideas about what it is to have a ‘sense of place’ […]
Pods/Cochuill – Lise Bech
Lise Bech’s first solo exhibition of basket forms and jewellery.