A visual art exhibition created as responses to time spent in Greenland
It all began with an idea by Mary Walters, an Edinburgh-based artist who has recently been fortunate enough to spend time in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. With a background in geography and geomorphology, she works now mainly in print-making, and is increasingly inspired by the ice of northern realms.
During her time in Svalbard, she met fellow artists Elizabeth Bourne, and Adam Sébire and together they produced their first exhibition, Glacial Narratives: A Report from the Arctic, shown in Taigh Chearsabhagh for COP26 in 2021–22. The second exhibition was “Cracks in the Ice” developed for Edinburgh International Science Festival in 2023.
This “Greenlandic Chapter” is their third exhibition together, shown first in Ilulissat, Greenland and arrived now in Taigh Chearsabhagh.
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Mary Walters is a Scottish visual artist, and the producer of the series of exhibitions. Her work is inspired by her research periods spent in Svalbard and Greenland, where she has become fascinated by ice as a material. For this exhibition, she has developed a series of prints and drawings, and hangings made with the laser-cutter at Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop.
Elizabeth Bourne is an American painter and photographer currently living in Svalbard. The impact of her visits to Greenland are captured in her works in cyanotype, both large and small-scale, as well as in her paintings.
Adam Sébire is an Australian video artist currently living in North Norway. On several occasions Adam’s multi-screen video work has taken him to Uummaannaq, where he has explored and experienced ice in its many forms.
Read more about the artists’ glacial collaborations here: Glacial Narratives Art
Glacial Narratives: The Greenlandic Chapter is free to view in Galleries 1 and 2 in Taigh Chearsabhagh, from 9th November 2024 – 25th January 2025, Monday to Saturday, 10am-4pm. 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.
Image credit: Mary Walters.