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around Lochmaddy artists talk Udal Archaeology Walk 28 July, 11am-2pm kinetic art workshop saturday 10 july 13 July 2010 Come and hear her talk about her work and then have a go yourself on the workshop. Vallay Drawing Workshop friday 9 july 7.30pm How movement can be incorporated into art, why and to what effect? Participants will be supplied with a range of materials and will create at least one artwork incorporating movement. FREE Comman Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath New DVD availableTRANSCRIPT
EventsGallery 1+2MuseumMuseum EventsSeall Bhallaigh An Island Revealed
Gallery 1+2 studio 1Summer 2010
Morning Star
Boat Tripsaround Lochmaddy
studio 1
3 july - 28 august
To accompany Fred Schley’s exhibition is an installation in studio 1 of an entirely different scale and subject.
Tina Vanderwerf, a fellow dutch artist and Fred’s partner, is a photographer who has been coming to Scotland and the Hebrides in particular for many years. She takes photographs of
hebridean pieces
tina vanderwerf
rsa residency - cheryl fieldkinetic art workshop
saturday 10 july 10am - 4pm.cost £20/£15 concs.
Come and hear her talk about her work and then have a go yourself on the workshop.
How movement can be incorporated into art, why and to what effect?
Participants will be supplied with a range of materials and will create at least one artwork incorporating movement.
artists talk
friday 9 july 7.30pm FREE
Cheryl will be artist in residence (in studio 3) during july & august.
She creates "distinctly odd kinetic objects; wretched twitching, trembling abominations and wriggling homunculi."
This new DVD features the poetry of Dòmhnall Ruadh Phàislig, Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh, Angus Lachlan MacLellan, Dòmhnall Ruath Choruna, and Ruairidh MacAoidh presented in the bards own dialects by Bill Innes & Niall Fearghasdhan.
Filmed on location in South and North Uist, the 54-minute film was produced, with funding from Awards for All, using Taigh Chearsabhagh's High Definition Video equipment and post-production facilities. Copies of the DVD are available from Taigh Chearsabhagh and other island outlets at £12.99.
what she calls the ‘leftovers of human presence’ and also collects seaworn fragments of crockery to create poignant installations.
"I realised that this is an amazing story about human life. Every piece has its own hidden history, is a silent witnesses. I love them in all their beauty and in all their silence.
When I explore these islands it is not the landscape which takes my breath although it is very beautiful, I am breathless by the richness of traces left by those who lived and live in this landscape."
Tasmanian artist Fiona Lee,who has Barra Macneil connections, will be giving a talk on her work in general and her current project on Barra where she is currently The Macneil Gathering Artist in Residence.
The talk will take place at Taigh Chearsabhagh on Tuesday 13 july at 7.30pm. FREE.
Udal Archaeology Walk 28 July, 11am-2pm
To complement Taigh Chearsabhaghs current museum exhibition Seall Bhallaigh: An Island Revealed, Dr Kate MacDonald and Dr Rebecca Rennell of Uist Archaeology will lead a guided walk to the wheelhouse sites at Udal, Sollas. Find out more about Iron Age life in the Uists with handling collections to illustrate the tools and methods used by the people that inhabited the islands at this time. The walk is organised in conjunction with Sollas Week, a yearly event held by the community of Sollas. Places are limited; please contact Taigh Chearsabhagh to book: tel: 01876 500240 or email: [email protected] price includes a free pass to the Seall Bhallaigh exhibition.Adults: £7/ Concs.: £4
Vallay Drawing Workshop13 July 2010
Taigh Chearsabhagh is organising an afernoon Drawing workshop on the beautiful tidal island of Vallay, North Uist, led by local artist Margaret MacLellan. Margaret is an experienced tutor and her own work is informed by the Uist environment. The workshop is open all levels. Our focus is to discover the power of line balanced with tone, and to explore the possibilities of working with charcoal. Refreshments will be provided. Booking is essential; please contact Taigh Chearsabhagh for further details.01876 500293 email: [email protected]: £20 / Conc's: £15(includes materials)
Comman Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath New DVD available
Morning Star Summer SailingsFrom the summer 2010 the Morning Star is returning to Lochmaddy and will run regular short scenic trips from the Wee Pier around the Lochmaddy Lagoons and Maddys. There will also be additional special sailing along the east coast of North Uist revealing the bays and sea lochs of North Uist and Grimsay.
Full details of times and dates for the summer programme will be available shortly from Taigh Chearsabhagh and other local outlets. All bookings for the 2010 operating season will be managed by Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre.
For further information please contact Taigh Chearsabhagh. Tel: 01876 500293 email: [email protected].
Taigh Chearsabhagh invited Fred Schley to come to the Outer Hebrides for a short residency last year to enable him to create the body of work in this exhibition. His atmospheric renderings of the epic aspects of these islands manage to capture, beautifully, the mysterious and mercurial nature of the light on the land and sea.
The absence of any evidence of human existence in these paintings is a telling one. It not only imparts a timeless quality of past millennia when our impact on the planet was more benign – they also forewarn of a future where life in these islands continues to become unsustainable as it did on Mingulay and St. Kilda and even more recently on many other hebridean isles.
Taigh Chearsabhagh gratefully acknowledges support from the National Trust for Scotland in the production of the exhibition publication in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the evacuation of St. Kilda.
till january 2011