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Boundaries of Perception
The cultural landscape of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland – encompassing history, memory, land and people – is a fertile ground for the imagination.
The cultural landscape of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland – encompassing history, memory, land and people – is a fertile ground for the imagination. Generating diverse and dynamic creative responses, many of the area’s contemporary artists are actively redefining what poet and theorist Kenneth White describes as the region’s “cultural cartography”1. Ideas of territory, edge and centre are being actively explored, leading to wider questions about the relationship between urban and rural centres and the kind of culture we choose to build. This expansive “horizon of intention”2 is richly evident in recent work by Julie Brook, Mark Lomax, Georgina Porteous and artistic collaboration DUFI. Isle of Skye-based artist Julie Brook chose a familiar, but seldom visited location in the heart of a harbour town as the site for her work Interception, positioning her large-scale sculptural installation on MacDuff Pier for the inaugural Coast Festival of the Visual Arts (Banff & MacDuff, May 2008). Responding to the brief ‘revealing the unseen’, Brook erected five uprights of mirrored steel, creating prisms of reference between the town...
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