Two new exhibitions are opening this weekend at Taigh Chearsabhagh in North Uist. ‘Echo’ is a collaboration between Ullapool-based artist Peter White and poet Jon Miller and will run in Gallery 2 from 2 Apr 2011 – 28 May 2011, with a preview and Artists Talks this Friday 1st April at 7.30pm.

Also opening this weekend is Fragility of Flight III – Sea Wings by Anne Rabbitts in Gallery 1 which runs from 2 April 2011 – 21 May 2011.

Please see below some further details about each exhibition:

Echo – 2 April – 28 May 2011:

‘Echo’ is a collaboration between Ullapool-based artist Peter White and poet Jon Miller. The project grew out of a series of conversations which often had as their starting point a particular object – bowl, word, book, garment, landscape.

In the course of these conversations, clusters of ideas and images collected around the objects and these in turn instigated a series of explorations and investigations that eventually found their way back into the work.

The intention is not to have the paintings and poems illustrate each other but rather to consider how techniques and approaches to painting and writing combine and re-combine, refract and resonate with each other in a series of complementary works which have culminated in this exhibition.

Fragility of Flight III – Sea Wings 2 April 2011 – 21 May 2011:

Fragility of Flight is an ongoing series of springtime exhibitions themed around birdlife in the Uists hopefully of specific interest to ornithological visitors. Previous exhibitions have included giant suspended origami installations and Keith MacIntyre’s bird mask videos and drawings.

The third exhibition in this series showcases local artist Jocelyn Anne Rabbitts’ exquisite studies.

‘I take as my initial inspiration found skeletons of birds washed up on Uist shores. I concentrate on drawing the minutiae of what I see before me – studied under magnification or with the naked eye. I try to express what I feel about the bones, sinews and feathers before me. What is left of the bird remains beautiful but a constant reminder to me of nature’s harsh realities’. Jocelyn Anne Rabbitts.

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre
Lochmaddy
Isle of North Uist
Outer Hebrides, HS6 5AA
Tel. 01876 500293
Web: http://taigh-chearsabhagh.org

Source: Taigh Chearsabhagh