Showing along side Jason Hicklin’s Etchings (1995 – 2009) exhibition at an talla solais, Ullapool is The Westland by Joanne B. Kaar (Scotland) and Lynn Taylor (New Zealand).

The Westland will show at an talla solais (Ullapool Visual Arts) from 8th – 31st July 2011.

In 1879, the ‘Westland’ set sail on its maiden voyage from Tail o’ the Bank in Scotland, to Port Chalmers in New Zealand. Navigating through the filtered lens of 130 years artists Joanne B Kaar (Scotland) and Lynn Taylor (New Zealand) respond to the way of the Westland in creating parallel 84 day log books, prints and artefacts.

Inspired by the sea-chest of crew member William Young and Jonathan Moscrop’s onboard ship diary Kaar and Taylor have become like sailors, spinning sea stories of this passage through their daily log entries of fragmentary discoveries, narratives, weather observations, histories, memories, objects and images.

They bring two sides of the story together, Kaar relating to William Young’s family croft house (Mary-Ann’s cottage) in Dunnet, Caithness Scotland, and Taylor to Port Chalmers and the Otago Harbour surrounds, New Zealand, where the Westland first docked and the immigrants started their new lives.

The exhibition will be on show in an talla solais Ullapool Visual Arts from the 8th of July till the 31st of July 2011.

an talla solais Ullapool Visual Arts, Market Street, Ullapool, IV26 2XE, Tel:  01854 612310, Web: www.antallasolais.org

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http://www.joannebkaar-mary-anns-cottage.blogspot.comSource: Ullapool Visual Arts