The Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre in Lewis is to stage interpretations of the 3 billion year-old Lewisian Gneiss geological complex of North Uist, by artists Jake Harvey and Helen Douglas: the former working with sculpture carved from gathered and recycled stone, the latter working in photographic and book forms.
Both have studied the Lewisian Gneiss complex, its landscape and geological shaping, uncovering some common threads in their research, and the resulting work seeks to communicate their understanding of deep time and the titanic powers at work in the terrain of North Uist in revealing their own respective truths about the living language of Nature. The exhibition is accompanied by the launch of a richly-illustrated 96-page hardback publication Sgeir a’ Chòmhdhalaich / Meeting Point – available via Taigh Chearsabhagh’s shop and online. Jake and Helen are set to lead a gallery tour of the exhibition on Saturday 19th July, 2-4pm, admission to which is free, but booking essential.
The exhibition is set to tour to An Lanntair in Stornoway and thence to the RSA in Edinburgh, with other venues to be scheduled.
Also showing at the centre until 15th August is the Uist Arts Association‘s annual exhibition, which presents a showcase of work by its members in a diverse range of media, with many of the works available to purchase.
