Abundance

Community Investment in Renewable Energy

Pioneering individual and community investment in renewable energy projects Abundance Generation is a new platform that lets small investors put their money directly into tangible, productive and sustainable assets – earning an attractive return from investing in UK renewable energy projects. Hundreds of communities and tens of thousands of individuals across the UK will be... Read More ›

Ditty Boxes. John Cumming, Cecil Tait

Artist Diary: John Cumming on Ditty Boxes at the Künstlerhaus, Dortmund

24 February 2013 On the invitation of Imi Maufe and Rona Rangsch, joint curators of this themed exhibition, The Ditty Boxes formed part of “Voyage – sea journeys, island hopping and trans-oceanic concepts “, at the Künstlerhaus, Dormund. I travelled, via Copenhagen, to Dortmund for the hanging and opening of this show. Most of the... Read More ›

Na Fir Chlis (Aurora Borealis): Port nan Ròn. Rody Gorman

Publication

  Na Fir Chlis / Aurora Borealis is collection of Gaelic poems by Rody Gorman, inspired by Cape Farewell’s 4-week expedition across the Hebrides in 2011. Port nan Ròn Na bodaich a bh’ ann air feadh Eilean Mhuile, Càite bhon t-saoghal a dh’fhalbh iad uile? Dh’fhalbh iad uile-gu-lèir, nach bu duilich, Thar a’ Chuain Mhòir... Read More ›

Things Unspoken. Anne Bevan, Andrea Roe

23 May – 13 July 2012

    Things Unspoken presents new work by Edinburgh-based artists Anne Bevan and Andrea Roe at the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London. Both artists work across areas of human and animal behaviour, natural history and the environment, and their work evolves through processes of making and exploring that are associated with the scientists they often... Read More ›

St Kilda / Hiort

Jennifer Wilcox/Ian McNee

A view from the edge Walking around the seabird colonies of St Kilda today is a very different experience from what it would have been 100 years ago. There has been a drastic decline in seabird numbers during the 20th century and through to the new millennium. At the time of the evacuation of St... Read More ›

Archive Letter

Jennifer Wilcox

Archive Letter by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›

Oliver Rowe’s Pop-up Cafe on Tobermory Beach

22 June 2012

This summer chef Oliver Rowe cooks local produce in a Pop-up café on Tobermory beach. Read More ›

Mapping the Sea: Barra. Stephen Hurrel

Timespan, Helmsdale. 5 - 29 July 2014

Stephen Hurrel’s Sea Change commission, Mapping the Sea: Barra, will feature in an installation at Timespan Museum and Art Gallery, Helmsdale. Stephen is one of the artists for Generation – Scotland’s largest ever art show –  involving 100 artists in 60 venues, coinciding with the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Generation is produced by Glasgow Life and... Read More ›

Alison Turnbull Exhibition

10 March – 5 May 2012

“My exhibition at Talbot Rice brings together recent paintings and drawings, shown in the White Gallery, with a new installation created for the Round Room. The exhibition is conceived as a lexicon of looking, a series of encounters that are displaced and then echoed as one moves through the different rooms and spaces. Painting and... Read More ›

Plane Crash

Jennifer Wilcox

Plane Crash by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›

Às an Traigh – From the Shore. Mary Smith, Mary Jane Lamond, Julie Fowlis, Andy Mackinnon

St Kilda film project

  An interweaving of Gaelic songs, stories, memories and reflections on relationships between people and place on St Kilda, compiled by three acclaimed Gaelic singers, and drawing on the Tobar an Dualchais archive of oral recordings. A collaboration with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, and filmmaker Andy Mackinnon. Mary Smith is... Read More ›

A Gaelic Song. Mary Jane Lamond

Artist Diary – Expedition

Watch Mary Jane Lamond, Jo Royle and Julie Fowlis in footage from the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Three Island Reels. Julie Fowlis

Artist Diary – Expedition

By Julie Fowlis, filmed during Cape Farewell’s 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Uist My Love. Julie Fowlis

Artist Diary – Expedition

By Julie Fowlis, filmed during Cape Farewell’s 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Blue Bonnets. Ian Stephen

Artist Diary – Expedition

Blue Bonnets, a poem by Ian Stephen filmed during the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Fraoch à Rònaigh. Julie Fowlis

Artist Diary – Expedition

By Julie Fowlis, filmed during Cape Farewell’s 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Balranald. Ian Stephen

Artist Diary – Expedition

A poem by Ian Stephen written during the 2011 Scottish Islands Expedition. Read More ›

Who’s Involved

Sea Change 2012 About the Programme Cape Farewell’s Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara) began with a gathering of 50 artists and scientists from across the UK at Cove Park in 2010, followed by a four-week sailing expedition with Marine Conservation Research across the western isles in 2011. In 2012 artists will work with local communities... Read More ›

About the Sea Change Programme

Stewardship and Community Agency on Scotland’s Islands Cape Farewell’s Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara in Gaelic) is a four-year programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles. The project began with a gathering of 50 artists and scientists from across the UK at Cove Park in 2010. In 2011 30 UK and international... Read More ›