Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara)
Sea Change is a four-year Cape Farewell programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles
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Deirdre Nelson, Inge Thomson. Sleeping Starfish @ The Glad Cafe as part of Luminate, with Fraser Fifield, Kerri Whiteside
Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 15 October, 7.30 pm. £5
Surrounded by a relentless sea, Fair Isle is an island of strong traditions and fierce beauty. Celebrating this, and running in support of the island’s bid for marine protected status, two artists are knitting together waves of sound and yarn, stories and starfish. Sleeping Starfish is both a work of environmental advocacy and a portrait... Read More ›
Deirdre Nelson’s The Kildas project returns to the Glad Cafe Glasgow, with Jason Singh, Inge Thomson, Hanna Tuulikki, Mischa Macpherson and Borderline Theatre
Thursday 26 January 2015, 7pm
DStitch presents: The Kildas + Seachange Thursday 26 February @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow In partnership with Cape Farewell, the Kildas project will present an evening at Glad Café, 26th February 2015 7pm. Cost £5 The evening will partner the remote islands of St Kilda and Fair Isle in an evening of islands, songs and loops... Read More ›
Bird Yarns. Deirdre Nelson
Artist Diary - Arctic terns descend on Glasgow Botanics!
Birdyarns is gathering supporters and followers with each and every landing, each time making connections in new, exciting and unexpected ways . Recently singer Jo Mango (uk.myspace.com/jomango) got in touch having spotted Creative Scotland’s post about the birds landing in Glasgow. Much of her songwriting involves birds in one way or another so she... Read More ›
Andy Crabb’s film portrait of Inge Thomson’s Da Fishing Hands
May 2014
In 2014, Sea Change artists Andy Crabb, Deirdre Nelson and Jennifer Wilcox, with filmmaker Peter Cutts, returned to Fair Isle with Inge Thomson and her band to record the premiere of Inge’s song cycle, Da Fishing Hands. The first performance took place in Fair Isle’s community hall in May 2014, and Da Fishing Hands has... Read More ›
Away with the Birds returns to Canna: Review
Hanna Tuulikki
Click here to read the Away With The Birds Review from The Scotsman › Costumes by Deirdre Nelson Read More ›
Fair Isle treasures
deirdre nelson
On Saturday morning we made our way to the rock pool at at Muckle Uri Geo. Ready and waiting were a group of young islanders armed with small fishing nets alongside Nick Riddiford, a passionate Fair Isle ecologist. As they dispersed on their mission, Nick told us about the area and the many species... Read More ›
‘An eye to the Windward’: Sea Change on Fair Isle
Ruth Little
Anne Sinclair points at a narrow yellow pine door leaning against a wall in the Fair Isle Museum: ‘When I was growing up, nearly all the internal doors in people’s houses were from shipwrecks.’ Fair Isle may be largely treeless, but there’s wood to be had. Over some 5000 years of settlement here, the sea... Read More ›
Lost Birds and Fishing Hands: Getting our Bearings on Fair Isle
Ruth Little
It’s a Caspian Stonechat, and it’s lost. Its feathers are spiked with rain, and it seems to have a hacking cough. It’s been on Fair Isle for a month, and the word around the island is that it’s unlikely to see the Caspian Sea again. ‘Blown off course, all of them’, says one of... Read More ›
Sea Change at the Botanics
Exhibition at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 8 November 2013 - 26 January 2014
Sea Change at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh brings together the work of 28 artists/makers who have sailed with us on the 2011 and 2013 expeditions and undertaken residencies on Mull, Canna, Barra, North Uist, St Kilda, Lewis, Orkney and Shetland. The exhibition includes Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin (Highland Print Studio/Cape Farewell). Sea Change... Read More ›
Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin
Artist Diary 25 July - Murray Robertson. Off the Pentland Road
The Pentland Road traverses Lewis running east to west, from Stornoway to Carloway, and neatly bisects the core of the peatlands allowing access to one of the most unique natural environments in Northern Europe. From the road the moorland looks rugged, wild and impenetrable. The leviathan blanket bog that covers most of Northern Lewis breathes... Read More ›
Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin
Artist Diary 4 August - Alex Boyd. The Emerging Island
As the ferry made its slow and stately progress across the expanse of The Minch, and the great peaks of Skye’s mountains gradually settled towards the horizon, I couldn’t help but stand transfixed at the view which stretched before me. The Outer Hebrides is somewhere which until this week I had never experienced, save through... Read More ›
Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin
Artist Diary 3 August - Anne Campbell. Moorland diary
March. NB 2976 3817. A pool where two streams emerge from beneath the peat – the source of the water which flows to Loch na Mòineach, which in turn feeds Feadan Loch na Mòineach, which joins Feadan Loch an Fhraoich and Feadan Loch nam Breac to form Gleann Thorradail, one of the tributaries of Gleann... Read More ›
Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin
Pàipear-taighe - Deirdre Nelson
See more of Deirdre’s work at http://cargocollective.com/dstitch twitter.com/dstitch 6 October: Pàipear-taighe I have been gathering imagery of all the small things from the moor and on my last visit to Lewis I visited Alison Macleod in her studio. She is a textile designer/artist from The Isle of Lewis whose designs are inspired by her... Read More ›
Sexy Peat / Tìr mo Rùin. Highland Print Studio/Cape Farewell: Year of Natural Scotland 2013
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery 8 March - 5 April 2014
Following the success of Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin as part of Sea Change at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, the exhibition transfers to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery in March-April 2014, before returning to its island of origin at An Lanntair, Lewis. Sexy Peat/Tìr mo Rùin artists: Anne Campbell: http://www.annecampbellart.co.uk/ Jon Macleod: http://www.jonmacleod.com/ Kacper Kowalski:... Read More ›
A celebration of GalGael
Sunday 27 January 2013, Govan, Glasgow
An afternoon of song and story about boats, journeys and navigating change, in celebration of GalGael’s traditional boat-building and furniture-making project in the heart of Glasgow’s former shipbuilding community. With Bird Yarns, Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy MacIsaac, Mary Smith, Inge Thomson, Hanna Tuulikki, Nerea Bello, Allan Macdonald, Nuala Kennedy, Kathleen MacInnes, Alec Finlay. ‘ What a... Read More ›
Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds: Culture 2014
Isle of Canna, August 2014
Hanna Tuulikki’s body of work exploring the mimesis of bird sounds in Gaelic song was described as ‘heartbreakingly gorgeous’ on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Culture Show in January 2014. Performed in collaboration with vocal artists, field recorder Geoff Sample, filmmaker Daniel Warren, Gaelic singer Mary Smith, textile artist Deirdre Nelson and choreographer Rosalind Masson, the... Read More ›
Bird Yarns inspires ‘Tern’, by musician Mick Slaven: Listen here
Deirdre Nelson: Artist Diary March 2013
Tern, written and performed by Mick Slaven Listen here Copyright control Mick Slaven, 2013: www.trickyhat.com/mick–slaven.html Riding the Breeze Bird Yarns made a brief landing at Letham Nights in Fife late last year and managed to share the stage with Coal Town Daisies and The Bevvy Sisters. Letham nights aims to bring high quality music to... Read More ›
Bird Yarns Photo Diary
Artist Diaries. 21 June 2012
21 June 2012 The days are long, bright and cool on Tobermory: only 4 hours of darkness between last gull and first dove call. Down in the harbour boats swing on the wind; clouds sit over Ardnamurchan and Morven across the Sound of Mull. On the fisherman’s pier a... Read More ›
Culture, Climate, Young People
Thoughts on speaking about climate change
Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org, author and environmental activist, shares his thoughts on speaking with young children about global warming and climate change. 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 ›
Supported by
- Jon and NoraLee Sedmak
- With the support of the
Culture Programme of the European Union
as part of the Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA) 
