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 ›

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 ›

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Landscape Scar

Jennifer Wilcox

Landscape Scar by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. 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 ›

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Archive Letter

Jennifer Wilcox

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

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Plane Crash

Jennifer Wilcox

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

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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 ›