TWO artists will present their ideas for a Crofters’ Memorial for Staffin, on Skye, in a showcase of work at Staffin Community Hall from 5 - 10 March.
Since 2014, Atlas Arts has been working with the Staffin Community Trust (Urras An Taobh Sear) and the community to explore what a contemporary memorial to acknowledge the crofters’ land struggle in the Staffin area could be.
In 2017 sculptor Henry Castle and design collective Lateral North were selected to develop their ideas.
Shona Cameron, ATLAS Arts’ producer, said: “A central aim of this project is for the artists commissioned to contribute to the awareness and understanding within the local community of the potentially positive impacts and benefits of a commissioned contemporary memorial. "Showcasing Henry and Tom’s work in Staffin will allow this dialogue to continue and for us to hear directly what members of the community and trust think of their concepts."
The display of work is free.
Castle studied at the University of Gloucestershire and Wimbledon School of Art (2007-2010).
Castle was the recipient of Jupiter Artland’s 2010 summer residency and was commissioned to make an artwork for their permanent collection. Castle has since been involved in a project at Rubislaw quarry in Aberdeen.
Lateral North are an architecture, research and design collective who work with community groups, creative professionals and institutions at a local, national and international level.
www.atlasarts.org.uk
THE Swedish photographer Jannica Honey is to stage an exhibition, When The Blackbird Sings, at Edinburgh's Arusha Gallery.
The show will run from March 2 to March 25 and will feature thirty works, focussing on the female body and its links with nature.
The works depict naked women and shots of flowers in water.
The subjects are family, friends and acquaintances of the artist, always posing outdoors and at twilight.
Honey shot across Scotland and Sweden for the show.
The artist's work is frequently interested with the female body and the place of women in society.
In 2011 she spent two months photographing Edinburgh strippers.
Honey's work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Dazed & Confused and Aesthetica Magazine.
www.arushagallery.com
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