Art exhibition in Inverness inspired by surf and turf
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AN artwork featuring haddock skins stitched together using Shetland wool will be on display in Inverness this month.
Network was created by artist Vivian Ross-Smith and she is one of three artists who have contributed to the Across Land and Sea exhibition at Circus Artspace.
The artist-run gallery is based at Inverness Creative Academy, in the Midmills Building in Stephen’s Street, and the exhibition, which runs until October 20.
Other artists who have contributed are Shaun Fraser and Patricia Shone. A spokesman said: “This latest showcase from Circus features three emergent artists whose practices have been gathering profile over recent years.
“This exhibition represents the coming together of three artists, spanning the Highlands and Islands, who share a common interest in elemental material and process.
“Through their work, each individually draws from the northern landscape and references their own notion of community and place.”
Mr Fraser is a sculptor and visual artist based between Scotland, London and Amsterdam who grew up in the Highlands.
Landscape has always featured heavily in his work which often comments upon links to landscape and connections with a wider environment.
The spokesman said: “By incorporating soil and natural inclusions into his sculptural works he taps into some of this disposition; the ability to evoke a sense of place.”
Ms Ross-Smith grew up on the remote Fair Isle and has spent the majority of her life in extreme landscapes and fragile communities. Combining elements of painting, textiles and sculpture, she embeds the traditions of island life into her work.
Ms Shone is a ceramicist who is based in the Sleat area of Skye. She was born in Scotland, but brought up in South Devon, she eventually settled in the north-west Highlands.
She said: “My work is informed by the powerful landscape around me on the Isle of Skye. It is developed in response to the feeling of connection with its inhabitants and their passage across the land.
“By walking the paths of predecessors I contribute to the formation of the paths at the same time as obliterating previous footsteps; as an incomer to this community I absorb and am changed by its culture while altering it by my presence here.
“The nuances of contradiction in the human experience of life are very visible, but the community survives.”
