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ATLAS Arts
ATLAS Arts is a visual arts organisation dedicated to commissioning contemporary arts, culture, heritage, and education based in the Isle of Skye. It was formed in 2010 and since then has delivered a varied programme of contemporary art including installations, sculpture, live performances, film screenings, and collaborative public works. It is one of Creative Scotland's portfolio of regularly-funded organisations. History ATLAS Arts was founded in 2010, partly in response to the closure of Skye's former arts centre An Tuireann, and following research conducted by the Scottish Arts Council which found that Skye and Lochalsh had the largest gap in visual arts provision in the northwest of Scotland. Initially the organisation was hosted by HI~Arts (a cultural development agency for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland) until 2012, when it became an independent organisation with charitable status. From 2013 to 2015 ATLAS Arts collaborated with the Uist-based museum and arts cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portree
Portree (; gd, Port Rìgh, ) is the largest town on, and capital of, the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Murray, W.H. (1966) ''The Hebrides''. London. Heinemann. Pages 154-155. It is the location for the only secondary school on the island, Portree High School. Public transport services are limited to buses. Portree has a harbour, fringed by cliffs, with a pier designed by Thomas Telford. Attractions in the town include the Aros centre which celebrates the island's Gaelic heritage. Further arts provision is made through arts organisation ATLAS Arts, a Creative Scotland regularly-funded organisation. The town also serves as a centre for tourists exploring the island.Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate. Pages 173-4 Around 939 people (37.72% of the population) can speak Scottish Gaelic. The A855 road leads north out of the town, passing through villages such as Achachork, Staffin and passes the rocky landscape of the Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Harrison (artist)
Ellie Harrison (born 1979) is a British artist known for her use of large quantities of data, collected through labour-intensive games, trials, systems and experiments, and, more recently, for her activist work campaigning for the Renationalisation of British Rail, re-nationalisation of Britain's railways and founder of Campaign to Bring Back British Rail. She is based in Glasgow, Scotland and in April 2013 was appointed Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Contemporary Art Practices at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Early life and education Brought up in Ealing in west London, Harrison attended Drayton Manor High School until the age of 18. After completing a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at West Thames College in Hounslow, she went on to study Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University from 1998 – 2001 and at Goldsmiths College from 2002 – 2003. She moved to Scotland in 2008 to undertake a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art course at Glas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Skelton
Richard Skelton is an English musician. Following the death of his wife Louise in 2004, he began to make music as a way of coming to terms with the tragedy. His music, which uses a number of instruments – principally guitar and violin, has been compared with that of Arvo Pärt among others. His recordings explicitly reference places of emotional resonance, specifically the West Pennine Moors, and the area around the sparsely populated parish of Anglezarke. His album ''Landings'' has been compared with Brian Eno's '' Ambient 4: On Land'' in its evocation of place and memory. Skelton even goes so far as to include artefacts, such as twigs and alder catkins, from significant places in the packaging of his releases. Most of Skelton's releases have been issued by his own Sustain-Release label – under a range of pseudonyms including A Broken Consort, Carousell and Riftmusic, as well as under his own name – in small editions of CDs with hand-crafted packaging, and often inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Macdonald
Niall Macdonald (born 1980) is a Scottish visual artist. He graduated in 2008 from the Glasgow School of Art. Biography Macdonald was born in 1980 in North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. He received his Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Macdonald is represented by Koppe Astner (previously Kendall Koppe). Exhibitions Niall Macdonald has exhibited nationally and internationally. * Taigh Chearsabhagh Taigh Chearsabhagh is an arts centre and museum in Lochmaddy on the island of North Uist, Scotland. Taigh Chearsabhagh was built in 1741 and originally used as an inn; it has since served as a post office, house and workshop before being develop .... Lochmaddy, Outer Hebrides, Scotland - November 2017 * Kendall Koppe (now Koppe Astner) - The Ultimate Vessel - 20 Nov 2015 - 8 Jan 2016 * Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland - 2012 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonald, Niall Living people Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Scottish contemporary art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morag Henriksen
Morag Henriksen describes herself as a Highlander born and bred. Growing up in Lochcarron, where her father was the headmaster of the local school, she developed a life long love of Gaidhlig culture, folk music, singing, story telling and poetry and this informed her later work as a writer. Early life Morag MacIver Ross was born in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland in July 1941. Her father was a strict Free Presbyterian and attended The Free Presbyterian Church in Lochcarron. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and went on to qualify as a teacher at Moray House in 1964. Her first teaching position was held at Drumbrae Primary School. She married Harry Henriksen in 1966. Career After their time in Edinburgh, they moved to Portree on the Isle of Skye in 1967. Morag Henriksen started teaching at Portree High School in 1976 before becoming the head teacher at Uig Primary School, where she taught for ten years. During her time at Uig Primary School, she was integral in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meg Bateman
Vivienne Margaret 'Meg' Bateman (born 1959) is a Scottish academic, poet and short story writer. She is best known for her works written in Scottish Gaelic; however, she has also published work in the English language. Education and career Bateman was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the New Town area of the city. She studied Celtic at the University of Aberdeen and completed a PhD in medieval Scottish Gaelic language religious poetry. She taught Scottish Gaelic at the University of Aberdeen between 1991 and 1998 before moving to Isle of Skye to teach at the Gaelic college, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. She has also taught Scottish Gaelic at the University of Edinburgh and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Bateman's first collection of poems, ''Òrain Ghaoil'' (''Love Songs'') was published in 1990 and her second, ''Aotromachd agus dàin eile'' (''Lightness'') was published in 1997. Both her first and second collections focus on human relationships and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maoilios Caimbeul
Maoilios Caimbeul (''Myles Campbell''; born 23 March 1944) is a Scottish writer of poetry, prose and children's literature. He writes in Scottish Gaelic. Caimbeul, whose forename 'Maoilios' means "servant of Jesus" in Scottish Gaelic, was born in Staffin on the Isle of Skye to a Free Church of Scotland missionary father and spent much of his childhood travelling between the isles of Skye and Lewis. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen and consequently experienced a wide variety of nations and cultures. It was not until he was 26 that he became fully literate in Gaelic (though he had always been a fluent speaker and capable of reading) and at 30 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh and Jordanhill College before embarking upon a career teaching Gaelic. He spent time teaching in Tobermory, Mull and Gairloch. As well as being a prominent poet, Maoilios is also noted as a writer of prose and children's literature. He has won numerous prizes for his writing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon is an American and British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Italian neorealism, or French cinéma vérité. Her subjects are taken from everyday life: people with modest incomes, showing their at once ordinary and dramatic lives. Salmon is particularly sensitive to interactions between the soundtrack and the image, which she uses to produce disturbing effects that heighten the documentary sobriety of her films with a lyrical dimension. She shoots all of her works, working as both Director and Cinematographer, on 16mm & 35mm film. She won the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel in London in 2006. She has had a solo show at the Witte de With, Rotterdam and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 2007 and Salmon was shown at The Venice Bienna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. His para-documentary films have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, English composer Cornelius Cardew and Marxist-Historian E.P. Thompson. As well portraits of musicians and composers he has also made films and installations that deal with the nature of sound itself. Luke Fowler has worked with a number of collaborators including Eric La Casa, George Clark and Peter Hutton Mark Fell, Lee Patterson, Toshiya Tsunoda and Richard Youngs. He collaborated with guitarist Keith Rowe and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work ''The Room''. Work Luke Fowler's work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary film-making w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keg De Souza
A keg is a small barrel. Wooden kegs made by a cooper were used to transport nails, gunpowder, and a variety of liquids. A keg is normally now constructed of stainless steel, although aluminium can be used if it is coated with plastic on the inside. It is commonly used to store, transport, and serve beer. Other alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks, carbonated or non-carbonated, may be housed in a keg as well. Carbonated drinks are generally kept under pressure in order to maintain carbon dioxide in solution, preventing the beverage from becoming flat. Beer keg Beer kegs are made of stainless steel, or less commonly, of aluminium. A keg has a single opening on one end, called a "bung". A tube called a "spear" extends from the opening to the other end. There is a self-closing valve that is opened by the coupling fitting which is attached when the keg is tapped. There is also an opening at the top of the spear that allows gas (usually carbon dioxide) to drive the beer out of the k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Akomfrah
John Akomfrah (born 4 May 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films". A founder of the Black Audio Film Collective in 1982, he made his début as a director with '' Handsworth Songs'' (1986), which examined the fallout from the 1985 Handsworth riots. ''Handsworth Songs'' went on to win the Grierson Award for Best Documentary in 1987. In the words of ''The Guardian'', he "has secured a reputation as one of the UK’s most pioneering film-makers hosepoetic works have grappled with race, identity and post-colonial attitudes for over three decades." Early life and education John Akomfrah was born in Accra, Ghana, to parents who were involved with anti-colonial activism. In an interview with Sukhdev Sandhu, Akomfrah said: "My dad was a member of the cabinet of Kwame Nkrumah's party.... We left Ghana because my mum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilana Halperin
Ilana Halperin (born 1973) is an artist with an interest in the relationships between geological phenomena and daily life. Her artwork is produced using a variety of media, writing, performance, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and film. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Life and education Born in New York, NY (USA), Halperin attended the New York High School of Performing Arts (famously known as the setting for the 1980 film '' Fame)'', and trained as a stone carver. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1995, before moving to Scotland to study the Master of Fine Art course at the Glasgow School of Art, from where she graduated in 2000. Work Themes Halperin's work is predominantly focused around connections between geological time and human time. She conducts fieldwork with specialists worldwide, including mineralogists, geologists, vulcanologists and archaeologists, and creates her work by placing herself or others directly in geol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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