This work was made for the 2022 exhibition Arctic Ventures: forgotten stories of Scottish Whaling at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, Fife. Whaling in the unpredictable weather of the Arctic could be dangerous. Storms would drive ice against and underneath whale ships. If the hull of a ship was damaged one way to repair […]
It feels a little strange writing this. In my work plan for Scoresby’s Arctic (long before the exhibition even had that title) high on my to do list for just before the exhibition was due to open in May 2020 was the task of writing a blog about the one large textile panel that I […]
My co-curator Fiona turned to me and said, ‘This isn’t an exhibition about Moby-Dick you know’. I had bought a copy of the book for possible display in the exhibition, one of my 50 odd versions, the one that laid open flat best. ‘But it is for me’, I replied. ‘I found William Scoresby through […]