Baffin Bay

This work was made for the 2022 exhibition Arctic Ventures: forgotten stories of Scottish Whaling at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, Fife.

As the whale populations declined around Spitsbergen Scottish whalers sailed around the southern tip of Greenland up the Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada to Baffin Bay and further north in search of whales. In 1830 a huge storm wrecked and damaged many whale ships with others trapped in the ice. The text is from the log book of the William and Ann of Leith which is part of the museums whaling collection.

Approx. 80 x 110 cm layered textiles, fabric paint, freehand machine embroidery