A Hebridean Tale, Hillhead Library, Glasgow 1st-14th August 08
The show was a bit of an experiment for Neil and myself. Alongside the development of other work about the Hebrides, the 24 photographs have become the first body of photographic work that either of us has produced.
Neil works for a Glasgow-based picture framer so for this show, he waxed and cut older frames he had made for his under-graduate degree show. This meant that we had low framing costs and were happy that we could do a bit of recycling!
The images displayed are a broad selection of many ancient historical sites, landscapes and interesting objects we found throughout our travels around the islands. Neil's pictures tend to be landscape studies whereas the images that I captured are close up and textural studies of particular objects. On the islands, we were surrounded always by the sea, it was constantly nearby. Many of the images do have a nautical theme so we were keen to try to incorporate this through our exhibition display.
For the hang of the show, the library have strict guidelines that exhibitors need adhere to. We had to use picture rods and at first struggled to line up the photographs as some picture hooks did not stay in position. We then tried to position the pictures in a wave formation so that we didn't have to worry about them all being straight. This worked well and at this point we were almost out of time! Last touches, a clean of the glass, and we were finished!
Brings back the degree show stress a bit!
