Wood, dye-sublimation print, textile, stone.

‘Bratach nan Croitearan‘ takes its name from a protest poem written in 1885 by Dòmhnall MacDhòmhnaill. Found within the compilation ‘Tuath is Tighearna (Tenants and Landlords)‘, the book gathers expressive writings by Gaelic poets during the Highland Clearances and Land Agitation. These cultivated tools of defiance are channelled through my installation work as I seek to further the Land Question within a sculptural and contemporary setting.

A palisade-like fence plays the role of division as it cuts through the space, enforcing movement between opposing sides. The face of the barricade presents images of the poignant consequences of displacement, embodied in Orcadian and Sutherland ruins. The back of the structure features a subtler presence of Land Agitation with a photographic series of Southern Scottish sheep fanks, a destructive symbol of   English industrial farming practises imposed onto the Scottish landscape.