From ‘Emergence’ Magazine’….Tombs of the Isles…..Well Worth Repeating…..A Resume of Talbot Rice Gallery 2023…
by Bernie Bell - 09:25 on 20 December 2023
From ‘Emergence’ Magazine’….
by Camille T. Dungy
Witnessing the cry of the Earth, in its myriad permutations, can evoke real responses of grief and deep love for the planet. As we begin to acknowledge the wounds we’ve inflicted upon our nonhuman kin, how can tender connections with a harmed Earth foster spaces of healing? In this week’s podcast, poet and author Camille T. Dungy reaches for the possibility of sanctuary amid pain and loss. Bearing witness to an encounter between a man and an injured elephant, her poem offers us the opportunity to step into a moment where past harm gives way to an expansive recognition of love.
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Tombs of the Isles…
Unfortunately – there’s not much left of this one….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/12/18/rowiegar-rousay/
Thank goodness that more care is taken of sites and that records are kept more vigilantly these days.
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Well Worth Repeating….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/video-maeshowe-solstice/
My tuppenceworth….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/12/22/the-light-in-the-mound/
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A Resume of Talbot Rice Gallery 2023…
“From the whole team here at Talbot Rice Gallery we'd like to wish you all a very warm festive season and a Happy New Year!
Our last public day of the year is Thursday 21 December. We reopen on 6 Jan 2024. If you’re looking for a special Christmas gift, please do visit our TRG shop - if you purchase in store, you will receive a discount of 30%. (All University staff and students receive a whopping 50% discount).
2023 has been a really rewarding year at Talbot Rice Gallery. The gallery is currently reverberating with The Recent – a group exhibition which explores what art can do to stretch the human imagination and situate our actions and impact in a deeper timeframe. Smell the first and last forests of the earth in Katie Paterson’s To Burn, Forest, Fire taking place most days at 3pm in our galleries. The exhibition runs until 17 February 2024, and you can sign up to a tour with our fabulous colleagues: Prof Mihaela Mihai (political theorist), Prof Rachel Wood (geologist) and Prof Andrew Patrizio (art historian) in the new year.
And that’s the second major group show we’ve produced in 2023 – in March, The Accursed Share looked at debt in a time of a cost-of-living crisis, digging into the history of monetary debt on a global context through centuries of empire-building, colonisation, enslavement and exploitation of resources through to contemporary efforts of resistance.
These group exhibitions are exhilarating for us. They bring so many new artists to Scotland, inspiring us and enriching us.
As do the solo exhibitions: it was just at the beginning of 2023 that we had solo exhibitions of Qiu Zhijie and Lara Favaretto. We were also showing Nira Pereg, whose haunting artwork about the coexistence of a synagogue and mosque in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has resonated in our memories these last distressing months.
As those shows came to an end, Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum gave a brilliant lecture on the wider practice of Qiu Zhijie, and with monuments on the mind, Charlotte Higgins gave an incredibly moving talk about public art under fire in Ukraine.
And our summer months, including the festival month of August, saw the galleries totally transformed by the artworks of Jesse Jones, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Hephzibah Israel. Jesse Jones’ The Tower summoned stories and visions – conjuring the radical spirit of medieval female mystics (cast as saints and witches), and women of our own time, incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries – and proclaimed the possibility of a world without shame. The catalogue charting both Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble and The Tower and the political climates they were born from is stunning, and you can order a copy here.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s film 45th Parallel was staged in our gallery above the University’s Law Library – a remarkable installation that spoke of the absurd, porous, and contradictory nature of borders, and the laws that govern these grey areas often with lethal effect. And in the upper gallery balconies, Hephzibah Israel’s the nature of difference text works moved between Tamil, her native language and Hindi and English, poetically exploring the nature of translation and what it is to navigate borders.
We like to start the year full of energy and anticipation for what lies ahead, so expect to hear from us in early January when we share the very exciting plans for 2024.
Warm thanks to all of the artists, collaborators, colleagues, funders and audiences that we’ve worked with this year. We sincerely appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to seeing you in the Gallery throughout 2024.
Wishing you all a happy and restful festive season ahead, please stay in touch with us on our social media channels.
Team Talbot Rice”
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Here’s one I made earlier….
Twice baked Tatties - we’d had baked tatties the night before and had some left over….
2 baking potatoes
½ oz of butter or marge
1 clove garlic, chopped
½ a green pepper chopped
4 oz mushrooms
4 oz cheddar – grated
½ tsp mustard
1 tblsp low fat yogurt
Ground black pepper
Bacon or pretend bacon….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/31/in-praise-of-bacon-butties/
Heat oven to 190°C. If you’re starting from scratch with the potatoes - wash and prick with a fork and bake for 1 hour 15 mins. to start with.
If you’ve got baked tatties left over you can just go ahead …melt marge in a pan over a gentle heat. Add garlic, green pepper and bits of bacon/pretend bacon. Cook for a few minutes. Add mushrooms and cook until just tender. Remove from heat.
Cut baked pots in half and scoop out flesh into a bowl. Mash loosely with a fork and add the cooked veg mixture, half the cheese, mustard, yogurt and black pepper and mix thoroughly.
Spoon mixture back into the potato skins, sprinkle with remaining cheese and return pots. to the oven. Bake at 220°C for about 20 minutes until cheese is golden.
Serve with a green veg. which can cook while the pots. are in the oven the second time.
It’s yum.
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