Vinquoy Cairn……. From Kilmorack Gallery….
by Bernie Bell - 08:25 on 20 May 2025
Vinquoy Cairn…..
By Sigurd Towrie…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/vinquoy-eday/
And by Wendy Alford…..
Vinquoy Cairn
Two of us enter
on hands and knees
through close dark passage
to round chamber of stone
****
thin light filters from
circular hole above
where layered rocks
draw up and lean in
****
fingers stretch out
to touch each side
the green dampness
of ancient walls
****
four low small rooms
from the centre lead out
in cardinal directions,
we pray to each:
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fire, air, earth, water
then sound begins
in my throat
with my breath
****
seeping out from the stones
up through my body
resonating vibrations
of some other voice
****
strong and deep
a masculine intonation of
powerful prayer from
old earth rituals
****
then, slowly, softly
female song rises
harmonic waves
possess this space
****
body and rock
mind and place
resound as one,
in the voice
****
time falls away
I return to myself
and the quiet
and the now
and you.
*****
Wendy Alford May 2019
And also…..
In their book ‘What The Architecture Tells Us’ Marianne Pollich and Elisabeth Holder have a chapter about Vinquoy…….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/08/20/what-the-architecture-tells-us/
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From Kilmorack Gallery….
“A Suite of New Exhibitions and Arrivals
Becs Boyd | Pamela Tait | illona Morrice | James Adams | Norman Shaw
Once again Kilmorack Gallery is brimming with new work. We are in the process of hanging these for exhibitions starting at the end of the week. We have Becs Boyd's exhibition 'Everything Under the Sky' which brings together her latest works and their short story-like northern narratives. Alongside this we have Pamela Tait's monotypes which draw us ‘Into the Woods’ to meet the characters she finds there.
Straight from illona Morrice's kiln, we have five more portrait heads which exude Morrice's wit and reflect the strange things around her. And this strange human world is also seen in James Newton Adam's latest five paintings inspired by life on the Isle of Skye.
Finally, we have a new artist to the gallery - Norman Shaw - and his intensely alive landscapes.
Please contact the gallery for more information.
Pamela Tait | Into the Woods
An Exhibition of New Monotypes
Pamela Tait's latest works are inspired by the shapes and textures of nature. Tait's chosen medium, monotypes, are unlike monoprints because no plate is reused. Every image is unique, like the leaves printed into them, and the characters Pamela Tait has found and befriended.
A catalogue is available
Becs Boyd | Everything Under the Sky
An Exhibition of New Paintings
'Each painting has a different starting point – it can be a line of poetry, a particular place or something I hear that conjurs up an image or a sensation. Long days working on the hill in northern Scotland and summers spent hiking across Arctic tundra feed my love of space, stillness, and sharing the world with wild creatures - all these things feature in my work.'
Becs Boyd, May 2025
iLLONA MORRICE
Somebody's Dad and other Folk
A tough guy, a suffragette, a teasmade and someone else's dad.
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
Five New Paintings
Norman Shaw
Introducing Norman Shaw
Kilmorack Gallery
Inverness-shire
IV4 7AL
01463 783 230
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