Interpretations through Stone sculpture and photographic bookworks based on the Lewisian Gneiss complex of Uist, at 3-billion-years among the oldest rock on the planet. The bedrock of the island Archipelago.
The exhibition, comprises two distinct and exemplary bodies of work in the form of three-dimensional floor, wall, vitrine and shelf art works, focusing on individual stones and rock strata to illustrate the upheaval and alterations to the Gneiss complex over deep time. Each striation in the rock a response to heat and pressure as the earth began to find its settled form.
‘Beginnings are pushed back, and we find ourselves in geological time.’ Professor Murdo Macdonald.
The exhibition was commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh in North Uist.