Tag: Artist Blogs
Las! / Ignite! Festival
An Lanntair has received funding from EventScotland to deliver an exciting event that will celebrate the talent of young creative people (under 26) from the Outer Hebrides through a week long arts festival called Las! / Ignite! Over the course of the week in October 2018 young people (under 26) will be given complete control… More…
From Winter to the Summer Solstice with artist Jon Macleod.
Learn more behind the fascinating process of how local artist Jon Macleod has been capturing images of the Outer Hebrides from the winter to the summer solstice as part of his new An Lanntair commission Diseal: Sunwise. “The first part of the project attempts to illustrate the Gaelic word and superstition ‘Deiseal’ or ‘Sunwise’ by… More…
Lagarostrobos Franklinii by Ian Stephen
As Faclan The Hebridean Book Festival approaches we will be sharing and celebrating the work of some of the authors appearing. Ian Stephen is a writer, artist and storyteller from Lewis. In 2016, Saraband published Maritime his selection from 35 years of making poetry from observing seaways and shorelines. After the success of his first novel, the much-lauded A… More…
