by susan wilson
Susan Wilson, Bill Duncan and Dundee Contemporary Arts
Etching, screenprint and handmade folio case
h: 20 w: 25 d: 3 (cms).
The Hirta Portfolio comprises a suite of 5 poems by Bill Duncan which commemorate the history, culture and evacuation of St Kilda, each one accompanied by an etching by Susan Wilson. The etchings reflect the content of the poems but were not intended to be pictures of the poems; instead they convey her personal response to the writing and contain historical detail discovered through her own research.
The poems are indvidually screenprinted as are the interleaves of a translucent Japanese paper - details from a map of the Village Street with the poems, a line from the poems as the title for the etchings.
The loose pages are held in a handmade folio case, the front lining of which is an old map of the island, the back lining lists the names of those who left the island in 1930 and the houses in which they lived. Each of the limited edition of 36 is dedicated to one of them.
£350 (As exhibited.)
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