Middle years

WORK WITH George Mackay Brown

Orkney collaborations. Around about 1987, for a show of Sireadh Bradain Sicir with Aonghas in the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Erlend Brown, then the gallery's curator, suggested that his uncle review the show. George did and thus began a second sequence of collaboration, with both George and Gunnie Moberg, the photographer, on Loom of Light and Celebration for Magnus. For the latter we were joined by the monks of Pluscarden Abbey whom we visited at Pluscarden, where Gunnie and Father Giles sparred as to who had the better system of developing photographs, using their own specially invented systems of memory among kitchen dishes or use of feet on cupboard doors. George's great sense of humour was allowed unusual exposure in Letter to Gypsy, the cat to whom he spoke constantly...

...and see below

 

books - loom
The Loom of Light

books - celebration
A Celebration for Magnus

books - gypsy
Letters to Gypsy

 

 

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