100 Women Paint the Sea
Exhibition at The Signal Tower, Arbroath, 20 August - 17 September 2005.
View the exhibition online at: www.100womenpaintthesea.co.uk
100 Women Paint the Sea is a project by artist Moira Scott Payne, and is supported by the Hospitalfield Users Group.
View the exhibition online at: www.100womenpaintthesea.co.uk
100 Women Paint the Sea is a project by artist Moira Scott Payne, and is supported by the Hospitalfield Users Group.
Information on the project:
This project has brought together 100 women living on the East coast of Scotland, north and south of the Arbroath area, to create an image, both visual and verbal, of the sea. Each woman has painted a 12 x 12 inch canvas and written a short text. The images of each painting have been set beside the women's statements and this web site has been created using selected recordings of the women's voices.
At a time when the fishing industry is seriously in decline and many of the traditional jobs that supported local lives are no longer there, the focus of the community is changing. This project records this interim period. A broad selection of the community from the art clubs, schools, retired, professional and amateur artists have come together to illustrate what the sea means to them.
Amongst the participants are women whose families have been involved in the fishing industries for generations, the fish smokers, the fishermen, the fishmongers and the fish and chip shops. There are women who have been involved in life boat events, a women whose family work at the new water treatment works, we have young women who play on the beach with their children, people who walk on the cliffs, women involved with the new Harbour Yacht club in Arbroath, a representative of the Montrose Harbour Board, a long distance sea swimmer and a woman who owns a deep sea salvage company. We have a poet whose work communicates through descriptions of the sea and sea birds, and artists, philosophers and photographers for whom the sea and its rhythms and structures mirror our world.
In essence, this research focusses on our delicate relationship with the natural world and records some of the many possible attitudes and relationships to the subject. There are women who have lost loved ones at sea and there are those for whom the sea is a romantic panorama that spiritually enriches and sustains their lives.
As a body of research this project becomes an important statement of heritage and www.100womenpaintthesea.co.uk begins to document an ongoing event.
Installation views from the Signal Tower Museum, Arbroath
Further information on this project appeared in related articles in The Herald and The Press and Journal
This project has brought together 100 women living on the East coast of Scotland, north and south of the Arbroath area, to create an image, both visual and verbal, of the sea. Each woman has painted a 12 x 12 inch canvas and written a short text. The images of each painting have been set beside the women's statements and this web site has been created using selected recordings of the women's voices.
At a time when the fishing industry is seriously in decline and many of the traditional jobs that supported local lives are no longer there, the focus of the community is changing. This project records this interim period. A broad selection of the community from the art clubs, schools, retired, professional and amateur artists have come together to illustrate what the sea means to them.
Amongst the participants are women whose families have been involved in the fishing industries for generations, the fish smokers, the fishermen, the fishmongers and the fish and chip shops. There are women who have been involved in life boat events, a women whose family work at the new water treatment works, we have young women who play on the beach with their children, people who walk on the cliffs, women involved with the new Harbour Yacht club in Arbroath, a representative of the Montrose Harbour Board, a long distance sea swimmer and a woman who owns a deep sea salvage company. We have a poet whose work communicates through descriptions of the sea and sea birds, and artists, philosophers and photographers for whom the sea and its rhythms and structures mirror our world.
In essence, this research focusses on our delicate relationship with the natural world and records some of the many possible attitudes and relationships to the subject. There are women who have lost loved ones at sea and there are those for whom the sea is a romantic panorama that spiritually enriches and sustains their lives.
As a body of research this project becomes an important statement of heritage and www.100womenpaintthesea.co.uk begins to document an ongoing event.
Installation views from the Signal Tower Museum, Arbroath
Further information on this project appeared in related articles in The Herald and The Press and Journal