The Mission House Studio, Finsbay, Isle of Harris, HS3 3JD. Tel: 01859 530 227 |
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Photography
Beka
Globe Beka Globe came to Harris when she was just 11 years old. Her father, sculptor Steve Dilworth stills lives and works locally. She studied photography and darkroom techniques from an early age at Napier University in Edinburgh. There she was inspired by Ansel Adams' landscapes, Paul Strand's portaits and Hiroshi Sugimoto's seascapes. Having travelled extensively, photographing America and New Zealand she returned to the Hebrides to explore her roots in the landscape she first viewed through the lens. Here she captures an emotive vastness, depth and simplicity. Her silent images are deeply moving, stirring a particular sense of place. In her new collection for 2011 Beka explores The Edge, where the land meets the sea, the sea meets the sky, and the sky meets the land. A dynamic place where elements collide, interact and influence one another. Photographed during the winter these extremes of environment explode with energy and Beka's images hold those timeless and elemental forces of nature. New work of Beka's Photographs online soon. Extensive back catalogue online now. |
Ceramics
Nickolai
Globe Nickolai was born into clay. Now he has fused himself to Harris, where the influence of his ironage nordic bogman ancestors have fluxed his Wabisabi pre-occupation to create his archaic works. High fired earthenware, stoneware and local minerals is his palette, the terrain of the Harris his muse. His new work takes ceramics to the edge of craft, where sculpture and function merge. His high fired stoneware bowls and vessel forms become more geological and carry with them a deep reflection of the terrain of the Hebrides. Incorporating glass and raw minerals into his work they literally embody the landscape. Wabisabi: An aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience, described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. If an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi. Referring to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society it connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects. It can also refer to quirks and anomalies arising from the process of construction, which add uniqueness and elegance to the object. Wabisabi suggests sentiments of desolation and solitude. New work of Nickolai's Ceramics online soon. Extensive back catalogue online now. Click here |
Music
Friday 22nd June 2012 - 7pm The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. They were most likely composed during the period 1717– 1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Cöthen. The suites contain a great variety of technical devices, a wide emotional range, and some of Bach’s most compelling voice interactions and conversations. It is their intimacy, however, that has made the suites amongst Bach’s most popular works today. Performance Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007
Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
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