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REBECCA MARR photographer
Winter shows
Last night the Pier Arts Centre Christmas Open Exhibition opened. I’m showing two photographs of my favourite boat ‘Merlin II’. Every year the Merlin II is in dry dock for painting and maintenance on the warehouse pier. At night propped up on her cradle and lit by the pier lights she looks like an exhibit. … Continue reading
Exhibition Room Christmas Collection
I’m one of the artists exhibiting at the Exhibition Room in Kirkwall for the Old Library Christmas Collection Show. The opening is tomorrow Thursday 21 Dec at 7pm. The show runs to 18 January 2020. The work I have submitted includes two photographs of reeds taken in Westray and two of water plants at Harray … Continue reading
Orcadia
The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. Orcadia, the new book by Prof. Mark Edmonds is a wonderful tour of that museum. And I was fortunate enough to join Mark on the journey over the course of 18 months making photographs of the remarkable sites. The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological … Continue reading
Westray bound
I’m off to Westray to give the talk I was due to give last year before the storms decided otherwise. The header image of seal prints in the sand was photographed at Grobust, Westray earlier this year. It’s not my work I’ll be discussing at the talk but the rich congregation of photographers who have … Continue reading
Science Festival foraging at West Shore
Orkney Science Festival event coming up Sunday 8 September 10am-2pm SHORE AND SEAWEED WORKSHOPS Come out to the West Shore for four family-friendly activities. Learn to identify seaweeds and make your own seaweed artwork. Forage for pigments and mark-making materials – and for seaweeds and plants, and build a beach fire to cook a foraged … Continue reading
Wildness and bleakness
A mention in the Observer from columnist Kenan Malik was a lovely surprise – see here. A forest of water horsetails at Stanger head, Flotta
Fulmars and reeds
A trip to Westray allowed time to enjoy some fulmar flypasts and quiet reeding (or are they rushes?). Thank you to Sandy and Willie for a break in their lovely cottage in Pierowall bay – St Clair’s.
