To mark the 40 / 40 exhibition, visual artists Dalziel + Scullion will host a studio visit (with tea and scones!) at their studio in Mangersta in Uig over on the west coast. They will be screening a couple of their latest short film works (Stone Diary and Moor) and discuss the piece they are currently working on that looks at the contrasting phenomena of the inter-tidal zones and the dramatic energy of the sea along Uig coastline. Also, their ‘Small Works of Great Scale’, a series of wearable artworks, made using found objects from Lewis, that serve as amulets to honour the biodiversity narratives they have encountered since moving here.
Matthew and Louise have grown connections with the island that go back some 30+ years. One of Louise’s first solo show was at An Lanntair when it still occupied the old town house, and as well as being annual summer visitors to the Hebrides for decades, they both spent much of 2017-18 here, filming the sequencies that accompanied Ian Morrisons memorable commemoration of the Iolaire Disaster, Sál.
In 2019 they began making their move to relocate themselves and their studio here and did so fully in 2022.
Dalziel + Scullion have worked in collaboration since 1990, exhibiting widely throughout the UK and internationally, as well as on large scale permanent artworks. They were senior lecturers in contemporary fine art for over 25 years at the University of Dundee and are now permanently based in the Hebrides.
Visit www.dalzielscullion.com for more information.
40 ÷ 40 is a retrospective exhibition of artwork by forty artists who have been significant to An Lanntair as we celebrate forty years.
Directions: The studio is 50 yards on the right after the turning to Mangersta on the road to Islavig. It’s a wooden house with an old pew outside that has the word ANAMCARA, painted in white letters on it. Journey time approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes from Stornoway. Participants are encouraged to share transport if possible.