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| Misty McNab and Jessica Holm with Sanctuary 2 |
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Uist Art
Visitors to the Hebridean Island of North Uist may be surprised to find strange sculptures in remote places at the end of roads which apparently lead nowhere. These pieces have been produced by artists working in collaboration with local people and the whole project was organised through the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in Lochmaddy.
Set in a renovated inn, the centre provides a focus for the flourishing interest in art on the island, and is also a venue for exhibitions. It also houses an archive of many thousand photographs of island life.
The population is less than two thousand, but thirty thousand visitors come to the island each year, and Taigh Chearsabhagh is ideally situated to attract many of them to look around as they disembark at the nearby ferry terminal.
Jessica Holm visits the museum and explores the relationship the local people and the arts, and even meets up with an African dance troupe who happened to be passing through. She finds how the place is used by everyone, and how it has become the centre for other projects as well, including the restoration of a local boat. She even has an encounter with a ten foot long mackerel!
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Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre
Phone 01876 500293
Taigh Chearsabhagh
Email: taigh-chearsabhagh@zetnet.co.uk
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