‘TORN FROM THAT LOVELY SHORE …’

Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Kirkwall
Mon–Sat, 1030–1700

Admission free

Images are woven with historical elements in Sanday-based artist Carolyn Dixon‘s series of prints and artist’s books. Based on extensive historical research, they explore the landscapes inhabited by particular men who left Orkney to later become enslavers. Alongside these are stories of some of the people of African descent whose lives they affected.

Carolyn Dixon will be on hand at the exhibition to answer questions at several times during the Festival.

Thursday 3 September afternoon, 1–3 pm
Friday 4 September morning, 10.30 am–12.30 pm
Monday 7 September afternoon, 1–3 pm
Tuesday 8 September morning, 10.30 am–12.30 pm

“There is a saying ‘every picture tells a story’, and I hope that’s what visitors to this exhibition will experience. The title ‘torn from that lovely shore’ is deliberately ambiguous. For many of us today Orkney is ‘that lovely shore’, but for Burns, in his ‘Slave Lament’ of 1792, that shore was ‘sweet Senegal’ and the person torn from it was one of the 3.5 million Africans abducted and enslaved by Britain in the 275 years of British Transatlantic slavery.”

WILD, STILL
A LANDSCAPE OF STONE
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