In this group exhibition, four emerging artists selected for the inaugural Blackie House Graduate Awards respond to a selection of maps, globes and books held in the Blackie House Library and Museum, which chart Scotland’s land and seascapes: its hills, mountains and valleys, its lochs, rivers and canals, its paths and roads, its windmills and oil rigs, coastline and islands.
In the age of GPS, the new commissions consider what positions creative minds occupy in and around these natural and man-made features, finding their points of orientation across various media. Told individually and collectively, their stories will take shape in the Blackie House’s unique satellite space: a 250-year-old garage.