Artist Kirsty Russell will work with the UHI Archaeology Institute team to explore marine energy transitions in Aberdeen and Peterhead as part of the ongoing TRANSECTS project.
Working with sculpture, social practice and moving image, Kirsty’s recent projects have turned to textiles as a lens to explore embodied experiences and their broader social contexts. She is drawn to the ways textiles hold and organise information, and the tactile way they transmit memory. Telling stories, even as, like fabric, memories fade, wear through and go threadbare.
Industry moves us and the marine energy sector moves the north-east of Scotland repeatedly, like waves, shaping relationships to place. Drawing on local archives and collections, storylines and place-based workshops with TRANSECTS will inform one another, to build complex, overlapping and adjacent understandings of marine energy in the north-east. During her residency Kirsty will develop place-based work in a way that is responsive to north-east communities, with a focus on relationships.
See Kirsty’s bio for full details and for recent projects and residences.
