Shetland Arts

Shetland Arts
Shetland Arts

The sounds of Shetland Arts, featuring work from across our visual arts and festivals programme.

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  1. 03/07/2021

    LOCUS | A Lerwick public art trail

    The audio guide for LOCUS, a new public art trail in Lerwick. Featuring four pieces of public sculpture and two painted murals. Jane Matthews and Edna Irvine introduce you to LOCUS, before taking you on a suggested route through the town centre, where you'll hear from each of the artists involved in the first stage of the project. 0.00: Jane Matthews, Exhibition Manager at Shetland Arts, introduces LOCUS. 1.50: Edna Irvine from Smith and Robertson and Director at Living Lerwick explores the history of the town. 2.59: Kenny Hunter dives into As Above so Below (C&Js, Commercial Road). 4.37: Ruth Hamilton from Civic Soup unwinds The Never-Ending Gansey (Hillhead, flower bed beside Children's Panel Shetland). 7.09: David Lemm climbs Stakamillabakka (Shetland Parliamentary Office, Commercial Street). 9.20: Gavin Renshaw creates a storm with PUSH/PULL (Bayes/No.88, Commercial Street). 10.34: Joseph Ingleby cracks open Storm Cargo (Royal Bank of Scotland, Commercial Street). 12.16: Erin Bradley-Scott, Chelsea Frew and Kat Loudon from Cobolt Collective bring the rhythm with Only Da Sea (Peerie Shop Cafe).  15.12: Chloe Keppie talks through her design of the LOCUS trail map. More information on LOCUS can be found at shetlandarts.org/locus or livinglerwick.co.uk/locus.  A paper copy of the LOCUS map and guide can be picked up at Mareel, Visit Scotland's Lerwick iCentre, C&Js, Smith and Robertson, Shetland Times Bookshop and Shetland Library, with more venues to come. A transcript of this audioguide and a plain text document of the guide is also available at shetlandarts.org/locus or livinglerwick.co.uk/locus.

    17 min

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