*** THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. PRINTS WILL BE SHIPPED AT THE END OF AUGUST, ONCE THE EXHIBITION HAS ENDED ***
An A4 print of “KENYERNORSE”, part of my exhibition Neither Warlord or Poet, running at The Ceilidh Place in Ullapool until 8th August
Signed and numbered
Delivered in a presentation box
Ready to frame
This croft house is in the settlement of Dalsetter, North Yell, Shetland. There is a large house close by called the Easterhouse of Dalsetter, where I assume the laird lived. I have looked for information on Dalsetter and all I can find is the census records of the 52 people who lived there, the last recorded entry being 1871.
Although this house is not of the West Highlands it does allow me to spout off about how integral Norse and Scandanvian cultures have been to Scotland, it is only in the last century that these ancient and deep seeded ties have been severed. For years I have been obsessed with Iceland and found out that after recent genealogical research it turns out that 60% of the women on Iceland have genes from the North of Scotland. The tale we have been spun by the colonists is that the Norse came and took the Women in raids and enslaved them. These women were know as Thrall, derived from the Gaelic word tràillean, meaning slaves. I’m not sure if it was that clear cut to be honest, I mean the Norse settled everywhere ,we’re as much them as we are the other. Of course Iceland until recently believed most of it’s blood line came from Norway, just another colonial deceit.
Everyone’s from somewhere and it shouldn’t actually matter.
*** THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. PRINTS WILL BE SHIPPED AT THE END OF AUGUST, ONCE THE EXHIBITION HAS ENDED ***
An A4 print of “KENYERNORSE”, part of my exhibition Neither Warlord or Poet, running at The Ceilidh Place in Ullapool until 8th August
Signed and numbered
Delivered in a presentation box
Ready to frame
This croft house is in the settlement of Dalsetter, North Yell, Shetland. There is a large house close by called the Easterhouse of Dalsetter, where I assume the laird lived. I have looked for information on Dalsetter and all I can find is the census records of the 52 people who lived there, the last recorded entry being 1871.
Although this house is not of the West Highlands it does allow me to spout off about how integral Norse and Scandanvian cultures have been to Scotland, it is only in the last century that these ancient and deep seeded ties have been severed. For years I have been obsessed with Iceland and found out that after recent genealogical research it turns out that 60% of the women on Iceland have genes from the North of Scotland. The tale we have been spun by the colonists is that the Norse came and took the Women in raids and enslaved them. These women were know as Thrall, derived from the Gaelic word tràillean, meaning slaves. I’m not sure if it was that clear cut to be honest, I mean the Norse settled everywhere ,we’re as much them as we are the other. Of course Iceland until recently believed most of it’s blood line came from Norway, just another colonial deceit.
Everyone’s from somewhere and it shouldn’t actually matter.
