'After Peter Seddon: Memories construct a different picture, Essie Stewart is playing the accordion again for Richard Burton'
In the 1980 the artist Peter Seddon created a series of large scale pastel drawings based on the Highland Clearances that explored themes such as history, memory and cultural difference.
These were included as part of the 1986 exhibition ‘As an Fhearann/ From the Land’ organised by An Lantair Gallery in Stornaway to mark the centenary of the Crofting Act. I visited the exhibition when it first came to Glasgow and it had a huge impact on not only my practice but also how I was to view the Highlands and Islands of Scotland that I would be living in for the next fifteen or so years of my life.
The drawing is the first in an occasional series exploring the themes that I first came across in Peter's work and takes it's subject matter from Tim Neats' book 'the Summer Walkers' where he writes about the the pearl fishers and traveling families of Scotland.