Open
Wednesdays
January & February
Upper Gallery
Saturday 28th February to Saturday 25th April
Mountain Songs
Jessica Potter
Jessica Potter is an artist and research tutor at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is sensitive to the acts and processes of life, labour, and care, considered through photography and language.
Jessica Potter completed a PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art in 2013 entitled The Photograph as a Site of Writing. Her recent work engages early photographic processes, drawing and moving image to expand the relationship between language and landscape from erratic glacial rocks to meadow plants. Jessica is an editor at Copy Press, a member of the HCRC and the Centre for Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths College.
Jessica Potter
"Mountain Song (her film) was inspired by Beinn a’ Chearchaill (mountain of the hoop/loop), which sits at the inland edge of the Torridon mountain range. Informed by the cyclical structures of Gaelic working songs, Mountain Song is shaped by the sounds of water running through glacial rock formations and peat beds, woven with samples from Nan Mackinnon's songs and stories held in the Tobar an Dualchais archive. They are songs from the Highlands and Islands; songs born of a struggle for land rights, they abound with beauty and hope and force. The songs call us to listen to the land, to remember and learn from Gaelic voices—to preserve and connect with them, to imagine new interconnected and restorative forms of life."
The film is presented alongside some of Jessica's photographic prints and sketches, featuring erratics (a rock or boulder that differs from the surrounding rock and is believed to have been brought from a distance by glacial action).
Visit our Upper Gallery (no admission charge) to view:
Mountain Songs by Jessica Potter
March Opening Hours
Wednesday - Saturdays, 10am - 4pm
April Opening Hours
Mondays - Saturdays, 10am - 5pm
f you wish to purchase artwork, please use the contact details below. We can accept payment at the Museum or are equally happy to invoice and take payment by bank transfer. At the end of the exhibition, the Museum will help to arrange delivery or collection of your artwork. When a cost is incurred, this is passed on to the buyer. Within Scotland, we usually manage to deploy our “informal” art delivery network and no charge.
While you're at the Museum, you might like to also view Paths by Tom Brice in our Lower Gallery. This exhibition also has no admission charge.