Hirta /
Duncan, Bill.
Wilson, Susan.
Masterson, Steph.
Dundee Contemporary Arts (Art center)
Dundee : Dundee Contemporary Arts, Print Studio,
c2000.
"The Hirta portfolio comprises a suite of five poems, each with its accompanying etching as illustration; interleaves of translucent Japanese paper; the loose pages contained in a handmade folio case, lined with Japanese Atsukuchi paper. The work commemorates the culture and evacuation of the island of St Kilda and is a unique creative collaboration between the writer, Bill Duncan and the artist and printmaker, Susan Wilson"--accompanying notes.
"The Hirta portfolio is produced in a limited edition of 36, one for each of the islanders evacuated from the island ... Unusually, this edition is not being sold consecutively; buyers may choose a particular name or house if they so wish"--accompanying notes.
"This copy of the Hirta portfolio (no. 24) is dedicated to Donald Gillies (b. 1891) of croft no. 13, St.Kilda, later of Larachbeg, Morvern, Lochaber. This particular copy was selected [for the National Library of Scotland] because the curator involved [in obtaining it] happened to have met Donald Gillies during a holiday job in Ardtornish, Morven, in 1964"--accompanying notes.
Each of the 5 etchings is signed, numbered and entitled by the artist.
Illustration of St. Kilda on the lining paper of the flap of the portfolio; on the other lining paper are listed the occupants of house nos. 1-16 on the island.
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