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Shadows of Our Ancestors

Created: 2012

Client: The Red Field for Historic Scotland

Categories: Workshops

A series of weekly multi-generational community workshops at Croy Miners Welfare for the Red Field, towards celebrating World Heritage Day on the Antonine Wall. Each participant cast a slab of plaster to carve over five weeks. Imagery was inspired by Roman carvings in the Hunterian Museum. Facebook and Twitter were used to post progress.

Pouring plaster from a blue bucket into a square wooden frame
Man works transferring a drawing onto a block of plaster
Man carving his design into a slab of plaster using a chisel
Work carved into plaster with tools on table
Design drawing of thistle and date 2012 in Roman numerals
Woman leaning over transferring thistle draiwng onto block of plaster
Woman working on thistle design in ellipse with fine chisel, all around are chips of plaster
Woman brushing away plaster chips from thistle design
Woman working into detail of thistle design with a scalpel
Thistle design with pencil lines showing detail of the design still to be carved into it
Carving in plaster of swan with the word AMO beneath, there are 4 hearts in the corners
Young girl in pink using a pointed tool to score her drawing into a plaster slab
Young woman scoring her design into a plaster slab, she has a print out of Capricorn to her right
Man studies print out of Capricorn which has been scored into a slab of plaster.
Design carved into plaster of a building with a hill behind
Design carved into plaster of a building with a hill behind, which is more finished
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