The Nature Library returns to On Sonorous Seas, an exhibition by Mhairi Killin in collaboration with Fergus Hall, Tom deMajo, Miek Zwamborn and Susie Leiper, when it goes to Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lochmaddy, North Uist.

The story of On Sonorous Seas began with a whale carcass that came ashore in August 2018 at Traigh an t-Suidhe/Strand of the Seat, at the north end of the Isle of Iona, where artist Mhairi Killin lives. What became of the whale is a story told with the voices of science, art, music and poetry. It interrogates the power of, and reliance on, sound as a survival tool for both the whales and the military, and the complex relationship between the militarisation of Scotland’s seas and their existing ecosystems.

The Nature Library has curated a selection of reading materials that respond to the themes of the exhibition. Within it are stories of ocean life and ecosystems, sound and sensory experiences of the sea, militarisation and the entanglements between human and nonhuman marine activities, and perspectives of place and island landscapes. All seek to bring political, environmental and emotional tales of Scotland’s seas — so often out of sight and out of mind — to the surface. 

Preview: Saturday 2 September - 28 October 2023
10am - 4pm, Monday - Saturday
FREE

For further information on access please visit the Taigh Chearsabhagh website or email thenaturelib@gmail.com.