Following on from Timothy Neat’s Edinburgh Festival appearance at Summerhall, profiling his collaborations with John Berger, Peacock Visual Arts are proud to be hosting a major Retrospective of Neat’s life’s work, STANDS SCOTLAND WHERE SHE DID? from 27 September – 9 November 2013.
Martha Mackenzie, Scots Traveller, Fortinghall, November 1976 © Timothy Neat
A stunning collection of photographs capturing experiences and relationships over a long life will be on show. Neat is a champion of the marginalized – Scottish Travelling People, Gaelic bards, salmon-netters, crofters, bee-keepers, horse breeders, Andalucian villagers, poets and artists.
Neat has worked closely with many leading Scottish figures – MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Margaret Gardiner (Pier Arts Centre, Orkney) and the Fife singer Jean Redpath.
Also, Robert Burns and Charles Rennie Mackintosh!
Six of Neat’s films will be screened at The Belmont Picturehouse including:
‘Play me Something‘ (1988), winner of the Europa Prize, Barcelona 1989. This 35mm feature film shot on the Isle of Barra and Venice, features John Berger, Tilda Swinton, Hamish Henderson and Liz Lochhead;
‘Journey to a Kingdom – Hamish Henderson returns to the North East of Scotland’ (1992).
(Hamish Henderson [1919-2002] was with the 51st Highland Division in North Africa and Italy and became a legendary figure amongst the Gordon Highlanders. This film originally made for Grampian Television documents Henderson’s work as a folklorist in the North East. Neat’s highly prasied two-volume biography of Henderson will be available after the film screening).
STAND SCOTLAND WHERE SHE DID? will be a major exhibition, featuring a new suite of screen-prints by Neat, published by Peacock Visual Arts, and original works by many of the major artists with whom he has collaborated over 50 years; years during which Scottish culture and politics have changed dramatically.
Guests attending the opening and closing events will have the opportunity to enjoy performances by some of Scotland’s best traditional musicians.
Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre will sing Hamish Henderson ballads and political songs at the opening on 27 September. On 9 November Elizabeth Stewart will sing some of the great ballads of the north east and Alastair Roberts, rising star of the modern folk scene in Scotland, will sing some of Neat’s own songs.
Peacock Visual Arts is proud to be able to present this Retrospective in Aberdeen, before various parts of the exhibition embark on an international tour, which may prove seminal during the year of the Scottish National Referendum.
To coincide with this Retrospective, Polygon (Edinburgh) has published a major book, ‘These Faces; photographs and drawings by Timothy Neat’, with an important introduction by John Berger.
FULL LIST OF EVENTS
Exhibition:
28 September – 9 November 2013
Exhibition Opening:
Friday 27 September, 6 – 8pm
With performances by Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre.
Film Screenings:
Sunday 29 September, from 6pm:
‘Journey to a Kingdom’ (52mins)
‘The Tree of Liberty’ (73mins)
Sunday 13 October, from 6pm:
‘Time is a Country’ (52mins)
‘Hallaig’ (64mins)
Sunday 27 October, from 6pm:
‘Rathad nan Ceard’ (30mins)
‘Play me Something’ (72mins)
Exhibition Closing Gig:
Friday 8 November, 7pm
Performances by Elizabeth Stewart and Alastair Roberts.
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