Harris Works 2023 -2026
I regularly go to Harris in the Outer Hebrides and place installations in the landscape either for the duration of my visit or I leave them there for a few months until I return.
October 2023
Hand woven cloth using Hebridean wool and found piece of wood. Placed on the Old Road, Quidinish overlooking Roineabhal
Hand woven Hebridean wool cloth placed amongst the stonework of a derelict building on the croft. It was left there for 4-5 months over the winter
February 2024
The cloth had softened and felted over the winter months. It was removed and taken back to Bristol to be unravelled and re-woven
Scrap straps made from leftover bits of Hebridean wool placed amongst the rock in a nearby quarry
July 2024
Cloth that was left out on the moor for 4-5 months was re-woven into 2 long straps and attached to a found piece of rusted metal. This was left out on the moor for 1 week. It was a very wet and windy week
October 2024
3 scrap straps and a rusty pole supported by 2 large gneiss rocks covered in lichen.
Left in situ for a week
April 2025
A found fan with Hebridean wool woven into it was placed in various locations over one week
A hand woven piece of cloth made from Hebridean wool draped in a gateway of a croft wall made from gneiss. It was left here for 3 months until my next visit.
Scrap straps floating in a lochan on the Old Road
Scrap straps made from Hebridean wool and a rusty metal pole placed on my uncle's peat bank
Left in situ for a week
It was a windy week and some straps got blown into the soggy base of the peat bank
There is a mysterious metal pole situated just off the peat road that has been cemented into rock and this became the next location for the fan. Over the last few months back in Bristol, I had woven more wool into the fan
Another piece of hand woven cloth left on the moor to be battered by the relentless wind and rain over winter
April 2026
Five months later I returned and the cloth was in the same place but was battered, torn and felted by the strong winds and rain. I placed it in a new location for one week
The fan made a reappearance and was placed in the lochan on the Old Road
A week of hardly any rain or wind. Stillness. And beautiful reflections
Lichen covered rocks from the croft placed and cocooned in a piece of hand woven cloth that was left hanging for a week on a fence between the croft and the moor
Many of these pieces will probably re-appear at some point in new arrangements back in Bristol and some will return again to Harris.