Nova Scotia Sacrament
- Artist:
- Type: Mixed media
- Medium: Mixed media construction with found objects
- Production Date: 2004
- Description: The artist writes: The history of the emigration from Highland Scotland has been a subject that I have returned to in my work as an artist. This work was prompted by the text from the advertisement pages of the Gaelic magazine 'An Gaaidheal' published in Glasgow in 1872. It has living family connections, in the1880s, when members of my father's family left the over-crowded crofts of Coigach to search for fame and fortune in the silver mine towns of Nevada and the diamond mine towns of South Africa. These Gaelic speakers brought with them their uncompromising form of Calvinism and this is reflected in the central image of the church-offering box.
- Dimensions: Framed: 98.3cm H() x 64.3cm (W) x 7cm (D)
Unframed: 94.5 (H) x 60.5cm (W), although paint goes over both frame and artwork so unlikely to be unframed. - Acquisition Note: An NFA supported purchase
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Pathfoot Crush Hall Gallery case
- Accession Number: 2019.7
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
