Violet Dwam
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- Type: Print
- Medium: Digital print and screenprint
- Production Date: 2020
- Copy Number: 3
- Edition: 30
- Description: This print was created by Jane and Louise Wilson and produced in DCA Print Studio as part of 2020 Editions: a portfolio of prints created to mark an extraordinary, challenging year, and to support DCA's recovery from a crisis that has gripped the entire cultural sector.
In the summer of 2018, Jane and Louise Wilson travelled to South Korea's Gapado Island to partake in an artist residency programme, as part of a broader initiative to preserve the island‘s environmental and cultural values. Gapado Island is a carbon-free island dedicated to maintaining a sustainable ecosystem.
In a series of new photographic works, the imagery depicts sea urchins intertwined with island landscapes, lava rock stacks and deserted sites which were once shrines. Shrine worship is an aspect of shamanism on Gapado Island that is an integral part of the elderly generation‘s traditions, notably the extraordinary group of female Haeneyo free divers who make their living harvesting and selling seafood. It is a practice that exemplifies their sister-like bond-- when they are together, they share everything. Due to the dangers inherent in free-diving and the changing tides of women in the workplace, their cherished tradition is in jeopardy.
This new body of work serves to investigate and demonstrate the psychic intersection between defensive architecture and Shaman shrines-- further expanding upon their publicly sited video installation. - Dimensions: Framed: 51cm (H) x 38cm (W)
Unframed: 41.5cm (H) x 30.5cm (W) - Acquisition Note: Purchase fully funded by NFA
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Store - Bay 1 - Small works shelf
- Accession Number: 2021.12
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
