THE poet and artist Gerald Mangan introduces a stunning exhibition currently on show at the WASPS Creative Academy in Inverness: “Stories – Whispers from the Past and the Present”.
It’s a wonderfully refreshing and eye-opening show with deep connections to Scotland’s literature, politics and ecology and it’s a relatively neglected area of art creation that warrants recognition in its own right, alongside the more familiar genres of the visual and literary arts.
The exhibition is a deep enrichment of colour to the hungry eye as the autumn brings its rainbow greys. It’s an endorsement of the physicality of art, the fact that works of art are things that are made, crafted, shaped, and filled with a human vision. It’s also a reassurance that workers in the arts of all kinds, and in so many different media, are not alone.
