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A Catechism of the Laws of Storms
John Burnside & Will Maclean
15 Sept - 4 Dec 2016
Visitors to the Event Space on the ground floor of The Sir Duncan Rice Library can see an evocative exhibition of prints featuring 12 Poems by John Burnside with accompanying illustrations by Will Maclean.
Using woodcuts from 1882-3 issues of the weekly newspaper The Pictorial World, Will Maclean assembled a series of collages that he scanned and then digitally altered to create images relating to descriptions of storms and hurricanes. His references were nautical books and manuals in his own collection, in particular Henry Paddington’s The Law of Storms.
John Burnside then composed a series of twelve poems in response to those images and Maclean in turn altered images in response to the poems.
Purchasing Artworks
Limited edition box sets of 12 prints, each showing Maclean's image and its connected poem are available for purchase.
Individual framed prints in the set can be purchased from the exhibition but will not be available for removal until the conclusion of the exhibition.
For further details about purchases, please contact Laura McQueen, Donor Stewardship Officer, University of Aberdeen Development Trust:Tel: 01224 274111 Email l.mcqueen@abdn.ac.uk