As by Line upon the Ocean go

Professor Timothy Ingold, Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, explores the lines of the Waterlines sculpture. In this talk, he compares carved lines in stone with drawn lines of the ships draughtsman and navigational lines of maritime shipping.

Speaker: Professor Timothy Ingold

Hosted by: Special Collections Centre

Venue: Special Collections Centre Seminar Room, The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA

This event accompanies an exhibition that reveals the inspiration behind a sculpture marking the entrance to the Sir Duncan Rice Library. The work, entitled Waterlines, was created through the collaborative artistic partnership of Will Maclean and Marian Leven.

The sculpture highlights Aberdeen’s maritime heritage, the marks excised in the monument show the draughtsman’s lines for the Thermopylae, one of the fastest of the clipper ships. The work also makes visual comment on the rich collections of sculptured standing stones that mark the Aberdeenshire landscape.

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