Shetland Museum & Archives
In August 2015, Kay Aplin and Joseph Young spent a month in residence at Scalloway Booth, exploring the islands and documenting the sights and sounds of the Shetland landscape. Inspired by its bleak beauty, the artists collaborated to represent the Shetland Islands in a unique way.
When viewing a traditional landscape painting the audience admires the work as an observer, but remains outside of it. Kay Aplin and Joseph Young’s intention was to invite their audience to be part of the landscape, through the creation of a space for quiet contemplation. Young’s field recordings were collaged into an immersive, four-channel soundscape, whilst Aplin’s ceramic panels drew their inspiration from the plentiful micro-flora, magnified to larger-than-life scale. Together they stimulated the imagination to evoke the complexity of the natural world and the traces of the people who live within it.
Shetland Museum & Archives
Oxidised porcelain and four channel sound
2016
In Camera Gallery, The Ceramic House, Brighton Digital Festival
Following its debut exhibition at Shetland Museum and Archives, In A Shetland Landscape was subsequently reconfigured in different formats for a tour to several venues as part of The Ceramic House Landscape:Islands project in 2016 curated by Kay Aplin & Joseph Young.
Oxidised porcelain and four channel sound
2016
