Taigh Chearsabhagh has curated an exhibition of new work by Scottish artist Olwen Shone and Swedish artist Gunilla Hansson. The exhibition, N 5 7 ° 0 7 ' E l s e w h e r e, will tour to Sweden where it will show in the Galleri Konstpidemin in Gotenberg.

The collaboration has come about as a result of a residency exchange project which was undertaken between Taigh Chearsabhagh and the Nordiska Aquvarellmuseet in Sweden. Each of the artists spent a three-month residency developing their work and responding to new environments.

Olwen Shone works in photography and film. She worked alongside Thomas A Clark in the pocketbook publication Distance and Proximity and has most recently exhibited at An Tuireann and in Bristol.

Olwen says "'Projected Light Images' is a series of film loops that depict the shadows of landscape scenes found in nature. The films, as in 'The Least Event', capture a deliberate pace where slight movements in the landscape occur in real time.

The shadows, without colour or detail, have much information taken away, but crucially the essence of place and experience is retained. This distancing produces a sensation of mirage where form is seen anew through elongation, distortion and strangeness in the apparently familiar.

There are moments when the image is lost. As prints that have blocked out the sun's light, their outline is dependant on the strongest rays. The rhythm of the appearance and re-appearance of the images is directly related to the density of cloud."

Gunilla Hansson has exhibited widely in Sweden where she also works in collaboration with the artists group Tombla. Water and the sea often recur in Hansson's productions, in drawings, installations and text works.

Gunilla Hansson's project Archipelagos is a mapping out of another kind. Hansson separates subtances by dividing them into their primary components. Hansson's maps are often monochrome, both two dimensional and topographical. The pure colour of the pigment performs its 'ready-made' function as colour value and also as a material.

Water and the sea often recur in Hansson's productions, in the drawings, installations and text works. It acts as a pure material, a base for the colour. At another level it works as a border and point of connection, at the same time plastic and boundless. The material Hansson is using can also be seen at a more intimate level, through the act of painting.

The ocean is the navigation of the continents. In the exhibition, the observer meets with a miniature landscape/seascape primarily a painting, water and pigment in topographical shapes and forms. During the exhibition the landscape will change as the water drys. By separating pigment from water, Hansson is obviously taking the process of painting backwards, and in doing so uncovering the condition of this act of creativity.

N 5 7 ° 0 7 ' E l s e w h e r e by Olwen Shone and Gunilla Hansson will be showing at Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lochmaddy, Western Isles from 13th August - 11th September.

The exhibition will also be shown in Sweden after North Uist at GALLERI KONSTEPIDEMIN, Öppet: tis-tor 12-17, fre-sön 12-16, Konstepidemin, 413 14 Göteborg, Sweden +46 31-82 85 58 from 25 September – 10 October 2004. www.konstepidemin.se

For more information contact Andy Mackinnon 01876 500 240 www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org