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Title
Hinterland
Date
2004
Medium
silk organza, glaze, gold leaf, silver leaf, digital prints, patination & glaze
Accession number
2004.073
Acquisition method
commissioned
Work type
Textile art
Inscription description
there are a number of quotes printed on the textiles: Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 'Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation'; Robert Louis Stevenson 'All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language until it finds a willing hearer'; Gaelic proverb 'Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e' ('Say but little and say it well'); Sir James Dewar 'Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open'; John Barbour the Bruce 'Fredome is a noble thing, Freedom mays man to haiff liking; fredome all solace to man giffis. He levys at ese that freely levys'