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A Highland Woman

A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.

Inspired by a poem by Sorley Maclean in which he conjures a desolate image of a Highland woman whose ‘black labour’ in life is finally ended by the release of death. Will Maclean’s black etching shows the woman’s head, her landscape and her gravestone with a border of seaweed to represent her wasted hours gathering kelp.

$1,789.67
A Highland Woman
$1,789.67

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A Night of Islands, a suite of 10 colour etchings with text.
Signed.
Edition of 40. Signed, numbered and titled verso.

Inspired by a poem by Sorley Maclean in which he conjures a desolate image of a Highland woman whose ‘black labour’ in life is finally ended by the release of death. Will Maclean’s black etching shows the woman’s head, her landscape and her gravestone with a border of seaweed to represent her wasted hours gathering kelp.

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