Location
The Bennachie Centre
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Date
1996
Description
A large textile wall hanging, celebrating the relationship of people and landscape, around Bennachie an outlier of the Grampian mountains that dominates the immediate area. One of its summits has a vitrified hill fort and it has been suggested as a possible location for the defeat of the Caledonians under Calgacus by Agricola's Roman troops at the battle of Mons Graupius.
Related Information
This large textile wall hanging was created by 21 local people. The group was led by Sally Thomson and met every Wednesday evening and all day Saturday for six months from October 1995 to April 1996. In creating this wall hanging, the group looked at how Bennachie affects people and how Bennachie is affected by people. If you look closely you will, see forests, a croft house, granite quarries and lots more!
THE BENNACHIE CENTRE TRUST WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WHO CREATED THIS WALL HANGING:
NICOLA CUNNINGHAM, SUE EDWARDS, GILLIAN FORBES, SHARON HENDERSON, MARGARET LAING, FIONA LEASK, CHRISTINE MACLEAN, MABEL MCKECHNIE, ZAHARA MCMILLIAN, KIRSTEN MATTHEW, MAGGIE NICKSON, CATHERINE NICOL, DEIRDRE NICOLSON, ELMA RIDDELL, JOAN ROWE, MARY - ANN STEWART, MALCOM STONE, CLAIRE SMITH, JEAN SPECKLEY, SALLY THOMSON AND JUDY WRATE.
The wall hanging was partly funded by the - GULBENKIAN ARTS FUND.
Era
1900s
Related Artefacts
- Bennachie typewriter sculpture
- Bennachie, Totem Pole
- Dr Danny Gordon's cairn and a memorial bench
- Old Road, Bennachie Centre
- THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO IS THE OTHER SIDE OF SPRING
- The Felling of the Timber, is the making of the home
- The folding of the land
- the Gouk Stone, Bennachie
Categories
Creator
- collaboration, community group
Photographer
- Andrew Bruce
Unavailable Data
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