Landmarks – Border Voices

Portraits by Alexander Moffat, landscapes by Ruth Nicol and poems by Alan Riach, centred on the Scottish Borders and the work of Hugh MacDiarmid, the music of F.G. Scott and the art of William Johnstone.

Hugh MacDiarmid once argued that Scotland’s greatest literature has always sprung from the Borders. Walter Scott, Burns, from Stevenson to John Buchan, the Borders are possessed by literature whilst the music of Francis George Scott and the paintings of William Johnstone both draw distinctive qualities from the Borders, the landscapes, the people, and the language of the people – how people speak and sing: Border Voices.

The Border Voices celebrated in this major exhibition of work by Moffat, Nicol and Riach, three of Scotland’s most brilliant contemporary artists, are a colourful affirmation of the Borders themselves. Hawick, Langholm and Selkirk are the essential hinterlands, the deep sources for Hugh MacDiarmid, F.G. Scott and William Johnstone.

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