Achnahaird
Mixed media on board, 30cm x 30cm (2024)
Original artwork to accompany track 2 on my latest album release with my cousin Rachel Newton, Anna Bhàn.
'Our great great Grandmother, known as Anna Bhàn, was one of a group of young women who were at the forefront of the Coigach Resistance of 1852/53. The events that formed the resistance were among only a few that were successful during the Highland Clearances in the lead up to the Napier Commission and the Crofting Act of 1886. We’ve always been aware of the story, but the recent plans of Coigach Heritage to commission a sculpture by Will Maclean RSA and Marian Leven RSA in honour of these women galvanised us to come together to make music and art that celebrates and remembers Anna Bhàn and the rest of the community.'
Mixed media on board, 30cm x 30cm (2024)
Original artwork to accompany track 2 on my latest album release with my cousin Rachel Newton, Anna Bhàn.
'Our great great Grandmother, known as Anna Bhàn, was one of a group of young women who were at the forefront of the Coigach Resistance of 1852/53. The events that formed the resistance were among only a few that were successful during the Highland Clearances in the lead up to the Napier Commission and the Crofting Act of 1886. We’ve always been aware of the story, but the recent plans of Coigach Heritage to commission a sculpture by Will Maclean RSA and Marian Leven RSA in honour of these women galvanised us to come together to make music and art that celebrates and remembers Anna Bhàn and the rest of the community.'
Mixed media on board, 30cm x 30cm (2024)
Original artwork to accompany track 2 on my latest album release with my cousin Rachel Newton, Anna Bhàn.
'Our great great Grandmother, known as Anna Bhàn, was one of a group of young women who were at the forefront of the Coigach Resistance of 1852/53. The events that formed the resistance were among only a few that were successful during the Highland Clearances in the lead up to the Napier Commission and the Crofting Act of 1886. We’ve always been aware of the story, but the recent plans of Coigach Heritage to commission a sculpture by Will Maclean RSA and Marian Leven RSA in honour of these women galvanised us to come together to make music and art that celebrates and remembers Anna Bhàn and the rest of the community.'