Ortha Feamainn is a collaborative project between An Lanntair and CLIMAVORE to curate and commission artists’ responses to seaweed's cultural and oral histories across the Scottish islands and afar. This series showcases our changing relationship to the coast and seaweeds and how exploring our cultural heritage can support the vision of new seaweed futures.

Five commissions by artists from Scotland to Australia show the entangled charm of seaweeds across coasts. The Carrageen Sisters, as their name suggests, investigate red seaweed and its gelatinous properties; Miguel Teodoro documents the seaweed harvest for agricultural fertiliser in the Minho region of Portugal; Seaweed Appreciation Society International asks us to remove the pressure that is increasing on seaweed to be a blue carbon saviour; Signe Johannessens celebrates the story of seaweed saving an ancestor, who hid in the kelp during the Second World War; William Arnold’s large silver-gelatin print references the trend for collecting and recording plant specimens in the nineteenth-century.

If you would like a copy of the edition, please get in touch with Shona Cameron.

Supported by Scottish Contemporary Art Network and Taisbean.