Photograph Rebecca Marr

Buss o Gress / Tuft of Grass

Orkney photographer Rebecca Marr and Scottish poet Valerie Gillies have spent years among grasses, gaining respect for them through their writing and art, each using their own languages of photography and poetry. The work in this exhibition is part of their wider conversation about the nature of grasses, sedges and rushes. Here the focus is on using grasses. The title of the exhibition encourages us to think of grass in the hand, pulled and ready to be used.

The exhibition also includes a specially commissioned piece, sculptor Frances Pelly responds to the Irish tradition of St Brigid’s Crosses made of rushes. Visual artist Joanne B Kaar shares her findings on the work of Angus MacPhee – Weaver of Grass, and filmmaker Mark Jenkins shows tradition-bearer Neil Leask weaving a Craa’s Foot.