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| each of the paste up is a custiodian figure who in some way protects or invests in dumfries shrine portrait © colin tennant |
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| triple shrine - the lost shrine of dumfries - all that remains are two very poor quality iphone images - kathleen cronie of mostly ghostly, father andrew crosbie and helen archivist and local historian |
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| the vennels and alleyways which mark the medieval town centre became the obvious spaces to place the devotional paste up shrines. |
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| paste ups in the vestibule of greyfriars church shrine portrait © colin tennant |
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| john - psychic investigator and historian - shrine portrait © colin tennant |
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| shrine portraits - the five custodians |
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| triple shrine - the lost shrine of dumfries - this one was removed by a vigilante who didnt realise that permissions had been gained for all of the shrine sites |
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| each custodian wears clothing drawn with a unique pattern based on organic carvings in wood and stone found in the churches of dumfries © colin tennant |
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| shrine portrait © colin tennant |
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| shrine portrait - lisa gallacher (a glasgow based visual artist) originally from dumfries |
This 6 month InBetween Artist Residency examined what has been lost in the hope of identifying what it is in a thriving community that counts for spirit and perhaps tentatively begins to put something back in place that celebrates what is lost, forgotten or indeed simply neglected.
The project sees the creation an arterial network of wheatpaste shrines throughout the lanes and vennels that feed the main shopping and community hub of Dumfries. These shrines explore a series of personal layered narratives centred around outsiders and the way the town responds to them. These paste ups are based on victorian devotional or holy cards which normally celebrate religious figures or saints, here they present the outsiders, ordinary people (odd to some) who quietly in very different ways act as the towns custodians.
This network of 2D drawn and pasted shrines leads into the medieval centre of town where the heart of the project is found: two physical assemblages which refine and combines the narrative elements into two quite distinctive sculptural mixed media shrines located in a long derelict shop front and an artist led community/public space.
The two physical shrines explore attitudes towards outsiders in dumfries history, the brutal witch trials of medieval dumfries and the establishment of an art therapy in the crichton mental hospital during the "slightly" more progressive victorian period.
Each strand explores how the outsider has been and continues to be seen. Where as in 1650 they were burned at the stake and in 1850 they were treated more humanely, although still interred and misunderstood, the outsiders in dumfries are now the custodians of the town and in many cases are all that stands between regeneration or collapse.
This network of 2D drawn and pasted shrines leads into the medieval centre of town where the heart of the project is found: two physical assemblages which refine and combines the narrative elements into two quite distinctive sculptural mixed media shrines located in a long derelict shop front and an artist led community/public space.
The two physical shrines explore attitudes towards outsiders in dumfries history, the brutal witch trials of medieval dumfries and the establishment of an art therapy in the crichton mental hospital during the "slightly" more progressive victorian period.
Each strand explores how the outsider has been and continues to be seen. Where as in 1650 they were burned at the stake and in 1850 they were treated more humanely, although still interred and misunderstood, the outsiders in dumfries are now the custodians of the town and in many cases are all that stands between regeneration or collapse.
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