Alison Dunlop has created a “poem to the Shiant Isles” with a masterwork of drawings, watercolours and photographs.

Two years in the making, her moving paean to these enchanted isles of the Outer Hebrides is collected together in the exhibition The Spirit of Beyond : The Shiant Isles, in Scotland’s own UK Museum of the Year 2020, Gairloch Museum.

The book, with a foreword by Adam Nicolson, has been produced to accompanying amplify the exhibition and comprises the entire collection of work inspired by the Isles - the sketches, watercolour studies and photographs, only a selection of which can feature in the exhibition.

Alison has also worked with writers, poets, naturalists and Gaelic speakers to bring their perspectives to bear in this celebration of this special place. The book features Gaelic folklore and song inspired by the islands, as well as poems by Brian Hill and an essay by author and geoscientist Annie O’Garra Worsley.

A special, hand-numbered and signed collectors’ edition has been produced in a linen-bound hardcover, which is also available to order.

RRP: £25.00 (soft cover)

Formats: Soft Cover + Special Limited Edition Linen Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-5272-9403-5

Pages: 136pp

Dimensions: 276mm x 220mm

Publication Date: 03/07/2021