Exhibition – Taxcloth

The exhibition was a development of our artwork done at the toevakoddi and our exploration of Shetland cloth as currency. The aim was to bring into the gallery the atmosphere and essential function of the toevakoddi at the fulling time when natural energy transforms volumes of cloth. The artwork also reflected on the domestic and communal experience of processing regular quantities of cloth as currency, the continual tensions between demand and delivery, and the precariousness of home and livelihood. Many exhibition visitors would not be here if their ancestors had not produced this woven currency, wadmal.

The exhibition employed a range of media including video shot in and around the water, the use of the woven cloth itself, photographic installation, poetry and drawing.

It ran from Saturday 11 March to Sunday 7th May at Da Gadderie in Shetland Museum & Archives.