Jemima Hall
Seaweed Shelter

Opening Night Saturday 1 March from 6pm-8pm
All are welcome for drinks and nibbles.

Jemima is an artist and educator of ancestral skills, based in the islands of Scotland's Inner and Outer Hebrides.

Seaweed Shelter invites viewers into the liminal ‘moons-land’ where land meets sea, inspired by the wild shores of Gometra and the Shiant Islands and the isle of Mull. In this exhibition, Jemima explores how people and communities adapt to changing environments, imagining ways we could live between land and water. The shelters are made from materials from the shore, closely connected to the sounds, textures, and smells of the sea. This reflects the larger issue of how we respond to a changing climate.

This exploration echoes the broader challenges of our changing climate.

Jemima asks: Can humanity evolve to live fluidly within these fluctuating environments? It’s about learning to find abundance in landscapes that might seem uninhabitable to some. Seaweeds, with their rich ethnobotanical history, tell a story of human resilience, creativity, and survival.

Within her art practice Jemima enters Scotland’s remotest landscapes to study the ethnobotanical uses of the natural materials present. She explores natural building techniques through experimental and experiential architecture. Jemima learns about their changing strengths, their weight, durability, gathering methods, and is captured by their translucency which exhibits a display of golden and green light. Jemima experiments with their uses in thatching, weaving, rope making, braiding and wall building. With her interests in ethnobotany and natural building techniques of the Scottish Isles, she finds herself interacting with heather, stone, turf, clay, animal skins and most notably, seaweeds.

Photos of Jemima Hall by Fabio Quattrocolo

With kind suport from the Hope Scott Trust