Nyree Troughton: Spotlight on the collagist

UAA

Apr 9, 2021

Her project57.5704°N 7.2812°W // ROOTEDhad me longing for a place I could call home with its gorgeously layered narratives using Hebridean Archive Imagery, family photos, text, and a model posed amid various locations on the isle. Nyree writes, “The publication is an experimental art and fashion book, inspired by my home on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The concept that as a creative community we share, reuse and reinvent is what underpins many aspects of island life. Clothes are to be worn, ruined and lived in. The publication is a celebratory statement of the impact of our roots, of creative community, and of identity.”

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