Reading Forms: A Site Specific Project at Innerpeffray Library

Scotlands first free public lending Library; Innerpeffray Library, is the location for a Site-specific project ‘Reading Forms’. A series of printed textile sculptures will display new configurations of the functional archival objects used to study the rare books at Innerpeffray. Narratives printed across the forms will discuss ideas of perspective, place and relevance.

Working with historic locations and venues I create site-specific work, begining by studying the various facets of the site; it’s history, architecture, plantlife, folklore, the sites layers of information. In researching and developing this material, new visual narratives emerge and develop into printed textile and paper works, responding to the site. The work intends to draw visitors into these well-trodden places, to explore and experience its history, through a new lens.

Following a Creative Scotland VACMA funded research period and a sharing event of the research and development work in April 2023, this Site-specific project at Innerpeffray Library is ongoing with an exhibtion planned for 2025.

With Libraries disappearing from our national landscape, ‘Reading Forms’ reaches out to address the importance of these resources and their potential as evolving Creative Community spaces.