30 August 2014, Starts: 14:00

Hunting for Lost Crafts Preview then talk

at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 30th August at 2pm. The preview will be followed by an
exhibition tour and talk at 3pm with author and estate owner Michael Wigan.

Hunting for Lost Crafts is centred round crafts traditionally associated at one time or another with the pursuits of hunting, shooting and fishing in the Highlands and explores how these have
developed into the work of contemporary craft. A team of volunteer community curators have researched heritage items from the collections of Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Highland Folk Museum
 and Timespan. These are exhibited alongside contemporary pieces from artists and
makers which ingeniously use the products of hunting - feathers, fishing line, fish skin and deer antler.
 

** Free Exhibition Tour with Michael Wigan, 3pm

Join Michael Wigan as he explains some of the heritage items within the exhibition as well as life, both past and present, on a traditional Highland estate. Michael owns the Borrobol Estate in Sutherland, he is a
passionate advocate of rural ecology and his two publications 'The Scottish Highland Estate: Preserving an Environment' and 'The Salmon' are testimony to his enduring interest.

No need to book, all welcome.