False Dawn
One-off Artists Book by David Faithfull, screen-printed cear wood covers, gouache and indian ink drawing on paper pages. POA
Part of SSA exhibiton LAND showing member's work at Dick Institute in Kilmarnock, Saturday 15 March – 7 June 2025
‘False Dawn’ depicts an unfolding panoramic island landscape ‘Eilen Dubh na Ciste’ (Black Isle of the Coffin) off the southwest coast of Mull, near the historic fishing village of Kintra, drawn in the early morning light.
Locally known as Coral Island, the Isle like many in the area, includes the generic name Eilean Dubh or Black Isle, an example of the British Ordnance Survey’s unilateral multi-descriptive anglicisation of Gaelic placenames in mid-nineteenth century Scotland.
Nothing in the geology, form, flora or fauna, including its main feature of golden sands, suggests the descriptor ‘Black’…
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