MS095665_001a.mp3

Flood in the Highlands (First Poem)

AuthorWritten by Kimberley Petrie (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Date2021

Object Namedigital audio recording

Mediumdigital file (mp3)

ClassificationsBorn Digital

DimensionsDuration: 1 min, 36 sec

AcquisitionCommissioned in 2021 by Aberdeen Art Gallery using the prize money from the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020 award. Recorded by Heitor Alves, ARC Recording Studio.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDMS095665.1

Keywords

About MeKimberley Petrie is a writer and spoken word artist from Aberdeen. The Gallery has always had a special place in her heart since her Grandma took her there as a child. Kimberley created three new pieces in response to her favourite artwork, Flood in the Highlands by Edwin Landseer.
Landseer’s painting epitomises the Romantic vision, where man’s insignificance is shown in contrast to the magnificent but unpredictable forces of nature. Here, however, Kimberley’s intensely personal poems explore mental health and experiences of memory. They give us an insight into the life of Landseer as an artist who embodied fragility and struggle of the human existence in all its psychological and emotional manifestations.