In a space of a year I visited the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland followed by the island of Tasmania in Australia. Both places in different hemispheres are referred to in popular writing as being ‘Islands on the edge of the world’.


I was interested in approaching the notion of the edge, going over it, and exploring it through the materials I worked with whether it was film, installation or sculptural work. For decades Hobart harbour has been the last base for journeys to Antarctica.


Each flipbook captures a different moment of the sunrise taken between 5.45 to 6.15am on 31st May 2001; the sunrise starting with its green and orange glow, the seagulls at rest on the roof taking to flight at different moments of the sunrise.

Looking towards Antarctica from this harbour we can only imagine what the destination is like and what the journey could be; something we cannot see directly but we know it is there. Looking beyond the horizon.


Exhibition:

Travelling Gallery, Scotland.

The edge of the world

24 Flipbooks

Travelling exhibition, Scotland 2004

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NATHALIE DE BRIEY


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