Roderick Buchanan

November 21 2008 –  January 31 2009 at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

SPW secured funding from the Community Relations Council to assist in hosting an exhibition by Glasgow based artist Roderick Buchanan at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast. The funding enabled Buchanan to create a new installation as part of a body of work that explores sectarianism.

Additionally SPW assisted the artist to digitally re-master an appropriated image from an 1794 record of Thomas Muir's trial in Edinburgh for sedition into a limited edition photo-intaglio print. For some years Buchanan has been researching the life of Thomas Muir (1765-1799) and presenting this research as an ongoing process within his art practice. Buchanan is attempting to 'virtually' chart Muir's global voyages. You can assist the artist's project by logging on to Help Find my Neighbour and get involved.

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'Thomas Muir' Photointaglio

Digitally re-mastered from an engraving by John Scoles (1772?-1853)

The original image re-presented by Buchanan was engraved by  Scoles as front piece to 'An account of the trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. younger, of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for sedition' . Scoles lived in New York between 1793 and 1844. This image was one of many illustrations he produced for the publisher Samuel Campbell.

Muir's wife bequeathed his house to Glasgow City Council on the understanding that a portrait of Muir would always hang there. At present no portrait hangs in the building. Buchanan hopes to rectify this by presenting one of the twenty limited edition prints to the Council.