On the 29th November the walking group headed to The Briggait. Now an arts venue, the Briggait was originally built in 1873 as Glasgow’s fish market. Transformed with offices around the edges, the main space in the center of the building makes an excellent area to display art installations.
We went to meet with the artist who currently has work displayed there, Fiona Macintosh. Her exhibition,‘My home is your home, mi casa es su casa’, is a series of prints that accompany an amazing biography, ‘ROSA of the Wild Grass, The Story of a Nicaraguan Family’, about Rosa and her journey of over 30 years through adversity to keep her family and community strong.
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The work covers a range of emotions as each picture is from a different time in the ladie’s life, some depict extremely happy times with parties and loving family moments, others are often heartbreaking and poignant like a picture of a pregnant Rosa holding a gun to protect her unborn child.
Many of us were very moved when talking with Fiona and hearing her personal experiences of being lifelong friends with Rosa and her family. The exhibition is on until the 26th of January and artists from both the walking group and the ReConnect program will be producing work to be displayed in the later half of the exhibition so expect more news on this soon.
–Morag McGilchrist
