1978. Will Maclean. The Ring Net. Edinburgh.
19 March 1978. L-R: Robert Breen, Will Maclean, unknown, Phillip Wright, at the opening of Maclean's The Ring Net (a Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, exhibition) at the RDG, Monteith House, 61 High Street, Edinburgh (20 March - 8 April). The work on the left wall is Canoe Stern Ringer (1973-74).
Maclean's research for this documentary exhibition (about the dying practice of Scottish West Coast ring-net herring fishing) was funded by the Scottish International Education Trust (founded by Sean Connery in 1970). The Ring Net Archive is now in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
Date
Sun Mar 19th, 1978Medium
Reference Codes
Original Reference
People
Richard Demarco
Phillip Wright
Robert Breen
Will Maclean
Archive Collections
The Ring Net
Third Eye Centre
Glasgow
Richard Demarco Gallery (RDG)
Canoe Stern Ringer
Exhibition Opening