Rob Airey is the Director of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. He has worked in collections management at Tate and the Henry Moore Foundation and in curatorial roles at the Royal Cornwall Museum and the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. H.R. Corfield Carr is a poet, writer and researcher. Mark Cousins is a Scottish-Irish filmmaker and writer. His multi-screen installation, Like a Huge Scotland (2022), was inspired by Barns-Graham's glacier paintings. Alyson Hallet is a prize-winning poet with an extensive practice of collaboration with visual artists, composers, scientists, glassmakers and sculptors. Tilly Heydon is Project Archivist at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. Peter Nienow is Professor of Glaciology at Edinburgh University. Cassia Pennington is Collections Manager at the Wilhelmina-Barns Graham Trust. Alice Strang is an independent art historian and curator, as well as a Senior Specialist in Modern and Contemporary Art at Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers.
Description
1 Foreword; 2 Introduction; 3 Into the Vortex; 4 Glaciers in the Archive; 5 Art and Ice-loss: a glaciologist's look at Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's Glaciers; 6 To or About Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; 7 Poems from End of the Glacier; 8 Catalogue of Glacier works; 9 in a few days a thinness; Exhibitions; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Picture credits; Contributor biographies; Index