Richard Skelton

Born in Lancashire, Richard Skelton’s work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environments and deep, wide-ranging research incorporating toponymy and language, ecology and geology, folklore and myth. To date he has released over thirty EPs and albums of music, and has produced work for exhibitions, performance, feature films and documentaries.

Skelton often works with his wife and creative partner, Autumn Richardson. Over the past half-decade, they have collaborated to produce a significant body of work encompassing music, texts, film and artefacts informed by the upland landscape of south-west Cumbria. Together they edit Reliquiae, an annual journal of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, translations and visual art.

Between 2013 and 2018, Skelton is participating in the Frontiers in Retreat programme – a collaborative project that fosters multidisciplinary dialogue on ecological questions within a European network formed around artist residencies.

Projects

Eilean Fuinn | Richard Skelton

Eilean Fuinn is an ATLAS Arts commission by Richard Skelton. Installed in the Scorrybreac boathouse, Portree, this evolving sound work comprises four discrete channels of sound, each repeating over long durations (between one and two hours) but at variance with one another. It will therefore subtly change over the course of its installation.

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A Work for the North Atlantic

This is a year-long project that began with ATLAS working with London-based Artangel, to bring a work by internationally acclaimed artist Bethan Huws to Skye. Singing for the Sea, a film-work made in 1993, documents a group of eight female Bulgarian singers known collectively as the Bistritsa Babi performing traditional songs on Sugar Sands, Northumberland, on the coast of the North Sea.

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Blog Posts

Richard Skelton // Research visit to Skye

ATLAS has commissioned artist Richard Skelton, to respond to Bethan Huws’ film Singing for the Sea, and the landscape that formed its temporary backcloth when we screened it in Skye Sailing Club in 2016. Richard’s work is informed by landscape, evolving from sustained immersion in specific environments and deep, wide-ranging…

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