To conclude ATLAS’ year-long project A Work for the North Atlantic, 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.
Huws’ film documents a group of eight female Bulgarian singers performing traditional songs on Sugar Sands, Northumberland, on the coast of the North Sea.
As Siôn Parkinson, artist, singer and producer wrote in an essay exploring the links between Huws’ work and Skye: