Blas Fàs
January — April 2026Màiri Gillies is developing a new ATLAS commission that will grow throughout 2026 and 2027, exploring feannagan (lazy-bed growing systems), heritage grains, tools, and soil practices, alongside Gaelic language and seasonal rhythm, listening for how land itself holds memory, skill, and guidance.
Màiri is an artist and Gaelic woman from the Lowlands of Scotland, now living in Uig, Isle of Lewis. Working across materials with a strong sculptural focus, her practice is deeply embedded in place, exploring Gaelic ways of seeing and relationships between land, language, and more-than-human life.
Her arts practice is quiet activism, feminist in energy and strongly informed by Gael identity. She explores the Gaelic-feminist landscape – a space that considers how culture and nature interact, and how social relations are shaped by the land, belonging sensitively to a wider ecosystem.
Her project will ask tender and urgent questions: What happens when tradition bearers are gone? Where does knowledge live when people pass on?
Through walking, growing, making, and conversation, this work seeks to reconnect language, muscle memory, and cultivation, imagining climate-responsive futures rooted in Gaelic cultural knowledge.