Grounded in Shetland

Roxane Permar

Grounded in Shetland

Roxane Permar

UHI Shetland

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Abstract

In this article I reflect on my experience as an artist who has become increasingly embedded in Shetland– an archipelago in the North Atlantic comprising more than 100 islands, sixteen of which are inhabited. My involvement with Shetland began in 1985, and I moved to the islands permanently in 2000 when I obtained very part-time hourly paid work on the new (and recently discontinued) contemporary textiles course at Shetland College, University of the Highlands and Islands (now ‘UHI Shetland’ since a merger in 2021).

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Collections
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2025

Keywords

Community Arts
Shetland
Socially Engaged Art

Access to Document

https://www.museum-of-unrest.org/2025/07/15/grounded-in-shetland/

5 Oral presentation
2 Types of Award - Other distinction
1 Participation in conference
1 Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
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- 1 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
- 1 Invited talk

Bloodlines: kinship and division in island power
Permar, R. (Speaker)
3 Apr 2025
Activity: Talk / Presentation / Podcast / Webinar › Invited talk
Art and engagement with the Cold War in Shetland and its northern neighbours
Permar, R. (Speaker) & Timmins, S. (Speaker)
5 Jun 2024
Activity: Talk / Presentation / Podcast / Webinar › Oral presentation
The Landscape in Pain: Art for shifting relations with the land
Permar, R. (Speaker)
31 May 2024
Activity: Talk / Presentation / Podcast / Webinar › Oral presentation

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Grounded in Shetland

Abstract

Keywords

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Activities

Bloodlines: kinship and division in island power

Art and engagement with the Cold War in Shetland and its northern neighbours

The Landscape in Pain: Art for shifting relations with the land

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