Grounded in Shetland

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).