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Talbot Rice Gallery presents 'Emeka Ogboh: Song of the Union in Edinburgh'


Talbot Rice Gallery presents Emeka Ogboh: Song of the Union in Edinburgh
Emeka Ogboh, Song of the Union, 2021. 7-channel sound installation, duration infinite. Burns Monument, Edinburgh. Courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh. Photo: Sally Jubb.
EDINBURGH
.-Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival announced that a new sound installation by artist Emeka Ogboh (b. 1977, Nigeria) was unveiled at Edinburgh’s Burns Monument. The new public artwork, entitled Song of the Union, co-commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and Edinburgh Art Festival, is a response to the ongoing theatre surrounding the UK’s departure from the European Union.
On January 29, 2020, as the United Kingdom departed the European Union and as a final gesture of farewell, Members of the European Parliament took to their feet in Brussels, held hands and sang Robert Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne”—a song which has come to represent solidarity, friendship and open doors. The following ....

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Giant of the Scottish independence movement: Andrew Welsh, his political life and personal achievements


Giant of the Scottish independence movement: Andrew Welsh, his political life and personal achievements
Updated: June 28, 2021, 3:41 pm
Andrew Welsh with his wife Sheena and daughter Jane in Holyrood following his election to the Scottish Parliament.
Andrew Welsh, who has died aged 77, spent half a century at the heart of the Scottish independence movement.
He was also a husband, father, a teacher, a linguist and a guitar player. We look back the life of this most determined of politicians who was one of mould-breaking SNP intake of 11 MPs in 1974.
Andrew Welsh with daughter Jane’s dog Loki.
Andrew Paton Welsh was born in Glasgow on April 19, 1944. ....

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