Gaffer: Impressions From A Loch Fyne Skiff

This multimedia exhibition has been curated by a family of artists to celebrate the centenary of their unique Loch Fyne Skiff.

Through GAFFER: Impressions from a Loch Fyne Skiff, the Law family explore the real and imagined stories in the life of Kirsty, which is one of the few surviving Loch Fyne Skiffs and registered with National Historic Ships UK.

Pat, Kirsty, Mhairi and Andy Law collaborate through their different arts to capture the spirit of Kirsty, which they have owned and sailed for the last twenty-five years.

With Pat as lead artist, Mhairi as photographer, Kirsty as composer/musician and Andy as technical producer, they weave together narratives through old and new photographs, salt and peat paintings, drawings, moving image, sound recordings and now-unused objects.

Kirsty was built as a family cruiser in 1921. The design faithfully follows the graceful lines of a Loch Fyne Skiff, a vessel commonly used for ring-net fishing across the West coast of Scotland in the late 19th century.

The exhibition title, ‘GAFFER', derives from ‘old gaffers’, the colloquial term for boats with a gaff sailing rig like Kirsty's.