290615 – The Moor – Culloden, Scotland

With the Alexander McQueen exhibition continuing to show in London it would be impossible to not visit Culloden when in Scotland. I was fully aware of the historical significance of Culloden but here I was interested in the tactile and the sensorial. The colours of the moor translate through the natural dyes that were the basis of the original early field tartans. In the composition above I wanted show how intuitive McQueen’s designs were to the place and location whilst simultaneously referencing historical narrative. The loan stag followed across the moor by a travelling herd of widowed doe. A female takes on the role of the stag as all males have been slaughtered. The beautiful poetic of this collection leaves the surviving herd ill clad for the harsh Scottish winter and to survive their battle has just begun.