Ships in the Windows
Ships in bottles by Calum Macauley, Tim Deakin, Isaac and Len Wilson, Fiona Sanderson
14th - 27th July 2023
Fiona Sanderson organised a fleet of ships in bottles for the windows of the gallery in Stromness Shopping Week. The bottles were made over a period of a hundred years, the most recent being one by Fiona, who made it last year under the tutelage of Len Wilson. She is carrying on a family tradition having seen both her grandfather and great grandfather, both light-house keepers, making models of ships in cases as well as in bottles.
Three more ships were brought into the gallery on the day they were placed into the windows and I apologise for not having the names of their makers to hand.