Archaeology of the Ordinary (2011)

This commission from the Peter Potter Gallery is part of it’s Lost Landscapes programme. The resulting project takes up the theme of farmers, their family history, and the role played by migrant workers in East Lothian.

The inspiration comes from the work of Archaeologists David Connolly and Maggie Struckmeier. They discovered hand written messages of Irish people from the early 1950s on East Lothian cottage walls. What does this is a fleeting glimpse of the past mean today? As the derelict cottages undergo major refurbishment, how can artists, archaeologists and local people come together to to investigate the importance of Archaeology of the Ordinary?

Coming soon: an epublication about the project – interviews & interpretation

Photographs of Irish couples are from the Gordon Collection, Courtesy of East Lothian Council Archives & Records Management Service