Fruitmarket Edinburgh >
3 + 3 + 3 Exhibition 25 January – 19 February 1994
Admission Free 3 + 3 + 3 is a gathering of three aspects
of Scottish culture: the visual arts, poetry and music.
Within each medium there are three practitioners, each
having a different starting point. This can be illustrated
with reference to the poets. Between them they write in
the following languages: Gaelic, Scots, Shetlandic and
English. Yet along with this glorious linguistic diversity
– which mirrors, at least in part, the cultural diversity
of Scotland – is international common ground: a shared
involvement in translation from European languages. This
pattern of diversity is repeated by the visual artists and
musicians, and just as the poets illuminate each other’s
works, further illumination takes place between those
working in each medium and, of course, between those in
different media.