By Keith McIntyre & Karen Wimhurst, in the main gallery,
27 an Lùnastal August – 20 an t-Sultain September 2008

Fragility of Flight is an anthropomorphic tragi-comedy in visual art, music, film and origami. Birds and humankind merge to face survival in the wake of profound changes to the natural world.

Artists Keith McIntyre and composer Karen Wimhurst were commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh to create a gallery installation combining Keith's large ink drawings and performance with Karen's improvised woodwind and birdsong composition.

Keith McIntyre's Visual Art practice has for the past 5 years examined new synergies between drawing and performance activities. This has resulted in a number of projects where large-scale black ink on paper works are used in a variety of ways beyond conventional exhibition contexts.

The 'Last Flights' project has evolved through McIntyre's longstanding collaborative partnership with composer Karen Wimhurst. This new work is an tragic-comic examination on the subject of birds and extinction and has both migrated and developed in response to the environments that the project has been site-specifically located.

The first stage of this project was commissioned by Taigh Chearsabhagh North Uist where it opened in April 2008. Following this it was toured to An Tobar, Isle of Mull and is now with us here at an Lanntair.