SCAN talk to Gaada about How Art Helped to Transform Tradition in Shetland

We recently spoke with Scottish Contemporary Art Network about Weemin’s Wark and the Up Helly Aa commitee’s recent decision to allow woman and non-binary people to participate in the festival.

“Our project was part of a much bigger push for equality.” Still, Amy Gear says, art has the power create powerful, emotive messages out of what might otherwise seem abstract or impenetrable. “We translated this huge volume of work into something that folk can take in. That’s something that’s powerful about art: the ability to transform a huge volume of work into something poetic and direct.