The Burial Ground on the Maam Road 2020

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition 2021-22, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, Drawing Projects, Trowbridge, Cooper Gallery, Dundee

81cm H, 66cm W, 4.5cm D

Pencil on paper

The Maam Road is the old drove road linking Comrie to Loch Tay. Black Cattle from across Scotland were sent to the Tryst along these paths by drovers, the original Scottish cowboys. The Burial Ground lies on the western border of the Dunira Estate. Now overgrown, caught in a humid haze of rebellious Yew and opportunistic Birch, it once offered rest to the Dundas family, the scions of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Dundas remains a contentious figure in the history of Scotland. Inconceivably powerful, he delayed the abolition of the British slave trade. All landscapes register human actions.