Leviathan:f5
Original Artist's Book copy drawn by David Faithfull, purchased by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Library
Reliquary: Hand-carved and laser-cut cedar cover with beeswax and lanolin with 72 drawn pages in oak gall ink accompanied by seven hand-carved abd laser-cut reliquaries.
Artist's Book Edition: Laser-cut cedar cover, giclée printed pages, 2012, 115 x 150 x 50 mmm, Ed 25. Published by Semper Fidelis, ISBN: 978-1-900599-36-8.
‘Leviathan:f5’ was created for the 2012 Edinburgh Festival ‘Pilgrimmage’ exhibition in St Triduan’s Chapel with Artists Collective 6°W.
Realised during a 6°W residency on the remote isle of Inch Kenneth off Mull, the concertina book is on one side a 360° panoramic view of the isle, on the other a drawn reliquary of carved artifacts relating to religious whale-bone relics.
The laser-cut cedar - traditional wood of reliquaries - relates to St Tiduana, the Patron Saint of Sight and the artist’s mother going blind during its creation.
Leviathan was originally exhibited unfolded with six small and one large carved cedar relics, corresponding to specific island walks.
'By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,
Which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th’ Ocean stream'
Milton Paradise Lost i, 200-203
'Wallowing unweildie, enormous in thir Gate Tempest the Ocean
there Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the Deep
Stretcht like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes, And seems a moving land,
And at his Gilles Draws in and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea'
Milton Paradise Lost vii 411-416
Exhibited:
Sichuan Fine Art Institute's Museum, China in 2020
Curated by Mary Moldeen, DJCAD
Confluence: Tradition in Contemporary Art at the Montclair State University, New Jersey , USA, Reed Library at Fredonia, NY, U.S.A. 2019
MEMENTO MORI, 8th International Artist‘s Book Triennial Vilnius 2018
The Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2018
Leipzig Book Fair, Internationale Ausstellung für Künstlerbücher und Handpressendrucke IAKH, Leipzig, Germany 2018
Evanston Art Center, IL, U.S.A. 2018
Intranquility, SSA Travelling Exhibition, Ullapool / Dunfermiline / Peebles / Scotland. 2016-2017
What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators?
Martin Art Gallery, Baker Centre for the Arts, Muhlenberg College Allentown, PA 2016
Curated by Alastair Noble
Outside In, Summerhall, Edinburgh 2015Kaleid Editions, Mermaid Court, London 2015
Chamber, The Meffan, Forfar, 2014
Bridges 11:11, Nitra / Bratislava / Trenčín / Piešťany, Slovakia 2014-2015
RSA Annual Show, RSA GAlleries, Edinburgh 2013-2014
An Tobar, Tobermory, Mull 2012
An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis 2012.
Inch Kenneth: Pilgrimmage , Edinburgh Arts Festival, St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig, Edinburgh 2012
http://northings.com/2013/02/13/inch-kenneth/Edition: 25
LEVIATHAN f5 TEXT
By David Faithfull
Cover 1:
cetacean reliquary
IK001 IK002 IK003 IK004 IK005 IK006 IKtarsus
Page 1:
Leviathan Relic No4
IK004
Page 2:
cedar,
Page3/4:
Port Ban (Gaelic Place name)
Leviathan
Relic No4:
Page 5:
Cedar,
Page7/8:
Tir Fhearagain (Gaelic place name)
TIR FHEARAGAIN
Leviathan
Relic No1:
Ogre’s Bay (English place name)
Traigh a Mhill (Gaelic place name)
Page 9:
Cedar,
Page 10/11/12:
Irish assistant of Columba-St Regulus/St Rule:
Brings St Andrews relics from Constantinople after vision
-First copyright infringement
. tooth
. three fingers
.upper arm
.knee cap
[the Morbrac Reliquary destroyed in Reformation]
Blackthorn:
Leviathan
Relic No 6:
Page 13/14:
IK006
austerity
difficulty
ill luck
strength over
adversity
Blackthorn: Dunglass
East Lothian (English place name)
beeswax,
Page15/16/17:
PIGEONS CAVE (English place name)
Leviathan
Relic No3:
cedar: Dalkeith
Midlothian (English place name)
beeswax,
Pages18/19/20:
Traigh A Mhill (Gaelic place name)
Leviathan Relic
Relic No5
TORMORE (Gaelic place name)
Leviathan
Relic No2
IK002
Cedar,
By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,
Which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th’ Ocean stream
Milton Paradise Lost i, 200-203
Page 23:
Wallowing unweildie, enormous in thir Gate Tempest the Ocean
there Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the Deep
Stretcht like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes, And seems a moving land,
And at his Gilles Draws in and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea
Milton Paradise Lost vii 411-416
Page 28/29
INCH KENNETH (English place name)
Leviathan: TARSUS
IKtarsus
Page 30:
cedar,
Page 34:
leviathan:f5
cetacean reliquary
IK001 IK002 IK003 IK004 IK005 IK006
IKtarsus
panoramic reliquary
0-60° 60-120° 120-180° 180-240° 240-300°
300-360°
created by david faithfull with 6°W
MMXII
Isbn 978-1-900599-36-8
published by semper fidelis
LEVIATHAN f5 TEXT
Cover 2:
panoramic reliquary
0-60° 60-120° 120-180°
180-240° 240-300° 300-360°
Page 1:
0-60°
6°14’24”W
Page 2:
6°21’35”W
Page5/6/7:
Eilean Annraidh/Storm Island (Gaelic English place names)
60-120°
Caolas Annraidh (Gaelic place name)
Page 7/8/9:
Levciathan f1 f2 f3
6°8’35”W
INCH KENNETH
Leviathan
Tarsus
Leviathan f4
6°7’45”W
6°21’20”W
A’ Mnaol Mhor (Gaelic place name)
432m
Page 9/10:
dolphin pod 26/7/12
Page 11/12/13:
5°59’25” 966m
Creach Bheinn (Gaelic place name) 6°9°45W
432m
120-180° 6°9’52W Beanaich (Gaelic place name) 432m
Page 14/15
Hen Point (English place name)
Rubha
nan Cearc (Gaelic place name)
6°9’23”W
6°20’30”W
Page 16:
Coral Island
Eilean Dubh na ciste (Gaelic place name)
6°20’18”W
Page 18:
180-240°
Page 23:
240-300°
Page 24:
Leviathan
Panoramic
Reliquary
Page 25:
TORMORE Leviathan
Relic No2
Page 26/27:
Tir
Fhearagain (Gaelic place name) W
Leviathan
Relic No1
6°17’21”W
6°29’59”W
Knockvologan (Gaelic place name)
Ogre’s Bay 6°20’0”
Traigh a Mhill
Leviathan Relic
No5
Page 29:
Leviathan
Relic
No3
Pigeons
Cave 6°23’47”
300-360°
Page 32/33:
Leviathan
Relic
No4
Port Ban (Gaelic place name)
6°24’39”W
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