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Unlimited Big canvases. Paintings you’re allowed to touch, which combine oil paints and fish leather! Painter Maurice Orr, from Northern Ireland, was one of ten artists awarded a grant to prepare for participation in the Cultural Olympiad Unlimited, an arts festival held in connection with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012. Orr’s show, The Screaming Silence of the Wind, is intended for both blind and sighted visitors. Maurice Orr visited Iceland for his work in 2009, and was captivated by the windy climate. He called on us at our tannery – and he hasn’t been the same since. He is especially drawn to the texture of fish leather.
“Cod skin has scales which overlap in one direction only, giving the feel of looser rocks in a bumpy scree slope," explains Orr. That gives blind and partially-sighted people the chance to “see” paintings through their fingertips. For a sighted person, the irregular blotchy pattern of woffish skin imbues the moorland with life, while for a blind person the silky-smooth texture of the wolffish leather contrasts dramatically with the roughness of codskin. Paintings which both sighted and blind people can enjoy! There is obviously no limit to the possibilities of fish leather. See more on Maurice Orr’s website: www.mauriceorr.co.uk Copyright © 2013 Atlantic Leather, All rights reserved.
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