About this artwork
This photograph is one from a commission undertaken by Tricia Malley for the first Scottish International Photography Festival, Fotofeis. It addressed the theme of 'family,' from a different angle, and looked at people who chose to be together. Her subject was the community of Cistercian Brothers at Nunraw Abbey, in Garvald, East Lothian. Malley took a combination of individual portraits, addressing both the spiritual and practical life of the isolated community. Here, the simplicity of the monastic dress and of the wooden crosses is emphasised and made strange by the mist and the impression of a chill wind.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Tricia Malley (born 1955) Scottish
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title:Tremendous Reality
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date created:1993
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:57.80 x 36.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1999
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accession number:PGP 252.8
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Tricia Malley
Tricia Malley
Malley has worked as both a documentary and a portrait photographer, partly in association with Ross Gillespie. In recent years she has been employed as Senior Photographer by the University of Edinburgh. In 1995 a portrait of Professor John Erickson taken by Malley and Gillespie won a prize at the...
