Visual Art Review: The Kilmorack Gallery's Winter Exhibition: Distance in Perspective

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WINTER EXHIBITION, KILMORACK GALLERY, BY BEAULY, INVERNESS-SHIRE ****

We are told so often that Scotland is remote that we have come to believe it. But remoteness is just a state of mind and the sense of being far away is part of the Scottish cringe. Historically it was not so. We were part of the community of northern Europe. Our neighbours were Norway, Denmark, Germany and Holland quite as much as England.

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Visual Art Review: The Kilmorack Gallery's Winter Exhibition: Distance in Perspective

There were once Scottish communities in all those places, and right around the Baltic Sea, but when the railways were built, sea transport that had linked us to our neighbours in Europe since before history came to an end. We suddenly found the length of England lay between us and the wider world. For a long time, too, air travel made no change. Mono...

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