Bullseye Projects is pleased to announce this year’s acquisition by National Museums Scotland of a work from The Byre, Bullseye’s exhibition space in Caithness on the Northeast coast of Scotland.
Sarah Rothwell, Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design at National Museums Scotland selected Living Blueness, 2024, a kilncast glass vessel by British artist Celia Dowson, from What Remains, the current Byre exhibition.
As described by Rothwell, “The work is a masterful display of Dowson’s prowess and knowledge of both ceramic and glass processes in the creation of truly sublime works of art. With an ethereal quality, Living Blueness formulates the perception of seeing moonlight hit a horizon line and play across a body of water within the surface of the vessel. That speaks of the sea and how it has informed and shaped the land, the people, and history of Caithness.”
Living Blueness joins works selected previously for the NMS collection by Rothwell from the 2019 and 2021 Byre exhibitions: Anne Petters (Book of the Sea I, 2019) and Aesa Bjork (Embers I, II, III, IV, 2021).
Bullseye Projects extends congratulations to Celia Dowson on the acquisition of her work.
