36 Views: an arts project celebrating Coquet Island
A collaborative arts project celebrating Coquet Island has been launched on blogging app Substack, with hopes that the artworks will be available to view at an exhibition in Amble very soon.
Mirrored Blue Mannequins by Sally Howarth. Image Sally Howarth
The project entitled ’36 Views’ is an idea from Amble writer Allan Sutherland, with local artists, writers, photographers, musicians and others coming together to create the work.
Allan Sutherland
Allan’s inspiration for the project came as he studied Japanese language and culture during lockdown. He became fascinated with the work of Japanese artist Hokusai and in particular his 36 Views of Mount Fuji.
On his Substack, Allan says “On daily lockdown walks along the coastline, I gazed at the sea and wondered how 36 Views of Coquet Island might look – thinking of a View as being an idea, opinion or memory as much as a visual representation. Seeing it, while immersed in Japanese, helped me consider the island as being of equivalent importance to Fuji. It has a cultural, spiritual and visual significance for Amble and this part of the Northumberland coastline.”
Recently, Allan pitched this idea to a group of fellow creatives, encouraging the collaborative work, which he now intends to bring together via his blog and then, hopefully, to a wider audience at an exhibition ‘in real life’.
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- Tsunami (The Great Wave) by Hokusai. One of the 36 Views of Mount Fuji series. Image: Public Domain
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- The Cushion Pine at Aoyama. One of the 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai. Image: Public domain
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- Sazai Hall by Hokusai. metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37321. Image Wikimedia Commons
Subscribing to Allan’s Substack is free. In this post: https://allansutherland.substack.com/p/36-views-of-mount-fuji-and-coquet Allan describes how he became inspired by Hokusai’s depictions of Mount Fuji, and how people can see more of the ’36 Views’ project.
Anna Williams
