{"id":1414,"date":"2020-09-13T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:17","slug":"rdmh-towards-tundra-by-hannah-whaley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/rdmh-towards-tundra-by-hannah-whaley\/","title":{"rendered":"RDMH – Towards Tundra by Hannah Whaley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Whaley’s second contribution to the River Deep Mountain High <\/span>exhibition was inspired by a photo of a captive polar bear. Hannah’s charcoal sketches & narrative tell of a bear untethered to roam free with his companion, a little boy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Towards Tundra<\/b> by<\/b> Hannah Whaley
\n<\/b>Charcoal\u00a0drawings and\u00a0typefaced\u00a0words on A2\u00a0mesaboard\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u202f”<\/span>The black and white photographs of the roped polar bear were emotive to view. I have used storytelling to reimagine captivity and cruelty as a mythic fragment of friendship and freedom. A western account of the notoriously treacherous whaling industry is disrupted by notions of native spirituality, which permits the concept of reciprocal relationships and communication between humans and wild animals of the Arctic. This is further emanated by the pictorial storytelling which accompanies the words. Retaining the black and white of the photographs, I used charcoal to create stylised sketch representations of the bear, the boy, and the bonds.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hannah Whaley is a Scottish writer, most recently published in\u00a0<\/span>NorthwordsNow<\/span><\/i>, and an Amazon Best Selling Author for four children’s picture books which she wrote and illustrated.\u00a0<\/span>www.hannahwhaley.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>River Deep Mountain High was an exhibition in the University\u2019s Lamb Gallery to mark the Year of Coast and Water curated by Archive Services. Artists, designers and creative writers were invited to respond to the University\u2019s rich archive, museum and rare book collections on the themes of rivers, seas, coasts and mountains. Original photographs, journals, plans, models and specimens relating to whaling, the River Tay, the natural world and mountaineering inspired jewellery, artwork, sculpture, poetry and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Whaley’s second contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition was inspired by a photo of a captive polar bear. Hannah’s charcoal sketches & narrative tell of a bear untethered to roam free with his companion, a little boy. Towards Tundra by Hannah Whaley Charcoal\u00a0drawings and\u00a0typefaced\u00a0words on A2\u00a0mesaboard\u00a0 \u202f”The black and white photographs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-art","tag-river-deep-mountain-high"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}