Projects

[1066] Scran Sounds

Sound effects.

Keywords: audio, sound effects, noises, music, percussion

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland

[1063] Malaysia

Pictures from recent trips to Malaysia and the surrounding areas undertaken by Cairns Aitken.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: Malay, peninsula, Malaysia, Malyasian

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1062] South Africa

Pictures from trips to South Africa and the surrounding areas undertaken by Cairns Aitken over a period of more than 50 years.  A fascinating document of a country in transition, the pictures include street scenes, photographs of monuments, and pictures of wildlife and flowers.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: South Africa, African

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1059] Hong Kong

Pictures from recent trips to Hong Kong and the surrounding areas undertaken by Cairns Aitken.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1056] Images of Singapore

Images of the island city-state of Singapore, showing the contrasting architecture of buildings and skylines.

Keywords: city, skyscraper, British colonial

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1053] Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE was born in St. Andrew's in Fife in 1912.  After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1937, she moved to St. Ives in Cornwall where she became a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists, alongside Barbara Hepworth, Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson and others.  Many of her artworks were representational, though she was also renowned for her abstract works.  

The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, established after her death in 2004, have kindly licensed copies of some of her works, as well as sketches, and photographs of the artist, to Scran.

Keywords: art, Cornwall, St. Ives, Fife, painting, abstract

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland, Fife