Charmed Lives: The Materials and Meanings of Charmstones at National Museums Scotland. In: Gault, Laura Bone, Stone, Voice Alone

Hutton, Ailsa; Laurenson, Sarah

Charmed Lives: The Materials and Meanings of Charmstones at National Museums Scotland. In: Gault, Laura Bone, Stone, Voice Alone

Resource type

ExhibitionItem catalogue

Creator (Person)

Hutton, Ailsa

Laurenson, Sarah

Date published

December 2025

Abstract

We are delighted to publish bone stone voice alone to accompany the major solo exhibition by Lauren Gault at Dundee Contemporary Arts, running through autumn and winter 2025-26. The exhibition brings together a remarkable body of work that invites us to consider the history and future of our land: who has access to and ownership of it, and who has voice to remember, recall, share and speak out. Originally training at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, Gault has longstanding roots in Tayside and has drawn on these connections with her research, collaborations, and creative production. Filling DCA’s newly refurbished galleries with sculpture, print, sound and moving image, bone stone voice alone transforms these spaces into a new mythological world. The figure of Echo is traced through the exhibition, asking us to consider where voice exists in relation to land rights, access and ownership. We are delighted that this book includes new texts by Dr Désirée Coral, Rose Higham-Stainton, Professor Katharine Earnshaw, Dr Ailsa Hutton and Dr Sarah Laurenson, as well as an introduction by May Rosenthal Sloan, who curated bone stone voice alone.