Of Bird And Sword

Jim Mackintosh, our poet in residence, has written a new poem. Beautiful and dark it summons us to dig deep into ourselves to find courage and embrace this ever changing age of uncertainty. [...]

Seeing With New Eyes

In the fifth volume of ‘Remembrance of Things Past‘, the French author Marcel Proust wrote “The only true voyage … would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other [...]

Born Digital

Malath Abbas and Tom de Majo, creators of Dundee based Biome Collective, have been working on their commission for the launch of the Cateran Ecomuseum since March.   Mal Abbas at one of our [...]

Willow’s Wise Owl

Another of the great ‘ Imaginers’  that have been helping to craft the launch of the Cateran Ecomuseum is Willow Weaver, Jane Wilkinson.   We invited Jane to be one of the [...]

To Breathe Is To Imagine

J.K. Rowling has written that “Imagination is ..the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation” and [...]

The Wark o the Weavers

During the Industrial Revolution, Blairgowrie & Rattray was a bustling centre of the textile industry, first spinning flax, then jute and latterly rayon. The town was already a centre of the [...]

No Boundaries

The Cateran Ecomuseum is a museum without walls, all our sites are outside. We’ve taken this idea of ‘no boundaries’ as inspiration for our formal launch programme later this [...]

The Park Neuk Stone Circle

This small Four Poster stone circle, so called because of the prominent upright stones that feature in each corner of a rectangle, is beautifully set on the north-eastern shoulder of a low hill [...]

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