View The Debatable Land, a painting of, and for, the nation by painter-poet Peter Sacks that was commissioned by Beyond Borders Scotland for September’s independence referendum. The work aims to excavate Scotland’s past and explore Scottish identity and the exhibition shows how the Harvard English Professor constructed the piece.

Zoom like Google Earth into this map of Scotland’s contested ground and history. Tour narrative contours of texts and textiles, crossing borders in space and time. Dig down layers of cultural icons, sedimented over centuries, to unearth the bedrock of today’s national identity: what unites, and divides, Scotland and England. Then step back to see the bigger picture, and debate who you are in The Debatable Land.

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https://www.list.co.uk/event/418333-the-debatable-land-by-peter-sacks/