Meet the Artist: Skye Loneragan
Remembering Together: Edinburgh have appointed their artist to co-create memorials with communities. Meet Skye Loneragan.
Skye Loneragan is a writer/performer and poet whose current theatre piece, Though This Be Madness is touring to the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Skye has worked extensively within arts and non-arts contexts and across ages and artforms, particularly interested in how curiosity can function as a kind of currency, both in terms of value and exchange.
Skye Loneragan
Skye says: “Processing loss is so important. Covid often kept us (and still keeps many of us), at a distance with those we loved and might have been losing, or something and somewhere we love and might be unable to reach. This project deliberately seeks to work with people whose experiences are often excluded and I am always interested in how we can nurture our collective sanity, together, through the huge diversity of life experiences that make up what is.”
“I will be working through the body, through voice, play, storytelling, poetry and performance to explore how the shape of loss can be made material. That is, to explore the shape of grief, the sound memory makes, the shape of remembering, how remembering can be heard, found, felt in the body to forge a gift of intention for the next artist's memorial making. We will be using existing shapes, sculptures, images and public artworks as inspiration. What we make will be led by those making it. “