The Glenmorangie Commission
ten Hompel completes National Museums Scotland’s Glenmorangie Commission
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Since 2018, Simone ten Hompel has been taking a journey into the world of National Museums Scotland, its artefacts, and the research that is being currently conducted as part of the Glenmorangie Fellowship into the 9th to 12th centuries, an era of rapid change, political instability and cultural diversity, out of which the Scottish nation was born.
The final blog by Sarah Rothwell, Curator, Modern & Contemporary Design can be read here:
The resulting artwork, coordinate explores Scotland’s journey through time – its changing landscape and the continual rediscovery of its past. It represents an abstracted interpretation of Scotland’s landmass, one which can be explored from all sides.
Read more about the commission here:
www.nms.ac.uk/simonetenhompel
Simone in her own words came to the Commission as an “outsider”, with no preconceptions of what Scotland is, and how it was formed. As a metalsmith for over 40 years, yes, she has her own knowledge and understanding of the material. But she did not have any prior knowledge of the pieces that were created in this period. For her this this was all new, and she has approached the Commission with a fresh and unbiased outlook; embracing and absorbing all she was given; and allowing her full imagination to explore and create a work of metal art which evokes this period of Scottish history and consolidates all she has learnt from this experience.
The blogs on the commission can be found here:
blog.nms.ac.uk
Films have been uploaded throguhout the process and can be seen here:
www.nms.ac.uk
and on the commission's YouTube channel:
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