REFLECT Mull

THIS IS ENOUGH / GÀRRADH GU LEÒR

Mull, Aros Park Historic Walled Garden, by Somewhere/Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie

Somewhere is a long-standing collaboration between award-winning artist/filmmakers Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie. Somewhere are known for their diverse work in documentary film and community-based public realm projects. 

For REFLECT, Remembering Together, Nina and Karen worked with the former walled garden of Mull's Aros Park Historic Walled Garden, interpreting how the rewilded garden could be used as a space for shared reflection and conversation. Nina and Karen brought together local artists, gardeners, and residents to collaborate on building a local collective working to breathe new life into the garden. With the legacy of the pandemic underscoring the importance of inclusive outdoor space, Nina and Karen redeploying natural materials found in the garden to encourage intimate engagement with the garden's flourishing biodiversity. 

“Our approach to the Remembering Together Covid-19 memorial commissions developed from our own experiences of lockdown. Working under the title ‘THIS IS ENOUGH’ both strands of the project celebrated the many small acts of kindness and support we saw unfold around us during that time, and built on the sense that having time to look closely at our own surroundings and celebrate what we can make and grow ourselves 'at home' can be of value. We began the project by writing almost a ‘manifesto’ laying out this approach and used this text by way of an invitation to collaborators to work with us using materials to hand within Aros Walled Garden.” - Nina Pope

THIS IS ENOUGH / GÀRRADH GU LEÒR is an ongoing project that extends beyond Remembering Together and offers Mull residents a chance to reunite, reflect on the pandemic, and shape the future of a community space.

On 17 August 2024, as part of Remembering Together, REFLECT Community Day, Nina and Karen invited fellow artists and local contributors to join them in creating hand-tied posies as gifts to someone they would like to remember or thank from the Covid period. This was followed by a screening of Islands in Film, a lockdown documentary by Alasdair and Georgia Satchel, featuring footage shot by 75 local residents and featuring the Mull Gaelic Choir, who joined in singing their section live from the audience.

Find out more about REFLECT, Remembering Together:

Read Nina and Karen's blogs here.

Keep up to date with Nina and Karen’s work here. 

REFLECT, Remembering Together was funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by Greenspace Scotland in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council and the Culture, Heritage & Arts Assembly, Argyll & Isles (CHARTS).