Artists
Jack Lockhart
Jack Lockhart is a visual artist and film maker who works with video, animation and visual art and frequently collaborates with artists from other disciplines.
Jack often works as a facilitator working with community groups and schools to make films, events and deliver educational workshops.
Specialising in projection in non traditional environments, Jack has delivered screenings and film related projects in a wide range of different environments including theatre and exhibition spaces.
Jack has worked with a wide range of art galleries and museums including The National Media Museum where he delivered animation and video production workshops.
Jack lives and works in The Isle of Tiree and is a director of Screen Argyll which supports film activity both watching and making, across Argyll and the Isles.
Seonaidh MacIntyre
Seonaidh is a musician from Loch Carnan in South Uist, an area known to be steeped in traditional music and song, particularly piping. He studied for a HNC in traditional music in Benbecula College before going on to study the BA in Applied Music at Strathclyde University. His music has strong Hebridean roots and draws upon his upbringing in a Gaelic speaking community. From an early age, he received tuition from Dòmhnall Bàn MacDonald, and has been mentored by Iain and Allan MacDonald of Glenuig through his university courses.
Seonaidh also sings, plays the whistle, small pipes and the border pipes, and is continually in high demand playing with a number of bands including Trail West, Seudan, The League of Highland Gentlemen and the Urban Teuchtars. He has also won awards with some of the aforementioned groups, including 'Dance Band of the Year' at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards in 2013 and 2016 with Trail West and 'Up and Coming Act of the Year' in 2015 with the League of Highland Gentlemen.
image credit: Alan Cruickshank Photography
Ian Smith
Ian Smith is from West Hynish, Tiree in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. He began learning the accordion at the age of five under the tuition of Gordon Connell and went on to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he received tuition from renowned dance band leader, Ian Muir. He graduated from the Conservatoire with First Class Honours in 2015.
Ian is also a founder member of the well known traditional band Trail West. To date, Trail West have released four albums and they are in high demand throughout the UK. He was also a finalist in the BBC Radio Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2014.
As well as his musical interests, Ian has a keen interest in the Gaelic language and the island’s local history and culture. In 2014, an article he wrote documenting the Balephuil Fishing Disaster of 1856 was published in 'The Secret Island - Towards a History of Tiree’.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas is a freelance education consultant with specialist skills in theatre and drama. As a playwright he has written over 20 plays for children and young people. He was Education Development Officer with Scottish Council on Archives for ten years, delivering educational training and resources for the Scottish heritage sector. He was Director of the Theatre of Remembrance Project 2017-18, facilitating school theatre performances based on WW1 letters and diaries.
Originally from New Zealand, Douglas has lived in Scotland for 40 years. He is a qualified teacher with experience in primary and secondary education, and in teacher training. He is involved with a wide range of heritage education projects and organisations in Scotland and undertakes theatre training and production projects annually in New Zealand.
Angus Macphail
Angus is from the Inner Hebridean Island of Tiree and along with Andrew Stevenson is a founder member of the well-known band Skipinnish. He began playing the accordion at the age of 9 under the tutelage of Gordon Connell whose generosity of time and skill has produced so many accordion players and subsequent bands with Tiree connections.
Having studied at the RCS, and with a working background in commercial fishing, marine chartering and the licensed trade, Angus has a varied professional life, but music has been a constant thread throughout.
Angus has been the main composer in Skipinnish and has written or co-written all the original songs performed and recorded by the band.
Although he has been writing for some time, it has only been in recent years that any of his songs have seen the light of day and they have been widely acclaimed, earning Angus a nomination for “Composer of the Year” at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards in 2017.
With all gigs cancelled for some time during lockdown, Angus, purchased a fishing boat and is currently operating this from the Isle of Barra.
