THE long-vanished voices of people who worked in the sugar industry are being been brought back to life in a new exhibition.
In paintings and glasswork, photography, film and music, the industrial heritage of the former Sugar Sheds at James Watt Dock in Greenock, will be celebrated by a group of eight artists and musicians, at the town's McLean Museum and Art Gallery.
A highlight on tomorrow's opening event will be a reading by Scotland's national poet, the Makar, Liz Lochhead, of a new work reflecting the loss of the sugar industry.
The show is the culmination of Absent Voices, a year-long project led by glass artist and painter Alec Galloway, that will now form an archive of the once-mighty sugar trade in Scotland.
"I felt the history of the local sugar industry was quite under-represented visually in the Inverclyde area and we wanted to be a creative voice, to bring it to the fore," explained Alec.
Absent Voices: Sugar Archive runs at McLean Museum & Art Gallery, Greenock from Saturday until December 20.
Visit www.absentvoices.com.
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