Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?
Ony Luck Today?

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A six-oared Shetland boat (sixareen) chasing a small school of fish. The work makes reference to the compulsory fishing in open boats practised by Shetland's tenant crofters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to pay their rents to landowners. Sixareens were generally rowed to the far haaf, the deep sea fishing grounds about 40 miles off the coast of Shetland. Many lives were lost trying to catch fish in the turbulent seas and unpredictable weather, leaving families destitute.

Shetland Museum and Archives

Lerwick

Title

Ony Luck Today?

Date

2005

Medium

metal

Measurements

H 82 x W 71 x D 43 cm

Accession number

ART 2019.19

Acquisition method

gift from Maureen Christie, 2006

Work type

Sculpture

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