Maeve Callister-Wafer is a Glasgow-based artist originally from the Isle of Man. She is a recent graduate in Art and Philosophy from Duncan of Jordanstone, and is currently completing a Master's in Sound for the Moving Image at Glasgow School of Art.
Maeve’s work surrounds her native language, Manx Gaelic, looking at the connections between land and language, considering the importance of oral history, landscape and identity, and how these relationships are impacted by language decline.
Her installation Yn Sheean (The Sound) is an audiovisual composition, consisting of field recordings, musical compositions, extracts from Manx literature, and archival tapes of Manx language voice, alongside 16mm film.
We Manxmen have been musically self-taught, and the seeds of the music that is in us, such as it is, seem to have dropped direct from Heaven. Our only singing master’s have been the birds of the air, the sea breezes, and the running brooks.
W. H. Gill, 1898, Manx National Music
