Artworks – Page 5 – Nicki MacRae

A close up black and white photo showing man made carved straight lines, running at different angles, in the surface of sandstone found at an archaeological dig.

Ness of Brodgar Markings 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201310/09/2015No Comments

A close up black and white photo showing man made carved cups and lines in the surface of sandstone found at an archaeological dig.

Ness of Brodgar Markings 4

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201310/09/2015No Comments

A detail photo in black and white of an archaeological dig site, showing a square pillar of stacked flat rocks rising from the dark bare earth bottom of a trench base. Black plastic sheeting and scattered rocks sit round it.

Ness of Brodgar Stonescape 5

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201310/09/2015No Comments

A black and white photo of a working archaeological dig site treating the trenches and walls like a landscape in its own right. Plastic sheeting covers the foreground and three bent workers can be seen behind a low earthen wall. Another wall sits behind them and beyond that flat slabs of rock stacked in undulating masses.

Ness of Brodgar Excavation Landscape 3

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201310/09/2015No Comments

A detail photo of an open archaeology textbook with a page title 'chapter 11, the grooved ware from barn house'. a pair of delicate metal rimmed reading glasses sit on the adjacent blank page.

Behind the Scenes 2

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201321/05/2024No Comments

Glasses and book left on a desk in ‘Loch View’, the house that stands next to the dig site and acts as ‘dig HQ’.

A detail photo of an aged circa 1930s British interior wooden door with white and grey-green paint that is heavily grazed and cracked.

Behind the Scenes 1

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 10/09/201310/09/2015Comments are Disabled

A beautifuly aged door in ‘Loch View’, the bungalow that stands next to the current dig site and is used as a research and storage facility by the archaeologists on site.

A detail photo of the bottom of a trench at an archaeological dig. The depression is scattered with broken pieces of flat sandstone slab, stocking out of wet mud which catches and reflects the sunlight after rain.

Ness of Brodgar Stonescape 4

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 08/09/201308/09/2015No Comments

A photo of a working archaeological dig site. In the foreground are seen weathered, worked yellow sandstone rocks. In the mid and far distance are he out of focus figures of workers, standing in different places, dotter around.

Ness of Brodgar People 8

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 08/09/201308/09/2015No Comments

A detail photo of a working archaeological dig site, showing in the foreground right yellow sandstone slabs stacked up to form wall. A modern plastic pipe runs back to from through the middle of the photo. A standing figure can be seen in the distance holding. a clipboard and bend over it writing.

Ness of Brodgar People 7

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 08/09/201308/09/2015No Comments

A landscape photo showing yellow flat sandstone rocks in the foreground, stacked to form a wall. In the background, distant, four figures of workers can be seen, out of focus, two stand, one bends over, the last stands on top of a set of step ladders.

Ness of Brodgar People 6

by Nicki MacRaeArtworks, Artworks: Ness of Brodgar 08/09/201308/09/2015No Comments