'The Angel of Callange' is a 2 -channel video work and derives from a retracing of the first aerial voyage in Scotland.
In October 1785, an Italian nobleman, Vincenzo Lunardi, made the first aerial voyage in Scotland - a daring 43 mile balloon voyage from Edinburgh, across the water of the Firth of Forth, to land at Coaltown of Callange, in Fife. 

Today, we take flight and travel for granted, but these early aerial voyages had a profound effect on the 18th century imagination. The labourers in the fields at Callange knew nothing of Lunardi and his launch in distant Edinburgh.  They saw a large, round object appear in the sky and gradually descend towards them.  As Lunardi descended he shouted to them in his heavily accented, faltering English, through a silver trumpet he used to project his voice.  The labourers, thinking an angel was descending upon them, fled in fear.

Colin Andrews was born in Northern Ireland in 1971 and now lives and works in Scotland.  He studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Electronic Media at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.  

www.colinandrews.org

Dates:                    28th February - 2nd April 2011
Time:                      Mon to Sat, 10am – 6pm
Admission:           FREE

All images: The Angel of Callange - Colin Andrews