Combining artwork produced by project artists throughout their time on the Remediating Stevenson project with historical writings, artifacts and drawings, exhibitions at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and the National Library of Scotland are showcasing the artistic processes of both our project artists and of RLS himself.
The Pitt Rivers exhibition juxtaposes the new graphic adaptations produced by Solomon Enos and Simon Grennan with nineteenth century photographs and objects from the museum’s collections that inspired much of the material cultures both Enos and Grennan depict in their graphic novels.
The National Library of Scotland’s exhibition, launching on Robert Louise Stevenson day 2024, will similarly reveal how Stevenson’s relationship to the Pacific continues to reverberate in both Scottish and Samoan cultural traditions.