Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com

Banks West Of The Hebrides (2026)
Installation, website, .epub file, 289 poetry fragments

Originally conceived for OffPage Visual Poetry 2026
Exhibited at Many Studios, Glasgow, May 2026
Performed live at Many Studios, 31/05/26
Audio release (No Roof Only Sky, 2026) A sea chart, a film and an offering to a sea goddess
banks.noroofonlysky.com

“Banks West Of The Hebrides acts as a portal from this place to another; in this case, the seas to the West of the Isles of Lewis and Harris, a stretch of ocean that includes Hirta (St Kilda) and the Flannan Isles
Across hundreds of fragments of slow-moving texts, film and audio, the essence of the waters and the spirits thought to live there are brought to life. The complete record of the text fragments is also presented online in it's entirety”

287 text and image fragments move across the screen of an e-reader affixed to a sea chart, whilst a tripod-mounted film fills the gallery with light and sound.

Performed as a reading of some of the fragments accompanied by the gaelic singing of Morag and Alastair Law.




Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.