1990, Neal MacGregor, an English silversmith and artist, leaves behind on his death in ‘MacGregor’s Hut’, the stone shed on the small Donegal island of Inis Bó Finne where he lived for the final eight years of his life, some diaries, some volumes of illustrated bird notebooks, and three carvings in stone (a salmon, a lobster and a seagull).

2020, Cathal McGinley, an artist from Inis Bó Finne, an island he makes as his studio, works for #singingstones on stone rubbings of these carvings at MacGregor’s Hut, and these works of MacGregor and McGinley become now a shared living archive, a shared ‘working with stone’ between the two artists.

Cathal McGinley’s studio work for the project Singing Stones is included at An Gailearai Gweedore until mid-October 2020 in their project making the gallery a pop-up studio for artists.

MacGregor’s Hut continues, as stone, on Inis Bó Finne.