Isle of Rust: A Portrait of Lewis and Harris

About Alex BoydJonathan Meades

Alex Boyd is a photographer curator and writer based in the west of Scotland. He lived in the Outer Hebrides until recently. His work has been widely exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at the Scottish Parliament as well as group exhibitions at the Royal Academy Royal Ulster Academy and Royal Scottish Academy. His work is held in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland The Royal Photographic Society the Royal Scottish Academy the V&A and the Yale Centre for British Art in the US. His first book St. Kilda: The Silent Islands was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award in 2018. Jonathan Meades is a writer journalist essayist film-maker. His books include three works of fiction and several anthologies including Museum Without Walls which received 13 nominations as a book of the year in 2012. An Encyclopaedia of Myself won Best Memoir in the Spears Book Awards 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2015 Pen Ackerley Prize. Meades has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks garden cities and megastructures. He is currently working on a film about Franco. His most recently broadcast film was Jonathan Meades on Jargon (BBC Four) described in The Guardian as blisteringly brutal clever and hilarious.