‘Peregrini’ is a collaborative text-based, site-specific, work derived from visits to pilgrim sites in Scotland, Finnish Sámi-land and North Cyprus - significant to Christians, Samis and Muslims, respectively - presented as a topographic triangulation of these sites within the architecture of Govan Old Church: the land now occupied by the church being a significant former pilgrim location. Viewers were invited to move from text to text, distributed across architectural space – moving from place to place – metaphorically pausing on their journey between places that have accrued spiritual significance in the external world. At each stopping point, arriving at different sites and states on an internal journey.

The installed work was made for a group exhibition and related conference, both under the same title, ‘Pilgrims and Pilgrimage: Sights and sounds of the sacred’. While pilgrimage may be defined as a mode of journeying towards a highly significant focus or goal – a shrine or other sacred place – in its broadest sense, it is also a journey undertaken for reasons of curiosity or as a matter of sentiment. What also characterises pilgrimage is the form and effect of the journey, which often takes the traveller or pilgrim out of their conventional and habit world into a kind of liminality, or in-between place, that leads to a transformative state. In this installation, the states of ‘the stranger’, ‘the wanderer’ and ‘the exile’.

The work comprises:
3 circular texts on coloured grounds, digital prints displayed on 'offering' stands;
3 A0 texts on coloured grounds, digital prints displayed on the floor.
3 A4 text 'letters' on coloured grounds, digital prints displayed on readers set upon a table.