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Following the death of Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining was born on 01.01.2000. It was his aspiration to spend 10 years living in the south of Ireland where he could experience a Catholic culture, one diametrically and theologically opposed to his Protestant upbringing. In order to establish a foothold there he applied for a residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin – IMMA – which at the time was hosting the Monika Kinley collection of outsider art. It was Haining’s intention to research this international collection then carry out his own audit of autodidactic artistic expression in the whole of Ireland, thereby perpetuating research that Marshall Anderson had carried out in Scotland during his decade. Haining laboured as an agricultural worker to raise the money for his journey to Ireland and in March 2000 he left Dundee by bicycle to travel to Cairnryan. He crossed to Larne and began to cycle round the north coast of County Antrim. In Carnlough he came across the eccentric and individualistic installation of Moscow Joe McKinley, which he photo-documented. From this first encounter a relationship was cultivated and a later video was recorded. Haining’s residency at IMMA commenced on 01.09.2000 giving him ample time to zig-zag and detour through the country before arriving in Dublin. When the residency at IMMA ended in January 2001, Haining moved to another residency at Cill Rialaig in County Kerry. Here the doors closed on him in March and with snow on the hills he was back in the saddle, touring and documenting naïve painting and sculpture, as well as decorated cottages, of which the Republic of Ireland had many. These being a distinctive Catholic expression and therefore mostly absent in Scotland. The IMMA residency had been valuable in several ways. It had given a stipend which Haining saved to continue funding his itinerant lifestyle, and it also helped open doors to art organisations, which offered opportunities to give public lectures introducing his research to the general public. In 2004 Haining moved across the border and rented property in Enniskillen. This was paid for by labouring part-time as a gardener. During this period he self-published his research into autodidactic art as a limited edition computer disc. Various problems in the attic in Dundee coupled to a feeling of completion in Ireland urged Haining to return to Scotland. His research was catalogued as "HIBERNIA – Haining’s Irish Biketour in Eire and Round Northern Ireland Arts" – and is now archived at the National Irish Visual Arts Library in Dublin. Back in Dundee Peter Haining took up residence in the Attic Archive where he began a series of works, completing some DATA projects and filing the material relating to the Marshall Anderson decade. He fabricated folios from Anderson’s clothing to contain drawings and constructed boxes from recycled cardboard to secure correspondence, periodicals and publications. He also invested in a powerful desktop Mac with film editing software so that he could produce a series of DVDs based on video footage recorded in Ireland, as well as digitised analogue VHS recordings and current video shot in Fife. The resulting collection of 36 DVDs was boxed in 2 editions and archived in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and Artpool in Budapest. Before finalising his decade on 31.12.2009, Peter Haining had to set in motion the selling of the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, and with that resolve the problem of what to do with its multi-various collection of artworks, books, objects, ephemera, packaging, and toys.

Creator of the digital archive ar phor. When the life of Peter Haining came to a creative end, a digital 10-year artwork commenced on 01.01.2010. Its title, and the name of the artist, were a humerous wordplay: 'A' was for 'animation', 'audio', 'artist', and the artist's name, 'aitch'. The titles of the first animations to be completed by aitch also began with A, for example, 'A 2 A: a commission for Fife Arts'. As ae phor developed and found its own distinctive style and language, each of the animations began with a letter of the alphabet, for example: 'C4 consumerism', 'D4 dinosaur', 'E4 ettrick', 'H4 hospital', 'O4 objects', 'R4 retina', and 'T4 terrain'. In addition to being playful, ae phor animations and audioworks were experimental and spontaneous, often relying on serendipity and accident to bring about resolutions and outcomes. ae phor deployed final cut pro and its associated software – soundtrack pro and dvd pro – as well as 2 adobe packages – photoshop and after effects to make productions. Limited edition DVDs of these were distributed freely to friends and archives. Digital technology encouraged and supported free distribution, which had been established as a guiding principle during DATA, because production costs were so minimal. All working files for animations and audioworks, as well as emails and various documents were archived and stored on external hard drives, which are in the National Library of Scotland collections along with the Mac desktop and software. The ae phor archive is therefore as complete a documentation of a 10-year working practice as was then possible. The ae phor digital artwork began life in Dundee, then moved south of the River Tay to Fife in 2011 where it was first located in a studio in Markinch before moving to a smaller space in Kirkcaldy. In 2014 aitch cycled down to the Scottish borders to research residential property so that he could live in the region and make a digital artwork based on the geological and political border. Thereby marking the vote for Scottish independence. This became 'Working the Border', based on a walk along the 95- mile line. From Galashiels aitch moved to Hawick, which opened up new vistas and potentials to explore creatively. After 6 months he moved again, eastwards to the coast where his animations brought together a cello and a colony of grey seals. The symbolism of rivers was a strong pull however and one with which he wanted to bring the ae phor decade to a close. Selkirk provided an ideal base from which to document the rivers Yarrow and Ettrick, these animations being completed in 2018 and 19 respectively.

Marshall Anderson came into being on 01.01.1990 and expired on 31.12.1999 in Kirkcaldy where he had been based throughout his lifetime. He was an anachronism who styled himself on a highland estate worker, dressed in tweeds and shod with shepherd’s boots. Bearded and with his hair tied in a ponytail, his persona was distinctive. He was perhaps the last of the Scottish romantics. His objective was to live in the Scottish landscape and use those open spaces as his studio. His approach to landscape was traditionally analogue and non-photographic. As much as possible he walked everywhere keeping the old routes – drove roads, military roads and rights of way – open and accessible. Although itinerant and based in Kirkcaldy, he used the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, as a repository for his plein air drawings, bookworks, daily journals, and correspondence. Throughout Anderson’s decade the attic was rented to art students for a nominal rent which helped supplement monies earned by writing freelance for newspapers, art magazines and periodicals. He also curated three exhibitions – 'Soloists: outsider art in Scotland', for art™ in Inverness; 'The Ultimate Rock Garden: ceramics and photo-documentation by Lotte Glob', for McManus in Dundee; and "Women’s Work: decorated coffins", co-curated with Lynne Nealon and exhibited in Roseangle Gallery in Dundee. Film maker Doug Aubrey interviewed Anderson for his road movie 'Victim of Geography - from Sarajevo to Cape Wrath' – where his ritualistic pyre for a greylag goose closes the journey. Collaboration was an important part of Anderson’s working practice. His many interviews with artists, who each communicated their personal relationship with the land, were treated as collaborative dialogues, not just a simple question and answer formula, from which an article would be published. Many of these articles introduced relatively isolated artists to a wider Scottish public for the first time. Examples being Steve Dilworth, James Hawkins, and Danish-born ceramicist Lotte Glob who lived in Durness when writer and artist met. Anderson’s and Glob’s ideas converged so strongly that an intimate working relationship developed. She introduced him to the Danish avant-garde and CoBrA and he made her aware of the flexibility and durability of the book as a medium for expression. Their books of the land were exhibited in Glasgow and some of the surviving examples are archived at the National Library of Scotland. Others were returned to the land and photo-documented as abandonments.

Stenhouse was born in 1954, and was first elected to the Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture in 1987. A friend of Haining, he studied sculpture at Duncan of Jordanston Art College and has been based in Aberdeen then Oxford

Pete Horobin was born in 1949 in Hammersmith to Peter Horobin and Elizabeth (Betty) Haining. He lived in various locations in England until moving to Scotland with his mother and siblings in 1959. Pete Horobin began his habit of meticulous self-documentation in 1975, after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee that same year. His initial experiments took the form of small boxes filled each month and sealed – not to be reopened until some time in the future. These boxes, long since destroyed, contained ephemera, packaging and personal notes. After returning from a hitchhiking journey to France in 1977 he commenced a project entitled The Accessibility of the Art Object, which distributed collaged postcards randomly through the post and small products, such as badges books and collages, through Scottish art galleries. These products were sold for as little as 50 pence up to a few pounds. The Accessibility of the Art Object prompted a short-lived grouping with other artists collectively known as Visual Arts Promotions. In 1979 Horobin initiated Junk Into Art/Art Into Junk, a large-scale collective recycling of waste materials, realised in collaboration with the Dundee Group Artists (Ltd) based in Forebank Studios. Participating artists came from Scotland and Paris, where Horobin had met an artists’ run collective called Cairn. The documentation of the Dundee event was later exhibited in Cairn’s space in Paris. Both of the above projects were carefully documented and are now held in Dundee University Archives. At the end of 1979 Horobin turned 30 a conscious ageing which precipitated a 10-year artwork, DATA – Daily Action Time Archive – 01.01.1980 to 31.12.1989. DATA has been referred to as a self historification project; it may also be described as a large bookwork comprising many chapters, that is an artwork which is the sum of its many parts. During this intense period Horobin became involved in the mailart movement and an international grouping of artists styled as the neoists. From 1971 Horobin had been based in the attic at 37 Union Street, Dundee, and as his documentation process gathered momentum and continued growing exponentially he began to refer to his space as The DATA Attic – a repository for his DATA and earlier documented projects, as well as all his correspondence and collaborations with other artists. When DATA came to an end the life of Pete Horobin was terminated. DATA was catalogued and the resulting A4 document of 373 pages, listing over 10,000 items, was self-published. Copies are archived in The National Library of Scotland, Dundee University Archives, and Artpool in Budapest. The end of DATA and the death of Pete Horobin did not however bring documenting and archiving to a conclusion – both activities persisted energetically. Accordingly the remit of The DATA Attic expanded to encompass new artworks and projects, therefore it became necessary to consider the domestic studio space as The Attic Archive, which through time contained 3 10-year artworks plus all associated correspondence, publications, ephemera and packaging. In addition objects from Horobin’s childhood and adolescence were also archived along with many student paintings and drawings. Each of the 3 10-year artworks was made by a different personality, these being – Pete Horobin, Marshall Anderson, and Peter Haining.

Pete Horobin began the Attic Archive Project, one of many projects, after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee with a diploma in drawing and painting in 1975.
The project dates from 1976 and in 2024 was ongoing. The majority of the material documents distinct decades of the artist's life under the names of Pete Horobin, Marshall Anderson, Peter Haining and includes in addition the mixed media project HAHA.
The first of these projects, the DATA (Daily Action Time Archive) 01.01.1980-31.12.1989, was undertaken during the 1980s and reflected Horobin's involvement in the international movements of mail art and neoism.
The second project, the Marshall Anderson Journals, was completed between 1990-1999 and reflected Anderson's style as a mixed media artist and freelance art journalist.
The third project, completed 2000-2005, was entitled Haining's Irish Bike tour in Eire and Round N Ireland (Arts) (HIBERNIA) and reflected Haining's interest in autodidactic art practice throughout Ireland.
This collection comprises records relating to Horobin's DATA project and Marshall Anderson Journals as well as various materials relating to research into artists' unemployment across Scotland and the Accessibility of the Art project.
Haining moved from Dundee to Kirkaldy in 2012, then to the Scottish Borders where he completed the ae phor ten-year digital archive (as aitch) at the end of 2019 and commenced a provisional ten-year mixed media artwork - HAHA - at the beginning of 2020.
See also individual entries for each persona.

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John Bowes was a preacher from Liverpool. In 1840 he was the subject of a complaint by the Superintendent of Police, Dundee and fined one shilling for 'haranguing' people and causing an obstruction.

Jim Malone was the son of the late CSgt Malone of the 4th/5th Battalion The Black Watch and 51st Highland regiment and himself a member of the Dundee branch of the Black Watch

Gilles Lapers is the husband of Zygmunt Sawicki's granddaughter. Lapers researched his wife's grandfather's service with the 1st Polish Armoured Division (1st P.A.D.) and the Traffic Control Platoon during the Second World War.

Angus MacGillivray, FRSE FSA Scot., was born in Abriachan, Invernessshire. He was educated at Fordyce Academy, and Aberdeen University Between 1889 and 1935 he held various academic and medical appointments, notably as Lecturer in Ophthalmology at University College, Dundee and founder and surgeon of the Department of Ophthalmology, Dundee Royal Infirmary. MacGillivray died at his home in Crail.

A. D. Walsh, or Donald Walsh as he was known, was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Educated at Cambridge he took a PhD in physical chemistry in 1941 and became an ICI fellow. In 1955, after six years as a lecturer and reader in physical chemistry at Leeds University, Walsh took over the chair of chemistry at Queen's College, Dundee. He was well respected for his work on molecular spectroscopy and combustion and his contribution to chemistry was recognised with his election to the Royal Society in 1964. During his time in Dundee he oversaw the expansion of the Chemistry Department and was made Dean of the Faculty of Science when the new University was created in 1967. As his international standing grew Walsh was frequently asked to lecture abroad. Forced to retire in 1976 through ill health, he died in 1977 at the age of sixty.

Andrew Murray Scott is an author, freelance journalist and Scottish National Party councillor. Born in Aberdeen, he was educated at Dundee High School and Dundee University, where he graduated with a first in MA English and Modern History.
Murray Scott was the winner of the inaugural Dundee International Book Prize in 2000 and has since published several books of fiction and non-fiction.

Alfie Ingram was Secretary and Treasurer of the Carn Dearg Mountaineering Club from 1973-2006. He was awarded an Honorary Life Membership in 2007.

Dr Alec MacQueen, M.B., Ch.B., M.R.C.P.E., was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was educated in Palestine and Fort Augustus Abbey School. In 1950 he joined the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at Queens College, Dundee where he remained for the rest of his academic career. His research interest at first centred on diabetics but he soon became interested in problems of medical ethics such as euthanasia, organ transplants and abortion. His enthusiasm for debate led to the formation of a philosophy and science club centred on Dundee. MacQueen's methods of teaching anticipated later medical trends, in particular his use of clinical problems to demonstrate anatomy and his emphasis on students working independently with audio-visual aids.

Alexander Thoms, of the Thoms of Clepington family, was the son-in-law of Matthew Forster Heddle (1862-1884), Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. As a young man Thoms went to Bengal, India, where he remained engaged in estate and plantation business for about thirty years. In 1884 he moved to St Andrews and remained there until his death. He was active in local affairs and a keen supporter of St Andrews Cottage Hospital. In 1884 he was ordained an elder in St Leonard's kirk and was kirk treasurer from 1889-1921. An amateur mineralogist, Thoms presented a valuable collection of stones and minerals to University College, Dundee.

Adam Anderson was Rector of Perth Academy for 28 years from 1809, and then Professor of Natural History at St Andrews University, 1837-1846.
Anderson concerned himself with numerous engineering projects: gas and water supply as well as matters to do with navigation of the Tay. He helped pioneer the use of gas lighting in Perth and the supply of water from the Tay by steam engine. In doing so he brought together skills that he possessed in chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, architecture, and politics.
Anderson published widely on scientific and related matters and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1820. In 1827 the University of St. Andrews awarded him an honorary LLB and in 1837 he was awarded the Chair of Natural Philosophy at University of St Andrews, although he maintained close links with Perth, returning regularly.
As an educationalist Anderson worked for the extension of education to working class children and adults – a Mechanics Institute was set up as a result. A Liberal, he took part in agitation around the 1832 Reform Act. When he died on 5th December 1846 his coffin was escorted from St Andrews to Perth by a cortege for a civic funeral in the town.
Source: https://madeinperth.org/adam-anderson/

Agnes Margot Cox MBE (1905-1983) was born in Lochee, the eldest child of James Ernest and Agnes Jane Cox. She was educated at Bentley Priory. A member of the British Red Cross, Margot served at the British Red Cross Convalescent Home, La Selva, Italy during the Second World war. She died at her home, Seaton House, Nairn and was buried at the Cox family burial ground, Meigle, Perthshire.

Alexander Burn-Murdoch was an Edinburgh solicitor whose hobby was photography, particularly the taking of autochrome stereoscopic slides. He pioneered stereoscopy with Lumière plates and was a member of L'Association de Lumière in 1911. He was the fifth son of John Burn-Murdoch of Gartincaber, Perthshire and Mary Harriet Burn Callander of Prestonhall, Midlothian. Burn-Murdoch was commissioned in the 8th Royal Scots, serving in France and Ireland during WW1. In 1929 he married Aline, the daughter of Rev WJ Macdonald of Kirkaldy and the widow of Cecil Blake. As Writer to the Signet, Burn-Murdoch lived in Edinburgh, but also kept a house at Boat of Garten