Subterranean Landscape Blues was an installation comprising digital film and museological pieces and was based on the history and present day impact of the oil industry and militarism on the Highlands of Scotland, and on the Cromarty Firth in particular.
The focus of the film and installation centred on twentieth century military underground oil storage facilities in the hills above Invergordon. These cathedral sized caverns were used to store oil for the British Navy and were connected to the dock at Invergordon by underground pipelines.
These were little known and had not been filmed until this project. Subterranean Landscape Blues was a New Media Scotland Commission that premiered at Art.tm in Inverness in 2000. It also exhibited at Glasgow Film Theatre and Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen.
Artists involved: Trevor Avery, Nigel Mullen.
