About the publication
We are delighted to publish bone stone voice alone to accompany the major solo exhibition by Lauren Gault at Dundee Contemporary Arts, running through autumn and winter 2025-26.
The exhibition brings together a remarkable body of work that invites us to consider the history and future of our land: who has access to and ownership of it, and who has voice to remember, recall, share and speak out.
Originally training at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, Gault has longstanding roots in Tayside and has drawn on these connections with her research, collaborations, and creative production. Filling DCA’s newly refurbished galleries with sculpture, print, sound and moving image, bone stone voice alone transforms these spaces into a new mythological world. The figure of Echo is traced through the exhibition, asking us to consider where voice exists in relation to land rights, access and ownership.
Gault’s expansive work has inspired powerful writing which features in this new publication alongside images of the exhibition. We are delighted that this book includes new texts by Dr Désirée Coral, Rose Higham-Stainton, Professor Katharine Earnshaw, Dr Ailsa Hutton and Dr Sarah Laurenson, as well as an introduction by May Rosenthal Sloan, who curated bone stone voice alone.
About Lauren Gault
Lauren Gault is an artist based between Glasgow, Scotland and Magheramorne, Ireland. She works in sculpture, installation, text and sound. Her work is research-led and process-driven, considering the political, ethical and emotional implications of our changing interactions with matter and the environment.
Recent solo exhibitions include Samhla, ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye (2024); Galalith, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2022); Cithra, The Tetley, Leeds (2021); C I T H R A, Gasworks, London (2020); forgets in knots, Kantine, Brussels (2019), drye eyes, Grand Union, Birmingham, (2019), O-n, The Workbench, Milan (2019), present cOmpany, CCA Derry – Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2018), lipstick-NASA, Jupiter Artland, Bonnington (2015), fugue states, CCA Glasgow (2015), sweet ensilage, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). Recent group exhibitions include SOIL, an exhibition exploring the power and potential of soil at Somerset House, England and a two-person exhibition at Dilalica during Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
| Date | December 2025 |
| Edition of | 400 |
| Design | Valerie Norris |
| ISBN | 978-1-8382711-8-3 |
| Dimensions | 21.6 x 16.2cm |
| Pages | 80pp |
About the writers
Dr May Rosenthal Sloan is a curator, writer and educator. She co-curated the Somerset House exhibition SOIL: The World at Our Feet (2025) which brought together her interests in land justice and colonialism as well as the political, cultural and emotional relationships between humans and the world that they inhabit. Her research interests include food and food systems, storytelling and constructions of identity, and the role of design, art and curation in everyday life. She has recently taken up a permanent position as curator at V&A Dundee.
Professor Katharine Earnshaw is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter, and the research collaborator for bone stone voice alone. Her research centres around ancient poetry and philosophy, environmental and agricultural ethics, creative methodologies, history of thought, cognitive humanities, and how we learn about the world with and through texts. She is currently a Co-Investigator (Co-I) and Research Lead in the UKRI Centre for Net Positive Health and Climate Solutions, and Co-I in the UKRI Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub.
Dr Désirée Coral is an artist based in Scotland. Her artistic practice and research critically engage with early global exchanges between the Americas and other regions, employing a decolonial framework to interrogate the hierarchical relationships among humans, non-human species, and the environment. These dynamics inform her exploration of contemporary foodscapes and foodways, which serve as the foundation of her artwork.
Dr Ailsa Hutton is Curator of Modern and Rural Scottish History at National Museums Scotland. Dr Hutton cares for and researches the museum’s Rural Life collections, primarily held and displayed at the National Museum of Rural Life. Her research interests include rural crafts, women’s histories, and the formation of rural museums and collections in the 20th century.
Dr Sarah Laurenson is Principal Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary History at National Museums Scotland. She is responsible for the Scottish collections representing cultural, social, economic, political, military and working history from c.1750 to the present. Dr Laurenson’s broad research interests span the period of Scottish history from 1700 to the present day with an emphasis on Scottish cultures and identities, and on the ways in which shifting engagement with the physical landscape and natural environment has shaped – and continues to shape – the material world.
Rose Higham-Stainton is a writer and critic examining gender, art-making, and agrarian practices. She has written for Flash Art, Art Review, LA Review of Books, Mousse, TANK, Worms, The White Review and Spike Magazine alongside artists’ monographs and collections. Her debut book Limn the Distance was published in 2023 by JOAN. Rose also runs FENWOMEN, which gathers women, trans, and non-binary voices from across East Anglia and invites others in.
