Rebekah McNeill
BA (Hons) Photography
Held in Tartan
My work explores how tartan exists not only as fabric, but as a living expression of identity, heritage, and everyday life.
In Held in Tartan, I bring together portraiture and still life to examine the ways people and objects are quietly shaped, framed, and supported by this material. I am drawn to the softness of cloth-its ability to hold, to wrap, and to carry meaning without speaking
By photographing individuals across these varied spaces, I aim to show how tradition is not fixed in the past, but continues to move, adapt, and exist within modern life.
Where tradition meets the present.
From tradition to everyday life.
Cloth, culture and community.
Past woven into present.
Tradition worn with pride.
Holding onto heritage.
Carried through generations.