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A celebration of the visual arts in galleries homes and studios throughout Pittenweem

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A LARGE HUANGHUALI ‘DRAGON’ CABINETLate Qing DynastyFrom a Scottish Collection and sold in London for £28,750

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ON THE COVER

Alison Kinnaird MBE, ‘Bed of roses’,

engraved glass. Alison is holding an open

studio exhibition in her charming, converted

church home/studio in Temple, Midlothian.

If driving, set your Satnav to EH23 4SH. You

can also take the Borders Railway line to

Gorebridge, where a pre-arranged vehicle

may be mutually organised to pick you

up and return you after your visit. T 01875

830328, E [email protected].

Aug 4-28, www.alisonkinnaird.com

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ART NEWS

Louise Bourgeois Spider 1994. ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Lent by The Easton Foundation 2013 © The Easton Foundation/DACS, London 2017. Photo © Tate (Marcus Leith)

Perth Museum & Art Gallery78 George Street, Perth PH1 5LB / Tel: 01738 632488

www.culturepk.org.uk/museums-galleries

‘One of the most influential artists of our time.’

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

ARTIST ROOMS:

1 September - 18 November / Free

FREE ENTRY - RSA LOWER GALLERIESThe Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL www.royalscottishacademy.org Mon to Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pmThe RSA is a Registered Scottish Charity (SC004198)

SHOWCASING A UNIQUE SELECTION OF COLLECTIBLE ARTWORKS BY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM SCOTLAND AND BEYOND

22 JULY - 01 October 2017

ART 2017

royal scottish academy


ART NEWS

A number of art galleries, events and organisations are celebrating important years

in 2017. They include: the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright (60), Edinburgh Printmakers (50), the Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show (15), Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, or GoMA (21), Perthshire Open Studios (10), the University of Stirling Art Collection

(50), Ruthven Gallery in Auchterarder (10), Fotheringham Gallery in Bridge of Allan (20)

and Newcastle’s Side Gallery (40).

This year’s Edinburgh College of Art Masters Show will take multiple forms

and occupy multiple sites. Disciplines

on show include Contemporary Art,

Illustration, Architectural and Urban

Design and something called Design

Informatics, including digital jewellery,

‘where partners can exchange their smells

to evoke memories and emotions, as a

direct extension of one another’. Aug 11-20, www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/masters-degree-show-2017…Glasgow School of Art has one of the UK’s largest post-

graduate communities, comprising nearly

300 Doctoral and Masters students. The

GSA’s Graduate Degree Show will feature

work by students in architecture, design,

fine art and digital. Sep 2-7, www.gsa.ac.uk/graddegreeshow2017

YIFEI YANG, ‘SHAPE OF WORLD’ (ILLUSTRATION/EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART MASTERS SHOW)

TASTE! CELEBRATES 21 YEARS OF COLLECTING AT GLASGOW’S GALLERY OF MODERN ART (GOMA)

NEW GALLERIES

Look out for the official August 13 opening

of the Art & Craft Collective on Edinburgh’s

Causewayside, when large pieces by

Society of Scottish Artists member David

Dalzell (dubbed “The Wandering Artist” after

he gave up his job, sold his house, bought

a camper van and began a new way of life)

will be shown along with tartan-inspired

jewellery by Aleksandra Diamante, pre-

loved, restored leather travelling bags by

Leather that Lasts, Malawian fabric crafts by

Under the Baobab, paintings of European

architectural scenes by Victoria Gazeley

and a range of work entitled Shanghai

Dreams by knitwear for babies specialist

Babashuh. www.artcraftcollective.co.uk

In these cynical times we welcome the

opening of artist Jennifer Thomson’s Blue Easel Gallery in the picturesque seaside

village of Cramond to show her own uplifting

work. Says Jennifer: “My aim as an artist

is to capture the happy moments in life,

the peaceful, unassuming times when

everything just feels right with the world,

a sense of being connected with family,

friends and our surroundings.” See what she

means at her exhibition A Brush With Colour

in Edinburgh (Aug 5-25).

www.jenniferthomson.com/the-blue-easel-gallery

BLUE EASEL GALLERY

HAPPY ANNIVERSARIESDEGREE SHOWS

PAY AS YOU SHOWOwn Art, the interest-free loan scheme

which enables collectors to buy or

commission contemporary art and craft by

living, UK-based artists up to the value of

£2,5000 in ten monthly instalments, has

introduced Own Art Plus, which allows for

loans of up to £25,000.

www.ownart.org.uk


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Registered Charity No SC000840

Venue:

Paisley Museum and Art GalleriesHigh Street, Paisley

www.paisleyartinstitute.com

Schedule and Downloadable Labelsavailable 1st September fromwww.paisleyartinstitute.com

or send SAE to:

PAI SecretaryBox 114, Abbey House

43 High Street43 High StreetPaisley PA1 2AH

Paisley Art InstituteScottish Drawing Competition

Saturday 28th October - Saturday 25th November 2017

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Patron: HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of RothesayCharity No: SC007247

137th ANNUAL OPEN WINTER EXHBITION

RSA Building, The Mound, Edinburgh

4 February – 8 March 2018

RECEIVING DAY 21 JANUARY 2018

Online submission also available

For details www.rsw.org.uk

schedules and labels available soon

Winter prices£200 per week£600 per month

Picking ShedArtist ResidencyShetland Isleswww.pickingshed.co.uk

From 14 October to 25th April

e-mail [email protected]

01806 588 392

Back to the Futureedge at Frames Gallery, Perth

30 September – 21 October 2017

edge-textileartists-scotland.comframesgallery.co.uk


ART NEWS

OPEN STUDIOS

ABERDEEN & NORTHEAST SCOTLANDNorth East Open Studios (NEOS), Sep 9-17,

www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk

ARRANArran Open Studios, Aug 11-14,

www.arranopenstudios.com

BORDERSSelkirk WASPS, Oct 7 & 8,

www.selkirkwasps.com

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Kirkcudbright WASPS, until Aug 28,

www.waspsstudios.org.uk

Please note: Each resident keeps their own

hours, so no guarantee how many studios

will be open at any given time.

EDINBURGH & LOTHIANSEast Lothian Open Studios, Aug 5-13,

www.eastcoastarts.co.uk

Alison Kinnaird MBE, Aug 4-28,

www.alisonkinnaird.com (See front cover

and p5)

Colony of Artists, Sep 23 & 24,

www.colony-of-artists.com

FIFECentral Fife Open Studios, Sep 2 & 3,

www.centralfifeopenstudios.org

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDSArtmap Argyll, Aug 25-28,

www.artmapargyll.co.uk Take time to walk

the Taynish Art Trail at the Taynish Nature

Reserve at Tayvallich, Argyll, where many

Artmap Argyll artists show site-specific

work. Until Sep 30, www.artmapargyll.

co.uk/2017/06/19/taynish-art-trail-2017

Cowal Open Studios, Sep 22-25,

www.cowalopenstudios.co.uk

PERTHSHIREPerthshire Open Studios, Sep 2-10,

www.perthshireopenstudios.co.uk Also

showcase exhibition in the Barn Gallery,

Bield at Blackruthven, Aug 26-Sep 10

From kitchen table to garden shed to spare room to custom-built studio, artists and craftmakers work wherever they can. During open studios season, you can sneak a peek into their work

spaces, speak to them about their methods and inspirations and buy or commission an original piece. Some of them will even let you try your hand at their skill.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JEWELLER ANN HUME (ARRAN OPEN STUDIOS), PAINTER ALAN RICHMOND (BORDERS/SELKIRK WASPS), GLASSMAKER FRANK STEVENSON (HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS/COWAL OPEN STUDIOS), CAMERA OBSCURA SCULPTOR AINSLEY FRANCIS (EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS/COLONY OF ARTISTS), ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR RUTHIE REDDEN (DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY/KIRKCUDBRIGHT WASPS), PAINTER JULIE BARNS (EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS/EAST LOTHIAN OPEN STUDIOS)


New website

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Explore the work of our designer-makers from across Scotland at the following exhibition:Aberdeen Art Fair 2017 September 1st - 3rd, Beach Ballroom, Beach Promenade

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11th July - 3rd September

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5th September-15th October


CRAFT & DESIGN

HAND-MADE FOR YOU and your home

1 Inspired by Art Deco, nature and Scotland’s natural light,

buildings and landscapes, Catherine Lowe makes glass

jewellery, vessels, plates, awards and painted panels. Pictured:

Free Standing Lamp www.catherinelowe.co.uk

2 Part of the team which wove the tapestries at Stirling Castle,

Emma Jo Webster works mainly on private commissions,

specialising in portraiture and colourful abstracts hand-woven in

wool, silk and cotton. www.emmajowebster.com

3 Having worked in the watch industry for several years, the folks

at the Scottish brand Nomad Watches felt that their perfect

watch - one which married finely tuned design with genuine

quality - hadn’t yet been created. So they decided to make their

own. www.nomadwatches.com

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4 Linda Lovatt of Borders-based Beastie Assemblage makes

whimsical brooches, necklaces, bangles and assemblage pieces

from copper and brass sheet, broken bits of pottery, beads,

buttons and anything pretty, which are then aged with chemicals

to give them a beautiful verdigris colour.

www.beastieassemblage.co.uk

5 Need a pig’s head toilet paper dispenser, a goat’s head cutlery

drainer or a jewellery holder with real-looking ‘hands’ - all in

earthenware ceramic cast from actual dead creatures? Tilly Gifford creates disconcerting household objects in all their

original, intricate detail and texture. www.uniqueceramique.com

6 Inspired by stone carvings found at the Ness of Brodgar in the

Orkney Islands, where Sheila Fleet has her workshop, Lunar

Bright from the new Lunar collection of jewellery is in brilliantly

deep enamel colours, perfect for summer. www.sheilafleet.com

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THE WORLD’S LARGEST SELLER OF SCOTTISH PAINTINGS

McTear’s stage The Scottish Contemporary Art Auctions every five weeks and The Scottish Pictures Auctions (for non contemporary paintings) every ten weeks. Each year, we achieve significantly more sales than any other auction house or art fair - and substantially more than any public or private art gallery. More collectors buy paintings from our auctions than from any other venue or event in Scotland.

If you are considering the sale of a single painting or an entire collection please be warmly encouraged to contact The Pictures Department:

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* PETER HOWSON OBE, ‘David Bowie - The Ninth Drawing’ mixed media, signed and dated 1994, 31cm x 23cmSold £9,500 (world record for a drawing by the artist)

WILLIAM STRANG RA RP RE, THE LADY WITH THE PINK FEATHERED HAT oil on canvas, signed and dated 1912, 75cm x 62cmSold £16,000 (world record for the artist)

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AUCTION HOUSES

MY PRECIOUS!Period jewellery out-performs housing market in Scotland

B onhams recent Jewellery in June

campaign, designed to help

people learn the true value of their

pieces, came on the back of new

figures revealing that the most rare and

sought after pieces of vintage jewellery

have soared in value over the past

ten years. While average house prices

in Scotland increased by 12 per cent,

jewellery prices rose by over 80 per cent

over the same period, according to the

Office of National Statistics.

Despite such rises, Britons are sitting

on millions of pounds’ worth of designer

jewellery. Says Nathalie Rodwell,

jewellery specialist for Bonhams in

Scotland: “Jewellery can often be left

sitting in a jewellery box or in a safety

deposit box, with the owners unsure

what to do with it. So it remains untouched

for years. People can often be unaware of

how valuable a piece could be. Hallmarks,

signatures, initials, even a name or a code

on the back of a piece of jewellery can

indicate that is has come from a highly

sought after house.”

While people used to sell jewellery due

to the 3Ds - death, divorce and debt – other

factors are now driving the market. These

include jewellery not being worn because

it is no longer in a fashionable style,

owners wishing to release capital for

other purposes or to facilitate inheritance

planning (a valuable piece cannot be

easily shared equally between heirs) or

increasingly high insurance premiums.

According to Bonhams Head of

Jewellery (Europe) Jean Ghika, coloured

stones are currently popular, such

as rubies, sapphires, emeralds and

diamonds. There is also strong demand

for natural pearls as well as for the ever

popular signed* jewellery, especially from

the 1920s and ‘30s by major houses such

as Cartier, Boucheron and Van Cleef &

Arpels. *engraved or stamped with the

signature or unique mark of the jeweller or

jewellery house

SALE DATESAYRSHIRE Thomas R. Callan, Ayr Every

Thursday Interior sales, incl.

antiques & contemporary

household furnishings

www.trcallan.com

BORDERSBorder Auctions, Hawick Aug 19

General, Antique & Collectables

www.borderauctions.co.uk

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAYThomson Roddick, Aug 15, 29 &

Sep 12, 26 Home Furnishings &

Interiors Sep 16, 29 Antiques &

Works of Art

www.trscottishauctions.com

See also EDINBURGH &

LOTHIANS

EDINBURGH &

LOTHIANS Franklin Browns Every second

Saturday Alternating between

Antiques and Collectables

www.franklinbrowns.co.uk

Lyon & Turnbull Aug 16 Scottish

Silver & Applied Arts Aug 17

Contemporary & Port-War Art

Sep 12 Jewellery, Silver &

Watches Sep 13 Asian Works

of Art Sep 27 Fine Furniture &

Works of Art

www.lyonandturnbull.com

Ramsay Cornish Every

Thursday Vintage lane sale

Every Saturday General interiors

Aug 19 Scottish Sale

www.ramsaycornish.com

Shapes Every first Saturday Art

& Antiques

www.shapesedinburgh.co.uk/auctions

Thomson Roddick, Rosewell

Aug 3, 17, 24 & Sep 7, 14, 21, 28

Home Furnishings & Interiors

Aug 10 & Sep 28 Antiques &

Works of Art

www.thomsonroddick.com See

also DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

GLASGOW Great Western Auctions Aug

12, 26 & Sep 9 Antiques &

Collectables Sep 22 & 23 Fine

Art & Antiques

www.greatwesternauctions.com

McTear’s Aug 6, 23 & Sep 17

Jewellery Aug 13 & Sep 24

Scottish Contemporary Art Aug

24 Silver Aug 25 Works of Art

& Furniture Aug 30 Scottish

Pictures www.mctears.co.uk

Mulberry Bank Auctions Sep 8

& 9 Fine Antiques & Collectables

www.mulberrybankauctions.com

PERTHLindsay Burns & Company, Sep

5 & 8 Summer Antiques & Fine

Art Sale

www.lindsayburns.co.uk

STIRLINGSHIRERobertsons of Kinbuck,

Dunblane Every Wednesday

Alternating between Antique

& Collectables and Modern &

General

www.kinbuckauctions.co.uk

Check websites for details of

viewings prior to sales.

SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI, KBE, RA, HRSA (SCOTTISH, 1924-2005), ‘HEAD (LARGE)’, PLASTER MAQUETTE, EST. £2,000-3,000 +FEES (LYON & TURNBULL, CONTEMPORARY AND POST-WAR ART, AUG 17)

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THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION CONSIDER THE CONSTRUCTION OF TRADITIONAL EASEL PAINTING SUPPORT AND SET UP DIALOGUES BETWEEN ABSTRACT MARKS, DEPICTIONS OF FIGURES, ARCHITECTURE AND PICTORIAL SPACE.

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‘I DEFINE PAINTING AS A CONTEMPLATIVE IMAGE-FORM WHICH PROJECTS FROM THE ARTIST’S MIND. I PAINT TO ENGAGE MY OWN MENTAL SPACE, TO SEDUCE MY SUBCONSCIOUS OUT INTO THE MATERIAL PLANE – TO MIRROR MY OWN NIGHTMARES, FANTASIES AND NARCISSISM..’

TALK ABOUT GIVING ART A BAD NAME. (NAMES WITHHELD TO

PROTECT THE GUILTY.)

‘PAINTING IS AN ENGAGEMENT WITH SENSATION – A PLAY OF FORM. IT CARVES MEMORIES OF PLACES AND DREAMSCAPES.’

Woman is a body, but she is also a multifacted collection of principals (sic) and conventions.

I engage in the battle of representing the feminine, but also allow her to guide me as a

philosophy of being and making.

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“...THE ONLOOKER IS EXPECTED TO SEE WHAT IS INTENDED TO BE SEEN, BECOMING A MEMBER OF AN UNSPECIFIED COMMUNITY DEFINED BY THE ASSUMPTION OF SHARED PRINCIPLES AND VALUES.”

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ARTSPEAK

Border Landscapes Sunrise to SunsetRuth ReaWoven tapestries inspired by Scottish Borders landscapes and created using freestyle hand-weaving techniques.

HARESTANES COUNTRYSIDE VISITOR CENTRE, Ancrum, Jedburgh, TD8 6UQT: 01835 830306 | E: [email protected] www.liveborders.org.uk/harestanes

www.liveborders.org.uk

Ruth

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Hedgehog StoriesArt and science combine to shine a light on a well-loved but mysterious mammal. Includes work for sale from a range of artists, photographers and designers.

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SCULPTURE

Contemporary sculpture knows

no limits in terms of medium,

subject matter or form, yet

it still seems harnessed to

its own tradition and history.

Whether through revisited, long established

sculptural methods or reinterpretations of

traditional themes, these ten Scottish artists

find ways to both deal with their past and

contemporise it.

FROM STONE, MARBLE, BRONZE AND WOOD TO CERAMIC, STEEL, RESIN AND PLASTICS – NOT FORGETTING COSMETICS OR EVEN BIRD AND ANIMAL SKELETONS – SCULPTORS

ARE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR CRAFT. BY GIULIA GENTILI

Material values

ROYAL DOULTON “LYNNE” FIGURINE, 2016, FOUND CERAMIC, GLAZE

‘AT FAULT’, 2011

FROM ‘THE GATHERING’

It’s hard to talk about contemporary

Scottish sculpture without mentioning

Glasgow School of Art graduate and

Turner Prize nominee Karla Black.

Through a delicate pairing of traditional

and unconventional materials and

techniques, Black creates a world of

ephemeral abstract forms. Using a

combination of, among other things,

pastel colours, cosmetics, plastics and

cotton wool, Black meticulously plans

seemingly accidental happenings to

create a multisensory experience.

Following a series of key projects and

exhibitions, including representing

Scotland at the 2011 Venice Biennale

and the seminal Hauser, Wirth &

Schimmel exhibition Revolution in the

Making, her place has been cemented

in the sculptural canon.

www.saatchigallery.com/artists/karla_black.htm

Rob Mulholland specialises in

site-specific work to explore the

relationship between humans and

nature. He is especially enamoured

of mirrored surfaces to reflect

the environment and change our

perception of the space. His recent

commission for the Glastonbury

Festival, ‘The Gathering’, consisted

of ten mirrored steel anamorphic

deer figures interspersed in the

local forest, blending into, yet subtly

altering their surroundings. Standing

passively in the woods looking out at

a changing world, the part human-

part animal figures conveyed an

empathy and connection with their

setting, inviting us to consider our own

attitude towards the natural world.

www.robmulholland.co.uk Work by

Rob Mulholland is on display at the

Scottish Sculpture Park at Caol Ruadh,

Argyll until September 30.

Jessica Harrison (RSA Elect) is perhaps best known

for her reinterpretations of traditional porcelain

figurines. The delicate sculptures depict idealised

women in swirling ball gowns, yet each figure is

somehow reimagined, for example by being covered

in pieces of found ceramic. Harrison is interested in

how we handle, interpret and navigate materials,

objects and space and how this process can (re)define

the shape of the body. Her objects propose definition,

offering an alternative shape to our perception of

things and using the simplicity of materials to explore

the complexity of the sensory body.

www.jessicaharrison.co.uk


SCULPTURE

FROM THE SERIES ‘THE KURDS’

‘AMUR LEOPARD’

‘EL TORRO’

‘HEXAGONAL ISLAND FORCE’, 2014

Creating both figurative and abstract

forms, Kevin Dagg explores the

properties of wood and the techniques

associated with its use. Although the

wood is transformed by the chisel

into flesh, bone or leather, its essence

is not lost and the cracks, knots and

veins are only accentuated. A frequent

exhibitor in the UK and abroad and

winner of several awards, he lectures

part-time at Edinburgh College of Art.

www.kevindagg.com

To see some works by Helen Denerley you need only take a stroll down Edinburgh’s

Leith Walk, where her huge giraffe sculptures, ‘Dreaming spires’, tower outside the

Omni cinema complex. Denerley bends, twists and welds reclaimed scrap metals into

large scale, life-like creatures which marry an understanding of her material with the

meticulous study of the animal form. The use of negative space not only frames the

sculptures within their environment

but gives the three-dimensional

forms a gestural quality

which breathes life into

them. www.helendenerley.co.uk Denerley and painter Peter White collaborate in the exhibition Hollow at the Kilmorack Gallery in Inverness-shire, August 11-September 9.

Trevor Leat takes traditional willow

basket-making techniques and a keen

understanding of form and translates them

into depictions of animals and figures,

bending and taming the branches to create

muscular sinew. Leat grows his own willow

organically at his Galloway workshop.

Harvesting it at the beginning of the year,

he loosely bundles and stacks it to season

before manipulating the willow to bring his

creatures to life. www.trevorleat.co.uk

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art

and Design graduate Hannah Imlach is

deeply influenced by her environment.

From ‘Nautilus Turbine’, a response to

the hydroelectric scheme on the island

of Eigg, to ‘Oceanocular’, designed

to shed light on little seen deep sea

corals, her ecologically inspired work

lies somewhere between fine art and

design, capturing the fragility which

lies beneath the majesty of the Scottish

landscape. Her recent participation

in the John Muir Artists in Residence

programme culminated in the Floers

festival and exhibition, in which she

collaborated with Alec Finlay, son of the

legendary Scottish artist and concrete

poet Ian Hamilton Finlay.

www.hannahimlach.com


SCULPTURE

Using traditional hammer and chisel

techniques, Tom Allan MA, ARBS, PAI, SSA

is a master of his craft. “Sculpture,” he says,

“is an expressive art form, shaping stone to

convey emotion, as a painter uses colour

and form.” Also worked in marble, wood and

bronze, his pieces are distinctive for their

bold lines and sensuous form. Trained at

Glasgow School of Art and in Carrara, Italy

(famous for the white and blue-grey marble

quarried there), Allan is a regular exhibitor

– and prize-winner - at annual open

exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy,

the Royal Glasgow Institute, Visual Arts

Scotland and Paisley Art Institute. He has

had many solo exhibitions over a 40-year

career and his work is in public and private

collections in Europe, Australia and North

America. www.tomallansculptor.co.uk

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As well as completing several high

profile public commissions, Kenny Hunter has exhibited at the Scottish

National Portrait Gallery (including a

bust of the late trade unionist Jimmy

Reid), the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and

the Centre for Contemporary Arts and

the Tramway, both in Glasgow, where

perhaps his most recognisable public

artwork, ‘Citizen Firefighter’, stands

on Gordon Street. Common to most

of Hunter’s work is a fascination with

the duality of tradition and modernity,

which often sees him working in

response to the contemporary world,

how it changes and how it relates to

its own past. His distinctive, reductive

style is instantly recognisable in

the smoothed out details and block

colours of his figures and forms. Hunter

is currently Programme Director of

Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art.

www.inglebygallery.com/artists/kenny-hunter

Working from his remote studio on the

Isle of Harris, Steve Dilworth creates

fantastical sculptural forms which combine

beautiful polished stone and metal work

with the macabre. Incorporating found

objects, including eggs and bird and

animal bones, he aims to channel the

energy within a form in a method which

seems to draw on the totemic folklore

of the surrounding landscape. On being

asked for proof that one of his throwing

objects really did contain a bird, Dilworth

replied, “Destroy it and see”. In recent

years his use of once living material, and

the mythological purposes he ascribes to

his objects, has prompted association of

his work with shamanic cultures.

www.stevedilworth.com


ART & TRAVEL

The Sunday Times’ description

of Nantes as ‘the loopiest city in

France’ belies a serious strategy:

to reinvent a city through art and

culture. In Nantes this has been a roaring

success. From being laid low in the 1980s by

the collapse of its ship-building and freight

industries, it has emerged as a fun and

creative city revitalised by cultural tourism.

The main figure driving this renaissance

is the arts entrepreneur Jean Blaise, who

was also behind La Nuit Blanche, the free

all-night festival in Paris. His credo – to

combine the city’s cultural and tourist

attractions into a single brand identity - has

seen visitor numbers increase by over 50

per cent in less than ten years. An initially

sceptical business community, concerned

by the investment of public funds in the arts,

has been won over by the changing image

of Nantes.

Blaise is the founder of Le Voyage à Nantes (until Aug 27), an annual, two-month

arts festival which transforms the city into

“The important thing is to understand that culture is fundamental for the life of a city. In fact, it cannot exist without it.”

- Le Voyage à Nantes festival founder Jean Blaise

a playful indoor and outdoor visual and

performing arts venue. He says: “The idea

of the festival is to colonise every part

of town with artistic creation.” This year’s

event coincided with the hotly anticipated

reopening of the Musée d’Arts de Nantes after a six-year closure for a makeover and

the construction of a new extension.

Nantes is situated on the west coast

of France between Brittany and the

Loire Valley, 30 minutes inland from the

Atlantic Ocean on the river estuary and

two hours from Paris by high speed train.

Much of the compact city centre has been

pedestrianised, and where walkers and

drivers meet, they seem to show a mutual

courtesy which makes crossing a street

hassle-free. The city centre is a pleasant

mix of proud, 19th century architecture with

a smattering of medieval timber-frame

structures.

Every summer a city-wide art trail,

marked by a green line painted along

streets and alleys, links nearly 40 public

RENAISSANCE IN NANTES

artworks, installations, urban furniture

and some of the city’s finest architectural

features. Some business owners, feeling

left out, complained that the green line did

not run past their premises. One disgruntled

cafe owner found a solution by painting a

green offshoot leading to his front door.

In the middle of the Loire river, the Ile de Nantes is the city’s Creation Quarter.

Once the site of abandoned shipyards and

run-down industrial buildings, it has seen

architects vying to outdo each other with

quirky refurbishments and new designs, from

the severely slick-black Palais de Justice to

a building clad haphazardly with aluminium

strips resembling a bird’s nest. It even

emanates pre-recorded chirping sounds.

The Ile de Nantes is also where you

will find Les Machines de l’Ile, a pleasure

park where visitors gawp at giant, surreal,

mechanical creatures, while a huge steel

and wood elephant strolls around with

visitors on its back.

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ART & TRAVEL

ART MUSEUMS & GALLERIESWith only a modest independent gallery

scene, Nantes has one dominant player.

The Musée d’Arts de Nantes is the second

biggest regional arts museum in France and

the only one outside Paris with a collection

spanning from the 13th to the 21st century,

thus presenting an unbroken timeline of the

history of art. The recent reopening attracted

16,000 visitors in the first weekend.

The beautiful refurbishment and

extension project by the London architecture

firm of Stanton Williams, whose other

projects include the Royal Academy of Arts

and Royal Opera House in London and the

Stadtmuseum Berlin, has been shortlisted

in this year’s World Architecture Festival

Awards.

The main new feature is the blonde

marble “Cube”, built to accommodate the

contemporary art collection built up since

the 1980s. (Twentieth and 21st century art

makes up over half the museum’s collection.)

The 2,000 additional square metres have

increased the overall exhibition space by 30

per cent.

The museum is unique in combining

different art periods in the same spaces, for

example by hanging an Old Masters work

in a contemporary room and vice versa.

This creates a duality between old and new

and departs from the post-WWII split, when

new museums were created to specialise in

modern and contemporary art.

The museum’s programme has three

main phases: two exhibitions in spring and

autumn and an installation in the patio

during the summer. The overall collection

includes works by some

of the biggest names

in art, from Ernst, de la

Tour, Ingres, Chagall

and Picasso to Léger,

Kandinsky, Courbet,

Dufy and Monet. www.museedartsdenantes.fr

At the westernmost tip of the Ile de

Nantes is the HAB Galerie, situated in the

former Hangar à Bananes, a concrete-

floored 1950s warehouse built to store

fresh produce from Africa. The 1,400 square

metre space, entirely renovated in 2007,

specialises in contemporary art.

www.nantes-tourisme.com/fr/art-contemporain/hab-galerie

Taking its name from the first initials of

the founder and his wife of the former biscuit

factory in which it is located, LU, or the Lieu Unique (Unique Place) was transformed

into a cultural centre in 2000. The tiled

LU Tower is a beauty,

featuring a sculpture

of Pheme, the Greek

goddess of fame, and

signs of the Zodiac. (The

biscuit factory itself has

relocated and continues

to make the Petit Beurre,

or Little Butter, a kind of

shortbread popular in

France).

www.lelieuunique.com The last of the great

Loire Valley castles

before the Atlantic

Ocean, the Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne hosts

a changing exhibition

programme. A recent show focussed on the

origins of surrealism (in 1915, while stationed

in Nantes, the movement’s founder André

Breton met Jacques Vaché, whom Breton

cited as a major influence), while the current

exhibition, The Spirits, Gold and the Shaman

(until Nov 12) comprises over 200 fabulous

gold objects and other artefacts made by

pre-Hispanic Colombian societies. Next up:

Japanese engravings and Samurai objects.

www.chateaunantes.fr

ONE OF A SET OF STONE SCULPTURES BY DANIEL

DEWAR AND GRÉGORY GICQUEL IN THE HAB GALERIE

WALKING AROUND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF CONSTANTLY LOOKING UP FOR FEAR OF MISSING THE QUIRKY ‘ENSEIGNES’, OR SIGNS, DESIGNED AND CREATED BY LOCAL ARTISTS TO DEPICT THE TYPE OF BUSINESS LOCATED UNDER THEM.

LAURENT PERNOT’S ‘LA TERRE OÙ LES ARBRES RÊVENT’ (‘THE LAND WHERE TREES DREAM’) IN THE PLACE ROYALE IS ONE OF THREE LARGE INSTALLATIONS IN THE CITY’S THREE MAIN SQUARES.


ART & TRAVEL

ILE DES MACHINESNo visit to Nantes is complete without a

visit to the Ile des Machines, a blend of

Jules Vernes fantasy (the author of ‘20,000

Leagues Under The Sea’ and ‘Journey

To The Centre Of The Earth’ was born in

Nantes), Leonardo da Vinci mechanical

universe and Victorian circus, all echoing

the city’s industrial past.

The former boiler-making factory is the

workshop of a team of madcap engineers

who have built a mechanical menagerie

where once were built ships. An eight-

metre high heron flying passengers over

the Galerie des Machines? Check. A giant

ant scurrying across the floor controlled

by four passengers? Check. A huge spider

carrying visitors on its abdomen? Check.

Add to this the eight-metre high Grand

Éléphant and you’ll feel like an extra in

the latest Disney caper. Other attractions

include the Carousel des Mondes Marins

(Carousel of Marine Worlds), a three-tier

roundabout representing three levels of

the sea, with passengers riding in or on

different creatures inhabiting each level,

and a walk along a branch of the prototype

Arbres aux Hérons (Heron Tree), one of 22

when the massive tree is completed in 2021

with micro-landscapes in the forks of its

branches. Skegness it’s not.

www.lesmachines-nantes.fr

THE GRAND ÉLÉPHANT MAKES HIS ENTRANCE AT THE ILE DES MACHINES

ESTUAIRE

A two and a half hour

cruise along the Loire

river to the port of Saint-

Nazaire takes in some of

the installations created

for Estuaire, an open

air museum of some 30

installations connected

to the river’s industrial

and shipping heritage,

from a villa perched 15

metres up on a chimney

stack (Tatzu Nishi’s ‘Villa Cheminée’) or a soft-centred boat melting Dali-like over a

quay (Erwin Wurm’s ‘Misconceivable’) to a house sinking into the water (Jean-Luc

Courcoult’s ‘La maison dans la Loire’) and the skeleton of a 120-metre long sea snake

(Huang Yong Ping’s ‘Serpent d’Océan’). www.estuaire.info

FURTHER INFOwww.nantes-tourisme.com, www.levoyageanantes.fr

HOW TO GET THERERyanair will launce a daily service between Edinburgh and Nantes on October 30.

www.ryanair.com

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Meet the artists and makers of the North East of Scotland

Meet the 266 artists and makers of the North East of Scotland who will be opening their studios from 9th to 17th September.

The NEOS Book will be available from Early August in libraries, galleries and creative hubs around the area or can be download from our website.

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AUGUSTJONATHAN SHEARER

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Exhibitions in August and September

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T he seventh edition of

the Aberdeen Art Fair will again be held at the

Beach Ballroom, where

visitors can view a diverse

range of contemporary, affordable

and original art from local and national

galleries, with prices ranging from £50

to £10,000-plus. A new feature this year

is an app with built-in visual recognition

technology, enabling fair-goers to

access the story behind any artwork

by pointing their smartphone cameras

at it. They can save their favourites

to view later, message the gallery or

artist directly and buy an available

artwork. The app will be available

for download from the App Store and

Google Play by searching “Aberdeen

Art Fair”. The fair is set to receive its

30,000th visitor this year. Sep 1-3, www.aberdeenartfair.co.uk

The Glenfiddich Artists in Residence

programme again welcomes artists from

around the world to spend time around

the Dufftown distillery and produce work

inspired by the surroundings. Every summer

since 2002, Glenfiddich has hosted new

talent, giving them £10,000 each and the

opportunity to collaborate with each other.

The rolling programme of on-site exhibitions

begins with landscape artists Lisa Almond

(England) and Joan Ross (the first resident

artist from Australia) with conceptual artist

Lin Kun Ying (Taiwan). Until October 8, www.glenfiddich.com/explore/artists-in-residence/2017

CARL MOORE, ‘PARROT (SKY BLUE)’, ONE OF MANY IMAGES AVAILABLE FROM GLASGOW’S SUBVERSION GALLERY AT THE

ABERDEEN ART FAIR

24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD01224 625629 • [email protected]

Open Mon – Sat from 10amwww.galleryheinzel.com

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The Weekend Gallery in

Kilbirnie is showing oil

paintings and an installation

by gallery co-owner and

artist Franzeska Ewart.

She explains: “I am a writer as well as

an artist, and my paintings have a strong

narrative content. They depict birds giving

women gifts from the bird world, which

are transformed into objects of desire or

comfort for the women. Each painting has

an illustrated haiku, and these haikus are in

the book which forms the central part of the

installation ‘A Feather For your Cap’. Visitors

are invited to add their own illustrated

poems or prose inspired by the paintings.

In return, they get a feather!” The exhibition

is in memory of a friend who died recently

of cancer. A proportion of sales will go to

Ardgowan Hospice in Greenock. Sep 2-30, www.weekendgallery.co.uk

East Ayrshire Leisure continues its excellent

programme with The Art of Collecting at the Baird Institute in Cumnock (until Sep 9),

highlighting a selection of significant objects

and artworks acquired in recent years for

the region’s own collection, while A Wooded

Land at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock

(until Aug 28) features paintings and

artefacts from the East

Ayrshire Collection which

reflect our relationship

with the wooded

landscape. www.eastayrshireleisure.com

At the Maclaurin Gallery

in Ayr, Margaret Hunter:

Duality (Aug 19-Oct

8) illustrates how the

Ayrshire-born, Glasgow

School of Art-trained artist

uses archetypal symbols

such as the spiral, sphere or cone, to convey

meaning in her paintings and sculptures,

while the gallery makes something of a

departure with James Klinge (Sep 1-Oct 8),

one of Scotland’s finest mural painters.

www.themaclaurin.org.uk

FRANZESKA EWART, ‘BADASS JAYBIRD’ (WEEKEND GALLERY)

SIMON WARD, ‘BIRD BUCKET RING TREE’ (BAIRD INSTITUTE)

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The Maclaurin Art GalleryRozelle Estate, Monument RoadAyr, KA7 4NQt: 01292 445447Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pmSunday 12 noon - 5pm

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MARGARET HUNTER

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JAMES KLINGE

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BORDERS

he Creative Peebles Festival celebrates the

artistic community of the

pretty Borders town. Art

activities include: Open

Galleries Evening, when galleries, studios

and workshops open their doors to the

T public (Aug 25, 7-9pm); the Big, Big Peebles

Draw, where throughout the weekend the

Eastgate Cafe exhibits postcard-sized

artwork on aspects of Peebles life for visitors

to vote for their favourite and make a secret

bid to buy it, and the Art Trail, which links

galleries and other art venues showing

special exhibitions. These include Tweed

Art, Breeze Art Gallery, Tweeddale Museum

& Gallery and Moy Mackay Gallery. Aug 25-Sep 3, www.creativepeeblesfestival.co.uk

In her first exhibition of new work since

2011, Patricia Cain: Seeing Beyond the

Immediate at the Scott Art Gallery in

Hawick explores the artistic process from

concept to completed work. A past winner of

the Aspect Prize for contemporary painting

in Scotland and the Threadneedle Prize for

contemporary figurative art, Patricia says:

“The exhibition gives insights into why artists

move away from representational work

that simply reproduces what they observe

towards something which captures an

essence.” Cain’s work will be exhibited in

contrast with original prints by Wilhelmina

Barns-Graham (1912-2004). Aug 12-Oct 7, www.liveborders.org.uk

PATRICIA CAIN, ‘WILD PUFFING OF EMERALD TREES AND FLAME FILLED BUSHES’, MIXED MEDIA (SCOTT ART GALLERY)

“It’s like joining a rather wonderful party, but you are talking about serious

matters, interesting matters”Kate Adie,

Former BBC Chief News Correspondent

Introducing Music & Arts

in the Walled Garden

Beyond Borders Scotland @beyondborders_ #BBIF

Full programme launched in June 2017

26-27 August 2017Traquair House, Innerleithen, EH44 6PW

Beyond BordersInternational Festival

www.beyondbordersscotland.com

19B Eastgate, Peebles, 01721 720860 Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10.00 –17.00Sat 11.00 –16.30 [email protected]

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SCOTT GALLERY Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick TD9 7JLT: 01450 364 747 | E: [email protected]


12 August – 8 October 2017 FREE ADMISSION

DISABLED ACCESS

Open 7 Days

2 Market PlaceLauderBerwickshire TD2 6SR

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www.fl atcatgallery.co.uk

AUGUSTMichael Ewart – oils

SEPTEMBERKevin Peden – printmaker

Iain Harkess – watercolours

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Essential FormsSummer ExhibitionFrom 27 Aug. to 28 Oct. 2017

51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL01890 254 010 Tues – Sat 10am – 4pm Wed 10am – 1pmwww.whitefoxgallery.co.uk


BORDERS

New to this year’s Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought is the

Walled Garden Music &

Arts Programme, when you can see an

exhibition as well as join in a workshop

or listen to music and stories from around

the world. Exhibitions include Memories of

Partition, on the legacy of the 1947 partition

of India and Pakistan, and A Window on

My Iran, documenting daily life in Iran as

seen through a camera lens. The festival is

dedicated to fostering peace and greater

understanding between peoples, small

nations and cultures. It brings together

artists, writers,

journalists, politicians

and diplomats

for a weekend of

panel debates and

discussions, poetry

readings, music,

art, film, walks, and

cycle rides in the beautiful surroundings of

the Scottish Borders. Aug 26 & 27, Ticket & programme info: www.beyondbordersscotland.com

The summer show at the White Fox Gallery in Coldstream is Essential Form, comprising

works by some of the most accomplished

emerging sculptors working in the Scottish

Borders and Northumberland, Chris Hall,

Tom Feddes, Jennifer Tetlow, Aegir McIver

and Natasha Smith have each in their own

way skilfully carved and shaped stone or

metal to reveal the essential beauty of their

chosen medium. Aug 27-Oct 28, www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk

JENNIFER TETLOW, ‘WHITE BIRDS’ (WHITE FOX GALLERY)

Dancing Light Gallery, Whitmuir, Near West Linton, Edinburgh, EH46 7BB 01968 660200 | Open: 10 to 5pm Monday to Sunday

[email protected] | www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk

Griffon Vulture King Penguin

SculptorSue White OakesSaturday 30th September

An evening with nationally and internationally celebrated Copper & Bronze Sculptor Sue White Oakes. Limited places. £30 per person includes 3 course meal with wine

in our adjoining Whitmuir Restaurant, live music and a talk by Sue White Oakes.

Whitmuir is also home to Whitmuir Restaurant, Quercus Plant Nursery, Farm shop, Antiques and Fairy Walk ... something for everyone ...

Marta UtslerOriginal fine art

Visitors are also welcome to Marta’s Open Studio,

Stow, Galashiels TD1 2RH, at any time.

07758 335417 OR 01578 730609

www.martautsler.com

Featured as part of the Summer Show group exhibition,

July 15th – September 9th 2017, at the Tweeddale Museum and Gallery,

Chambers Institution, High Street, PEEBLES, EH45 8AG.


DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 [email protected] 262084

A R T S C E N T R EG R AC E F I E L D

26 August - 30 September Gallery 1

PEOPLE OF DUMFRIESCelebrating 70 years of the Dumfries Camera Club

26 August - 19 November Gallery 2

ARTIST ROOMS: Don McCullin

ARTIST ROOMS is owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. The collection is shared across the UK with Ferens Art Gallery, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Art Fund and by the National Lottery through Creative England.

Don McCullin Shell-shocked US Marine, The Battle of Hue 1968 (printed 2013). ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Presented by the artist 2014 © Don McCullin. Courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery, London

Contact Gallery for opening hours-

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SUMMER EXHIBITION 1ST JULY - 2ND SEPT 2017

Allison Young, Gordon Wilson, Jackie Forbes Henderson, Jemma Derbyshire,

Kittie Jones, Linda Park, Mairi Stewart,Marion Drummond, Peter Foyle, Ruth Brownlee,

Stewart Lammie & Victoria Foster.Plus sculpture, ceramics, textiles, jewellery,

baskets, furniture and much more.

The Whitehouse Gallery, 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DUt: 01557 330223 e: [email protected] www.whitehousegallery.co.uk

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on McCullin has written his

name into photographic

history, having spent much of

his career working in conflict

zones around the world

documenting war, mass emigration, famine

and political upheaval. His photographs

will be on display at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, where Arts Officer

Dawn Henderby says: “In a world where we

are faced with more and more images on

our phones and online, the chance to see

McCullin’s photographs up close will have a

profound impact.” Aug 26-Nov 19, www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield

Six artists come together for a group

show entitled Land and Sea at Wigtown’s

Craigard Gallery, a Georgian property

where the exhibition space has been

recently renovated and many of the

building’s original features restored.

Participating artists are architecture-

influenced painter and printmaker Allan J.

Robertson, still life and landscape painter

and mixed media artist Hazel Campbell,

abstract landscape painter Heather Davies,

mixed media landscape artist Jackie

Stevenson, mixed media seascape painter

Ruth Brownlee and painter and printmaker

Silvana McLean, whose recent work is

inspired by a residency in Iceland. Until 16 Sep, www.facebook.com/CraigardGallery

A one time working mill which is among the

oldest structures in the village of Palnackie

near Castle Douglas, has been redeveloped

by a five-artist collective as a gallery, events

venue and studio complex called the Old Mill Gallery. Work is also underway to

create a sculpture garden.

www.theoldmillgallery.com

DON MCCULLIN, ‘NORTHERN IRELAND, THE BOGSIDE, LONDONDERRY’, 1971, PRINTED 2013, PHOTOGRAPH ON PAPER © DON MCCULLIN (GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE)

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Open 10/10.30am-5pm, Mon-Sat Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk

The light and beauty of Galloway is the main focus of this artist’s gallery in Castle Douglas, with dramatic Scottish Highlands and Cumbrian mountain landscapes also featured. Other themes include Sea Spirits and Reflections. Newest paintings and work in progress on show and a wide selection of signed giclee prints and art gifts from Galloway paintings available. Commissions welcome.

Clience StudioSeascape and Landscape paintings byAngela Lawrence


DUNDEE & ANGUS

objects. Onto this assortment

he paints his subject – a

scene, an episode, a portrait

- adding to the mix 3D

photographs. The magical

end result resembles a

puzzle or riddle in which

familiar objects become

fascinating and mysterious.

The more you look, the

more you see. A graduate

of the Royal College of Art,

Calum Colvin OBE is Head

of Contemporary Art Practice

at the University of Dundee.

Until Oct 2, www.mcmanus.co.uk

In 2004, at the age of 27, sculptor Michael

Visocchi became the youngest elected

member of the Royal Scottish Academy. He

was awarded the Jerwood Prize in 2009.

For his exhibition at The Meffan Museum & Art Gallery in Forfar he has created works

which continue to develop his themes of the

politicisation of Scotland’s landscape. With

the use of wood, metal and other man-made

materials, these take the form of miniature

constructions placed within imagined

s part of a year-

long programme

of exhibitions and

events to celebrate

the 150th anniversary

of The McManus,

one of Scotland’s most esteemed artists is

staging a series of ‘interventions’ to comment

on Dundee’s place in Scottish, British and

world culture. Museography: Calum Colvin

Reflects on The McManus Collections sees

the artist position a number of his intriguing

photographs within the gallery spaces to

relate to selected permanent displays. The

starting point of Colvin’s work is a studio set,

which is adorned with numerous everyday

ACALUM COLVIN, ‘MUTE SWAN’ (THE MCMANUS)

settings. Sep 2-30, www.angusalive.scot/museums

Also in Forfar, the Hour Image Gallery has a

new batch of contemporary-styled pendants

by Sheila Roussel featuring butterflies

and dragonflies, a collection of calming

watercolour landscapes by Jim Dewar and

cheerful scenes of Angus, Dundee and

Fife by Gail Stirling Robertson. There are

discounts of up to 50 per cent in the current

summer sale.

www.thehourimagegallery.co.uk

MICHAEL VISOCCHI, ‘A BROKEN LANDSCAPE’ (THE MEFFAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY)

Mike Turpie and Others

30th September – 15th October

www.kinblethmontgallery.co.uk

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MUSEOGRAPHY:CALUM COLVIN REFLECTS ON THE McMANUS COLLECTIONS

ADMISSION FREE


EDINBURGH & THE LOTHIANS

GILL WALTON, ‘COMPOSITION IN CADMIUM AND INDIGO’ (BORDERS ART FAIR/ARUSHA GALLERY)

A fter taking a year off to

rebrand and revitalise

the event, the Borders Art Fair, which includes

the Affordable Art Fair’s

founder Will Ramsay among its patrons,

has launched its new website and is now

accepting applications from artists and

galleries for the March 2018 event. In the

meantime it is showcasing three Borders-

based artists - painters Peter Hallam and Gill

Walton along with sculptor Chris Hall – at

Arusha Gallery in Edinburgh. Aug 16-22, www.bordersartfair.com

The countryside comes to the capital when

Upland, organisers of the popular Spring

Fling open studios event, brings new work

by a dozen contemporary artists from

Dumfries and Galloway to Edinburgh’s

Patriothall Gallery in Surge. The artists

and makers, from the internationally known

to new names on the scene, represent a

range of media, from painting, ceramics and

photography to video and mixed media,

highlighting one of Scotland’s most vibrant

artistic communities. Sep 2-10, www.patriothallgallery.co.uk, www.weareupland.com

GALLERY OPENING12 AUGUST 201711 AMTHIRTY ARTISTS IN ONE SPACE!

93 CAUSEWAYSIDE EDINBURGH EH9 1QG0131 629 912307801 581674

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TUESDAY – SATURDAY 10 – 4 SUNDAYS IN AUGUST 12 - 4



‘Sunburst II’ by Sarah Anderson

Edinburgh Macmillan ART SHOW

2017

Returning for the 15th year is the art show

where you can make a difference – come along

and you’ll be raising vital funds for Macmillan

Cancer Support.

Art for a great cause

24th – 27th August, Bonhams, Fringe Venue 216

Opening Times10 – 7pm, Thurs 24th;

10 – 4pm Fri 25th, Sat 26th & Sun 27th August 2017.

macmillanartshow.org.uk

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4 Drumsheugh Place Edinburgh EH3 7PT www.uniongallery.co.uk

‘Woman Undressing ’ Kevin Low

KEVIN LOW SOLO EXHIBITION.‘WOMEN & MEN’

04.08.17 – 09.09.17



aking its title from art critic

Waldemar Januszczak’s

summation of the 2016 Abstract

Expressionism exhibition at

London’s Royal Academy

(‘There’s not enough emotion in our art

any more. We think too much and feel

too little.’), Think Less, Feel More is the

second solo exhibition in Edinburgh by

the abstract painter Alice Boyle. Working

with layers of plaster to give her works

the feel of petroglyphs on ancient caves,

Alice then makes marks into the fast-

drying plaster with various tools, acting

quickly to catch a sense of spontaneity.

The resulting pieces seem to take on

a life of their own. Until Aug 13, Howe Street Arts, 2 Howe St. (Fringe Venue 97), www.aliceboyle.co.uk

The Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

returns to Bonhams auction house

(Fringe Venue 216) for its annual sale of

work to support cancer care. This year’s

participating artists, who are asked to

make a minimum 50 per cent donation

from any sales (some donate all of

it), include Edinburgh College of Art

graduates, landscape painter Madeleine

Gardiner and Owen Normand, a past winner

of the prestigious BP Portrait Young Artist of

the Year Award. Aug 23-27, www.2017.macmillanartshow.org.ukT

Scottish Ornithologists’ ClubWaterston House, Aberlady EH32 0PYOpen daily 10am–4pm 01875 871 330www.the-soc.org.uk

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Robert Greenhalf & John HattonOriginal Prints

July 29 – Sept 13

Mosaic: A Celebration of Design, Expression & ColourSeptember 30 & October 1

FORUM: South Halls, University of Edinburgh, 18 Holyrood Rd, EH16 5AY.WORKSHOPS: Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Laurieston Pl, EH3 9DF.CONTEMPORARY MOSAIC EXHIBITION: Patriothall Gallery, WASPS Studios, Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 5AY

Sep 23-30, daily noon-5pm & Oct 1, 10am-5pm Tickets for Forum, Workshops & Evening Social available at www.eventbrite.co.uk/BAMMFORUM2017

The first major exhibition of Contemporary Mosaic in Scotland for over ten years.

Immerse yourself in the world of mosaics with two days of speakers, workshops, open exhibition, evening social, market place and more.

British Association for Modern MosaicAnnual Forum 2017 Edinburgh

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Solo Show 22nd – 27th August, 2017Private View 22nd August, 2017 6.00 p.m.

The Dundas Street Gallery www.clarebrownlow.co.uk6 Dundas Street 07768 619777Edinburgh EH3 6HZ [email protected]

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Douglas Davies RSW“Autumn - Winter - Spring”Sat 16 - Sat 30 September 201710.30am - 5pm daily (closed Sundays)The Dundas Street Gallery6a, Dundas Edinburgh EH3 6HZT.0131 558 9363 or 01899 860 254www.douglasdaviesgallery.co.uk “Estuary” 53x73cms”



eturning for a third year,

Art Walk Porty brightens

up the public spaces and

esplanade of Portobello

as well as celebrating

its creative community.

Five artists have received awards to

create temporary works around this year’s

theme, EdgeLands. They will be joined in

Art Houses, when over 25 of Portobello’s

practising artists and makers will open their

homes, studios and gardens to the public

each weekend during the Art Walk (which

this year will extend towards Leith), giving

visitors a peek into their workspaces. Some

will hold workshops and talks. Another

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AINE SCANNELL, ‘HISTORIAS II’, ETCHING (PRINTROOM DUNDEE/E.D.S. GALLERY)

strand of the programme, Art in Shops, will

see local businesses offer space on their

premises to show local art. Additional events

include a Makers Market at the Dalriada pub

and Walks+Talks, when ten artists will lead

walks around the studios and sights. In all,

around 70 artists will take part at more than

50 locations. Sep 1-10, www.artwalkporty.co.uk

The E.D.S. Gallery brings back the

exhibiting group PrintRoom Dundee

for their second consecutive Festival

exhibition. Members came together last

year to promote the art of traditional and

contemporary printmaking. They all create

their prints at Dundee Contemporary Arts

Print Studio. Showing alongside them this

year is Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA, known

primarily for his aquatint work, who has

selected a body of work exclusively for the

show. As part of the exhibition there is a

series of free printmaking demonstrations

from 1.30-4.00pm on Saturday August 12, 19

and 26 and Saturday September 2.

Aug 5-Sep 3, www.edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk, www.printroomdundee.scot

41 Westgate, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 4AG TEL: 01620 894976 • www.westgategalleries.co.uk

Original Artwork, Limited Edition Prints, China & Glass, Jewellery, Fine Toiletries, Gifts & Licensed Café

Opening HoursMonday-Saturday 10.00am – 5.30pm

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Site Specifi c ArtArt HousesArt in ShopsMaker’s MarketWalks + TalksOver two weekends

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The second floor of White

Stuff on George

Street will be

transformed into

contemporary

craft retail heaven as over 30

of Scotland’s most talented

designers, jewellers, ceramicists

and textile artists, panel-selected

by industry insiders, showcase

their work in the fifth annual Craft Scotland Summer Show. A new

feature this year is a series of maker-led

workshops throughout the month, when

you can create bag charms and appliqué

earrings, craft a silver ring of your own

design or carve a wooden spoon. Aug 4-27, www.craftscotland.org

The RSA Open at the Royal Scottish Academy is an exhibition of small and

medium-sized works by contemporary

artists from Scotland and further afield. With

over 300 artworks selected for their quality

by a panel of RSA Academicians, this

prestigious exhibition provides a wonderful

opportunity to buy unique artworks and

support artists living and working in

Scotland and beyond. Last year’s exhibition

drew a record-breaking attendance of over

100,000 visitors and strong sales. This year’s

exhibition will feature over 300 works from

artists at all stages in their career, from

talented amateurs to eminent Academicians.

This year the exhibition received the highest

yet number of submissions, with less

than a quarter of them making it into the

show, which comprises painting, sculpture,

printmaking, photography, film and textile art

by 293 artists. Until Oct 1, www.royalscottishacademy.org

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INTERWOVENJenny Findlay/Susie Wilson

3 Barclay Terrace Edinburgh EH10 4HPwww.uprightgallery.com

8 to 29 September

To include works by Peter Howson, John Bellany, Peter McLaren, John Byrne, James Kay, Stuart Park, William Crosbie, David Fulton and many more ...

0141 333 [email protected] www.glasgowgallery.com

STOCK CLEARANCEMIN 25% OFF ALL 19TH & 20TH CENTURY ORIGINAL PAINTINGS

Festival ExhibitionJennifer Mackenzie, Tom Shanks, Ronnie Ford, Mark Holden, Tom Watt, Sonas Maclean, Carol BarrettDeborah Phillips, Tim Cockburn

Jewellery by Sheana Stephen

29th July – 26th August

36 Dundas St., Edinburgh EH3 6JN0131 556 [email protected]

Picture framing service from our own workshops

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Open daily 12 - 6pm

Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 5AY

www.weareupland.com

A curated exhibition of work from Dumfries & Galloway by Upland Members

Image: Colin Tennant


on Lawson has achieved

what every artist desires

for their work: instant

recognisability. His

unique depictions of the

remoteness and majesty

of the Scottish Highlands and islands have

met with an extraordinary response from

collectors in the UK and abroad. His solo

exhibition at Alpha Art demonstrates why

he is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s

R most original and distinctive contemporary

landscape painters. Born in 1960, Ron spent

his early years on a farm in Midlothian

before his career took him to the art studio

of publishers D.C. Thomson in Dundee,

where he developed the highly individual

palette and technique central to his work

today. In 2010, after 35 years, he left his

career to become a full-time painter. We’d

say it has paid off. Aug 5-27, www.alpha-art.co.uk

Festival 2017 at Gallery Ten comprises

a selection of lithographs, etchings and

screenprints by Pablo Picasso alongside

Salt glaze vessels by Anne Mette Hjortshoj,

who continues a very Danish, aesthetic-

based tradition of ceramic making. Until Sep 5, www.galleryten.co.uk

RON LAWSON, ‘GREEN DOOR’ (ALPHA ART GALLERY)


PABLO PICASSO, ‘HEAD OF A WOMAN WITH ORNAMENTAL HAIRSTYLE’, (GALLERY TEN)

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7- 24TH OF SEPTEMBER 2017 2ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT 7TH OF SEPT 6 - 8.30PM

8 Deanhaugh Street, Edinburgh, EH4 1LY0131 343 1126 www.saorsa-art.com

Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12–5pm

365 EXHIBITION‘365 SMALL ORIGINAL ARTWORKS BY ARTIST TOMMY FITCHET PAINTED OVER THE LAST YEAR. PAINTINGS ALL £100 EACH AND FOR EACH SOLD I AM DONATING £25 TO EACH OF THE CHARITIES,THE CANCER RESEARCH AND CHAS, CHILDREN’SHOSPICES ACROSS SCOTLAND.’

ARTIST/OWNER TOMMY FITCHET



To find out more and apply visit our website -www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk

PLACES REMAINING ON OUR YEAR-LONG COURSES FOR 2017/18 INCLUDING

CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE AND

FIGURE COURSEOpening Saturday 5th August 12noonruns to Sunday 3rd September

Free Printmaking Demonstrations13a Great King St, EH3 6QW

venue396

www.edsgallery.com

PrintRoom Dundeewith guest artist

Norman Ackroyd

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FIFE

he St Andrews Photography Festival returns to celebrate

the role that the town played

in the technical development

of photography from its earliest

days via a friendship between the medium’s

pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot and Sir

David Brewster, then the principal of the

United Colleges (now the University of

St Andrews). A number of non-traditional

venues around town will devote wall

space, and the festival will also include,

talks, historic process demonstrations and

workshops. Sep 1-30, www.facebook.com/StAndPhotoFest

Influenced by the work of the Cornish

fisherman/artist Alfred Wallis (1855-1942),

David Sim of the Crail Gallery has made a

selection of violins (pictured left) to celebrate

the recent East Neuk Festival of music.

Constructed from cardboard and hand-

painted, they range in price from £200 to

£350. www.crailgallery.com

JOHN HOUSTON, ‘FLOWERS IN AN OCHRE VASE’ (ST ANDREWS MUSEUM)

The Glasgow Boys: A Spirit of Rebellion at

Kirkcaldy Galleries (until Nov 5) highlights

the celebrated group of artists linked by

a shared desire to rebel against the art

establishment in late 19th century Scotland.

Included are works by John Lavery, E. A.

Hornel, George Henry, Arthur Melville,

James Guthrie and others. At St Andrews Museum the group of 20th century artists

known as the Edinburgh School and a

later generation of the same name who

shared both their predecessors’ conscious

traditionalism and individuality of approach

are the subject of A Brush with Colour (until

Nov 4). Featured artists include William

Gillies, Anne Redpath, John Houston

and Elizabeth Blackadder. Works in both

exhibitions are from Fife Council’s fine art

collection. www.onfife.com

Head over to the Pittenweem Arts Festival, this year celebrating its 35th year with

invited artists. Graham Rich, Anna S. King

and Paul Furneaux along with over a

hundred others exhibiting, giving talks and

holding workshops in venues throughout the

picturesque coastal village. Aug 5-13, www.pittenweemartsfestival.com

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T he 6th Open Annual Summer

Exhibition by the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) visits Glasgow for the first

time at the Lillie Art Gallery. Open to all

watercolour artists living and working in

Scotland, the exhibition will show new works

by both leading artists and emerging talent.

Events during the exhibition will offer visitors

a chance to ask artists questions on their

materials, methods and techniques. The

RSW is the only Scottish society dedicated

to the promotion of watercolour painting. It

counts many of Scotland’s most significant


ANN ORAM RSW, ‘FIELD EDGE WITH COW PARSLEY’ (LILLIE ART GALLERY)

painters within its ranks,

including Dame Elizabeth

Blackadder and Adrian

Wisniewski. Aug 12-Sep 27, www.rsw.org.uk

In a celebration of the

woodcut technique, CUT

at Glasgow Print Studio

brings together a selection

of modern and contemporary woodcut

prints from a diverse range of artists. One

of the oldest methods of printmaking, the

woodcut is based on the principle of cutting

or gouging away part of the surface of a

block so that the image area to be printed

stands out in relief to form a printing surface.

Originating in the East, the technique

arrived in Europe in the 13th century,

Albrecht Dürer becoming one of its finest

proponents. Exhibiting artists in CUT include

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Martin Boyce,

Peter Howson, Grayson Perry and Adrian

Wiszniewski. Until Aug 27, www.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk

Subversion(Un)Fine Art Gallery

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by staff & partner organisations of Paisley Museum

Until Mon Sep 25, Free

Featuring: Works by Scottish Colourists & Glasgow Boys + rarely seen examples from the Paisley Museum

and Paisley Art Institute collections

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15 July - 17 SeptemberExhibiting artists include:Claire Barclay, Elizabeth Blackadder, Martin Boyce, Paul Furneaux, Peter Howson, Ying Jinfei, GW Lennox Paterson, Grayson Perry, Chen Qi , Adrian Wiszniewski, Zhang Xiaofeng.

Glasgow Print StudioTrongate 103, Merchant CityGlasgow G1 5HD

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T he Castle Gallery Bute in

Rothesay brings back David

Shepherd CBE, one of Britain’s

most respected wildlife artists

and animal conservationists,

with a small collection of oil paintings

featuring lions, orangutans, hippos and

warthogs. The gallery first showed David

in 2006 and in 2008 hosted his first solo

exhibition in Scotland. It remains the

exclusive Scottish outlet of his work. David

is the founder of the David Shepherd

Wildlife Foundation for the preservation of

endangered species such as the black rhino

and tiger. It has raised

millions of pounds

for this vital cause.

Until Sep 30, www.thecastlegallery.com

Scottish artist Carol

Taylor returns to

the Tighnabruaich Gallery in Argyll

for her second solo

exhibition, featuring

paintings and

assemblages produced in response to her

time spent last year on Argyll’s

“Secret Coast”, with its shifting

weather systems and miles of

rugged coastline. This body

of work consists of a series of

large scale panels depicting

the fleeting light and textures

and colours of the sea. A

graduate from the Sculpture

school at Edinburgh College

of Art, Carol has also created

a series of heavily textured

assemblages composed of

finds from her explorations of

the coastline, worked into with

paint. The result is somewhere between

sculpture and painting. The exhibition also

includes work from previous stages of

Carol’s career, giving the viewer an insight

into her artistic development. Aug 1-31, www.tiggallery.com

John Lowrie “Jolomo” Morrison continues

a busy year of solo exhibitions at the

Archway Gallery in Lochgilphead, drawing

from his most recent series depicting the

lighthouses, crofts and coastscapes which

have made him one of Scotland’s most

popular and successful artists. Aug 6-Sep 6, www.thearchway.co.ukCAROL TAYLOR, ‘ROUGH SEA OFF TIGHNABRUAICH’ (TIGHNABRUAICH GALLERY)

SEE DAVID SHEPHERD/CASTLE GALLERY

SUMMER EXHIBITIONSCOTTISH SCULPTURE PARK

at CAOL RUADH

June 3 - October 1

Caol RuadhColintraive PA22 3AR01700 841357Open Thurs - Sun, 11am - 6pm

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The Nairn Book & Arts Festival returns to venues

throughout the town on the

Moray Firth, including a lively

visual art offering. Among the

exhibitors are Charlie Phillips, a past winner

of the Scottish Wildlife Photographer of the

Year award, five Highland artists in a group

show (including mosaic artist Fi Rodger,

whose ‘Tin Wings’ is the cover image of this

year’s programme) and third year BA (Hons)

Fine Art students from Moray College.

Sep 12-17 (exhibition dates may vary), www.nairnfestival.co.uk

Tales From The North at An Tobar Gallery in Tobermory, Isle of Mull features husband

and wife artists Pamela and Erlend Tait,

who work and exhibit both individually and

in collaboration. In this body of new work,

Erlend’s precision (drawing on history and

mythology, he works in various media,

including stained glass) meets Pamela’s

intuition (a painter and etcher, she cites

as a source of her imagery pareidolia,

the perception of images in natural

phenomena such as clouds and trees) to

create something magical. The work of both

artists uses symbolic imagery rendered

with impeccable technique to assemble

complex and layered narratives, applying

their knowledge of Scotland’s natural

environment and history to create personal

mythologies of a land existing in parallel to

reality. Until Sep 9, www.comar.co.uk

FIONA RODGER, ‘TIN WINGS’ (NAIRN BOOK & ARTS FESTIVAL)

The Archway Gallery

7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS01546 606894www.thearchway.co.uk

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Coming soon to Birnam Arts…. BUDAPEST CAFÉ ORCHESTRAFRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM

Back at Birnam Arts by popular demand, the fiery vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship of the finest purveyors of Eastern European gypsy music this side of a Lada scrap heap, will leave you with a grin on your face and rhythm in your feet…

SEPTEMBER SERENADES: FRIENDS OF SCOTTISH OPERASUNDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER, 2PM FOR 3PM

Enjoy an indulgent afternoon of wonderful opera highlights from a trio of brilliant young Scottish Opera singers, accompanied by Scottish Opera’s Head of Music, Derek Clark. Don’t miss!

ANDY CANNON & RICHARD FERGUSON INTHE SUNSHINE GHOSTWEDNESDAY 25TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM

Musical theatre loosely based on the idea for the 1935 film The Ghost Goes West, The Sunshine Ghost is a fabulous, fun new musical telling the wonderfully comic story of the acquisition of Castle MacKinnon by a love-struck American property tycoon billionaire for his fiancé, ‘Astrobeth’ - Hollywood’s favourite astrologer….

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PERTHSHIRE

Louise Bourgeois at Perth Museum & Art Gallery

is drawn from the Artist

Rooms collection of modern

and contemporary art.

Often autobiographical and intensely

psychological, the influential French-

American artist’s work covers themes such

as birth, death, love, loss and fear. Although

her career spanned seven decades,

Bourgeois was most prolific in later life,

when she created the famous spider

sculptures which made her one of the most

recognisable artists today. Sep 1-Nov 18, www.culturepk.org.uk/museums-and-galleries/perth-museum-and-art-gallery

‘Drover’s Bho’ by Kev Paxton is the

latest addition to the regional Scottish

Thistle Award-winning BLiSS Trail linking

Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Strathyre and

St Fillans villages with eye-catching art

installations. ‘Bho’ means cow in Gaelic, the

language used in the area at the time of the

drovers, who would drive cattle in the days

before the mid-19th century revolution in

agriculture replaced open common grazing

with enclosed fields. ‘Drover’s Bho’ is set

on Sustrans cycle Route 7 in Strathyre near

Balvaig Bridge in an area where drovers

used to rest up and enjoy, er, a refreshment.

The BLiSS trail links around 25 sculptures,

installations and ornamental features.

www.robroycountry.com/blisstrail

A few years ago Keith Brame was invited

by the John Muir Trust to photograph the

wild landscapes in its care: Ben Nevis,

Schiehallion, parts of the Isle of Skye and KEV PAXTON, ‘DROVER’S BHO’ (BLISS TRAIL)

LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010), ‘FRIENDS AND FAMILY’. PHOTO: TATE PHOTOGRAPHY. (PERTH MUSEUM & ART GALLERY)

Knoydart, Sandwood Bay and Quinag. Many

of the photographs are still used by the Trust

to illustrate its conservation work and to

promote the value of wild land. A selection

is now on view at the Alan Reece Gallery in

Pitlochry. Until Aug 31, www.johnmuirtrust.org.our-work/wild-space-visitor-centre/current-exhibition

Artisanand in Aberfeldy has a changing

mix of quirky and conceptual pieces by

contemporary Scottish artists and makers,

including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,

glass, jewellery, wood, textiles and furniture.

The current exhibition is Full on Summer.

Until Sep 1, www.artisanand.co.uk

Artist owned gallery. Scottish landscape paintings, drawings, prints, cards, placemats & coasters

Audrey Slorance Gallery

10.30am to 5.00pm, closed Sun-day & Monday

6 The Square, Aberfeldy PH15 2DDTel: 01887 [email protected]

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STIRLINGSHIRE & CLACKMANNANSHIRE

M arking 2017 as the Year

of History, Heritage

and Archaeology,

Workhorse: The

Clydesdales of Flanders

Moss - Photographs by Michael Prince at

the Park Gallery in Falkirk – pays tribute

to the age of horse power, when life and

work depended on horses for transport,

deliveries, military activity, industrial energy

and law and order. Falkirk was the hub of

the lowland canal network and the barge-

pulling horses which drove the economy

were omnipresent. Says Michael Prince:

“I’ve been photographing the Clydesdales

at Flanders Moss, Stirling since 2013. I was

immediately drawn to their beauty and

presence as a potential subject and could

see the visual possibilities in documenting

some of their story within the exposed

environment.” Until Oct 15, www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/park-gallery

The Green Gallery in Buchlyvie reopens on

September 10 featuring Sandra Moffat and

gallery artists. Meanwhile its sister gallery in

Dollar has a rolling show of gallery artists,

featuring Lex McFadyen, Carol Moore,

Jackie Gardiner, Susan Christie and many

more. www.greengallery.com

The University of Stirling Art Collection

celebrates its 50th anniversary with 1967,

a series of indoor and outdoor exhibitions

and events focusing on the cultural impact

of the year the University received its first

students. The art collection is the legacy of

the University’s first Principal, Dr Tom Cottrell

(1967-1973), who recognised that art and

culture should be part of everyday life at the

University. In the first phase of construction

one per cent of the cost of each new

building was earmarked for art to decorate

it. Now housed mainly in the Pathfoot

ALAN DAVIE, ‘ZURICH IMPROVISATIONS VII’ (UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING ART COLLECTION)

Building - itself an iconic design of the era

– the collection comprises works by nearly

250 artists, including many household

names. Sep 11-Aug 24 2018, www.stir.ac.uk/artcol/exhibitions

FROM WORKHORSE: THE CLYDESDALES OF FLANDERS MOSS - PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL PRINCE (PARK GALLERY)

WORKHORSEThe Clydesdales of Flanders Moss

Photographs by Michael PrinceSat 8 July – Sun 15 October | Admission Free theparkgalleryCallendar House, Callendar Park, Falkirk, FK1 1YR Mon-Sun 10am-5pm (Closed Tuesdays) | Last admission 4pm www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org | Falkirk Heritage

Falkirk Community Trust gratefully acknowledge the support of Falkirk Council.

SSBAThe

Second AnnualExhibition

The Colours of Nature

Stirling Smith Art Gallery & MuseumDumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2RQ

Sunday 3rd September to Sunday 22nd October

Tuesday to Saturday 10:30–17:00Sunday 14:00–17:00Free Admission

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NORTHEAST ENGLAND

PAUL NASH, ‘LANDSCAPE FROM A DREAM’, 1936-8 © TATE, LONDON 2015 (LAING ART GALLERY)

encounters with particular places. His

shattered landscapes are among the most

striking pictures of WWI and WWII. Displayed

alongside Nash’s pictures are sculptures

and paintings by fellow members of the

British modernist group Unit One, including

Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and

Edward Wadsworth. Sep 9-Jan 14, 2018, www.laingartgallery.org.uk

In 1983 the Side Gallery in Newcastle

commissioned photographer Bruce Rae

to document the Tyneside shipyards at a

time when the ship-building industry was

in sharp decline. Given almost unlimited

access, Rae, who had trained as an

industrial photographer, captured

the faces of the different tradesmen,

the awe-inspiring scale of the

work and the powerful structures

which appeared everywhere in

the background. While smaller

selections from the project were

exhibited in the 1980s and ‘90s,

Bruce Rae: Shipbuilding on the Tyne

is the first time since 1983 that the

full scale of the project has been

shown. Until Oct 8, www.amber-online.com/side-gallery

In what has become an annual exhibition,

Northumbrian Landscapes at Gallery 45 in Felton celebrates the beauty of the

Northeast countryside, including Nick

Potter’s charmingly quirky paintings and photography by Richard Hay. Until Sep 1, www.feltongallery45.co.uk

REPLACING A PROPELLER BONNET LOST AT SEA, SMITH’S DOCK. FROM BRUCE RAE: SHIPBUILDING ON THE TYNE (SIDE GALLERY)

S imply titled Paul Nash, the

forthcoming exhibition on the

key figure in British Surrealism

at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle is double the

size of any show since the Laing began

its ticketed programme. Spanning Nash’s

work, from his earliest drawings and iconic

war paintings to his powerfully emotional

final landscapes, it illustrates how his

art forged an important new connection

between surreal and mystical ideas and

the English landscape with which he had

a strong attachment. Nash (1889-1946)

put landscape at the heart of his work,

evolving from dream-like scenes to intense

9 September 2017 - 14 January 2018PAUL NASH

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T I M E O U T L O N D O N

Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle, NE1 8AG Tel: (0191) 278 1611

www.laingartgallery.org.ukThe exhibition is organised by Tate Britain in association with the Laing Art Gallery and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.

Landscape from a Dream by Paul Nash © Tate, London 2015. Photograph © Tate, London 2016

Admission charges apply

T O U R I N G F R O M


NORTHEAST ENGLAND

King’s Road, Newcastle UniversityHaymarket Interchange

Free entryMon - Sat, 10am - 5pm

hattongallery.org.uk

watch this space

Gallery opening 7 October 2017www.blagdongallery.co.uk

9 Milkhope Centre, Berwick Hill Road, Seaton Burn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE13 6DA

01670 [email protected]

Exhibition of New Original Watercolours and Limited Edition Prints by

Mary Ann Rogers September 2017 Preview Sunday 3rd September 11am - 4pm

Exhibition of new original paintings by

Malcolm TeasdaleOctober & November 2017


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East Neuk Fields Oil on canvas 30” x 30”

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