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Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, just one of the exciting titles in the 28th edition of the French Film Festival UK (Nov 4-Dec 17). See page 14 for a chance to win a ticket to an online screening! Winter Exhibition ‘Winter Song’ 24 Oct – 12 Feb
Ian McWhinnie North East Shore Stan Bird Stella Jackie Henderson Daisy and Rosie
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Scottish museum and a I m a g e : s b l H u p r t i n J - P S o é ’ gallery are among five British venues which have 4 November to 17 December 2020 shared the title of Museum Aof the Year and the annual award’s prize fund of £200,000, presented by the Art Fund. The Gairloch Museum in Ross- s L a D r shire last year moved into a former
o n e Cold War anti-aircraft command centre, which according to the Art Fund ‘transformed a village eyesore into an important visitor attraction’. It is currently showing Landscape and Memory, a solo exhibition of new works by Kittie Jones charting places around the coasts of Scotland where she has made work (until Oct 30). www.gairlochmuseum.org The other Scottish winner is the Aberdeen Art Gallery, which reopened last year after a redevelopment which almost tripled In cinemas and online the number of works on display and attracted 100,000 visitors in its first 100 days. This year the gallery is the Edinburgh Filmhouse, only UK venue to host the BP Portrait Award, the most prestigious portrait Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse, painting competition in the world Glasgow Film Theatre and (until Jan 24, 2021). Pictured: Jamie Coreth, Portrait of Fatima other leading independent www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/aagm cinemas across Scotland
Featured artist at the Goldfinch Gallery in The Fine Arts (RGI) Comrie, Perthshire is Lin Pattullo, a versatile Kelly Gallery www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk painter who can turn her hand to figurative reopens with work, landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes and Window Works still lifes (Oct 24-Nov 20). She is particularly (Oct 23-Nov 6), a series of new, large adept at capturing a moment, whether a small scale paintings by child playing on a beach, the contrast of sun Sean Ellcombe, a and shadow on a Mediterranean wall or an 2019 graduate in ever-changing landscape. Fine Art Painting Lin exhibits regularly in galleries and Printmaking throughout the UK. She is an elected member from the Glasgow School of Art and of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists recipient of the 2019 RGI Graduate and a member of Paisley Art Institute and the Award with fellow GSA graduate Thyme Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Many James. Pictured: Window Works Sketch of her paintings are reproduced on cards no.8, 2020, soft pastel on paper www. and as limited edition prints. Pictured: Yellow theroyalglasgowinstituteofthefinearts. Door, Spain www.goldfinchgallery.co.uk co.uk
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ay Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema at shown along with the Scottish National Gallery of memorabilia from RModern Art/Modern Two (Oct Harryhausen’s personal 24-Sep 5, 2021, £12-14, conc. avail.) marks collection, including the reopening of the gallery with the largest posters, photographs, retrospective of the Academy Award- storyboard illustrations winning pioneer who elevated stop-motion and drawings and art animation to an art form between the which influenced him. 1950s and 1980s and whose films inspired Ray Harryhausen a generation of directors, including Steven (1920-2013) was Spielberg, George Lucas, Sir Peter Jackson inspired by the work and Guillermo del Toro. of the special effects The exhibition showcases the original and stop-motion models which were miraculously brought animation expert Willis to life on screen, such as the UFOs from O’Brien after seeing Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956), the iconic his film King Kong at skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood was the great-great granddaughter of the (1963, pictured) and the cyclops from the as a teenager in 1933. He went on to see Scottish explorer David Livingstone and one Sinbad series. the film 33 times and was later mentored by of Harryhausen’s last projects was to design The models, which would later inspire O’Brien. a statue of Livingstone, which now stands in films such as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The exhibition also traces Harryhausen’s Blantyre in South Lanarkshire. Jurassic Park and Pan’s Labyrinth, are connection to Scotland. His wife Diana www.nationalgalleries.org
The Royal Scottish Academy has two Studio. The complex issues of conflict and IN THE PENS exhibitions running concurrently (Oct 25-Nov resolution have become a constant influence 22). on Duffin and two key words – ‘coexistence’ ARTISAN CERAMICS Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in and ‘compassion’ – now inform his work. Scottish Art examines how non-objective A graduate in Fine Art Printmaking from expression remains a compelling approach Gray’s School of Art, Duffin was elected an MARKET. Photo: Colin Hattersley a century after it was first taken up by the Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy 30TH OCT – 1ST NOV, 2020 avant-garde. There are works by 30 historical, in 1996 and a Member in 2005. Pictured: Of contemporary and emerging artists, including Conflict and Resolution Set in Skirsgill Auction Mart, Penrith. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham RSA, Alan Davie www.royalscottishacademy.org HRSA and Eduardo Paolozzi Potfest in the Pens has a hands on HRSA. energy – No art hype, no gallery glitz, The exhibition shows how the pared back elegance of just poers and public in a down to Scottish Opera is releasing a digital version geometric abstraction has of its popular Opera Highlights at 6pm on earth seing – a real Cumbrian day out. become both a favoured means Sunday October 25, which is World Opera of expression for artists and a Day. desirable field for collectors. Skirsgill Auction Mart Filmed in the theatre of Greenock’s Also showing is Stuart Beacon Arts Centre, the production imagines Penrith, CA11 0DN Duffin: Peace Starts with a Smile, a time when performance can once again featuring etching, mezzotint, happen inside theatres, with four singers digital printmaking, collage, oils delighted to be performing live for the first POTFEST.CO.UK and audio-visual work inspired time since lockdown, even if social distancing by the artist’s association gets in the way of flourishing romances. over a quarter of a century Highlights including Verdi’s Brindisi and with the city of Jerusalem Bizet’s Habanera plus selections by the likes since his first residency there of Gilbert and Sullivan, Mozart and Lehár. as part of a collaboration Pictured: Mezzo-soprano Margo Arsane and between Jerusalem Print baritone Arthur Bruce Workshop and Glasgow Print www.scottishopera.org.uk 8 | 23 October | Issue 136 23 October | Issue 136 | 9 ARTS NEWS
The winners of this year’s Scottish Jazz Awards have been announced in a live- steamed ceremony. Artists were recognised in seven categories based on over 2,500 online public votes. The winners are: corto. alto, Best Band and Best Album; pianist Fergus McCreadie, Best Instrumentalist; Kitti, Best Vocalist; trombonist/singer Anoushka Nanguy, Rising Star. A panel of industry specialists selected two further winners: music writer, jazz critic and agent Rob Adams received the Services To Scottish Jazz Award, while player/arranger Ken Mathieson, promoter of the first Glasgow International Jazz Festival in 1987, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. To view the ince time immemorial artists have Deserted streets and empty landscapes awards visit myplayer.uk/jazz. Pictured: Hosts attempted to capture, interpret and devoid of human activity have seen these Suzanne Bonner and Luca Manning Stranslate nature in pencil, paint and environments come into their own in ways we print. Splendid Isolation: Landscapes from could not have imagined, while the changing our Permanent Collection at the Inverness seasons that many of us have previously Museum and Art Gallery (until Dec 31) barely had time to notice have burst upon our features a selection of works from the consciousness. Pictured: Russell Colombo, Highland Council’s permanent collections Black Binks, acrylic on canvas celebrating our relationship with nature, which www.highlifehighland.com/inverness- for many people has made isolation tolerable museum-and-art-gallery during lockdown.
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Featured artist at Gallery Q in Dundee is olo Gallery in Irish-born and now Borders-based Siobhan Innerleithen in the O’Hehir (Oct 24-Nov 15), whose semi- SScottish Borders abstract landscapes reveal her love of has a wide range of Wildlife Art open spaces as a rock climber and overall contemporary fine art, & Sculpture outdoors enthusiast. Also showing are ceramics, glass and Irene McCann, Dionne Sievewright, Louise jewellery by artists from Scotland and throughout Robert Greenhalf Scott, Fergus McLachlan and William Philp. Pictured: Along the Distant Shore, oil on the UK. They host regular Anthony Theakston paper www.galleryq.co.uk exhibitions as well as artist-led workshops and Matt Underwood life drawing sessions for all ages and abilities. SOC Currently showing Waterston House is Sarah Anderson: A Aberlady Walk in The Borders Thurs-Sun 10-4 (Oct 24-Nov 21), featuring new landscape Until 22 Nov The Need For Eden paintings reflecting the an exhibition of installations and paintings by dramatic effects of www.the-soc.org.uk weather on mountains, Julie Goring shorelines, trees and the 17th October—14th November artist’s favourite place, Edinburgh. She works principally in oils and in prevailing atmosphere. Pictured: A Walk in a strongly coloured palette with a wide tonal The Borders www.sologallery.co.uk range designed to envelop the viewer in the
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A ticket to the French Film Festival online screening of your choice plus delivery of he next live online Siobhan O’Hehir auction by the a set menu of French bistro 24 October to 15 November TEdinburgh branch cuisine for two people from of Lyon & Turnbull is Côte at Home, including wine – Decorative Arts: Design since delivered in time for the movie! 1860 (Nov 2 & 3), featuring a stunning array of items, including furniture, tableware, Just Kids directed by Christophe Blanc Winter Song at Coast Art in Dunbar (Oct stained glass, jewellery, 24-Feb 12, 2021) brings together work by mirrors, prints, clocks, six artists in a variety of styles and media: chandeliers, candelabras, tiles quirky, observational figurative work and much more. Pictured: by Jackie Henderson; boldly colourful Aesthetic Movement four- depictions of the natural world by Stanley fold draught screen, English Bird; anonymous figures like characters in a School, c. 1880 (Lot 47), est. drama by Ian McWhinnie (pictured: North £1,800-£2,200, fees apply East Shore, oil on board); abstract landscapes www.lyonandturnbull.com by Louise Turnbull; dream-like scenarios by Aliisa Hyslop; and landscapes by John The online festival, fff @ home, McClenaghan informed by generations of (Nov 27-Dec 4) features a great Scottish farmers in his family. The gallery also selection of full-length films www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 has a bespoke picture framing service. and shorts. www.coastart.co.uk Clience FLAT CAT GALLERY Studio and cafe Highlands, Islands, Galloway and Cumbria feature at this artist’s studio and gallery. Autumn Mixed Exhibition NEW AUTUMN WORK Angela works in a variety of sizes and Featuring June Bell also presents a wide selection of signed 17 Oct – 14 Nov archival prints as well as art gifts and calendars from her Galloway painting. Paintings, Prints and Commissions. Enjoy a French meal and a movie, with the best seat in the house! Oct 5-12 Seascape and Landscape Paintings by Spring Fling online www.spring-fling. co.uk/portfolio-posts/angela-lawrence/ ENTRY DEADLINE Angela Lawrence 19 NOV 2020 Mon-Sat 10.30-5
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www.cliencestudio.co.uk Warren (detail) Alexandra Autumn Leaves Patricia Sadler Landforms Patricia Border angelalawrencecliencestudio Mon-Sat 9.30-5, Sun 10-5. Closed Tues-Wed Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Wed by appointment www.flatcatgallery.co.uk One household at a time are welcome 51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL. 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 2 Market Place, Lauder, Berwickshire TD2 6SR TO ENTER: www.artmag.co.uk/win to drop in or book a time www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk [email protected] 01578 722 808
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Following her passion for bright colours and geometric patterns, Fiona Thomson of Candy Coated Accessories has developed a varied range of products, including scarves, baby accessories, beanie hats, cosmetic bags and mini-hot water bottles. Pictured: Infinity Chevron Scarf www.candy-coated.com
Made with components reclaimed from an early 19th century Aberdeen-based Megan Falconer has a new collection of hand- Glasgow shop front, the Cathcart coffee table by Eoghann Menzies carved, solid silver and gemstone jewellery inspired by the northeast is from a range of pieces inspired by the great design movements of coastal landscape and made using traditional and modern techniques. the same period such as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. She also offers a bespoke jewellery – and silverware-making service www.menziesdesign.co.uk to make a beautiful new item or by recycling old or unworn jewellery. www.meganfalconer.com
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Karen Hanvidge makes vibrant, functional Lucinda Wilkinson has produced a series Inspired by the wild flora and foliage of and decorative ceramic pieces which often of glass sculptural panels transcribed from northeast Scotland, Fiona Hall of Camban feature the iconic Paisley pattern design. satellite data to show the poignancy of Studio makes printed fabric available by the Her most recent porcelain works feature melting Antarctic ice caused by climate metre and suitable for a range of uses from decal designs taken partially from her own change. They can be suspended, attached or furnishing to fashion. Camban is named after photographs and paintings. Every piece is inserted into a wall and when lit from behind a bothy in Glen Affric in the West Highlands, one of a kind. the imagery constantly shifts and dances, formerly belonging to Clan Chisholm, Fiona’s www.karenhanvidgeceramics.com making many different pictures from one maiden name. www.cambanstudio.com work of art. www.originalartauctions.com
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National Gallery of Ireland Royal Hibernian Works in Academy Located in the beautiful Georgian Progress streetscape of Ely Place, this artist-led organisation founded in 1823 has undergone a beautiful refurbishment in recent of modern and contemporary art. The splendour, 19th century high style and 20th years, collection of over 3,500 works emphasises resulting in century Irish modernism focussing on some Eileen Gray’s iconic E1027 table art produced post-1940 and features of Ireland’s best furniture designers from spacious, airy (National Museum of Ireland – pieces by many significant artists such 1900 to the present. galleries ideal Decorative Arts) as Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, The museum also has an impressive for displaying Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt and Roy section devoted to the work of the Irish- the full and impressive gamut of Irish art. Lichtenstein. www.imma.ie born architect and designer, Eileen Gray Different sections are dedicated to (1878-1976). Relatively unheralded compared various subjects and disciplines, such as National Gallery of Ireland Opened to contemporaries such as Le Corbusier (an portraiture, landscape/cityscape and in 1864, the gallery has examples of admirer of her work), the Bauhaus movement photography. The Annual Exhibition at the every European school of oil paintings, and Frank Lloyd Wright, Gray was mainly RHA is the largest and longest running open watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture known as a lacquer specialist, but went on submission exhibition in Ireland, while the and including an extensive collection of Irish to design interiors in a timeless style. In her works, notably some remarkable pieces by ground floor Ashford Gallery is designed to Francis Bacon’s studio in the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Photo: Perry Ogden Collection © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS Paris retail shop, which she opened in 1922, the Expressionist Jack Butler Yeats. she designed and made every item on sale introduce emerging artists to collectors and Some of the highlights include Picasso’s herself. The design of the facade was her first test their commercial viability. From the 9th century ART MUSEUMS temporary exhibitions. Still Life with a Mandolin, Gainsborough’s foray into architecture. www.museum.ie www.rhagallery.ie Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane For many visitors the highlight is the The Cottage Girl, Renoir’s Young Woman in Book of Kells to a Turner Based on an original collection donated London studio of the Dublin-born artist White Reading, Juan Gris’ Pierrot and Pieter The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the 17th century Royal Hospital building by its founder, art dealer, collector and Francis Bacon, the entire contents of which Bruegel’s Peasant Wedding. There are also Prize-winner*, Irish art gallery director Hugh Lane (he held the were packed up after his death, shipped works by Van Gogh, Monet, Bonnard, Sisley, continues to impress. first exhibition of Irish Art in 1904 in back to his home town and reconstructed in Goya, Degas, Matisse, Lavery, Vermeer, London and acquired for the gallery the minute detail. Rembrandt and Caravaggio (The Taking first Impressionist paintings in any public In a revealing South Bank Show interview of Christ, the so-called ‘lost painting’ collection in Britain and Ireland), one of with Melvyn Bragg shown on a video loop rediscovered in Dublin’s Society of Jesus nown throughout the world Ireland’s foremost collections of modern Bacon describes his studio as “kind of a after its whereabouts remained unknown for for its steady stream of and contemporary art has grown to include dump… I work much better in chaos. Chaos about 200 years). www.nationalgallery.ie creativity, Ireland has made huge over 2,000 works by leading national and for me brings images.” You can also view a contributions to music, theatre, international artists. digital archive of over 7,000 items found in National Museum of Ireland - Decorative film – and, of course, visual art. A classic municipal gallery in atmosphere, his studio. www.hughlane.ie Arts Housed in the historic Collins Barracks, AK healthy dose of some of the world’s most its displays include The Lane Legacy the museum’s collection includes silver, renowned artists have excelled in all genres, exhibition, which celebrates the founder Irish Museum of Modern Art Housed in ceramics, glassware, furniture, clothing, from portraiture, landscapes and illustration with works such as Music in the Tuileries the magnificent, 17th century Royal Hospital jewellery and coins. There are also examples to mural, photography and video. You’ll Gardens by Manet, Lavacourt under Snow building in the suburb of Kilmainham, the of folk life and costume. find many of their works in Dublin’s top art by Monet, Beach Scene by Degas and The IMMA is home to the National Collection A section called Reconstructed Rooms museums and galleries along with the best Sleeping Princess by Edward Burne-Jones. shows four centuries of furnishings: 17th *Video artist Duncan Campbell in 2014 for his video piece It emerging Irish artists. Permanent displays are complemented by for Others century oak panelling, refined Georgian
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