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The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 179 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts July/August 2013 David Michie, Dnncing in the Bar Room, from the exhibition Border Boys at the Tweedale Museum, Peebles from August 24 to November 2 Arise, Sir Buggins! (p 5) artWORK 179 July/August 2013 Page 2 artWORK 179 July/August 2013 Page 3 SOURCES FOR COURSES POLDRATE ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTRE, HADDINGTON, EAST LOTHIAN, EH41 4DA ‘DROP IN DAY’ Sunday 1st September 2-4pm see some Tutors’ work and check which classes still have spaces and sign up TODAY Annual Summer Programme 2013 www.pacc.org.uk Master Classes Term Starts Monday 23rd September, we have 28 August—18 September 2013 21 classes or self help groups to offer. 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COPIES OF 0131 554 5761 to this address...Send (with cheque/PO/postage stamps) to:Famedram Publishers Ltd., £8.00 (6 issues) r £13.00 (12 issues) r PO Box 3, Ellon AB41 9EA Scotland artWORK 179 July/August 2013 Page 4 artWORK 179 July/August 2013 Page 5 Editorial Comment Time to set the record straight The ArtWork Guide ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] 01224 523 666, www.aagm. SCOTTISH SCULPTURE THE AIRT GALLERY, Arise Sir Buggins, it’s your turn Aberdeen co.uk WORKSHOP, 1 Main Street, South Leylodge, Farmhouse, HAS everyone gone stark raving bonkers? With our economy on the Venice Biennale Until July 13 Lumsden, Huntly, AB54 4JN, Leylodge, Kintore, AB51 ABERDEEN ART FAIR, scraping along the bottom – or flat lining in the inspired language Celebrating the history of Duthie 01464 861372, Fax: 01464 0XY, 01330 860 333 , www. BACK IN 1990 Scotland was part D.Y Cameron, John Lavery, Bessie protested this misrepresentation Aberdeen Music Hall, Union Park. Features original contracts A hut for everyman 861 550, www.ssw.org.uk theairtgallery.co.uk of Mr Balls – of one thing there seems to be no shortage. So-called of the official Venice Biennale. MacNicol and Constance Walton privately, and in 2005 Angela Street www.aberdeenartfair. and plans for the park as well as co.uk the original oil painting of Miss SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, honours are being handed out like confetti, making us ever more The presentation, at the invitation were featured as the new ‘Glasgow wrote formally to all three bodies, August 17 & 18 Duthie and costume contempo- LAST WEEK I built myself a hut. So, big in the highlands. Syllavethy, Montgarrie, Al- Ellon, AB41 7EQ, www. ridiculous in the eyes of commercial competitors. ford, AB33 8AQ, 01975 562 hhcos.org.uk of the Biennale director, took School.’ Scotland was invited enclosing copies of Scotland’s ABERDEEN ART GAL- rary to the opening of the Park deal, you may say. Well as a matter of fact it Cue huts. in 1883 273, www.syllavethy.com We had grown used to the Buggins’s turn political honours. place at the main entrance to the back in 1899, showing work by pages in the official 1990 Biennale LERY & MUSEUM, is. The concept is simple. You persuade COWDEN STUDIO, ROBERT GORDON UNI- TOLQUHON GALLERY, Cowden Farm, Drumlithie, Turn up at the Commons three or four days a week for a number Giardini so the three artists: David Charles Rennie Mackintosh and catalogue. Yet sadly the myth Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, 01224 My hut is around two metres by two landowners to allow a few huts on their 523 700, Fax: 01224 632 133, VERSITY, Faculty of Health Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, AB39 3YN, 01569 740039, of years, employ your wife as your secretary, pile up the expenses Mach, Kate Whiteford and Arthur continues. www.aagm.co.uk Building, Garthdee Road, and cost me £ 200. You can sleep in it, set a land, temporary dwellings that can be AB41 7LP, 01651 842 343, www.cowdenstudio.com, and tuck away an absurdly generous pension, oh, and what about a Watson, were centre stage. It was Why not put the facts straight? AB10 7QQ www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk [email protected] Until July 27 chair in it and my intention is to install a pv shifted if necessary and with some kind of knighthood, or maybe something a little more comfortable, sir? recognised by all as a triumph. The 1990 presentation should be Sir George Clausen - Works on CLAREMONT STUDIO, system on the roof so it will have a light. lease arrangement that works for all parties. Until August 11 PITMEDDEN GARDEN, El- Paper. A selection of watercol- 66 Claremont Street, AB10 S ummer Exhibition lon, Ellon, AB41 7PD, 01651 After all, they have to fill the Upper House somehow. Fast forward to 2003 and the acknowledged. The three 1990 Now the bizarre It’s hardly a ours, sketches and lithographs 6QY, 01224 596 999, www. THE MILL OF UDNY, The 842352 announcement of Scotland’s ‘first’ artists should be acknowledged. July 13 - October 19 Now the madness seems to have extended to other walks of claremontgallery.co.uk thing is that everyone new idea. Back in Mill, Udny, Pitmedden, AB41 May to September participation. In 2005 the Scottish And primarily, if this was done by SJ Peploe. The Scottish Colourist 7RQ, 01651 842 429 John Maine. Stone sculptures. life, particularly sport, where any winner of a major event can look Series. THE NICOLE PORTER who comes and visits the thirties there THE ART & FRAMING Also art by various artists. At the forward to visiting the Palace to, er, arise Sir Buggins. Arts Council, British Council and Creative Scotland and partners, Until March 1 2014 GALLERY, 88 King Street, the hut says exactly were hundreds of Stables gallery SHOP, 15 Market Street, El- National Galleries of Scotland plus current organisers, Common The Lure of the Orient. Looks at AB24 5BA, 01224 566 477, the same thing. “I such huts across July 12 There have been some spectacular sporting achievements in how Far Eastern cultures have www.nicoleporter.co.uk lon, AB41 9JD, 01358 729531 repeated the claim of the ‘second’ Ground, Scotland would have a want one of those, I Scotland. In many Jason Porter. An Evening of recent years. Well done to everyone, but surely winning and the pile influenced collectors over the last MARTIN R. NELSON, COUNTRY FRAMES 200 years Music. of cash and/or silverware that goes with it is enough? presentation – and so on. Currently better chance of official invitation. Cowden Studio, Cowden really do. Maybe a bit parts of Scandinavia GALLERY, Leslie, Insch, July 13 the Glasgow organiser’s Venice Scotland in Venice is just ABERDEEN MARITIME Farm, Drumlithie, 01569 bigger.” they are perfectly Aberdeenshire, AB52 6PA Jazz Evening. The suspicion is bound to lurk – and certainly most MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 www.countryframesgallery. July 31 Biennale website claims the sixth part of the fringe. Just as the 740240, www.martinrnelson. Now I bought usual. They greatly powerfully after Wimbledon – that desperate politicians are trying 5BY, 01224 337700, Fax: com, martin@martinrnelson. co.uk A Mid-Simmer Night’s Dream. Scottish presentation. Edinburgh International Festival the hut a couple of increased the quality Picture Framing, Gallery, Giclee Outdoor Theatre to acquire some of the gold dust that could rub off from someone 01224 213066, www.aagm. com The 1990 pioneering event, has its Fringe, so the Venice co.uk Until July 27 years ago off Ninian of many lives. Printing August 16 else’s victory. (What about a gong anyway for those early Barcelona Mikado. Outdoor Theatre from an original idea by Richard Biennale has its off stage satellites. Until August 17 Somewhere Between. Grampian Crichton Stewart The question TOUCHED BY SCOT- coaches who set Andy Murray on the path to victory when the stuffy Wreck of the Oscar. Timed to co- Hospitals Art Trust in association LAND, Ryehill, Oyne, AB52 Until August 17 Demarco, was carried out on a Countries wishing to promote the Erica Hollis. Hands on Herbal old Lawn Tennis Association have been happy to leave tennis as the incide with the 200th anniversary with His Majesty’s theatre at the who was organising a is, are you gentle 6QS, 01464 851 489, www. of the wreck of the whaler Oscar Workshop. 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