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Hironori Katagiri, ‘Eclipse - Oval’, 2009, Japanese basalt. From the 154th Annual Open Exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI), Nov 11-26, 3d/2d’s exceptional..... www.royalglasgowinstitute.org Born in Kesennuma, Japan, in 1958, Katagiri Christmas initially worked as Assistant Director of the Symposion Lindabrunn, an artist’s colony for stone sculptors in Lower Austria. As a Art, Craft and key member of the International Sculpture Symposium movement in Europe and Japan, he spent winters in Scotland developing Design Fairs ideas for his sculpture. He now works between studios in Edinburgh and Japan, working on large scale public commissions.
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FILMING SEASON FIVE OF from depression, the theory goes, van Gogh EXHIBITION ON made his way to Scotland and a successful SCREEN career as an art dealer, while Reid moved to the Continent, going on to cut off his ear and ultimately take his own life. A related theory is that van Gogh (Reid?) was actually shot by a local youth in Ile-de-France. Google ‘Was van Gogh murdered?’ for more details. It is conceivable that the two could have swapped professions. Van Gogh came from a family of art dealers and was once an employee at the renowned Goupil & Cie in Paris, while Reid was a painter before selling other artists’ work. What is certain is that for six months Reid and van Gogh shared a flat in Paris belonging to Vincent’s brother Theo and that during a night of heavy drinking they discussed a suicide pact, presumably thinking ART FILMS doppelganger? In ‘Rogue’s Gallery: The Rise the better of it once they had sobered up. (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers’ (pub. One of van Gogh’s portraits of Reid has been The excellent Exhibition On Screen series of Profile Books), Phil Hook, Sotheby’s senior identified as having been painted in Theo’s gallery and museum films for the cinema has international specialist in Impressionist and flat, the only known depiction of it. Spoiler returned for a fifth season. Each film traces Modernist art, poses the tantalising notion alert: Reid later returned to Scotland, where the personal and creative lives of famous that the Dutch artist and the Scottish art his father and son would no doubt have artists or the emergence and evolution of key noticed if a Dutchman had joined the family. art movements. Titles in the the new series Still, nice story – or as someone else might include Canaletto and the Art of Venice, say, fake news. David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts and Cézanne: Portraits of a Life. Screening dates: www.exhibitiononscreen.com. ART APP(RECIATION) Earlier films are available on DVD or for paid A new free app with virtual reality may put download. the art world at your fingertips. ArtPassport offers anyone, anywhere access to high FAIR DEALS resolution images, descriptive texts of exhibitions and 360-degree panoramic 3D/2D has more than 20 years’ experience views of contemporary art from some of the organising quality selling events uniting makers, artists and designers with the world’s leading galleries and art museums. buying public. Exhibitors show and sell only Users can zoom in on art they are interested their own work. Look out for their popular in and press a Virtual Reality icon to use Christmas Craft, Art & Design Fairs in a Google Cardboard headset for a more Glasgow (Royal Concert Hall, Nov 25 & 26) immersive experience. Other ArtPassport and Edinburgh (Assembly Rooms, Dec 2 & 3) features include visitor information with maps and directions and daily updates www.3d2d.co.uk VAN GOGH’S PORTRAIT OF THE SCOTTISH ART DEALER ALEXANDER REID on new exhibitions. Future versions of the app will include functions such as Search, VINCENT AND... dealer Alexander Reid, who looked so much Sort, Favourites and NearMe. ArtPassport is ALEXANDER? alike that van Gogh’s portraits of him were available on iPhone at Here’s one for conspiracy theorists: Did for years misidentified as self-portraits, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ Vincent van Gogh trade lives with a Scottish agreed to swap lives. With both suffering artpassport/id1220878305?mt=8
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LITTLE WONDER The ‘world’s finest living art forger’ and the OPEN STUDIOS KEEPING YOU ‘greatest micro-sculptor on earth’ have IN THE PICTURE collaborated to create a version of the world’s best known artwork valued at one From kitchen table to garden shed to million pounds. Forger John Myatt has spare room to custom-built studio, artists painted an indistinguishable copy of the and craftmakers work wherever they can. As open studios season draws to a close, be sure to sneak a peek into their work spaces, speak to them about their methods and inspirations and buy or commission an original piece. Some will even let you try your hand at their skill. YOU CAN VISIT HENRY FRASER’S STUDIO DURING OPEN DOORS @ ST MARGARET’S HOUSE, EDINBURGH AYRSHIRE Courtyard Studios, Irvine, Oct 7 & 8, Nov 25 & 26, www.facebook.com/ www.irvineharbourside.org/places_ patriothallgallery waspstudios.php Open Doors @ St Margaret’s House, Oct 21 & 22, www.edinburghpalette.co.uk BORDERS JOHN MYATT AND WILLARD WIGAN MBE, ‘MONA LISA: Biggar Little Festival Open Studios Trail, SECRET IN THE EYE’ (DETAIL) Beaverhall Studios, Nov 25 & 26, Oct 28 & 29 (Festival runs Oct 18-29) www.facebook.com/BeaverhallStudios www.biggarlittlefestival.com ‘Mona Lisa’ into whose right eye Willard NORTHEAST ENGLAND Wigan MBE has created its smallest EDINBURGH Ouseburn Open Studios, Newcastle, Nov 25 replica, painted with the hair of a fly Patriothall WASPS Open Studios, & 26, www.ouseburnopenstudios.org and measuring less than one millimetre squared.
Wigan, who was awarded an MBE in 2007 for his services to art, has to go into a CHERRY WOOD LAMP BY STEPHEN trance-like state to slow down his nervous NEW GALLERIES FINCH (SFMA/CUSTOM LANE) system so that he can work between heartbeats. His work is often many times smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence. It is frequently displayed within the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin. He is recognised in the Guinness Book of World Records for sculpting the world’s smallest artworks.
In 1999 Myatt, whose work has confounded experts and sold in Christie’s and Sotheby’s, spent four months for art fraud in Brixton Prison, where he was known as “Picasso”. He now runs his own company, JUNOR GALLERY Genuine Fakes, with customers all over the world. In his TV show Fame in the EDINBURGH Frame he paints celebrities in the style of A new centre for design and making on a famous artist, such as Stephen Fry as if Leith’s Commercial Street, Custom Lane by Velazquez. ‘Mona Lisa: Secret In The is hosting the Scottish Furniture Makers Eye’ can be viewed at www.veryfirstto. Association (SFMA) annual exhibition, where FIFE com. John Myatt visits Castle Fine Art in you can see up close the skills of some of Currently showing in St Andrews’ newest Edinburgh (Sat Nov 4, 1-3pm) to showcase the finest designer-makers in the country exhibition space, Junor Gallery, is Maps of his latest collection, Vincent. and appreciate the timeless beauty they can the Imagination, a selection of map-based coax from a lump wood. Nov 4-12, work by five contemporary Scottish and www.customlane.co international artists. www.junorgallery.scot
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 9 SFMA Annual Exhibition 2017 November 4th - 12th ~ Admission Free Mon-Fri 9am-5pm ~ Sat 10am-5pm Sun 11am-4pm Explore the work of our members Custom Lane, Custom Wharf, from across Scotland at the 67 Commercial Street, Leith, following exhibitions: Edinburgh, EH6 6LH The Crafters Art & Design Fair November 18th - 19th Sat & Sun 10am-5pm Springwood Park, Kelso TD5 8LS See www.sfma.org.uk for more details…
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SettingTHE SCENE BRINGING THE BACKGROUND PAINTERS TO THE FOREGROUND
A DETAIL FROM HEAD SCENIC ARTIST FIONA CLARK’S BACKDROP FOR THE ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE’S PRODUCTION OF ‘GLORY ON EARTH’. PHOTO: DREW FARRELL
hether working for stage, there to support that. It’s about managing She concludes: “Every show is great fun. film or TV, they are for the expectations and making people happy. Most of the time, you’re going, ‘I’m getting most part unsung heroes, That’s the hard bit - getting to the point of paid to do this. Brilliant!’” happy for their work to knowing what you’re doing. The actual remain literally in the painting work itself is a joy.” One of Britain’s busiest freelance scenic Wbackground. Artmag spoke to some leading artists, Alison Irwin has racked up a lengthy scenic artists about a role in the creative In describing the end result of her work, she list of credits such as Outlander, the recent industries that not many people know about. repeats the credo of a former colleague: Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Meet Me At Dawn’, ‘Nice from afar, but far from nice’. She Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre production Head Scenic Artist at Edinburgh’s Royal expains: “That’s all you need onstage a lot of ‘Grain in the Blood’, the Olivier award- Lyceum Theatre, Fiona Clark has a modest of the time. It’s in the background. Our job is winning ‘Five Guys Named Moe’ and the attitude to her work. “Basically,” she says, helping to create a picture and helping the BBC TV children’s drama Teacup Travels. “it’s painting and decorating.” audience believe what the actors are doing. If people are sitting looking at the set, we’re She outlines one of the challenges facing She describes the hierarchy a scenic artist in big trouble. It’s there to support the drama. traditional scenic artists: technology. works under: “The director, designer and I’m here to provide a service for somebody “Painting cloth for the theatre is a lovely lighting designer are the Holy Trinity. You’re else.” thing to do,” she says, “but they are few
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and far between now, because it’s a very just want to spend my days looking at it.” long, thin room, the Victorian construction expensive thing to do. A lot of companies get When working on ‘Don Pasquale’ Kelvin is fitted with winches which enable scenic stuff printed now. You still get the occasional explained the process of creating the 10 artist Neil Haynes to move the canvas cloth, but it’s a big investment for a theatre metre by 15 metre backdrop: “With this wherever he wants to paint it. Neil says: “It’s company in terms of the cost of the cloth and particular cloth we’ve had to draw it out so a beautiful, adaptable space and a painter’s the materials and the time it takes, and you that we can separate areas that need to dream. I’m very honoured to be working on need a big space to do it in.” be dyed or painted. In this case, because it. It’s a pleasure to be working on such large there’s a perspective involved, we have to canvases.” “Prints don’t light as well, because you’re be fairly precise in our initial drawing and to not using high-pigmented paints A scenic artist for 20 years, designed to be used on theatre including thirteen at the Citizens, sets and react with the lighting. For Neil is shy about calling himself example, with the Rosco* paints an artist: “An artist is someone who we use, a lighting designer will comes up with an original idea, know how his gels (filters) affect the whereas a scenic artist’s job is colours of the paint when it’s lit. You to interpret someone else’s idea have to consider that when you’re for the stage and make it real. painting. Not what it looks like in It’s absolutely fine being in the the workshop, but what it’s going to background. It’s not necessarily look like onstage.” about getting any recognition for *brand name it. It’s not a piece of fine art on the wall. I think the general public will Scenic artists need a range of tools, go to a show and not think about such as trowels, rollers and spray- the work that’s gone into the set guns, not to mention a Personal and just accept it as being a piece Protection Equipment (or PPE) kit, of theatre.” including gloves, masks, goggles and steel-capped shoes. Neil downplays the threat of technology to his job: “When a Says Alison: “I’m like a tradesman. I printed stage cloth is onstage, have a bank of knowledge of what SCOTTISH OPERA’S HEAD SCENIC ARTIST KELVIN GUY WORKING ON THE SET OF THE 2016 PRODUCTION OF ‘THE MIKADO’. PHOTO: JULIE HOWDEN it’s not got any artistic input to it. a material will do, so I will know You can always tell under stage what I need for a particular job. It’s a bit of re-establish that between the layers of paint, lighting that it’s just a printed cloth. There’s an alchemy. There’s a lot of mark-making to which is quite a laborious thing. It means no life to it. Whereas a painted cloth has the bring life to something.” inking in, painting over, inking in. There’s a painter’s hand, brushstroke, your particular repetitive process to it, but it slowly inches technique of doing it. It’s very personal. Kelvin Guy has worked for over 30 years its way along. When we finish it, it will be You couldn’t ever replace scenic art in the at Scottish Opera, where he is Head Scenic hung in the theatre. Any notes that need to theatre.” Artist primarily responsible for painting be done, like strengthening dyes or shading the large cloth backdrops for countless down areas for lighting purposes, will be Since Artmag interviewed Neil, he has now productions. His work is renowned done then.” joined Kelvin Guy’s team at Scottish Opera. throughout the theatre art world and this year he received the Technical Award at the He adds self-effacingly: “I hope the SCENIC ARTIST NEIL HAYNES AT WORK IN THE CITIZENS Sunday Herald Culture Awards. audience have a really good time and THEATRE’S PAINT FRAME, THE OLDEST IN SCOTLAND. PHOTO: ALEX BRADY forget about the For their production of ‘Don Pasquale’ set artistry - if that’s the and costumer designer André Barbe and right word - that goes stage director Renaud Doucet were in doubt into it and just enjoy about the main attraction of working for the music and the fun.” Scottish Opera. André explains: “We realised Watch Kelvin Guy at that they had many strengths, but the work: www.youtube. biggest strength was the scenic painting. So com/ watch? v=2Pd_ when we did this production, we said, ‘Oh, 5RVors4&t=139s we need to use the talent of Kelvin, because he’s so wonderful.’ It’s a pleasure to go into The Citizens Theatre Kelvin’s workshop, see him stretch those in Glasgow has the huge canvases and put on classical music oldest paint frame in and immerse himself in this atmosphere. I Scotland. Basically a
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WANDERING SPIRITS South Tyrol’s artists and designers are spreading their influence throughout the world
taly’s largest technique of and most woodcarving to northerly create mostly Iprovince, figurative South Tyrol works. With a derives its strong physical ARON DEMETZ, ‘SEQUOIA COMPLETA’ uniqueness presence, from the fusion of Austrian and Italian the region have dispersed to pursue their which also deeply engages the viewer on a cultures which influences the design, careers, taking their design, fashion and art psychological level, they seem to transcend architecture, cuisine and language of the to the world. Many of them dine together the possibilities of wood as a material. region. Little wonder that tourism is the No.1 every December 26 as members of the business (with 29 million overnight stays a Wanderer Collective to swap experiences Demetz does not present polished, year at the last count) and that the provincial and celebrate their shared origin. perfected works. After the figure has been capital, Bolzano, which is both the hottest carved out of a block of wood, the material and coldest town in Italy, has been ranked The collective includes: the internationally is submitted to different ‘injuries’, as its the best in all Italy for quality of life. renowned wood sculptor Aron Demetz, surface is roughened, burned, scarred or who represented Italy at the 2009 Venice otherwise distressed. South Tyrol is renowned for its spectacular Biennale; London-based designer Martino scenery (the famous, jagged-toothed Gamper, who came to fame with his project A favourite techique is to cover the works Dolomites mountain range, a World Heritage ‘100 Chairs in 100 Days’; Andrea Lissoni, with resin, which trees produce in nature Site, has over 350 summits above 3,000 Senior Curator of International Film at the to heal ‘wounds’ and create a new bark. metres), flourishing wine and agriculture Tate; fashion and fine art photographer Says Demetz, “The resin is the blood of the industries, including every tenth apple Brigitte Niedermair; and Stefan Siegel, trees. You have to respect the soul of the grown in Europe (thanks to 300 days of founder of the fashion brand Not Just a materials. With the resin I give them back a sunshine a year, the same as Crete) and Label. Artmag spent time with two of the soul.” healthy mountain air, making locals the Wanderer Collective in their ‘Heimat’, or longest living people in Italy. homeland. Another technique is to burn or char an object. He explains: “To burn a sculpture is South Tyrol’s creative scene lives and Still living and working in the same mountain for me to rid it of all that is superfluous. To breathes on five continents. That is how far valley in which he was born, Aron Demetz clean it. A new, delicate and fragile surface afield a group of over 50 creatives from has adopted a traditional South Tyrolean is created, which allows us to read the
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 17 KIRKER MUSIC HOLIDAYS FOR DISCERNING TRAVELLERS Kirker Holidays offers an extensive range of holidays for music lovers. These include tours to leading festivals in Europe and a series of exclusive chamber music festivals throughout Europe & the UK, featuring highly acclaimed musicians in elegant surroundings. During 2018 we shall be sailing from Liverpool on three Music Festivals at sea, including the sub-tropical Azores, Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle, and a cruise through the Scottish isles.
ATLANTIC DISCOVERY A FOURTEEN NIGHT CRUISE ON BLACK WATCH | 4 MAY 2018 Liverpool – Horta, Azores – Ponta Delgada, Azores – Funchal, Madeira – Lisbon – Oporto – Liverpool with The Castalian String Quartet; Janis Kelly soprano; Gary Matthewman, piano; and four young singers selected from the country’s leading conservatoires Departing from Liverpool we will sail directly for the unspoiled Atlantic archipelago of the Azores, where we shall visit several different islands, including the pretty port of Faial on Horta and Sao Miguel, the largest island, where we see a dramatic volcanic landscape. Heading back east we will find a veritable floating garden on the lush, sub-tropical island of Madeira, before calling at Lisbon and then Oporto on the Portuguese mainland.
Prices range from £2,640 per person for an inside cabin to £4,995 per person for a Superior Suite and all include full-board, private drinks parties and admission to all the concerts.
SPITSBERGEN & THE ARCTIC CIRCLE A FIFTEEN NIGHT CRUISE ON BLACK WATCH | 27 JUNE 2018 Liverpool – Leknes, Lofoten Islands – Tromso – Honningsvag (North Cape) – Pyramiden Longyearbyen, Svalbard – Klaksvik – Torshavn, Faroe Islands – Liverpool with The Sacconi Quartet From Liverpool we will round the coast of Scotland and enjoy some of the most dramatic scenery in the world along the Norwegian coast, before we cross the Arctic Circle. We then call at Leknes on the Lofoten Islands; Tromso, the “Gateway to the Arctic”; and Honningsvag on the North Cape, but the real adventure begins at the glorious but remote Svalbard Islands. We will stop at two evocative ports and take in magnificent views before returning south, via the Faroe Islands. Prices range from £3,125 per person for an inside cabin to £5,895 per person for a Superior Suite and all include full-board, private drinks parties and admission to all the concerts.
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020 7593 2284 quote code GAR www.kirkerholidays.com ART & TRAVEL work anew.” Demetz also uses a special electrical tool to churn parts of a figure into a mass of whorls, representing moss growing on trees. www.arondemetz.it
Insisting on his own cultural roots as his starting point, Demetz’ style echoes that of traditional local craftsmen in style. Across the road from his Val Gardena workshop, 3D Wood is using modern technology to continue a tradition of wood carving thought to derive from a centuries-old custom of farmers making wooden toys in the ‘dead’ MUSEION days of winter. This evolved into a tradition of sculpture, especially of church items such as altars and religious figures. It was the ts huge picture windows facing east and west, the beautiful, angular, glass- area’s main industry at one time. Appealing encased Museion, Bolzano’s museum for modern and contemporary art, is to the tourist trade, shelves in the 3D Wood flooded with dazzling light. The “Wow!” moment comes when entering the top shop are laden with traditional wooden Ifloor gallery, where most visitors can do nothing but gasp and gawk at the ornaments, from cherubs, saints and sight of the surrounding mountains. Each year is marked by a year-long special nativity scenes to local wildlife and Alpine exhibition of works from the museum’s permanent collection. This year’s theme, huntsmen. Behind the scenes craftsmen The Force of Photography, examines notions of identity through portraits and self- create one-off, hand-carved pieces or work portraits. The exhibition also features a selection of sculptures and videos around using machinery to produce anything from the same theme. www.museion.it small series items to thousands of units. Even a fine sawdust-spewing, computer- programmed robot gets in on the act. www.3dw.it FURTHER INFO www.wanderersouthtyrol.com, www.suedtirol.info Now based in London, Martino Gamper started as an apprentice furniture maker in his native Merano, 30-odd kilometres north explaining: “My intention was to investigate of Bolzano. He went on to study sculpture at the potential of creating useful new chairs the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna before by blending together the stylistic and completing a Masters at the Royal College structural elements of the found one, like of Art in London. Gamper now specialises in a three-dimensional sketchbook.”. It has interior design for high end retail stores and since been shown internationally as an one-off furniture commissions. installation.
For his best known project ‘100 Chairs For his one-off commissions Martino works in 100 days’ Gamper collected disused with the Mairhofer Tischlerei in the tiny chairs from alleyways and friends’ homes hamlet of Proveis, where the German and reassembled them - one per day - word for joinery (Tischlerei) belies the into poetic and often humorous forms, sophisticated work turned out in the remote little furniture factory. On the day Artmag visited, Martino was supervising the completion of a beautiful table for a New York client - a classic example of how this tiny corner of Europe is having a worldwide impact on the creative industries. www.martinogamper.com, www.tischlerei-mairhofer. com
3D WOOD SCULPTOR GREGOR PRUGGER CARVES A REPLICA SAINT JOSEPH TO REPLACE A DAMAGED ONE FOR A TABLES BY MARTINO KAMPER CHURCH CLIENT
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 19 ARTSPEAK“ TALK ABOUT GIVING ART A BAD NAME. (NAMES WITHHELD TO PROTECT THE GUILTY.) The expansion required by this project, the shifting” identities of centre and IN THE
“periphery, entails a break with the continuous present of the unchanging.
‘MY RECENT ENTRY INTO ” ‘SPACE IS WHAT WE MOVE THROUGH IN THE MOTHERHOOD PROVIDES WORLD; HOWEVER, BY PAINTING I EXPLORE A FRAMEWORK FOR SPACE AS PSYCHIC, DIGITAL AND TEMPORAL.’ STRUCTURING’ AN ARTISTIC LIFE, A LIFESTYLE AND A PSYCHIC LENS THAT IS BOTH SENSIBLE (The artist’s) work is based largely YET DISARRAYED – FRACTURED around“ simple processes of observation YET EVER SO TENDER...’ and experimentation with everyday materials. In doing so, he attempts G PARKIN to remark on the structures that lie FREE IF MINDS CREATE behind the often seemingly arbitrary ORDER OUT OF A SERIES arrangement of things in the world… rochure OF RELATIONSHIPS free b BETWEEN SHAPES AND ” COLOURS, THE NOTION TO “THE FEMININE EMBODIES VALUES OF RELATEDNESS A’S GROT THAT EXPERIENCE IS FREE SANT SUBJECTIVELY COHERED AND COOPERATION, NURTURING, MAGNETISM, PROVIDES A BACKBONE SENSUALITY AND CREATIVE MANIFESTATION...” ER PEN FOR MY ART. & REINDE ’
20 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 ART BOOKS READ ALL ABOUT IT!
ANDY WARHOL: DARK STAR NORDIC PAINTING: by Douglas Fogle, pub. DelMonico Books THE RISE OF MODERNITY by Katharina Alsen & Annika n this illustrated collection of essays, writers, Landmann, pub. Prestel artists and scholars consider the public and I private sides of Warhol through his early work, his richly illustrated survey of Nordic which revealed his fascination with Hollywood painting between the late 19th and stars (colourised T early 20th centuries explores the Marilyns and development of modernism in that part Elvises), everyday of the world and the interaction between household products Nordic and central European artists. (Brillo boxes, The stunning variety of works includes Campbell’s soup romanticised landscapes, abandoned cans), car crashes interiors, abstraction and depictions of and the Kennedy the body. The inclusion of areas usually assassination ignored for their art, such as Greenland and (mutiple smiling and the Faroe Islands, adds a valuable insight. grieving Jackies).
THE RED THREAD: NORDIC DESIGN ed. Oak Publishing, pub. Phaidon
aking its name from a Swedish expression for the essence of a story or piece of creative T work, The Red Thread explores how Nordic designers such as Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen combined form and function to enhance the needs of everyday life in both practical and ornamental items ranging from hand-made textiles to mass- produced furniture.
ALBRECHT DÜRER AN ARTIST’S WAR: THE ART by Norbert Wolf, pub. Prestel AND LETTERS OF MORRIS AND ne of the most influential artists of his or ALICE MEREDITH WILLIAMS any other era, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) by Phyllida Shaw, pub. The History Press O was commercially astute centuries before hen WWI broke out, Edinburgh-based book today’s self-promoting artists, producing more illustrator and art teacher Morris Meredith self-portraits than any other artist of his time, W Williams joined the army. He spent ten mass-marketing his prints and inventing his months on the Western Front, where he produced own famous monogramme logo. This lavishly an extraordinary record of his surroundings, illustrated book includes Dürer’s most famous including some of the most brutal war images paintings, prints and drawings. ever made. Later, some of his sketches inspired a series of war memorials by Morris and his wife Alice, a sculptor.
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24 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 EDINBURGH ART FAIR CULINARY ARTS trees on gold and metal leaf. Also showing is new work by Natasha Barnes and Hannah Ludlow and ceramics by Pauline Montgomery. www.alpha-art.co.uk SUBSCRIBE! One of the leading galleries in southwest Scotland, The Whitehouse Gallery represents a wide range of artists and craftmakers from across the UK, including Rosanne Barr, Marion Drummond, James COVERING Fraser RSW, Jackie Forbes Henderson, THE BEST ART & CRAFT Sophie McKay Knight, Patricia Sadler, James IN SCOTLAND Somerville and Helen Tabor. & NE ENGLAND www.whitehousegallery.co.uk
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Run by the award-winning artist and author, LE DI-VIN the Moy Mackay Gallery in the picturesque e Di-Vin is a ravishing Borders town of Peebles features Moy’s wine bar and surely one signature ‘felted paintings’ alongside some L of the most dramatic rooms in of the country’s finest contemporary artists, Edinburgh with its soaring dark with changing exhibitions throughout the walls, polished wood panels year of paintings, ceramics, glass and and smart mezzanine platform. jewellery. www.moymackaygallery.com A stunning hand built wooden Edinburgh’s Saorsa Art Gallery (it is Scots rack spreads across the length Gaelic for ‘freedom’) features owner Tommy of one wall, while a sturdy Fitchet’s remarkable ‘glass paintings’ along pewter bar supports a throng with one-off, original art by local ceramicists, of happy imbibers making use of the ever changing, expertly chosen selection. painters and sculptors, including Harriet Wine is an obsession here with abundant choices from floral burgundies to dry viogniers Selka, Fiona Thompson and Jim Sutherland. to deep plummy reds. Food choices include light meals and punchy nibbles, always www.saorsa-art.com seasonal and made in-house. A medium mixed planchette with charcuterie and cheese SEE can easily suit two. It arrives heaving with an assortment of artisan cured meats, pickles ALPHA ART and creamy cheeses. Daily specials include fish and salads. Meanwhile, Sister restaurant La P’tite Folie has launched its Christmas menus. Check out here - http://www.laptitefolie.co.uk/christmas-2017-2/. A La Carte dinner will still be available.
Nearby galleries include Union Gallery, Gallery Ten and Dundas St Galleries.
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 25 ABERDEEN & NORTHEAST SCOTLAND
137th ANNUAL OPEN WINTER EXHBITION Call for Entries RSA Building, The Mound, Edinburgh JD Fergusson Arts Award (Travel) (in the region of £3,000 to £4,000) 4 February – 8 March 2018
Funded by the JD Fergusson Arts Award Trust For promising Scottish artists at a timely RECEIVING DAY moment in their careers. The JD Fergusson Arts Award Trust is offering 21 JANUARY 2018 a travel bursary for artists looking to boost their career or take an inspirational break to develop personally and professionally. Online submission also available
For further information and an online or downloadable entry form, please visit: www.culturepk.org.uk/museums-galleries/ the-fergusson-gallery/jd-fergusson-arts- For details awards-trust www.rsw.org.uk Deadline is 31 October 2017 at 17:00 For general enquiries, please contact schedules and labels available soon [email protected] or call 01738 783 425.
Patron: HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Supported by Perth Charity No: SC007247 Common Good Fund
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Entries Open NOW For: Wildlife Artist of the Year 2018 Seven categories to suit all artistic styles and mediums. £10,000 TOP PRIZE The finalists will form part of a stunning exhibition hosted at one of London’s top galleries. Closing date 12th February 2018 For full details and rules of entry please see www.davidshepherd.org or call 01483 272323
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is a UK registered charity (1106893) working to save endangered wildlife | David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, Saba House, 7 Kings Road, Shalford, Guildford, Surrey GU4 8JU UK, Tel: 01483 272323 Email: [email protected] - Image courtesy of Karen Laurence-Rowe - 2017 shortlisted finalist
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t the 1896 Gallery & Coffee Shop in Boat of Garten, the current focus is on lively landscapes byA Ayrshire artist Gillian Park. She is showing alongside resident landscape photographer James Gordon whose series of 12 prints entitled A Highland Year make up his 2018 calendar. Until Nov 8, www.1896gallery.com
Run by the Society of Badenoch and Strathspey Artists, the Iona Gallery in Kingussie is the only public art gallery in the Cairngorms National GILLIAN PARK, ‘RED SKY, ISLE ORNSAY’ (1896 GALLERY & COFFEE SHOP) KATIE WARD, ‘CORAL V’ (GALLERY HEINZEL) Park. It features local, national and international artwork, with a particular College of Art and Design as well as artists Artist in the Spotlight at Junction Arts in emphasis on art of the Cairngorms. Coming who have approached the gallery seeking Aberdeen is Cath Roberts, who builds layers up: Ronnie Thain (Oct 9-14), Caberfeidh (Oct representation. Says gallery director Maura of colour using palette knives on canvas to 16-21), Carole Gutteridge (Oct 23-28) and Tighe: “We regularly introduce new artists to create an inexact, painterly texture ideal Bob Kinnaird (Oct 30-Nov 4). the gallery in our mixed summer and winter for depicting the Scottish landscape. Also shows, but they tend to get lost among showing is new work by gallery regulars, New Faces at Gallery Heinzel in Aberdeen more established regulars. By hosting a printmaker Suzie Mackenzie and painter features a selection of work by ten artists dedicated New Faces show, we give artists Doreen Bothwell. Until Oct 28, who have never shown at the gallery the undivided attention of our visitors and www.junction-arts.co.uk before, incuding graduates from Gray’s the chance to really engage with them.” Oct School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone 7-Nov 4, www.galleryheinzel.com
MILTON NEW FACES ART 7 OCT – 4 NOV GALLERY
Scottish Potters Assoc. and Still Life Exhibition
Paintings by Jennifer MacKenzie, Hilary Gauci and Frances Boag
29 Sep-12 Nov Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-5 Katie Ward,‘Akos’, Ceramics by Maralyn Reed Wood Milton of Crathes 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD Banchory 01224 625629 • [email protected] AB31 5QH Open Mon–Sat from 10am [email protected] www.galleryheinzel.com 01330 844664 www.miltonart.com
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OPEN Mon 10-4, Thu, Fri, Sat 10-5 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater • 013397 55888 www.larksgallery.com
28 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 AYRSHIRE
he Save The Children (Ayr SUZANNE LEBLANC, ‘DRAWING ON WINTER AFTERNOONS’ and District) Annual Art (HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE) Exhibition at the Maclaurin Art Gallery in Ayr features This year’s raffle prize is Fiona Graham’s some 400 paintings from ‘Snapshot from a Glasgow Train’. Last year aroundT 220 artists from the west of Fiona’s paintings of Glasgow tenements Scotland. This year sees the introduction of were voted the most popular by visitors. Cameo Cards – unframed, postcard-sized Oct 22-Nov 19, paintings donated by artists and for sale www.savethechildrenayr.org.uk/events/ at a reasonable price. Proceeds of this art-exhibition part of the exhibition will support Save The Children’s work with families in Scotland, For the last seven years Lachlan Goudie while proceeds from the sale of framed has been sketching and painting in the pictures will benefit children worldwide. BAE shipyards on the Clyde and Forth, chronicling the construction of FIONA GRAHAM, ‘SNAPSHOT FROM A GLASGOW TRAIN’ the next generation of Britain’s (MACLAURIN ART GALLERY) navy – the world-leading William Lionel Wyllie, Ian Fleming, Frances Type 45 destroyers and the Walker, Kate Downie and Benno Schotz. Oct monolithic Queen Elizabeth 13-Feb 12, 2018, class aircraft carriers – as www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org well as capturing the people who create these giants. Suzanne Leblanc’s Journeys in Landscape The results go on display at the Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine at the Scottish Maritime combines old and new landscapes and Museum in Irvine, which is in seascapes in paint, mixed media and the process of adding to its pastels with supporting charcoal sketches. permanent collection. New Nov 10-Jan 5, 2018, acquisitions include works by www.harbourartscentre.com Autum2017 ad ArtMag.qxp_Layout 1 15/09/2017 14:21 PageWill 1 Maclean, Joyce Cairns,
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 29 AYRSHIRE BORDERS
FLAT CAT GALLERY and cafe Harestanes Countryside T Visitor Centre OCTOBER Mary Goulden Enjoy a range of festive treats in our newly refreshed retail space GALLERY 2 AUTUMN Extended opening times EXHIBITION November DEBBIE 10am-4pm Fri, Sat, Sun & Thurs 30 Nov CASSEL December 9.45am-4.30pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun from 1-24 Dec & 10am-4pm Tues 26-Sun An established artist, regularly exhibiting 31 Dec daily throughout the West of Scotland. FREE ENTRY Gallery 2 offers a complete range of mouldings, Kevin Peden Ancrum, JEDBURGH TD8 6UQ original art and contract picture framing for 01835 830306 hotels, pubs and restaurants. With a large [email protected] selection of limited editions and unique gifts. Operated by Live Borders, Registered Charity No SCO34227.
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NOVEMBER Winter mixed exhibition – paintings, glass, ceramics, jewellery, sculpture and more from our featured artists in 2017.
Unique Gifts Quality Crafts Jewellery Picture Framing Local Images Cards / Calendars and lots more Alexander Millar, ‘Dad’ Alexander Millar, Alan Richmond
Open 7 days Photography - Ian Oliver 2 Market Place Lauder Originals & Limited Editions Berwickshire TD2 6SR 01578 722808 Tweedside Road, Arti~Farti Exhibition Gallery Newtown St Boswells TD6 0PG 48 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, KA21 5DS www.flatcatgallery.co.uk 01835 823473 www.art-farti.co.uk www.tweedsidegallery.co.uk
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he tenth annual Crafters shop in Melrose. Nov 18 & 19, Border Union McQueenie and Rob Sutherland includes Art & Design Fair Showground, Springwood Park, Kelso, hand-turned wooden bowls, prints, paintings, features over 60 sellers www.thecrafters.co.uk/events wildlife scenes burnt onto reclaimed wood, offering an extensive abstract sculptures made from driftwood range of original, Out of the Woods at the Tweeddale and ceramic interpretations of trees. Until hand-made products, including woodwork, Museum & Art Gallery in Peebles is a Nov 25, www.liveborders.org.uk Search glasswork,T ceramics, textiles, paintings, mixed media show celebrating the beauty of Museums & Galleries. leatherwork and jewellery. A special feature trees, an enduring subject for artists which this year is an exhibition of outstanding highlights the need to protect the natural Owners Ralph and Lesley Christie of the Flat craftsmanship by members of the Scottish environment for future generations. The Cat Gallery in Lauder, newcomers to the Furniture Makers Association. The Crafters range of art and craft from Tessa Asquith- gallery scene when they took it over in 2016, is a cooperative of artists and designers Lamb, Catriona Andrews, Stuart Dalgleish, continue its tradition of showcasing whose work is also available in their own Helen Kemp, Eben Rautenbach, Kenneth emerging artists and craftmakers. John Bray, who works in oils, recently had his first exhibition there, while Borders artist Alan Richmond, who debuted at the gallery 12 years ago, still exhibits there regularly. www. flatcatgallery.co.uk
ALAN RICHMOND, ‘LANDSCAPE 213’ (FLAT CAT GALLERY) TESSA ASQUITH-LAMB, ‘CUP OF KINDNESS’ (TWEEDDALE MUSEUM & ART GALLERY)
Mixed Exhibition ‘self portrait’, Jim Macdonald Until 23rd of November Including art by Val Ferguson, Jacqueline Watt, Jenny Ayrton, Sue White Oakes, Clive Ramage, Peter Goodfellow, Gill Tyson, Janet Rogers, Pamela Dawson Taylor, Sarah Dawney and many more.... ‘Angiosperm et Poaceae’ by Val Ferguson Val by Poaceae’ et ‘Angiosperm Ayrton Day’ Jenny by ‘Washing ‘Casting The Nets’ by Jacqueline Watt Jacqueline by Nets’ The ‘Casting THE THREE FISHES Whitmuir is also home to Whitmuir Restaurant, Quercus Plant Nursery, GALLERY & FRAMING Gladstone Bag Antiques, Farm shop and Fairy Walk ... something for everyone ... 19B Eastgate, Peebles, 01721 720860 Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10 –5 Dancing Light Gallery, Whitmuir, Near West Linton, Edinburgh, EH46 7BB Sat 11 –4.30 01968 660200 | Open: 10 to 5pm Monday to Sunday [email protected] [email protected] | www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk www.threefishesframing.com
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THE CRAFTERS ART & DESIGN FAIR
An exclusive seasonal shopping experience showcasing the very best in art, craft & design 18 & 19 November 10am–5pm £1 entry fee (children free) Ample free parking & disabled access Refreshments provided by Macmillan Cancer Support A yearly event since 2008
Springwood Park Border Union Showground Kelso TD5 8LS www.thecrafters.co.uk
WINTER MIXED EXHIBITION paintings art photography prints sculptures ceramics jewellery textiles fine furniture wood turning 5 Nov - 22 Dec
Sculpture Show ‘Essential Form’ until 29 Oct
51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 Tues - Sat 10-4 www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk Wed 10-1 [email protected]
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he Winter Exhibition at Ottersburn Gallery and Framing in Dumfries features two works each by professional Tand amateur members of Dumfries and Galloway Fine Arts Society (DAGFAS) in a wide range of subjects and media. Currently celebrating its 95th year, DAGFAS was founded in 1922 by prominent Scottish artists Jessie M. King, E. A. Taylor and Chris J. Fergusson, and early members included E.A. Hornel and Charles KATHARINE WHEELER. ‘STICK DANCE’ (DETAIL) (GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE) Oppenheimer. Nov 11-Dec 23, www.ottersburn.com Inplay at Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries features recent paintings by local artist At the Yellow Door in Dumfries Katharine Wheeler, whose work has a Phantasmagoria (Oct 11-28) features an strong focus on observational technique imaginative and unexpected collection of and expression, figurative drawing and fast, works with a phantasmagorical theme, while energetic sketches alongside landscape Ship of Fools (Nov 1-18) is a retrospective explorations in mixed media and oils. The showcase along with new work by Stephen exhibition title emphasises the importance of Pickering, Sam Samson, Christopher play in our surroundings. Katharine says of Lettington and Bill Barlow, among others. this body of work: “It has a strong reference to Finishing off the year is the Christmas family life and how explorative play, if given Bazaar (Nov 22-Dec 30), featuring work by the freedom, can often direct us to what is truly local artists and craftmakers. meaningful and sometimes forgotten.” Oct LUCIANNE LASSALLE, ‘WING AND WIRE’, RESIN & MIXED www.yellowdoordumfries.wordpress.com 7-Nov 18, www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield MEDIA (PHANTASMAGORIA/THE YELLOW DOOR)
Clience Studio Seascape and Landscape paintings by Angela Lawrence 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. Open 10.30am-5pm, Mon-Sat (Tues 10.30am-4.30pm) Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk
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Winter exhibition 2017 G 11th November - 23rd December
Dumfries & Galloway Fine Arts Society Ottersburn Gallery and Picture Framing 2a Nith Avenue, Dumfries. DG1 1EF Tel 01387 269 156 | 07798 882 731
26 August - 19 November Gallery 2 ARTIST ROOMS: Don McCullin
26 August - 30 September Gallery 1 PEOPLE OF DUMFRIES Celebrating 70 years of the Dumfries Camera Club
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 GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE National Lottery through Creative England. 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ [email protected] www.dumgal.gov.uk Don McCullin Shell-shocked US Marine, The 01387 262084 Battle of Hue 1968 (printed 2013). ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland Contact Gallery for opening hours- and Tate. Presented by the artist 2014 Admission Free © Don McCullin. Courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery, London
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o Figure at Gallery 48 in Dundee features fashion illustration by three internationally G recognised practitioners. Stockholm’s Cecilia Carlstedt uses various techniques in her work such as ink, screen printing and collage. Also from
Sweden, London-based Amelie KELLY RICHARDSON, ‘ORION TIDE’, 2013-14. DUAL CHANNEL HD VIDEO Hegardt teaches life drawing and INSTALLATION WITH AUDIO. (DCA) fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion and Central November at Kinblethmont Gallery Saint Martins. Her clients include outside Arbroath brings together three Vogue and MAC Cosmetics. Also very different artists sharing their unique London-based, Scottish artist/ COLIN BROWN, ’EINLASS’ (GERMAN: ENTRY, ADMISSION) interpretations of the modern world. Lys (KINBLETHMONT GALLERY) illustrator and Gray’s School of Art Hansen is a flamboyant, figurative colourist graduate Jessica Bird works for and expressionist whose work frequently multiple British design houses. She focuses digital films of rich, complex landscapes, explores the complexity of human inter- on brightly coloured, chalk pastel drawings which have been manipulated using sound, relationships. Colin Brown creates collages with confident lines. Until Nov 4, CGI and animation. The exhibition comprises which give the sense of travelling through a www.gallery48.co.uk three large scale video works alongside a modernist, metropolitan landscape. Ukraine’s new print series, asking viewers to consider Eduard Belsky combines the best traditions The Weather Makers at Dundee what the future might look like if we continue of his country’s school of painting with the Contemporary Arts (DCA) is the first solo on our current trajectory of planetary influence of the French School, with women exhibition in Scotland by Canadian artist pillaging and consumption. Until Nov 26, figuring prominently in his paintings. Nov 11- Kelly Richardson, who creates hyper-real www.dca.org.uk 26, www.kinblethmontgallery.co.uk
Mike Turpie and Others
30th September – 15th October
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Lucy Jones new works on paper
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observing and recording wildlife. He has had several books of his own work published and has collaboratively or wholly illustrated many others. He now lives on the shores of Loch Tay, Perthshire, where he has a studio and gallery featuring his own work. His new work is showing at the Donald Watson Gallery in Waterston House, Aberlady, home of the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC). Until Nov 15, www.the-soc.org.uk
In Lost Tales: Walking with Gods at the Scottish Storytelling Centre (Oct 19-31) Travis De Vries works live to produce JACK FRAME, ‘UNNATURAL COLLECTION II’ (ALPHA ART GALLERY) a series of paintings which borrow and twist the tropes of mythology, graphic ack Frame is particularly novels and traditional storytelling KEITH BROCKIE, ‘JUVENILE LAPWING IN COTTON GRASS’ known for his blossoming (DONALD WATSON GALLERY) to reimagine the stories of indigenous trees on gold and metal Australians. This is followed by The Winner leaf in an ongoing series solo exhibition at Alpha Art Gallery features Takes It All (Nov 6-24), in which storyteller documenting their life cycle. a fine selection of his work. Until Oct 22, and author Michael Kerins in conjunction LivingJ in Kent, the “orchard of England”, www.alpha-art.co.uk with blind and visually impaired Russian gives him plenty scope to find the perfect children, presents paintings and chalk tree, which he photographs or sketches Keith Brockie is one Britain’s pre-eminent drawings based on the poems of the late before producing the final pieces in his wildlife artists and a leading activist in Scottish poet, Emma Scullion. studio. He says: “I keep going back to trees wildlife conservation. Originally from www.tracscotland.org/scottish- as a way of understanding the world.” His East Lothian, he has travelled worldwide storytelling-centre found winter show 11th nov to 27th jan
handmade finds by Briish arrsts and makers
open mon - sat 10am - 5pm 84 high st, dunbar, eh42 1jh 01368 863030 [email protected] www.thefoundgallery.co.uk
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Keith Brockie
Sep 16 to Nov 15
Scottish Ornithologists’ Club ʻEvening Calmʼ © Ron Bolt 2017 Waterston House Original Artwork, Limited Edition Prints, China & Glass, Aberlady EH32 0PY Jewellery, Fine Toiletries, Gifts & Licensed Café Opening Hours Monday-Saturday 10.00am – 5.30pm Open daily 10am – 4pm THE SOC IS A SCOTTISH Sunday 12.00pm – 5.00pm 01875 871 330 CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION 41 Westgate, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 4AG www.the-soc.org.uk SC009859 TEL: 01620 894976 • www.westgategalleries.co.uk
THE TORRANCEGALLERY LYNN RODGIE October 14-28
‘Valentine Waiter’ STUART HERD November 4-18
‘Winter Bridge & Box South Queensferry’
36 Dundas St., Edinburgh EH3 6JN 0131 556 6366 [email protected] www.torrancegallery.co.uk Picture framing service from our own workshops
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The fine art collection collection are also showcased for the first ELIN ISAKSSON, LIQUID ICE CANDLE BOWL. PHOTO: SHANNON TOFTS (HANDMADE EDINBURGH) of the City Art Centre time. www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/ numbers over 4,800 Venues/City-Art-Centre items. Some ‘old favourites’ in the Handmade Edinburgh returns for a collection are exhibited three-day shopping bonanza featuring often, while others have contemporary designs in a wide range rarely, if ever, been seen of disciplines, including ceramics, glass, by the public. (Like all furniture, textiles, fashion, wood, metalwork large museums, only a and jewellery, by over 100 highly skilled fraction of the collection makers. Most of the exhibitors are award- – as little as ten per winners and only sell through galleries cent in some cases – is and exhibitions or by appointment. A in almost permanent special exhibition space, Emerging Talents, ona My Life at Summerhall is a mixed storage.) Some of these are stand-alone showcases boundary-pushing work by a exhibition resulting from a group trip the artworks which do not fit easily into thematic selection of promising recent graduates. artists took to Iona in spring this year. or chronological displays. Others represent Oct 27-29, The Hub, They included well known names such unfamiliar periods in artists’ careers or www.handmadeinbritain.co.uk/edinburgh as Kate Downie and Hugh Buchanan, are by artists who were successful in their Ithe Orkney seascape painter Bill McArthur, day, but are now virtually forgotten. Some the painters/scuptresses Leonie Gibbs artworks have simply never had a chance to and Deirdre Nicholls, Laura Boothby and shine. Hidden Gems focuses on these lesser watercolourist Brenda Martin. The proceeds known treasures, celebrating the unsung from the first work sold by each artist go and the unusual. Among the featured artists to a new voluntary organisation that group with works dating from the 18th century leader Maxwell Macleod is setting up to to the present day are Joshua Reynolds, support people newly diagnosed with Type Lucien Pissarro, Jessie M. King, Man Ray, 2 Diabetes. Oct 2-28, Cecile Walton, Frank Auerbach and Louise www.summerhall.co.uk Hopkins. Several new acquisitions to the HUGH BUCHANAN, ‘IONA ABBEY INTERIOR’ (SUMMERHALL)
Holger Mohaupt I See What You Like with etching by John Bulloch Souter (1890-1972) 28 October – 26 November Preview Opening Friday 27 October 6-8pm
Open weekends 12-5pm or appointments and drop-ins welcome at any other time 45 Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick EH39 4BL 01620 895057 | 07981 982464 e: [email protected] | www.fidrafineart.co.uk
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Songs for Winter Pauline Burbidge & Charles Poulsen City Art Centre 4 November 2017– 4 March 2018 2 Market St.Edinburgh EH1 1DE Tel:0131 529 3993 Weds to Sat 10am – 5pm Sunday 12noon – 5pm
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n his new show at Edinburgh’s Elements 3: A Festival of Jewellery, Doubtfire Gallery John Silver and Gold brings over 50 of the Kingsley RSW demonstrates UK’s most talented makers to Lyon that he is just as comfortable & Turnbull’s Edinburgh showroom for with free-flowing abstraction a selling fair, jewellery-making and as he is with a delicate still life or a lush silversmithing demonstrations, talks landscape in the south of France. A frequent and an exhibition. Makers coming I BRETT PAYNE, MANDALE VASE award-winner, he was also commissioned to Elements work with (ELEMENTS) as tournament artist to paint the courses various techniques, hosting the 2017 British Women’s Open ranging from ancient goldsmithing and silversmithing methods to All the designers work in the latest small batch production, cutting edge offering an alternative to the technology such mass produced high street as Computer- products. Nov 2-5, £5/u-15 Aided Design free, and 3D printing. www.elementsfestival.co.uk
Institute of the Fine Arts, and his work Edinburgh’s newest contemporary figurative features in the collections of HRH The Duke art space Lennon-Art Gallery continues its of Edinburgh, Tommy Hilfiger and Paisley programme with Common Ground, a joint JOHN KINGSLEY, ‘BOATS AT CENTURI, CORSICA’ Museum and Art Gallery among many exhibition featuring Derby-based Michael (DOUBTFIRE GALLERY) others. His first exhibition at Doubtfire, it Cook and gallery owner Alan Lennon. Both Golf Championship. He has shown widely reflects impressions of a recent visit to the artists create a world immersed in quiet, throughout the UK, including with the Royal rugged Mediterranean island of Corsica. spiritual symbolism. Nov 17-Dec 3, Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Nov 4-25, www.doubtfiregallery.com www.lennon-art.co.uk
WEEKEND WORKSHOPS AUTUMN TERM We offer a diverse range of one and two-day workshops including - Capturing Space Saturday 28th October Space & Colour in Still Life Painting Saturday 11th November Life Drawing for Beginners Saturday 18th November Introduction to Collograph & Carborundum Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November To see the full programme and book online visit: 3 Barclay Terrace Edinburgh EH10 4HP www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk www.uprightgallery.com
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John Kingsley DA, PAI, RSW impressions & expression
Simon Rivett
7 – 28 October 2017 4 – 25 November 2017
DOUBTFIREGALLERY contemporary art 3 south east circus place, eh3 6tj www.doubtfiregallery.com Allendale Still Life with Orchid and Lemons
Flowers & Gardens of Scotia & Venice by
Saturday 4th November - Sunday 3rd December
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Calum Colvin, Elizabeth Blackadder, Sandy Moffat, Ruth Thomas, ‘On the rocks’ Joyce Cairns, William McTaggart, Barbara Rae, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and James Guthrie. The extensive programme comprises live artist practice under the tutelage of professional artists, a studio installation by Calum Colvin and life drawing and printmaking classes. In 1910 the RSA transferred significant works A FINE LINE to the National Collection, while retaining exhibition rights. The exhibition will for the first time since then unite these works with a selection of those remaining Drawings & in the Academy Collection and others collected up to the Paintings by present. They range from ‘The Ruth Thomas Adoration of the Kings’ (1540) by Jacopo Bassano to a newly & Mary Mackay Mary Mackay, commissioned sculpture of ‘Afternoon Tea’ (detail) STEVEN HIGGINSON, ‘SELF-PORTRAIT’, FINALIST, SCOTTISH PORTRAIT James Guthrie by Kenny Hunter. AWARD IN FINE ART (SCOTTISH ARTS CLUB) Nov 4-Jan 7 2018, Dundas Street Gallery 6A Dundas St., Edinburgh EH3 6HZ www.royalscottishacademy.org Open daily 21-27 Oct, 11am-5.30pm ges of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now is the The finalists have been named in the www.ruththomasart.co.uk www.marymackaystudio.co.uk largest collections Scottish Portrait Awards (SPA), a new exhibition ever mounted competition open to fine artists and by the Royal Scottish photographers born, living or studying in AAcademy and the first time in its history that Scotland. They includes 30 fine artists in the the entire RSA building has been devoted to running for the £5,000 SPA in Fine Art and the display of its collections. The exhibition 27 photographers who could win the £2,000 will feature work by hundreds of artists Richard Coward SPA in Photography. The collected by the Academy, including some winners are announced on November 2 at of the all-time greats of Scottish art such the Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh, as (deep breath) John Byrne, Sir Henry followed by a public exhibition. Nov 7-Dec Raeburn, Alison Watt, Anne Redpath, S. J. 2, www.scottishportraitawards.org Peploe, Christine Borland, Ade Adesina,
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cottish-Canadian sculptor gardener grows what she paints. You’ll also Alastair Dickson (brother of find artist-made lamps and lampshades singer Barbara) shows his latest along with ceramic figures of humans and body of work reflecting his animals by Andrew Bull and Simone Louise interest in the art of creative Ceramics, both new to the gallery. Srecycling in The Uncommon Blockhead at www.maisieandmac.com Fire Station Creative in Dunfermline. This VICTORIA new work was made during a three-month SCRIVENER- residency at Edinburgh Palette using what ANDERSON, ‘SUMMER Alastair calls “hand-selected Scottish junk”. GOLD’ Nov 3-Dec 3, (MAISIE & MAC) www.firestationcreative.co.uk
Celebrating the recent opening of Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, Art in Trust highlights paintings from the Council’s fine art collection. On display are landscapes, portraits, seascapes and still ALASTAIR DICKSON, ‘MOSQUITO’ (FIRE STATION CREATIVE) lifes by well known artists such as William McTaggart, James McIntosh Patrick, Walter Sickert and L. S. Lowry. Also showing are The final exhibition of the year at Maisie works by all four Scottish Colourists – & Mac in Cupar features work by three Peploe, Hunter, Fergusson and Cadell – and north Fife-based artists – colourful, “Glasgow Boy” E. A. Hornel. The collection textured depictions of wildlife, flowers continues to develop today, with recent and landscape in acrylic by Jenny Moran, acquisitions including ‘Love Whispers’ by expressive images of plant and wildlife in McTaggart and ‘Fent’ by Alison Watt. Until ink, watercolour and acrylic by Haley Mills Dec 31, www.onfife.com Search Museums and dramatic, large scale flower studies by & Galleries. Victoria Scrivener Anderson, who as a keen
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Gallery of Modern Art
Taste An exhibition of artworks from Glasgow Museums’ Sculpture exhibition collection displayed alongside material from our archives, by members of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop exploring how collections are built, artworks are Curated by Teresa Hunyadi commissioned, and exhibitions are organised. 29 Sep - 14 Oct Tue - Sat 10-5 On now FREE Entry RGI Kelly Gallery 118 Douglas Street, Glasgow G2 4ET www.glasgowmuseums.com @GlasgowGoMA
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FROM MACKINTOSH WALKING TOURS BY GLASGOW SCHOOL audience which began in 1861 and has OF ART. PHOTO: ALAN MCATEER (MACKINTOSH FESTIVAL) included work by celebrated national and international artists. Nov 11-26, Lover, which was built based on unrealised www.royalglasgowinstitute.org designs by Mackintosh. www.glasgowmackintosh.com/festival
HELEN FLOCKHART, ‘CORSAGE’ (RGI) Mary Mary is inaugurating its new space on Oswald Street with Sara Barker: The Faces of Older Images, the Glasgow-based artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery. The show ctober is “Mackintosh features four wall-based relief sculptures, month” in and around Barker’s most elaborate and monumental Glasgow, when the in the series of tray ‘trench-works’ that she Mackintosh Festival offers has been producing for a number of years. over 40 events celebrating Blurring the lines between painting, drawing Othe life and work of architect and designer and sculpture, the works sit between image Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This year’s and three-dimensional, like a ‘finds tray’ festival, a warm-up for the year-long from an archeological dig for organising and celebrations in 2018 of the 150th anniversary grouping objects. Until Oct 28, of Mackintosh’s birth, includes: a small www.marymarygallery.co.uk selection of Mackintosh drawings at the Glasgow Art Club, itself in its 150th year; The 154th Annual Open Exhibition of the an exhibition of chairs at Kelvin Hall, when Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine visitors can create their own Mackintosh Arts (RGI) in the Baillie Reading Room of chair; walking tours of Mackintosh the Mitchell Library is an open exhibition landmarks by Glasgow School of Art; a featuring entries from professional and full range of events at Mackintosh’s only amateur artists, both local and more distant. built church, Mackintosh Queen’s Cross; It builds on a heritage of bringing the best in and tours and activities at House for an Art contemporary art to a discerning Glasgow
Alison Cowan New Textured Acrylics October 2017
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he Autumn Exhibition at Juno the viewer’s attention. Working exclusively London, she uses salvaged linens, calicos, Design Gallery in Dunoon in acrylic, Philip Raskin creates a space silks and cottons, dyed using natural features Cowal-based unencumbered by cottages and telegraph materials, to create dolls, creatures and Brian Phillips and Glasgow poles that each viewer will see differently as organic forms. Her exhibition The Book of landscape and seascape a private place for solitude and reflection. Secrets at the Tig Gallery in Tighnabruaich, artistT Philip Raskin. Hypnotised by the Until Nov 3, www.junogallery.com featuring work created specifically for the Highlands, Brian Phillips has created a show, sees her characters brought to life as world of striking colours which demands Glasgow-based Johanna Flanagan if by magic. Until Oct 31, has always been fascinated by dolls, www.tiggallery.com storytelling, mythology and textiles. Training first in textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone The last of three four-artist shows at the College of Art and Design in Dundee, then Kilmorack Gallery near Beauly includes: in Fashion at the Royal College of Art in energetic, colourful landscapes in the Scottish Colourist tradition by Shona Barr; faux naïve paintings and steel sculpture by James Newton Adams, often inspired by the people, animals and landscape of his Isle of Skye home; alluring, psychological paintings by Mark Edwards, often featuring men in hats and jackets, snow and a train or red balloon; and Danish-born Lotte Glob, who is inspired by wilds of Scotland, where she settled over 50 years ago. Until Oct 28, www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk
JOHANNA FLANAGAN, ‘PERSEPHONE ’ (TIG GALLERY) MARK EDWARDS, ‘WAITING FOR THE DOOR TO OPEN’ (KILMORACK GALLERY)
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North Lands Creative Gallery Currently showing: 16 July - 14 October Leap of Faith is an exhibition of work by Annie Cattrell and a selection of piees from our collection relating to the theme of artefact. Opening 28 October An exhibition of recent work by Mark Scadding will be on display in our Studio. 25th November 2017 – 2nd February 2018 The North Lands Creative Annual Winter Open is an exhibition of fine and applied arts work by graduates, emerging and established artists from the Highlands & Islands and nationally in Scotland. Gallery & Shop Opening Times: Monday - Friday 10 - 5 Contact Grace MacBeath: [email protected] 01593 721229 Scottish Charity Number: SCO23805
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The Fair, which runs 17-19 November at the city’s Corn Exchange, will be opened by celebrated author Ian Rankin on Thursday 16th November. Your tickets enable you to mingle at this prestigious event and buy the art before the show opens to the general public. Closing Date November 10
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Following the success of Handmade in Britain’s first year in Scotland, Handmade Edinburgh will return to The Hub, 27-29 October.
This premiere contemporary craft and Three pairs of tickets to the exclusive preview of Christmas design event is a fabulous opportunity at the Botanics, 24 November, 7.40pm! to shop for gorgeous textiles, jewellery, ceramics, glass and more, directly from a Christmas at the Botanics. 24 Nov - 30 Dec handpicked selection of designer-makers The trees and glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Complete your Christmas treat under the stars with spiced Edinburgh will be spectacularly lit and all aglow in an exciting cider, mulled wine or hot chocolate while the aroma of roasting from Scotland and beyond. new after dark trail through the gardens that is bigger, brighter chestnuts fills the air. and more spectacular than anything seen before. rbge.org.uk/Christmas Explore the sights and sounds of Christmas in this magical after CLOSING DATE SUNDAY 22 OCT dark experience, wander beneath the tree canopies bathed in seasonal colour and discover our scented Fire Garden. Closing Date Nov 15 TO ENTER GO TO Terms & Conditions: The prize valid on 24 November at 7.40pm is non-transferrable. WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN TO ENTER GO TO WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN
48 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS BURGUNDY TO BIARRITZ: A FRENCH TRAVELOGUE A SOLO EXHIBITION BY LEX MCFADYEN 5 OCT - 4 NOV
The Archway Gallery
7 Union Street Lochgilphead Argyll PA31 8JS 01546 606894 www.thearchway.co.uk Dappled Sunlight, Auvergne Beth Robertson Fiddes CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PAINTING
The studio is located in the centre of the lively village of Ullapool only an hour’s drive from Inverness through stunning Highland scenery. Visitors are welcome by appointment.
Contact Beth on 07530 817 116 or via email at [email protected] to arrange a suitable time and for directions. Latheron Studio, Latheron Lane, Ullapool, IV26 2XB
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 49 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS PERTHSHIRE A n i m a l A n t i c s resipole stu ios FINE ART GALLERY With 3 galleries displaying work from over twenty artists including: www.resipolestudios.co.uk loch sunart • acharacle • argyll • scotland • ph36 4hx find us on social media • tel: 01967 431506 Paul Bartlett Brian Baxter
Stanley Bird Shona Cammack
kirstie cohen anna king
Sonas Maclean Adam Seward loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx | 01967431506 www.resipolestudios.co.uk 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BL Find us on social media Open 11 am till 6 pm - Closed Mondays 01887 829129 ~ aberfeldygallery.co.uk
WINTER BEGINS a mixed exhibition 14 Oct - 11 Nov ‘III’ by Rochelle McConnachie ‘Cecil’ by Tim Cracknell
Artisanand is a fresh contemporary gallery showcasing a selection of affordable, quirky and conceptual pieces of exceptional quality, style and function. We promote both established and new local Scots artists and makers with a focus on Perthshire.
13-15 Bank St Aberfeldy, PH15 2BB 01887 822700 Open hours: 10am-5pm [email protected] www.artisanand.co.uk
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IR (Artists in Rannoch) are JULIANNE BARCLAY, ‘WINTER BOATYARD’, OIL ON BOARD seven very different artists (THE WATERMILL) who share a love of the landscape and history of Rannoch and its people. ThisA fascinating and mysterious glen has inspired artists for generations, some deeply influenced by the Black Wood and Rannoch Moor, others by the Scottish diaspora and the clearances. For the exhibition Space at The Watermill in Aberfeldy, they have created work in various media, from found Highland dancers objects such as discarded rope, wood and fame), landscape and metal to dyes made from lichen to acrylics seascape painter Philip and collage. Oct 7-Jan 27, 2018, Raskin, linocut expert www.aberfeldywatermill.com/art Barbara Robertson and Jonathan Mitchell, who creates realist townscapes and landscapes. Oct 9-15, www.rattrayartfestival. co.uk BRAW (Blairgowrie and Rattray Arts Week) is a new cultural event of music, drama, Get your Christmas shopping in early at the art and craft workshops culminating in the Birnam Arts Winter Collection, where invited eighth annual Rattray Art Festival (Oct local artists and craftmakers offer a plethora 14 & 15), featuring 40 or so professional of paintings, prints, sculpture, jewellery and accessories. Nov 9-Dec 31, MADELEINE HAND, ‘SIDE BY SIDE’, WATERCOLOUR and amateur artists, including wildlife artist (BIRNAM ARTS) Colin Woolf, Janet McCrorie (of swirling www.birnamarts.com
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he Colours of Nature at the Stirling TSmith Art Gallery & Museum is the second annual exhibition by the Scottish Society of Botanical Artists (SSBA). Botanical art ranges from very specific illustration to artistic ABOVE: NICKI representations of all things botanical, from MONAGHAN, ‘SUNSET HERD’ flowers and trees to fungi and seaweed. (PARK GALLERY) Embroidery with a botanical theme is also RIGHT: MARY O’NEIL, ‘ORCHID’ included. Prices range from £90 to £3,000. (SSBA/STIRLING Until Oct 22, www.thessba.org, SMITH ART GALLERY & www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk MUSEUM)
Rolling shows throughout October at Green Gallery in Dollar feature Jane Blair/ Heloise Maylin and Jackie Gardiner. The This year’s Winter Warmth exhibition at the years, Callendar House today is the result Christmas Exhibition (Nov 25-Dec 24) then Park Gallery in Callendar House, Falkirk of a 19th century redesign and extension in runs parallel with its counterpart at Green focuses on print, with work by over 20 artists the style of a French Renaissance chateau Gallery in Buchlyvie (Nov 18-Dec 24), where from Scotland and the UK. Also showing fused with elements of Scottish baronial there will be masses of work, including 15 – and for sale – are ceramics by local architecture. Oct 28-Jan 14, 2018, contemporary craft stands in the adjoining designer Steph Liddle. While the history of www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/ house. www.greengallery.com a building at the location goes back 600 callendar-house MORE THAN A MAGAZINE STILL LIFE, PORTRAITS, PHOTOGRAPHY, CLASSES, TEXTILES BOOKS, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS, ART SUPPLIES ETCHINGS, LIGHTING, FURNITURE, GLASSWORK PURSES, MUGS, INSTALLATION, JEWELLERY PROFILES, DEMONSTRATIONS, NEWS, DESIGN, COLLAGE, WORKSHOPS CUSHIONS, WOODCRAFT, HANDBAGS DRAWINGS, OPEN STUDIOS, VOUCHERS, FRAMING, FELTWORK MINIATURES, FAIRS, AUCTIONS, EXHIBITIONS, SEASCAPES MARKETS, LIMITED EDITIONS, INTERVIEWS CRAFTS, LANDSCAPE, DEGREE SHOWS, FASHION TRAVEL, PRINTS, LECTURES, BASKETRY WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK
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ollowing a 20-month, £3.8 the essence of Vincent van Gogh’s world million redevelopment, the famous paintings, Layton has floated his Hatton Gallery in Newcastle radiant flowers on a cool blue background. reopens with Pioneers of Pop, The new collection forms part of the which revolves around the gallery’s autumn exhibition, which features artistsF and writers who, it could be claimed, work by more than 250 artists and makers, gave birth to Pop Art. At their centre was including still lifes by headline artist Raquel the artist Richard Hamilton, who taught at Alvarez Sardina, landscapes by Holly Rees, Newcastle University from 1953 to 1966, portraits by Dan Cimmermann, birds hewn and whose collage ‘Just what was it that from blocks of wood by Michael Lythgoe Warm hospitality & good food made yesterday’s homes so different, so and ceramic vessels by Emily-Kriste Wilcox. Non-painters welcome appealing’ (1956) was the first Pop Art work Until Nov 5, www.thebiscuitfactory.com RESIDENTIAL ART COURSES, to achieve iconic status. The Hatton Gallery SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, is intimately entwined with some of the MAGNIFICENT, INSPIRING most influential British artists of the 20th SCENERY, MOUNTAINS, SEA, century, including Eduardo Paolozzi, David RIVERS, LOCHS Hockney and Hamilton himself. Pioneers of Pop features around 100 works, including TUTORS FOR 2018 paintings, prints, collages, magazines and • Christine Morrison photographs, from lenders such as Tate, • Bettina Schroeder V&A, Scottish National Gallery of Modern • David Tress Art and Arts Council England, many of them PETER LAYTON, ‘SUNFLOWERS’ (BISCUIT FACTORY) • Eleanor White rarely seen in public before. Oct 7-Jan 20, The autumn exhibition at the Old School • Ray Balkwill 2018, www.hattongallery.org.uk Gallery in Alnmouth is Jonathan Lloyd: FOR BROCHURE PLEASE EMAIL Woodcuts and Paintings. An abstract painter [email protected] Master glass artist Peter Layton’s gorgeous and printmaker, Lloyd studied at Maidstone www.nwhighlandsart.co.uk Sunflowers series is on display at the College of Art. He now lives in Wooler, Biscuit Factory in Newcastle, the UK’s Northumberland. Until Oct 27, largest commercial art gallery. Capturing www.theoldschoolgallery.co.uk
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 57 AGES OF 4 November 2017 - 7 January 2018 WONDER Free entry Mon to Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm SCOTLAND’S ART Collected by the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture 1540 to NOW The Royal Scottish Academy A partnership between the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Galleries of Scotland. Sponsored by Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL Lyon & Turnbull, Funded by Museums Galleries Scotland, royalscottishacademy.org The Morton Charitable Trust, The Pilgrim Trust. nationalgalleries.org
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