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‘How the East was Won’ – by Chris Vine, from the exhibition Border Artists at the Watchtower Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (see p. 6) Inside: The Scottish Gallery at 175 :: How public is public art? :: Quitely does it in artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 2 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 3

Paisley Art Institute 129th Annual Exhibition AYR PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY’S 2017 ANNUAL PRINT EXHIBITION GALLERY HEINZEL Maclaurin Galleries - Saturday 29th April to Sunday 18th June & Sunday 14th May to Sunday 25th June

CONTEMPORARY ART Alexander Robb “Summer Flowers” – Mixed Oil, 95 x 85cm COLLEGE VISUAL ARTS SHOWCASE Rozelle House Museum & Galleries - Sunday 28th May to Sunday 2nd July 2016

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Rozelle House Museum & Galleries - Saturday 27th May to Sunday 6th August Mixed Guest Painter: Adrian Wiszniewski AYR MODEL BOAT CLUB Summer April to June 2017 Guest Sculptor: Lys Hansen Exhibition THE WAY THE MCKECHNIE INSTITUTE WAS Saturday 20th May 2017 - Sunday 25th June 2017 Saturday 10th April to July 2017 Paisley Museum and Art Galleries High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA June - August 130TH BIRTHDAY OF THE AILSA CRAIG LIGHTHOUSE Tues-Sat: 11am-4pm, Sun: 2pm-5pm The McKechnie Institute, Girvan - July to September 2017 www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries @samuseums Sources for Courses www.paisleyartinstitute.com 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD registered charity No 000840 T: 01224 625629 E: [email protected] W: www.galleryheinzel.com Do you have a course in ‘White Quarry’, Sheila Macmillan MA PAI, Oil 20”x20” OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY FROM 10am the arts to offer artists Email: www.facebook.com/galleryheinzel [email protected] or craft workers? These columns are read by an [email protected] www.artwork.co.uk The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk interested and informed readership

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Call for more details Following a honeymoon period with the e-book, it rid of my staff, so I work six days a week all year another to get them back to work. , Aberdeen MILTON ART GALLERY, is now being outsold by the print book. However, round.” Because the company dealt in massive INSIDE THIS issue we celebrate Contrast this with the often national space and aeronautics museum Rafael, Fra Angelico, Watteau, Rigaud, Fragonard, ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & Milton of Crathes, Nr Banchory, a truly remarkable achievement. barmy allocations of public funds in Washington DC). some luminous de la Tour, MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, AB31 5QH, 01330 844 664 Wigtown bookseller, Shaun Bythell, owner of Like many businesses, Shaun’s bookshop volumes, it could buy in bulk. So its costs were Botticelli and Uccello. 01224 523 700 STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor Scotland’s largest second hand book-shop, admits suffered as a result of the 2008 crunch. much lower than mine. They also received massive ’s leading private sector to some truly hare-brained artistic Very much rooted in the C19 display Many bought from the Chardin. OK, the Frick Closed for a major refurbish- Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, gallery has notched up 175 years ment until Winter 2017 01561 360 118 there’s a place for the electronic book and that’s “My turnover, which grew by 10 per cent concessions from Royal Mail, something small ventures and the achievement is all style, it offers an unparalleled vision Charles I collection after display their Fragonards ABERDEEN MARITIME Original art and handmade ce- when a person is travelling or on holiday. But it per annum for eight years, returned to what it was businesses are unable to benefit from. Everything is of unbroken service to the artistic the greater. of the glory of France but, as with all 1650 and much pinched by much better . There are the MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, ramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, 01224 337700 wood and more from all over the can’t take the place of a traditional book. in 2001. It grew and grew and then, bang, it went tilted in favour of multi-nationals so that high street community of Scotland. As is pointed in these pages, things French, there is some confusion Napoleon and others as the four unbelievable gigantic Until June 18 British Isles. Featuring paintings “The Kindle has peaked,” he says. “Even if straight back. I don’t know if bankers are aware of businesses are disadvantaged to the point of being Like not a few independent the Scottish Gallery has been on as to the real ambition. French rampaged through le Bruns of Alexander the Jo Gordon. Kiss Of Death: by Kate MacKenzie people own one, they usually prefer to read print the economic impact they had. After nine years, I’ve barely viable. Death and Mourning in the SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, galleries, the Scottish Gallery the go appreciably longer than Napolean III created what the Europe over the centuries. Great, delivered in 1660. I Victorian Era. Syllavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, books.” “People may boycott Starbucks started out hunbly enough as Scotland’s publicly funded national GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, AB33 8AQ, 01975 562 273 visitor sees but the Collections began The four bronze horses from much enjoyed the portraits Robert Gordon University, THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH The traditional book may have but not Amazon because it involves just ‘Gilders, Framers and Artists’ galleries and many may think with Garthdee Road, AB10 7QD, LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird with Francois I and Louis XIV. St Marks in Venice were of Francois Clouet and seen off the Kindle, but bookshops have one click and you get what you want the Colourmen.’ a, more impressive track record, www.rgu.ac.uk/about/faculties- Head, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, Napoleon I is still eulogised without returned, but not much else. Corneille de Lyon from the schools-and-departments/faculty- 01346 511 022 a more formidable adversary: Amazon. next day. I’ve got to take my hat off to Over the years astute For many a year it has been of-design-and-technology/gray-s- Purpose-built museum with “When I bought my shop fifteen them for the way they’ve gone about it. question , Napoleon III is largely You really need a lifetime mid 1500s. school-of-art canny moves difficult to detect any coherent multi-screen technology. management and ignored. As I write this the French are During the many years of June 17 - 24 Scotland’s first lighthouse, built years ago,” explains Shaun, “not many “Jeff Bezos first registered across the city have led them to guiding principle behind our to look at this lot properly. I Gray’s 2017. Degree Show 2017 1781. Open all year. Check of us were selling online, so I could his business which became Amazon, as half way to electing another é litist will have more to say about the Revolution huge religious GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle holiday opening times the dominant position they occupy national galleries’ policies. get a good price for rare books. Now relentless.com That’s what his philosophy Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, PETERHEAD MARITIME physically on Edinburgh’s street The recent apparent figure from the left to be President. this in a further article. collections were removed www.galleryheinzel.com HERITAGE, South Road, Peter- everyone is at it and the prices and is: relentless. He won’t stop until Amazon Contemporary Scottish art head, AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 of galleries (Dundas Street) and The élite rules, OK? A secular Then there is Holland wholesale from churches values for rare books have sunk. It’s is the everything shop. ‘discovery’ of Catterline’s (and Until June 3 Experience Peterhead’s maritime artistically amongst Scotland’s – society that has one of the highest (still called Pays Bas by the (that were often turned into Margaretann Bennet, Alan life past and present become a race to the bottom. Today, “If the government wants Glasgow’s) Joan Eardley, however McGowan, Maralyn Reed- church attendances in Europe. A society French ). A fine display of stables and warehouses) GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- to protect the high street and small and the UK’s – producing artists. late in the day, is a welcome sign. Wood. ping Centre, Constitution Street, a book fetches £5 online when fifteen clearly not at ease with myself, unable to Hobbema, Post (the first straight into the National HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 Inverurie, AB51 4UY years ago, it cost £20. businesses, it’s going to have to rein in As the leading lights in the Visitor figures approaching 50,000 Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01224 COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden organisation make plain in an are testimony to the huge latent accept modern reforms. Unable to digest European paintings of the Collections . Revolutions 596 617 Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, “I know a lot of booksellers Amazon or at least make it pay tax. It’s Limited edition prints by many 01569 740039 are now in negative equity because registered in the Republic of Ireland, article in this issue, this has been interest in the subject. the disastrous WWII, the only major new world in Brazil) , van have some cultural benefits. of Gallery Heinzel’s artists no easy ride. The art market is, as ROSIES, 45-49 Holburn Street, of online selling. There’s so much where there’s a generous approach to There are other encouraging country not to establish a Government Loo , Wouverman and The outcomes of course are AB10 6BR, 01224 577 325 Aberfeldy competition,” says Shaun who relies business and tax (10%). they rightly point out, full of risk. signs in the gallery scene. One in Exile in . No redemption some fantastic Rembrandt, rarely predictable or even Crafts, art and gifts also framing ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 Kenmore Street, PH15 2BL, on a fifth of his revenue from online “There’s something wrong What is perhaps most rural gallery which closed its possible here. including Bathsheeba at desirable. The French have a Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 01887 829 129, www.aberfeldygal- selling and the rest from sales over the when I sell a book to a UK customer impressive to the outsider is their doors after its owners retired was The Louvre deals with all of her bath and three gripping quasi-monarchy but endlessly 639 539 lery.co.uk ‘Real’ bookseller Shaun Bythell outside his real Wigtown store RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 From May 27 counter. using Royal Mail and paying tax in the open-ness to new ideas and to new soon snapped up and is back in this as it exhibits all these complex self portraits. two Vermeer, ramble on about the glories Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 Summer Mixed Exhibition. “When buying books from a UK on the profit but Amazon doesn’t. faces, while all the while keeping business. contradictions to the world. Just look at the Lacemaker and the of their Republic. Plus ça 323 247 WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill distributor, I can get 35% discount, but if I buy a only just got back to where I was before the credit Their whole transaction supposedly takes place in PROVOST SKENE’S HOUSE, Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, a canny eye on the bottom line. Welcome back to the the Gloire de France. Astronomer. change. Guestrow, (between Broad Street www.aberfeldywatermill.com, new Scottish book, for example, I can probably get crunch struck.” the Republic of Ireland.” With virtually no exceptions, the Aberfeldy Gallery – another and Flourmill Lane), AB10 1AS, [email protected] I M Pei’s perfectly brilliant three A marvellous Van Dyck I apologise if this seems it cheaper from Amazon. In undercutting everyone, Shaun buys his stock at house clearances On the plus side for Wigtown booksellers is 01224 641 086 Art Gallery, Bookshop, Coffee & business has been made to show a reason to visit this flourishing hanging Pyramides allow huge numbers of the Martyr King himself. like an endless unvarnished TOLBOOTH MUSEUM, Castle Music Shop Amazon dominates the marketplace and puts and from people bringing books into the shop. He the interest in books and literature generated by profit year in year out. Street, AB10 1EX, 01224 621 167 May 20 - July 4 Perthshire arts village Various artists. Royal College people out of business. suffers in many ways from giants like Amazon. Wigtown being Scotland’s book town. of people to visit these exceptional It is absurd that the Louvre list of some of the world’s CLAREMONT STUDIO, 66 of Arts Portfolio and New Claremont Street, AB10 6QY, “The solution is legislation like in France “For a bricks and mortar business to turn As a means of economic regeneration it’s a collections . There are wonderful should have so much, but most exceptional paintings 01224 596 999 Acquisitions. July 8 - August 29 (Ongoing) where they don’t allow Amazon to under-cut. If a over $10 million, it requires a workforce of 45, good concept. Because they have something you Design City, Dundee Murillo, Velázquez, Zurbarán, Goya and the Collections were among but that is the Louvre in NICOLE PORTER GALLERY, Lotte Glob. Tiles and Etchings. 88 King Street, AB24 5BA, 01224 publisher’s price is £30, Amazon has to sell it at while Amazon achieves a similar figure with 15 can’t get on Amazon, book towns restore what has El Greco. The world’s best collections the earliest and were little essence. A further article will KELTNEYBURN SMITHY LAST SUMMER (in ArtWork 194), 7000 visitors across six days, 566 477 that figure. This protects the bricks and mortar side employees.” been destroyed. A mass of bookshops encourages AND GALLERY, The Bothy we reported on Dundee’s Design D.C. Thomson is spearheading a of neo-classical David, Ingres and dissipated between 1789 cover everything else (global Showroom, Keltneyburn Smithy, of a business. It works for new books but you can’t The rise of Amazon equates with the demise book lovers and collectors to visit the town as they Aberdeenshire Keltneyburn, PH15 2LF, 01887 Festival, which is being held again charitable trust to create the hub. Delacroix. And of course the absurd and 1802 or the Commune, culture with no boundaries). 830 267 regulate the second hand. of high street retail employment. are more likely to find what they’re looking for if BRAEMAR GALLERY, Mar later this month. However, re-using It will be directed by David but unmissable wreck of the Medusa by although some of the Join the masses from all Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL, 01339 Sculptures created by mother “During the first five years of my business, “It’s great for consumers, but if you’re a seller there are ten bookshops rather than one. 741 681, www.braemargallery. and daughter team, Morag and Thomson’s West Ward Works in Cook, who spent 23 years building Géricault. buildings were destroyed over the world who visit, you Heather Cumming the price of second hand books rose in line with or in retail, it’s awful. Nonetheless, Wigtown is remote: 110 miles co.uk, info@braemargallery. Guthrie Street now has special up the city’s WASPs artists’ studios Lots of lovely Corot and Courbet. in 1870, Holbein, Cranach, will emerge exhausted but co.uk AUDREY SLORANCE GAL- inflation; then Amazon sold second-hand books “I don’t buy their argument that they pay (3 1/2 hours) from Edinburgh and 86 miles ( 2 1/2 Oil paintings, watercolours, LERY, 6 The Square, PH15 2DD, significance because it has been into one of Britain’s biggest social OK, Courbet’s strange but compelling Dürer – nothing missing! improved and enriched . 01887 829015 and prices fell. Our prices dropped and I had to enough tax through employing people who are hours) from Glasgow. etchings, engravings, sculpture, earmarked for an £18m conversion enterprises. jewellery and cards increase my sales to remain in the same place. We taxed. Amazon should pay the same as everyone “Compare Hay-on-Wye, Wales’s national Origine du Monde is at the Musée G B STUART. LARKS GALLERY, 10 Braemar that will turn the works into a WASPs now provides creative Aberlour also had to pay less for books, which didn’t please else. At the moment it’s loaded against small and book town. It has Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham d’Orsay – it would be a bit too naughty Road, Ballater, AB35 5RL, 01339 creative and cultural hub. spaces for around 1000 people. 755 888, www.larksgallery.com STILL LIFE STUDIO, High sellers. We’ve got to a level now where it’s almost medium-sized businesses. You have to function on within a 50 mile radius, a population of 3 million, for the staid old Louvre. There are Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, Street, AB38 9NX, 01340 871 457 The aim is to stage live The conversion is expected to take impossible to survive.” a massive scale to fit with the Amazon economic while Wigtown has Ayr, Dumfries and Belfast. So more Boudins at the Bowes Museum in glass, textiles, jewellery and performances, festivals and some seven years and is part of the dandelion designs photography Alloa Shaun’s shop is not the only Wigtown business model. I’ve got 10,000 books online but I’m we’re in the hundreds of thousands in terms of a Yorkshire than here. Yet the Lorrain, THE LOST GALLERY, Alda- THE GALLERY, Gordon McFar- exhibitions, as well as providing a Tay Cities Deal programme, aimed & chuie, Strathdon, AB36 8UJ, that struggles: competing with warehouses that stock millions of catchment area. Hay has a huge advantage over us Rubens and Poussin are superb. There lane, Watchmaker, 41 Mill Street, permanent base for artists, designers at creating 15,000 jobs over the 01975 651 287, www.lostgallery. FK10 1DW, 01259 723 303 “A lot of bookshops have a café as side-line. books. but, in our favour, our facilities are less expensive.” images gallery co.uk, [email protected] and other creative workers and next decade. are even 24 of the latter, painted Work from Ochil Craft As- I’ve adapted with The Random Book Club, where I visited one where lorry-loads of books, So, Amazon or no Amazon, Wigtown is well TOLQUHON GALLERY, sociation industries. The first occupants of the especially for the Palais de Luxembourg. Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, AB41 150 subscribers pay £59 a year to receive a random bought by the kilo, were shoved on conveyor belts, worth a visit. stein waternish isle of skye 7LP, 01651 842 343, www. RESONATE ARTS HOUSE, The 200,000 sq ft building hub are expected to move in next tolquhon-gallery.co.uk Units A3, North Castle Street, book monthly through the post. With its appeal to bar-code scanned and crammed in boxes. A klaxon MARY GLADSTONE FK10 1EU, 01259 928 014 dates back to 1806, when it was year, just ahead of the opening of May 21 - June 20 original paintings, artist prints Sea and Shore the city’s first fireproof mill before, the V&A’s Design Museum in the photographs, cards & crafts NORTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS, Angus some 60 years ago, becoming a summer. Thus the hub is seen as a Wide range of www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk, KINBLETHMONT GALLERY, Jane B. Gibson RMS [email protected] Arbroath, DD11 4RW, 01241 830 Cornerways Studio/Gallery printing works for D.C. Thomson, focal point for efforts to build upon original paintings open 11 - 5 daily, easter to october A non-profit organisation pro- 756, www.kinblethmontgallery. Open every Friday or by appointment turning out more than 50m books a Dundee’s UNESCO City of Design moting Arts, Crafts and galleries co.uk, by 01470 592218 in the North East of Scotland July 1 - 16 10.30am to 5pm year. status, which was awarded in 2014. September 9 - 17 Norma Maclean - A Retrospec- Duncan The works closed down in If the venture proves designs dandelion www.dandelion-designs.co.uk NEOS 2017. www.northeasto- tive. Tel:- 01557 331640 penstudios.co.uk THE MEFFAN, 20 West High Scottish specialist in Miniature Painting. 2010 and has remained largely successful it should greatly Currie ALBERTINO COSTA SCULP- Street, Forfar, DD8 1BB, 01307 Commissions undertaken for pets and unused ever since. However, enhance the city’s reputation Old Pier Rd TURES, 5 Milltimber Brae East, 476 482, archive.angus.gov.uk/ people. Larger works on display. HARBOUR Milltimber, AB13 0DN, 07917 482 historyaa/museums/meffan/, For- following the success of last year’s for, among other things, the bio- Broadford Isle of Skye alan b hayman

351, [email protected] [email protected] Prints, cards etc. Browsers welcome. Design Festival, which attracted medical sciences and video games. GALLERY AT FIFTY FIVE, SPRINGFIELD CREATIVE Wheelchair access to new studio now! Tel: 01471 822064 COTTAGE water views June 2017 55 Allardice Street, Stonehaven, ARTS, Dr. Fran Marquis, 4 4 mins walk from Town Centre on A711. [email protected] AB39 2AB, 01569 785606, www. GALLERY Springfield Terrace, Arbroath, Look out for palette SIGN. www.duncancurrie.co.uk galleryatfiftyfive.co.uk DD11 1EL, 01241 439 714, www. KIRKCUDBRIGHT May 6 - June 10 franmarquis.co.uk, info@fran- Been led up the Amazon? Alison McWhirter, Poppy marquis.co.uk GALLERY OPEN EXHIBITION Cyster, Kanita Sim. Toward The ON THE facing page to this column physical presence in this country (Application forms available during Easter Unknown Region. Monthly throughout the year we print what might be considered a can end up pretending the activity Exhibition or direct from COUNTRY FRAMES GAL- Ceramics Weekends in Arbroath. sustained attack on a business many takes place in a tax sheltered [email protected]) LERY, Leslie, Insch, AB52 6PA, ANGUS OPEN STUDIO, www. MAY 8 - 20 01464 820389, www.country- angusopenstudios.com, openstu- will confess to finding extremely neighbour – Ireland? frames.co.uk [email protected] Wild for Midsummer Until May 20 THE CANVAS ART GALLERY, useful. Our print media face not THE WOOD SHOW Frank Donnan (1931-2016) 81 East High Street, Forfar, DD8 An exhibition of new paintings to celebrate the season by mary ann rogers But booskellers (and increasingly dissimilar problems with those other MAY 22 - JUNE 3 - Retrospective. Includes 2EQ, 01307 465 715 landscapes, seascapes, still lives, Originals, prints, quality picture exhibition open daily Monday 19th June – Sunday 25th June other traders) throughout the land will American behemoths – Facebook EVELYN MACKINTOSH & abstracts & figurative work framing. Unusual giftware and THE BUTTERWORTH GAL- jewellery launch weekend, 17 & 18 June, 3-7pm (RSVP) tell you that Amazon is no friend of and Google. DIANNE CHOPPING LERY, Ballogie, Near Aboyne, OATHLAW POTTERY & GAL- Café/Bar/Bookshop theirs. Even publications which JUNE 5 - 10 AB34 5DP, 01339 886 104 LERY, Oathlaw, Forfar, DD8 Paintings and prints by Howard 3PQ, 01307 850 272 at mary ann rogers gallery, West woodburn, Hexham, ne48 2se Programme of Events Recent years have seen an have set great store by their online DAVY BROWN'S ART CLASS Butterworth and daughter Mary CRAFTS OF ANGUS SHOW- (clearly signed from West Woodburn) increasing toll being taken of presence are finding their revenues JOYCE TAYLOR STUDIO, CASE AND SHOP, 14 The and Exhibitions - 25TH ANNIVERSARY Braeside Croft, Hythie, Mintlaw, Square, Letham, DD8 2PZ, 01674 independent booksellers, leaving many drying up as an ever greater share of JUNE 12 - 24 resipole Peterhead, AB42 4HH, 01779 810379 Comfortable Accommodation towns with no bookshop of any sort. the advertising market is gobbled up 622989, www.joycetaylor.co.uk, Contemporary and Designer. 01434 270216 www.marogers.com KIRKCUDBRIGHT ART & studios [email protected] Handcrafted Goods. Tel: 01854 612103 This could be put down to by these giants. CRAFTS TRAIL TASTER EVENT LANG BYRE GALLERY, MONTROSE MUSEUM, Open every Sunday 2-5pm Visitors also very welcome at other times with a bit of warning! changing ways, but there is also the At the very least they FINE ART GALLERY Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Burn Panmure Place, Montrose, DD10 e: [email protected] JUNE 26 - JULY 1 O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, 8HF, 01674 673232 Paintings, prints, cards, beautiful and unusual gifts all featuring Mary Ann Rogers paintings question of the very unevenness of the should be made to face their full www.resipolestudios.co.uk More information at: www.resipolestudios.co.uk loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | scotland | ph36 4hx www.theceilidhplace.com playing field. responsibilites as publishers – oh, www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk loch sunart • acharacle • argyll • scotland • ph36 4hx Awarded ‘Best Selling Published Artist 2009’ Fine Art Trade Guild find us on social media • tel: 01967 431506 For the Guide online How come a business with huge and pay their fair share of taxes too. charity number: SC014415 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 6 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 7 The view from The What is That Thing? Cathy Bell offers some thoughts on The Spectator’s booby prize for The Watchtower public art – the What’s That Thing award Guide HOSPITALFIELD, Hospitalfield May 27 - August 6 THE WINNER of The Spectator magazine’s necessary component THE GRANARY GALLERY, NORTHSHORE POTTERY, Mill House, Arbroath, DD11 2NH, Artists in Residence. ArtWork’s border spy, Nick Jones, breaks his cover to investigate a 2nd Floor, Berwick YHA, De- of Forse, Latheron, KW5 6DG, 01241 656 124 What’s That Thing award for the worst piece of of regeneration war’s Lane, Berwick upon Tweed, 01593 741 777 June 19 - July 15 possible outbreak of slow art in the heart of the Slow Food town of public art to be installed in the UK over the past projects. My local TD15 1HJ, 01289 303 232 Studio pottery and ceramic Hospitalfield Summer Festival Ayrshire May 27 - October 15 sculpture by Jenny Mackenzie MONTROSE LIBRARY EXHI- OPEN STUDIOS AYRSHIRE, Berwick-upon-Tweed year has recently been announced as Origin by authority recently Scottish Colourists from the Ross BITION ROOM, 214 High Street, Venues throughout Ayrshire, Solas Creative. announced plans to Fleming Collection THURSO ART GALLERY, Montrose , DD10 8PH, 01674 www.openstudiosayrshire.com collective of artists, NUMBER FOUR GALLERY, Davidson’s Lane, Thurso, KW14 673256 Over 70 Ayrshire artists will STILL IN BERWICK, across Bridge Street from The piece is a sculpture (made from steel, regenerate Winchburgh Northfield Farm, St Abbs, 7AS, 01847 896 357 showing together. ARBROATH LIBRARY GAL- open their studios to the public Foldyard, I spy Gallery 25. Here I meet scott, artist coloured glass and granite) of a stylised raindrop (the BIG W project), Berwickshire, TD14 5QF, 01890 ST FERGUS GALLERY, Wick LERY, Hill Terrace, Arbroath, ARRAN OPEN STUDIO, KA27, Thanks to scott, making 771 111 Library, Sinclair Terrace, Wick, and promoter of the first ‘Border Artists’ exhibition, located on top of a hill overlooking the city of stating that the town “is Contemporary work from artists KW1 5AB, 01955 603 489 DD11 1AH, 01241 872 248 www.arranopenstudios.com it happen, and to Kate HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE, at the Watchtower Gallery in Tweedmouth. Belfast. about to skyrocket and and designer/makers from both 114-116 Harbour Street, Irvine, Stephenson’s Watchtower sides of the Border Argyll The artists? Peter Hallam, Mick Manning, Whatever your view, the Spectator must have transform.” PAXTON HOUSE, Paxton house, Cambridge KA12 8EE, 01294 274 059, Gallery. A great space, COWAL OPEN STUDIOS, PA23 Until May 21 Brita Granstrom, Samantha Cary, Mark Irving, Paul a reason for creating such an inverted accolade. They tell us Paxton, TD15 1SZ KETTLE’S YARD, Castle Street, 8QU, www.cowalopenstudios. North Ayrshire’s Criminal Jus- run with passion and CB3 0AQ, 01223 748100 co.uk Stangroom, Peter Podmore, Penny Cuthbert, Sakina According to Igor Toronyi-Lalic, writing on behalf that the new housing tice Social Services. Anonymous soul, important to local Berwickshire RESIPOLE STUDIOS, Achara- Visions. Jones, Eric Ritchie, Yvonne Parr, Ken Spencer, Jane of the magazine, shaming the purveyors of bad development “is Castle Douglas cle, PH36 4HX, 01967 431 506, MCKECHNIE INSTITUTE, cultural life. TOM DAVIDSON GALLERY, www.resipolestudios.co.uk Harbottle, Kevin Pedden, Simon Harwood, Gill public art is, for now, “the best we can do.” making public art part East Mayfield, High Street, CLIENCE STUDIO, 212 King Dalrymple Street, Girvan, KA26 The last exhibition, street, DG7 1DS, 01556 504318, New artspace with studios, gal- 9AE, 01465 713 643, www. Walton, Deborah Boyd Whyte, Julia Patton, Andrew It is worth noting, however, that the instigator Earlston, TD4 6BU, 01896 848 lery and framing service of its new wonderland.” 898 www.cliencestudio.co.uk south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ ‘The Tweed & Its Gallery & studio of Angela Until May 31 mckechnie/ Watchorn, Dave Watson, Morag Eaton, Mayger, On top of the world, by Brita Granstrom of the award, Stephen Bayley, has claimed that the Strong stuff, their Continuous work by Tom Spring Show. Displaying a huge Industries,’ showcased Davidson and work by artist Lawrence: April to June John Stark, Helen Stephens, Gerry Turley, Jonathan award is against all public art, asking “has public ambitious plan aims Linda Lovatt selection of exceptional artwork The Way The McKechnie Was. how the river Tweed has defined lives and A D LIVINGSTON & SONS, 183 Anna Raven. Seeking Stillness. Lloyd, Tania Willis, Chris Vine, Priscilla Eckhard, quality of work in this exhibition, and the different art ever achieved any level of popular approval or to create one piece King Street, DG7 1DZ, 01556 Until June 24 504 234 June Ayr Model Boat Club Exhibi- livelihoods, including salmon fishing, boat building, Paul Kenny, and scott. styles, media and approaches of these artists, I feel intellectual respect?” of bespoke public art Birmingham Furniture restorers’ workshop, Alan B Hayman. Water Views. tion. coastal trading, and rope making. It attracted great IKON GALLERY, 1 Oozells shop and gallery TIGHNABRUAICH GALLERY, July 1 - September 30 I asked him if artists from the borders are sure that it will speak to you. This seems extreme, the answer to that to act (as they put it) interest from people who’d never been inside a Square, Brindleyplace, B1 2HS, THE MCGILL-DUNCAN GAL- Seaside House, Tighnabruaich, 130th Birthday of the Ailsa different. He felt that the area attracts artists Photography, printmaking, book illustration, is – yes, it has. An example of the latter includes as a ‘trail blazer.’ No 0121 248 0708 PA21 2DR, 01700 811 681, www. Craig Lighthouse. gallery before. Now that they have crossed that LERY, 231 King Street, DG7 tiggallery.com, robbie@tiggallery. wary, or simply not in need, of the bright lights, painting, drawing, assemblage and more...all are Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, a massive site specific Until June 4 1DT, 01556 502 468 Until December 23 doubt they are looking Jean PainlevÃ. com Biff Smith Collection. celebrity status, and big bucks of London and border once, and enjoyed it, they will again. here. ARTS OF ALBA, 39/40 Threave sculpture installed in The Foley Plaza in New York for another Angel or Oliver Beer. Terrace, DG7 1HG, 01556 504 Original art, sculpture, glass, ART’N’JOY GALLERY AND So my next question is, “Do the borders change jewellery, poetry the international art scene. By keeping these at Last question. Is this border town different to in 1981. The artist was eventually, after a legal perhaps even another BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & 020 PICTURE FRAMERS, 52 the artist, and the art; or does the art change the clause, but there the responsibility ends. ART GALLERY, Chamberlain Featuring the work of Freida May Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, North arm’s length, they retain perspective, proportion, other border towns? Pass. But I sense that Berwick, battle, forced to remove the piece in 1989. Serra Various artists. Mixed Exhibi- Kelpies, Scotland’s most recently lauded gigantic So, when trail blazers are announced, most Square, B3 3DH, 0121 303 2834 Dyson, Sam Mullen and Sheila Ayrshire, KA51 5DS, 01294 472 borders?” Only one way, and one person, who can Until May 14 tion. 222, www.artnjoy.co.uk independence and integrity. a Slow Food town, is beginning to feel like a slow refused to locate the sculpture elsewhere due to the public sculpture. Mulllen answer that – you! likely they are talking about blazing a corporate Various artists. New Art West JANINAS ART, Meadowview, THE HARBOUR GALLERY, THE FRAMEWORK GAL- Perhaps they sense how easily metropolitan art town too – a place that respects and is inspired fact that it would not be the artwork it was created Granted the Kelpies is a crucial element in Midlands 2017. Springholm, DG7 3LP, 01556 Knap, Harbour Street, Tarbert, LERY, 83 Portland Street, Troon, My pennyworth? Artists, seeing the world trail rather than making any innovations in artistic glamour can seduce, dilute and distort the creative by local qualities and elements. 650329 PA29 6UA, 01880 821170, www. KA10 6QU, 01292 316 144 to be. the success of the Helix Park project near Falkirk. practice. The winner of The Spectator’s worst theharbourgallery.com, info@ Continuous mix of original impulse. So, for this show, no agents, no Arts differently, change the way we see it. They push the I see its artists as alchemists. Clear light, sea, Still lifes, landscapes, portraits, theharbourgallery.com He also argued that the removal of the The concept is overall okay and there is much to Borders figures, abstracts, experimental paintings and printwork by a boundaries, dare to look over, fall off, or create new public art 2017 award was put together by Solas THE SCOTT GALLERY, COMFREY COTTAGE STU- variety of artists Council grants, no formal selection, no prizes. A lots of space, a strong sense of past times, these are sculpture had turned it into a ‘mobile marketable admire about what has been achieved. It is fine for work in mixed media edges – real, psychological or perceptual. Creative (or not that creative as it seems to have Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge THE GALLERY AT LAURIES- DIO, 1 Tayness, Kilmartin, PA31 GLENBUCK ARTS, Glenbuck their raw materials, imagination the catalyst. product,’ something it was not intended to be. a day out and the Kelpies provide an ideal focal Park, Hawick, TD9 7JL, 01750 TON, Woodbank House, Lauries- 8QF, [email protected] Cottage, Glenbuck, East Ayrshire, turned out). They sound like another corporate Borders don’t just 20096 ton, DG7 2PW, 01644 450 235 Small gallery where there are an KA18 3SB, 01290 661 784 So, don’t think the borders a sleepy backwater Perhaps those against the sculpture (mainly point for people to gather around, assortment of paintings on view, define limits, they conglomeration who have spent the money THE CHRISTOPHER BOYD Contemporary and traditional Regular display of sculptures, for retiring wallflowers. It’s no stranger to the edgy, employees from the adjacent federal building) did I have been there, it does work. However, the GALLERY, Old Gala House, painted in various media paintings and hand woven wall (£100,000) and come up with nothing of any real Fine Art and Landscape images demand connections, dangerous, and risky. An unpredictable place where Scott Cresent, Galashiels, TD1 of Galloway IONA HOSTEL, Lagandorain, pieces. Sculpture Garden by not give the piece intellectual respect, however, Kelpies as a good quality work of art is another 3JS Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, 01681 700 making crossing artistic worth. the loch change, conflict and difference has been stark, raw, the 122 people (including many eminent figures in question. It has become a logo (it actually appears FLAT CAT GALLERY, 2 Market 642, www.ionahostel.co.uk, info@ CRAFT TOWN SCOTLAND, thresholds important, Many Belfast locals have been left ionahostel.co.uk and unsettling. the art world) who spoke in favour of keeping the Place, Lauder, TD2 6SR, 01578 Cornwall The Barony Centre, West Kil- on the Helix Park website as such). 722 808 THE ARCHWAY, 7 Union Street, symbolically or unimpressed, being quoted as saying that Origin is ROYAL CORNWALL MU- bride, KA23 9AW, 01294 829179 The Watchtower has a markedly defensive sculpture certainly did. It has been panned by critics. Jonathon Jones THE ROADSTEAD GALLERY, SEUM, River Street, Truro, TR1 Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS, 01546 THE WELLINGTON GAL- actually; and, sadly, in “fairly dull and unimaginative.” 606 894 look about it. Ideal for keeping a weather eye on On the other matter of popular approval, it writing in the Guardian in 2014 called it big, bold St Ellas Place, Eyemouth, TD14 2SJ, 01872 272 205 LERY, 13 Wellington Street, modern times, often This should be a wake-up call to those 5HP, 018907 52067 From March 2017 STUDIO BARN ARGYLL, Leac Kilmarnock, KA13 1DW, 01563 what’s happening across the Tweed, once the border is fairly common knowledge now that Antony Various artists. One of the Na Ban, Tayvallich, Lochgilp- ‘and rotten.’ He also alludes to it as “a kitsch – possibly dull and unimaginative themselves – REAL WOOD STUDIOS, 523 176 difficult or impossible. Monteviot Nurseries, Nr Ancrum, County’s finest art collections. head, PA31 8PF, 01546 870 310 Original paintings, prints and between England and Scotland. So, when you do Gormley’s Angel of the North near Gateshead has exercise in art for the people.” Seasonal exhibition of orginal art So, another challenge who think they can hoodwink ‘the people’ into Jedburgh, TD8 6TU, 01835 February 2017 to February other artworks mainly from visit, keep your eyes open, you never know what you been more than approved, it has virtually become a He has a point, whereas Richard Serra’s Tilted 830 767 FYNE STUDIOS - THE HIDDEN believing the hype about trail blazers and the like. 2018 Scottish artists 6th Open Annual Summer Exhibition for the artists, and you. might see! member of the family in some quarters. Contemporary Scottish furniture Poldark. Historical objects and GALLERY, Newton, Strachur, ARTI FARTI EXHIBITION Arc had integrity as a challenging piece of art that, Café and walks (off the A886), PA27 8DB, 01369 Can they bridge the gap? People are not as easily pleased or impressed as ‘stills’ from the current Poldark GALLERY, 48 Hamilton Street, However, what has become a success story as it turned out, was people unfriendly, the Kelpies BUY DESIGN GALLERY, 1 TV series 860 379 Saltcoats, KA21 5DS, 01294 Are you receiving them? More details on the website : http://www. they think. Gallery of two Scottish artists for The Angel of the North has become a disaster Harestanes Craft Workshops, LEMON STREET GALLERY 287207, www.arti-farti.co.uk, scottsgallery.co.uk/border-artists-2017 ticks many of what can be perceived of as people Perhaps Stephen Bayley’s assessment is more Harestanes by Ancrum, Jed- Don McNeil & Jean Bell [email protected] Or is the language (LSG), 13 Lemon Street, Truro, movie for public art as a whole. The beloved angel burgh, TD8 6UQ, 01835 830 718 TR1 2LS, 01872 275 757 JUNO DESIGN GALLERY, 159 Originals & Limited Editions The Border Artists, at the Watchtower Gallery, 79 pleasing boxes. That is exactly what planners, of a prediction that public art (as a concept) is incomprehensible, the Showspace for quality crafts Until June 3 Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 Call for Entries Open to all Artists has become the desired blueprint for developers, developers, corporations and local authorities are made in wood, metal, glass, 7DD, 01369 707 767 medium alien, and the West End, Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 heading the way he describes: unappealing on all Neil Canning. Odysee. Banff 2HE. From May 6 to June 2. local authorities, corporations and the like the really after, not accomplished pieces of art. levels, with no intrinsic artistic and intellectual ceramic and textile THE STABLE GALLERY, message mysterious? THE BORDER TART, Tart HQ, Church Square, Inveraray, PA32 DUFF HOUSE COUNTRY GAL- length and breadth of Britain trying to emulate this Planners and the like will not put challenging LERY, Duff House, AB45 3SX, Given the variety and Open Thursdays to Sundays noon to 4pm. value and very little popular appeal either. Chesters, nr Hawick, TD9 8TH County Durham 8TY, 01499 302 800 6th Open Annual Summer Exhibition success and thereby gain prestige by association in Quirky workshop of textile and Paintings, reproductions, greet- 01261 818181, www.duffhouse. art into public spaces, it is too much of a risk. BOWES MUSEUM, Newgate, paper artist Lindsay Roberts Barnard Castle, DL12 8NP, 01833 ings cards, exclusive post cards org.uk, duff.house@aberdeen- their particular domain. They must follow the shire.gov.uk warm breeze over Kippford, oil 20 x cm TWEEDSIDE GALLERY, 690 606 IONA HERITAGE CENTRE, Isle The big buzz word is, of course, obligations dictated Tweedside Road, Newtown St Until May 7 of Iona, PA76 6SJ, 01681 700 576 Until July 30 Sir David Young Cameron (1865 The Lillie Art Gallery CURRENT EXHIBITION ‘regeneration.’ Public art has been viewed as a by the ‘percent for art’ Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr. IONA ABBEY, Abbey & Ma- Clience Studio 0PG, 01835 823473 Only In England. Photography cLeod Centres, Isle of Iona, PA76 to 1945). D.Y. Cameron::The Spirit of Line. Paintings, Prints, Gifts & Commissions Picture Framing Plus beautiful DLI MUSEUM & DURHAM 6SN, 01681 700 404 crafts such as aromatic, ceram- MEADOWLANDS GALLERY, ART GALLERY, Aykley Heads, Inspirational setting for services, ics, glass and much more DH1 5TU, 0191 384 2214 Christian community 83 North Castle Street, AB45 1JJ, www.rgu.ac.uk/degreeshow by Angela Lawrence 01261 818 535, meadowlands- Station Road, Milngavie, Glasgow PROJECT ART GALLERY, 53 Regular exhibitions call for full IONA GALLERY AND POT- High Street, Lockerbie, DG11 listings TERY, Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, [email protected] Featuring Galloway, Highlands and more. Also Lake District series. Douglas Heggie - New work 2JH THE ORIENTAL MUSEUM, 01681 700 439 Gallery open Paintings, photography, prints, Elvet Hill, DH1 3TH, 0191 334 ORSAY, 2 Stevenson Street, 15 August - 27 September 2017 SHOWING WORKS BY jewellery, fish sculptures, cards 5694 Oban, PA34 5NB, 01631 569 988 Banffshire 10 - 5pm Mon - Sat Jewellery, ceramics, glass metal, PORTSOY MARBLE GAL- Mark I’Anson, Erni Upton, Jonathan Mitchell, Joe Smernicki, textiles, wood lights, cards LERY & WORKSHOP, Harbour, (Spring Fling 26-29th May extended hours & Sunday) Bristol Crieff INVERBEG GALLERIES, Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB, Gary Harper, Kirstie Cohen, Peter Nardini, Lindsay Turk, ARNOLFINI, Bush House, 16 THE STRATHEARN GALLERY, Inverbeg, Argyll & Bute, Loch 01261 842 404 Receiving Day - 5th August 2017 Paul Kennedy, James Somerville Lindsay, Stephanie Rew, 212 KING ST,CASTLE DOUGLAS,DG7 1DS Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA, 0117 32 West High Street, PH7 4DL, Lomond, G83 8PD, 01436 860 277 917 2300 01764 656 100 Ever-changing ongoing display Louis McNally, Fiona Matheson, Pauline Patrick, Chris Taylor 01556 504318/www.cliencestudio.co.uk CAOL RUADH SCULPTURE of pottery, Portsoy marble Until June 18 May27 - June 25 PARK, Caol Ruadh, Colintraive, work,hand-knits, books and Basim Magdy. The Stars Were Pam Carter: Island Hopping PA22 3AR, 07771 996656 presents Aligned For a Century of New AITON FINE ARTS, 63 King Scottish sculpture park with wirk TOMINTOUL MUSEUM & Beginnings. Street, PH7 3HB, 01764 655 423 by Karen Scotland and Anne VISITOR CENTRE, The Square, 59 High Street, North Berwick BRISTOL DRAWING SCHOOL, Contemporary Scottish paintings Edmonds Tomintoul, AB37 9ET, 01309 Please send schedule etc for the RSW Annual Summer Exhibition Unit 5.18, Paintworks, Arnos and prints. Picture restorers and THE JETTY GALLERY, 100 673 701 01620 890666 [email protected] Vale, BS4 3EH framers George Street, Oban, PA34 5NR, www.greensandblues.co.uk 01631 570102 Ienclose C5 stamped addressed envelope Continuously changing contem- Beauly Caithness Cumbria porary artwork - KILMORACK GALLERY, The NORTH LANDS CREATIVE ART IN THE PEN, Thirsk Auc- Old Kilmorack Church, IV4 7AL, GLASS, Quatre Bras, Lybster, tion Mart, Blakey Lane Thirsk 01463 783 230 The Glasgow Art Club KW3 6BN, 01593 721 229, www. www.artinthepen.org.uk Ayr Until May 20 Name...... northlandsglass.com, info@ July 22 and 23 MACLAURIN ART GALLERY, Colin Brown, Annette Edgar, Al- 1867 - 2017 Painting northlandsglass.com Contemporary art fair Rozelle Estate, Monument Road, lan Macdonald, Robert Mcaulay, Sculpture May 9 - 12 ABBOT HALL ART GALLERY, Anthony Scala. In from the Cold. KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, www. Ann Wegmuller. Part One 2017. Printmaking Kendal, LA9 5AL, 01539 722464 south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ Celebrating 150 years Until May 12 THE BEAULY GALLERY, 3-4 Address...... Moving Image Exhibition talks, holiday maclaurin/ High Street, IV4 7BY, 01463 Jane McDonough. Unspoken workshops, gallery book shop, Until June 25 783 508 Graphics Truths. A series of very personal coffee shop Various artists. Ayr Photographic For 150 years the Glasgow Art Club has had an important presence in the city’s rich cultural scene. artworks produced during a long Until July 2 and unexpected rehabilitation Society Annual Exhibition. Today the Glasgow Art Club is a dynamic community of men and women of varied ages and backgrounds IllustrationJewellery Julian Cooper. Photography period ROZELLE HOUSE GALLER- Berkshire ...... for whom the Arts are an essential part of everyday life. KENDAL MUSEUM, Station IES, Rozelle Park, Monument May 20 - 28 STANLEY SPENCER GAL- Communication Design Road, Kendal, LA9 6BT, 01539 The Clubhouse is a place to pursue creative expression, engage in the free and vigorous interchange Contemporary Art Practice Karl Harron. The Perfect Vessel. Road, KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, LERY, High Street, Cookham, Product Design 815597 www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/gal- FashionThree and Dimensional Textile Design Design July 1 - September 30 SL6 9SJ, 01628 471 885 of ideas and opinions, and enjoy good conversation and the companionship of like-minded individuals. Ceramics and Glass Until May 27 leries/rozellehouse/ Return to: RSW. C/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, 70 West Regent Street, Leap of Faith. Explores how Various artists. Landmarks. Craft Shop - Range of unique Contact us today to learn more about our various membership categories and discover a new way of glass continues to inspire belief socialising, networking and unwinding in Glasgow’s leading private members’ club in the heart of the city. Paintings, papercuts, prints, crafts and gifts Berwick-upon-Tweed TH in both a traditional and wider sculptures, textiles and wood Ongoing BERWICK GYMNASIUM ART Galsgow G2 2QZ T: 07498 075050 GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART sense Until August 7 Alexander Goudie. Tam GALLERY, Berwick Barracks, The Glasgow Art Club: Celebrating the First 150 Years 17 October 10 - 12 Andy Mortimer. Layers. Pho- O’Shanter: A Tale Told in The Parade, TD15 1DG, 01289 DEGREE SHOW 2017 Ian Pearson. Lampworking. tography Pictures. 304 535 E : [email protected] W : www.rsw.org.uk Exhibition open to the public 2 June - 31 July, Monday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm LYTH ARTS CENTRE, Lyth, BLACKWELL, Bowness-on- May 28 - July 2 Until June 4 TH OPEN TO PUBLIC 17 / 24 JUNE Wick, KW1 4UD, 01955 641 270, Ayrshire College Visual Arts Gemma Burditt. The Art of wwwwww..aabbeerrffeellddyyggaalllleerryy..ccoo..uukk Windermere, LA23 3JT, 01539 WEEKDAYS 10 AM - 8 PM WEEKENDS 10 AM - 5 PM www.lytharts.org.uk 446 139 Showcase. Milk. Patron : HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay www.glasgowartclub.co.uk 24 The Glasgow Art Club 185 Bath Street 9 Kenmore Street,, Aberfeldy,, PH15 2BL 01887 829129 [email protected] + 44 (0) 141 248 5210 Charity No: SC007247 Glasgow supported by G2 4HU The Glasgow Art Club is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC039231 Mon,, Thurs-Sat 10-5,, Sun 11-4 or by appointment For the Guide online Claire Wills Visit: www.artwork.co.uk

Artwork ad May 2017.indd 1 10/05/2017 14:52 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 8 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 9 The Glorious milestone for Guide BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, University of Abertay, Top Floor, lane, EH31 2AD, 01620 843 082 Merian’s Butterflies. Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE, Abertay Student Centre, 1 - 3 Bell ST ANDREW BLACKADDER TALBOT RICE GALLERY, 01539 725 133 Street, DD1 1HP, 01382 308 777 an Edinburgh gallery CHURCH HALL, St Andrew University of Edinburgh, Old Until June 3 THE MCMANUS: DUNDEE’S Street, North Berwick, EH39 College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Moria McTague. A Natural Eye. ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, SPLENDIDLY SITUATED in Edinburgh’s elegant an enlightened employer, devising a profit-sharing 4NU, 01620 895 233 0131 650 2211 Until June 10 Albert Square, Meadowside, DD1 New Town is The Scottish Gallery, Scotland’s scheme for the employees and ensuring that the BASS ROCK POTTERY, July 28 - September 30 Kelly Stewart. Morecambe Bay 1DA, 01382 307 200 Tantallon Arts & Crafts Studios, Stephen Sutcliffe. Sex Symbols Drawings |. Until October 8 oldest privately owned commercial gallery. The reputation of the firm grew. North Berwick, EH39 5PW, 0131 in Sandwich Signs. Works EDEN ARTS, 1 Sandgate, Pen- Fire and Stone -- archaeology of title is fitting as the gallery is older than the He was also a connoisseur with a tremendous 467 8300 OPEN EYE GALLERY, 34 rith, CA11 7TP, 01768 899 444 Monifieth Laws TANTALLON ARTS & CRAFTS Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE, PENNINE POTTERY, Cargill Until May 28 National Galleries of Scotland, which first opened knowledge of painting and aesthetics. It was his STUDIOS, Halfland Barns 0131 557 1020 Head House, Alston, CA9 3NG, Out of the Frame : Scottish in 1859. The month of May marks the gallery’s idea to create The Scottish Gallery to differentiate Schoolhouse, North Berwick, TORRANCE GALLERY, 36 01434 382 157 abstraction EH39 5PW, 0131 467 8300 Dundas Street, EH3 6JN, 0131 DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY 175th anniversary and to celebrate, one hundred picture dealing from the other parts of the Back to School yet once more… Pottery & kiln work of ce- LINDSEY ANTIQUES, 5a 556 6366, www.torrancegallery. ramicist Peter Lascelles - please ARTS (DCA), 152 Nethergate, artists were invited to respond with a small work business. Since 1992, it has been on Dundas Street, Richard Carr on a new twist to Edinburgh’s ongoing Royal High School saga Roseberry Place, Gullane, North co.uk, enquiries@torrancegal- telephone first DD1 4DY, 01382 909 900 of art especially for the specialising in national Berwick, EH31 2AN, 01620 lery.co.uk RED BARN GALLERY, Mel- Until June 4 842 326 May 6 - 26 kinthorpe, Penrith, CA10 2DR, Mark Wallinger exhibition. and international ceramics, AN INSIGHT into the differing aims of developers, to Edinburgh City Council that aroused the ire of 19th & 20th Century paintings Davy Brown. New paintings 01931 212 767 COOPER GALLERY, Exhibi- Undergoing constant glass, jewellery, metalwork, heritage bodies, local authorities and even heritage bodies including the Architectural Heritage and etchings June 3 - 24 May & June tions, Duncan of Jordanstone governments has been provided by the battle over Society of Scotland, the Cockburn Association and PAINTBOX ART CLASSES, John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). Chris Keenan & Craig Underhill. College of Art & Design, Univer- change, surviving for sculpture and sometimes Cockenzie House & Gardens, â˛˜A â˛˜Mhuirⲙ (The Sea). sity of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, the future of the Old Royal High School on Calton the Royal High School Preservation Trust. Exhibition 2, 2017. Ceramics 175 years is a testament textiles. www.paintboxartclasses.com INGLEBY GALLERY, 6 Carlton MUSEUM OF LAKELAND DD1 4HT, 01382 385 330 Hill in Edinburgh. As a result, the developers scaled down their Variety of classes, workshops, At present the Terrace, EH7 5DD, 0131 556 4441 LIFE, Abbot Hall, Kirkland, THE KRYSZTYNA GALLERY, to the gallery’s ability to Designed by Thomas Hamilton and built hotel plans, from 175 to 100 bedrooms, while those summer schools Until May 13 Kendal, LA9 5AL, 01539 722 464 15A Nelson Street, DD1 2PN, adapt. Managing Director gallery has five full-time Laurence Sterne & Ben Cauchi. WILLOWPOOL DESIGNS, 9 01382 322 522, www.krysz- between 1826-9, and costing the city £34,000 opposing the conversion supported a completely And Per Se And: Part V. Weston Houses, Endmoor, Ken- tynagallery.com, krysztynart@ Christina Jansen says staff . “We’re quite a small, (including a donation of £500 from King George new proposal. This was for the building to be turned Edinburgh gmail.com GALLERY TEN, 5 William dal, LA8 0HA, 01539 567 056 they feel lucky to still be specialist team,” says IV), the building’s and great hall were into a new home for St Mary’s Musical School. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL Street, West End, EH3 7NG Willow work by Simone Siegan Drawings, Paintings and Prints GALLERY, The Mound, Princes BROUGHTY CASTLE MUSE- operating: Jansen. She emphasises that modelled on the Hephaisteion in and hence This proposal is now being backed by Street, EH2 2EL, 0131 624 6200 EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS & Steve Fuller WORKSHOP GALLERY, 23 DOVE COTTAGE, The Words- UM, Castle Approach, Broughty “We feel lucky to be the gallery doesn’t have a earned Edinburgh the title ‘the Athens of the the council. But, to bring the battle to an end, SCOTTISH NATIONAL GAL- Ferry, DD5 2TF, 01382 436916 Union Street, EH1 3LR, 0131 worth Museum and Art Gallery, and old,” says Guy Peploe, the gallery’s Director. North.’ the council has had to refuse referring the LERY OF MODERN ART, 75 557 2479 Grasmere, LA22 9SH, 015394 Houses displays on the life and here, and we don’t take it ‘magic formula.’ Journey sees one of Scotland’s finest landscape Belford Road, EH4 3DR, 0131 times of Broughty Ferry, 624 6200 Until July 15 35544 for granted, as things can “The gallery “There is no ‘order book’ in the art world, no painters return to the gallery, joined by a collection Perhaps unsuprisingly, the architect Alexander hotel application to the Government, while Ruth Pelzer-Montada. It Works!. MCMANUS COLLECTIONS Until May 21 FARFIELD MILL, Garsdale change at the drop of a focuses on contemporary guarantee that anything will be sold! We try to have a mix of the gallery’s current and significant artists in a ‘Greek’ Thomson, regarded the building as the the Government has had to refuse calling the PATRIOTHALL GALLERY Road, Sedbergh, LA10 5LW, UNIT, Barrack Street, DD1 1PG, Joan Eardley. A Sense of Place. 01382 307200 second greatest in Britain However, once the school application in for further consideration. @ WASPS, 1d Patriothall, off 01539 621 958 hat.” and historical artists, and of values as well as complementary exhibitors in every unique exhibition of painted works and one-off pin CITY ART CENTRE, 1-3 Market Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, New permanent home for the vacated the building in 1968, a variety of uses and And there is now another development: Street, EH1 1DE, 0131 529 3993 MILL YARD STUDIOS, 3 Mill City’s History, Archaeology and Indeed, Will operates on an ‘ideas first, month of our changing programme to make sure we have EH3 5AY, 0131 226 7126 Yard, Staveley, Kendal, LA8 7LR ideas for conversions followed, including a home Sandy Stoddart, the Queen’s sculptor in Scotland, Until May 21 May 19 - 30 Natural History Collections Whitehorn, the chairman, business second’ basis,” she the potential for profit. Paper Trail. Drawings, Watercol- TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM Until Autumn 2017 for Scotland’s Grand Committee, departments of has called for the monument above the school to Jessica Kirkpatrick. AND ART GALLERY, Castle confirms this: “One adds. “Every year we will show new artists, coming from ours, Prints The Glasgow Boys, the Scottish Edinburgh City Council and even a base for the be completed. Designed by Henry Playfair and May 19 - October 8 THE DUNDAS STREET GAL- Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP, 01228 Colourists, James McIntosh Pat- either recommendations, direct approaches or our own LERY, 6a Dundas Street, EH3 618718 hundred and seventy “Art is our business Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards in Scotland. C.R. Cockerell, based upon the Parthenon on the Edinburgh Alphabet. An A-Z of rick and Joan Eardley. A Sense the City’s Collections 6HZ Until May 21 five years of continuous – but it’s very complex. It’s research. In March we held a show called ‘First’ of senior, May 12 - 18 of Place: Twentieth Century The building was also considered as a home Acropolis in Athens. And, though work on the THE ROYAL SCOTTISH Mr Wang Ying. East Meets West: Scottish Painting. trading is an astonishing not just an artwork that’s mid-career and younger artists, all first time exhibitors in Beyond the Figure 2017. Group The Brushstrokes of Wang Ying. for Scotland’s new Parliament. Had this happened, monument began in 1822 to coincide with George ACADEMY BUILDING, Upper show of figurative artists LIFESPACE SCIENCE ART the gallery.” Galleries, The Mound, EH2 2EL, THE GALLERY AT RHEGED, RESEARCH GALLERY, College achievement for a small for sale, it’s a person, it’s it would have been on a geographical level with the IV’s notorious visit to Edinburgh, when he was ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, 0131 225 6671, www.royalscot- of Life Sciences, University of company. The gallery is a a way of life, it’s a part of castle and above - psychologically, swathed in an extraordinary array of tartans, tishacademy.org EDINBURGH, 20A Inverleith CA11 0DQ, 01768 868 000 Dundee, DD1 5EH, 01382 381023 Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 552 7171 Until July 2 living record and reflection history and so on,” Jansen a good place to be. funding for the monument soon ran out. May 20 - July 2 Until June 17 Uist Corrigan, Carrie Fertig, EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF Derek Eland. Being Human at Future Emerging Art and of artistic and cultural believes. But as this was approved by the Scottish Stoddart has offered to assemble a host of ART, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF, Base Camp. Paul Furneaux, Ilana Halperin, Technology. evolution in Scotland.” “One thing that’s National Party, it was vetoed by Labour. So, having experts to complete the monument and says that Anneli Holmstrom, Hannah 0131 221 6109 NENTHEAD MINES HERIT- GALLERY Q, 160 Nethergate, been left empty for a long time, Duddington House doing so would offset the current ‘generic horrors’ Imlach, Stuart McAdam, Rachel DOVECOT STUDIOS, 10 AGE CENTRE, Nenthead, DD1 4DU, 01382 220 600 At a time of cultural and true is showing quality McBrinn, Jock Mooney, Natasha Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT, 0131 Alston, CA9 3PD, 01434 382 726 IARTSUPPLIES, 59 Perth Road, financial turbulence, the artists and staying true to Properties proposed to convert the Old Royal High which, he says, are changing Edinburgh from the Russell, Geneva Sills and Aeneas 550 3660 Guided valley trails,1825 Wilder. SUMMA. Recent RSA Until July 1 planned Quaker village: N Pen- DD1 4HU, 0330 223 0922, www. School into a £75m luxury hotel – an application ‘Athens of the North’ to the ‘Dubai of the North.’ iartsupplies.co.uk gallery has made a profit every year since 1994, certain values. That’s worked for us so far.” Residency for Scotland Artists The Weaver’s Apprentice. nines ‘Klondyke’. Lead Mines; Online Art Shop Featuring objects from the Rampgill café with the exception of 2010. Describing art as “a bizarre area to work in,” THE SCOTTISH GALLERY, 16 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 organisation’s archive, as well as UPFRONT GALLERY AND The gallery began life in South St David Jansen adds that The Scottish Gallery “can take 558 1200, www.scottish-gallery. historic and current works COFFEE SHOP, Nr Hutton-in- East Lothian Street as a firm of ‘Gilders, Framers and Artists’ calculated risks based on experience, but art is a co.uk, mail@scottish-gallery. MORNING SIDE GALLERY, 94 the-Forest, Unthank, Penrith, GREENS & BLUES, 59 High co.uk Morningside Road, EH10 4BY, CA11 9TG, 01768 484 538 Street, North Berwick, EH39 Colourmen’ in May 1842. Trading as ‘Aitken 100 per cent risk so you don’t know any month artworks, 175 years of Art Pins and Paintings. Until June 3 0131 447 3041. BRANTWOOD, The Brantwood 4HG, 01620 890 666, www. Dott & Son’, it was founded by Aitken Dott, who whether it’s going to be successful or not.” Portrait of a Gallery II, builds on the A Birthday Celebration. 175 LEITH SCHOOL OF ART, 25 Trust, Coniston, LA21 8AD, greensandblues.co.uk, info@ Years of Art North Junction Street, EH6 01539 441 396 greensandblues.co.uk was born in Cupar in 1915 where he was brought As in other forms of retail, e-commerce has successful show of 2010, showing important works Duncan Shanks. Winter Journey. 6HW, 0131 554 5761, www. From March 31 up. It then began exhibiting and selling work by become an increasingly important part of the The gallery has invested in the space, overseeing a of Scottish art, including paintings from The Self-portrait leithschoolofart.co.uk, enquir- Various artists. Mark I’Anson, gallery’s operations and the gallery has embraced complete physical upgrading of its Georgian rooms to Until June 23 [email protected] Devon Erni Upton, Jonathan Mitchell, Scotland’s top contemporary artists. Landscape Tradition and The Scottish Colourists. Lucy Gray. The Sound of Iona. June 18 - 23 INSPIRED PAINTING HOLI- Joe Smernicki, Gary Harper, As the businness expanded it moved to Castle of the digital world. balance the requirement to display both historic and FRANCES ANDERSON Installation Exhibition Week. DAYS, Weston House, 6 Luke Kirstie Cohen, Peter Includes Until July 26 MUSEUMS COLLECTION Street, Bampton, EX16 9NF, work by Nardini, Lindsay Turk, Street in 1860 and a dedicated gallery space “Maintaining a state of the art website is vital contemporary work. Today the visitor will discover 01398 332094 , www.inspired- Elizabeth Blackadder, David CENTRE, 10 Broughton Market Paul Kennedy, James Somerville opened up in 1897, run by the son, Peter McOmish and e-newsletter, tweets and Facebook updates are beautiful spaces over two floors including the sculpture Main picture above: a crowded private view for Cass, Earl Haig, Joan Eardley, , EH3 6NU, 0131 556 9536 paintingholidays.co.uk Lindsay, Stephanie Rew, Louis Landscapes, gardens, coast Dott. McOmish Dott was a good businessman and all part of our marketing mix to appeal to young garden. the gallery’s 1983 Philipson show; left, a royal David MacClure, William Wil- The centre houses the reserve McNally, Fiona Matheson, Paul- son and Victoria Crowe. Foreign collections of the city museums, painting courses with Catherine ine Patrick & Chris Taylor The gallery currently curates and produces a monthly Scott visit from the Duke of Edinburgh. Familiar at the Balmoral. Col- MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOK- BLUES & GREENS, 13 Market lection of paintings by Scottish PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF programme of diverse exhibitions highlighting both SHOPS AND GALLERY, 3a Place, North Berwick, EH39 4JF, artists curated by David Cass & 4a Haddington Place, EH7 ART, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, 01620 893 377 emerging and established artists. All three exhibitions: May 3 - June 3 PL4 8AT, 01752 203 434 3D/2D, Unit 3, Albion Business 4AE, 0131 556 5897, www.mc- POLDRATE ARTS AND Jansen says: “We have to be relevant, so that’s what Visit: scottish-gallery.co.uk - Call: 0131 558 1200 Centre, 78 Albion Road, EH7 naughtansbookshop.com, info@ CRAFTS CENTRE, Poldrate HOLIDAYS IN SCOTLAND 5QZ, 0131 661 6600, www.3d2d. mcnaughtans.co.uk Dumfriesshire Granary, Haddington, EH41 we’re fighting for. Other things come and go, but you can Follow on twitter or instagram@scottishgallery co.uk, [email protected] Until May 27 4DA, 01620 823 738, www.pacc. have faith in us as a brand, that’s what people buy into and THE FRUITMARKET GAL- Lottie Hampson, Joseph Golver, GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE, org.uk, [email protected] and Facebook/scottishgallery. 28 Edinburgh Road, DG1 1JQ, we really believe in quality.” LERY, 45 Market Street, EH1 Joseph Wilson. 01387 262 084, www.dumgal.gov. Starts April 17 1DF, 0131 225 2383 THE VELVET EASEL GAL- uk/Gracefield, arts@dumgal. Term 3 Classes. Bookings To commemorate the anniversary, the gallery is Until June 4 LERY, 298 Portobello High gov.uk open 13th March. Everybody showing three new exhibitions. Duncan Shanks – Winter Mark Wallinger Mark. Painting, Street, Portobello, EH15 2AS, May 20 - July 8 welcome sculpture, photography, film, 0131 629 1121, www.velveteasel. Patricia Cain. Seeing Beyond the 2nd Saturday of each month installation, performance and co.uk Immediate. Gallery 1 and 2 Sew Forth. Sewing and Craft public art Until June 25 Until June 3 Group NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Beneath the Surface. New mixed Ian Frank. A new selection of FIDRA FINE ART, 45 Dirleton SCOTLAND, Chambers Street, exhibition work by Dumfries-based retired Avenue, North Berwick, EH39 EH1 1HF, 0131 225 7534 COBURG HOUSE ART STUDI- architect 4BL, 01620 895057, www. Until September 3 OS, 15 Coburg Street, EH6 6ET, fidrafineart.co.uk, info@fidrafine- The Tomb - Ancient Egyptian 0131 553 2266, www.coburghou- June 6 - July 8 art.co.uk Various artists. Mark Turner Art Burial. Presents the story of one seartstudios.co.uk, exhibitions@ 200 years of Traditional and Group. extraordinary tomb, built around coburghouse.co.uk Contemporary Scottish Art 1290BC and reused for over EDINBURGH PALETTE, St THOMAS TOSH, 19 East May 20 - June 18 Morton Street & 55 Drumlanrig 1000 years Margaret’s House, 151 London Matthew Draper. Small Works. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF Road, Midlothian, EH7 6AE, Street, Thornhill, DG3 5LZ, Landscape painting 01848 331 553 SCOTLAND, George IV Bridge, 0131 661 1924, www.edinburgh- SEASHORE GALLERY, Mar- palette.co.uk, info@edinburgh- SPRING FLING OPEN STU- EH1 1EW, 0131 623 3700 shall Street, Cockenzie, EH32 June 16 - November 12 palette.co.uk DIOS, Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 0HT, 0793 592 8288 Edinburgh Rd, DG1 1JQ Enduring Eye. The Antarctic Paintings, jewellery, wood, legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton Until May 14 May 27 - 29 ceramics, glass, prints, cards Various artists. Spring Fling. and Frank Hurley Running Up That Hill. March, April and May SCOTTISH NATIONAL POR- EDINBURGH ART SHOP, 129 CUT THE MUSTARD GAL- Fiona Crombie. Spring Exhibi- LERY, 54-56 High Street, Lang- TRAIT GALLERY, 1 Queen St, Lauriston Place, EH3 9JN, 0131 tion. EH2 1JD, 0131 624 6200 229 1809, www.EdinburghArt- holm, DG13 0JH, 01387 381 180, June, July August Harbour and Pool, Fife Archibald Dunbar McIntosh RSW RGI www.mustardgallery.co.uk Until March 3 2019 Shop.com, info@EdinburghArt- Various artists. Summer Exhibi- Scots in ltaly - Artists and Shop.co.uk Showcasing desirable Art & tion. THE Crafts in the South of Scotland Adventurers. SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF Until June 6 WESTGATE GALLERY, 39-41 THE TOD ENDOWMENT FUND INVERLEITH HOUSE, Royal ARCHITECT-ARTISTS, RIAS, Various artists. Springing into Westgate, North Berwick, EH39 Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith 15 Rutland Square, EH1 2BE, 4AG, 01620 894 976 Charity No SC010046 Summer. Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 248 2971 www.ssaagallery.org.uk Paintings, limited edition prints, The Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association is empowered by the above to KRYSZTYNA GALLERY Until May 28 COLLECTIVE GALLERY, 22- sculptures, ceramics & glass. After The Storm. Fine furniture 28 Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY, Dundee Licensed Gallery café provide holidays in Scotland for artists (resident in Scotland for at least two 15A NELSON STREET DUNDEE DD1 2PN constructed from RBGE timber 0131 220 1260 DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE BRAID IMAGE, 60 Rhodes windblown during Cyclone Until May 14 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN Park, North Berwick, EH39 5NA, years) who are experiencing difficulties. Andrea in 2012. Alex Impey. 01620 890 780 GALLERIES, University of THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, THE SALTIRE SOCIETY, 9 Large Panoramic Art Photo- DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS Dundee, 13 Perth Road, DD1 APPLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: PALACE OF HOLYROOD- Fountain Close, 22 High Street, 4HT, 01382 385 330 graphs, Printed on Canvas. View HOUSE, Palace of Holyrood- EH1 1TF, 0131 556 1836, www. on-line gallery or visitors by TEL: 01382 322522 LAMB GALLERY, University of The Secretary, Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association house, Abbeyhill, EH8 8DX, 0131 saltiresociety.org.uk, saltire@ Dundee, Tower Building, Nether- appointment 556 5100 saltiresociety.org.uk gate, DD1 4HN, 01382 385330 GULLANE ART GALLERY, 8 C/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2QZ, Until July 23 Artistic interests include awards HANNAH MACLURE CENTRE, Stanley Road (Main Street), Gul- e.mail:[email protected] Maria Sibylla Merian. Maria for the weans in Scottish song, www.krysztynagallery.com For the Guide online Charity No SC011823 The Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 10 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 11 Quite the thing at Kelvingrove IN AN AGE of fast moving video games, it is drawings in liquid acrylic and gouache on perhaps surprising that comics continue to be water colour paper, and digitally produced The popular, but one of the reasons may be that, prints. Guide The Guide Davy Brown’s Art Class - 25th 74 The Headrow, LS1 3AH, 0113 and for artists in Arts and Crafts tytrust.org as with books, there is always the possibility There are also murals and short lengths SCOTTISH FISHERIES MU- Contact us for more on various 2830 Art Lochaber Annual Exhibition, Anniversary Exhibition. 234 3158 in Architecture May 6 - June 25 of returning to the scene and observing of film, a few 3D models and a Superman SEUM, St Ayles, Harbourhead, membership categories EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CEN- .Ben Nevis Distillery, Fort June 26 - July 1 LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY, STILLS GALLERY, 23 Cock- Lesley Banks. Gongoozler. Anstruther, KY10 3AB, 01333 JOHN GREEN FINE ART, 182 TRE, 51-53 Old Coach Road, William Kirkcudbrightshire Art and The Headrow, LS1 3AA, 0113 fascinating details at leisure. cape. 310 628 burn Street, EH1 1BP, 0131 622 THE WEST END GALLERY, Bath Street, G2 4HG, 0141 333 East Kilbride, G74 4DU, 01355 GLENFINNAN STATION MU- Crafts Trail Taster Exhibition. 247 8256 6200 3-45 West Bridge Street, FK1 So, in an exhibition of work by Frank The work demonstrates Quitely’s GRISELDA HILL POTTERY 1991, www.glasgowgallery.com, 261 000, www.slleisureandculture. SEUM, Station Cottage, Glenfin- HIGH ST. GALLERY, 84 High Until July 9 5AZ, 01324 613 100 LTD, Kirkbrae, Ceres, Cupar, [email protected] co.uk/info/48/east_kilbride_arts_ nan, PH37 4LT, 01397 722 295 Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JL, Quitely (aka Vincent Deighan) at the tremendous versatility and, in particular, KY15 5ND, 01334 828 273 Ambit: Photographies from DELTA STUDIOS, Lochlands Specialist framers and restorers centre 01557 331 660 Linlithgow Scotland. A collaboration Business Park, Larbert, FK5 Kelvingrove Art his ability to create Wemyss Ware. Fife’s famous COMPASS GALLERY, 178 West AULD KIRK MUSEUM, THE LINE GALLERY, 238 High hand painted pottery Isle of Arran THE NAIL FACTORY, 56 South- between Stills and Street Level 3NS, 01324 555 500 Gallery & Museum in movement in the Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 221 Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, East wick Road, Dalbeattie, Dumfries Street, EH49 7ES, 01506 670 268 Photoworks Artists studios and workspaces GERRY PINE GALLERY, Gerry 6370, www.compassgallery.co.uk, Dunbartonshire, G66 1HN, 0141 STUDIO 4, Shore Road, Lam- The Abbey, from Hugh Buchanan’s sketch pad & Galloway, DG5 4EW, 01556 THE LAUREL GALLERY, The for rent or lease Glasgow, many of the panels within page Pine, 67 Nethergate North, Crail, [email protected] 578 0144 lash, KA27 8LA, 01770 600 919 611 686, www.nailfactory.org.uk, KY10 3TX, 01333 450 842 Lively contemporary art, Masa- Liverpool Laurel Gallery, 58 St Stephen FORTH VALLEY OPEN visitors poured over layouts and an almost CYRIL GERBER FINE ART, 178 PULP PAPER ARTS WORK- [email protected] Street, Stockbridge, EH3 5AL, STUDIOS, 29 Gartcows Crescent, Landscape Painting near St West Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 SHOP, WASPS Factory, 77 ko Ritchie, Barbara Young, Scott Until May 31 TATE LIVERPOOL, Albert 0131 226 5022 FK1 5QH pages of super reality in some Andrews. 221 3095, www.gerberfineart. Hanson Street, Dennistoun, Irvine, Kirti Mandir, R. Lele new Fiona Love, Simon Grant and Dock, L3 4BB, 0151 702 7400 The Broons, works by J. Broekhuizen Iona My Life – in pictures Until May 31 An annual nine-day event which KINGHORN GALLERY, King- co.uk, [email protected] G31 2HF, 0141 337 2842, www. Claire Watson. It is what It is. Until September 3 2017 Janette Phillips, Arie Vardi, He- takes place in the Forth Valley, Desperate Dan and of his huge faces. And horn, KY3 9RT, 01592 890 218 19th-21st Century British Paint- paperartsworkshop.co.uk, alison. Paintings Tracey Emin and William Blake: loise Maylin, Donald MacLeod, Central Scotland Superman, carefully the images vary from BALBIRNIE CRAFT CENTRE, ings, Drawings & Sculpture [email protected] Isle of Bute ON A WARM summer evening in the last week of exercise regime once the initial fear and excitement June 4 - August 31 In Focus. Maryann Ryves and Debbie June 10 - 18 Markinch, Glenrothes, Tayside, Until May 27 May 27 - 29 April, twenty six Scottish artists and their associates has passed. Various artists. Summer Breeze. BLUECOAT ARTS CENTRE, Barber. Various artists. Forth Valley reading the individual the romantic to the KY7 6NE, 01592 753 743 Tom H. Shanks. Paintings and Japanese Paper & Mokuhanga MOUNT STUART, Mount Stu- School Lane, L1 3BX, 0151 709 Experience. Explore the process art, PA20 9LR, 01700 503 877 THE WHITEHOUSE GAL- THE ADAM POTTERY, 76 Art Beat. panels and often horrific. There is even Alison & Roy Murray gold- Drawings 1945-2017. gathered around a dinner table in the hostel of the The Iona My Life initiative, which is not LERY, 47 St Mary Street, 5689 Henderson Row, EH3 5BJ, 0131 smithing & jewellery; also at 20 GLASGOW MUSEUMS, Culture of making paper from Eastern June 3 - October 29 LADY LEVER ART GALLERY, laughing over the Steven Claydon. Introduced Spe- remote Hebridean island of Iona to launch a unique directly associated with the medical research, aims Kirkcudbright, DG6 4DU, 01557 557 3978 a painting showing a Thistle Street, Edinburgh and Sport Glasgow, 20 Trongate, fibres on the first day of this 330 223 Lower Road, Port Sunlight course cies in Micronesia. Thrown, sculptural and handbuilt Fife witty drawings. car rushing through TWIST FIBRE CRAFT STUDIO, G1 5ES, 0141 287 4350 experiment to try and help reduce the impact of type to provide a support community social structure OCHRE GALLERY & STUDIO, Village, Wirral, CH62 5EQ, 0151 ceramics KIRKCALDY MUSEUM & 88 High Street, Newburgh, Cupar, Call or visit website for full July 1 & 2 478 4136 Indeed, they a crowded street that Plant Papers. 2 diabetes. through which those attempting to put their diabetes 76 High Street, Kirkcudbright, ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI ART GALLERY, War Memo- KY14 6AQ, 01337 842 843 details Isle Of Harris DG6 4JL, 01557 428 088 , www. THE WALKER, William Brown rial Gardens, Abbotshall Road, Workshops and supplies - knit- ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF MUSIC-MAKERS LIMITED, 17 They included well kent artists such as Hugh into remission by this radical approach can be Street, L3 8EL, 0151 478 4199 CULTURA, 82 Nicolson Street, could go further: looks as if it might SKOON ART CAFE, 4 Geocrab, ochregallery.co.uk EH8 9EW, 0131 668 2232 Kirkcaldy, KY1 1YG, 01592 412 ting, weaving, spinning, felt RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ART, 2 North Gardner Street, G11 5BU, Working gallery and studio 860, www.onfife.com/venues/ at the end of one have been done by making, natural dyeing. Natural 0141 339 2708 HS3 3HB, 01859 530 268 Buchanan and Kate Downie from Edinburgh, Bill supported through education and community Ongoing arts lectures, exhibi- Castle Street, Glasgow City, G4 THE STEWARTRY MUSEUM, kirkcaldy-galleries, kirkcaldy. Original art, home made cakes tions & performances; Italian of the rooms was Johnny Johnstone on fibre yarns, books, magazines, 0RH, 0141 276 1625 SCOTTISH ARTISTS’ BENEVO- MacArthur from Orkney, the sculptresses Leonie activities. Should the exhibition prove a success it is 47 St Mary’s Street, Dumfries Livingston [email protected] equipment and kits LENT ASSOCIATION, Second and puddings, leaf and herbal classes Until October 31 teas, coffee plus traditional Gibbs and Deirdre Nicholls from Inverness and planned to hold four Iona My Life residential cookery & Galloway, DG6 4DU, 01557 HOWDEN PARK CENTRE, Arts Until June 11 an enormous speed. Heavenly Creatures: Angels Floor, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR L’INSTITUT FRANçAIS FIFE FOLK MUSEUM, High music. 330223 Services, West Lothian Council, D’ECOSSE, 13 Randolph Cres- Jeremy Hutchison. Explores the mural showing Besides showing Street, Ceres, KY15 5NF, 01334 in Faith, History and Popular Empowered by the TOD Endow- Edinburgh and the water colourist and fashion workshops on board luxury barges on the Caledonian Howden Park Centre, EH54 6AE, effect of de-industrialisation on ment Fund to provide holidays in TOLBOOTH ART CENTRE, cent, EH3 7TT, 0131 225 5366 828 180 Culture. High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 01506 777 666 Kirkcaldy Superman flying over the work (including Scotland for artists consultant Brenda Martin from Edinburgh. Canal this October. MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD, OPEN STUDIOS NORTH FIFE SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL Isle of Islay 4JL, 01557 331 556 June 24 - November 5 RSW, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR, Other supporters included the painters Rab The core concept of the initiative will be to 42 High Street, , High Kelvingrove itself and, murals done specially Artists & makers open their MUSEUM, 225 Scotland Street, THE GALLERY, Bowmore THE FAED GALLERY, The Mill Various artists. The Glasgow 0141 248 7411, www.rsw.org.uk, London Street, EH1 1TG, 0131 529 4142 workspaces to visitors the first G5 8QB, 0141 287 0500 Distillery Visitor Centre, School on the Fleet Visitor Centre, 56 Boys - A Spirit of Rebellion. in a corner, baskets for the exhibition), [email protected] Fairley from Glen Uig, Iona Leishman from provide the participants with a lifestyle that includes THE BRITISH MUSEUM, , full weekend in May annually CENTRE FOR CONTEM- Street, Bowmore, PA43 7JS, High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, CUPAR ARTS & HERITAGE of masks and capes CONTEMPORARY ARTS DUN- PORARY ARTS (CCA), 350 The Royal Scottish Society of 01496 810 441 Perthshire and the noted surgeon Prof David Purdie. better food and fun than the sufferers had before their Great Russell Street, Blooms- Huntly House, 142 Canongate, there is also DG7 2HP, 01557 814 458 bury Square, WC1A 2RJ, 0207 Royal Mile, High Street, EH8 PROJECT (CAHP), 5 Ashlar FERMLINE (CAD), Upper Mall, Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD, 0141 Painters in Watercolour Park, Lovers Lane, Cupar, KY15 which the visitors information on the August 15 - September 27 May 26 - June 3 The project, led by this writer, aims to put diagnosis, so that the treatment is not so much an NORTH GLEN GALLERY, 323 8181 8DD, 0131 529 4143 The Kingsgate, Dunfermline 352 4900 Islay Malt and Music festival North Glen, Palnackie, Castle 5AQ Scottish artists work, mixed Until May 14 (Receiving Day: Aug. 5) together a collection of Iona related art which will ordeal as an opportunity to get fit and healthy. The British Museum is a Ongoing could put on before people Frank Quitely Details www.islayfestival.com Douglas, DG7 1PN, 01556 600 200 museum of human history and Foundation Edinburgh - The PETE CURA PICTURE FRAM- media, 2d, 3d, small sculpture Laura Oldfield Ford, Clara Ianni, 6th Open Annual Summer be exhibited and sold at Summerhall in Edinburgh Iona island resident John Maclean, who was the Exhibitions open studio, glass- ING, At the Gallery, Burnside, taking photographs collaborated with, work (ceramic, Glass and wood), Dora MejÃ≤a and Carol Rhodes. Exhibition. At Lillie Art Gal- culture in London. Story of a City. Gives Edin- blowing, oil lamps, chandeliers, Until June 18 burgh’s story from prehistory to Cupar, KY15 4BH, 01334 652 353 Digital images The Sky is Falling. Black Audio lery, Station Road, Milngavie, Isle of Skye in the autumn* to launch the Iona My Life project first supporter of the initiative through renting out his of themselves visiting including the writers wine goblets. Call for details The American Dream pop to the the present day Lino cuts by Barbara Robert- Until June 11 Film Collective Glasgow. DANDELION DESIGNS, Stein, which aims to support those hostel at a north end of the CORNERWAYS STUDIO/ present. Presents the Museum’s son, Caricatures by Donald the art gallery and Alan Grant, Bruce Jeremy Hutchison. Limomolum. MACKINTOSH CHURCH, PEOPLE’S PALACE, Glasgow Waternish, IV55 8GA, 01470 WHITESPACE GALLERY, 11 Smart, New editions by Sonas GALLERY, 7 Selkirk Road, collection of modern and con- Gayfield Square, EH1 3NT, 0781 museum in disguise. THE QUAY GALLERY, 33 High CRM Society, Queen’s Cross Green, G40 1AT, 0141 550 0892 592 218, www.dandelion-designs. following the radical diet and island at a reduced rate, was MacLean. Jones, Neil Gaiman, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4BL, 01557 temporary American prints for 451 4771 Street, Aberdour, KY3 0SH, Church, 870 Garscube Road, G20 UNLIMITED STUDIOS, 25 co.uk 331 640, (Fridays only) www. EAST NEUK OPEN STUDIOS, The foreword of Grant Morrison and exercise regime which is being fulsome in his praise of the the first time THE EDINBURGH GALLERY, 01383 860 602 7EL, 0141 946 6600 Hyndland Street, G11 5QE, 0141 Permanent exhibition of many cornerwaysart.co.uk, enquiry@ East Neuk THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM 338 6052 contemporary and traditional led in Scotland by the Prof project. NATIONAL MARITIME MUSE- 20A Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, the catalogue points out that comics have a Mark Millar. And the catalogue suggests that KIRKCALDY ART CLUB, Hot cornerwaysart.co.uk UM, Romney Road, Greenwich, 0131 557 5002 June 24 & 25 (July 1, 2) Pot Wynd, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, AND ART GALLERY, University artists, and an interesting range Miniature paintings & larger Various artists. East Neuk Open long history in both Glasgow and Dundee, Quitely’s artistic work belongs to the rather of crafts Michael Lean, head of nutrition “I was genuinely SE10 9NF, 0208 858 4422 ALPHA ART GALLERY, 52 KY1 2TQ, 01592 203270 of Glasgow, University Avenue, works in oil, pastel & watercol- Studios. Painting classes, Monday 2-4pm G12 8QQ, 0141 330 4221 Inverness SANDBANK STUDIO, Old Pier at Glasgow University. amazed at the high quality our by Jane B Gibson THE NATIONAL GALLERY, Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, and that, in the former, The Glasgow Punch, unorthodox tradition set by other Glaswegian Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN, EH3 5AX, 0131 226 3066 MAISIE & MAC ART AND and 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm MCLELLAN GALLERIES, 270 INVERNESS MUSEUM & ART Road, Sandbank, Broadford, Working closely with of the art that was being KIRKCUDRIGHT ARTS & CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, founded in 1932, predates the London Punch artists, including Martin Boyce, David GALLERY, Castle Wynd, IV2 IV49 9AE, 01471 822 011, www. 0207 747 2885 THE WRITERS’ MUSEUM, and Thursday 10-noon. Pottery Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EH, 0141 CRAFTS TRAIL 1 St. Catherine Street, Cupar, classes, Monday 10-12pm and 565 4137 3EB, 01463 237114 duncancurrie.net, duncan.cur- Prof Roy Taylor of Newcastle, produced. Much of the art Until May 21 Lady Stair’s Close, EH1 2PA, Magazine by nine years, while in the latter, Shrigley, Christine Borland and Douglas Cagnacci’s Repentant Magda- KY15 4LS, 01334 656 523, www. 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm and THE ANNAN GALLERY, 164 CASTLE GALLERY, 43 Castle [email protected] 0131 529 4901 the two have been pioneering that was produced by the lene. Paintings maisieandmac.com, info@maisie- D.C. Thomson has been publishing comics Gordon, all of whom studied at Glasgow Wednesday 2-4pm Woodlands Road, G3 6LL, 0141 Street, IV2 3DU, 01463 729 512, Wide range of original paintings Kyle RICCIO GALLERY, 17 South andmac.com www.castlegallery.co.uk, info@ by Duncan Currie and works a radical new process in which earlier Iona Colourists such THE BARBICAN, Silk Street, Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian, since the second part of the 19th century. School of Art, as did Quitely (though very BIRCHWOOD COTTAGE GAL- 332 0028 THE KYLE ART MARKET, Sta- Paintings, prints, sculpture, LERY & TEAROOM, Balmungo, castlegallery.co.uk by Pam Carter and other well- tion Road, Kyle of Lochalsh, IV40 EC2Y 8DS, 0207 638 4141 EH22 1AH, 0131 660 2561 textiles, ceramics, wood & metal ROGER BILLCLIFFE GAL- sufferers are encouraged to lose as Cadell and Peploe was However, Vincent Deighan is a recent briefly). St Andrews, KY16 8LW, 01334 LERY, 134 Blythswood Street, G2 Until May 20 known Scottish artists 8AE, 01599 530 039 Until May 14 AMBER ARTS, 78 Montrose from UK artists and makers 208220 Mychael Barratt. Paintings and AROS SKYE HERITAGE CEN- a great deal of weight (aiming created on what is now my Judith Anne Currie paintings Sophie Clements. How We Fall. Terrace, Abbeyhill, EH7 5DP, addition to those artists involved in the genre. The catalogue also notes that, in the 4EL, 0141 332 4027 PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTI- Gallery/tearoom just outside St Until May 30 Original Prints. Figurative work TRE, Viewfield Road, Portree, at perhaps a BMI of around Until May 21 0131 661 1167 VAL, Festival Office, 47 High Born in 1968 and educated at St Bride’s High Comic Invention exhibition held at the Andrews on the B9131. - original etchings, screenprints IV51 9EU, 01478 613 750 croft and I found it rather Sophie Clements. Shall I This Picture Framers, Art Gallery and Gordon Mitchell. Beyond Logic. Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, School in East Kilbride, he began drawing Hunterian last year, Quitely was shown MASPIE HOUSE GALLERY, and paintings Video exhibition of Skye scen- 21) through undertaking a moving to see these artists Lanarkshire Time Hold You?. Printmaking Studio 01333 313 903, www.pitten- EWAN MUNDY FINE ART, ery and local history Alex Mead and Jack Wates. Find High Street, Falkland, KY15 01436 821 533 May 26 - June 17 very radical diet followed by working from the same spots IRONWORKS GALLERY, Sum- ART ET FACTS GALLERY, 19 weemartsfestival.co.uk, info@ comics at an early age and, indeed, was so alongside Rembrandt and Lichtenstein, Ian McWhinnie. On with the EDINBANE POTTERY, Edin- merlee Heritage Park, Heritage Yourself. 7BU, 01337 857 735 GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Roseburn Terrace, EH12 5NG, pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk Show. Paintings and ceramics bane, Portree, IV51 9PW, 01470 Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, TATE MODERN, Bankside, SE1 worried that his parents might not like what and that this year, Quitely will receive an A wide selection of paintings, GALLERY, 48 King Street, G1 maintaining a low weight and that they did.” 0131 346 7730 A celebration of the visual arts - June 24 - September 30 582 234 Brenda Martin 01236 431 261 9TG, 0207 887 8008 giclee prints and cards, jewellery, 5QT, 0141 552 0704 a higher than average exercise The initial funding SUMMERHALL, 1 Summerhall, taking place in galleries, homes, he was doing that he adopted his pen name Honorary PhD from Glasgow University. books and stationery, Various artists. Summer Mixed GALLERY AN TALLA DEARG, Call for details Until June 11 EH9 1PL, 0845 874 3000 studios and public venues May 5 - 28 Exhibition. Wolfgang Stillman. 2017. (excuse the pun!) of Frank Quitely to hide Well, you can’t get much more Establishment ST. ANDREWS ART CLUB, James McDonald. A small selec- Ornsay, Sleat, IV43 8QR, 01471 regime. for the project came from a Trust established by the GOLD AND SILVER-ETC ART ROYAL FINE ART COMMIS- throughout Pittenweem Photography - still-lifes and 14c Argyle Street, St Andrews, tion of intaglio prints HIGHLAND PRINT STUDIO, 20 833 439, www.eileaniarmain. The experimental initiative has been seeing late George MacLeod of Fuinary who served in the GALLERY, 41 High Street, ML11 SION GALLERY, Bakehouse August 5 - 13 his identity. By the 1990s, he was than that! KY16 9BP Bank Street, IV1 1QU, 01463 718 co.uk, hotel@eilean-iarmain. 7LU, 01555 665 342 portraits Invited artists 2017: Graham GLASGOW SCULPTURE Close, 146 Canongate, Midlo- spoofing The Broons by drawing The Greens PAGE POTTERY GALLERY, 49 999, www.highlandprintstudio. co.uk a considerable percentage of those undertaking trenches with Cadell and who also knew him when Work by June Shirreffs, inc. TATE BRITAIN, Millbank, thian, EH8 8DD Rich, Anna S King, Paul STUDIOS, The Whisky Bond, co.uk, info@highlandprintstudio. Bespoke jewellery, Quality Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, until High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2 Dawson Road, G4 9SS, 0141 DIANA MACKIE, 10 Borreraig this extreme process putting their diabetes into he lived in Edinburgh. SW1P 4RG, 0207 887 8888 DOUBTFIRE GALLERY, 3 Furneaux for the underground comic, Electric Soup, and 2PG, 01333 311402 co.uk Park, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZX, handbags Until May 29 FISHER STUDIO AND GAL- October 1 353 3708 Open access print studio and South East Circus Place, EH3 not long after that working on The Sandman, WEEM GALLERY AND FRAM- 01470 511 795 remission, although they stress that they are still at Paintings gifted to George MacLeod by Cadell WILLIAM WILSON FINE ART David Hockney. Painting, 6TJ, 0131 225 6540 LERY, 11-13 High Street, RICHARD CARR PLATFORM, The Bridge, 1800 education facility. Regular Working studio and gallery - PHOTOGRAPHER, 75 Hyndford drawing, print, photography and Pittenweem, KY10 2LA, 01333 ER, 16 High Street, Pittenweem, Westerhouse Road, G34 9JW, the experimental stage of their work. will be amongst those hanging alongside the Iona My Until May 20 Flex Mentallo, Pax Americana and We3. weekend and evening courses ORBOST GALLERY, Half Road, ML11 9AU, 01555 660 023 video across six decades 312 255, www.fishergallery.co.uk, KY10 2LA, 01333 311535 0141 276 9696 Beth Robertson Fiddes. New available - call for full details Bolvean, nr Dunvegan, IV55 8ZB, However, such has been the success of the initial Life artists’ works this autumn. Limited edition giclée fine art [email protected] In the exhibition, there is plenty of space GREENGATE GALLERY, Until October 1 work CLYDE MARITIME CENTRE, EDEN COURT THEATRE, Eden 01470 521 207 prints and canvases Queer British Art (1861- Until June 14 Sandhaven, Culross, KY12 8JG, 100 Stobcross Rd, G3 8QQ, 0141 work that £2.3 million pounds has now been invested Details of the project can be found on the Iona QUEENSFERRY MUSEUM, 53 to display his work that is shown by delicate [email protected] Court, Bishops Road, IV3 5SA, Selling exhibitions of profes- SUMMERLEE MUSEUM, Herit- 1967). Featuring works from High Street, South Queensferry, James Fraser, Jan Fisher, Susan drawings in pencil on paper, drawings in 339 0631 01463 234 234 sional artworks by local artists in by medical trusts into further evaluation of the thesis. My Life facebook page. age Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, 1861-1967 relating to lesbian, West Lothian, EH30 9HP, 0131 Ritchie, Fraser Shaw, Angus The Tall Ship at Glasgow INCHMORE GALLERY, Skye & Highlands 01236 638460 gay, bisexual, trans and queer MacDonald, Steve Bretel and Harbour. Glenlee (1896), one of One of the main problems with the scheme has MAXWELL MACLEOD 331 5545 pencil, and pencil & ink, on Bristol board, Glasgow Inchmore, by Inverness, six miles RAVEN PRESS GALLERY, KILN SERVICES, Unit 8/11, (LGBTQ) identities Helps visitors to explore the more. Spring Exhibition. only 5 Clyde-built sailing ships W. of Inverness on (A862) Beauly KELVINGROVE ART GAL- left afloat Colbost, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZS, proven to be the proscriptive nature of the initial diet The Iona Exhibition will run from October 2 - 28 at Whistleberry Park Industrial Es- BANKSIDE GALLERY, 48 Hop- past and traditions of historic FUNKY SCOTTISH, 41 High Boad, IV5 7PX, 01463 831 573, 01470 511 748 tate, Hamilton, ML3 0ED, 01698 ton Street, (Next to Tate Modern), Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, LERY & MUSEUM, Argyle and the stress of then maintaining the weight loss and Edinburgh’s Summerhall. Queensferry and neighbouring Street, G3 8AG, 0141 287 2699 TRAMWAY, 25 Albert Drive, www.inchmoregallery.co.uk, inch. Wood engravings of landscape 822032, www.kiln-services.co.uk, SE1 9JH, 0207 928 7521 01333 312 567 G41 2PE, 0141 276 0950 Dalmeny Until June 27 [email protected] and wildlife. Resist dyed silks [email protected] May 5 - June 3 THE PEOPLE’S STORY JOHN NELSON STUDIO Turtle Track: Art of Alick Tipoti. Until June 21 Until May 20 and hand knit design. Working Provides kilns, clays and pottery Re Original Prints 2017. Show- Anne-Marie Copestake and MUSEUM, 163 Canongate, Royal GALLERY, 26 Milton Place, (on GRACEFIELD ‘Waru Thurul’, 2008, Marion Boddy-Evans. Colours studio of engraver Kathleen supplies casing the Royal Society of Mile, EH8 8BN, 0131 529 4057 A917 - 15mins from St Andrews), Andrew Kerr. Time for Art. of Spring. Lindsley Painter-Printmakers’ recent work Pittenweem, KY10 2LS, 01333 ARTS CENTRE Until July 1 THE FINE ART SOCIETY, 6 STREET LEVEL PHOTOW- Until July 24 LYNNE’S ART SHED, Rose- 312 112 Joseph Crawhall. Burrell at June 5 - 18 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 ORKS, 48 King Street, Trongate Various artists neath, 34 Lochbay, Waternish, Lancashire The Society of Graphic Fine Art. Featuring paintings and prints by Kelvingrove. 557 4050 103, G1 5HD, 0141 552 2151 PICTURE THIS, 18 Church IV55 8GD BLACKBURN MUSEUM & Promotes fine drawing skills in John Nelson GALLERY OF MODERN ART Until May 19 LILLIE ART GALLERY, Sta- Street, IV1 1EB, 01463 238823 UnSPOKEn TrUThS ART GALLERY, Museum Street, both traditional and contempo- (GOMA), Royal Exchange CULROSS POTTERY AND Blackburn, BB1 7AJ, 01254 Chris Levine. Portraits Square, G1 3AH, 0141 287 3050 tion Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ, SCOTTISH FLAIR ART GAL- rary media GALLERY (& BISCUIT What’s On at Gracefield 667 130 Nadim Karam. Urban Stories. 0141 956 5536, www.edlc.co.uk/ LERY, 11 Bank Street, IV1 1QY, Kelso NATIONAL PORTRAIT GAL- CAFé), plus GREENGATE Until May 20 2018 heritage-arts/lillie-art-gallery Call for details Until May 26 Hito Steyerl. Polygraphs. A 01463 248 500 KELSO POTTERY, The Knowes, LERY, St Martin’s Place, WC2H Raymond Booth. In the Wild. GALLERYSandhaven, Culross, May 16 & 17 100 metres behind Kelso Abbey, BOLTON MUSEUM ART GAL- (near Dunfermline), KY12 8JG, 20 MAY - 8 JULY group exhibition Specialises in Scottish Edward- 0HE, 0207 306 0055 CARSON CLARK GALLERY, Anna Carlisle. Joan Eardley: A ian and Victorian Art TD5 7BH, 01573 224 027 JAnE McDOnOUgh LERY & AQUARIUM, Le Mans Until May 29 01383 882176, www.culrosspot- RIVERSIDE MUSEUM, 1 34 Northumberland Street, EH3 Private View. A new play Mugs, jugs, bowls & ‘Time Tab- Crescent, Bolton, BL1 1SE, 01204 Claude Cahun and Gillian Wear- tery.com, camilla@culrosspot- GALLERY 1 AND 2 Bunhouse Road, G3 8DP, 0141 Until May 25 lets’ fired in the Kelso Pit Kiln 332 211 6LS, 0131 556 4710, scotmap@ 287 2720 ing. Behind the Mask, Another tery.com Jane McCance. Different Indif- Call for details aol.com Scotland’s Museum of Transport Inverness-shire THE VENNEL GALLERY, Mask. FIRE STATION CREATIVE, ference. Antique maps, charts & prints. Patricia Cain: and Travel 1896 GALLERY & COFFEE Denise Playfair, 11 Bridge Street, KEN BROMLEY ART SUP- HAYWARD GALLERY, South (Relocated from the Old Town) Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline, Bearsden Art Club Annual SHOP, Deshar Rd, Boat of Gar- TD5 7HT, 01573 224 003, www. PLIES, Unit 13 Lodge Bank KY12 7AN, 01383 721 564, www. Until December 31 www.northlandsglass.com Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, Exhibition. ten, PH24 3BN, 01479 831 111 playfairpetportraits.co.uk, ven- Estate, Crown Lane, Horwich, & GALLERY, 17 Dundas Street, Seeing Beyond the Immediate A Fair Life. Exploring the his- SE1 8XX, 08703 800 400 firestationcreative.co.uk, sarah@ Art, photography, crafts, jewel- [email protected] Bolton, BL6 5HY, 01204 690114 EH3 6QG tory of Scottish fairgrounds June 3 - 29 Until December 31 firestationcreative.co.uk Laura Kiddie and Rebecca Scott. lery, books, cards and calendars Besposke Picture Framer. Ani- June May 5 - 14 Clyde Life. Photography display BACK-RIDGE GALLERY, Twit- Outi Pieski. Falling Shawls. Solitude. Drawings IONA GALLERY, Duke Street, mal portrait commissions. Art ter Lane, Waddington, Clitheroe, Greer Ralston. Work - visual art. Various artists. Dunfermline Art , 15 April – 12 May Floating textile installation June 3 - 30 Kingussie PH21 1JG, 01540 and needlework supplies BB73LQ, 01200 427304 Also showing Ceramics from Club Paintings. 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ, MALL GALLERIES, The Mall, Milngavie Art Club Annual 664 535 Former working farm has been Juliet Macloud; Jewellery from 0141 353 4589, www.gsa.ac.uk near Trafalgar Square, SW1Y June 3 and 4 Exhibition. Until May 27 transformed into a work-haven Rhona McCallum and Emily Open Studios Summer 2017 May 6 - 13 Kirkcudbrightshire Unspoken Truths is a series of very personal artworks 5AH, 0207 930 6844, www. Kidson August 15 - September 27 Various artists. New Threads, for local designers and craftsmen mallgalleries.org.uk, info@ FORGAN ART CENTRE, MFA Interim Show 2017. HARBOUR COTTAGE GAL- Until May 30 RSW 6th Open Annual Summer Nora Fok. produced during a long and unexpected rehabilitation PETER SCOTT GALLERY, mallgalleries.com Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay, June 10 - 17 Exhibition. LERY, Castlebank, Kirkcud- Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, James Lumsden. Reflection. DD6 8RA, 01382 542 062, www. Degree Show 2017. CARRBRIDGE ARTISTS’ STU- May 4 - 19 ART FORUM, 50 Station Road, bright, DG6 4LB, 01557 330 073, 01524 594 151 Work - paintings and literal forganartscentre.co.uk, info@ DIO, Main Street, Cairngorms period. The artworks became a voice expressing hidden Royal Society of Portrait Paint- RGI KELLY GALLERY, 118 Milngavie, G62 8AB, 0141 956 www.harbourcottagegallery. landscapes forganartscentre.co.uk National Park, Carrbridge, LYTHAM HERITAGE CEN- ers Annual Exhibition 2017. Douglas Street, G2 4ET, 0141 248 6765 org.uk emotions never voiced out loud – which then evolved into Courses, workshop and events PH23 3AS, 01479 841 328, www. TRE, 2 Henry Street, Lytham, Showcase of the recent portraits 6386, www.royalglasgowinstitute. Mixed exhibition of work carrbridgestudios.com, alice@ May 8 - 20 FY8 5LE, 01253 730787 in all form and for all ages and org/kelly.html, gallery@royalglas- Gallery Open Exhibition. May 22 - 27 GALLERY III, 25 King Street, carrbridgestudios.com a very powerful healing process. A must see exhibition. abilities gowinstitute.org May 22 - June 3 Patrick Gibbs. New Paintings. Falkirk Townhead, G1 5QZ, 0141 552 Work by resident artists Jeff & May 30 - June 2 THE PARK GALLERY AND CRAIL POTTERY, 75 Nether- GLASGOW ART CLUB, 185 0704 Alice Buttress. Various artists. The Wood Show. Leeds gate, The Square, Crail, KY10 28 Edinburgh Rd, Dumfries DG1 1JQ Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 248 Minerva 2017. 200 Japanese CALLENDAR HOUSE, Cal- WASPS ARTISTS STUDIOS, ART LOCHABER, Lochaber, June 5 - 10 HAREWOOD HOUSE, Hare- 3TX, 01333 451 212 5210, www.glasgowartclub.co.uk, Dianne Chopping. Lower Gal- artists, showing contemporary lendar Park, FK1 1YR, 01324 [email protected] The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, G1 Fort William, www.artlochaber. Entry: Free Open: Weekends 12 noon – 4pm, wood House Trust, Harewood Japanese painting, Western 503 789, www.falkirkcommuni- Huge variety of handthrown [email protected] co.uk lery. Silver Jewellery House, Harewood, LS17 9LG, stoneware, terracotta, earthen- arTay is back! 5HZ, 0141 553 5890 style painting, carvings and tytrust.org/venues/park-gallery, www.dumgal.gov.uk June 2 - July 31 A group of artists living in Evelyn Mackintosh. Upper Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm. Location: Alastair Pilkington 0113 218 1010 ware & raku Celebrating the First 150 Years. ARTERIES GALLERY, 185a Gallery. sculptures, craft, calligraphy and artsandcrafts@falkirkcommuni- Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 222 Lochaber HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE, photography Perth’s pop-up art show May 27 - June 7 June 12 - 24 Studio, Main Street, Lybster, KW3 6BJ For the Guide online 18—21 May Mill St, Perth Visit: www.artwork.co.uk To Advertise... Tel: +44(0)1593721229 [email protected] [email protected] artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 12 artWORK 198 May/June 2017 Page 13 To the Editor – Dear Sir… Maxwell Macleod’s Cauld Blast Dear Editor, I WAS AMUSED, though frankly not much, to death threats issued. I have been an avid reader of your paper for many known about events in the Middle East, but where is the meet the renowned scriptwriter James Harding the Facts? No longer fashionable. Story The years. Always interesting and informative. balance in an arts magazine and where are the FACTS. Guide The Guide other day and for him to inform me that when he telling is the new path to enlightenment. You cover many art topics and sometimes stray June 16 - 25 Thames, SE1 2YD, 020 7403 6933 Why do you print such stereotypes – such a danger art therapy craftmakers gallery Chris Lewis and Assassin ARDROSS HALL, Ardross Hall, manages to get his hands on a copy of ArtWork holidays [email protected] New English Art Club Annual Until June 4 into being a politics mag – fair enough – arts provision in our troubled century? TWEEDDALE MUSEUM AND THE RUTHVEN GALLERY, 90 near Alness he will sometimes read out my column (probably I WAS recently at the visually alarming Until June 16 Exhibition 2017. Painting, draw- Imagine Moscow. Presents an and expression are often closely influenced by local and GALLERY, Chambers Institu- High Street, Auchterarder, PH3 LOCHCARRON GALLERY, Will Copestake. Moments in ing and printmaking - all for sale idealistic vision of the Soviet Would you print the same comment about all the Northumberland tion, High Street, EH45 8AG, 1BJ, 01764 664 233 (former butcher’s shop), Main standing on a chair as the poor man is quite small) celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Sunderland the Mist. June 28 - July 2 capital that was never realised national political decisions. world’s Christians or all the world’s Muslims? MARY ANN ROGERS, West 01721 724 820 Contemporary Art and Framing Street, Lochcarron, IV54 8YB, to his colleagues, impersonating my voice. Culloden with the deposed King of Ruanda, a NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE, June 17 - August 24 Wildlife Artist of the Year 2017. HALCYON GALLERY, 144-146 However, with political coverage comes the need Shame! Woodburn, Hexham, NE48 2SE, Until June 3 JARDINE GALLERY & WORK- 01520 722510 Liberty Way, SR6 0GL, 0191 Kevin Percival. Tanera (Ar 10th anniversary wildlife art New Bond Street, W1S 2PF, 0207 01434 270 216, www.marogers. Peebles Art Group SHOP, 45 New Row, PH1 5QA, Well, Mr Harding if this is indeed decent man if ever there was one. I say visually 515 5555 Duthaich). exhibition and sale in aid of 100 7144 for balance when discussing controversial issues – such RONALD KAPLAN com, [email protected] June 10 - July 9 01738 621 836 Selkirk the case here’s hoping you fall off. Cheeky sod. alarming as the once exclusive meeting of VARDY GALLERY, University Until October 31 wildlife conservation as the Middle East and religion. Edinburgh June 17 - 25 The Summer Show: Anne PERTH THEATRE, 185 High of Sunderland, Ashbourne House, James Hawkins. New work - September 20 - October 1 Mary Ann Rogers. 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Royal Society of Miniature GALLERY, The University of QUEEN’S HALL, Beaumont Northgate, EH45 8RX, 01721 a magnet for every hard tartan Nat nutter north Metal Sculptures. Garden and Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621 031, uk/museums_and_galleries, Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Manchester, Oxford Road, M15 for... manipulation” and “being scared out of their wits.” Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS, 01434 722116 Sutherland videos readers will know that Maxwell’s style is never reverent, www.horsecross.co.uk, info@ [email protected] TALKING OF unwarranted abuse I understand of Crianlarich, many dressed like exploded Anta IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, 6ER, 0161 275 7451 What a comment! No example or context or proof! but he should have made the important distinction 652 477 Contemporary Art and Craft horsecross.co.uk TIMESPAN HERITAGE THE HARBOUR GALLERY, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ, 0207 Until July 16 Visit website for full programme from Scotland from Lord Famedram that he has received a sofas and carrying criminally defaced saltires CENTRE, Dunrobin Street, Argyll Street, IV26 2UB, 01854 May 18 - 21 Helmsdale, KW8 6JX, 01431 416 5320 Lucienne Day (1917-2010). A No indication if this is about ALL Jews all over the between actions of the state of Israel and the Jewish SARAH RISEBOROUGH, 21 THE CAIRNS GALLERY, 72 ArTay: Pop-up art show. 612 282, www.theharbourgal- Sense of Growth. Centenary Shetland somewhat rambling (ghastly sin) letter from a supporting their manic cause. 821327, www.timespan.org.uk, lery.com Until September 3 The Gables, West Street, Belford, High Street, EH45 8SW, 01721 THE PERTHSHIRE ART ASSO- celebration - textiles world. His comments about Palestinians are similarly people. Maxwell did use the term Israelis in his first NE70 7QB, 01668 213618 SHETLAND MUSEUM, Hay’s [email protected] Original art, contemporary, retro Syria: A Conflict Explored. Gain 729441 CIATION, 5 Westehill, PH1 1DH, Dock, Lerwick, ZE1 0WP, 01595 reader claiming that my recent in-depth analysis Now, whilst I wouldn’t dream of an understanding of the origins, LOWRY ARTS & DIGITAL generalised. reference, but sadly not in the second – for which we CROWN STUDIO GALLERY, Until June 4 and vintage; framed/mounted PEEBLES CRAFT CENTRE, 01738 626307 695 057 of the current situation in Jerusalem was short on revealing any of the private conversations I had Christine Borland. Common escalations and human impact of WORLD CENTRE, Pier 8, Bridge Street, Rothbury, NE65 Newby Court, EH45 8AG, 01721 prints Salford Quays, Salford, M5 2AZ, Mr Macleod is quite entitled to make his views apologise. Da Gadderie - new exhibition Groin. 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