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144 5th Avenue, 2nd Floor (between 19th & 20th Streets) New York and at: The Hancock Gallery, Jesmond Road West, arTay is a large, tented gallery erected in the centre of the city, beside Newcastle upon Tyne Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th May Perth Concert Hall, displaying over 300 works of art by over 80 artists, from all over Scotland. T: 0777 616 2038 10am - 7.30pm E: [email protected] arTay offers both the curious browser and the serious collector a huge W: alexandermillar.com Perth Concert Hall Plaza range of paintings, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, glass, woodwork, metalwork and jewellery. SAVE Art Mag readers receive 10% discount on signed Admission Free This is a unique event in Scotland and, as such, should not be missed. FI E RT FI E RT limited edition prints up until 31 May 2019. 10% All the artworks are for sale. Victoria Crowe Barbara Rae Jennifer McRae Andrew Mackenzie John Bellany Paul Furneaux Alexander Moffat Sarah Knox Jonathan Lloyd Hannah Mooney Leo du Feu Ewan McClure Euphrosyne Andrews Felix Carr
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Dundee Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow Chick Chalmers, ‘Woman at a phone kiosk’, Inverness Dumfries 1980. From the exhibition An American Roadtrip at Gallery Ten in Edinburgh (until May 9), the image was taken during a visit Chalmers (b.1948) made to the United States on a Scottish Arts Council grant as part of an exchange programme, touring almost every state over a nine-month period and driving over 30,000 miles in an ancient VW camper SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA van. He returned with a remarkable body DIRECTED BY TOMMY SMITH of work, a small part of which was exhibited just once, at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh in 1982. Chalmers sadly passed away in 1998. new waves www.galleryten.co.uk
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oin the Scottish a re-imagining of Bronislava Nijinska’s a fictional, post-gender future, taking Ensemble for Dance feminist cultural landmark ‘Les Noces’ by the audiences on a ritualistic journey as Music, a celebration of Glasgow-born, Berlin-based choreographer object and body are elevated to an iconic music written to make Colette Sadler. status. May 3 & 4 Dundee, May 24 & 25 us move. Alongside Astor The first time since 2011 that UK Edinburgh, JPantaleón Piazzolla’s infectious audiences will see Gat’s work, his new piece www.scottishdancetheatre.com take on Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’, pulsating ‘The Circle’ tells the story of 12 individuals, with the rhythms of Latin America, comes the focusing on the dancers’ relationships with The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland breathless tarantella which ends in Franz each other, its shifting, alternating energies (NYOS) mark 40 years of excellence in Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ and an creating an intimate visual and emotional classical and jazz music with a nationwide assortment of tangos, waltzes, marches, performance. series of concerts, from big band on the serenades and romances – a joyful sashay Inspired by late 20th century fashion Isle of Skye to Mussorgsky in Edinburgh to through a host of pieces written with our feet and pop culture, Sadler’s ‘Ritualia’ creates Shostakovich in Dundee. in mind. Guest director and award-winning Forthcoming highlights violinist Malin Bromaneader is leader of include: the NYOS Senior the Swedish Radio Orchestra. May 23-26, Orchestra Spring Concert, 28 & 30, Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, including Shostakovich’s Glasgow, Inverness & Dumfries, Festive Overture (Apr ww.scottishensemble.co.uk 7, Glasgow); and NYOS Symphony Orchestra Spring Scotland’s national contemporary dance Tour, the flagship ensemble company, Scottish Dance Theatre composed of around 100 of the presents a double bill featuring a first-time most gifted young orchestral collaboration with the Israeli-born, France- players from across Scotland based choreographer Emanuel Gat and ‘RITUALIA’ (SCOTTISH DANCE THEATRE) in a new partnership
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Scottish Ballet continues its 50th season with Spring!, a double-bill with a new work paired with one which premiered in 1974 at the Royal Ballet. Resident choreographer Sophie Laplane will unveil her latest piece, ‘Dextera’, created in her trademark edgy style and set to music by Mozart performed live by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra, while Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Elite Syncopations’ captures the dance hall glitz of the 1920s set to a series of Scott Joplin tunes performed live by an onstage ragtime band. Apr 11-13 Aberdeen, May 2-4 Edinburgh, www.scottishballet.co.uk
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra heads towards its end of season FROM SCOTTISH BALLET’S ELITE SYNCOPATIONS, PHOTO ANDY ROSS with a series of nationwide concerts. with the RSNO (Apr 12 & 13, Edinburgh & Antonio Carlos Jobim was the foremost Glasgow) and featuring Rachmaninoff’s composer of authentic Brazilian bossa Piano Concerto No.3, the Scottish nova and samba-derived jazz music. This premiere of Andrea Tarrodi’s ‘Liguria’ and cool, sensual music will be articulated Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. by saxophonist and SNJO music director There will also be a series of interviews Tommy Smith, Brazilian guitarist Mario with high profile alumni such as Nicola Caribe and vocalist Irini Arabatzi. Benedetti, Colin Currie and Sarah Ayoub. Scotland’s Brian Kellock will bring fresh Check out the the trailer at www.nyos.co.uk. interpretations to jazz pianist “Fats” Waller’s classic repertoire. An influential, game- Sir Thomas Allen’s five-star production of changing composer and instrumentalist, NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SCOTLAND SYMPHONY Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ‘The Magic Waller has been immortalised in print, on ORCHESTRA Flute’, first created in 2012, returns to record, on screen and even as an animated Scottish Opera, set in a spectacular world cartoon. May 3-5, Perth, Glasgow & Bertrand Chamayou Plays Ravel Piano inspired by the Victorian futurist writers H.G. Edinburgh, www.snjo.co.uk For a chance to Concerto (Apr 10-13, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Wells and Jules Verne. win tickets go to page 9. Glasgow & Aberdeen) is preceded by Mozart’s most inventive opera features orchestra members highlighting music by the a handsome prince, a damsel in distress, Latin American composer Alberto Ginastera. sorcerers, priests and a bumbling bird- Hakan Hardenberger Plays Haydn & catcher. This production is inspired by Gruber (Apr 25 & 26, Edinburgh & Glasgow) the city of Glasgow at the height of its showcases the Swedish trumpeter hailed industrial powers, drawing on the aesthetics by The Times as ‘the best in the galaxy’. and ideas of the Enlightenment. Scottish Jonathan Dove Accordion Concerto (May Opera is Scotland’s largest performing 2-4, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen) is arts organisation. Var. dates May 4-Jun a new work composed as a tribute to the 15, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen & late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The season Edinburgh, www.scottishopera.org.uk finale, Berlioz’ ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ and Fauré’s ‘Requiem’ (May 9 & 10, Edinburgh & The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Glasgow) is a blend of French panache and celebrates the music of two legendary gentleness. www.sco.org.uk names in 20th century music, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Thomas “Fats” Waller, in New Written by John McGrath and based on the Waves. original 1970s production by Dundee Rep Perhaps best known for his enduring “Girl Theatre, ‘The Cheviot, The Stag, and The from Ipanema” and crossover projects with Black, Black Oil’ by the National Theatre RICHARD BURKHARD AS PAPAGENO IN SCOTTISH OPERA’S the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, 2012 PRODUCTION OF ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’ © KEN DUNDAS of Scotland reinforces its status as
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a cornerstone of contemporary Scottish Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy theatre. This pivotal, political play has lost none Tuxedo Junction • Goodbyeee of its vitality and relevance. Weaving, songs, poems, scenes and sketches into Wish Me Luck As a free-wheeling Highland ceilidh, it charts Scotland’s history from the ruthless croft YOu Wave Me Goodbye clearances of the 18th century, fashionable Victorian game hunts and the scars left by Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree the 1970s North Sea oil boom right up to the T’Ain’t what you do political upheaval of the present day. Avowedly socialist in its outlook, the original production took popular, political theatre to the working classes. Echoing the play’s first tour, this revival will see it visiting art centres and community spaces across rural Scotland. Var. dates May 16-Jun 22, Dundee, Inverness, Shetland, Orkney, Ullapool, Dornie, Skye, Aberdeen, Perth & Stirling, www.nationaltheatrescotland.co
FROM A PREVIOUS PRODUCTION OF ‘THE CHEVIOT, THE STAG AND THE BLACK, BLACK OIL’, PHOTO: TOMMY GA-KEN WAN
John Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ is the most thrilling and chilling of the Jacobean revenge tragedies – an exploration of male rage and female resistance, as two brothers try to control their sister and block her marriage, with fatal results. As adapted by Zinnie Harris, ‘The Duchess (of Malfi)’ at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh brings these themes of patriarchy versus female empowerment into a contemporary context surrounding the Book now to get the best abuse of male power. May 17-Jun 8, www.lyceum.org.uk seats at great prices. Named after Din Eidyn, the ancient Celtic 01796 484626 | PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com name for Edinburgh Castle, Dunedin
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Consort is the leading Scottish Baroque ensemble. It has appeared at major festivals in Britain, Canada, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Israel and France. As well as performing Baroque and classical repertoire, the ensemble has commissioned and performed works by numerous contemporary composers. The spring concerts are devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Matthew Passion (Apr 18 & 19, Aberdeen & Edinburgh), Bach for Easter Sunday (Apr 21, Perth) and Bach: SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA, PHOTO: DEREK CLARK The Last Resort (May 11-13, Oban, Edinburgh & Perth). www.dunedin-consort.org.uk A leading performing arts education musical chameleons, changing styles institutions preparing artists and performers and interpretations according to each Based on the book by Louisiana nun Sister for the professional world, the Royal conductor’s taste and ideas.” Helen Prejean, the UK premiere of the Conservatoire of Scotland stages over The programme includes: Handel’s opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ by the Royal 600 public performances a year in its New ‘Messiah’ (Apr 20, Glasgow); The Music of Conservatoire of Scotland tells the real Athenaeum Theatre in Glasgow. May 18, John Williams (Apr 25-27 Dundee, Edinburgh life story of Joseph de Rocher, sentenced to 20, 22 & 24, www.rcs.ac.uk & Glasgow); Beethoven Five (May 2-4, death for the rape and murder of a young Perth, Edinburgh & Glasgow); Mahler Six boy and girl. Sister Prejean becomes de The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (May 10 & 11, Edinburgh & Glasgow); Enigma Rocher’s spiritual adviser while he awaits concludes its season with a series of classical Variations (May 17-19, Edinburgh, Glasgow execution. favourites under Music Director Thomas & Aberdeen); Back to the Future in Concert Said Rebecca Franks of The Times : ‘This Sondergard along with guest conductors. (May 24 & 25, Edinburgh & Glasgow); is an opera for our age, as likely to intrigue Says RSNO Leader Sharon Roffman: Season Finale - Belshazzar’s Feast (May 31 fans of true life podcasts and Louis Theroux “One of the fun things about playing & Jun 1, Edinburgh & Glasgow). documentaries about the underbelly of the with different conductors every week www.rsno.org.uk US as devotees of Verdi and Puccini.’ is that we, the musicians, get to be like
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Tragedy has led to celebration in the case JOLOMO, ‘AUTUMN of Leith School of Art, which is marking EVENING its 30th year in the business of teaching LIGHT, GLEN CLOVA, ANGUS’ drawing, painting, printmaking, jewellery and (GALLERY Q mixed media. DUNDEE) Housed in the old Norwegian Church in the port of Leith, the school was established by Mark and Charlotte Cheverton, a young couple with a vision to develop a small, community-like art school where everyone would be welcome. However, three years into the venture, tragedy struck when they were both killed in a car crash while returning from holiday. Surviving and then thriving under new celebrating its 20th anniversary with Jolomo: of excellence in tapestry weaving. The leadership, the school now offers Year-long Towards the Light - Argyll & Angus (until Apr saving of the building and its conversion are and Short Courses. Applications are open 13), featuring new work by one of Scotland’s explored in Baths to Bobbins: 10 Years at for Year-long Courses starting in September. most popular artists, John Lowrie Morrison Infirmary Street (until Sep 7). You can also book a wide range of Short OBE, who had the gallery's first ever solo www.dovecotstudios.com Courses online, including their week-long show in 2000 and has shown regularly Summer School courses. there ever since. Perth’s Frames Gallery hits the big 4-0 www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk Opened by Joyce McGlone as The later this year. Opening in 1979 as a picture Queen's Gallery (changing its name when framer, which remains an important part of In the hub of Dundee's cultural and HM Queen Elizabeth II opened her gallery the business, the gallery moved to larger university quarter, Gallery Q Dundee is by the same name at Edinburgh’s Palace premises in 1991 to fulfill a long-held ambition of Holyrood House), Gallery Q hosts to exhibit contemporary Scottish art. A solo exhibitions by leading artists and purpose-built extension was added in 1997 to makers. Now under the ownership of expand the size and range of exhibitions. Lucinda Middleton, formerly an art There is a changing, year-round series of curator in public and independent exhibitions numbering more than 150 over the museums in England and Wales, the years featuring work by some of Scotland's gallery is also known for supporting best known artists such as Elizabeth new graduates from the nearby Blackadder, Victoria Crowe and David Michie Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art as well as discovering new talent. and other Scottish art schools. As part of Perth Festival of the Arts, www.galleryq.co.uk Frames owner Hugh Goring and his staff also organise arTay, a selling exhibition of LEITH SCHOOL OF ART Edinburgh’s Union Gallery turns ten contemporary Scottish art (May 19-22). in July with an exhibition showcasing www.framesgallery.co.uk See page 44. artists who have been with the gallery from the beginning. Owner Alison Auldjo recently staged the first exhibition in five years of her own work, entitled Out of the Woods. www.uniongallery.co.uk
Dating from 1885, the Infirmary Street Baths were the first public baths in Edinburgh, built under measures to provide accessible washing facilities to improve public health. Following a two-year renovation and restoration, the Victorian building became ALISON AULDJO, ‘ASPIRATIONS’ (UNION GALLERY) the home of Dovecot Studios, a centre TAPESTRY WEAVERS AT DOVECOT STUDIOS
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You can check out this year’s crop of art graduates and perhaps spot a future star, when art colleges transform their premises into some of the country’s biggest galleries to showcase the culmination of several years of hard work in a variety of disciplines, including Fine Art, Product Design, Textiles, Architecture and Illustration.
AYRSHIRE An exhibition by Ayrshire College HND and HNC Photography students at the Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine includes Portraiture, Architecture, Fashion, Digital Imaging, Environment and Documentary work. Until May 3, www.ayrshire.ac.uk
DUNDEE The Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and Architecture Degree Show is spread over the Matthew
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and Crawford buildings. May 18-26, VISITORS TO LAST YEAR’S GLASGOW www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow SCHOOL OF ART DEGREE SHOW. PHOTO: MCATEER EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS The Edinburgh PHOTO College of Art Degree Show features work by over 400 students. Jun 1-9, www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/eca-degree-show
The end of year show for HNC Contemporary Art Practice students at West Lothian College, entitled Presence, returns to Edinburgh Palette. Jun 4-9, www.west-lothian.ac.uk
GLASGOW The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show is spread over several sites: Architecture in the Bourdon Building, Design in the Reid Gallery, Fine Art in the Stow Building and MFA in the Glue Factory. Jun 1-9, www.gsa.ac.uk
OUTER HEBRIDES Part of the University of the Highlands & Islands (UHI), Lews Castle College stages its first Degree Show by the first three BA (Hons) Fine Art graduates in the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre in North Uist. Jun 1-15, www.lews.uhi.ac.uk/art
AYRSHIRE Just seven years ago a small as glassmaker Amanda Simmons, wildlife group of Ayrshire artists got together and artist Lisa Hooper, textile designer Morag OPEN STUDIOS formed the first Open Studios Ayrshire Macpherson and willow weaver Lizzie Farey to raise the profile of artists and makers are this year joined by over a dozen new working in the region and provide them faces. May 25-27, www.spring-fling.co.uk You can visit artists and craftmakers with marketing opportunities. Last year in their workplaces and get a peek an estimated 3,000 visitors attended the FIFE Now in its fourteenth year, North Fife into their methods during open weekend event. Apr 26-29, Open Studios continues to expand, with studios season, when the creative www.openstudiosayrshire.com almost 90 artists and makers taking part, community opens its doors to including several new members, who are workshops, spare rooms, garden DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Over 90 studios offered a training course in how best to sheds and custom-built studios in open their doors to the public during Spring prepare for the event as first-timers. This year some of the loveliest parts of the Fling, Scotland’s largest open studios visitors can try their hand at working with country. event, attracting over 10,000 visitors and stained glass with Liz Rowley or hot metal generating over £1.2 million for the regional with blacksmith Jim Shears or carve spoons You can buy or commission economy. Well known participants such and utensils with greenwood artist Steve directly from – deep breath – Bretel. May 4-6, painters, printmakers, jewellers, www.openstudiosfife.co.uk textile designers, photographers, graphic designers, up-cyclers, Artists and craftmakers based in upholsterers, ceramicists, sculptors, refurbished station buildings along metalworkers, glass artists, furniture- the East Coast railway main line open makers and illustrators. Some run their doors to the public during the workshops and demonstrations and Artline Open Doors Weekend, when afterwards their brochures are handy visitors can see how some studios gift guides throughout the year. have retained their original Victorian features. May 4 & 5, www.theartline. co.uk/open-doors-weekend
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SALVADOR DALI AT HOME, by Jackie De Burca, pub. White Lion Publishing
his latest edition in the excellent At Home series – others feature T Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Gustav Klimt – throws light on the places and people which shaped Dali’s life, how his homes relate to his work and the influence of his native Catalan culture on his art and character. We follow his days as a dandy in Madrid, his entree into the Paris art scene, his embrace of Surrealism and the THE STORY OF THE BAUHAUS, emergence of the eccentric image by Frances Ambler, pub. Octopus Books which made him a media darling. auhaus (literally, ‘building house’) was a relatively short-lived movement born in Weimar, Germany ART: THE WHOLE STORY, B in 1918 and outlawed in 1933 by the National Socialists as ‘degenerate’ and foreign-influenced. pub. Thames & Hudson However, its clean lines and efficient designs have ritten by an international team of left an indelible mark (would there be an Ikea without artists, art historians and curators, it?), spread largely by its proponents emigrating to W this comprehensive history of other countries to avoid the Nazi crackdown. The world art is a one-stop reference guide book introduces the key characters who guided the to the most iconic artworks epitomising Bauhaus school, including Water Gropius, Paul Klee, every period and genre, from painting Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. and sculpture to conceptual art and performance art. Dip in and out of this hefty, but manageable tome to A YEAR IN IMPRESSIONISM, discover Seurat’s colour theories, how pub. Prestel the prosperous citizens of Pompeii were eaturing 365 great Impressionist paintings – one for among the first art consumers or why every day of the year - this perfect gift for art-lovers Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ was shocking in its day.. F presents the best of ANDY WARHOL “GIANT” SIZE, the genre’s masterpieces pub. Phaidon in a series of he man beneath the wig is revealed double-page in this cradle to grave chronology. spreads with T Telling the story behind Warhol’s a painting on artworks and marking the key moments in one side and his career, this lavish scrapbook details the a blank, dated possessions and ephemera of an obsessive page on the hoarder, from receipts, family snaps and other offering press cuttings to the magazine tear-sheet space for notes of the first article he illustrated for Glamour and reminders of significant events. Each day readers magazine, a rejection letter from the New can enjoy works by the likes of Renoir, Gauguin, York Museum of Modern Art and letters from Degas, Cezanne, Monet and Seurat as well as lesser Mick Jagger and Liz Taylor. known practitioners. Perfect for work, home or studio.
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Supporting and promoting independent furniture designers and makers from across Scotland www.scottishfurnituremakers.org.uk potfest potfest.co.uk
Potfest Scotland Over 80 ceramics artist from throughout the U.K. transform the grounds of Scone Palace into Scotland’s premier festival of all things pottery. With demonstrations, hands on activities and access to the Palaces beautiful grounds and gardens. Visitors should prepare themselves for a visual feast.
For more information visit: 7th, 8th & 9th of June www.potfest.co.uk
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1 After studying jewellery in Seoul, Korea, Cristina Zani 4 Max McCance studied furniture, sculpture and design combines natural and painted wood with precious and in Tuscany. This is evident in his “technorganic” non-precious metals in striking jewellery pieces which style, which combines forms found in nature with explore the contrast between modern buildings and contemporary sculptural elements. ancient temples and palaces. www.cristinazani.com www.maxmccance.com
2 All hand-built or thrown on the wheel using a diverse 5 Inspired by her native Shetlands, textile designer range of clay glazes and glaze firings, ceramics Mhairi Abbas creates luxury accessories reflecting by Charlotte Cadzow reflect her love of nature, her passion for colour and design in abstract mythology and the sea, her raku and stoneware firings representations of her heritage. producing vibrant copper lustres and rich oxide glazes. www.mhairiabbas.com www.charlottecadzow.com 6 Crediting her “knack for thinking from the inside out”, 3 Inspired by the landscape of Scotland, multiple glass artist Cara Louise Walker explores themes award-winning silversmith Hamish Dobbie balances around nostalgia and memory, working with core-cast traditional craftsmanship and digital design in pieces glass in combination with precious metal and stone. which reflect the rugged shapes and textures found in www.designsbycaralouise.com nature. www.hamishtdobbie.co.uk
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Artmag will be hitting the road in the next few months to research features for our Art & Travel series. Here is a preview of some of the highlights we hope to include in future issues of the magazine. You can also browse our archive of previous articles at www.artmag.co.uk/travel.
FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON, © IWAN BAAN 2014
PARIS for Picasso’s own art collection, including weather, lake and mountains, capturing the You’ve shuffled with the hordes through the works by Cézanne, Renoir, Modigliani, beauty and menace of nature in sketches Louvre, delighted in Courbet’s scandalous Matisse and Miró. and bright watercolours. ‘L’Origine du Monde’ in the Musée d’Orsay Occupying the east wing of the To celebrate the 200th anniversary of and ridden the department store-style monumental 1930s Palais de Tokyo by the the Lucerne Art Society, the Art Museum escalators at the Centre Pompidou. But the Seine, the Musée d’Art Moderne is home Lucerne is presenting Turner: The Sea and world’s most popular tourist destination to the municipal modern art collection, the Alps (Jul 6-Oct 13). has much, much more to offer than the “big including works by the fauvists, cubists three” art museums. and the Paris School alongside Art Deco VENICE The Fondation Louis Vuitton is the furniture, ceramics and a series of excellent Artmag will be attending the press preview brainchild of Bernard Arnault, chairman temporary exhibitions. (Consider reserving of the 58th Venice Biennale, the world’s of the luxury brand conglomerate LVMH ahead for these to jump the queues). largest visual art festival (May 11-Nov 24), (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Sephora, for which Charlotte Prodger has been Dom Perignon, Givenchy et selected to represent Scotland with a new al) and France’s wealthiest single channel video work building on her man, whose art museum, exploration of “queer wilderness”. On its the city’s newest, seems to return to Scotland the work will tour the float like a giant, glass-sailed Highlands and Islands. regatta on the edge of the Artmag also plans to make return visits Bois de Boulogne housing to major Venice art museums such as the a collection which includes Gallerie dell’Accademia, the Palazzo Grassi works by Jean-Michel and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Basquiat, Gilbert & George and Jeff Koons The renovated Musée Picasso Paris has over JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, ‘THE BLUE RIGI, SUNRISE’, 1842, 5,000 works and tens of AQUARELL ON PAPER © TATE, LONDON, 2019 thousands of pieces from the artist’s personal archives, forming the LUCERNE only collection in the world which presents In search of spectacular motifs, the British both Picasso’s complete painted, sculpted, painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) travelled to engraved and illustrated oeuvre and a Switzerland several times in the early 19th precise record – through sketches, studies, century, when tourism was on the rise. drafts, notebooks, etchings, photographs, Lucerne was a particularly favourite films and documents – of his creative destination, and Turner visited repeatedly process. Other spaces have been created to study the unique interplay of light and PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION
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L.S. LOWRY, ‘CANAL AND FACTORIES’, 1955, OIL ON CANVAS. © THE ESTATE OF L.S. LOWRY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DACS 2018 (DUFF HOUSE)
ook Again, a year-round art to create Lowry’s own vision of modern and design programme which industrialism. Selected dates until May 12, is part of Gray’s School of Art www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a- at Robert Gordon University, place/places/duff-house has opened a temporary galleryL in Aberdeen to promote local artists Presented in the atmospheric setting of and designers. The Look Again Project Drum Castle, A Considered Place brings Space will host exhibitions leading up to a contemporary resonance to the historic the beginning of the annual Look Again building with work by tapestry weavers Festival in June. The opening exhibition, Sara Brennan, Jo Barker and Susan Oral Suspension, a collaboration between Mowatt, glassworker and ceramicist Andrea artists Nick Gordon and David Blyth, who Walsh and artist Jane Bustin, whose work is also course leader for Contemporary Art incorporates painting, ceramics, metal and Practice at Gray’s, focused on folk traditions textiles. MILTON ART GALLERY and fishing lore of northeast Scotland and The artists have all exhibited nationally Orkney. www.rgu.ac.uk and internationally and their work is held in major public collections such as the V&A, The latest in the annual masterpiece National Museums of Scotland, the Scottish loan scheme from National Galleries of Parliament and the House of Lords. Barker Scotland to Duff House, the Georgian mansion in Banff, is L.S. Lowry’s ‘Canal and Factories’. ‘Loch Pertree Skye - Clare Arbuthnott Lowry's cityscapes, populated by his famous “matchstick” people, focused on the mills, factories and smoking chimneys of his native Manchester and nearby Salford, mixing reality and imagination ANDREA WALSH, ‘PAIR OF CONTAINED BOXES – PALE COPPER & GOLD, NUDE & PLATINUM’, 2018, LOST WAX CAST GLASS, FINE BONE CHINA, 22CT BURNISHED GOLD & BURNISHED PLATINUM (DRUM CASTLE)
and Mowatt are recent winners of the Cordis international tapestry prize, while Walsh is a finalist in the Loewe Craft Prize, this year ‘Roses and Porcelain’- Gary Morrow taking place in Tokyo. 12 April–19 May A portion of sales from the exhibition will Gary Morrow & Clare Arbuthnott support conservation work by the National 13 April–19 May Scottish Potters Open Exhibition Trust for Scotland. Apr 21-Nov 17, www.nts.org.uk/Property/Drum-Castle- Open all week: Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-5 Garden-and-Estate Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH [email protected] 01330 844664 www.miltonart.com OPENING NIGHT AT THE LOOK AGAIN PROJECT SPACE
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SPA Open Exhibition Sat 13 April–Sun 19May ANNA KING & LINDSEY LAVENDER by CathRobb ‘Reflections’ 27 April - 1 June
APRIL CATH ROBB MAY KIRSTIN ARMSTRONG ‘S rin ti e’-Pauline Muir Anna King - ‘Field Boundary’, Oil & pencil on paper & board, 26cm x 32cm Oil & pencil on paper board, ‘Field Boundary’, Anna King - ‘Scottish Hare’ by Kirstin Armstrong‘Scottish Hare’ by
24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD SPA Open Exhibition at 01224 625629 • [email protected] the Milton Gallery near Banchory, Aberdeenshire www.scottishpotters.org Open Mon–Sat from 10am 10am-5pm MON, THU, FRI, SAT. www.galleryheinzel.com 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater • 013397 55888 Open all week: Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-5 www.larksgallery.com Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH [email protected] 01330 844664 www.miltonart.com
The Braemar gallery National GalleriesNational of Scotland Original Art and other great things © “Lochnagar”, Oils on Canvas, 90cm x 60cm “Lochnagar”, A View of Tantallon Castle with the Bass Rock, about 1816 Castle Tantallon of A View Nasmyth, Alexander
ROMANTIC SCOTLAND Tom Barron Captivated by the Elements 18th May to Solo Show: April 20 - May 20 29th September 2019 Duff House, Banff
34 Mar Road, Braemar, Aberdeenshire AB35 5YL 013397 41681 [email protected] www.braemargallery.co.uk
20 APRIL/MAY 2019 AYRSHIRE
FROM SUE TAYLOR’S AGE OF OIL (SCOTTISH MARITIME MUSEUM)
welve Ayrshire Colourists at Says Sue: “Visually, these the Maclaurin Art Gallery offshore installations are brutal, not in Ayr does what it says on bonnie...Located in ever-changing, the can. (Of paint?) The list remote natural environments, over of participating artists reads the years they have taken on their likeT a Who’s Who of PAIs, PPAIs, MFAs, own individual social atmosphere RSWs, RGIs, HPAIs and DAs and comprises created by people who have Charles Jamieson, Jacqueline Orr, James personalised their offshore work Harrigan, Claire Harrigan, James Orr, Frank spaces. I found it poignant watching Colclough, Carol Dewart (who is also giving workers, who have had life-long demonstrations), Douglas Lennox, Suzan attachments to their platform shut it Malcolm, Jim Wylie, Helen M. Turner and down, abandon their work site and Ian Elliott. Until Apr 28, end its life.” Until Jul 7,
www.themaclaurin.org.uk www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org PETER SOUTHERN, ‘POND’ (BARONY CENTRE)
Artists and makers from WASPS studios in Irvine have joined others from across North Ayrshire in the Open Art Exhibition at the GALLERY 2 Barony Centre in West Kilbride. Until Apr 29, www.crafttownscotland.org
Featuring works from her residences on North Sea oil platforms over the past decade, Sue Jane Taylor’s Age of Oil at the Scottish April 28th - May 11th Maritime Museum in Irvine captures day to day life and work on the rigs, bearing witness to the decline of the oil and gas industry and documenting the developments in renewable Douglas Lennox energy in Scotland. Recent winner of the Willa Revie Award. ‘Bend in the Stream’ Oil Awarded by Save The Children, Maclaurin Ayr ‘Road to the Knowe’ Oil
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72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock 01563 550303 www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk Gallery2Kilmarnock CHARLES JAMIESON PAI PPAI MFA, ‘FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES’ (MACLAURIN ART GALLERY) APRIL/MAY 2019 21 BORDERS
2 EXHIBITIONS in 1 for SPRING 28th April – 30th June Spring Exhibition Sat 30 March – 29 May Véronique Paquereau “Le temps nous échappe” A mixed Exhibition Feature Artist Christopher Nugent An Eye on Nature… Photographic exhibition by award winning photographer, Stephen Whitehorne “Scots pine reflections, Lochan Uath, Glen Feshie”
Christopher Nugent ‘BoatNugent Christopher Ruin’ Mixed Spring Exhibition Dancing Light Gallery Whitmuir, Near Lamancha, Edinburgh, EH46 7BB 01968 660200 | Open: 10am to 5pm Mon to Sun 51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 [email protected] Tues - Sat 10-4 www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk www.dancinglightgallery.co.uk Wed 10-1 [email protected]
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THE THREE FISHES GALLERY & FRAMING
19B Eastgate, Peebles, 01721 720860 Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10.00 –17.00 Sat 11.00 –16.30 www.thethreefishesgalleryandframing.co.uk Bode Museum, Berlin Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux Acropolis Museum, Athens
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rt @ Ancrum takes over Weaving Across Borders at Tweeddale the beautiful Borders Museum and Gallery in Peebles is a village for the May collaborative exhibition between the Day Bank Holiday Scottish Basketmakers’ Circle and the weekend, with 35 Northumbrian Basketry Group showcasing artists and makers the rich heritage of basketry and its broad putting on exhibitions and demonstrations range of techniques, skills and materials. Acovering a range of disciplines such as May 4-Jun 8, painting, illustration, ceramics, textiles, www.scottishbasketmakerscircle.org, wood, sculpture and jewellery. www.northumbriabasketrygroup.co.uk Venues include an artist’s studio, the village hall, the church, villagers' front Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile at Dawyck Botanic Garden near Peebles features a selection of specially commissioned watercolours revealing the remarkable beauty and diversity of plants native to the South American country. The paintings attest to the skill of three Turkish artists - Gülnur Eksi, Isık Güner and Hülya Korkmaz - and highlight the important research and conservation work undertaken by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), which comprises two other botanic GLASS ARTIST JULIA LINSTEAD (ART & ANCRUM) gardens: Benmore in Argyll and Logan in rooms, garages, gardens, the Bowling Club Dumfries & Galloway. Until Jul 29, www. – and, of course, the local pub, The Cross rbge.org.uk/visit/dawyck-botanic-garden Keys, where an exhibition entitled Absent Friends features work by artists not taking part, but whose work organisers like. This year’s chosen charity is the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation set up by rugby legend Doddie Weir, who is himself suffering from motor neurone disease. May 4-6, www.artatancrum.org.uk
ISIK GÜNER, GUNNERA MANICATA OR GIANT RHUBARB PLANT (DAWYCK BOTANIC GARDEN)
JOANNE B. KAAR, ‘DUNCAN’ (TWEEDDALE MUSEUM AND GALLERY)
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Heather Davies
‘Solar Wind’ RSW Exhibition 2018
Spring Fling Open Studio Event 25th - 27th May
WASPS STUDIO 117 High Street Kirkudbright DG7 2HA www.heatherdavies.co.uk
GRACEFIELD FLAT ARTS CENTRE
CAT 30 March - 11 May Gallery 2 : Apothecary: GALLERY Siobhan Healy and Alasdair Gray and cafe ‘Fish out of Water’ - Rona MacLean ‘Poppy Love’ - Sarah Ross-Thompson Until 30 April Printmakers at the Flat Cat
Open 7 days May Spring Mixed Exhibition 23 March - featuring Julie Morris 4 May Gallery 1: Camera Club 2 Market Place Annual Exhibition Lauder Berwickshire 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ TD2 6SR [email protected] 01578 722808 www.dumgal.gov.uk
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‘Morning Mist’ - Julie Morris
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ome of Dumfries and Galloway’s CLAIRE CAMERON SMITH, ‘ROOSTER leading printmakers are featured in The AND HEN, Print Show at Ottersburn Gallery in AFTER KOSON’ (OTTERSBURN S Dumfries. GALLERY) Claire Cameron Smith is well known for her Japanese-inspired woodblock printing, Pamela Grace for her delicate, detailed depictions of gardens and the countryside, Colin Blanchard for his linocuts and screenprints of wildlife, Gail Kelly for her lithographs, woodcuts and hand- stitched Irish linen collages, Emma Varley for her colourful graphic work and Lisa Hooper for her ornithological images. Printmaking has been through a tricky period in recent times with confusion between so-called ‘limited edition prints’ - which are, in fact, reproductions of work already created, for example from an artist’s original oil painting - and true originals usually made in editions limited by the very process of their making. This show aims to make the distinction abundantly clear. Until April 22, www.ottersburngallery.com
Open Edge at the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright features a diverse range of contemporary work by members of Edge Textiles Artists Scotland, all of whom live, work or were trained at Edinburgh, Dundee or Glasgow. Apr 4-15, www.edge-textileartists-scotland.com
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Redcastle Steading Studio Every year it’s a brand new adventure! 94 Studios spanning 6 routes across Dumfries & Galloway
25-27 May 2019 SPRINGFLING Public Art / Bus Tours / Evening Openings / Workshops and more! Family Friendly studios Children’s Workshops Workshops Pink Route G3 and activities, grab a • Ceramics • Spoon Carving brochure and plan • Lantern Making • Machine Embroidery PREVIEW NIGHT: your visit with • Mark Making & Drawing • Printmaking Friday 24th 6 til 7.30 the family! • Make a Concertina Book • Make a Ring • Painting Surgery Refreshments available. • Drawing • Printed Lamp Making OPEN: 10.30 til 7pm over • and more! Spring Fling weekend. www.spring-fling.co.uk | [email protected] | tel: 01387 213218 | #SF2019 www.redcastlecottages.co.uk [email protected] 01556 660475
Helen Glassford W THE Explore the art and craft WHITEHOUSE of original artist printmaking GALLERY
LYNN MUIR
Work hung up to dry - Lisa Hooper
Hen and Rooster - Claire Cameron Smith Some tools of the art Gold�inch - Colin Blanchard MORAG LLOYDS
This exhibition explores the art and craft of original printmaking through the work of 6 of Dumfries and Galloway’s SPRING EXHIBITION most established printmakers. have a go mixed group exhibition with featured artist Their work, tools and skills will be demo Jackie Henderson on show for all to see. on until 27 April Stanleyday Bird Have a go with Lisa Hooper 6th April and Colin Blanchard on 6th April 10.30am - 3.30pm 10.30 am - 3.30 pm A SENSE OF PLACE mixed group exhibition SEE WEB SITE FOR EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES 4 May- 15 June
Ottersburn Gallery and Picture Framing 2a Nith Avenue, Dumfries. DG1 1EF The Whitehouse Gallery, 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU Tel 01387 269 156 | 07798 882 731 www.ottersburngallery.com louise o’harat: 01557 330223 e: [email protected] www.whitehousegallery.co.uk
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PAMELA WESTWICK, ‘EAST TO BOLLYWOOD’ (DETAIL) (EDGE TEXTILES ARTISTS SCOTLAND/HARBOUR COTTAGE GALLERY) A Facebook campaign which asked followers where the Scottish Portrait Awards exhibition should be held after this year’s runs in Edinburgh and Glasgow means that the 2019 show will be presented at the Kirkcudbright Galleries. Open to all artists over 16 years alm ti at oc cliff owar ri al i from o ill born, living or studying in Scotland, the SPA exhibition represents excellence The Archway Gallery in contemporary portraiture in painting, 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JSOpen| 01546 all year 606894 10-5pm, Mon-Sat Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, sculpture, photography and works on paper. Clience Studio www.thearchway.co.uk Castle Douglas DG7 1DS The 2019 judges include artist John 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk Byrne, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s Imogen Gibbon, Guy Peploe from The Scottish Gallery, Ben Harman from Stills Photography Gallery and the eminent photographer Robin Gillanders. This year’s prize money has been increased thanks to contributions from several donors, with awards in various categories ranging from £500 to £5,000. Entries are open until June 30. www.scotishportraitawards.org
ROBIN GILLANDERS, ‘ROBERT ALAN JAMIESON’ (SCOTTISH PORTRAIT AWARDS)
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abstracting elements from it or depicting a realm from the imagination. Throughout 2019, www.mcmanus.co.uk
Organised by the Inverurie-based Gallery i, the inaugural Dundee Art Fair adds to the buzz around the city since the opening of the V&A last year and the continued waterfront redevelopment. Over 50 artists and galleries will exhibit Dundee Design Project original art, craftwork and prints in the Caird is a new concept store Hall, itself a work of art with a beautiful, in the heart of the city’s arcaded exterior and Art Deco interior. waterside development. You can meet artists and gallery owners, discuss their work and methods Just a 10 minute walk rawn from the city’s fine and take home an original piece of art at from the V&A. art collection, As We prices ranging from around £50 to several See It:Twentieth Century thousand. A childrens’ art and crafts corner Here you can buy work Scottish Art at The will keep the little ones occupied while you direct from the makers with McManus in Dundee browse. May 24-26, prices to suit all pockets. features work by many www.thedundeeartfair.co.uk For a chance acclaimed artists, such as John Houston, to win tickets to the Preview Evening on Fri 19 Commercial Street DWilliam Johnstone, Joan Eardley, May 24 plus weekend pass, go to p29. Dundee DD1 3DD Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, James [email protected] Morrison and Will Maclean. www.dundeedesignproject.com Viewers are encouraged to take a fresh look and consider the different styles the painters used to show the Tickets to the Dundee world through their eyes. Art Fair Preview Evening, Twentieth century artists were not including a Weekend Pass! constrained to truthfully reproduce 25 pairs up for grabs! the real world, instead exploring new modes of expression right down to the very stuff of painting itself such Kim Curson, ‘Light between oceans’ as colour, tones, texture, shapes and the space in between. The works in As We See It show an innovative and diverse range of approaches taken by the artists, ALBERTO MORROCCO, ‘STILL LIFE OF RED CLOTH’, 1986 © THE whether representing the real world, ARTIST’S ESTATE (THE MCMANUS)
One of Scotland’s most successful artists is surfing Dundee’s rising cultural tide The inaugural Dundee Art Fair runs with the launch of the Ron Lawson West End Gallery, May 24-26 in the beautiful Caird Hall. which was marked by the www.dundeeartfair.co.uk official release of the new collection of signed, limited edition prints of his instantly recognisable depictions Closing date Fri May 10 of Highland scenes under glowering grey skies and which are abailable alongside TO ENTER GO TO his latest original work. WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN VISITORS ENJOY THE OPENING OF THE RON LAWSON WEST END GALLERY www.ronlawsonart.co.uk
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A esha e olfe, clay Carol uff, i e e ia Mary rith, lass TIDE | John Muir Open 2019 Sat Sun May p Dialogues of Change Ne t E ent: No 1-3 Group Show 24May till 23June 1 to 5pm Opening Saturday 25May 2 .00 to 4.00pm Dunbar Town House Museum & Gallery | EH42 1ER | 01620 820699
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ANNA RAY, ‘TASSEL’ (CORDIS PRIZE/INVERLEITH HOUSE GALLERY) VICTORIA CROWE, 'NEAR RIALTO, 2004', OIL ON LINEN. PHOTO: ANTONIA REEVE (CITY ART CENTRE) he 2019 Cordis Prize for lolaire shipping disaster off the coast of The exhibition takes up four gallery Tapestry Exhibition at Lewis. Apr 12-Jun 2, www.stills.org floors, each with its own distinctive colour Inverleith House Gallery key to complement Crowe’s instantly features work by artists Drawn from 50 solo exhibitions, Victoria recognisable work, which embraces many shortlisted by an expert Crowe: 50 Years of Painting at the City Art different concepts and art forms. She is panelT from entries from all over the world. Centre is the first major showcase of one skilled at portraiture, landscape and still life The winning fund of £8,000 is the biggest of the UK’s leading artists. Embracing every and moves effortlessly between painting, award anywhere for tapestry. aspect of Crowe’s practice, the exhibition printmaking and designing for tapestries. A Now in its fourth edition, the prize was features over 150 works, from student new film gives visitors a personal glimpse created by author Ian Rankin and his wife paintings to assured landscapes and into the her practice. May 18-Oct 13, Miranda Harvey to reward skilled use of portraits from later years. £6/£4.50, www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk tapestry weaving techniques. It aims to bring together the best and most ambitious contemporary examples of the discipline to celebrate Edinburgh as a centre of excellence for tapestry weaving. Until May 27, www.thetapestryprize.org
R S S KIERAN DODDS, ‘ZAHARA MICHAEL V’ (STILLS GALLERY) OPEN WEEKEND Ambit: Photographies from Scotland at Stills Gallery showcases new and diverse Sat Sun une approaches to photographic image-making a in Scotland, including drone photography, black and white darkroom printing and camera-less photography. The works explore a range of themes such as Kieran Dodds’ look at the role Furniture design | Restoration | Joinery | Sculpture | Surfboards | Stone carving of ancient ideas in the protection of rural landscapes in Ethiopia, a car scrapyard that Cabinet Making | Woodturning | Weird Objects and much more Alex Hall describes as “a Fordist graveyard for an industrial age” and Mhairi Law’s series e attle e al eit commemorating the centenary of the HMY
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CHICK CHALMERS An American Roadtrip “Franks Wild Years” Chick Chalmers USA 1980 Chick Chalmers USA Years” “Franks Wild “Flag” - Chick Chalmers - USA 1980 “Flag” - Chick Chalmers USA 05.04.19
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he Chambers Dictionary defines the noun ‘abstract’ as ‘that part or thing which represents the essence’. Some of the best art is achieved using the very Tminimum of lines, abstracting the essence of a subject. It may be thought of as a sliding scale, with photo-realistic art at one extreme through to completely non-representational work at the other. In Abstracted at Fidra Fine Art in Gullane most of the works bear some representational connection with the subject, but all have been distilled through an innate understanding of colour and compositional balance into a simpler, purer, yet no less expressive interpretation. Part of a series of small group shows at the gallery, it features Chris Brook, John
ALISON DUNLOP RSW, ‘INNER SOUND 51’, WATERCOLOUR (FIDRA FINE ART)
Brown RSW, Dominique Cameron, Alison while a series of discussions and events Dunlop RSW, Simon Laurie RSW RGI and will explore how we may live in a ‘greener’ Christopher Wood RSW along with ceramics future. The exhibition is staged by North by Lucy Dunce. Apr 6-May 5, Light Arts, which promotes environmental www.fidrafineart.co.uk art in unexpected places. May 25-Jun 23, www.northlightarts.org.uk A joint exhibition by Kittie Jones and Jane Smith, Coast to Coast at the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club in Aberlady illustrates the artists’ shared interest in wildlife from their respective viewpoints on the east and ROWENA COMRIE, ‘SIZEWELL BEACH’ (TOWN HOUSE west coasts of Scotland as well as their MUSEUM AND GALLERY) contrasting approaches to the subject. For both, observing and sketching the natural world is fundamental to their practice and they are equally passionate about the power of art to communicate the importance of looking after the natural environment. Apr 14- May 22, www.the-soc.org.uk
Ten Scottish artists have been selected for the John Muir Open to develop their art and practice in a joint exhibition. Tide: Dialogues of Change at the Town House Museum and Gallery in Dunbar is part of an initiative to encourage artists to explore in contemporary ways Ade Adesina: Mirage the philosophies of the locally-born Exhibition: 12 April to 7 July 2019 environmentalist John Muir. Linlithgow Burgh Halls The exhibition includes sound Gallery Tour - 20 June, 6.30pm. £5 installation, works made from found The Cross, West Lothian, EH49 7AH materials, 3D printing and painting, Mon-Sat 9-5, Sun 11-5. Free entry 01506 282720 | linlithgowburghhalls.co.uk
JANE SMITH, ‘FIELDFARES’ (SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB)
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reeze Gallery in Edinburgh is PREVIOUS WORK BY THOMAS on the move from its long- KILPPER standing location within (EDINBURGH Jenners department store into PRINTMAKERS) a new, stand-alone gallery on BFrederick Street. Look out for a number of great new product releases, including the latest limited edition collections from Sleek, Keith Drury and Iain Faulkner, new originals by Dietmar Finger, Simona Kubenova, Sheryl Roberts and others as well as a wide range of sculpture, glass art and art-led gifts. Drop in over the launch weekend April 13 and 14 for some special opening offers and a free gift! www.breeze-gallery.co.uk
Self Evidence – Photographs by Woodman, documentary photography to touching self- Arbus and Mapplethorpe at the Scottish portraits tracking the final years of Robert National Portrait Gallery explores how Mapplethorpe’s life. three of the 20th century’s most influential The works are drawn from Artist Rooms, photographers addressed issues of self- a touring collection of over 1,600 works of expression, performance and truth. modern and contemporary art jointly owned The exhibition includes over 40 works, by the National Galleries of Scotland and from Francesca Woodman’s experimental Tate on behalf of the nation. Apr 6-Oct 20, images to Diane Arbus’ raw, compassionate www.nationalgalleries.org
FRANCESCA WOODMAN, EEL SERIES 1977-8, GELATINE SILVER PRINT ON PAPER (SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY)
Established in 1967 as the first open #ecadegreeshow access print studio in the UK, Edinburgh Printmakers opens its new, £11 million home at Castle Mills on Dundee Street on Saturday April 27 with The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics by the German artist/activist Thomas Kilpper, known for his critical social and political interventions. The Tate Gallery in London houses the largest collection of his works in the UK. 11.00 – 17.00 Formerly the HQ of the North British Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 June Rubber Company, Castle Mills is set to be one of the largest printmaking facilities for artists in Europe. Kilpper’s commission will take the form of an installation depicting politico-heritage themes arising out of his research into the building’s archives. DEGREESHOW/19 Also showing will be a set of original ARCHITECTURE prints by the eminent Scottish artist FREE ART MUSIC & LANDSCAPE ENTRY & DESIGN CONCERTS ARCHITECTURE Callum Innes, which were commissioned Minto House, and published by Edinburgh Printmakers Late nights Lauriston Campus West Court Wednesday 5 June – 74 Lauriston Place 74 Lauriston Place Adam House & over the years, as well as prints made Thursday 6 June EH3 9DF EH3 9DF 7 – 8 Chambers Street in the studio by their master printers in 11.00 – 20.00 EH1 1JZ collaboration with Innes for other galleries For full details: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/degreeshow and projects. Emelia Kerr Beale, BA (Hons) Painting www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk
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Paolo Doyle Toni Harrower Peter Swales 3rd – 21st May 2019
The Dundas Street Gallery Edinburgh EH3 6HZ [email protected]
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Following the success of last year’s Glasgow Boys exhibition, A Brush with EARRINGS BY ROSLYN LEITCH (TEA GREEN EVENTS) Colour at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries features over 40 paintings by the group of 20th century artists known as the Edinburgh School. The original group studied at Edinburgh College of Art during or shortly after WWI, many of them returning there to teach during the mid-20th century.
WILLIAM MACTAGGART, 'ORRY-LA-VILLE' (DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY & GALLERIES) Elemental Roger Palmer Sculpture and Mixed Media by Sylvie Stainton and Deb Ball REFUGIO - after Selkirk after Crusoe
PRIVATE VIEW Gallery 3 26 April 6-10pm Sat 27 April – Sun 5 May 2019 12-6pm 30 March - 23 June 2019 Fife Contemporary @ Kirkcaldy Galleries War Memorial Gardens, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1YG St Margaret’s House 151 London Road Details on www.fcac.co.uk / @�ifecontemp Edinburgh EH7 6AE
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A new generation of influential young painters emerged from Edinburgh College of Art in the 1950s, sharing their predecessors’ traditionalism, yet with an individual approach. The exhibition features works by leading members of both generations, including William Gillies, Anne Redpath, THE GALLERY John Houston and Elizabeth upstairs @ J & G INNES LTD Blackadder. Until May 12, St Andrews www.onfife.com/museums
Galleries and studios open their doors to the public during Pittenweem Artists & Galleries at Easter (Apr 19-22). Also home to the wildly successful Pittenweem Arts Festival (Aug 3-11), the charming fishing village and scenic landscape have attracted artists and craftmakers for years. A new feature this year is
GINA WRIGHT, ‘PATH TO THE SEA, WEST SHORE, PITTENWEEM’ by Andrew Andrews East Sands, St Kenny Pittenweem on the May, a group (PITTENWEEM ARTISTS & GALLERIES AT EASTER) show by over 30 of the village’s resident artists in the May island lighthouse, one of the Firth of Forth, May island is reached by April – May Robert Stevenson’s grandest designs (May- sailings from Anstruther and North Berwick. Sep). Lying a few miles off the Fife coast in www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk Fife Collection Featuring John Picken and Andrew Kenny A contemporary art gallery in St Andrews April 29 - May 5 Pappu Mama Pop up shop Selling unique clothing made from recycled silk sarees. Plus a range of handblock print cotton tunics and gemstone silver jewellery.
Alison McWhirter ’The Blushing Hillside’ ’The Alison McWhirter A percentage of the profits are going to Alzheimer Scotland.
SPRING EXHIBITION 138 South Street ‘Sea-salt breeze & floral infusion’ St Andrews KY16 9EQ Tues April 2 – Sun June 30 01334 474331 Mon-Sat 08:45-17:15 Sun 12:30-16:30 An award winning array of Scottish and British artists including: [email protected] Alison McWhirter; Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE; Poppy Cyster; Clare Arbuthnott; www.sprosongallery.com 107 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW Yvonne Hair; Colin Carruthers; Sigrid Shone; Catherine Rayner; Fiona Sturrock; 01334 472174 Jen Collee; Helen Fay; Paul Bartlett; Mark Holden; Ian Ledward & Elena Guillaumin. sprosongallery www.jg-innes.co.uk
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he Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair returns to the Kelvingrove Art passing fancies Gallery and Museum, where a marquee in the grounds provides ample exhibitor space, while visitors gordon mitacpril 27th - maye 28th, l201l9 Tcan take advantage of on-site parking and the museum’s cafe and restaurant. Galleries, artists and craftmakers will offer original, contemporary fine art, prints, sculpture and photography at prices ranging from £50 to over £10,000. Many of the artists will be on hand to discuss their work. May 18 & 19, www.gcaf.co.uk
In 1903, the Charles Rennie Mackintosh- designed Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street opened its doors to the public and quickly became Glasgow’s most popular tearoom. Now reopened after a detailed restoration as Mackintosh at the Willow, the legacy of Glasgow’s most famous architect has been updated for the 21st century by a team of highly roger billcliffe gallery skilled specialists who have pored over 134 blythswood street glasgow g2 4el Mackintosh’s workbooks to return the art 0141 332 027 • [email protected] • www.billcliffegallery.com nouveau treasure to its former glory As in Mackintosh’s time, the extensive food and tea menu is still there, but now
GLASGOW CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
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SPRING EXHIBITIONS Lynn Howarth 6 April - 27 April
Stuart Herd 4 May - 25 May ‘Mellon Udrigle Beach Rocks’ by Stuart Herd
The GLASGOW GALLERY is a 182 Bath St contemporary art gallery specialising in Glasgow G2 4HG original contemporary Scottish art along with 0141 333 1991 a range of jewellery, glass and ceramics. [email protected] glasgowgallery.com Tue - Fri 10am - 5.30pm. Sat 10.30am - 4.30pm. @glasgowgalleryltd ALEXANDER MILLAR AT HIS NEW GALLERY
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Fraser Taylor “Look and Look Again No.9” Fraser Taylor 6th April – 4th May
ASPECT THE SALON DE LUXE IN MACKINTOSH AT THE WILLOW. Mixed exhibition PHOTO: RACHEL KEENAN RGI Kelly Gallery based on landscape 118 o la tr t la ow 4 there are guided tours, an interactive 0141 48 6386 exhibition, a gift shop, a learning space for 11th May -1st June t ro al la owin tit t @ mail.com schools and community groups, a business o al la ow www.ro al la owin tit t .or meeting room, an audio-visual suite which ue Sat n tit t of t in rt cotti i t r arit o. 0146 0 functions as a cinema space and, to literally top it all off, a roof-top terrace for cocktails. www.mackintoshatthewillow.com
Recently opened by one of the Scotland’s most popular and collectable artists, the Alexander Millar Fine Art Gallery in Glasgow’s Princes Square has original paintings and drawings as well as signed, limited edition prints from his best known collections, including his signature Gadgies series, the Tide and Time portfolio, Youth and Manhood works, Everyday Heroes and Fairway to Heaven. To celebrate the opening, Millar has created a hand-embellished, signed, limited edition print by reimagining one of his best loved paintings, ‘The Wonder of It All’, portraying a typical “gadgie” - a work-weary GALLERY OF MODERN ART individual in a baggy suit and flat cap. Each edition has been hand-embellished with Domestic Bliss over 20 Swarovski crystals which sparkle like stars in a night sky. An exhibition of artworks from Glasgow Museums’ collection to reflect on GoMA’s building history as a former house, Royal Exchange and www.alexandermillar.com civic space, and explore how artists work with fine art, design and craft practices amid social and political changes. On now!
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VICTORIA CROWE, ‘PORTRAIT OF WINIFRED RUSHFORTH’ (INVERNESS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY)
Part of High Painting • Ceramics • Jewellery • Woodwork • Sculpture Life Highland’s partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland, Victoria Crowe: Beyond Likeness at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery includes Crowe’s portraits he Kinrara Distillery near of sitters who enriched her own thinking and Aviemore has launched awareness, such as the psychiatrist R.D. Margaret Uttley & David Knight an Artists Editions Laing, the psychoanalyst Dr Winifred gin range featuring Rushforth and the Danish freedom Edge of Sight – Oir na Suil fighter Ole Lippman, as well as labels designed by The Postcard Show 2019 TScottish artists on a limited number intimate images of friends and family. of collectable bottles. The first two Crowe’s work is richly imbued opens 7th April 2019 with layers of meaning and personal releases feature work by Dundee- all artwork from this exhibition will be available to view online based Kat Baxter, a Fine resonance. This is true of her Art graduate of Duncan landscapes, interiors and still www.resipolestudios.co.uk | | of Jordanstone College lifes and perhaps even more loch sunart | acharacle argyll ph36 4hx of Art and Design inspired so in her portraiture. In the 01967 431506 by her love of flora and early 1980s, she began to paint fauna, and painter Nichol people who had broadened her Wheatley, who also interest in the world of dream ART ON MY produces mosaics, murals, and myth and the search for metalwork, ceramics and spiritual understanding. Her stoneware. portraiture records more than SLEEVES Artists Editions are a sitter’s outward appearance, limited to 2,000 per design, documenting through symbols A vinyl collector's choice each with a unique bottle the subject’s experiences, Dunoon Burgh Hall number that buyers can preoccupations, ideas and register on the company’s dreams. Until May 4, website for a chance to win www.highlifehighland.com/ Friday 22 March – inverness-museum-and-art- a print of the label image. HIBISCUS FLOWERS DESIGN www.kinraradistillery.com BY NICOL WHEATLEY gallery Sunday 21 April (KINRARA DISTILLERY) Located within the Cairngorms National Park, 1896 Gallery in Boat of Garten has reopened its doors after a refurb, now offering even more original art and photography of the Scottish landscape. This year’s exhibited work includes Ann Vastano’s luminous pastels and acrylics, Gillian Park’s dramatic skyscapes and Maggie New’s elemental, semi-abstract explorations of place alongside craftwork by Scottish-based www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk ANN VASTANO, ‘BUILT TO LAST’ (1896 GALLERY) artisans. www.1896gallery.com
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FACE PLATE BY GUY ROUTLEDGE (POTFEST SCOTLAND)
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a your home, an individual take M on a hand-made dinner service www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk or something for your garden, 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BL there is work to suit all tastes and budgets. You can meet the makers, watch demonstrations by members of the Scottish Potters Association or try your hand at creating and decorating your own work. Admission includes entry to the beautiful palace gardens and there is ample free parking
and on-site restaurant facilities. LINDSAY TURK, ‘THIS TURN OF TIME’ (ABERFELDY GALLERY) Jun 7-9, www.potfest.co.uk For a chance to win tickets to Potfest Scotland see Aberfeldy Gallery is showing two locally this page. based artists working predominantly in oils, but with distinctively different styles. Lindsay Turk’s work shows a preoccupation with the repetitions, rhythms and cycles of the natural world, her paintings bringing a sense of permanence to subtleties and fleeting moments often overlooked. With a background in textile design, exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA and selling to companies such as John Lewis, Next Interiors and Liberty’s, Maryann Ryves turned her attention to painting and now has works in many private collections in Britain and Europe. The exhibition also features work by over 60 artists and makers. Until May 6, ARTAY www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk
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A pair of tickets to Potfest Scotland at Scone Palace in Perth and a ceramic piece worth £100!
Potfest returns June 7-9, showcasing ART IN THE EVERYDAY work for sale by over an exhibition by James McDonald RSW 80 studio ceramics Painting: James McDonald (c) artists from the UK, theparkgallery Ireland and France. 27 January - 4 May 2019 www.potfest.co.uk Callendar House, Callendar Park, Ceramic by Valerie Price-West Falkirk, FK1 1YR
Free Admission Mon-Sun 10am-5pm (Closed Tuesdays) Last admission 4pm Closing date Fri May 25 www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org TO ENTER GO TO Falkirk Heritage Falkirk Community Trust gratefully WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/WIN acknowledges the support of Falkirk Council Drymen Art Club 2019 Annual Exhibition and Sale Lavenders by Yani Homfray Lavenders by Yani
A wide variety of styles and 20-21 April new works featuring 25 Open 10-5 local artists. Drymen Hall Village G63 0BP Yani Homfray, will be showing her mixed media Refreshments artworks. Free Admission
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he Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, once described as ‘the best provincial museum and art gallery in Scotland’, recently began a new era with the opening of the refurbished Gallery Two and a Tnew exhibition, The Man Who Could Paint Anything: The legacy of Thomas Stuart Smith, presented in a salon style which reflects its original configuration. Unlike other Scottish museums which were funded by wealthy merchants and Thomas Stuart Smith (1814-69) was a industrialists – for example, the McLellan portrait painter who studied and worked in Galleries in Glasgow, Aberdeen Art Gallery Italy and later exhibited at the Salon des continue the tradition which its founder and the Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery Beaux Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy began of collecting some of the finest (now Kirkcaldy Galleries) – Stirling alone in London. After coming into an inheritance contemporary art. On show are works by has a public museum established by a from his landowner uncle, he began to build prominent artists such as Anne Redpath, practising artist. up his own art collection and, with no need William Gillies and William MacTaggart. to sell, devoted every penny of his estate The refurbished gallery is part of a to building what was originally the Smith major redevelopment project over the Institute. next few years. The Smith is presently The collection now comprises around developing proposals with Reiach and Hall 275 portraits and some 600 watercolours, Architects, whose work also includes the oil paintings, prints and drawings by eminent Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries, artists attracted by the beauty of Stirling and the forthcoming Impact Centre music hall the Trossachs. in Edinburgh and the soon to be unveiled Smith’s legacy enables the gallery, refurb of the Aberdeen Art Gallery. known locally as simply “the Smith”, to www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk
The Man Who Could Paint Anything: Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum The Legacy of Thomas Stuart Smith 40 Albert Place, Stirling, FK8 2RQ, 01786 471917 PERMANENT EXHIBITION Tues-Sat 10:00-17:00 | Sun 14:00-17:00 Visit our newly refurbished gallery! www.smithartgalleryandmuseum
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