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Showcase will cover a 523 700 number of local working artists. Rego exhibition Obedience & Defiance addresses Until May 24 140+ artworks, 11 artists working, challenging subjects and a list of contact numbers Shane Strachan collaborating local artists, all age ranges from 5 with Fashion and Textile Design LANG BYRE GALLERY, for those affected by the issues raised is an students at Gray’s School of Art. Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Burn The Bill Gibb Line. O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, indication of what to expect. ABERDEEN MARITIME 01330 825 431 This first retrospective to be held in Scotland MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, MILTON ART GALLERY, Milton 01224 337700 of Crathes, Nr Banchory, AB31 of the Portuguese born artist does deal with Until April 4 (12:30pm (45mins)) 5QH, 01330 844 664 challenging issues such as violence against women, Lunchtime Talks at the Maritime Until March 29 Museum. ‘Revive’ exhibition abortion and female genital mutilation (FGM), Until April 11 STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor Cartomania: A Victorian Photo- Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, however Rego’s work is far more complex than a graphic 01561 360 118 straightforward feminist protest. GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Original art and handmade ceram- Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, ics, jewellery, glass, textiles, wood Rego was born in 1935, she studied at the www.galleryheinzel.com, info@ and more Slade in the 1950’s. The early part of her career galleryheinzel.com SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, Syl- Contemporary Scottish art lavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, AB33 was influenced by her father’s strong anti-fascist March 17 - May 31 8AQ, 01975 562 273 views. During the 196’s she produced oil and mixed 1990-2020 Anniversary Exhibi- THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH tion. Celebrating 30 years. Featur- , , media pieces featuring abstracted imagery which ing a selection of artists from the Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 last three decades 511 022 are political in content, aimed against oppression in GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, Purpose-built museum with multi- Portugal under the dictator Antonio Salazar. Robert Gordon University, screen technology. Scotland’s first Garthdee Road, AB10 7QD, www. , built 1781. Open all She is thought to have been influenced at rgu.ac.uk/areas-of-study/subjects/ year. Check holiday opening times art-and-design PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- this time by the art brut of Jean Dubuffet, not ARTS CENTRE & THEATRE ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, surprising since this style suited the raw and (ACT) ABERDEEN, 33 King AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 635 208 Experience Peterhead’s maritime visceral emotion she was articulating. Later, in THE ART GALLERY, Grampian life past and present the 1980s and 1990s Rego enters a period of Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, ping Centre, Constitution Street, storytelling, adopting a realist, narrative stance AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 Inverurie, AB51 4UY in order to tackle the difficult subjects mentioned ROSIES, 45-49 Holburn Street, HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, AB10 6BR, 01224 577 325 AB41 7EQ previously. Crafts, art and gifts also framing THE BLUE ROOF, Ryehill, Oyne, Her inspirations are taken from theatre, film, PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 Inverurie, AB52 6QS, 01464 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 851478, www.theblueroof.co.uk, art history, fairy tale, myth and, unexpectedly, Walt 639 539 [email protected] RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden Disney. The work is extremely complex with the Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, exhibition title Obedience & Defiance taking on a Dancing Ostriches, 1995. © Paul Rego. Courtesy Marlborough. 323 247 01569 740039 ’S HOUSE, literal meaning. In one of her later works Paint Him Out creating a disturbing atmosphere. Guestrow, (between Broad Street She portrays women as both victim and and Flourmill Lane), AB10 1AS, Aberfeldy (2011) she seems literally to be trying to lessen the She reinforces the complexity of human 01224 641 086 ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 Ken- heroine. The art critic Robert Hughes described importance of the male role, an idea that is not lost relationships in order to draw attention to the deep TOLBOOTH MUSEUM, Castle more Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 829 Rego as the “best painter of women’s experience Street, AB10 1EX, 01224 621 167 129, www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk within her gender politics. psychology this aspect of human existence occupies Until May 9 2021 March 7 - 30 alive today,” claiming that her monumental portraits Alexander Fraser, Lillias Skene, John Bathgate However, it is difficult to define her as a hard- in living experience. Margaret Campbell, Charles Duff WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill of women who had suffered back-street abortions core feminist, there are instances where female Despite all, however, the work is, in a strange and Peter Williamson. Tales from Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, can be seen as ‘heroic’. The Tolbooth. www.aberfeldywatermill.com, cruelty towards other females is explored, for way, optimistic in that it hints at the possibilities of CLAREMONT STUDIO, 66 [email protected] Her Dog Woman series suggest a morphing example, White and her Stepmother (1995), overcoming the destructive forces that life can throw Claremont Street, AB10 6QY, Art Gallery, Bookshop, Coffee & of woman and animal as a submissive creature 01224 596 999 Music Shop the fairy tale speaking for itself in that Snow White at both individuals and humanity alike. NICOLE PORTER GALLERY, Until April 26 subservient to their master. The series of drawings is protected by a group of seven men. The very power of the execution of the work 88 King Street, AB24 5BA, 01224 Fiona Brown: the Edge of Vision 566 477 ARTISANAND, 13-15 Bank St, of victims of FGM recall Goya’s Disasters of War. It is clear that she is concerned with the (many of the large pieces were made using pastel) is PH15 2BB, 01887 822 700, www. albeit Rego confronts a personal rather than a artisanand.co.uk physical and psychological harm women often evidence of her personal determination. She is said Aberdeenshire A contemporary gallery showcas- universal evil. suffer, however, what is not so clear is her views on to have considered painting a male activity, due to BRAEMAR GALLERY, Mar ing local scottish arts and crafts The women she portrays often appear Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL, 01339 March - November how women deal with this? the sheer physicality of it, however, Rego has shown 741 681, www.braemargallery. A season of eight mixed exhibi- masculine, with strong features and large limbs. By using motifs, props and staged narratives that, even in her seventies, she can wield a pastel co.uk, [email protected] tions Oil paintings, watercolours, KELTNEYBURN SMITHY This is an ambiguous stance and, even though the Rego creates a world of sinister characters who stick to intriguing effect. etchings, engravings, sculpture, AND GALLERY, The Bothy brutality is real, the women seem defiant. seem to be engaged in unsavoury behaviour. It is jewellery and cards Showroom, Keltneyburn Smithy, By contrast, the male protagonists are often Scottish National Gallery of Modern LARKS GALLERY, 10 Braemar Keltneyburn, PH15 2LF, 01887 a dark Disney world full of strange vignettes, the Art () Edinburgh until Road, Ballater, AB35 5RL, 01339 830 267 flawed men such as the fallen priest, the failed 755 888, www.larksgallery.com Sculptures created by mother viewer’s eye is drawn to the outer edges of the scene April 19 Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and daughter team, Morag and husband and the petty dictator. Rego’s attitude where perverse scenarios are lurking which make glass, textiles, jewellery and Heather Cumming CATHY BELL photography towards men is that word again – complex. you wonder what relevance they have apart from THE LOST GALLERY, Alda- Open edge chuie, Strathdon, AB36 8UJ, Aberlour 01975 651 287, www.lostgallery. THE ARTIST STUDIO, 126 High co.uk, [email protected] Street, AB38 9NX, 01340 881 880 edge textile artists scotland TOLQUHON GALLERY, THE GALLERY IN ABERLOUR, Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, AB41 79 High Street, AB38 9QB, 01340 HOLIDAYS IN SCOTLAND 7LP, 01651 842 343, www. 871 457 Mon 15 April – Sat 4 May 2019 tolquhon-gallery.co.uk Picture framing, paintings and March 14 - April 28 pictures. Home interiors, hand- Spring Exhibition crafted gifts NORTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS, April 17 - May 9 www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk, Jude Edgar and Sally Nowell. In [email protected] the Spirit of Colour. A non-profit organisation promot- ing Arts, Crafts and galleries in the North East of Scotland Alloa ALBERTINO COSTA SCULP- THE GALLERY, Gordon McFar- TURES, 5 Milltimber Brae East, lane, Watchmaker, 41 Mill Street, Milltimber, AB13 0DN, 07917 FK10 1DW, 01259 723 303 482 351, www.albertinocostas- Work from Ochil Craft As- culptures.com, costasculptures@ sociation gmail.com RESONATE ARTS HOUSE, Units EION STEWART FINE ART, A3, North Castle Street, FK10 55 Allardice Street, Stonehaven, 1EU, 01259 928 014 AB39 2AB, 01569 785606, www. eionstewartfineart.co.uk, info@ eionstewartfineart.co.uk Angus Picture framing specialists and KINBLETHMONT GALLERY, one of the main suppliers to Arbroath, DD11 4RW, 01241 830 Harbour Cottage Gallery top artists, photographers and 756, www.kinblethmontgallery. businesses co.uk, kinblethmont@btinternet. Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright COUNTRY FRAMES GALLERY, com Leslie, Insch, AB52 6PA, 01464 THE MEFFAN, 20 West High DG6 4LD 820389, www.countryframes. 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Exhibition77 runs from:˚ monoprint and oils [email protected] harbourcottagegallery.org.uk6th April - 25th April ::: 10:30am - 5:00pm March 14 & 15 SPRINGFIELD CREATIVE APPLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: The Garioch Model Engineer- ARTS, Dr. Fran Marquis, 4 Harbour Cottage Gallery ing Show 2020. Come and see a Springfield Terrace, Arbroath, The Secretary, Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association edge-textileartists-scotland.com variety of models including trains, DD11 1EL, 01241 439 714, www. Castle Bank, planes, and automobiles franmarquis.co.uk, info@fran- C/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2QZ, marquis.co.uk Kirkcudbright DG6 4LD For the Guide online Charity No SC011823 W: scottishartistsbenevolentassociation.co.uk The Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association edge-textileartists-scotland.com artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 5 Editorial Comment Campaign to save The Steading ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] The wood artist Tim Stead created a legendary monument to his own unique style of work in Payback time for Big Oil? the house he and his wife inhabited in the Borders. Financial pressures UNUSUALLY, it might seem, outpost of the V & A. threaten the future of the house. A fund has been launched to secure its future. for this paper, we were generous Whether this venture will world, including a stream of devoted art turn out to actually deliver the MUCH has been made of the struggle timber, always revelling in the excitement of students who gain huge inspiration from in our praise in our last issue to preserve Derek Jarman’s Prospect (ArtWork 211) for Aberdeen’s promised ‘Bilbao’ effect – by exploring what he might fi nd in every tree the building. But now The Steading risks Cottage at Dungeness, but there is trunk. being sold on the open market. Maggy born again Art Gallery and bringing many thousands of another artistic gem in the same Museum. visitors to the city of jam, jute All the time, though, he was sculpting has no pension and her money has run precarious position at the other end of and exploring the boundaries of what could And the general consensus and journalism remains to be out. the country in the Scottish Borders. be done with wood. Public pieces such as The Tim Stead Trust was formed seems to be that this view is seen. The Steading is an extraordinary the massive Piper Alpha memorial chapel in widely shared. What is certainly true is to raise funds to buy The Steading so house that belonged to the wood artist Aberdeen, furnished entirely by Stead’s own that it can continue to be shared with the A sizeable amount of money that running costs have turned and furniture maker, Tim Stead, who hands, exposed his infectious style. Like out to be substantially higher nation. But, just as Stead’s work would was spent, certainly, and the died of leukaemia in 2000 aged just 48. Rennie Mackintosh he spawned a whole never fi t comfortably into any sort of sums still don’t fully add up. The than was originally predicted – From the outside it resembles pigeon-hole, The Steading has proved target fi gure for public donations or maybe wished for. a fairly standard eighteenth century diffi cult to categorise with funding is still some £5 million adrift and Perhaps success on rural farmhouse and outbuildings but bodies. Is it art? Is it heritage? predictably there has been some Schoolhill will encourage a closer look reveals little clues: a lead- The Steading is both. Historic political sniping at the problems the revival and re-opening of encased axehead bas-relief confronts Environment Scotland (HES), the body this has caused. another much missed cultural you at the entrance to the Steading; that decides which buildings should Yet Aberdeen needs asset in Aberdeen – the windows are not the usual shape; a be protected with listed status, has just something to show for the huge university’s . door is hung with dozens of ancient put out for consultation a report which contribution its years as Oil Its mainly anthropological keys, a rusting collage. recommends A-listing The Steading – Capital have made not just to collection was of global But these are simply intimations. its highest category. the Scottish, but to the British importance before, in a move Enter through a small dark hallway HES considers it of national and which leads into a riot of gleaming economy, as a whole. meant to ease the birth of international importance. They make woods whose sculptured surfaces the salient point that Tim Stead’s Our national fi nances would the new university library, it completely encase the interior. look a good deal rockier than was closed and closed it has interior has an extra feature not seen in Floors, walls, stairs, fi replace, doors, Stead with Axes, 1986 the houses of other artists and architects they do without the the many remained. Courtesy: Southern Reporter cupboards, grandfather clock, sunroom, that have been saved for the nation. billions of oil dollars that fl owed As the image of our oil four-poster beds that ripple like a giants has (often unfairly) been generation of artists. Citing, amongst others, Charles Rennie in to the Exchequer from the surrealist chess set or evoke the brochs The Steading, bought in the 1980s, was North Sea. darkened by agitation from the Mackintosh’s Hill House, or Basil of northern Scotland. Everything is a a blank canvas for Stead whose life’s work it Spence’s house and studio in Beaulieu, And though the costs of environmental movement, now wooden sculpture. became to extend the house and work on the is surely the time for Big Oil they point out that “in these examples the refurbishing did, predictably Stead fi rst studied at Nottingham interior, adding new elements over a period architects designed these interiors but exceed the budgeted fi gure, the to make a contribution to the Polytechnic where he divorced himself of 20 years. did not build them.” over-run was not that excessive cultural life of the area which from the fashionable zeitgeist of By the time of his early death the Tim Stead did both. This – unlike the fi nal fi gure for has done so much for it over conceptual art. From Nottingham, he whole building was clad in his work. From acknowledgement has come as a the very much more grandiose recent decades. went to of Art and a wooden basin in the bathroom to tiny vindication to the Trust, which now structure gracing Dundee’s Step forward and burnish started making the massive, sculptural cupboards concealing ugly fuse boxes, hopes that funding will be forthcoming, waterfront – the Northern your collective reputation. pieces of furniture for which he is best or from drawers hidden in the treads of either from public or private funders. known. the stairs to massive four-poster beds, There is not much time; the house goes Another STORM brewing? Unlike other designers of the everything is a unique sculpture. There are on the market in April. them are forced to hand back the 1970s who favoured crisp straight lines, around fi fteen doors in The Steading: each WHEN, back in the 90s this Stead worked wood with the eye of a country’s railways were threatened keys, to a state owned body. one is different. A video of the house sculptor, and of someone who knew For the last twenty years, Stead’s and all information with privatisation, this paper went Polls show that there is strong how to make solid wood supremely out of its way to host a campaign national support for the railways widow Maggy has been sharing The can be found at www. comfortable. He exploited the grain and Steading with visitors from all over the timsteadtrust.org against what we saw as a crazy plan. to be re-nationalised, but with a the texture both inside and outside the Our STORM campaign – to government even more dogma STop this Railway Madness – , driven than the one that wrecked attracted a good deal of publicity, the railways in the fi rst place there It was massively helped by is little prospect of that happening. inspired ploys like the late George Indeed there is little prospect Wyllie’s locomotive plunging of any sort of sanity emerging into Loch Linnhe and the silver from a government led by liars necklace, Rust to Rust, created and bullies and advised by by Jack Cunningham of Glasgow crackpots. original paintings, artist prints School of Art. The crackpot-in-chief, who photographs, cards & crafts No one objected then that as an gives every impression of running Winter Hours: 1.00pm - 4.00pm ‘arts’ paper we should not be getting the show, the ‘brilliant’ Mr till 31st March stuck in to misguided, and as it has Cummings, brings a mish-mash of Summer Hours: 11.00am - 5.00pm turned out, unpopular policies. half baked theories gleaned from from 1st April The chaos created by the ill- the internet and science fi ction. 01470 592218 thought out, dogma driven decision Most worrying of all perhaps www.dandelion-designs.co.uk to dismantle our whole rail indsutry is his declared aim to close down is now all too plain to see. the BBC, who he describes as ‘the The crazy franchising system enemy.’ for rail operating companies is Time will tell who is the artWORK being shown to be more and more enemy and who, or what body, is www.artwork.co.uk unworkable as more and more of the lover of truth and honesty. FINE ART GALLERY ...... IN THE SPIRIT OF COLOUR Blooming cultural decades CHECK OUT THE LATTER part of the last Development Board (the HIDB). OUR OTHER century – the 70s, 80s and early Not all the fl owers that TITLES 90s saw a most welcome fl owering were planted then still bloom ...... of many cultural activities, today, but a surprising number The crafts enjoyed something do. An amazing number of such of a heyday, encouraged by some ventures are now celebrating not West Highland inspired policies from public two, but in many cases three, Wayfarer bodies such as the Small Industries decades of existence. www.westhighlandwayfarer.co.uk Council for Rural Areas of ArtWork salutes them all PAINTINGS BY JUDE EDGAR four unique exhibition spaces in one Scotland (SICRAS) – responsible – and thanks many THE stunning location of them for their JEWELLERY BY SALLY NOWELL WhiskyTrailer for the birth of Craftwork, the inspired by the glorious colours of Moray Speyside THE GALLERY IN ABERLOUR 17 APRIL - 9 MAY www.whiskytrailer.co.uk www.resipolestudios.co.uk predecessor of this organ – continued practical For details please contact [email protected] and the Highlands and Islands support...... loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx | 01967 431506 artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 6 New chapter The for the “artists’ Monthly throughout the year ROZELLE HOUSE GALLER- Ceramics Weekends in Arbroath. IES, Rozelle Park, Monument Regular weekends and weekdays Road, KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, Pottery Courses. Hand-building www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galler- ies/rozellehouse/ colourmen” wheelwork, functional and sculpture Ongoing THE CANVAS ART GALLERY, Alexander Goudie. Tam AMONG the many galleries in Edinburgh’s 81 East High Street, Forfar, DD8 O’Shanter: A Tale Told in 2EQ, 01307 465 715 Pictures. elegant New Town only one can claim to be Originals, prints, quality picture Until April 19 framing. Unusual giftware and A Pirate’s Life For Me. Scotland’s oldest privately owned commercial jewellery gallery, and that is the Scottish Gallery. & ART GALLERY, Panmure Place, Mon- Ayrshire Established in May 1842 the gallery trose, DD10 8HF, 01674 673232 OPEN STUDIOS AYRSHIRE, Until March 14 Venues throughout Ayrshire, began life in South St David Street as a fi rm After the Apocalypse. Pupils from www.openstudiosayrshire.com of ‘Gilders, Framers and Artists’ Colourmen’. Montrose Academy decide what Over 70 Ayrshire artists will open objects from the collection they their studios to the public Trading as ‘Aitken Dott & Son’, it was founded would use to survive in this new ARRAN OPEN STUDIO, KA27, world after the Apocalypse www.arranopenstudios.com by Aitken Dott, who was born in Cupar in Until October 31 HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE, 1915 where he was brought up. It then began 150 years of lighting up Scurdie 114-116 Harbour Street, Irvine, Ness. Find out more about the KA12 8EE, 01294 274 059, www. exhibiting and selling work by Scotland’s top history of the whatsonayrshire.com/harbourar- Lighthouse, built by David and tscentre.html, harbourarts@ contemporary artists. Thomas Stevenson and fi rst lit on north-ayrshire.gov.uk Surviving for 175 years and undergoing 1 March 1870 MCKECHNIE INSTITUTE, HOSPITALFIELD, Hospitalfi eld Dalrymple Street, Girvan, KA26 constant change is testament to the gallery’s House, Arbroath, DD11 2NH, 9AE, 01465 713 643, www. 01241 656 124 south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ ability to adapt. And only a few months ago, In control: Christina Jansen, Kirsty Sumerling and Tommy Zyw mckechnie/ the gallery underwent a dramatic change by Peploe says: “I look forward to many more the move to employee ownership. Statistics Until March 21 (Except Sundays moving to employee ownership. Acquired by an Argyll and Mondays) years of involvement in a future-proof structure consistently demonstrate that employee- COWAL OPEN STUDIOS, PA23 You Are Here. A touring exhibi- employee ownership trust (EOT) as of October 8QU, www.cowalopenstudios. tion from the National Library of that should see the Scottish Gallery past its owned businesses benefi t from higher levels of co.uk Scotland 2019, the EOT structure is the latest in a variety bicentenary. engagement and enhanced employee well-being, RESIPOLE STUDIOS, Acharacle, ART’N’JOY GALLERY AND of ownership models the gallery has adapted PH36 4HX, 01967 431 506, www. PICTURE FRAMERS, 52 “We are grateful to our chairman Will which can increase productivity and drive resipolestudios.co.uk Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, North over its long history. New artspace with studios, gallery Ayrshire, KA51 5DS, 01294 472 Whitehorn (also chairman of SEC and deputy growth. The new structure marks a signifi cant and framing service 222, www.artnjoy.co.uk With advice from Carole Leslie from chairman of Stagecoach) who is the architect of milestone in the gallery’s long history, and we April 10 - May 10 THE FRAMEWORK GALLERY, Ownership Associates (employment ownership Spring Fling 83 Portland Street, Troon, KA10 this project and a good example of a chairman wish the team every success for the future.” TIGHNABRUAICH GALLERY, 6QU, 01292 316 144 specialists) the gallery’s managing director, Seaside House, Tighnabruaich, Continuous mix of original paint- acting in the interests of the company, the There are around 110 employee-owned Christina Jansen, who has presided over several PA21 2DR, 01700 811 681, www. ings and printwork by a variety shareholders, the staff, our heritage and our companies operating in Scotland, with tiggallery.com, robbie@tiggallery. of artists years of success and innovation, saw the com GLENBUCK ARTS, Glenbuck future.” approximately 7,500 employee-owners Original art, sculpture, glass, Cottage, Glenbuck, East Ayrshire, opportunity for both continuity and ownership jewellery, poetry The Scottish Gallery has championed generating a combined turnover of around £950 KA18 3SB, 01290 661 784 transformation. THE HARBOUR GALLERY, Regular display of sculptures, contemporary art since its inception, and recent million. Knap, Harbour Street, Tarbert, paintings and hand woven wall Jansen says “Alongside my fellow directors PA29 6UA, 01880 821170, www. pieces. Sculpture Garden by exhibitions have included a Victoria Crowe The Bank of Scotland provided a funding theharbourgallery.com, info@ the loch and the wonderful team here, I am thrilled theharbourgallery.com retrospective, art from Rebecca Collins and package to support the Employee Ownership CRAFT TOWN SCOTLAND, The at this move and to reassure all our artists COMFREY COTTAGE STUDIO, Barony Centre, West Kilbride, jewellery from Jackie Lillie. Trust’s acquisition of the business. Stuart 1 Tayness, Kilmartin, PA31 8QF, KA23 9AW, 01294 829179 and stakeholders about our commitment to [email protected] Until March 21 The gallery currently curates and produces McNaughton, relationship manager at Bank Small gallery where there are an Making Waves. Artists and mak- the future. We are also delighted that Kirsty a monthly programme of diverse exhibitions, of Scotland, said: “The Scottish Gallery assortment of paintings on view, ers from West Kilbride Sumerling is now on the board of directors, painted in various media THE WELLINGTON GALLERY, highlighting both emerging and established is a lynchpin of Edinburgh’s vibrant and IONA HOSTEL, Lagandorain, 13 Wellington Street, Kilmarnock, having been with the gallery since 2014”. Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, 01681 700 KA13 1DW, 01563 523 176 artists. It has witnessed a complete physical internationally renowned art community. We’re Carole Leslie of Ownership Associates 642, www.ionahostel.co.uk, info@ Original paintings, prints and upgrading of its Georgian rooms to balance proud to support a shift in ownership model that ionahostel.co.uk other artworks mainly from Scot- says: The opportunity to focus on your tish artists the requirement to display both historic and safeguards its heritage and puts employees at artistic development in a quiet and ARTI FARTI EXHIBITION “The Scottish Gallery had been through elemental Hebridean landscape contemporary work. Today the visitor will the heart of its future. GALLERY, 48 Hamilton Street, many forms of ownership over the years. A THE ARCHWAY, 7 Union Street, Saltcoats, KA21 5DS, 01294 discover beautiful spaces over two fl oors, “Employee ownership is gaining in Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS, 01546 287207, www.arti-farti.co.uk, sale to an individual, or indeed a corporate 606 894 [email protected] including the sculpture garden. popularity and the gallery views the model as Originals & Limited Editions shareholder, might have been the easiest route. STUDIO BARN ARGYLL, Leac Co-operative Development Scotland – the a perfect fi t. This agreement means the site Na Ban, Tayvallich, Lochgilphead, “However, Guy Peploe and his fellow PA31 8PF, 01546 870 310 arm of Scottish Enterprise which supports will continue to provide a platform for Scottish Seasonal exhibition of orginal art Banff directors were keen to fi nd a succession FYNE STUDIOS - THE HIDDEN COUNTRY GAL- business growth by promoting collaborative creatives while employees share in its success”. LERY, Duff House, AB45 3SX, solution that secured the future of the gallery GALLERY, Newton, Strachur, and employee ownership models – supported After 175 fruitful years of successful (off the A886), PA27 8DB, 01369 01261 818181, www.nationalgal- for the long term. By selling to the employees, 860 379 leries.org/visit/duff-house the directors by providing a business succession trading, it seems the gallery is going from Gallery of two Scottish artists Don Until March 22 this iconic Scottish institution will continue to McNeil & Jean Bell Claude Monet. A Seascape, review and employee ownership feasibility strength to strength. Shipping by Moonlight. Display bring pleasure to locals and visitors for many JUNO DESIGN GALLERY, 159 study. Will Whitehorn, the chairman, states: “One Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7DD, - painting generations to come.” 01369 707 767 MEADOWLANDS GALLERY, Carole Leslie of Ownership Associates hundred and seventy fi ve years of continuous Until March 21 83 North Castle Street, AB45 1JJ, Shareholders, including gallery director 01261 818 535, meadowlands- guided the team through the transition process, trading is an astonishing achievement for a Angela Learoyd, Angie Young, Guy Peploe, who has served 35 years with Brian Phillips, Carol Docherty, [email protected] and legal services were provided by Douglas small company. The gallery is a living record Deborah Phillips, Jill Ray, Law- Douglas Heggie - New work the company, agreed to sell to the trust, rence Gibson, linda macdonald, Roberts of Lindsays. and refl ection of artistic and cultural evolution Philip Raskin, Robert Askew ensuring that the Scottish Gallery has a stable, Artinker, Robin Fox & Trollbeads. Banffshire The head of Co-operative Development in Scotland.” Scottish based owner as well as continuity of THE STABLE GALLERY, PORTSOY MARBLE GALLERY Scotland, Clare Alexander, said: “It’s fantastic Church Square, Inveraray, PA32 & WORKSHOP, Harbour, management and all the benefi ts of employee 8TY, 01499 302 800 Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB, news that The Scottish Gallery has made FRANCES ANDERSON Paintings, reproductions, greetings 01261 842 404 ownership. cards, exclusive post cards Ever-changing ongoing display IONA HERITAGE CENTRE, Isle of pottery, Portsoy marble of Iona, PA76 6SJ, 01681 700 576 work,hand-knits, books and presents IONA GALLERY AND POT- TERY, Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, TOMINTOUL MUSEUM & 01681 700 439 VISITOR CENTRE, The Square, Tomintoul, AB37 9ET, 01309 ORSAY, 2 Stevenson Street, Oban, 673 701 PA34 5NB, 01631 569 988 Jewellery, ceramics, glass metal, TOMINTOUL GALLERY, 82 textiles, wood lights, cards Main Street, Tomintoul, Ballindal- loch, AB37 9HA, 01807 580 458 INVERBEG GALLERIES, Inver- Batik fi ne art by Jane Lannagan, beg, Argyll & Bute, Loch Lomond, original art, prints, cards and G83 8PD, 01436 860 277 interesting gifts CAOL RUADH SCULPTURE PARK, Caol Ruadh, Colintraive, PA22 3AR, 07771 996656 Beauly Scottish sculpture park with wirk KILMORACK GALLERY, The by Karen Scotland and Anne Old Kilmorack Church, IV4 7AL, Edmonds 01463 783 230, www.kilmorack- THE JETTY GALLERY, 100 gallery.co.uk, art@kilmorackgal- George Street, Oban, PA34 5NR, lery.co.uk 01631 570102 March 14 - April 18 Continuously changing contempo- Anne Oram, Ian Westacott and rary artwork - Raymond Arnold BENMORE BOTANIC GARDEN, Dunoon, PA23 8QU, 01369 70626 FIRE, EARTH, LOVE and now FAITH in Eau de Cologne: Now On Sale! March 4 - October 29 Berkshire www.tessawilliams.co.uk Benmore Explorer Tour. Enjoy STANLEY SPENCER GAL- the history, plants and seasonal LERY, High Street, Cookham, highlights of Benmore Botanic SL6 9SJ, 01628 471 885 Garden Until March 22 Painting by the Thames. Swan Ayr Upping at Cookham AN INTERACTIVE CELEBRATION OF OUR LOCAL MACLAURIN ART GALLERY, Rozelle Estate, Monument Road, Berwick-upon-Tweed AUTHORS AND POETS KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, www. BERWICK GYMNASIUM ART 6TH APRIL – 6TH JUNE south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ GALLERY, Berwick Barracks, maclaurin/ The Parade, TD15 1DG, 01289 THURSDAYS - SUNDAYS, 11AM - 5PM WHEEL CHAIR ACCESS

56 Southwick Road, Dalbeattie, DG5 4EW For the Guide online 01556 611686 | [email protected] | www.nailfactory.org.uk Enjoy 30% off each individual Cologne with Code AW2019 Or send cheque for £24.95 to Tessa Williams, Elements, Mill Business Centre, Pitmedden, AB41 7RQ artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 7 polar waters, she is similar to the original “Williams” that Blyth’s famous Captain William Skaffi es, Zulus, Fifi es – and Smith sailed south to discover Antarctica in 1819. There are plans for “Williams II” to set sail Foureens and too! for Guide northwest Scotland in May, and then to sail the Nick Jones mugs up on traditional boat building terms for his local pub quiz team 304 535 Northumberland coast in the summer. Crewed March 7 - May 10 Yvonne Parr. Heaven, Hell & Cambridge STRONG-ARMED into joining the pub quiz are exposed to all the pressures affecting a boat with the help of young trainees, it offers great Earth. KETTLE’S YARD, Castle Street, team, I protest that I’m a liability – our team has moving fast through opportunities for anyone interested in trying DOCKSIDE GALLERY, 84 Main CB3 0AQ, 01223 748100 Street, Tweedmouth, TD15 2AA, April 7 - 19 landed the booby prize three times recently. the water. their hand at crewing and tall . 01289 302437, www.docksidegal- Wright & Vandame. Meeting Luckily the fi rst set of questions is about And how fast! The Zulu could touch 16 lery.co.uk Ground at Kettle’s Yard. Sit, Interested in joining ‘Williams II’ for a Paintings, prints, cards, gifts - new relax and enjoy soundscapes and boats and, surprisingly, I know what Skaffi es, knots under full sail, a great asset when it came few days, or longer? Then keep an eye on the gallery by the docks artworks inspired by the sky March 13 - 15 Zulus and Fifi es have in common, because I’ve to getting the back into port, as fi rst in website. David Barrow, Karen Stamper, just been to the Blyth Tall boatyard, north made the best prices. Meantime, back in the boatyard, Janice Lindsay Madden, Martin John Castle Douglas Fowler, S K Stevens and Basia CLIENCE STUDIO, 212 King of the Tyne, where traditional boat building Snowball and Astrid Adams are making sure Roszak. street, DG7 1DS, 01556 504318, craftsmanship is being kept alive. They are all THE GRANARY GALLERY, 2nd www.cliencestudio.co.uk that the crew will be as warm as can be, in Floor, Berwick YHA, Dewar’s Gallery & studio of Angela Law- , Scottish fi shing vessels with a four- the traditional garment, by organising the Lane, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 rence: changing displays of land 1HJ, 01289 303 232 & seascape paintings cornered lugsail suspended from a spar called a hand-knitting of many ganseys. The gansey, or NUMBER FOUR GALLERY, DESIGNS GALLERY & CAFE, yard. guernsey, using wool retaining natural lanolin, Northfi eld Farm, St Abbs, 179 King Street, DG7 1DZ, 01556 Berwickshire, TD14 5QF, 01890 504 552, www.designsgallery. I’m shown round by lead shipwright John is spun with a hard twist, then tightly knitted, to 771 111 co.uk, admin@designsgallery. Contemporary work from artists co.uk Bell, who has designed and is now building a be as waterproof as possible, repelling rain and and designer/makers from both A selection of books, prints and replica of a “Zulu”, so named as the fi rst of them spray. sides of the Border cards with a café that provides PAXTON HOUSE, Paxton house, coffee and food, using simple and was built in Lossiemouth in 1879, the year of the The Blyth Gansey, with its own Paxton, TD15 1SZ locally produced ingredients Zulu Wars in South Africa. special design, comes in two colours – navy for MARTA UTSLER, 01289 763748, THE MCGILL-DUNCAN GAL- www.martautsler.com LERY, 231 King Street, DG7 1DT, He leads a team of retired engineers, sailors, and grey for supporters. Amazingly, over 01556 502 468 boatbuilders and volunteers, teaching a hundred volunteers from all over the world are ARTS OF ALBA, 39/40 Threave Birmingham Terrace, DG7 1HG, 01556 504 020 boatbuilding skills to young trainees and knitting away, IKON GALLERY, 1 Oozells Featuring the work of Freida unemployed people. The project offers NVQs Square, Brindleyplace, B1 2HS, Dyson, Sam Mullen and Sheila and, if you fancy joining them, get in touch for 0121 248 0708 Mulllen (National Vocational Qualifi cations) in Marine details. BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & JANINAS ART, Meadowview, Engineering Levels 1, 2 and 3. ART GALLERY, Chamberlain Springholm, DG7 3LP, 01556 Fancy a BTS Gansey? You will soon be Square, B3 3DH, 0121 303 2834 650329 Trainees get plenty of experience, not just able to buy one, at a price that refl ects hours Until September 4 Still lifes, landscapes, portraits, Birmingham Revolutions - Power fi gures, abstracts, experimental in of skilled knitting, and to raise funds for to the People. Display work in mixed media building, but also in maintaining, restoring, and THE GALLERY AT LAURIES- the project. Still wondering what a TON, Woodbank House, Lauries- sailing different types of boat. It’s good to see Fifi e and a Scaffi e are? A Fifi e was developed Borders ton, DG7 2PW, 01644 450 235 them still being made by hand. Outside, there’s THE SCOTT GALLERY, Hawick Contemporary and traditional in Fife to fi sh for herring using drift nets. The Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Fine Art and Landscape images a pile of offcuts – cutting to the right size and “” is a great example, and usually docked Hawick, TD9 7JL, 01750 20096 of Galloway THE CHRISTOPHER BOYD DALBEATTIE VISITOR INFOR- shape is tricky. in , home of the Scottish GALLERY, Old Gala House, Scott MATION AND CRAFT CENTRE, Cresent, Galashiels, TD1 3JS 24 High Street, Dalbeattie, DG5 BTS work with one of the biggest timber Blyth Tall Ship Williams II and Pipeline Laying Vessel Museum. 4AA, 01556 612 752 FLAT CAT GALLERY, 2 Market yards in Northumberland, who supply wood Picture: Nick Jones A ‘Scaffi e’ is a built Scottish fi shing Place, Lauder, TD2 6SR, 01578 NORTH GLEN GALLERY, North including oak and larch. The Zulu’s boat, lightweight for easier beaching. Not to 722 808, www.fl atcatgallery.co.uk, Glen, Palnackie, Castle Douglas, fl [email protected] DG7 1PN, 01556 600 200 is greenheart from Guyana. Centuries in John’s lucky to have experts to hand, including be confused with the ‘Skiff’, a rowing boat for March 2 - April 30 Anne James, Duncan Wardlow, the growing, its weight, density, and water- one of the few people who know about pleasure and leisure, which has seen something Jill Stewart, Coral Blamire, Lor- resistance make it ideal for marine use. traditional . Other boats being worked of a revival in recent years. There are crews in raine Clay, Carole Thirlaway, Ann Cornwall Sheppard, Emine Thompson and ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM, Many joints use special dowels called on include a ‘Foureen’, designed for four rowers, small harbours up and down the northeast and Charlotte Thompson. Over the River Street, Truro, TR1 2SJ, treenails (aka trenail or trennel); and there’s and a forerunner of the ‘’, based on beyond – best seen on regatta days. Border. Art from Northumbria 01872 272 205 THE ROADSTEAD GALLERY, LEMON STREET GALLERY another skill, an old Norse design. Alongside is a traditional St Ellas Place, Eyemouth, TD14 (LSG), 13 Lemon Street, Truro, ensuring the different expansion and contraction , fl at bottomed for easy beaching, essential 5HP, 018907 52067 TR1 2LS, 01872 275 757 Blyth Tall Ship Project: REAL WOOD STUDIOS, Mon- qualities of different timbers work well together given the scarcity of deep-water harbours on the www.blythtallship.co.uk and teviot Nurseries, Nr Ancrum, Jed- burgh, TD8 6TU, 01835 830 767 County Durham to secure a tight fi t despite variations in Northumberland coast. www.blythtallship.co.uk/friends Contemporary Scottish furniture BOWES MUSEUM, Newgate, temperature, stress and humidity. John is 18 months, and some fi fty thousand Gansey. Scottish Fisheries Museum: Café and walks Barnard Castle, DL12 8NP, 01833 BUY DESIGN GALLERY, 1 690 606 Boatbuilding demands precision pounds, into the project, and reckons it could be www.scotfi shmuseum.org Harestanes Craft Workshops, THE ORIENTAL MUSEUM, El- woodworking skills, and an ability not just the same again, and then some, before she sails. Harestanes by Ancrum, Jedburgh, vet Hill, DH1 3TH, 0191 334 5694 TD8 6UQ, 01835 830 718 to envision the relationship between different Funding is an issue. It takes time and effort to Showspace for quality crafts made in wood, metal, glass, ceramic Crieff sections of the hull in three dimensions, but fi nd, apply for and then meet the criteria of key and textile AITON FINE ARTS, 63 King also to appreciate the dynamics as the timbers supporters like the Heritage Lottery Fund. THE BORDER TART, Tart HQ, Street, PH7 3HB, 01764 655 423 Chesters, nr Hawick, TD9 8TH Contemporary Scottish paintings An important port since medieval times, Quirky workshop of textile and and prints. Picture restorers and this project has helped to revitalise Blyth’s EXHIBITION paper artist Lindsay Roberts framers TWEEDSIDE GALLERY, Tweed- THE STRATHEARN GALLERY, Jane B. Gibson RMS quayside, attracting complementary enterprises, side Road, Newtown St Boswells, 32 West High Street, PH7 4DL, Scotland’s Premier even a restaurant. Roxburghshire, TD6 0PG, 01835 01764 656 100, www.strathearn- ST MATTHEW’S CHURCH 823473 gallery.com, info@strathearn- Miniture Portrait Painter In the past it was shipbuilding, fi shing, Picture Framing Plus beautiful gallery.com www.cornerwaysart.co.uk and shipping coal that provided work. Today crafts such as aromatic, ceramics, Until March 15 Showing at: TAY STREET glass and much more Various artists. Brightening Up Port of Blyth is a major base for huge support EDGE TEXTILE ARTISTS Winter. RMS EX. LONDON Mall SCOTLAND, Towerhouse, March 21 - April 19 Galleries vessels for the north sea oil and gasfi elds, PERTH PH1 5LQ Hawick, www.edge-textileartists- Beth Robertson Fiddes. Solo 28th- 9th Dec.2018 scotland.com Show and, increasingly, offshore wind farms. Also Promoting excellence in textiles April 25 - May 24 Incorporating her work with dockside lies “Williams by artists based in Scotland Georgina McMaster. Solo Show the Granville Miniatures. 16 – 22 MAY 2020 March 4 - 30 July 4 - September 6 II”, a 36 meter gaff rigged , built in Central Library, Edinburgh Summer Mixed Show. Denmark in 1914, that gives the Blyth Tall Ship EH1 1EG Tel:- 01557 331640 Quines. Poems and textiles in trib- Open Studio/Gallery project its name. Featuring work by local artists ute to women of Scotland. Edge Cumbria textile artists Scotland poems by ART IN THE PEN, Borderway EVERY FRIDAY Double-hulled in oak, to withstand icy Professional and amateur Gerda Stevenson Auction Mart, Rosehill Industrial April 6 - 25 Estate, Montgomery Way, Carl- or by appointment any 77° North. isle, CA1 2RS, www.artinthepen. other time. org.uk Contemporary art fair New Members Welcome WHITE Bristol July 18 & 19 SPACE ARNOLFINI, Bush House, 16 Thirsk. Auction Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA, 0117 ABBOT HALL ART GALLERY, The Glasgow Art Club GALLERY 917 2300 Kendal, LA9 5AL, 01539 722464 BRISTOL DRAWING SCHOOL, Exhibition talks, holiday Est.1867 AT THE TIME 76 Unit 5.18, Paintworks, Arnos Vale, workshops, gallery book shop, BS4 3EH coffee shop OF EAST KENDAL MUSEUM, Station New Members Welcome Exhibitions CROSS Road, Kendal, LA9 6BT, 01539 BALANCING Caithness 815597 Spring Exhibition CAUSE NORTH LANDS CREATIVE BLACKWELL, Bowness-on- For over 150 years the Glasgow Art Club has had an important 06 March - 18 April GLASS, Quatre Bras, Lybster, Windermere, LA23 3JT, 01539 presence in the city’s rich cultural scene. Today the Glasgow Art Club THE WAY KW3 6BN, 01593 721 229, www. 446 139 is a dynamic community of men and women of varied ages and Scott Walker: New work by northlandscreative.co.uk, info@ BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, BEAM northlandsglass.com backgrounds for whom the Arts are an essential part of everyday life. Jim’s Odyssey Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE, 06 March - 18 April Opening LYTH ARTS CENTRE, Lyth, 01539 725 133 Wick, KW1 4UD, 01955 641 270, March 3 - April 18 The Clubhouse is a place to pursue creative expression, engage in Lynn Howarth, Frank 10am to www.lytharts.org.uk Sound & Colour. Showcasing the free and vigorous interchange of ideas and opinions, and enjoy the artwork created and inspired McNab & Yvonne NORTHSHORE POTTERY, Mill good conversation and the companionship of like-minded individuals. 4pm of Forse, Latheron, KW5 6DG, by the lyrics, melody and beats Taylor: A Sense of Space Ben Haughtonth 01593 741 777 of music 25 April – 06 June Saturday 4 - ThursdayStudio pottery and ceramic sculp- EDEN ARTS, 1 Sandgate, Penrith, Contact us today to learn more about our various membership ture by Jenny Mackenzie Ross CA11 7TP, 01768 899 444 categories and discover a new way of socialising, networking and Members’ Drawing 9th April 2020. Email: THURSO ART GALLERY, PENNINE POTTERY, Cargill unwinding in Glasgow’s leading private members’ club in the heart Exhibition benethaug Davidson’s Lane, Thurso, KW14 Head House, Alston, CA9 3NG, of the city. 25 April – 06 June 7AS, 01847 896 357 01434 382 157 hton@gmai ST FERGUS GALLERY, Wick Pottery & kiln work of ceramicist Library, Sinclair Terrace, Wick, Peter Lascelles - please telephone l.com KW1 5AB, 01955 603 489 fi rst www.glasgowartclub.co.uk RED BARN GALLERY, Mel- 185 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4HU @ WHITESPACE Tel:0131 + 44 (0) 141 248 5210 GALLERY 667 3750 The Glasgow Art Club is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC039231 Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 8 Down in the (Kielder) Forest.... The .... quite a lot is stirring, as Nick Jones discovered, when he went in search of the Visual Arts in Rural kinthorpe, Penrith, CA10 2DR, exhibitions/ 01931 212 767 March 20 - April 18 Communities – amongst other Northumberland Entwinings MUSEUM OF LAKELAND Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen. A LIFE & INDUSTRY, Abbot Hall, is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero. I’M WELL BEYOND the edge of my known world, as it should be. factory chimneys, street lights, pylons, through Kirkland, Kendal, LA9 5AL, A retrospective 01539 722 464 THE KRYSZTYNA GALLERY, and then some, dreaming of being on the footplate The current incumbent, Sam Douglas, who the same lens, an old world in the making, and WILLOWPOOL DESIGNS, 9 15A Nelson Street, DD1 2PN, of the last train out of Riccarton Junction, on the old graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007, is a yet to come. The camera is an aide memoire, for Weston Houses, Endmoor, Kendal, 01382 322 522, www.krysztynagal- LA8 0HA, 01539 567 056 lery.com, [email protected] Waverley line through the Borders from Carlisle to modern, visual troubadour, moving from one place to some paintings take months to complete. He’s Willow work by Simone Siegan & Drawings, Paintings and Prints experimenting with a translucent perspex ‘canvas’, Steve Fuller MUSE- Edinburgh. another, observing, engaging with and delighting the DOVE COTTAGE & THE UM, Castle Approach, Broughty It’s a damp, dreich January day, stair-rods building up layers and textures. The highly WORDSWORTH MUSEUM, Ferry, DD5 2TF, 01382 436916 Dove Cottage, Grasmere, LA22 Until March 30 (Mondays only) slanting down from the blackest of dark skies. varnished fi nish creates an ethereal, liquid, 9SH, 015394 35544 Reading Fairy Classes. Reading There’s not much left of the Border Counties insubstantial quality. FARFIELD MILL, Garsdale Fairy classes for 1-5-year-olds Road, Sedbergh, LA10 5LW, MCMANUS COLLECTIOS Railway either. Linking Riccarton to the Tyne As the eye slips across the surface, the 01539 621 958 UNIT, Barrack Street, Tayside, Valley, parts of this remote line are submerged imagination is drawn into a rural, softly lit, dreamy Until March 8 DD1 1PG, 01382 307200 Patterns from the Past - The Point IARTSUPPLIES, 59 Perth Road, beneath Kielder Water. neo-Romantic Arcadia – an effective foil to harsh Paper Company. Shows a selec- DD1 4HU, 0330 223 0922, www. Most people still traverse this country as quick mid-winter desolation. tion of designs iartsupplies.co.uk TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM AND Online Art Shop and Art Supplies as they can, driven by fear of the unknown, the Coming next for a series of month-long ART GALLERY, Castle Street, All year round weather, perhaps ghosts of the Reivers too. A few residencies are Shane Finan in April, Emily Carlisle, CA3 8TP, 01228 618718 Online Art Supplies. High Until April 26 quality student ranges and artist stay longer, seeking solitude, peace, space, dark Ketteringham in May, Robbie Colman and Jo Treasures of China. Brings ranges of Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, together rarely seen porcelain, Watercolour, Watermixable Oil skies, off-road cycling, military training....even Hodges in May and June, and Bridget Kennedy in embroidery, calligraphy, silk, jade Paints, Lino and other printmak- artistic inspiration. June and July. Catriona Gallagher will be starting a and other precious items from ing equipment nearly four-thousand-years of LIFESPACE SCIENCE ART It’s this last that has brought me to Redesdale ten-month residency in June. Chinese imperial culture RESEARCH GALLERY, College and Highgreen, near Tarset, where be VARC – VARC is not Tarset’s only claim to cultural THE GALLERY AT RHEGED, of Life Sciences, University of Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, Dundee, DD1 5EH, 01382 381023 Visual Arts in Rural Communities. The VARC fame. It’s also home to Unison Colour, a small CA11 0DQ, 01768 868 000 , Glamis project, established at the start of this century, is family business established by artist John Hersey in March 27 - June 28 Road, Balgay Park, DD2 2UB, ‘T’ is for Textiles. Showcasing the 01382 435 967 currently running its ‘Entwined’ programme – six 1987, making pastels that are soft, with a consistent best in contemporary textile art Britain’s fi rst purpose-built public across the North and Scotland. observatory residencies of different lengths, from a month to a texture, and a very extensive colour palette. UPFRONT GALLERY AND year. Every year over half a million pastels go all COFFEE SHOP, Nr Hutton-in- the-Forest, Unthank, Penrith, East Lothian The intent is to allow artists to develop their over the world. Their website has an excellent fi lm CA11 9TG, 01768 484 538 GREENS & BLUES, 59 High individual creative response to what makes this about the process. Bloodaxe Books, promoting itself Until March 22 Street, North Berwick, EH39 20th Upfront Artists Open 4HG, 01620 890 666, www. place special, and to engage its community. The as ‘Britain’s Premier Poetry Imprint’, was based Exhibition. Displays around 100 greensandblues.co.uk, info@ remit is not just to observe, record, or respond, but here for several years. Like the Border Counties selected works in our various greensandblues.co.uk gallery spaces Until March 29 also to reveal the underlying rhizomatics (I had Railway before it, Bloodaxe has retreated to the BRANTWOOD, The Brantwood Helen Turner, Erni Upton, to look it up too!), connections, entwinings, and Tyne Valley. Trust, Coniston, LA21 8AD, 01539 Peter Nardini, Mark I’Anson, 441 396 Louis McNally, Joe Maxwell ecology that hold it all together. Still very much here, though, is Kielder Art Until March 15 Stuart, Connie Simmers, Amanda Master of Topography: John Phillips. Behind and beneath the apparent desolation & Architecture, commissioning thirty-fi ve site- Ruskin’s debt to Samuel Prout. POLDRATE ARTS AND there is an extensive and diverse hinterland. It specifi c artworks, installations and buildings since Works CRAFTS CENTRE, The Until March 29 Elizabeth Hamilton Buildings, embraces schools, the WI, and local groups, as you 1999. Frances Winder. Water Essays. Poldrate, Haddington, EH41 would expect, but also funders and partners. Now there are twenty pieces across sixteen Refl ects the mood and atmosphere 4DA, www.thepacc.org.uk, info@ Sam Douglas Standing Stone Kielder Forest of landscape thepacc.org.uk These include Tarset Archive Group, square miles, making Kielder Park the country’s March 28 - April 5 Picture: Nick Jones PACC Students Exhibition 2020. Bellingham Heritage Centre, Kielder Art and largest outdoor artspace, but that’s another story! Devon Term 3 begins 20th April 2020, Architecture, Northumbria Natural History Society, locals. Well into his year here, he loves it. VARC Open Studio Day Saturday April 25, 2020. INSPIRED PAINTING HOLI- Booking opens 30th March, DAYS, Weston House, 6 Luke Everybody welcome but also Newcastle University, Northumbria Armed with tent, sleeping bag, stout boots www.varc.co.uk Unison Colour Street, Bampton, EX16 9NF, 01398 FINE ART, 7-8 Stanley University, Northumberland County Council, (squaddie endorsed), midge cream, bicycle and 332094 , www.inspiredpainting- Road, Gullane, EH31 2AD , 01620 www.unisoncolour.com/ Bloodaxe holidays.co.uk 895057, www.fi drafi neart.co.uk, Northumberland National Park, and several other camera, he takes off into the wind and rain in search Books www.bloodaxebooks.com April 2 - 10 info@fi drafi neart.co.uk agencies. of subjects that appeal to his inner antiquarian. He Spring Special Painting Course. 200 years of Traditional and Kielder Art and Architecture PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF Contemporary Scottish Art These residencies beg questions about doesn’t have to go far to fi nd ancient hill forts and www.kielderartandarchitecture.com ART, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, Until March 29 expectation, pressure and intent. To what extent can, standing stones, clouded PL4 8AT, 01752 203 434 George Birrell, John Kingsley, Simon Laurie, Stephen Mangan & or should, the artist be a change-maker, connecting, in mystery. Astrid Trügg. Take Five. Dumfriesshire April 4 - May 3 realising and releasing latent creativity? The funders He views more SPRING EXHIBITION NOW OPEN Jim Dunbar, Neal Greig, Andy appear to leave the answering to the artists, which is recent creations like , Heald, David E Johnston & Jayne 28 Edinburgh Road, DG1 1JQ, Stokes. Land & Sea. 01387 262 084, www.dgculture. co.uk/venue/gracefi eld-arts-cen- SEASHORE GALLERY, Mar- tre/, [email protected] shall Street, Cockenzie, EH32 Until March 28 0HT, 0793 592 8288 Advance+. Annual exhibition of Paintings, jewellery, wood, the artwork produced by sixth ceramics, glass, prints, cards year students across Dumfries WESTGATE GALLERY, 39-41 & Galloway as part of their Westgate, North Berwick, EH39 Advanced Higher Art and Design 4AG, 01620 894 976 An exceptional selection of art and craft by artists new to the gallery alongside course Paintings, limited edition prints, April 4 - May 2 (Gallery 1) sculptures, ceramics & glass. gallery favourites including: Peter Munro, Mark I'Anson, Joe Maxwell Stuart, Dumfries Camera Club Annual Licensed Gallery café Exhibition. BRAID IMAGE, 60 Rhodes Park, Marta Utsler Linda Park, Fiona Matheson, Helen Turner, Erni Upton, Peter Nardini, Louis McNally May 9 - June 27 North Berwick, EH39 5NA, 01620 Gift vouchers and framing service available Upland Modern Makers. 890 780 SPRING FLING OPEN STU- Large Panoramic Art Photo- Abstract Painter DIOS, Gracefi eld Arts Centre, 28 graphs, Printed on Canvas. View Edinburgh Rd, DG1 1JQ on-line gallery or visitors by Berwick-upon-Tweed ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, Mill appointment Road, Dumfries , DG2 7BE, 01387 ST ANDREW BLACKADDER 264808 CHURCH HALL, St Andrew Scotti sh/English Borders 59 High Street, North Berwick 01620 890666 Check website for more details Street, North Berwick, EH39 4NU, [email protected] www.greensandblues.co.uk 01620 894 196, www.standrew- T: 07758 335417 blackadder.org.uk, stephengoven- Dundee [email protected] E: [email protected] DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE March 30 - April 2 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN Annual Easter Art Exhibition. 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For the Guide online www.artwork. artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 9 Café for an Art Lover – or lots of them? Guide A REMARKABLE new another a musician who ArtWork, Mr Moncreiffe 123 6789 Until March 15 Until January 31 2025 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in arts café, already being will be appearing on stage said that the primary role Red Arrows Hawk T.1A. Display Drawing. Brings together 80 of THE SCOTTISH ORNITHOLO- the Renaissance master’s greatest known a little morbidly as in the warm up band for of the café was going to GISTS’ CLUB (SOC), Waterston drawings in the Royal Collection, the Earn, has been opened Brian Ferry in Glasgow in be simply selling coffees House, Aberlady, EH32 0PY , Until April 1 University of Edinburgh, Old only a few minutes’ drive early March. and light meals to passers Carol Barrett, Graham Catlow, College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, from the M90 and it looks Much of the by and that the newly Frances Richardson, Carol Read 0131 650 2211 and Richard Ballantyne. Kindred Until May 9 likely to become a major refurbishment has been refurbished café was Spirits. Paintings and sculptures Pine’s Eye. Explores what it refer to the strong bond that the means to be human in times of new venue for Fife and its undertaken by the London already attracting a busy artists feel for the animals they ecological change environs. based cabinet maker Eion trade, though mostly from depict OPEN EYE GALLERY, 34 April 4 - May 12 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE, Although tech- Gibbs, whose centre piece locals. John Threlfall and Esther Tyson. 0131 557 1020 nically in Perthshire, work top is overlooked He did however Joint exhibition with ceramics by Until March 22 Pascale Rentsch Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Corinne the Earn café, which by paintings from three acknowledge that the Silva, Yazan Khalili, Moshe Zilbernagel, Hagit Keysar, Barak is one minute’s drive family members. potential for displaying Edinburgh Brinker, Miki Kratsman and out of Bridge of Earn, Whilst the café has art works both from his THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL Shabtai Pinchevsky. GALLERY, The Mound, Princes THE E.D.S. GALLERY is the brainchild of already been doing good family and other artists Street, EH2 2EL, 0131 624 6200 (FORMERLY TORRANCE GAL- Ossian Moncrieffe, a trade, whether it will was considerable and Until April 25 2021 LERY), 36 Dundas Street, EH3 A Century of Scottish Art 1810- 6JN, 0131 556 6366, www.edsgal- member of an extended indeed fl ower into an arts said that they were very 1920. Display features a selection lery.com, mail@torrancegallery. of nineteenth and early twentieth co.uk family of artists whose centre is surely a matter of much open to ideas and century Scottish artworks by Until March 14 members include nine conjecture, but the area is proposals from artists William McTaggart, Sir James James Potter & Parastoo Ganjei Guthrie, Arthur Melville, Phoebe ‘The Art of Painting’ commercially successful certainly lacking in such for displaying works and Anna Traquiar and others INGLEBY GALLERY, 33 Barony artists and crafts people facilities and with fi ve evening book and picture SCOTTISH NATIONAL GAL- Street, EH3 6NX, 0131 556 4441 LERY OF MODERN ART, 75 Until March 28 who have close family full time employees and launches. Belford Road, EH4 3DR, 0131 Marine Hugonnier. Travel Posters. 624 6200 New body of work associations with the other weekend workers The café is in a Until May 31 GALLERY TEN, 5 William nearbye estate at Easter the potential is certainly former farm building set Picture Hooks. Display - show- Street, West End, EH3 7NG, case the work of illustrators 07957 855 426 Moncrieffe. enormous and the local on a 32 acre small holding Until May 31 March 7 - April 25 The café, which arts community is owned by Mr Moncrieffe Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, William Tillyer. A Printer’s Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Perspective. Raven. Now. A three-year series has seating for around watching the development and has been extensively of contemporary art EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS MODERN TWO WORKSHOP GALLERY, 23 seventy, is already with interest. re-furbished from an Union Street, EH1 3LR, 0131 Until April 19 557 2479 displaying art works from The family also earlier café and shop on Paula Rego - Obedience and Defi - three members of the have close associations the site. ance (see editorial p 4) , 1-3 Market PATRIOTHALL GALLERY @ family, six of whom are with the Belladrum music Street, EH1 1DE, 0131 529 3993 WASPS, 1d Patriothall, off Hamil- MAXWELL MACLEOD ton Place, Stockbridge, EH3 5AY, painters, one a successful festival and London- Until March 15 0131 226 7126 Mary Cameron:. Life in Paint. March 12 - 27 photographer currently based contemporary arts Until May 24 Maia Blair, Celine Lundqvist, Allan Ramsay, E.A Walton, F.C.B. Ellana Kelly, Ellen Beskow, Julia working in New York, merchandising. Cadell, Joan Eardley, Eduardo Gehrich, Laura Tobin, Nicoletta Paolozzi and Elizabeth Blackad- one a cabinet maker and Speaking to Constantinou and Rachel Tem- der. The Italian Connection. pleton. Connotations of Colour THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACAD- Photographic Exhibition. EMY BUILDING, Upper Gal- leries, EH2 2EL, 0131 225 6671, THE DUNDAS STREET www.royalscottishacademy.org GALLERY, 6a Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 557 4050, www. Until March 11 dundas-street-gallery.co.uk, art@ Various artists. RSA New Con- fasedinburgh.com temporaries 2020. May 22 - 27 Last days Until March 22 Jennie Tuffs. Paintings & Giclée GA Anne Bevan, Kate Downie, Prints CTA AT Lennox Dunbar, Paul Furneaux, Henry Kondracki, Marian Leven, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN of Jute by Will Maclean, Keith McIntyre, EDINBURGH, 20A Inverleith Frances Pelly, Barbara Rae, Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 552 7171 Frances Walker, Arthur Watson. Until December 31 the Tay 10 - 2020 Archipelago. 350th Anniversary of RBGE. Until January 31 2021 Discover the world of plants THE Recent Acquisitions. Featuring EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF Anniversary Exhibition new acquisitions made by the ART, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF, in Dundee is host- collections of the Royal Scottish 0131 221 6109 Academy over the past fi ve years DOVECOT STUDIOS, 10 ing an exhibition of Celebrating 30 years THE SCOTTISH GALLERY, 16 Infi rmary Street, EH1 1LT, 0131 photographs by Andrew Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 550 3660 558 1200, www.scottish-gallery. Until March 14 Cronshawdocumenting Featuring a selection of co.uk, [email protected] May Morris. Art & Life. Work the end of the jute busi- March 4 - 28 MORNING SIDE GALLERY, 94 artists from the last three Dear John. A limited edition Morningside Road, EH10 4BY, ANNUAL EASTER ART EXHIBITION ness at the Tay Spinners portfolio containing 12 portraits 0131 447 3041. mill in Dundee shortly of the artist, writer and playwright LEITH SCHOOL OF ART, 25 10TH APRIL TO 13TH APRIL 2020 decades John Byrne - also North Junction Street, EH6 before it closed in 1998. Nancy Sutcliffe. DNA. 6HW, 0131 554 5761, www. This annual art exhibiti on takes place at St Andrew Robert Macmillan. Lost in leithschoolofart.co.uk, enquiries@ The pictures record Wonder. Solo Blackadder Church, in North Berwick on Good Friday 17th March to May leithschoolofart.co.uk the process takingthe Elizabeth Jane Campbell. Colour Until March 28 April 10, Saturday 31, Monday 13, 10:00am - 5:00pm Connections. Work from the Leith School raw jute through to the Colin Brown. Days in Europa. of Art Untutored Life Drawing and Easter Sunday 1:00pm - 5:00pm. Paintings artists - drawings and paintings. fi nished yarn. David Eustace. Artists include Anne Blair, Ro- The Exhibiti on, now entering it's 17th year, features THE FRUITMARKET GAL- wena Diggle, Jean Gillespie, Gay LERY, 45 Market Street, EH1 Grossart, Deryck Henley, Jacqui a selecti on of predominantly Scotti sh arti sts from VERDANT WORKS Thistle treet, Aberdeen A10 1 1DF, 0131 225 2383 Higgs, Jane Howe, Joseph Hutch- MUSEUM, DD1 5BT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ings and Rosaly Johnston Scotland's east coast. There are approximately 350 T 01 5 infogalleryheinel.com www.galleryheinel.com SCOTLAND, Chambers Street, MUSEUMS COLLECTION April 25 - EH1 1HF, 0131 225 7534 CENTRE, 10 Broughton Market , original pictures by over 40 arti sts, ranging in value A T ATA F 10am Until May 4 EH3 6NU, 0131 556 9536 from £60 to £500. Free entrance, plus coff ee and cakes July 26 Tyrannosaurs. Bringing the latest The centre houses the reserve col- discoveries in palaeontology to lections of the city museums, available at low prices. www.facebook.comgalleryheinel life and challenging preconcep- MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOK- tions about these ferocious SHOPS AND GALLERY, 3a & 4a predators Haddington Place, EH7 4AE, 0131 For further informati on contact: Stephen Govenlock NATIONAL LIBRARY OF 556 5897, www.mcnaughtansbook- t: 01620 894 196 ❙ e: stephengovenlock123@bti nternet.com SCOTLAND, George IV Bridge, shop.com, info@mcnaughtans. EH1 1EW, 0131 623 3700 co.uk Until April 18 THE VELVET EASEL GAL- Northern Lights, the Scottish LERY, 298 Portobello High Street, Enlightenment. Printed books, Portobello, EH15 2AS, 0131 629 manuscripts and maps 1121, velveteasel.co.uk SCOTTISH NATIONAL POR- COBURG HOUSE ART STUDI- TRAIT GALLERY, 1 Queen St, OS, 15 Coburg Street, EH6 6ET, EH2 1JD, 0131 624 6200 0131 553 2266, www.coburghou- Until March 22 seartstudios.co.uk, exhibitions@ BP Portrait Award 2019. coburghouse.co.uk Until April 13 A creative home for over 80 art- William Henry Fox Talbot, David ists, makers and designers Octavius Hill and Robert Adam- March 6 - 15 son, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jon Canty. Utopia Banished. Thomas Annan, Roger Fenton, Dystopian-themed paintings George Washington Wilson and EDINBURGH PALETTE, St others. Scotland’s Photograph Margaret’s House, 151 London Album: Road, Midlothian, EH7 6AE, 0131 INVERLEITH HOUSE, Royal 661 1924, www.edinburghpalette. Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith co.uk, info@edinburghpalette. Row, EH3 5LR co.uk Until March 22 EDINBURGH ART SHOP, 129 Siân Bowen. After Hortus Mala- Lauriston Place, EH3 9JN, 0131 baricus: Sensing and Presencing 229 1809, www.EdinburghArt- Rare Plants. Shop.com, info@EdinburghArt- THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, PAL- Shop.co.uk ACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE, SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF Palace of Holyroodhouse, Abbey- ARCHITECT-ARTISTS, RIAS, hill, EH8 8DX, 0131 556 5100 15 Rutland Square, EH1 2BE, Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 10 The ArtWork Guide www.ssaagallery.org.uk Centre, 78 Albion Road, EH7 Open year round showing con- GALLERY, Achintore Road, , City 5QZ, 0131 661 6600, www.3d2d. temporary art and craft; and hand- PH33 6RQ, 012397 701 806, Observatory, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 co.uk, [email protected] made picture framing service www.artfortwilliam.co.uk, info@ 5AA, 0131 556 1264 HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT In their Element FUNKY SCOTTISH, 41 High limetreefortwilliam.co.uk Until March 29 SCOTLAND, Longmore House, Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, David Wilson Paintings Sulaïman Majali. Saracen Go Salisbury Place, EH9 1SH, 0131 01333 312 567 Ongoing Home. A new sound work 668 8600, www.historicenviron- JOHN NELSON STUDIO David Wilson. Art Fort William. THE SALTIRE SOCIETY, 9 ment.scot GALLERY, 26 Milton Place, (on THE HIGHLAND BOOKSHOP, Fountain Close, 22 High Street, Until March 7 in A917 - 15mins from St Andrews), 60 High Street, PH33 6AH, www. EH1 1TF, 0131 556 1836, www. Arthur’s Secrets. At Holyrood Pittenweem, KY10 2LS, 01333 highlandbookshop.com saltiresociety.org.uk, saltire@ Park - learn more about Arthur’s INVERNESS’S a lively programme 312 112 60 High Street, Fort Willam saltiresociety.org.uk Seat’s turbulent past, created by Featuring paintings and prints by PH33 6AH Castle Gallery will be of paintings but for a 2nd Monday of each month STILLS GALLERY, 23 Cockburn fire and ice John Nelson Street, EH1 1BP, 0131 622 6200 Until March 22 (Duff House) celebrating 20 years at wide range of crafts CULROSS POTTERY AND @ 6pm Monet Seascape Masterpiece. GALLERY (& BISCUIT CAFé), Highland Reading Group. We take THE ADAM POTTERY, 76 Display - seascape its premises in Castle and jewellery. Denise suggestions from our members Henderson Row, EH3 5BJ, 0131 Sandhaven, Culross, (near Until March 27 (John Sinclair Street next year. The reports that in terms Dunfermline), KY12 8JG, 01383 and vote on each months choices 557 3978 House) 2nd Tuesday of each month Thrown, sculptural and handbuilt 882176, www.culrosspottery.com, Edinburgh and the Lothians February exhibition of quantity the sales [email protected] @ 7pm ceramics Exhibition. Lochaber Writers. Meet to discuss ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI of ceramics by Julia of paintings and FIRE STATION CREATIVE, Until March 29 Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline, newly written pieces or ongoing CULTURA, 82 Nicolson Street, Romantic Scotland Through a projects with plenty of helpful EH8 9EW, 0131 668 2232 Smith ended with crafts are about equal. KY12 7AN, 01383 721 564, www. Lens. Explores life in 19th century firestationcreative.co.uk, sarah@ hints and in a positive and encour- Ongoing arts lectures, exhibitions Scotland “just one teapot left” Clientele is from the aging environment & performances; Italian classes firestationcreative.co.uk Until April 30 Until March 29 BEN NEVIS DISTILLERY, Lochy L’INSTITUT FRANçAIS says owner Denise North, from Edinburgh A Nation of Stone. Traditional Willie Henshaw, Les McConnell: Bridge, PH33 6TJ, 01397 702476 D’ECOSSE, West Parliament skills, methods and materials Collins. and Glasgow Square, EH1 1RF, 0131 285 6030 Earth Bound Companions Until June 21 (Duff House) During March ive within 25 miles of JENI FRAME, 07967 444 592, WHITESPACE GALLERY, 76 Darg and Drams. Showcases a www.jeniframe.co.uk, jenid@ Glasgow East Crosscauseway, EH8 9HQ, story of life at some of Scotland’s paintings by four Inverness – “local art gmx.com KELVINGROVE ART GAL- 0781 451 4771, whitespace76.com/ most iconic industries and Artwork framing - bespoke and LERY & MUSEUM, Argyle April 4 - 9 landmark Highland landscape for local people.” restoration; Gilding service - tradi- Street, G3 8AG, 0141 287 2699 Benet Haughton. At the Time of QUEENSFERRY MUSEUM, 53 tional water and oil Until June 30 Balancing the Beam. New work. artists, Clare Blois, All exhibitions High Street, South Queensferry, FORGAN ART CENTRE, Pavel Makov and Nikita Gas- (Email: benethaughton@gmail. West Lothian, EH30 9HP, 0131 Fiona Matheson, through to the hunin. Between Utopias. Russian com; Telephone: 0131 667 3750) Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay, 331 5545 Katherine Sutherland Christmas show are DD6 8RA, 01382 542 062, www. Art in the Early 1900s THE FINE ART SOCIETY, 6 Helps visitors to explore the past forganartscentre.co.uk, info@ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 and traditions of historic Queens- and Dot Walker fixed and next year’s forganartscentre.co.uk (GOMA), Royal Exchange Square, 557 4050 ferry and neighbouring Dalmeny Courses, workshop and events G1 3AH, 0141 287 3050 UPRIGHT GALLERY, 3 Barclay THE EDINBURGH DRAWING are going up for schedule is pretty in all form and for all ages and Until May 30 Terrace, EH10 4HP, 0131 221 0265 SCHOOL, 13a Great King Street, their show ‘In Our well complete. The abilities Hal Fischer. Gay Semiotics and March 13 - May 4 EH3 6QW, 0131 556 0971, www. CRAIL POTTERY, 75 Nethergate, other works. Display Jenny Hope. Evoking Change. edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk, Element’ (March 7 Castle Gallery is open The Square, Crail, KY10 3TX, March 8 - December 31 Current Work info@edinburghdrawingschool. - 28). Monday to Saturday, 01333 451 212 Domestic Bliss. Portraits ALPHA ART GALLERY, 52 co.uk Huge variety of handthrown GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, EH3 Until March 29 The Castle is 9 to 5. stoneware, terracotta, earthenware 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ, 0141 5AX, 0131 226 3066 Spring Term I 2020. & raku 353 4589, www.gsa.ac.uk April 20 - June 28 renowned not just for AMBER ARTS, 78 Montrose Spring Term II 2020. Small, SCOTTISH FISHERIES MU- RGI KELLY GALLERY, 118 Terrace, Abbeyhill, EH7 5DP, 0131 friendly, artist-led, drawing and SEUM, St Ayles, Harbourhead, Douglas Street, G2 4ET, 0141 248 661 1167 painting courses for all levels Anstruther, KY10 3AB, 01333 6386, www.royalglasgowinstitute. Picture Framers, Art Gallery and of ability 310 628 org/kelly.html, gallery@royalglas- Printmaking Studio Top right: GRISELDA HILL POTTERY gowinstitute.org SUMMERHALL, 1 Summerhall, LTD, Kirkbrae, Ceres, Cupar, GLASGOW ART CLUB, 185 Bath EH9 1PL, 0131 560 1580 Falkirk Katherine Sutherland, KY15 5ND, 01334 828 273 Street, G2 4HU, 0141 248 5210, Ongoing Eucalyptus Tree Wemyss Ware. Fife’s famous hand www.glasgowartclub.co.uk, info@ The Demarco European Art THE PARK GALLERY AND glasgowartclub.co.uk CALLENDAR HOUSE, Callendar painted pottery Foundation. Middle: KINGHORN GALLERY, King- March 6 - April 18 Park, FK1 1YR, 01324 503 789, Scott Walker. Jim’s Odyssey. THE GRILLI GALLERY, 20A www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/ horn, KY3 9RT, 01592 890 218 Clair Blois, Autumn Plein Spring Exhibition. Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 venues/park-gallery, artsand- BALBIRNIE CRAFT CENTRE, 261 4264 crafts@falkirkcommunitytrust. Air, Black Isle Markinch, Glenrothes, Tayside, April 25 - June 6 March 7 - April 11 org Right: KY7 6NE, 01592 753 743 Lynn Howarth, Frank McNab & Norma Maclean, Wilma Dunbar Alison & Roy Murray goldsmith- Yvonne Taylor. A Sense of Space. THE WEST END GALLERY, Works and Brian Miller. Mixed exhibi- 3-45 West Bridge Street, FK1 Dot Walker, ing & jewellery; also at 20 Thistle tion. Street, Edinburgh April 25 - June 6 5AZ, 01324 613 100 Clementines Members’ Drawing Exhibition. ART ET FACTS GALLERY, 19 DELTA STUDIOS, Lochlands TWIST FIBRE CRAFT STUDIO, Roseburn Terrace, EH12 5NG, 88 High Street, Newburgh, Cupar, THE GLASGOW GALLERY, 182 Business Park, Larbert, FK5 3NS, Bath Street, G2 4HG, 0141 333 0131 346 7730 01324 555 500 KY14 6AQ, 01337 842 843 & GALLERY, 17 Dundas Street, Workshops and supplies - knitting, 1991, www.glasgowgallery.co.uk, Artists studios and workspaces for [email protected] EH3 6QG rent or lease weaving, spinning, felt making, March 7 - April 1 natural dyeing. Natural fibre COMPASS GALLERY, 178 West Elfyn Lewis, David Mankin, Anna yarns, books, magazines, equip- Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 221 Somerville. Viewpoints. Three art- ment and kits 6370, www.compassgallery.co.uk, Fife [email protected] ists from three different countries, MUSEUM & ART FIFE FOLK MUSEUM, High create work that is influenced Street, Ceres, KY15 5NF, 01334 March 12 - April 4 GALLERY, War Memorial Gar- Adrian Wiszniewski. Prudence by their natural surroundings - dens, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy, 828 180 paintings perched in Paris. Solo - new KY1 1YG, www.onfife.com/ven- OPEN STUDIOS NORTH FIFE, paintings SCOTTISH ARTS CLUB, 24 Rut- ues/kirkcaldy-galleries, kirkcaldy. www.openstudiosfife.co.uk land Square, EH1 2BW, 0131 229 [email protected] Artists & makers open their CYRIL GERBER FINE ART, 8157, www.scottishartsclub.com Until March 15 workspaces to visitors the first full 178 West Regent Street, G2 4RL, March 5 - 28 Kyra Clegg & Marysia Lacho- weekend in May annually 0141 221 3095, www.gerberfineart. Derek Robertson. Migrations. Ties wicz. 70%+. Installation and May 8 - 10 (10am-6pm) co.uk, [email protected] together human rights, refugee photography Open Studios 2020. Glass, metal, 19th-21st Century British Paint- crises and climate change issues Until May 27 ceramics, textiles, painting, jewel- ings, Drawings & Sculpture through the metaphor of migrat- Various artists. Highlights from lery, wood and photography including works by Scottish ing birds the Art Collection. From rural Contemporaries and Modern CONTEMPORARY ARTS DUN- Masters March 5 - 28 landscapes to beautiful interiors FERMLINE (CAD), Upper Mall, Mella Shaw. Rare Earth. Instal- and famous Fifers Until May 9 The Kingsgate, Dunfermline Ladies First - a celebration of lation CUPAR ARTS & HERITAGE Scottish artists work, mixed DOUBTFIRE GALLERY, 3 South women artists. Feature work from PROJECT (CAHP), 5 Ashlar media, 2d, 3d, small sculpture the West Dunbartonshire collec- East Circus Place, EH3 6TJ, 0131 Park, Lovers Lane, Cupar, KY15 work (ceramic, Glass and wood), 225 6540 tions alongside loans from East 5AQ Digital images Dunbartonshire and Gerber Fine ROYAL FINE ART COMMIS- June 13 - 20 THE QUAY GALLERY, 33 High Art, Glasgow SION GALLERY, Bakehouse Cupar Arts EDEN. Street, Aberdour, KY3 0SH, 01383 GLASGOW MUSEUMS, Culture Close, 146 Canongate, Midlothian, PETE CURA PICTURE FRAM- 860 602 EH8 8DD and Sport Glasgow, 20 Trongate, ING, At the Gallery, Burnside, KIRKCALDY ART CLUB, Hot G1 5ES, 0141 287 4350 LAURISTON CASTLE, 2a Cupar, KY15 4BH, 01334 652 353 Pot Wynd, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Call or visit website for full Cramond Road South, Davidson’s Lino cuts by Barbara Robertson, KY1 2TQ, 01592 203270 details Mains, EH4 5QD Caricatures by Donald Smart, Painting classes, Monday 2-4pm New editions by Sonas MacLean. ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF RELI- RICCIO GALLERY, 17 South and 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm GIOUS LIFE AND ART, 2 Castle Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Framing: over 100 mouldings to and Thursday 10-noon. Pottery choose from Street, Glasgow City, G4 0RH, EH22 1AH, 0131 660 2561 classes, Monday 10-12pm and 0141 276 1625 EAST NEUK OPEN STUDIOS, 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm and Until June 18 East Neuk, www.eastneukopen- Wednesday 2-4pm New Scots. Permanent display ex- THE PEOPLE’S STORY studios.org March 21 & 22 plores issues of cultural identities MUSEUM, 163 Canongate, Royal MAISIE & MAC ART AND Open Weekend. Tombola. Chil- and the concept of ‘home’ through Mile, EH8 8BN, 0131 529 4057 CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, dren activities in the pottery objects that former refugees and , 1 St. Catherine Street, Cupar, BIRCHWOOD COTTAGE GAL- people within the asylum process Huntly House, 142 Canongate, KY15 4LS, 01334 656 523, www. LERY & TEAROOM, Balmungo, have donated Royal Mile, High Street, EH8 maisieandmac.com, info@maisie- St Andrews, KY16 8LW, 01334 CENTRE FOR CONTEM- 8DD, 0131 529 4143 andmac.com 208220 PORARY ARTS (CCA), 350 Ongoing Gallery/tearoom just outside St , Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD, 0141 Art and Contemporary Craft. Andrews on the B9131. Mixed 352 4900 Edinburgh Castle, EH1 2NG, 0300 Fabulous work from UK artists & rolling exhibition of original art 123 6789 makers plus ethically sourced gifts work and prints by local artists MACKINTOSH CHURCH, CRM April 3 - February 28 2021 from elsewhere Society, Queen’s Cross Church, Legacies of Empire. Examine the ST. ANDREWS ART CLUB, 14c 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL, varied motivations and circum- PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTI- Argyle Street, St Andrews, KY16 0141 946 6600, www.crmsociety. stances around the acquisition of VAL, Festival Office, 47 High 9BP, www.standrewsartclub.co.uk com, [email protected] objects during colonial conflict Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, April 11 - 19 March 9 - April 3 by individuals in British military 01333 313 903, www.pitten- Various artists. Easter Exhibition. Sylvia Richardson. Looking service weemartsfestival.co.uk, info@ PAGE POTTERY GALLERY, 49 at Mackintosh’s Masterpiece. pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk THE WRITERS’ MUSEUM, High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 Photography exhibition brings A celebration of the visual 2PG, 01333 311402 previously unseen images of Lady Stair’s Close, EH1 2PA, 0131 arts - taking place in galleries, GREENGATE GALLERY, Mackintosh’s Masterpiece 529 4901 homes, studios and public venues Until March 22 Sandhaven, Culross, KY12 8JG, THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM throughout Pittenweem [email protected] Talks and Tales: The Childhood August 1 - 8 AND ART GALLERY, University Writing of Christine Orr. Pittenweem Arts Festival 2020. of Glasgow, University Avenue, NELSON MONUMENT, Calton A celebration of the visual arts; G12 8QQ, 0141 330 4221 Hill, EH7 5AA, 0131 556 2716 taking place in galleries, homes, Fort William Until March 15 It was built in memory of Admiral studios and venues throughout ART LOCHABER, Lochaber, Exploration: From Deep Time Lord Nelson, who died at the Bat- Pittenweem www.artlochaber.co.uk to Outer Space. Investigations, A group of artists living in Loch- observations and collections tle of Trafalgar in 1805 WEEM GALLERY AND FRAM- MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD, aber, West Highland of Scotland, Until April 12 ER, 16 High Street, Pittenweem, an area of extreme natural beauty Years Off the Schooling: A Selec- 42 High Street, Royal Mile, High KY10 2LA, 01333 311535, www. Street, EH1 1TG, 0131 529 4142 and home to Ben Nevis tion from The Hunterian. Prints, weemgalleryandframer.co.uk, drawings and paintings 3D/2D, Unit 3, Albion Business [email protected] LIME TREE AN EALDHAIN For the Guide online Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 11 Another Boris Bridge? No thanks! UNLIKE HIS U.S. counterpart, our prime minister local towns. Newton Stewart and Stranraer have plenty The fancies himself as a bridge builder rather than an erector hair-dressers and, conveniently for this tousled, blond- Guide of walls and maybe for this reason, the Pope should haired premier, there are several barbers. KA27 8LA, 01770 600 919 April 6 - 25 MCLELLAN GALLERIES, 270 Until October 12 congratulate him. The former, however, trades in no electrical Lively contemporary art, Masako EDGE Textiles Scotland - 77° Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EH, 0141 Bookbug At Hillhead Library. Should we do the same? Mr Johnson wants a goods and, wait for it, its Job Centre has closed down. Ritchie, Barbara Young, Scott North. 565 4137 Free, fun and friendly events for Irvine, Kirti Mandir, R. Lele new April 27 - May 2 THE ANNAN GALLERY, 164 babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and bridge built in my back yard (the Wigtown District of Stranraer’s Tourist Information Centre has also gone. So works by J. Broekhuizen Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Woodlands Road, G3 6LL, 0141 their families to enjoy together Society. Various artists 332 0028 EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CEN- the Dumfries & Galloway region) over the Irish Sea have many shops since Stena Line shoved off to Cairn May 4 - 16 March 7 - 29 TRE, 51-53 Old Coach Road, from Portpatrick to Larne in Ulster. Ryan in 2011. Isle of Bute Kirkcudbright Crafts Association. Jonathan Shearer and Duncan East Kilbride, G74 4DU, 01355 MOUNT STUART, Mount Stuart, Art and Crafts MacLeod. Works 261 000, www.slleisureandculture. Much like when in 2012 as London’s mayor, he Johnson may well admire Stranraer’s refurbished PA20 9LR, 01700 503 877 PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS POP April 4 - 26 co.uk/info/48/east_kilbride_arts_ dangled from a zip wire above an East London park, town clock on the harbour front but shudder at the shell UP SHOP, 67 St Mary’s Street, Judith Bridgland and Peter King. centre DG6 Scottish landscape , 1 Johnson’s notion to construct a fl ashy bridge connecting of the George Hotel, once a bustling, Victorian stopover Isle Of Harris Applied Art from 20 artists living May 2 - 24 Bunhouse Road, G3 8DP, 0141 SKOON ART CAFE, 4 Geocrab, and working in Dumfries and Alison Cowan and Jackie 287 2720 two, deprived areas of the British Isles, is no more than for ferry passengers. The southwest does a nice line HS3 3HB, 01859 530 268 Galloway Henderson. Scotland’s Museum of Transport a stunt, ‘a vanity project’ and, for my money, an utter in derelict hotels. The outer walls of Port William’s Original art, home made cakes and HIGH ST. GALLERY, 84 High ROGER BILLCLIFFE GAL- and Travel puddings, leaf and herbal teas Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JL, LERY, 134 Blythswood Street, G2 Until March 9 insult to all of us who live in the region. redundant Monreith Arms hotel are covered with an 01557 331 660 4EL, 0141 332 4027 Telegram Messengers - New Extravagant ideas leading to fl amboyant structures ugly, green algae. THE NAIL FACTORY, 56 South- Until August 5 Objects. Display Isle of Islay wick Road, Dalbeattie, Dumfries The Art of the Four. Charles Until December 17 2022 may be acceptable for cosmopolitan London but not in As a child of the 50s and 60s, I was sometimes THE GALLERY, Bowmore & Galloway, DG5 4EW, 01556 Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of Dorothee Pullinger displays hon- Distillery Visitor Centre, School 611 686, www.nailfactory.org.uk, the Four (Margaret and Frances ours trailblazing automotive engi- what is arguably the poorest part of the UK. Galloway treated here to afternoon tea and can still remember Street, Bowmore, PA43 7JS, 01496 [email protected] Macdonald, Herbert MacNair and neer. Celebrates the achievements has the largest number of people earning less than the the cake stands groaning with chocolate eclairs and 810 441 Ongoing (2nd Tuesday of each Charles Rennie Mackintosh) of British engineering pioneer, Regular exhibitions by local artists month: 7-9pm) EWAN MUNDY FINE ART, 01436 business woman and racing driver living wage of anywhere in Scotland. 17,000 workers in meringues and the bus-loads of people rolling up. Mary Smith’s Writing Group. 821 533 Dorothée Pullinger D & G are paid less than £ 9.30 per hour so that a third If the PM’s chauffeur remembers to fi ll up with April 6 - June 6 (Thur-Sun: GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL Isle of Lewis 11am-5pm) GALLERY, 48 King Street,, G1 MUSEUM, 225 Scotland Street, of local employees are trapped in poverty. fuel in Newton Stewart or Stranraer (there are no fi lling AN LANNTAIR, Town Hall, Ken- WORD. An interactive celebra- 5QT, 0141 552 0704 G5 8QB, 0141 287 0500 neth Street, Stornoway, HS1 2DS, tion of out local authors and poets GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Until January 1 2022 Although our PM is not too hot on visiting parts stations south of the latter), he could drive Johnson to the 01851 703 307 THE WHITEHOUSE GALLERY, GALLERY, 48 King Street, G1 GlaswegAsians. Celebrating 150 of the country he governs, even when towns are awash, exclusive Knockinaam Lodge hotel, a former hunting Until March 14 47 St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright, 5QT, 0141 552 0704 years of South Asian and Muslim Various artists. Creativity and DG6 4DU, 01557 330 223 history in Glasgow GLASGOW SCULPTURE as they have been recently in Wales and Shropshire, he lodge, situated on the coast near Portpatrick with views Curiosity. March 13 - 15 Until January 1 2022 Various artists. Borders Art Fair. STUDIOS, The Whisky Bond, Self led Workshop - should at least take a look at the place in Scotland where over to Northern . HARBOUR VIEW GALLERY, 2 Dawson Road, G4 9SS, 0141 Port of Ness, HS2 0XA, 01851 March 7 - April 25 353 3708 GLASGOW MUSEUM he plans to build his bridge. Johnson could book into Churchill, the hotel’s 810 735 Various artists. Spring Exhibition RESOURCE CENTRE, 200 Original paintings and prints by with Cecilia Cardiff. PLATFORM, The Bridge, 1800 Woodhead Road, South Nitshill If he is not dropped in by helicopter, Trump-style, largest bedroom where his hero, Sir Winston Churchill Westerhouse Road, G34 9JW, Anthony J Barber OCHRE GALLERY & STUDIO, Industrial Estate, G53 7NN, 0141 76 High Street, Kirkcudbright, 0141 276 9696 276 9300 Johnson’s vehicle might take a battering on our roads slept during his WWII secret meeting with General MORVEN GALLERY, Upper CLYDE MARITIME CENTRE, Barvas, Outer Hebrides, HS2 DG6 4JL, 01557 428 088 , www. AULD KIRK MUSEUM, with their potholes and uneven surfaces. Our local Eisenhower and their Chiefs of Staff. 0QX, 01851 840 216 ochregallery.co.uk 100 Stobcross Rd, G3 8QQ, 0141 Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, East 339 0631 garage owner who re-located recently from Coventry, is As an Old Etonian, Johnson might be embarrassed Changing exhibitions of original Working gallery and studio Dunbartonshire, G66 1HN, 0141 art, crafts, photography & tapestry THE , The Tall Ship at Glasgow 578 0144 Harbour. Glenlee (1896), one of inundated with requests for repairs to cars damaged by to learn that bright kids from the Stranraer area are weaving 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcud- only 5 Clyde-built sailing ships NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RU- the Wigtownshire roads. Work of this kind has trebled bussed daily for their education in Ayr, a round trip of bright, DG6 4DU, 01557 330223 left afl oat RAL LIFE, Wester Kittochside, TOLBOOTH ART CENTRE, Philipshill Road, East Kilbride, , 25 Albert Drive, G41 since he left the south. over 100 miles. Maybe he might raise an eyebrow if he Isle of Skye High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 G76 9HR, 0300 123 6789 DANDELION DESIGNS, Stein, 4JL, 01557 331 556 2PE, 0141 276 0950 Escape to the countryside for the It’s ludicrous to spend £ 20-£ 30 billion on a bridge visited Stranraer library where if he wanted to spend Until March 22 (Excluding Waternish, IV55 8GA, 01470 592 THE FAED GALLERY, 56 High day to explore the 1950s working 218, www.dandelion-designs.co.uk March 2) farm and museum to Ireland when the Scottish road links, the A77 from a penny, he would have to ask for a key to allow him Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 Hardeep Pandhal. Confessions of Permanent exhibition of many 2HP, 01557 814 458 a Thug: Pakiveli. Multimedia GOVAN PROJECT SPACE, 249 Cairn Ryan Ferry Terminal to Ayr and Glasgow and the access and when he entered the cubicle, he would be contemporary and traditional Govan Road, G51 1HJ CORNERWAYS STUDIO/GAL- Until March 29 (Excluding A75 to Dumfries and Carlisle are sub-standard. met by a penetrating, blue light. For the naïve, these are artists, and an interesting range LERY, 7 Selkirk Road, Kirkcud- March 2) SCOTTISH ARTISTS’ BENEVO- of crafts bright, DG6 4BL, 01557 331 640, France-Lise McGurn. In Emotia. LENT ASSOCIATION, Second Stena Line, P & O Ferries and Belfast Harbour measures to prevent drug users from ‘shooting up’. SANDBANK STUDIO, Old Pier www.cornerwaysart.co.uk/studio/, Paintings and drawings Floor, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR, Road, Sandbank, Broadford, [email protected] www.scottishartistsbenevolentas- have pressed Transport Scotland to improve them but On a more cheerful note, if he’s lucky, our PM’s STREET LEVEL PHOTOW- IV49 9AE, 01471 822 011, www. Miniature paintings & larger sociation.co.uk duncancurrie.net, duncan.currie@ works in oil, pastel & watercolour ORKS, 48 King Street, Trongate Empowered by the TOD Endow- for the foreseeable future, neither will be upgraded to tour might coincide with a Scottish Opera recital at 103, G1 5HD, 0141 552 2151 tiscali.co.uk by Jane B Gibson ment Fund to provide holidays in dual carriageways. Stranraer’s Ryan Centre involving four singers singing Wide range of original paintings GALLERY III, 25 King Street, Scotland for artists (resident in KIRKCUDRIGHT ARTS & Townhead, G1 5QZ, 0141 552 0704 by Duncan Currie and works by CRAFTS TRAIL Scotland for at least two years) If Johnson caught a train to this region, he would Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and G & S (no Wagner, Pam Carter and other well-known WASPS ARTISTS STUDIOS, The who are experiencing diffi culties head north, instead of west, at Dumfries, until he though, nor Tippet or Janáček). The snag is the company Scottish artists ARTISTS & MAKERS POP-UP Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ, Ongoing Ongoing SHOP, Mill on the Fleet Visitor 0141 553 5890 Holiday in Scotland. Providing reached Glasgow, where he would change stations and only comes to Stranraer once every two or three years. Duncan Currie. Wide range of Centre, 65 High Street, Gatehouse Until March 24 holidays in Scotland (through original paintings of Fleet, DG7 2HS, 01556 814 099 Brittney Wenham. Poly Chroma. ‘The TOD Endowment Fund’) for board a train south to Stranraer, making a detour of 162 So, who actually wants this bridge? Michael Stocked and staffed by local Solo - body of work AROS SKYE HERITAGE CEN- professional designer makers artists (resident in Scotland for at miles when the journey from Dumfries is 74 miles. Matheson, the Scottish Transport Minister doesn’t. TRE, Viewfi eld Road, Portree, ARTERIES GALLERY, 185a least two years) who are experi- IV51 9EU, 01478 613 750 Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 222 encing diffi culties. Please visit our Axing the Stranraer-Dumfries railway line was Neither does Colin Smyth, Regional Labour MSP. Video exhibition of Skye scenery 2830 website for more details and local history Lanarkshire the work of Dr Beeching in 1965. The government In Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, SDLP, the Ulster IRONWORKS GALLERY, Sum- PULP PAPER ARTS WORK- EDINBANE POTTERY, Edin- SHOP, WASPS Factory, 77 could put a fraction of the £ 20 – £ 30 billion allocated Unionist and Alliance party are all sceptical about it. merlee Heritage Park, Heritage bane, Portree, IV51 9PW, 01470 Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, Hanson Street, Dennistoun, Inverness 582 234 G31 2HF, 0141 337 2842, www. INVERNESS MUSEUM & ART for the bridge to re-instating our railway line. For the 24 Nicola Sturgeon says cautiously that the £ 20 01236 431 261 paperartsworkshop.co.uk, alison. GALLERY, Castle Wynd, IV2 per cent of Galloway residents who don’t drive, the only billion could be put to better use elsewhere and Eire’s GALLERY AN TALLA DEARG, Call for details [email protected] 3EB, 01463 237114 , Sleat, IV43 8QR, 01471 GOLD AND SILVER-ETC ART March 7 & 8 833 439, www.eileaniarmain.co.uk, GALLERY, 41 High Street, ML11 CASTLE GALLERY, 43 Castle form of transport is by bus, meaning a journey of at least Leo Varadkar is happy about it so long as the UK foots [email protected] Paper to Print. Street, IV2 3DU, 01463 729 512, 7LU, 01555 665 342 April 4 & 5 www.castlegallery.co.uk, info@ two hours. the bill. DIANA MACKIE, 10 Borreraig Work by June Shirreffs, inc. Casting Paper. castlegallery.co.uk When our most pressing problem is to beat Unsurprisingly, Alister Jack, MP for D & G and Park, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZX, 01470 Bespoke jewellery, Quality April 18 & 19 March 6 - 28 511 795 handbags Plant Papers. Clare Blois, Fiona Matheson, climate change, a 60+ mile railway line with a link to the Scottish Secretary of State, supports it. As one Working studio and gallery - WILLIAM WILSON FINE ART May 2 - 4 Katherine Sutherland & Dot paintings depict the climatic PHOTOGRAPHER, 75 Hyndford Paper and Mokuhanga. Walker. In Our Element. Paintings Cairn Ryan Ferry is a sound plan for the 21st century, of Johnson’s side-kicks, he would, changes of the Highlands and Road, ML11 9AU, 01555 660 023 Islands LILLIE ART GALLERY, Sta- HIGHLAND PRINT STUDIO, 20 with the bulk of freight transported in this way. wouldn’t he? Limited edition giclée fi ne art tion Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ, Bank Street, IV1 1QU, 01463 718 ORBOST GALLERY, Half prints and canvases 0141 956 5536, www.edlc.co.uk/ 999, www.highlandprintstudio. While surveying the spot where his mega project Bolvean, nr Dunvegan, IV55 8ZB, SUMMERLEE MUSEUM, Herit- heritage-arts/exhibitions/lillie-art- co.uk, info@highlandprintstudio. would stand, Mr Johnson could take a look around the MARY GLADSTONE 01470 521 207 age Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, gallery-exhibitions co.uk Selling exhibitions of professional 01236 638460 Open access print studio and edu- artworks by local artists in Skye PEOPLE’S PALACE, Glasgow & Highlands Green, G40 1AT, 0141 550 0892 cation facility. Regular weekend BIGGAR AND UPPER CLYDES- Until June 30 and evening courses available - RAVEN PRESS GALLERY, DALE MUSEUM, 156 High St Benny Lynch, The Little King call for full details Colbost, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZS, Biggar, Biggar, ML12 6DH, 01899 of the Gorbals. Display gathers EDEN COURT THEATRE, Eden 01470 511 748 221 050 together objects from Benny Court, Bishops Road, IV3 5SA, Wood engravings of landscape and wildlife. Resist dyed silks and DOUGLAS DAVIES GALLERY, Lynch’s life and career, including 01463 234 234 Loanfoot, Skirling, Biggar, ML12 his gloves, trophies, contract and hand knit design. Working studio PICTURE THIS, 18 Church of engraver Kathleen Lindsley 6HD, 01899 860254, www.dougl- personal items Street, IV1 1EB, 01463 238823 asdaviesgallery.co.uk, douglas@ Until August 8 SCOTTISH FLAIR ART GAL- douglasdaviesgallery.co.uk Glasgow 1955: Through the LERY, 11 Bank Street, IV1 1QY, KILN SERVICES, Unit 8/11, Lens. A selection of these popular Kelso 01463 248 500 THE VENNEL GALLERY, Denise Whistleberry Park Industrial Es- photographs on display tate, Hamilton, ML3 0ED, 01698 UNLIMITED STUDIOS, 25 Playfair, 11 Bridge Street, TD5 7HT, 01573 224 003, vennelgal- 822032, www.kiln-services.co.uk, Hyndland Street, G11 5QE, 0141 Inverness-shire [email protected] 338 6052 [email protected] IONA GALLERY, Duke Street, Besposke Picture Framer. Animal We supply, maintain and repair ART FORUM, 50 Station Road, PH21 1JG, 01540 664 535, www. portrait commissions. Art and kilns and wheels. Milngavie, G62 8AB, 0141 956 ionagallery.com needlework supplies Scottish agents for Potclays & 6765 Potterycrafts supplying clay, Regular exhibitions by local KELSO POTTERY, The Knowes, Mixed exhibition of work artists in ‘handmade in the glazes and tools including Peter Howson, Pam 100 metres behind Kelso Abbey, cairngorms’ TD5 7BH, 01573 224 027 Carter, Mary Davidson, Walter 1896 GALLERY & COFFEE Awlson, Marion Drummond and Mugs, jugs, bowls & ‘Time Tab- SHOP, Deshar Rd, Boat of Gar- lets’ fi red in the Kelso Pit Kiln Lancashire many more ten, PH24 3BN, 01479 831 111 BLACKBURN MUSEUM & KELVIN HALL, Argyle Street, G3 Art, photography, crafts, jewel- ART GALLERY, Museum Street, 8AW, 0141 276 1450 lery, books, cards and calendars Blackburn, BB1 7AJ, 01254 Explore items from the Glasgow Kirkcudbright 667 130 CARRBRIDGE ARTISTS’ STU- KIRKCUDBRIGHT GALLER- history, archaeology, furniture and DIO, Main Street, Cairngorms Call for details education collections IES, St Mary Street, DG5 4AQ, National Park, Carrbridge, 01567 331 276, www.kirkcud- KEN BROMLEY ART SUP- HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER, PH23 3AS, 01479 841 328, www. brightgalleries.org.uk PLIES, Unit 13 Lodge Bank 10 Dumbreck Road, G41 5BW, carrbridgestudios.com, alice@ Estate, Crown Lane, Horwich, March 14 - May 24 Bolton, BL6 5HY, 01204 690114 0141 353 4770 carrbridgestudios.com Various artists. Scottish Portrait HILLHEAD LIBRARY, Byres Work by resident artists Jeff & Awards. BACK-RIDGE GALLERY, Twit- Alice Buttress. ter Lane, Waddington, Clitheroe, Road, G12 8AP, 0141 276 1617 HARBOUR COTTAGE GAL- Until June 18 LOCH SHIEL SPRING FESTI- BB73LQ, 01200 427304 LERY, Castlebank, Kirkcud- Former working farm has been New Scots. A new permanent VAL, c/o Station Cottage, Glenfi n- Kiln Services Scotland Ltd bright, DG6 4LB, 01557 330 073, display telling the stories of for- nan, PH37 4LT, 01397 722 334 www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk transformed into a work-haven for mer refugees and asylum seekers GLENFINNAN STATION MUSE- We supply, maintain and repair kilns and wheels. March 16 - 21 local designers and craftsmen living in Glasgow UM, Station Cottage, Glenfi nnan, KGR Glass Design, Menaginari- PETER SCOTT GALLERY, Until August 31 PH37 4LT, 01397 722 295 Scottish agents for Potclays & Potterycrafts supplying clay, um Art, Galloway Arts, Machars Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, Digi-PALS at Hillhead Library. Memories and Julie Ollies. Five 01524 594 151 Do you or someone you know THE LAUNDRY GALLERY, glazes and tools. Aviemore, PH22 1ST Go Wild Exhibition. LYTHAM HERITAGE CENTRE, need help to use a Computer, March 23 - April 4 2 Henry Street, Lytham, FY8 Tablet, Laptop, Book-Reader It Started with a Sketch. A group 5LE, 01253 730787 or Smartphone? If so, help is Kiln Services Scotland Ltd of ‘sketch-a-day’ artists exhibiting on hand! Isle of Arran 8/11 Whistleberry Park Industrial Estate, Burnbank, Hamilton, ML3 0ED STUDIO 4, Shore Road, Lamlash, their stunning results Tel: 01698 822032 TRADE www.kiln-services.co.uk

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Vivian Suter. Paintings Unique display of whisky Young Rembrandt. Includes over Until May 3 THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF related art 30 of his paintings, and 90 draw- Theaster Gates. Amalgam. Sculp- ARTS, Burlington House, Picca- LOGIE STEADING ART GAL- ings and prints from international ture, installation, fi lm and dance dilly, W1J 0BD, 0207 300 8000 LERY, Logie, Dunphail, Forres, and private collections. Until April 13 IV36 2QN, 01309 611 378 BLUECOAT ARTS CENTRE, Picasso. Picasso and Paper. School Lane, L1 3BX, 0151 709 Shows of contemporary art in the Until May 25 gallery by local artists. Six miles Paisley 5689 Léon Spilliaert. Léon Spilliaert. March 13 - June 21 south of Forres on the A940 PAISLEY MUSEUM & ART March 29 - June 14 A’ANSIDE, Main Street, Tom- GALLERIES, 60 High Street, Frances Disley and Jonathan Gauguin and the Impressionists. Wide range of Baldock. 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London CONTEMPORARY SCULP- co.uk Peebles THE , TURE GALLERIES, 108 Old September 8 - 13, 2020 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Brompton road, SW7 3RA., 0207 Annual festival TWEED ART, 1 Biggiesknowe, 373 8615 EH45 8HS, 01721 720 246, www. Square, WC1A 2RJ, 0207 323 BOATH HOUSE, Auldearn, IV12 8181 At Royal British Society of tweedart.co.uk, info@tweedart. 5TE, 01667 454 896 co.uk Until March 8 Sculptors March 30 - June 13 Changing exhibitions by Scots Framing studio artists and craft- Troy: myth and reality. The story contemporary artists makers gallery of a great city, plunged into a Fabio Lattanzi Antinori. First Plinth. On The Sculptor Terrace. CAWDOR CASTLE, Cawdor, TWEEDDALE MUSEUM AND 10-year war IV12 5RD, 01667 404 401 VICTORIA AND ALBERT GALLERY, Chambers Institution, April 23 - July 26 THE COURT HOUSE, THE Tantra enlightenment to revolu- MUSEUM, Cromwell Road, SW7 Art & Picture Framing High Street, EH45 8AG, 01721 724 2RL, 0207 942 2000 SEAMAN’S HALL, IV12 4AU, 820, www.liveborders.org.uk tion. full 2019 programme 01667 458510 Until March 22 20192020 PRINTMAKING º DIGITAL ART Until April 18 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSE- GREENTREE ARTS STUDIO, Our Changing High Street. UM, Romney Road, Greenwich, Tim Walker. Wonderful Things. 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OPERA GALLERY, 134 New 07942 676804 4PN, 01667 454004, susiealexan- Contemporary Art and Craft from THE BARBICAN, Silk Street, [email protected] Scotland EC2Y 8DS, 0207 638 4141 bond Street, W1S 2TF, 0207 491 2999 th th Innovative textile art by former PEEBLES CRAFT CENTRE, TATE MODERN, Bankside, SE1 Royal ballerina LA GALLERIA PALL MALL, 16 March to @visitgallery27 Newby Court, EH45 8AG, 01721 9TG, 0207 887 8008 4 March to 722875 Until March 15 Unit 30 , Royal Opera Arcade, SW1Y 4UY, 0207 930 8069 stth Craft centre with 4 studios - Dora Maar. Dora Maar. 19 December Northumberland Visit for a unique gift. Dunnydeer Until April 5 JACKSONS ART SUPPLIES 21 December MARY ANN ROGERS, West Studio Porcelain - Ceramicist LTD, 1 Farleigh Place, N16 7SX, Poldrate Arts & Crafts Centre, Kara Walker. Hyundai Com- ElizabethPoldrate Hamilton Arts Buildings, & Crafts Haddington, Centre, EH41 4DA Woodburn, Hexham, NE48 2SE, Duncan Hood (01721) 722 875. mission. 0844 499 8430, www.jacksonsart. 01434 270 216, www.marogers. Woodworks by Bruce Prost - com, [email protected] Exhibitions include: March 20 - 29 Exhibitions include: ElizabethHaddington, Hamilton Buildings,East Lothian, Haddington, EH41 EH41 4DA 4DA com, [email protected] (01721) 724 442. Jewellery by Faustin Linyekula, Okwui Ok- SAATCHI GALLERY, Duke Of Vibrant wildlife and landscape Lynn Tindale - (01721) 720 112 pokwasili, Tanya Lukin Linklater. York’s HQ, King’s Road, SW3 Haddington, East Lothian, EH41 4DA painting, prints, cards and luxury 4RY, 020 7811 3081 FINE ARTS – TEXTILES TRAQUAIR HOUSE, Traquair BMW Tate Live Exhibition. FINE ARTS – TEXTILES PACC STUDENTS Members EXHIBITION Exhibition 2020 2018 gifts House, Innerleithen, EH44 6PW, TATE BRITAIN, Millbank, SW1P Until May 3 QUEEN’S HALL, Beaumont 01896 830 323 TUTANKHAMUN: Treasures of 4RG, 0207 887 8888 PHOTOGRAPHY – CRAFTS Saturday March 24th28th - Sunday April1st April 5th Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS, 01434 DAWYCK BOTANIC GARDEN, the Golden Pharaoh. Until April 5 PHOTOGRAPHY – CRAFTS PACC STUDENTS EXHIBITION 2018 652 477 Stobo, EH45 9JU, 01721 760254 Kara Walker. Hyundai Com- ALEXANDRA PALACE, Alexan- OPEN 2 WEEKENDS & Visit website for full programme mission. dra Palace Way, N22 7AY, 0208 PAINTINGS OPEN 2 WEEKENDS& SARAH RISEBOROUGH, 21 Until March 15 365 2121 Saturday March 24th - Sunday 1st April PAINTINGS EVENINGS DURING THE WEEK The Gables, West Street, Belford, Perth Dora Maar. Dora Maar. The People’s palace. 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Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young HALCYON GALLERY, 144-146 Until May 31 Things. New Bond Street, W1S 2PF, 0207 John Bellany. ICONS II: Bellany. 100 7144 11am - 4pm May 21 - June 28 Term 3 begins 16th April 2018 Orkney FRAMES GALLERY, 10 Victoria Various Artists. BP Portrait Award ESPACIO GALLERY, 159 Term 3 begins 20th April 2020 Booking opens 21st March WATERFRONT GALLERY, Street, PH2 8LW, 01738 631 085, 2020. Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG Monday – Friday 128 Victoria Street, Stromness, www.framesgallery.co.uk, info@ March 3 - 8 Booking opens 30th March HAYWARD GALLERY, South Everybody welcome KW16 3BU, 01856 850 644, www. framesgallery.co.uk Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, Unfold. Everybody6pm – 8pmWelcome waterfrontgallery.co.uk March 7 - April 4 SE1 8XX, 08703 800 400 March 9 - 15 In the shop: Orkney silver, pottery, Tim Cockburn Solo Exhibition. International Cultural Exchange www.pacc.org.uk knitwear and gifts. In the Back MALL GALLERIES, The Mall, www.thepacc.org.uk SCO37398 THE BARN GALLERY, The near Trafalgar Square, SW1Y of Arts / Salon Premier Artcom SC048524 Room Local paintings, prints and Bield, Blackruthven, Tibbermore, 5AH, 0207 930 6844, www. Expo International. Term 3 begins 16th April 2018 designer crafts PH1 1PY, 01968 677854, www. mallgalleries.org.uk, info@mall- PIANO NOBILE, 129 Portland , Victoria bieldatblackruthven.org.uk, info@ galleries.com Road, Holland Park, W11 4LW, Street, Stromness, KW16 3AA, bieldatblackruthven.org.uk March 10 - 15 020 7229 1099 Booking opens 21st March 01856 850 209 Check website for more informa- Various Artists. The Wapping Until March 20 Until March 21 tion Group. The Wapping Group of Various Artists. Surrealism in Various artists. The Strength of PERTHSHIRE AGRICULTURAL Artists’ Annual Exhibition. British Art. early twentieth- Everybody welcome a Whisper. SOCIETY, 26 York Place, PH2 March 17 - 29 century artists who explored the Until March 31 8EH, 01738 623 780, www.perth- Alistair Morrison: The Real You. subconscious Various artists. Collection show.co.uk, secretary@perthshow. A retrospective of Morrison’s 40 HORNSEY TOWN HALL ARTS www.pacc.org.uk Highlights. co.uk SCO37398 years in photography CENTRE, The Broadway, Crouch THE GALLERY, Pierowall, BOO VAKE (BUTH BHEAG), March 3 - 29 End, N8 9JJ Westray, KW17 2BZ, 01857 5 Watergate, PH1 5TF, 01738 Royal Society of Portrait Painters 677 770 442263, www.boovake.co.uk, | The Show Goes On. A Theatre of Ongoing: Contemporary art of [email protected] Portraits by the Royal Society of Manchester Westray Original gifts from artists, makers Portrait Painters THE WHITWORTH ART YELLOWBIRD GALLERY, & designers from Scotland and March 24 - 29 GALLERY, The University of the UK Lydia Bauman, Karl Dudman. Chocolate Cottage, Birsay, KW17 Manchester, Oxford Road, M15 2LT, 01856 721 360 FERGUSSON GALLERY, Earthworks. Paintings by Lydia 6ER, 0161 275 7451 Bauman and Photographs by Karl Celebration of birds through Marshall Place, PH2 8NS, 01738 March 27 - August 23 drawings, paintings and carving 783 425 Dudman Suzanne Lacy. We Are Here. March 3 - 29 by sculptor John Thompson and L CHRISTIE CAMPBELL FINE LOWRY ARTS & DIGITAL artist Lesley Murdoch

For the Guide online TRADE COUNTER Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 212 March/April 2020 Page 13 The ArtWork Guide ART, Rait Village Antique Centre, March 22 - May 20 GAIRLOCH HERITAGE Sunderland Rhiannon van Muysen and Char- Rait, PH2 7RT, 01821 670 379 MUSEUM, Achtercairn, Gairloch, Ongoing exhibition of 19th-21st The world’s left a poorer place NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE, lotte Watters. Fleeting. IV21 2BP, 01445 712287 century oils, watercolours, etch- Liberty Way, SR6 0GL, 0191 May 25 - July 29 ings and prints, jewellery by Chris ARDROSS HALL, Ardross Hall, SINCE OUR LAST issue, a number of core members Much the same might be said of his close friend Rev 515 5555 50 Years / 50 Artists. Lewis and Assassin near Alness Until March 8 July 31 - September 23 of the Scottish arts community have died whose passing Peter Macdonald, who has died also aged sixty one. Peter, Caroline and Maisie Broadhead . Joanna Powell. Paintings of THE RUTHVEN GALLERY, 90 Musicians. High Street, Auchterarder, PH3 Selkirk should surely be noted. like Graham, was known for his unassuming charm and Through the Looking Glass. 1BJ, 01764 664 233 Several have associations with the Iona Community, down to earth witness. Until May 10 RHUEART GALLERY, RhueArt Contemporary Art and Framing SCOTTISH BORDERS COUN- Various artists. National Glass Ltd, Rhue, IV26 2TJ, 01854 CIL (MUSEUM & GALLERY), 612460, www.rhueart.co.uk, JARDINE GALLERY & WORK- an ecumenical community of perhaps surprisingly He was a former leader of the Iona Community Centre Collection. Municipal Buildings, High Street, NORTHERN GALLERY FOR fl [email protected] SHOP, 45 New Row, PH1 5QA, TD7 4JX, www.liveborders.org. sane and down to earth Christians loosely based on the where his time was marked by his imaginative new Until March 31 01738 621 836 CONTEMPORARY ART, Na- uk/museums_and_galleries, Hebridean island of Iona, all folk who have been the ideas and a warm and welcoming approach to those who tional Glass Centre, Liberty Way, DRAWINGS by James Hawkins. PERTH THEATRE, 185 High [email protected] Early sketches and working draw- Street, PH1 5UW, 01738 621 031, leading pioneers of trying to steer the stodgy established didn’t share them. In many ways he pioneered a new SR6 0GL, 0191 515 5555 Until March 29 ings done in the fi eld and studio www.horsecross.co.uk, info@ Church of Scotland away from its seeming determination style of inclusive leadership and changed the community over the last 40 years. horsecross.co.uk Simon Martin. Call for full listings to remain in the 1950s until it self destructs. for the better. He was one of the great ministers of his Until April 19 THE HARBOUR GALLERY, Ar- , Hay’s Chad McCail. Toy. Three-dimen- gyll Street, IV26 2UB, 01854 612 PERTH CONCERT HALL, Mill Dock, Lerwick, ZE1 0WP, 01595 Perhaps the most commendably eccentric has generation. His last charge was in Edinburgh’s Broughton, sional cityscape 282, www.theharbourgallery.com Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621 031, 695 057 been Dr Graham Maule, 61, who was the close creative where once again he was pioneering new ways to touch Original art, contemporary, retro www.horsecross.co.uk, info@ Da Gadderie - new exhibi- and vintage; framed/mounted horsecross.co.uk tion space in the new Shetland associate of Rev John Bell, whose regular appearances the hearts and minds without the pomposity so often Surrey prints THE PERTHSHIRE ART ASSO- Museum on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day has turned him into associated with that calling. His recent work in trying THE ART AGENCY, 118 High HIGHLAND STONEWARE, CIATION, 5 Westehill, PH1 1DH, THE TAIT GALLERY, 11c Union North Road, Wester Ross, IV26 01738 626307 something of an international celebrity. to bring more music and the arts into the church was Street, Esher, KT10 9QJ, 01372 Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0ET, 01595 466740 2UN, 01571 844 376 May 15 - 22 690 143 Graham was a small impish like fi gure, often with generating much excitement in Edinburgh. His death is AN TALLA SOLAIS, Ullapool St Matthew’s Exhibition 2020. Jim Tait: Marine and landscape a naughty glint in his eye, who had originally trained as truly a tragedy. Visual Arts, Market Street, IV26 Venue: St. Matthew’s Church, Tay artist 2XE, 01854 612 310 Street, Perth PH1 5LQ Sutherland BONHOGA GALLERY, Weisdale an architect but was driven by an engaging off the wall It would be wrong not to include reference to the TIMESPAN HERITAGE CEN- LAEL CRAFTS GALLERY, 3 Mill, Weisdale, ZE2 9LW, 01595 charm and determination to break down barriers and death of another Iona Community stalwart in this piece, TRE, Dunrobin Street, Helmsdale, Lael, IV23 2RS Perthshire 830 400 KW8 6JX, 01431 821327, www. VAILA FINE ART, 61 Com- make a concrete contribution to social justice. the ever delightful and self-effacing Alison Macdonald, timespan.org.uk, enquiries@ BIRNAM ARTS & CONFER- mercial Street, Lerwick, ZEI 0US, Perhaps best known for his hymn writing, often who managed the community’s fi nances with such quiet timespan.org.uk Wigtownshire ENCE CENTRE, Station Road, 01595 6937374 Birnam, Dunkeld, PH8 0DS, 01350 with Bell, he was the least sanctimonious fi gure you charm. BALNAKEIL CRAFT VILLAGE, STRANRAER MUSEUM, 55 727 674, www.birnamarts.com THE PICKING SHED, Lower Balnakeil, Durness, IV27 4PT, George Street, Stranraer, DG9 Voe, Voe, ZE2 9PX, www.picking- might ever meet and it was hard to be in his company for Ali-Mac was a tender and sensitive soul, much 01971 511 277 7JP, 01776 705 088 GALLERIA LUTI, 16 Ancaster shed.co.uk, [email protected] Studios/galleries including: Square, Callander, FK17 8BL, more than a few minutes without him coming up with a given to caring and sharing and whose work and recent WILLIAM NEAL PAINTINGS, Ongoing pottery, paintings, printmaking, 24 Ryan Gardens, Innermes- 01877 339577, www.gallerialuti. Accommodation with Work crazy hat full of new ideas on everything from the crisis death was no less signifi cant to the Community than wood-turning, clothes, baskets, co.uk, [email protected] san, Stranraer, DG9 8QP, 01776 Room. Prices for Winter and in social housing to why Scottish independence wasn’t those whose public profi le was greater. In very truth I enamelling and jewellery 706 953 PERTHSHIRE OPEN STUDIOS, Spring: £200 per week; £600 LOTTE GLOB CERAMICS, 105 Moonlight & Dusk themes of Kinross, KY13, www.perthshire- per month necessarily about nationalism. loved her dearly as did so many. Laid, Loch Eriboll, IV27 4UN, Galloway in watermedia openstudios.com 01971 511 727 August 1 - 17 He also helped pioneer a number of interesting Finally ArtWork should surely add a word for HOOPOE PRINTS, Seymour Shades of Tay. Festival theatre St Andrews experiments, perhaps most signifi cantly the Columban Alasdair Gray, the Glasgow based artist and writer whose WILD TILES AND TEXTILES, House, 25 High Street, Port Wil- September 5 - 13 Cul Mor, Elphin, Near Ullapool, liam, Newton Stewart, DG8 9SL, FIFE CONTEMPORARY ART House scheme in which he and others would live quiet work has changed so many of us. We live in politically IV27 4HH, 01854 666279 01988 700 392 Open Studios 2020. Visit over 200 AND CRAFT (FCA&C), Town artists and makers in their studios, and helpful lives in small communities on deprived terrifying times and whether you believe in Scottish Courses in mosaic, embroidered Range of original prints of birds Hall, Queen’s Gardens, KY16 textiles,and creative writing and landscape by Lisa Hooper workshops, galleries and homes in 9AD, 01334 474 610 council estates, not proseletyzing, just being cheerful and independence or not, few would deny that Scotland is Perthshire and Kinross HIGHLAND STONEWARE, WHITHORN VISITOR CENTRE, August 29 - September 15 FCA&C @ ST ANDREWS intelligent and making the odd pot of soup when it was currently leading Britain in terms of at least attempting to Lochinver, IV27 4LP, 01571 45 - 47 George Street, Whithorn, Showcase Exhibition. At the Bield MUSEUM, Kinnesburn Park, really needed. bring some kind of decency into our governance. 844 376 DG8 8NS, 01988 500 508 at Blackruthven Doubledykes Road, KY16 9TA, For our complete range, and list KEVAN MCGINTY PAINTINGS, 01334 659 380 THE ATHOLL GALLERY, 6 His art was often a strange combination of the Let us salute these fi ne folk who have guided us of stockists in your area, visit our The Studio, 107 George Street, Atholl Street, Dunkeld, PH8 0AR, FRASER GALLERY, 53 South website Whithorn, Newton Stewart, DG8 Street, KY16 9QR, 01334 479 647 highly imaginative and yet also punctiliously organised, so well on that journey. A stone to their 01350 728 855 and he had a great skill in encouraging those he did cairns and let us learn from their lives as BUDDING GENIUS, 5 Church 8PZ FORTINGALL ART, Molteno Street, Dornoch, IV25 3LP, 01862 Atmospheric landscapes from the Hall, (8 miles W. of Aberfeldy GARDENS, Kinburn Park, publishing business with to behave responsibly.The we march nervously on. 810 407 Scottish Highlands and lowlands off B846), Aberfeldy, PH15 2LL, Doubledykes Road, KY16 9DP, Church needed Graham badly and he delivered for them LOGAN BOTANIC GARDEN, 01887 830 254 01334 659380 MAXWELL MACLEOD Port Logan, Near Stranraer, March 14 - June 6 July 25 - August 9 time and time again. Tain Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 9ND, Up in Smoke: a History of BROWN’S GALLERY, Castle 01776 860231 Summer Exhibition Smoking. Highlights smoking as DUNBLANE MUSEUM, The Brae, Ivy Lane, IV19 1AJ, 01862 a social practice, focusing on the 893 884 Cross, Dunblane, FK15 OAQ, period from the 1800s onwards 01786 825 691 GLASSTORM CONTEMPO- Yorkshire J & G INNES LTD, 107 South RARY GLASS STUDIO & GAL- IMPRESSIONS GALLERY, BLAIRGOWRIE AND RATTRAY Street, KY16 9QW, 01334 472 174, jennie tuffs ARTS WEEK, Rattray, Blaigow- CASTLE GALLERY LERY, 2 Chapel Street, IV19 1EL, Centenary Square, 29 Castlegate, www.jg-innes.co.uk, enquiries@ 01862 893 189 Bradford, BD1 1SD, 01904 654724 rie, PH10 6AS, www.itsbraw.scot, jg-innes.co.uk Paintings [email protected] Until March 28 Stationery, Art Supplies, Books Arpita Shah. Nalini. THE DRILL HALL, The Cross, & Gifts & Dunkeld, 01350 727 968 Tyne & Wear YORK ART GALLERY, Exhibi- March 4 - 8 Giclée Prints LAING ART GALLERY, Higham tion Square, York, YO1 7EW, GOLDFINCH GALLERY COM- StAnza poetry events. 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