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Moyna Flannigan’s, Tear 52, 2019 (ink, gouache, spray paint & collage on paper) is featured in the exhibition Home at ’s Ingleby Gallery. Photo: John McKenzie. See ARTS NEWS 2 | 21 August | Issue 127 2121 AugustAugust | | Issue Issue 127 127 | | 3 25 Arts News

ou can now book an appointment to visit High BEGINNERS DRAWING & PAINTING YSt. Gallery in Kirkcudbright to see recent paintings by gallery This course provides a structured partner Richard Ross featuring scenes introduction to drawing and painting glimpsed while travelling around the and is designed for complete area, such as roadside cottages and beginners wishing to learn the basics. farm buildings. Painted in muted greys Students are taken through projects step and greens with a strong graphic aspect, they are part of an ongoing by step to build up their confidence exploration of the local environment. and ability. This year celebrating its twentieth anniversary, the gallery also has Monday | 9:30am - 1pm | Tutor: Owen Normand a changing selection of Scottish contemporary art, fine art, antiques Tuesday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Dominic McIvor and collectables. Pictured: Roadside Cottage, B727 Wednesday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Rachael Rebus www.highstgallery.co.uk

DRAWING & PAINTING THE FIGURE Lockdown gave Quay Gallery owner Alan Dawson a rare opportunity to The human body is a wonderfully concentrate on drawing and painting. diverse subject from which to draw Combining his architectural background and paint. This course will explore the with his semi-abstract painting style, he nude figure in depth, as well as has produced a montage of his home portraiture and working from the village of Aberdour in Fife, where the gallery is based, and has also completed draped figure. a commission to make a montage of Elgin, where he grew up, to be scaled Monday | 2pm - 5pm | Tutor: Sarah Gittins up by a factor of four for a restaurant mural. With art materials limited, he Monday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Ginny Elston improvised with some old blue card, which has produced a modern, crisp Thursday | 7pm - 9pm | Tutor: Ben Davies-Jenkins rendering to a traditional subject. Pictured: 29 High St www.thequaygallery.co.uk „„„ School of Art, 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6HW www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk | 0131 554 5761 | [email protected]

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&A reopens on Thursday VAugust 27 with Mary Quant (until Jan 17, 2021), the museum’s first major fashion exhibition and the first international retrospective on the iconic British designer who captured the spirit of London’s Swinging Sixties. Autumn Exhibition Mary Quant made quality designer fashion affordable through licensing ‘Gleam into Leaf’ her youthful and playful brand, creating dressmaking patterns, make-up and 22 August – 23 October accessories featuring her iconic daisy logo. Her colourful designs were a reaction Featuring artists – Linda Par, Moy MacKay, Fiona Miller, against the austerity and drabness of post- Amanda Philips, Liz Petrie and Alison Midson. war London and inspired young women to rebel against the traditional clothing worn by previous generations. Key objects in the exhibition include the pioneering Wet Collection PVC rainwear and a jute mini-skirt. There is also a new film about contemporary female designers who are forging their own way in today’s rapidly shifting fashion industry. Mary Quant (foreground) and models at a footwear launch in 1967, © PA Prints 2008 www.vam.ac.uk/dundee

Edinburgh’s Fidra Fine Art in Doubtfire Gullane continues Gallery is its programme currently with not one, but showing Simon two exhibitions Rivett: Quiet City – Dominique (until Sep 12) in Cameron: its new location Moor and Ann in Stockbridge. Cowan: Dunbar Having painted Sketchbooks (both landscapes for the last 30-odd years, many of them spent Aug 22-Sep 20). The in the Outer Hebrides, Simon now lives in Edinburgh, where Saturday opening he has been painting the urban environment for the first is by appointment time since his student days at London’s Goldsmiths College. only with access

Tranquil’ Coral Beach, Isle of Skye Beach, Coral Tranquil’ Linda Par He says: “The title of this exhibition is taken from Aaron limited to one person or family group in 20-minute slots on Copland’s wonderful musical work Quiet City, which was a first come, first served basis. This will allow visitors to meet Bespoke picture framing – ask about 01368 865 141 written for a play in 1939. Its eerie score has an apt emotive both artists. The gallery will then welcome walk-ins as usual 144 High Street, Dunbar, East Lothian quality, a soundtrack that seems perfect for these past weeks with all the necessary precautions. Pictured: Ann Cowan, our home consultation service www.coastart.co.uk as Edinburgh has been effectively silenced.” Cromwell Harbour, Low Tide, acrylic/oil/pastel on board Pictured: I.J. Mellis, Stockbridge www.doubtfiregallery.com www.fidrafineart.co.uk „„„

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Dockside Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed has adapted its premises to create more space with fewer artworks on display and an extensive catalogue to choose from online. New additions to the website include: the Miniature Gallery of 1:12 scale original artworks fit for the finest doll’s house or mounted and framed for a human-size wall; Inspired by Berwick, a collection of paintings of the town and rugged coastline to the north and Northumberland’s miles of expansive sandy beaches to the south (pictured: Senja Brendon, The Crane the Chimney and the Lighthouse); and Own Art, the interest- free scheme enabling buyers to pay for artworks by instalments. www.docksidegallery.co.uk Lot 120 Lot 115 Lot 125 Frances MacDonald R.G.I Pip McGarry (British, B.1955) Frippy Jameson (British, B.1978) (Scottish B.1945) ‘Zebras’ ‘Jamaica’ ‘At the Races’ Est. £1,200-£1,600 Est. £2,000-£3,000 Est. £400-£600 Saturday 22 August Sporting, Antiques, Fine Arts and Jewellery Auction Roger Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow has reopened with Live Online | Bid Now www.brownandturner.co.uk | 10am a rehang and newly uncluttered layout enhanced by 36 High Street, Jedburgh, TD8 6AG | 01835 863 445 the crisp shapes and clear images of new paintings by Andrew Thompson. The gallery has also taken in three paintings by Michael Scott from the 1990s and three still lifes by Mary Armour from the 1980s, periods when both artists were at the top of their game. There is also a room of works by Peter Howson and Stephen Conroy. SOFTWARE & WEBSITES FOR ARTISTS & GALLERIES Pictured: Michael Scott, Angling after the Flood, 1995, oil on canvas Easy to set up, easy to manage and with full support Prices from along the way from the UK’s specialist supplier www.billcliffegallery.com of software and websites for the visual arts. • Fully mobile friendly websites £5 PER MONTH • Multiple layouts and style options • E-commerce ready • State of the art cataloguing and sales tools included • No additional hosting charges • Optional ‘Express’ service available – your The Festival City exhibition at Edinburgh’s Morningside Gallery site set up for you and ready to manage Try the system and create your own website can now be viewed in person or online. Featured artists include: completely free for 30 days with no obligation. the award-winning pastel artist Tony Allain, with a new body of work based on the landscapes of Glencoe, Loch Tay and We’re proud to be the choice of artists and galleries throughout Loch Earn following his recent move to Scotland; former Art and Design teacher Peter King, who focuses on the seasonal effects I have been loving doing the website – it’s fabulously Learn more on our website at of nature on the Scottish landscape; and new still life paintings by straightforward once you get started. Thanks for your initial help, we’re delighted with how the final site looks. www.artlooksoftware.com a variety of artists. The exhibition is ongoing and will be updated GORDON WILSON [email protected] as works are sold. Pictured: Blythe Scott, A Brighter Day, mixed www.gordonwilsonart.co.uk or call on 0117 920 0025 media on canvas www.morningsidegallery.co.uk „„„

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The British menswear brand Blake Mill has released a new shirt design featuring L.S. Lowry’s painting Going to Work. Salford- based, Lowry (1887-1976) was famous for Kirstin his scenes of industrial life in northwest Heggie England. Ten per cent of shirt sales will ARCADIAN be donated to the Lowry Centre Trust, a Salford-based charity specialising in RHAPSODY community-based visual and performing 25 July – 5 September arts events. www.thelowry.com, www.blakemill.co.uk Paintings by Sheila Anderson Hardy Prints and etchings by Kit Boyd ‘Beyond’ Contemporary Abstract Landscapes

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Contemporary & Post-War Art | 19 AUG Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres | 2 & 3 SEPT The of Art Jewellery, Watches & Silver | 15 SEPT Postgraduate Showcase 2020 has been African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 16 SEPT launched online featuring individual Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 30 SEPT showcases of student work, some 22 OCT Select Jewellery & Watches | LONDON | completed, some still in progress. Modern Made: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | LONDON | 23 OCT Each digital showcase will be updated Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 28 OCT throughout 2020 and 2021, enabling Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 03 DEC this year’s graduates to continue sharing new work as they produce it. GSA has left: JOHN BELLANY (1942-2013) ‘RADIANT LIGHT’ IN HARBOUR also given a commitment to support he An Talla Solais Gallery in Ullapool reopens on Tuesday August 25 with physical exhibitions and presentations Ta mixed exhibition of contemporary paintings, sculpture, photography and of work as part of the Postgraduate prints by Scottish artists, including Kirsty Cohen, Allan MacDonald, Tansy Lee Showcase over 2020 and 2021 once Moir, Ian Rawnsley (pictured: Ribbon of fire) and Simon Rivett. There is also a social distancing restrictions allow. selection of work from shows which had to be postponed due to the virus. An EDINBURGH 0131 557 8844 | www.lyonandturnbull.com Pictured: Work by Fashion Design Talla Solais was previously given notice to vacate the gallery after this autumn. graduate Melody Uyanga Ramsay This has now been withdrawn, so the Caledonian Hotel will remain its home. www.gsashowcase.net www.antallasolais.org „„„ 10 | 21 August | Issue 127 21 August | Issue 127 | 11 Art News

early 40 Dumfries & Galloway-based artists and makers have created small-scale artworks for an Nonline exhibition entitled A Postcard From D&G (Aug 24-Sep 6), celebrating what is special about rural southwest Scotland with its rich pastures, rugged coastline and wild hills and moorland. The 2D and 3D works include TIMES paintings, drawings, feltwork, original prints and glass. They are a maximum of A5 in size, so you can buy one and it can be easily popped in the post. Says Joanna Macaulay of organisers Upland Arts: “For much of this year we’ve been unable to welcome visitors to Dumfries & Galloway. So we came up with the idea of A Postcard From D&G to say to people, ‘We wish you LIKE were here’ and that we look forward to welcoming them back. It’s also a region with a large and vibrant creative community, so we also saw this as the perfect moment to invite artists and makers to create pieces that show why Joe McIntyre 22 Aug to 19 Sept this is such a wonderful place to live, work or visit.” 80th Birthday Exhibition Upland CIC (Community Interest Company) also runs Dumfries & Galloway’s annual Spring Fling open studios event, which this year has been postponed until Oct 5-12. THESEART EXHIBITION Pctured: Printmaker Colin Blanchard www.weareupland.com Photo: Colin Tennant www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 PV1: Friday 21 August 5:30 - 8:30 pm PV2: Saturday 22 August 12 - 3 pm Two major Dumfries and Galloway art venues reopen on Elsewhere in Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkcudbright Galleries NEW WORK Tuesday August 18 with free admission to both, but by a has Ewan McClure’s exhibition Solo (until Oct 31), featuring his Exhibition : 21 - 29 August 2020 time-slot booked in advance. Scottish Houses by W A C Dawson rapidly executed, realist portraiture (pictured: Preparations). Monday - Friday 12 - 6 pm The current exhibition at the Ewan is a past finalist on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Saturday 12 - 3 pm 33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife tel: 01383 860602 in Dumfries is Human and in the BP Portrait Award and was shortlisted for the Sunday Closed Open from Easter until Christmas. Mon, Thurs - Sun www.thequaygallery.co.uk Machines (until Sep 19), Conversations Prize at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. featuring humorous Visitors to the Kirkcudbright Galleries can also learn the Helen Campbell kinetic sculptures by story of the town’s famous artists’ colony which grew from Esra Kizir Gökçen Johnny White and Adam Lucy the 1880s onwards and see a permanent display of paintings Amanda Wray, who Renee Rilexie in the Kirkcudbright Artists’ Collection, which includes works Nicola Weir use recycled materials by artists such as John Faed, Robert Sivell, Edward Atkinson and found objects Hannah Rosnes Hornel, Jessie Marion King and Samuel John Peploe. salvaged from tips or Marianne Frank www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk „„„ John Slavin sourced from junk shops, Freecycle and Izabela Piechota eBay combined with Esperanza Gómez-Carrera sculpture, engineering, metalsmithing and www.theartistspool.co.uk electro-mechanics. the.artists.pool Pictured: In Two Minds www.dgculture.co.uk/ venue/gracefield-arts- 6 Dundas St, EH3 6HZ, Edinburgh centre

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orders-based auctioneers Brown & Turner have WEEKLY ONLINE Bover 500 lots in their Sporting, Antiques, Fine Art EXHIBITIONS SERIES & Jewellery Auction (Sat Aug 22, 10am). The sporting section includes local sculptor Frippy Jameson’s Jamaica, a bronze verdigris depicting a thoroughbred racehorse at rest (est. £2,000-£3,000). Another notable piece is Zebras by wildlife artist Pip McGarry, known for his support of fellow wildlife John McNulty artists in his Marwell International Wildlife Art August 24-30 Society, his guided camps for artists in remote parts of Africa and as a mentor on the BBC’s A Brush with the Wild. Racing fans may be interested in At The Races 298 Portobello High St (pictured) by Frances MacDonald RGI, whose use of Portobello acrylics captures the frenzied excitement of horse Edinburgh racing. The catalogue is now available to view and bids EH15 2AS can be left online or made live online on auction day. 07835 813689 To bid via phone or leave an absentee/commission Padraig McCaul velveteasel.co.uk bid contact the saleroom on 01835 863445 or email August 31-September 6 [email protected] [email protected]. See auction tips page 27. www.brownandturner.co.uk

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nable to present at international For his glass works Kevin Harman art fairs this year, Edinburgh’s recycles construction materials such UIngleby Gallery is showing new as discarded double-glazing units, work by four artists from Scotland in splitting the panes apart and pouring WWW.NOMADSTENT.CO.UK an exhibition appropriately entitled layers of paint onto the inside surfaces Home (until Sep 19). to create luminous, delicate forms Describing himself as a storyteller, which belie the ordinariness of the Andrew Cranston draws on personal original materials. histories, literature, images from Katie Paterson examines our cinema and observations of life for his relationship to our environment and narrative paintings, often made on the the planet with seemingly unfeasible covers of hardback books. projects that she finds ways to realise Moyna Flannigan makes paintings through working with scientists and and collages combining elements from researchers. Pictured: Installation view, art history, mythology and popular Kevin Harman, Where water breaks its culture to explore the representation silence, 2020, household paint, double- of women, for example by cutting up glazing unit, steel frame, Photo: John her drawings and reusing body parts to McKenzie create a new form. www.inglebygallery.com

Alison McWhirter: Painted Love at the Smithy Gallery Weem Gallery and Framer in Pittenweem currently has in Blanefield (until Sep 13) features a new collection three featured artists working in quite different styles (until R U G S & I N T E R I O R S of paintings by an artist described as a “New Scottish Oct 11). Geraldine Durning favours landscapes and floral Colourist”. Her floral studies and abstract works are studies in a bright palette, Lucy Newton is one of Scotland’s WE BUY & SELL, CLEAN & REPAIR executed with a bright palette and loose, bold brushwork, foremost wildlife artists and Hazel Campbell specialises in N e w , o l d & a n t i q u e o r i e n t a l with the paint often mixed directly on the canvas. Pictured: bold, semi-abstract landscapes. Pictured: Hazel Campbell, r u g s , c a r p e t s & k i l i m s Tulips Against Warm Umber www.smithygallery.co.uk Pink Farmhouse www.weemgalleryandframer.co.uk Tibetan columns 88 x 41cm

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Swiss-born and now Haddington-based, Pascale Rentsch designs and makes tableware and home decor to ‘bring nature into your home’. Her ceramic pieces are decorated by drawings A member of the Guild of Glass and paintings of the flora, fauna and Engravers and the Scottish Glass Society, landscapes she makes on location in Japanese-born and now Glasgow-based places ranging from East Lothian to Skye, Junko Eager creates what she calls Mull, Islay and her native Switzerland. ‘three-dimensional illusions’ in glass, Most of her pieces are one of a kind. Steven Graham of In Glass specialises in achieving a “natural” look as much by www.pascalerentsch.com architectural, leaded, stained glass panels. how she uses the blank areas as by how North Berwick-based jewellery While his main commission-based studio she designs the engraved parts. She designer Hannah Louise Lamb makes work is traditional painted and acid- says she has recently noticed a growing nature-inspired pieces which reflect etched work (he recently completed a influence of Oriental art on her glass, life’s personal stories, such as a white series of roundels for the Incorporation especially the beauty of passing seasons gold wedding ring which speaks of of Masons in Glasgow), his personal as recognised in Japanese Buddhism. long distance love or silver cufflinks artistic exploration also ventures into Pictured: Angel Wing representing a particular city or place. cast 3D forms. www.junkoeager.co.uk A graduate of Glasgow School of www.in-glass.uk Art and the , she uses intricate hand-piercing and pain- staking cut-outs to make heirloom- worthy jewellery. She has completed commissions for the Bodleian Library, Hand-made the Scottish Government and Scottish Opera. Pictured: Yellow gold hoop necklace for you & your home www.hannahlouiselamb.co.uk

A member of Describing her work as ‘telling stories in cloth’, textile artist Ali the Scottish Ferguson reuses vintage materials to create hand-embroidered Furniture collages. A self-confessed ‘home bird’, she says: “My family and Makers home are the most important things in my world, so it’s really no Association, surprise that this is also where my Charles Taylor passion lies with my artwork, and Woodwork my stitching became my way of celebrates making sense of these feelings”. 25 years in Inspired by ordinary people and business this their stories, her creativity is year. Drawing on their expertise in historic interiors, they sparked by snippets of daily life, make anything from a bookcase, dining table or bedroom such as a random observation furniture to an entire library. Their extensive client list or a well-worn ‘treasure’ which includes Abbotsford House, Fettes College, the McEwan comes into her possession. She Hall, the National Trust for Scotland, Rosslyn Chapel and continues: “I love to follow these the V&A Dundee. Pictured: Rosewood elliptical seats and ‘threads of thought’ to see where radial rosewood veneered table top they will take me.” www.ctww.co.uk www.aliferguson.co.uk

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ne newspaper’s every part of town with artistic description of Nantes creation.” as ‘the loopiest city in www.levoyageanantes.fr French France’ belies a serious, Much of Nantes city long-term strategy: to centre, a pleasant mix of Oreinvent a city through art and culture. proud, 19th century buildings In Nantes this has been a great success. with a smattering of medieval Renaissance From being laid low in the 1980s with timber-frame structures, has the collapse of its ship-building and been pedestrianised and every How a city was reborn through culture freight industries (it is situated on the summer a city-wide art trail is Loire river estuary 50 kilometres from marked by a green line painted the Atlantic), it has emerged as a fun along streets and through and creative city revitalised by cultural alleys linking public artworks, tourism. installations, urban furniture The main figure driving this and some of the city’s finest renaissance is the arts entrepreneur Jean architectural features. Some Blaise, founder of Le Voyage à Nantes, business owners, feeling left out, the annual, two-month arts festival complained that the green line which transforms the city. (He was also did not run past their premises behind La Nuit Blanche, the all-night and one disgruntled cafe owner festival in Paris.) Blaise’s credo – to painted an offshoot leading to combine the city’s cultural and tourist his front door. attractions into a single brand identity – saw visitor numbers increase by over With a modest independent 50 per cent in under ten years. gallery scene, Nantes has one Blaise said: “The important thing dominant player. The Musee is to understand that culture is d’Arts de Nantes is one of the fundamental for the life of a city. biggest regional art museums in France and the only one In fact, it cannot exist without it. outside Paris with a collection The idea of the festival is to colonise spanning the 13th to the 21st centuries, thus presenting an unbroken timeline of the history of art. In recent years it has been completely refurbished and gained a new extension. The museum is unique in presenting art from different periods in the same spaces, for example by hanging an Old Masters work in a contemporary room. This creates a duality between old and new and Taking its name from the first initials of departs from the post-WWII split, when the founder and his wife of the former new museums were created to specialise biscuit factory in which it is located, LU, in modern art. The overall collection or the Lieu Unique (Unique Place) is a includes works by some of the biggest sprawling cultural centre topped by the names in art such as Ernst, Ingres, Chagall, beautiful, tiled LU Tower, which feaures Picasso, Leger, Kandinsky, Courbet, Dufy Pheme, the Greek goddess of fame, and and Monet. signs of the zodiac. (The biscuit factory The Musee d’Arts de Nantes www.museedartsdenantes.fr still exists elsewhere and „„„

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from the severely slick-black Palais de Justice to the Manny building clad with aluminium strips to resemble a bird’s nest. It even emanates pre-recorded chirping sounds.

North East MIXED SUMMER EXHIBITION No visit to Nantes is complete without a Featured Artist: DRONMA visit to Les Machines de l’Ile, a blend of Leonardo da Vinci mechanical universe, Ensemble 27 July - 30 Aug Victorian circus and Jules Vernes fantasy. Stanley Bird (The author of 20,000 Leagues Under 12 June – 25 August Contemporary art by established the Sea and Journey to the Centre of the and emerging Scottish artists. Earth was born in Nantes). Large variety of landscape and A former boiler-making factory is Mixed Summer Show wildlife art - ranging from now the workshop of a team of madcap including: representational to engineers who have built a mechanical Mary Louise Butterworth impressionistic - and a good menagerie, from an eight-metre high selection of Perthshire scenes. Stuart Buchanan heron flying passengers overhead to a David E Johnston RSW FREE UK DELIVERY giant ant scurrying across the floor or a aberfeldygallery.co.uk huge, steel and wood elephant strolling Kate Steenhauer around with visitors on its back. Add to Shelagh Swanson 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH1 5 2BL 01 887 8291 29 that the three-tier Carousel of Marine Dronma [email protected] Worlds representing different levels of the ocean with passengers riding in creatures which inhabit each one, and you’ll feel like an extra in the latest Disney caper. continues to make Petit Beurre, or Little and run-down industrial buildings, it www.lesmachines-nantes.fr „„„ Butter, a kind of shortbread popular in has seen architects vying to outdo each France.) The former factory halls are ideal other with new, eye-popping buildings, for displaying large scale contemporary works. The programme also includes theatre, dance, circus, music and literary gatherings. www.lelieuunique.com

Early Morning Mist The last of the great Loire Valley castles before the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, the Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne hosts a changing exhibition programme. Past presentations have Bramble Hedge Bramble HELEN BRUCE SUSIE HUNT Arum Lilly included the origins of Surrealism (the Stuart Buchanan Stuart movement’s founder, Andrew Breton, was stationed in Nantes during WWI), Catterline pre-Hispanic Columbian gold treasures eionstewartfineart.com and Japanese engravings. 10-5 MON, THURS, FRI, SAT & 11-5 SUN www.chateaunantes.fr Wed-Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-2 Sun-Tue: Closed 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater 013397 55888 www.larksgallery.com 55 Allardice St Stonehaven Aberdeenshire In the middle of the Loire river, the Ile AB39 2AB 01569 785 606 de Nantes is the city’s creative quarter. Once the site of abandoned shipyards 22 | 21 August | Issue 127 21 August | Issue 127 | 23 Art & Travel

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At the westernmost tip of the Ile de Walking around the city centre, you can’t Nantes is the HAB Galerie, situated in miss the quirky signs designed by local the former Hangar à Bananes, a concrete- artists to depict the type of business floored 1950s warehouse built to store located under them, such as cartoonish imported fruit and vegetables and now pigs’ heads above a butcher’s shop or a Philippe Ramette, Éloge du pas de côté, (Ode to side-stepping) from Le Voyage à Nantes 2018 and ideal for displaying contemporary art and shaggy Highland cow above a barber’s now on permanent display in the Place du Bouffay sculpture. shop. © Philippe Piron LVAN - ADAGP, Paris 2019

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A contemporary art gallery The Torrance Gallery in St Andrews At your bidding The No-Festival Festival Exhibition FINE ART GALLERY New to auctions? Then you’d best go armed with a few basic Featuring anna king | solo show terms to help you get your hands on the object of your desire. Catriona MacEachen & Martin Hill opening friday 24th july along with lots of our gallery favourites and introducing some new names to the gallery... 25th July - 30th Aug Dancing Light Philip Raskin

138 South Street The gallery is now open – St Andrews, KY16 9EQ Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is the world’s most expensive artwork sold at auction, fetching $450.3 01334 474331 million at Christie’s New York in 2017. Bought by Prince Badr bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, allegedly on behalf www.torrancegallery.co.uk www.resipolestudios.co.uk come and visit. [email protected] of Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism, its authenticity is hotly disputed and it has not been 36 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6JN shown since. loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx www.sprosongallery.com 0131 556 6366 Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Closed Sun & Mon sprosongallery 01967 431506 Appraisal The act or process of hammer, or gavel [email protected] estimating value On the book This means that an As is A ‘buyer beware’-type term absentee bidder has entered a maximum indicating that potential buyers are price that they are willing to pay for a responsible for examining and judging an particular lot. The auctioneer then bids item as to its condition on behalf of the absentee. SPECIALIST Auction block The podium or raised Opening bid The first bid offered by a SHIPPERS platform where the auctioneer stands bidder at an auction OF FINE ART while conducting the auction. ‘Putting an Preview Specified date and time when item on the auction block’ means to sell property can be viewed by prospective & ANTIQUES something at auction. buyers • Fragile, large or awkward Bid A prospective buyer’s offer of a The minimum price that – wherever in the world Reserve price it needs to go price they are willing to pay to purchase a seller is willing to accept for a property • Affordable, customised an item at auction. Bids usually rise crates that deliver art to be sold at auction. Also simply works safely in increments established by the ‘reserve’ • International & UK auctioneer. (Absentee bid A procedure delivery services Sealed bid auction A method of sale • Cover against loss which enables a potential buyer to bid whereby confidential bids are submitted or damage without being physically present) and to be opened at a predetermined 0131 201 2244 Commission The fee charged to the place and time. Not a true auction, in 53 Elm Row, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH7 4AH seller by the auctioneer for providing that it does not allow for reaction from www.packsend.co.uk/edinburgheast services, usually a percentage of the the ‘floor’ gross selling price of the item Withdrawal This occurs when an item Hammer price The price established by fails to reach the reserve price and it is the highest bidder and acknowledged withdrawn from the sale. by the auctioneer before dropping the

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Art & Picture Framing DUNBAR Read all about it! CANALSCAPES : Travels of Elan: The Vincent’s Books: a Painter, Interior Van Gogh and HOLLAND SCOTLAND VENEZIA by James Design of the Writers Who John Lowrie Morrison OBE Reeve, Kate Hume, Inspired Him, by pub. by Kate Hume Mariella Guzzoni, At The Archway Gallery from 8 August pub. Thames Unicorn with Linda & Hudson An Eveninglight, Cannaregio Canal, Venice Canal, Cannaregio Eveninglight, Publishing O’Keeffe, pub. insatiable reader Narrative Rizzoli The (‘Books and reality artist James C Amsterdam- and art are the 0 C Reeve has C based British same kind of thing .5 never kept for me’), Van Gogh consumed as many �C designer <( a diary, Kate Hume gives us a peek into other books as he could, reading, re-reading 15' _y and copying them out in Dutch, English u instead people’s homes with displays of her 0 0 luxurious, yet casual style combining and French and learning many passages � writing 0 long, detailed letters home from his artworks, vibrant colours and interesting by heart from works by Dickens, Zola, Shakespeare, Maupassant and others. Gallery27 offers professional & creative picture extensive, worldwide travels. Finding objects and textiles from around the framing and showcases a mix of Scottish Holland Bulb Fields, The Skies, Stormy Sunset Canal Dunardry Crinan Lock world as well as furniture and decorative Author Mariella Guzzoni traces Van artists and makers these by chance in a trunk, carefully tied items designed with husband Frans Gogh’s reading choices at different up with string and dated and labelled by Open Mon to Sat 10 - 4 (Sun by appointment) The Archway Gallery van der Heijden. Preferring vintage times of his life (he referred to at least 8 Spott Rd DUNBAR East Lothian his mother, he has used them as the basis over new and favouring materials such two hundred authors in letters to his www.visitgallery27com 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 for this part-memoir, part-travelogue as grass-cloth, jute, bronze, lacquer brother Theo) and how ideas that 07942 676804 I [email protected] www.thearchway.co.uk and illustrated it with vividly colourful and stone, she also works with local he encountered in books guided his @visitgallery27 vignettes of experiences and encounters. craftspeople to create custom details. thoughts and influenced his art.

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The 2020 National Aboriginal and 1 Tjala Women’s Collaborative, Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Nganampa Ngura 2 Adrian Robertson, Yalpirakinu (NATSIAA) sponsored by the Australian 3 Iluwanti Ken, Walawulu ngunytju telecommunications company Telstra kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going received entries from many emerging hunting) and distinguished senior artists from 4 Ginger Wikilyiri, Kunamata remote and urban regions of Australia. 5 Marrnyula Munuŋgurr, Munguymirri 6 Ngarralja Tommy May, Wirrkanja Here is a selection courtesy of the 7 Leah Brady, Wanampi Tjukurpa Museum and Art Gallery Northern 8 Betty Kuntiwa Pumani & Marina Pumani Territory. www.magnt.net.au Brown, Antara 9 John Prince Siddon, No Respect 10 Cecilia Umbagai, Yoogu 11 Betty Muffler, Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) Marketplace

Evocative landscapes by Simon Intimate figurative paintings by June Carey RSW RGI PAI is a multiple Rivett from his recent Borderlands Kevin Low from his Women award-winning artist whose work series of the Scottish Borders in and Men series. For several has been featured in numerous solo which he captures the graphic years a photographer of and group exhibitions in the UK and rhythms of the fields and walls, stage performances, Kevin’s abroad. Her work is in many public and using colour and shape to create understanding of lighting, drama private collections, including the Royal works which are full of harmony, and the precisely chosen moment Bank of Scotland, Oxford University, playfulness and joy. have resulted in a resonant BBC Television, Highland Region and ANN ARMSTRONG PAI 25 July – 6 Sept 2020 collection of images. Dundee District Council. www.ann-armstrong-art.co.uk ‘Forbiden Love’, gouache & acrylic

Showing Scottish artists and makers ‘Pink Dress’, 4A Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry, EH30 9RA oil on panel LIZ MYHILL 0131 319 2140 www.alliumqueensferry.com ‘Winter Borders One’, watercolour on paper Painter & Printmaker Thurs-Mon 11-4 Appointments outwith these times

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‘Pink Shorts’, oil on panel

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Summer Sunflowers Summer Exhibition ‘Lilac Skirt’, Showing local artists oil on panel 9-5 Mon-Fri, 9-3 Sat Gallery 2 offers a complete range of mouldings, original art plus contract picture framing for hotels, pubs and restaurants. With a large selection of limited editions and unique gifts. 72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock 01563 550 303 Gallery2Kilmarnock www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk To view our full selection & prices go to WWW.ARTMAG.CO.UK/SHOP

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