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The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 211 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts Winter 2019/20 After a costly and lengthy re-furb, a re-invigorated Aberdeen Art Gallery has opened its elegant doors once more. Job well done, seems to be the verdict. INSIDE: The lost art of drawing revived ‘Willie’ comes to Berwick :: Jencks, RIP artWORK 211 Winter 2019/20 Page 2 artWORK 211 Winter 2019/20 Page 3 Bargain book deals – tick your bundle (offer ends December 31, 2019) 2019 WINTER ISSUE Enter from 2 April to 30 June 2020 On the Train… www.scottishportraitawards.com Scotland’s Stations (£14.99) Highland Steam (£9.99) Rails Across Rannoch (£4.95) Bundle price: £16.00 WINTER EXHIBITION Barclay Muriel Featuring paintings by Daphne Hurn Meal and Ale… 30 November 2019 to 25 January 2020 over 30 artists including: Henderson’s Salads & Henderson’s Wholefood (£4.95 Jean Martin Claire Harkess each) Scotch in Miniature (£3.00) Bundle price: £7.00 June Carey Kim Bramley Michael Hunter Eric Moss Paul Croft Sue Hanna 01382 220600 Clan and Country… www.galleryq.co.uk Clans, Septs & Regiments of the Highlands (£20) Scottish Tartans (£3.99) Gazetteer of Scotland (£.9.99) Bundle £21.00 Jane B. 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Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Burn more than four and a half years in fact, and it’s cost ABERDEEN MARITIME O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, 01330 825 431 them a fair bit too – something like £35 million. 01224 337700 MILTON ART GALLERY, Milton There have been some tragic losses in the November 30 - April 11 2020 of Crathes, Nr Banchory, AB31 Cartomania: A Victorian Photo- 5QH, 01330 844 664 process too: the architect, Gareth Hoskins, the name graphic Phenomenon. November 16, 17 behind Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland as GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Milton Makers craft fair Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor well as the National Gallery and the World Museum www.galleryheinzel.com, info@ Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, in Vienna, did not make it through to see the galleryheinzel.com 01561 360 118 Contemporary Scottish art Original art and handmade ce- completion of the project, dying tragically of a heart November 9 - March 7 2020 ramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, attack in 2016. Various artists. Mixed Winter wood and more from all over the Exhibition. British Isles. Featuring paintings So it was with some degree of expectation and GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, by Kate MacKenzie trepidation that one wintry November afternoon soon Robert Gordon University, SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, Syl- Garthdee Road, AB10 7QD, www. lavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, AB33 after it opened your correspondent set foot in the new rgu.ac.uk/areas-of-study/subjects/ 8AQ, 01975 562 273 AAG in the heart of Aberdeen for the fi rst time. There is also a fi ne art library, housing more show recently, enthused about the new Aberdeen Art art-and-design THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH ARTS CENTRE & THEATRE LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird Head, The fi rst thing to hit you is exactly the same than 15,000 books, all of which can be read and Gallery: (ACT) ABERDEEN, 33 King Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 Tracey Emin neon Heart to greet you on arrival perused in the museum’s own dedicated library space. “So much better than the V and A in Dundee. Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 635 208 511 022 November 13 - 16 Purpose-built museum with as it did before. For You, signed with an X, is back Not only that, but even the Cowdray Hall seems a This is my second visit and I will be coming back City of Angels. Musical multi-screen technology. Scot- on display in the Sculpture Court. The work was more beautiful music space than before. again later this week – you need at least an afternoon THE ART GALLERY, Grampian land’s fi rst lighthouse, built 1781. Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen Open all year. Check holiday acquired in 2009. Add in a couple of café s, one right next to to see everything “ she said. Royal Infi rmary, Foresterhill, opening times So I immediately thought, all Another visitor, Highland AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- ROSIES, 45-49 Holburn Street, ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, very much the same as before, but Dance Teacher, Isobel McMillan AB10 6BR, 01224 577 325 AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 the moment you step into the fi rst who is featured in the superb Martin Crafts, art and gifts also framing Experience Peterhead’s maritime room, the change is spectacular, awe PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 life past and present Parr photography exhibition on the Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- inspiring. top fl oor, believes it’s, to quote her: 639 539 ping Centre, Constitution Street, Until November 16 Inverurie, AB51 4UY Every room beckons you to stay “A magical place – I love it – I love Simon Yuill. Raik. A study of the HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, longer, and it’s not just the improved the traditional stuff, I don’t like the Raik Road area in Aberdeen AB41 7EQ accessibility – which it claims is one RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 THE BLUE ROOF, Ryehill, Oyne, abstract so much – but then again, Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 Inverurie, AB52 6QS, 01464 of its fi nest calling cards – it’s the art is for everyone.” 323 247 851478, www.theblueroof.co.uk, tiny details, like daylight lighting PROVOST SKENE’S HOUSE, [email protected] There is no question that the Guestrow, (between Broad Street November 10 - 30 everywhere. new gallery is on trend too – there is and Flourmill Lane), AB10 1AS, Franklin’s Expedition. Paintings The clever touches of high- 01224 641 086 COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden even a picture room full of props for TOLBOOTH MUSEUM, Castle Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, tech roof lights on the top fl oors are dressing up, so the selfi e generation Street, AB10 1EX, 01224 621 167 01569 740039 designed to replicate natural lighting Until May 9 2021 JAMIE FLEEMAN’S, Udny can properly record their visits. Alexander Fraser, Lillias Skene, Green, Udny, AB41 conditions and adjust to seasonal In a room full of 18th century Margaret Campbell, Charles Duff December weekends changes. portraits and those by Joan Eardley, and Peter Williamson. Tales from Pop-up shop – with fl owers, The Tolbooth. paintings, cards, books The re-development has reduced all Rossetti, Francis Bacon and David CLAREMONT STUDIO, 66 artifi cial lighting to zero UV, which Claremont Street, AB10 6QY, Mach’s match head, for example, 01224 596 999 Aberfeldy helps preserve the collections for future there is a ‘portrait pod’ where you NICOLE PORTER GALLERY, ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 Ken- generations. And now with the right 88 King Street, AB24 5BA, 01224 more Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 829 can don ruffs and hats and other 566 477 129, www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk micro climate control, conditions are historic accessories, and frame November 2 - 30 ideally suited to housing outstanding Sonas Maclean yourself in a mirror. Aberdeenshire WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill works loaned from around the world. Now the gallery has so much BRAEMAR GALLERY, Mar Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, The mass of new work is truly astounding the spacious terrace overlooking the skylines of Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL, 01339 www.aberfeldywatermill.com, more – of everything – it’s time to plan your visit and 741 681, www.braemargallery. [email protected] – now over one thousand works fi nd space for Aberdeen, and the city can now join a metropolitan see for yourself just how comfortably Aberdeen Art co.uk, [email protected] Art Gallery, Bookshop, Coffee & display, whereas before the fi gure was a third of Oil paintings, watercolours, Music Shop elite of art gallery offerings.