Which Is Scotland's Artists' Town?
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O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, artists in London? You must be joking. ABERDEEN ART GALLERY 01330 825 431 celebrating a Year of Architecture at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. lavishly illustrated work that also serves museums and cultural organisation in the Among them were Eduardo Leon Garrido, & MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 Call for more details SITUATED opposite Wood Green in which, led by the Royal This will offer insights into the as a social history of the city, given that area, but also encouraged the creation of William Quiller Orchardson, David 1FQ, 01224 523 700 MILTON ART GALLERY, during this period, its artists, patrons, Mechanical Institutes in many British Farquharson and William McTaggart, and Closed for manor refurb Milton of Crathes, Nr Banchory, underground station in North London, 12 Incorporation of Architects architecture of science fiction. ABERDEEN MARITIME AB31 5QH, 01330 844 664 minutes from Kings Cross and St. Pancras in Scotland, more than 90 Films to be shown include early collectors and galleries – both civic and cities. works from these and other contemporary MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor commercial – were so closely bound This followed the recognition artists in Scotland were donated to the 01224 337700 International stations and 20 minutes from organisations across the country productions such as Metropolis Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, together, especially during the second half by Prince Albert and Henry Cole that Albert Institure. GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 This- 01561 360 118 the West End, a grand Art Deco property will be involved. and Things to Come, and more tle Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 Original art and handmade crafts, of the 19th century. Britain was facing increasing competition There were also collectors, like 629, www.galleryheinzel.com plus featuring paintings by Kate originally built in 1925 for the North The Festival is a key part of an recent productions including Blade Contemporary Scottish art MacKenzie Metropolitan Power and Electric Company Then, as he says, Dundee was blessed in Europe – and especially from what Alexander Crawford Lamb, who March 12 - April 16 SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, even wider celebration – Scotland’s Runner, Flash Gordon and The with a number specialised in Chris Bushe is undergoing a major restoration. Syllavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, Year of Innovation, Architecture & Matrix. of philanthropic subjects like GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, AB33 8AQ, 01975 562 273 This will be the first hotel in the Robert Gordon University, Design. Also across the summer collectors, typographical THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH UK designed primarily for artists, actors Garthdee Road, AB10 7QD, LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird The Year of Architecture kicks (from June to September), an Alexander works of Old www.rgu.ac.uk/about/faculties- Head, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, and people in the creative industries. schools-and-departments/fac- 01346 511 022 off with a truly ground-breaking exhibition called Out of their Heads Crawford Lamb, Dundee, and ulty-of-design-and-technology/ The inspired new idea is the result of Purpose-built museum with event from 18-27 of this month: at the National Portrait Gallery John Mitchell an exhibition gray-s-school-of-art multi-screen technology. collaboration between two entrepreneurs, PENTLAND FINE ART, 88 Scotland’s first lighthouse, built Hinterland, which is a walked in Edinburgh will connect some Keiller, Isaac of these works Holburn Street, AB10 6BY, 1781. Open all year. Check Nick Hartwright – co-founder of The Mill Julius Weinburg, in 1892 proved holiday opening times route through the woodland to the of Scotland’s most prestigious 01224969637, www.pentlandfine- Company Project – and Kurt Bredenbeck J G Orchar and especially art.co.uk, info@pentlandfineart. PETERHEAD MARITIME abandoned St Peter’s Seminary in architects with their buildings using co.uk HERITAGE, South Road, Peter- who devised the concept of ‘luxury John Robertson popular as Dealers and Gallery specialised head, AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 Cardross, which was designed by portraits, photographic portraits in contemporary, collectible Experience Peterhead’s maritime budget’ hotels with the creation of the of Emslea among swathes of the Scottish Painting life past and present highly successful Hoxton Hotel project Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and opened and busts of the architects, and the most notable. city – including ABERDEEN ARTS CENTRE, GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- (two in London and one just opened in in 1966 and was greatly influenced representations of the buildings They its Adam- 33 King Street, AB24 5AA, ping Centre, Constitution Street, 01224 635 208 Inverurie, AB51 4UY Amsterdam). by the work of Le Corbusier. they have designed. And, also in belonged to the designed Town THE ART GALLERY, The walk will be accompanied the summer, Pop-up World Cities increasingly House – made Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, With support from Greater London Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, by a music and light show in Expo will be held in Mound Square, prosperous way for re- Foresterhill, AB25 2ZN, 01224 Aberfeldy industrial and development. 552 429 in the lobby will welcome “both guests have limited funds (i.e. they want a double which a haunting oral landscape, Edinburgh. ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 professional To the HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 Kenmore Street, PH15 2BL, composed by Rory Boyle, features This exhibition will build on and local residents.” The hotel will also room for £50) but are bored of the big, classes who Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01887 829 129, www.aberfeldyg- the choir of St Salvator’s Chapel of the universal success of temporary interest in art 01224 596 617 allery.co.uk offer other public areas such as exhibition formulaic budget hotels in London, and would make depicting the Limited edition prints by many WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill spaces and a restaurant. don’t fancy AirBNB, it‘s a great place to the University of St Andrews.