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AND TO CREATE A COMMUNITY WHERE WE CAN SUPPORT ALL ART FORMS WITH A CLEAR HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! FOCUS’ ON SHOWING THE This issue of Artmag marks our 10th anniversary. Publisher Christie Dessy and Editor Ian HIDDEN METHODOLOGIES OF Sclater would like to thank all the advertisers and subscribers whose financial support THE ARTIST.’ makes the magazine possible and all the freelance contributors, paid and otherwise, whose hard work behind the scenes has helped us to develop Artmag into the largest circulation art magazine in Scotland and Northeast England. We look forward to many more years of covering the best in art, craft and design. If you enjoy the magazine, you will always find THIS EXHIBITION additional content on our website. www.artmag.co.uk WILL ANIMATE THE CONFLICT ‘(THE ARTIST) BETWEEN CREATES ENCOUNTERS ON MINIMAL SKIN ART AN INDIVIDUAL ARCHITECTONIC The beauty of our body’s cells has been LEVEL, THE STRUCTURES appreciated under the microscope by POSSIBILITY THAT RESPOND scientists and medical practitioners for years. OF A SHARED TO THE SOCIAL, Now, European Dermatology London will VISION AND THE POLITICAL AND turn these images into your own personalised IMPOSSIBILITY PSYCHOLOGICAL piece of ‘skin art’ with Inner Portraits. Costing OF A UNIVERSAL, USE OF SPACE.’ ABSOLUTE WAY OF around £1800, the process takes four to six SEEING. weeks and is straightforward and painless. Under local anaesthetic a small skin sample is taken from which the microscopic images My…art practice is informed are created. A graphic artist manipulates the by the spectacular and the images and generates a number of variations “mundane in equal measure…I from which you select your favourite. The artist can also work to your colour scheme to suit ’ your decor. Finally, the image is enlarged and mounted. www.eudelo.com am interested in actions and gestures that have cross-cultural meanings, such as activities relating to higher values and daily rituals. CHATTY FEET Chatty Feet, makers of socks with witty names, have introduced the Artists Socks collection, including - wait for it - Andy Sockhole, David Sock-knee and Frida Callus. ” www.chattyfeet.com WHILE DESIGNING (HER PIECES), SHE SEEKS TO ENGAGE THE AUDIENCE IN THE STORYTELLING PROCESS, ALLOWING THE JEWELLERY TO BECOME THE INSTRUMENT THROUGH WHICH THEY CAN EXPLORE THEIR OWN FEELINGS AND MEMORIES.

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ARRAN EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Book your ferry and head for Arran Coburg House Open Studios showcases The Bute Studio Trail highlights work Open Studios, which this year sees 39 work by over 80 artists and makers who by members of the Isle of Bute’s Artists’ participants welcome visitors to “Scotland call the former granary home. Aug 4-6, Collective (IBAC), who live and work only in miniature”. Aug 11-14, www.coburghouseartstudios.co.uk 33 miles from Glasgow as the crow flies, www.arranopenstudios.com but a world away in atmosphere. Jul 22 & Organised by the newly formed East 23, www.butestudiotrail.com BORDERS Coast Arts, the first ever East Lothian Open Studios showcases artists and CERAMICIST Quiltmaker Pauline Burbridge and artist/ LORRAINE sculptor Charlie Poulson host their makers from Musselburgh to North ROBSON Berwick. Based on two routes - coast and (FORTH Allanbank Mill Steading Open Studio VALLEY ART with invited artist, Northumberland-based country - the event is pairing up with Fringe BEAT) sculptor Colin Rose. Aug 4-7, by the Sea in North Berwick with an art www.allanbankmillsteading.co.uk trail around the local shops. Aug 5-8, www.eastcoastarts.co.uk CENTRAL SCOTLAND FIFE Covering a large area spreading out from Stirling, Forth Valley Art Beat includes Follow the red balloons along the East installations, temporary public artworks, Neuk Open Studios Art Trail, which pop-up shows, performances and takes in over 30 studios and workshops exhibitions in galleries and community throughout that beautiful corner of Fife, spaces. Jun 10-18, stretching from Upper Largo to Boarhills www.forthvalleyopenstudios.com via St Monans and Cellardyke. Jun 24-25 & Jul 1-2, www.eastneukopenstudios.org

EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS the Garnethill Campus and in the Tontine One of the UK’s biggest celebrations of Building. Jun 10-17, www.gsa.ac.uk DEGREE SHOWS new commercial photography, Exposed HIGHLANDS showcases Edinburgh College HND and This year’s BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) BA Photography students. Jun 7-15, Out Fine Art Textiles degree shows at Moray ABERDEEN of the Blue Drill Hall, www. School of Art in Elgin cover a range of Previous graduates of Gray’s School of Art edinburghcollegephotography.co.uk media, including painting, photography, film, who have gone on to great things include The Chippendale International School assemblage, installation and textiles. Jun 19- Callum Innes, Eric Auld, Alberto Morrocco of Furniture Graduate Exhibition (Jun 12 & 24, www.moray.uhi.ac.uk and Joyce Cairns. Jun 17-24, 13, Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh) features www.graysartschoolaberdeen.com pieces by some 30 international students. NORTHEAST ENGLAND The school also hosts an evening drinks Reveal is the annual degree show of work by PADDY O’NEILL‘S COFFEE TABLE HAS A RELIEF MODEL OF Northumbria University students of creative ARTHUR’S SEAT BUILT IN. (CHIPPENDALE reception (Jun 1) and an Open Day (Jun 17) at INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL its site near Gifford, East Lothian. programmes such as Fine Art, Animation, OF FURNITURE) www.chippendaleschool.com Fashion, Architecture, Graphic Design, 3D Design and Interior Design. Jun 15-Jul 1, GLASGOW www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news- The annual showcase of events/events/2017/06/reveal-2017 work by Glasgow School of This year’s Fine Art Degree Show at Art students graduating from Newcastle University will be split between undergraduate programmes the university’s Fine Art Studios and the Great in Architecture, Design and North Museum. Jun 2-17, www.ncl.ac.uk Fine Art will be staged in the Bourdon and Reid Buildings on

JUNE/JULY 2017 9 Gemma Rees Helen Glassford Michael Lythgoe SALE OF 19TH W THE & 20TH WHITEHOUSE CENTURY GALLERY ORIGINAL FOOTSTEPS ON UNTIL 24TH JUNE PAINTINGS Alison Dickson, Cecilia Cardiff, Helen Glassford, Helen Tabor, James Someville Lindsay, Joyce Gunn Cairns, Karen Warner, Kevin Fleming, Lindsay Madden, Rosanne Barr, Ross Fulton, FROM JUNE 10 Susie Hunt & Thomas Cameron.

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Marion Drummond Both exhibitions include new textiles, jewellery, sculpture, ceramics, glass and much more.

The Gallery will be closed to changeover from 4pm on Saturday 24th June, until 11am on Saturday 1st July. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION To include works by Peter Howson, The Whitehouse Gallery, 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU louise o’harat: 01557 330223 e: [email protected] www.whitehousegallery.co.uk John Bellany, Peter McLaren, John Byrne, James Kay, Stuart Park, Transcendent William Crosbie, David Fulton 27th May - 27th July

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Princes Street has its first ever art gallery with the arrival of the Art Collective. Located in the spacious West End basement of the Pride of Scots souvenir shop, it features a wide variety of work in various media by Scottish-based artists and AYRSHIRE makers. www.artcollectivescotland.com Based in what is thought to have been a former 19th century carding mill, the FIFE Weekend Gallery in Kilbirnie will focus The newly extended Dunfermline Carnegie primarily on artists working in the West of Library & Galleries includes three beautiful www.onfife.com/venues/dunfermline- Scotland. The focus will be on first-time exhibition spaces. Designed by Richard carnegie-library-galleries exhibitors in a series of monthly solo Murphy Architects, who also worked on exhibitions. Next up is Ronnie Heeps: Dundee Contemporary Arts and Edinbugh’s PERTHSHIRE Kaleidoscopic Forms. Historical footnote: Frutmarket Gallery, the building won the Landscape painter Tom Barron has opened The building is notorious for the 1904 murder, The Other Art Gallery in Crieff, a pop-up to when the then Italian ice cream shop owner showcase his own and other artists’ work. A killed his wife and children with an axe. As large triptych by Tom was a highlight of this the name suggests, this gallery is only open year’s Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair. at weekends. www.weekendgallery.co.uk www.scottishoilpainting.com DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Located in the picturesque village of St John’s Town of Dalry, the newly opened Glenhaven Gallery features exclusively original artwork and photography by Scottish artists. Each month work will be Edinburgh Architectural Association’s added by an invited Scottish artist and there Building of the Year and Large Project of the will be regular opportunities to meet the Year awards. It is hoped the new cultural artists and occasionally see them work in a hub in Dunfermline’s Heritage Quarter will studio environment. attract up to 280,000 visitors a year and www.glenhavengallery.com contribute around £500,000 to the local economy. EDINBURGH Graphic designer ian Farmer has opened CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Upright Gallery overlooking Bruntsfield Links. His June show features work by WEEKEND GALLERY another new Edinburgh gallery-owner, Alan DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY & GALLERIES Lennon (see Lennon-Art), with DEEP.CUT (Jun 1-22), a selection of photo montages UPRIGHT GALLERY making wry comment on current culture and LENNON-ART politics. www.uprightgallery.com ART COLLECTIVE

Recently opened in Stockbridge, Lennon-Art features oil paintings, direct stone carving and traditional, hand-cut photo montage by artist/owner Alan Lennon. Look out for a series of group shows. www.lennon-art.co.uk

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2 1 Inspired by Scotland’s industrial heritage and landscape, Dundee-based Kartel create classic men’s and women’s time pieces incorporating traditional Harris Tweed. Look out for the summer opening of their first store, in St Andrews. 1 www.kartel.co.uk

2 Textile designer, maker and weaver Amy Bond is influenced by architectural forms. Passionate about 3D weaving techniques, she creates home fabrics and fashion accessories featuring bright, bold, vibrant combinations of colours and geometric patterns. www.amybondtextiles.co.uk

RADIAL EARRINGS, 3 From “a ramshackle caravan” parked at the 3 POWDER-COATED foot of the Ochil Hills, Jo Pudelko makes STEEL. PHOTO: STACEY BENTLEY contemporary, mixed media jewellery and PHOTOGRAPHY small scale sculptural objects with the occasional accompanying screenprint. Specialising in the use of plastics, she often 4 PHOTO: KELLEE QUINN incorporates found objects into her work. PHOTOGRAPHY, www.jopudelko.co.uk MODEL: CHELSEY AT SUPERIOR MODEL 4 Bridal designers Wendy Harman and MANAGEMENT, HAIR: MEGAN Natasha Hutchison of Lovedeluxe Lingerie TULLOCH, create hand-made pieces to order in TARBERT SILVER, MAKEUP; JACQUI WHITE & BLUE HARROW, VENUE: Chantilly lace, mesh and silk for the HARRIS TWEED HARELAW FARM “confident, flirtatious and effortlessly sexy, WEDDINGS without size prejudice”. www.lovedeluxelingerie.com 5 5 East Lothian’s Clock House Furniture has the largest collection of Antler furniture – the “ultimate renewable resource”. Their most recent collection is made from East African Ankole cattle horns, the longest of 6 any cattle species in the world. www.clockhouse-furniture.co.uk

6 Juli Bolanos-Durman (Edinburgh College of Art) was recognised for her superb glass work as one of four winners at the Inches Carr Scottish Craft Awards hosted by Gray’s School of Art to celebrate new and innovative work being produced by graduates of Scotland’s art and design colleges. www.julibd.com

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AnatomyOF A PAINTING

BY JULIE HANSEN

‘Boy Bitten by a Lizard’ (Ital: ‘Ragazzo morso da vegetables being commonplace sexual metaphors un ramarro’) exists in two versions, one in the in late Renaissance Rome. The painting might Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence, the other in have been inspired by an epigram by the Roman HIS RED, FULL the National Gallery, London. The original version poet Martial: ‘Spare this lizard crawling towards “ was probably completed for one of Caravaggio’s you, treacherous boy/It wants to die between your LIPS ARE early patrons, Francesco Maria del Monte, an Italian fingers.’ OPENED IN AN Cardinal, diplomat and connoisseur of the arts. EXPRESSION Documents from the period suggest del Monte was The boy’s surprised pose may have been a OF PAIN homosexual and he is recorded as having lavish theatrical experiment by the artist to depict extreme parties in which beautiful young men were dressed emotions. Greek and Roman sculpture depicting in Roman costume and enacted scenes from Ovid. emotional subjects was avidly collected in Rome The painting’s homoerotic quality matches several during the Renaissance and copies of dramatic others of the period Caravaggio painted for del Hellenistic masterworks such as ‘The Dying Gaul’ Monte, including the famous ‘Bacchus’ (c.1595), now were well known. Influenced by Caravaggio, Gian ” in the Uffizi in Florence. Lorenzo Bernini produced a number of sculptures illustrating extreme emotional states in the 1620s, An androgynous boy reacts in alarm as a lizard including, ‘Apollo and Daphne’. Caravaggio has concealed among succulent cherries bites deeply possibly borrowed the motif of biting a finger from into his finger. His red, full lips are opened in an ‘Boy Bitten by a Crab’, a drawing by the prominent expression of pain. He has a delicate rose behind female Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola. his ear and wears loose, easy to remove robes. In his distress his shoulder is exposed and catches the Rome was both Caravaggio’s love and his light, a visual sexual tease to the viewer. The model downfall. The city’s wealth and power supplied a is believed to be the bisexual artist’s companion, constant source of patrons, but the ‘low’ places he Mario Minniti, who posed for several other paintings frequented (brothels, bars and cardrooms), paired from the period. with his temperamental and somewhat violent personality, resulted in a series of public fights. In Art historian Leonard J. Slatkes believes the 1606, Caravaggio was forced to flee the city after painting’s symbolism derives from the theme of killing a man in a knife brawl. Living in exile in the Apollo Sauroktonos, in which a poisonous Malta and Naples, he was possibly the victim of an salamander triumphs over the god. The arrangement attempt on his life, leaving him with wounds which of various fruits suggests ‘The Four Temperaments’ became infected. The exact nature of his death is (a Greco-Roman concept of medicine), with the unknown, although theories that he died of malaria salamander a 17th century symbol for fire. The on a Tuscan beach, was devoured by syphilis or salamander also had phallic connotations, was murdered by one of his many enemies have all especially paired here with the cherries, fruits and been posited.

‘BOY BITTEN BY A LIZARD’ (C.1594-5) BY MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO (1571–1610), KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS SIMPLY CARAVAGGIO, IS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION BEYOND CARAVAGGIO AT THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY JUNE 17- SEPTEMBER 24. WWW.NATIONALGALLERIES.ORG

A former art history professor and curator, Dr Julie Hansen has taught in the United States at Stanford University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Arizona. She is now resident in Edinburgh, where she is the director of Gallery 23. www.gallery23.org.uk

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VINTAGE BORDEAUX Famous for its wines, the capital of Aquitaine also has a lot to offer art-lovers

MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS, BORDEAUX

n the constant jostle for bragging rights Birthplace of ‘animalière’ and sculptor wing of the museum is dedicated to 16th to as Europe’s best city break destination, Rosa Bonheur, Symbolist Odilon Redon, 18th century classical painting, including Bordeaux is on a lot of people’s radar. Fauvist Albert Marquet and Cubist André religious and mythological scenes, while the A 15-year makeover has resulted in Lhote, Bordeaux is also where Goya drew north wing displays 19th and 20th century a redeveloped waterfront with a four his last breath - in 1828, after spending his art. Along with leading Bordeaux artists, Ikilometre-long quay hugging the curve of last four years there in voluntary political the museum has works by French masters the broad Garonne river, and the city has exile from Spain. (Matisse, Renoir, Delacroix, Seurat, Dufy) been voted the favourite of the French. Even the region’s most famous product and other big European names (Rubens, has ‘crossed over’ into the art world, with Kokoschka, Soutine, Veronese). For foodies, three Michelin-starred chefs many famous artists commissioned to design Information boards outline the key (including Gordon Ramsay) have opened Bordeaux wine labels. The Pauillac estate, movements represented in each section, with restaurants there within a year of one for example, has featured work by the likes emphasis on the French or local contribution another. And with the opening of the LGV of Salvador Dali, Henry Moore, Wassily to each one – from the mythological imagery high-speed rail link this year, Bordeaux will Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and ancient history of ‘Academic art’ to the be just over two hours from central Paris. and Lucian Freud on its vintages. violently bright palette of Fauvism and the A good place to start a tour of the passions, longings and human sufferings main art museums is the central Place Pey of Romanticism. Other genres represented Berland, where three are clustered within a include Impressionism, Naturalism, few minutes of one another. Symbolism and post-war art. A couple of Occupying facing wings on either side of blocks around the corner the museum’s the Jardin de la Mairie (Town Hall Garden), beautiful ‘annexe’, the Galerie des Beaux- the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts (Gallery of Fine Arts), hosts special Arts) has some 330 paintings and sculptures exhibitions. www.musba-bordeaux.fr dating from Titian to Picasso. Built in 1880, Nearby is the Musée des Arts Décoratifs FRANCOIS MONCHATRE, ‘CROISIÈRE POUR TOUS’ both wings abut the Town Hall (formerly the et du Design (Museum of Decorative Arts (‘CRUISE FOR EVERYBODY’), 1990, SCULPTURE ON PAINTED WOOD © MUSÉE DE LA CRÉATION FRANCHE Palais Rohan, completed in 1784). The south and Design), where objects from the 17th

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CAPC JAUME PLENSA’S ‘SANA’ STANDS OPPOSITE THE OPERA HOUSE XAVIER VEILHAN’S ‘LE LION BLEU’ DOMINATES SHOPPERS ON THE RIGHT BANK

to the 21st centuries are spread out amid exposed wooden beams form an impressive Talents (The Gallery of New Talents) the antique panelling, chandeliers and environment to show temporary exhibitions underscore Magrez’ support of emerging parquet flooring of the 18th century Hotel and selections from the museum’s artists. www.institut-bernard-magrez.com de Lalande, one of the many fine buildings permanent collection of works by nearly In a lovely, two-story private museum in credited for the city’s Unesco World Heritage 200 artists. Visiting artists take advantage its own grounds in the southern suburb of Site status. Despite being converted into of the moveable walls to create site-specific Bègles, the Musée de la Creation Franche a museum, the spaces in the mansion installations. A nice touch: The wall-facing (with ‘franche’ in this case meaning ‘genuine’ still capture the atmosphere of the family side of the lift has a window through which or ‘real’) has a collection of 14,000 works residence it once was, with the original you can see an untitled wall painting by of ‘outsider art’, folk art and naive art. The furniture and decor offering a glimpse of the Keith Haring unfold as you go up and down. museum was founded in 1989 in the former lifestyle of Bordeaux aristocracy at the time www.capc-bordeaux.fr home of a fishing magnate by the artist of the French Revolution. In the exhibition Named after its founder, a winery Gérard Sendrey, who opted for the term Houselife antique objects were beautifully owner, the Bernard Magrez Institute of ‘franche’ after being prevented for copyright juxtaposed with works by contemporary Contemporary Art occupies the beautiful reasons from using the more familiar term French and international designers (the Hotel Labottière, a private mansion in ‘art brut’, or raw art, as defined by the French museum has one of the largest collections in substantial grounds dating from the 18th artist Jean Dubuffet. Shown in rotating Europe), showing the evolution of household century. Known for his 40 chateaux, Magrez exhibitions, the collection emphasises furnishings, interiors, homewares and supplements his own personal art collection, the work of French self-taught artists and appliances. www.madd-bordeaux.fr including works by Daniel Buren, Andy other marginal creators who make work Just off the waterfront to the north of Warhol, Agnès Varda, Pierre Soulages, outside the academic tradition of ‘fine art’. the city centre, CAPC (formerly the Centre Sebastiao Salgado, Fernand Léger and Sometimes referred to in French as ‘artistes d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains), or the many others, with loans from public and singuliers’, these artists often have mental Museum of Contemporary Art, occupies a private collections. There is a series of health issues or are otherwise alienated cavernous former 1820s warehouse once special exhibitions, some in the modern, from the mainstream. used to store imports from the colonies. marquee-like annexe. An artists in residence www.musee-creationfranche.com Soaring sandstone walls, high arches and programme and La Galerie des Nouveaux

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UNDISCOVERED PARIS A FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAY | 3 DECEMBER 2017 Our new tour to Paris has been designed to reintroduce you to this great city – and to reveal the hidden secrets and lesser-known museums which most visitors never see. Tour Lecturer Patrick Bade is an expert on art history, opera and all things Parisian, and he spends half of the year in the French capital. We will include visits to some of the city’s hidden gems including the Musée du Parfum, the Musée des Art Decoratifs, and former private collections at the Musée Cognacq-Jay and the Musée Jacquemart-André, housed in an elegant Haussmann mansion. We spend one day in Montmartre discovering the links between the area and the many artists and writers who lived here, including George Sand and Gustave Moreau. There will also be a guided tour of the magnificent Second Empire interior of the Palais Garnier, and a visit to the Hotel Drouot – a vast auction hall devoted to collectors of art and decorative objects. Price from £1,795 per person for four nights including return flights, accommodation with breakfast, two lunches, three dinners, an illustrated talk, all sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities and the services of a local guide and the Kirker Tour Lecturer.

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Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) after a six-year closure to add an extension. This year is also the 10th anniversary of the Machines

BERNARD MAGREZ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART de l’Ile, where giant, surreal creatures, including an elephant, a spider, an ant and a heron, stalk among the visitors in a blend LE CORBUSIER’S of Jules Verne fantasy, Leonardo da Vinci CITÉ FRUGÈS mechanical universe and the industrial In the southwestern suburn history of Nantes. A city-wide art trail links of Pessac, Les Quartiers public artworks with some of the city’s Modernes Frugès, or Cité finest architectural features. There is also Frugès, is a 1920s housing a retrospective on the Swiss painter H.R. estate of 50 properties built Giger. Jul 1-Aug 27, by the industrialist Henry THE LE www.levoyageanantes.fr CORBUSIER- Frugès to house his sugar DESIGNED CITÉ refinery workers. Frugès FRUGÈS The multi-media artist Rachel Maclean © NIKOLAS ERNULT commissioned the then rising is representing Scotland at the recently avant-garde urban architect opened Venice Biennale. Rachel uses Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, now famously known as Le Corbusier (1887-1975) to film and photography to capture fantasy design a new form of inexpensive living quarters - economic, standardised, mass-produced properties which were geometrically sparse, minimalist and functional. Cité Frugès was Le Corbusier’s first large scale urban project and one of France’s first social housing projects. Identically sized, prefabricated modules came in six variants and innovations included isothermic walls (to regulate temperature), suspended gardens and integrated garages. Outside, Le Corbusier added dashes of colour to brighten up the neighbourhood. Today the buildings house fashionable apartments and curious tourists and architectural students have become a common site.

RACHEL MACLEAN WITH WHERE TO STAY ‘SPITE YOUR FACE’, 2017. Minutes from the Museum of Fine COURTESY SCOTLAND +VENICE. PHOTO: Arts, Gallery of Fine Arts and Museum PATRICK RAFFERTY of Decorative Arts & Design, Mama Shelter is a lively, youthful hotel where worlds and outlandish characters, played the rooms have fun, quirky touches and by herself, through which she delves into the bar-restaurant is an integral part of politics, society and identity. Her new local nightlife. A nice touch: free movies. commission is ‘Spite Your Face’, a dark, www.mamashelter.com/en/bordeaux modern day Venetian fairytale presented as a large scale portrait projection at the HOW TO GET THERE altar of the deconsecrated church, Chiesa Ryanair operates a direct service to Bordeaux twice weekly from Edinburgh. di Santa Caterina. Until Nov 26, www.ryanair.com www.scotlandandvenice.com, www.labiennale.org

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BrushWITH NATURE “YOU HAVE TO ACQUIRE A GOOD PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR HABITS AND THEIR HABITAT AND THAT PROVIDES YOU WITH A CONTEMPLATIVE STILLNESS TO SUBMERGE YOURSELF IN THOUGHT.” - ARTIST SAM MACDONALD

THE FIRST WILDLIFE ARTISTS?

he first artists were wildlife artists. The Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne area of southwestern France is famous for over 600 detailed wall paintings, primarily Tof large animals. The combined effort of many generations, the oldest are estimated to be around 17,000 years old. View a prehistoric depiction of a horse alongside a bull by Picasso and the similarities are striking. Today’s wildlife artists know their subjects as intimately as their Paleolithic ancestors. Usually pursuing a passion for birds, animals and sea creatures since childhood, they often have a biology or conservation background. Stalking their quarry like hunters, they photograph, sketch, paint and sculpt in a variety of styles and media to capture the essence of the creature or freeze a fleeting moment of nature. Artmag spoke to a number of leading wildlife artists about their chosen genre. Paul Bartlett originally studied Zoology, then Biology to PHD level, before realising that he preferred to appreciate nature aestheticically rather than analytically and

CAROL BARRETT, ‘KORA’, COFFEE & GOUACHE ON ELEPHANT DUNG PAPER DUNG ELEPHANT ON GOUACHE & COFFEE ‘KORA’, BARRETT, CAROL deciding to try to make painting his career.

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FAR LEFT: LUCY NEWTON, ‘RED DEER STAG’

LEFT: PAUL BARTLETT, ‘THE ROOST’ “

Specialising in collage, he is often before expanding her skill set to include wildlife parks, butterfly farms and aquariums recognised more for this than his name. a variety of printmaking techniques, such as well as in the field. She creates detailed He explains: “I first started doing collage as woodcut, linocut, Japanese woodblock, pieces, mostly in mixed media with an in about 2006. Before that I was doing collagraph and monotype. emphasis on watercolour. Added elements fairly traditional wildlife painting in a Lisa is especially known for her include wax crayon, pastels, ink, charcoal detailed, illustrative style. But I wanted to tessellated linocuts, in which an image is and acrylic. find something that could define me. I was repeated across the page. She explains: She says: “Normally when I go out, I ripping up the watercolour paper to create “This is quite a logical way of capturing might have in mind a particular species that texture, then sticking the paper that I’d pattern in bird mutitudes of several kinds. I want to see or something that I know is ripped back on. That gave me the idea of To me it’s really important to have a varied prevalent in that area. You don’t always see going into collage.” toolbox of approaches to a subject. Then I what you’re going to see, but you always As with many wildlife artists, Bartlett’s can choose the right look and feel for the see something. I’ve never had a day when I home, surrounded by woodland and close image I have in mind.” came home and felt it was a waste of time.” to a nature reserve, is his inspiration. In In the field Hooper photographs birds Newton’s style varies depending on the field he sketches and photographs his with a relatively modest, hand-held camera her mood, the materials she is using or subjects before returning to his studio and with a telephoto lens. Back in her studio she the subject. She explains: “In some cases enhancing his work through experience studies the images to see which ones might this is a deliberate attempt to capture and imagination. He is best known for translate well to print. If there is a photo some of the qualities of the subject by incorporating bits of text torn from nature composed of several birds she might draw varying the brush and pencil marks to suit magazines into his work. He also uses them in different poses or rearrange them its physical appearance or behaviour. I papier-mâché to create textural collages - this, she says, is when the image begins might use a more detailed style for a hare such as stormy seascapes, sometimes to “gel” - to help her decide which print that’s crouched very still from a bird that’s adding a shearwater or fulmer conjured medium or technique best suits to depict it. wheeling in the sky. I do not attempt to from kayak trips along the west coast of She explains: “There is quite a long document the birds and animals in exact Scotland, his favourite way to see otters and design process starting with my photos, realism, but more to just express some of the access seabird islands. which support my work exactly as a qualities and energy of the amazing natural Bartlett often hides things in his works. sketchbook would, but ending with world around us”. In a piece called ‘Four Chaffinches’, for something that bears very little relationship www.lucynewtonartist.com Until Jul 26, example, only one bird in a thicket is to the initial images.” Donald Watson Gallery, Scottish obvious, so that the viewer has to work a A fan of Inuit art, which often depicts Ornithologists’ Club, Aberlady, little to find them. He says: “I like to be a bit birds standing alone against a white www.the-soc.org more playful and blend the animals in. Very background, she continues: “I am trying to The doyenne of African wildlife art, often that’s how you spot them in the field. abstract from and simplify what I see without Edinburgh-based Carol Barrett regularly You won’t notice them at first.” losing anything essential to the expression travels to Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, www.naturalselectiongallery.co.uk of character.” www.hoopoeprints.co.uk Namibia, Tanzania and Kenya to study, Lisa Hooper is a full-time printmaker Lucy Newton is an extremely popular sketch and photograph wildlife in its natural based in southwest Scotland. Prior artist whose last show at the Donald Watson habitat. She also has a new collection to pursuing a career in art she was a Gallery at the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club of marsupials, birds and other unique conservationist with the Countryside in Aberlady almost sold out. She draws Australian wildlife from time spent in Commission, being more of a collector of from a wide range of sources, including protected bush areas in the southwest of the wildlife art than a creator. She began etching photographs at farms, fish markets, zoos, country. Formerly artist in residence for the

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Lucy Newton May 27 – July 26

Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Waterston House, Aberlady EH32 0PY THE SOC IS A Open daily 10am–4pm SCOTTISH CHARITABLE 01875 871 330 INCORPORATED ORGANISATION www.the-soc.org.uk SC009859

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IMAGES BY MARY ANN ROGERS ARE AVAILABLE ON A WIDE RANGE OF MERCHANDISE

Northumberland-based Mary Ann Rogers has a playful, whimsical style which is immediately recognisable. Her images are available as originals or prints and on a range of Wild for Midsummer merchandising, including cushions, An exhibition of new paintings to celebrate the season by mary ann rogers scarves, polo shirts, towelling robes exhibition open daily Monday 19th June – Sunday 25th June and stationery. www.marogers.com launch weekend, 17 & 18 June, 3-7pm (RSVP) Jun 17-25, Midsummer Madness, Mary Ann Rogers Gallery, Hexham at mary ann rogers gallery, West woodburn, Hexham, ne48 2se (clearly signed from West Woodburn) DAVID CEMMICK, ‘BOXING 01434 270216 www.marogers.com CLEVER’ Open every Sunday 2-5pm Visitors also very welcome at other times with a bit of warning! Paintings, prints, cards, beautiful and unusual gifts all featuring Mary Ann Rogers paintings

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David Cemmick has been a professional artist since his first sell- out solo exhibition in 1974 at the age of 19. His paintings and sculptures in bronze and clay are inspired by the dramatic landscape and abundant wildlife around his home in the foothills of the Cumbrian Pennines. www.davidcemmickart.com

HELEN DENERLEY, ‘AMUR LEOPARD’

Best known for ‘Dreaming spires’, her huge giraffe sculptures on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk, Helen FLOERS Denerley bends, twist and welds AN EXHIBITION BY scrap metal into remarkably life-like ALEC FINLAY & HANNAH IMLACH creatures, the result of meticulous observation, skilled drawing and 7 - 25 June 2017 | Dunbar Town House Gallery, High Street, Dunbar mastery of metalworking. open daily 1 - 5pm | northlightarts.org.uk | 01368 866030 www.helendenerley.co.uk free event, walks and performances on Saturday 10 June 11am - 5pm

supported by North Light Arts, East Lothian Council and Creative Scotland Claire Halavage contributed to this article.

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Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, she is a four-time winner of the David Shepherd GALLERY HEINZEL Wildlife Foundation’s Wildlife Artist of the CONTEMPORARY ART Year award. She paints on a wide range of textured MIXED SUMMER EXHIBITION papers, from native tree bark paper to hand-made elephant dung paper (“The 10TH JUNE TO 20TH AUGUST rough surface makes it ideal for capturing the texture of elephant skin”) and recently started painting with coffee. She sets the scene: “There is nothing better than being near a water-hole or river bank to sketch antelope and zebra herds coming down to drink or elephant wallowing in the muddy water. Or the SAM MACDONALD, ‘HERRING SWIRL’, PEWTER, GOLD LEAF, RESIN & COPPER anticipation of going out on a night drive can be electrifying, when there is the chance of a hippo when a passenger in a small Gordon Wilson, “Comrie Lums Alight”, oil, 76 x 76cm oil, Alight”, “Comrie Lums Wilson, Gordon of seeing some nocturnal species and speedboat. She says: “I have definitely used predators at work, including the elusive up all my nine lives over the years!” leopard.” www.carolbarrett.co.uk “My aim is to showcase the majesty of A trained silversmith and metalworker, the natural world and encourage viewers to Marine wildlife sculptor Sam MacDonald is empathise and connect with the animals in inspired by his love of fishing - he has cast my paintings and reawaken an interest and for bonefish, permit, tarpon and barracuda in 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD enjoyment of these wonderful creatures.” Venezuela, the Bahamas and the Dominican 01224 625629 • [email protected] And yes, she has had some close Republic and for salmon and trout in Iceland Open Mon – Sat from 10am shaves, including being chased by an angry and Pakistan - to capture the complexities of www.galleryheinzel.com elephant while clinging for dear life to the game fish in a variety of metals. roof of a jeep and escaping the gaping jaws He says: “I have always had a fascination with water. I spent all of my childhood in streams, rivers and at the sea, so fish have always been a source of aesthetic beauty to me.” “Their form is one of pure aerodynamics and they are engineered for speed, hard and glinting - the same attributes as metal. They have a superb sculptural form and MILTON ART beauty, including their skeletal structure. Metal is the ideal medium for them.” GALLERY And the secret to immortalising them MILTON OF CRATHES BANCHORY AB31 5QH in pewter, gold leaf, aluminium, copper and brass? “You have to acquire a good personal knowledge of their habits and Mixed Summer Exhibition 24th March - 7th May their habitat and that provides you with a 12 May—9 July contemplative stillness to submerge yourself in thought.” www.sam-macdonald.co.uk Sam’s work is available at the House of Bruar near Blair Atholl, www.houseofbruar.com

JENNY MUSKER Solo exhibition 2 June-9 July 2017 the Hour Image gallery Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-5 FEATURED ARTISTS PAUL BARTLETT and LESLEY D McKENZIE Open 7 days a week, 10am –5pm, Sun 11am – 5pm. 1st June - 29th July [email protected] 93-97 Castle St. Forfar DD8 3AH miltonart.com www.thehourimagegallery.co.uk 01330 844664 LISA HOOPER, ‘DAWN TREADER’, LINOCUT

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ne of Scotland’s most landscape and coastline, Jackie Forbes celebrated photographers is Henderson’s layered, textural still lifes and being showcased at Drum Lynn Howarth’s mainly pastel portraits and Castle. Harry Benson: fugurative work. Jun 24-Jul 29, Seeing America is the www.galleryatfiftyfive.co.uk Oproduct of the Glasgow-born photographer’s 50-year career documenting some of Artist John Byrne has collaborated with the USA’s most famous people (including Peacock Visual Arts to produce a new, every President since Lyndon B. Johnson) limited edition print to support the fund- and momentous events, such as the civil raising campaign for the redevelopment rights movement, anti-Vietnam protests of Aberdeen Art Gallery. The three-colour and the aftermath of 9/11. Benson, who was screenprint, titled ‘E St’, features a bold appointed a CBE in 2009, first arrived in portrait head against a mythical New York America with the Beatles in 1964 and has spent the rest of his life there. The exhibition HARRY BENSON, ‘PILLOW FIGHT’ (DRUM CASTLE) is curated by his wife Gigi and Fiona McDougall of the Scottish Parliament, where it first opened last September. Drum Castle, the National Trust for Scotland’s oldest intact property, is currently home to a collection of contemporary art on loan from Aberdeen MORAG STEVENSON, ‘A SUMMER AT CATTERLINE’ (GALLERY AT FIFTY FIVE) Art Gallery, which is undergoing a major refurbishment. Until Dec 23, streetscape. Peacock Visual Arts specialises www.nts.org.uk in fine art prints usually made in small quantities, with the artist directly involved The Summer Exhibition at Gallery at in their creation, in contrast to the huge Fifty Five in Stonehaven is a mixed show, numbers of mechanical reproductions of including Morag Stevenson’s moody, existing images commonly sold on the High atmospheric oils inspired by the Scottish Street. www.peacockvisualarts.com

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Keith Salmon: GALLERY 2 Scottish Landscape Vikki SUMMER Painting Hastings EXHIBITION Douglas Lennox, Loudoun Hill, oil

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'Approaching snow shower, Rannoch Moor' Oil on canvas, 2015, 80 x 80 cm

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John Lowrie Morrison OBE (Jolomo) The Magical Light of the West

We are delighted to announce that The Maclaurin Gallery is hosting an exhibition of new works by John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo) Scotland's internationally renowned landscape painter. Sun 2nd - Sun 30th July 2017 John Lowrie Morrison, Sunset Kintyre

Maclaurin Art Gallery and Rozelle House Rozelle Park, Monument Road, Ayr, KA7 4NQ

OPEN: Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm Sun: 12noon - 5pm The Maclaurin Trust is a Scottish Charity no SCO 12798

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ohn Lowrie “Jolomo” Morrison Blending a variety of superior clays sourced and symbolic creatures, while Keith continues this year’s series in rural South Ayrshire, Keith and Beryl makes wheel-thrown, hand-built vessels of solo exhibitions at the Dawdry of Peinn Mor Pottery are inspired for functional use and to match lifestyle MacLaurin Art Gallery in by the colours, patterns and textures of interiors. They will be exhibiting at Potfest at Ayr. The show of new works, their surroundings and its Pictish heritage. Perthshire’s Scone Palace (June 9-11). Jentitled The Magical Light of the West, They make all their own glazes, mostly www.peinnmor.co.uk features the internationally renowned artist’s composed of refined ashes of hardwoods vibrant landscapes. Jul 2-30, harvested in Carrick forests. With a romantic With the largest stock of original art on www.themaclaurin.org.uk theme underpinning all their work, they often the island, Arran Art Gallery specialises collaborate to combine in work by local artists, often discovering their skills. Beryl sculpts new talents as well as carrying many of figurative pieces exploring Scotland’s best known names – about 80 ancient seafarers, Druidic artists in all, either in the gallery or online. leaders, oriental dignitaries www.arranartgallery.com

JOLOMO, ‘HEADING OUT FROM CAMPBELTOWN AT SUNSET’ (MACLAURIN ART GALLERY)

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August 11–14 Wander from studio to studio through Arran’s beautiful landscape and see paintings, drawings, etchings, sculpture, pottery, needlework, jewellery, furniture or wood turning, all on this tranquil island. Rest assured you’re always welcome, whether you want to make a purchase or just pop in to see the work and have a wee chat. No obligation whatsoever!

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Summer mixed exhibition Including works by Ken Spencer, Kevin Day, Claire Beattie, David Hay & Justine Miller

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ndrew Crummy is best Gardener George Gilliland has been residence Gill Walton known for his mural and hard at work preparing Little Sparta for alongside selected tapestry work. Convenor the new season, including (deep breath) artists. Held in a for the Prestonpans touching up some of the outdoor artworks, former 18th century Murals Programme (which applying preservatives, weeding, dredging, coach house, the now has over 50 public artworks) and repairing, earth-moving, scraping, grass- exhibition is open Adesigner behind the Battle of Prestonpans cutting, strimming, seeding and much (much) to all artists, tapestry, the Great Tapestry of Scotland more - all for you to enjoy one the nation’s professional or and the Scottish Diaspora tapestry, he is finest outdoor art spaces, created by the otherwise, working currently showing a series of oil on canvas late artist/poet Ian Hamilton Finlay at the in painting, drawing, ‘sunsetscapes’ at the Moy Mackay Gallery southern end of the Pentland Hills near printmaking, ceramics in Peebles. Until Jul 8, Dunsyre, Lanarkshire. The Little Sparta Trust or sculpture. Closing date www.moymackaygallery.com has awarded three residencies this year to for submissions is Sunday enable artists based in Scotland to July 30. Aug 4-7, develop their work at the garden, www.allanbankarts.co.uk once voted Scotland’s greatest artwork by readers of Scotland on Sunday. The participating artists are Gerry Loose (poet), Martin Parker (sound artist) and Sarah Tripp (visual artist). JENNIFER WATT, ‘FLY FREE’, www.littlesparta.org.uk BRONZE RESIN (ALLANBANK ARTS)

Now in its fifth year, the Annual Open Exhibition at Allanbank Arts near Duns in Berwickshire features work by sculptor Jennifer Watt, printmakers Justine Miller

ANDREW CRUMMY, ‘STORMY SUNSET’ (MOY MACKAY GALLERY) and Jenny Findlay and artist in

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Charlie & Pauline’s Marta Utsler OPEN STUDIO Original fine art at Allanbank Mill Steading Aquarian Pammy –, Jim Macdonald

4th – 7th August Open for 4 days, 11am – 6pm

THE THREE FISHES GALLERY & FRAMING Featured as part of the Summer A summer experience not to be missed! Show group exhibition, 19B Eastgate, Peebles, 01721 720860 July 15th – September 9th 2017, Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10.00 –17.00 at the Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Sat 11.00 –16.30 www.allanbankmillsteading.co.uk www.thethreefishesgalleryandframing.co.uk Chambers Institution, High Street, PEEBLES, EH45 8AG.

FRAMING STUDIO ARTISTS & CRAFT MAKERS GALLERY

Tweed Art (formerly known as McHardy’s Art & Framing) have refurbished their Artists & Craft Makers Gallery. Why not pop in, say hello, and have a look at the beautiful art on display? There is a large selection of original art, limited edition prints, ceramics, glass, sculpture and jewellery. All make perfect Christmas presents. We can frame just about anything Over 100 gift ideas for less than £50

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COLIN BLANCHARD, ‘WINTER BLACKBIRDS’, LINOCUT (CREATIVE WHITHORN)

eturning for its third year, Few annual exhibitions can be said to the Five More Exhibition by celebrate their 90th anniversaries, but such DAVY BROWN, ‘BACK LANE, GALLOWAY VILLAGE’ Creative Whithorn features is the case with the Dumfries & Galloway (DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY FINE ARTS SOCIETY) work by five selected artists: Fine Arts Society. An accompanying painters Ceri Allen and Hazel exhibition, Past and Present, features work RCampbell, glass artist Christine Milne, by distinguished members on loan from its 60th anniversary this year. The gallery printmaker Colin Blanchard and willow- public and private collections. The society’s has itself appeared in many paintings, weaver Geoff Forrest. As in previous years, new President is the popular landscape particularly by the Kirkcudbright group the exhibition is scheduled to coincide painter Davy Brown. Jul 15-Aug 19, of painters, including Jessie M. King, E. with the annual Creative Whithorn Arts and Gracefield Arts Centre, A. Taylor and S. J. Peploe, which sprung Crafts Trail (Jul 22 & 23). Creative Whithorn www.dumfriesandgallowayfineartsociety. up from the late 19th century, reflecting a promotes art and creativity in the historic org.uk trend of artist colonies around Britain. This village of Whithorn and the Machars area of year’s programme includes an anniversary Galloway. Jun 16-Aug 20, Ninian Gallery, The Harbour Cottage Gallery, the longest exhibition, The Kirkcudbright Art Scene of Whithorn Story Visitor Centre, established gallery in the picturesque Sixty Years Ago (Sep 1-16). www.creativewhithorn.co.uk “Artists’ Town” of Kirkcudbright, celebrates www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk

GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE

What’s On at Gracefield

Until 8 July GALLERY 1 AND 2 Patricia Cain: Seeing Beyond the Immediate

15 July - 19 August GALLERY 1 AND 2 Dumfries and Galloway Fine Arts Society 90th Annual Exhibition Clience Studio and Seascape and Landscape paintings by Past and Present: Angela Lawrence A Celebration of the The light and beauty of Galloway is the main focus of this artist’s gallery in Castle Dumfries and Galloway Douglas, with dramatic Scottish Highlands and Cumbrian mountain landscapes also featured. Other themes include Sea Spirits and Reflections. Newest paintings and Fine Arts Society work in progress on show and a wide selection of signed giclee prints and art gifts from Galloway paintings available. Commissions welcome. 28 Edinburgh Rd, Dumfries DG1 1JQ [email protected] Open 10/10.30am-5pm, Mon-Sat www.dumgal.gov.uk Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk

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Dumfries & Galloway Fine Arts Society Harbour Cottage Gallery

The oldest established art gallery in the Artists’ Town, nestling beside the T picturesque harbour.

Full programme of exhibitions during 2017 on website and includes

JUNE 12 – 24 Davy Brown’s Art Class - 25th Anniversary

Melville Brotherston - Sunset Farmhouse - Sunset Melville Brotherston SEPTEMBER 1 – 16 Also in August 12 – 27 90th ANNUAL EXHIBITION The Kirkcudbright Art Scene of 60 years ago - celebrating don’t miss plus ‘PAST AND PRESENT’ the 60th anniversary of the Harbour Cottage Gallery The Fine Art Society works by distinguished October 9 – 14 in Edinburgh return members, from public and Lisa Hooper (Artist & Printer) to the gallery with private collections November 6 – 18 an exhibition of Re-selling opportunity (see website) Galloway paintings GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE, EDINBURGH RD. DUMFRIES THE HARBOUR COTTAGE GALLERY, CASTLE BANK, KIRKCUDBRIGHT DG6 4LB www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk [email protected] JULY 15-AUGUST 19 The Kirkcudbright Harbour Gallery Cottage Trust is a Scottish Charity, Registration No: SCO14415

Creative Whithorn

ARTS&CRAFTS TRAIL 22 & 23 JULY 2017 FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING Plus FREE entry to the prestigious 5 More Exhibition

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o celebrate the artist’s 80th Budget cuts at The birthday Kinblethmont Meffan in Forfar are likely Gallery near Arbroath to put a dent in the lively presents Norma Maclean: exhibition programme in A Retrospective. Maclean’s what is among the best watercolours and oils are often masterly. exhibition spaces in Angus THer vibrant Venice pictures, for example, and beyond. Known mainly as a local history museum, its galleries are a valuable outlet for both emerging and established local talent. Coming up: The six-member TransFORM collective show a diverse selection of work (Jun 3-Jul 1), after NORMA MACLEAN, ‘STORM’ (KINBLETHMONT GALLERY) which Jim Johnstone: A Retrospective (Jul 8-Aug 26) surveys the found images featuring people at their long career of an artist who is regularly most vulnerable and bodies exposed in a exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy remote landscape, with faces, limbs and and the Scottish Society of Artists. outlines distorted into apparitions. Each https://archive.angus.gov.uk/historyaa/ work features a single colour - yellow, museums/meffan/MeffanGalleryGuide.pdf brown, blue, red. green, pink - which is then pulled apart across the surface to reveal Clare Woods: Victim of Geography at the darkest to lightest hues. Propped up on Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) is a frames, they become sculptural objects for solo exhibition of 13 raw and powerful new the viewer to find a path between. Jun 24- paintings. Using large, oil-painted aluminim Sep 10, www.dca.org.uk

CLARE WOODS, ‘THE VOLUNTEER’, 2016, OIL ON ALUMINIUM, sheets as her ‘canvas’, Woods paints from 2M X 1.5M. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND SIMON LEE GALLERY, LONDON (DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS) John Johnstone: A Retrospective echo J. W. M. Turner, while her brooding July 8-August 26 Scottish seascapes from around her Angus home capture the shifting drama with subtle palettes. In her rural landscapes her eyes find a sense of season and her portraiture shows a natural tenderness towards the subject. Her paintings have been exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy and more recently in the RSW exhibition in The Meffan in Forfar. She has also been shown in many galleries around Scotland. Born in Cheshire in 1937 of Scottish parentage, Norma Maclean attended grammar school in Stockport. Moving to Scotland, she began her career in the Jenners advertising department in Edinburgh, where she developed her talent for fashion drawing. At the same time, she attended Edinburgh Collage of Art, studying the NORMA MACLEAN draped figure. Following her three years – A RETROSPECTIVE training, Norma worked as a fashion artist JULY 1ST-16TH for Draffen’s and a fashion editor for DC Celebrating the artist’s 80th birthday Thomson in Dundee. In the early 1990s she “My paintings seem to be expressing something either serious or amusing about life. They depict Daily 11am-5pm studied painting at Gray’s School of Art in people acting out minor dramas... There is an element of gravity in them, but the humorous side Aberdeen, gaining a BA honours degree in probably eclipses that aspect." Fine Art and Design. Jul 1-16, KINBLETHMONT GALLERY The Meffan Arbroath DD11 4RW www.kinblethmontgallery.co.uk 20 West High St., Forfar DD8 1BB 01307 476482 www.kinblethmontgallery.co.uk

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Image © Jock Mooney Titcake. Photography by Colin Davison Image © John Mackechnie, Miami Nice

T H E A C A D E M I C I A N S’ G A L L E R Y Academicians' Prints RSASUMMA Residencies Exhibition 20 May – 9 July 2017 20 May - 2 July 2017 Free admission. Free admission. RSA Academicians’ Gallery RSA Lower Galleries Mon to Sat 10 - 5, Sun 12 - 5 Mon to Sat 10 - 5, Sun 12 - 5

The Royal Sco„ ish Academy The Royal Sco„ ish Academy of Art and Architecture of Art and Architecture The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL www.royalsco„ ishacademy.org www.royalsco„ ishacademy.org ra scttis acade Registered Sco„ ish Charity (No. SC004198) Registered Sco„ ish Charity (No. SC004198) SAORSA ART GALLERY ART SAORSA NEW ABSTRACT SCOTTISH PAINTINGS AND LANDSCAPES & SEASCAPES BY TOMMY FITCHET AND NEW CERAMICS FROM FIONA THOMPSON. 8 Deanhaugh Street, Edinburgh, EH4 1LY 0131 343 1126 Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12–5pm www.saorsa-art.com

NEW SELECTION OF 22 X 22CM ABSTRACT SCOTTISH LANDSCAPES & SEASCAPES BY ARTIST TOMMY FITCHET, PRICED AT £100. FIONA THOMPSON FOR EACH SOLD PIECE, £25 WILL BE DONATED TO THE CANCER RESEARCH CHARITY. ARTIST/OWNER TOMMY FITCHET

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treet art celebrated the TOP: JOHN LOWRIE (“JOLOMO”) MORRISON, ‘AN OBAN SUNSET’ (TORRANCE GALLERY) energy of the inner city, frequently illuminating BOTTOM: THE LATEST ADDITION TO LEITHLATE’S MURAL PROJECT social problems with a wry sense of humour.S Street Style at Gallery 23 in Art graduate Clara Hastrup, recipient of Edinburgh’s West End explores how the inaugural LeithLate Award presented street-inspired art, design and fashion at the Royal Scottish Academy’s New have entered the culture. With a Contemporaries exhibition earlier this year, multitude of recent commissions in will be showing in the festival’s newest Scotland for mural projects by street venue, the underground vaults of Trinity artists in high profile sites, the genre House. Visual arts production company is now a fixture of the Scottish urban Ltd Ink Corporation will open their studio landscape. Jun 16-Jul 6, doors, formerly Leith Ambulance Depot, for www.gallery23.org.uk opening night and Scotland’s Travelling Gallery (Art on a Bus) will be parked up for One of Scotland’s most successful the duration of the festival. Jun 15-18, and popular contemporary artists, www.leithlate.co.uk John Lowrie (“Jolomo”) Morrison has painted the lighthouses, coastscapes, Italia Moderna - Reload 017 is a cross- croftscapes and people of Argyll section of contemporary Italian art at and the Hebrides for over 50 years. the Italian Cultural Institute where the He continues his 2017 programme of exhibition rooms are divided into two themed exhibitions at the Torrance sections - one showing more traditional Gallery with A ‘Mhuir (The Sea). Jun art, the other video art, photography and 3-24, www.torrancegallery.co.uk Produced by The Too Much Fun Club, it is graphic art - giving the normally institutional located behind Pilrig Park School in Pilrig environment the air of an avant-garde art The LeithLate Festival has unveiled its latest Park. LeithLate17’s visual art programme gallery. Until Sep 1, public art initiative, part of the Mural Project. is in three strands. Glasgow School of www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it

JAMIE KING & NICKY BECKETT: FACES PLACES PROUDLY SUPPORTING Jun 17-Jul 2, 10am-6pm Preview Fri Jun 16, 6-8pm

PLACES AVAILABLE ON A RANGE OF WEEK-LONG SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES JULY & AUGUST 2017 INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL VIDEO LAND MARKS with Rachel McBrinn with Andrew Paterson EXPLORING OBJECTS A FESTIVAL OF PAINTING with Jill Boualaxai with Paul Mowat DIGITAL VIDEO: DEPICTING SPACE: MIXED MEDIA ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE DRAWING & PAINTING with Rachel McBrinn with David Henderson HIGH IMPACT COLOUR COLOUR IN UNEXPECTED PLACES with Colin Black with David Martin

To find out more visit our website -www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk [email protected] | 0131 554 5761 Gallery One, Edinburgh Palette, 151 London Rd. Edinburgh, EH7 6AE 25 North Junction Street, Edinburgh EH6 6HW 0131 661 1924 [email protected]

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Linda Park dundas street gallery

Friday 26th May ~ Saturday 24th June 2017 untamed land artwork by gael fisher with invited artists including lorraine balfour www.eyesinthewater.co.uk DOUBTFIREGALLERY

dundas street gallery, 6 dundas street, edinburgh, eh3 6hz 5 - 8 August 10am 8pm www.doubtfiregallery.com

Kate Henderson Alan James McLeod

Saturday 1st July ~ Saturday 29th July 2017

DOUBTFIREGALLERY www.doubtfiregallery.com

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ollowing 14 years of support a children’s aid project for Asumbi, temporarily installed along the inter-tidal international exhibitions, Kenya. To date the sales proceeds have landscape of the John Muir Way and later the European Artists eV been used to build a children’s wing at the shown in the exhibition Floers at Dunbar group are staging their first Asumbi Mission Hospital. Jul 8-29, Town House Gallery (Jun 7-25). Dunbar- UK exhibition at the E.D.S. www.europeanartists.eu born, the environmentalist John Muir, Gallery. Entitled Project Art20, it features founded the US national parks system. F20x20cm mixed media works drawn from East Lothian’s North Light Arts have www.northlightarts.org.uk the group’s 270 professional artists in 42 appointed Hannah Imlach and Alec Finlay countries. European Artists eV was formed (son of the late, legendary Scottish artist/ Spread across four venues, the annual to promote co-operation and innovation poet Ian Hamilton Finlay) as their 2017 John Retina Scottish International Photography between artists of different cultures via Muir Artists in Residence. Their research in Festival showcases work by over 200 symposiums and exhibitions. The works to Dunbar and along the John Muir Way will international photographers. Highlights be shown in Edinburgh are part of a selling explore the converging themes of land and include commercial and advertising exhibition cycle launched ten years ago to sea and result in site-specific works to be photography, photographic portraiture, the Association of Photographers 2016 award-winners, the Royal Photographic Society’s International Print Exhibition and a Photomarathon in which photographers will take 12 images on 12 topics over six hours, the winners being selected by a public vote via social media. Jun 20-Jul 31, www.retinafestival.com

FAR LEFT: A. ZAKHAROV, RUSSIA (EUROPEAN ARTISTS EV/E.D.S. GALLERY)

LEFT: HANNAH IMLACH, ‘HEXAGONAL ISLAND HOST’, 2014 (NORTH LIGHT ARTS) SUMMER exhibition

03.06.17 22.07.17

Gallery TEN 5 William Street Edinburgh EH3 7NG “Quiet day for a Lifeguard” by Gerry McGowan

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he Pittenweem Arts Festival the picturesque coastal village in venues celebrates its 35th year with varying from houses and halls to net lofts, a three invited artists: sailor harbour office and a vast industrial building. Graham Rich carves his iconic Aug 5-13, boat symbol into wooden www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk Tremnants of maritime life; Anna S. King returns with her sculptural weaving and Inspired by nature, Dunfermline artist Scott textiles; and Paul Furneaux demonstrates Hunter presents a series of film photographs the Japanese watercolour woodblock taken along the Fife coastline and displayed printing technique of mokuhanga. Over as Japanese scrolls. You can see them 100 other artists will be exhibiting, giving in Coast Along at FifeSpace Gallery in talks and holding workshops throughout Rothes Halls in Glenrothes. Printed on translucent Washi paper, Hunter’s photographs have a painterly quality, with drips and PAUL FURNEAUX, ‘GREY PINK: ORANGE BLACK, JAPANESE brushstrokes evident in WOODCUT PRINT (PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTIVAL) the seascapes, while the soft colours in the landscapes exude a around Dunfermline, the last of which was sense of calm similar to unveiled at the opening of Dunfermline watercolours. Until Jul Carnegie Library & Galleries. (See NEW 28, www.onfife.com/ GALLERIES, p10.) Entitled ‘Cluster Relief fifespace-gallery (Dunfermline Remnant)’, the work consists of a series of aluminium panels which pick up Artist Toby Paterson the colour palette of material in the building recently completed a and the surrounding Heritage Quarter. long-running series of www.onfife.com/venues/dunfermline- TOBY PATERSON WITH HIS WORK ‘CLUSTER RELIEF (DUNFERMLINE REMNANT)’ permanent artworks carnegie-library-galleries

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he 129th annual exhibition by Paisley Art Institute features nearly 500 paintings and sculptures by PAI members and open entrants in the PaisleyT Museum & Art Gallery, one of the largest gallery spaces in the west of Scotland. This year’s guest artist is Adrian Wiszniewski, a leading figure of the 1980s group of artists dubbed the “New Glasgow Boys” who brought about a resurgence of figurative painting. Guest sculptor is Lys Hansen, with a series of painted wooden works cut naturally from fallen trees. Until Jun 25, www.paisleyartinstitute.com TOP: RAY RICHARDSON, ‘WESTSIDE SOCIAL’ (GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO)

LEFT: ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI, ‘PLOUGHMAN POET’ The summer exhibition at the Glasgow (PAISLEY ART INSTITUTE) School of Art’s Reid Gallery is Against RIGHT: LISA MILROY, ‘CONSTANT DAYLIGHT’, 2005 Landscape, which examines how landscape (GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART/REID GALLERY) painting has been manifested in a variety of practices. The exhibition will include not traditional landscape paintings, but a diverse collection of contemporary and historic works revolving around the idea of landscape representation, highlighting how much modernist painting had a heightened awareness of the rural embedded within it. Jul 1-Aug 28, www.gsa.ac.uk/visit-gsa/exhibitions

Dubbed the “Martin Scorsese of painting”, London’s Ray Richardson returns for his third solo show at the Glasgow Print Studio with Country Got Soul, which includes for the first time a full suite of of panoramic format screenprints recently editioned at GPS entitled Lucky 7 and typifying the cinematic quality which has become Richardson’s trademark. Until Jul 9, www.glasgowprintstudio.co.uk

The Summer Show at Cyril Gerber Fine Art features paintings, drawings and sculpture by 19th to 21st century British artists, including Scottish Modern Masters, Scottish Colourists and invited Scottish Contemporaries. Until Jul 8, www.gerberfineart.co.uk

JUNE/JULY 2017 43 GLASGOW & GREATER GLASGOW CALL Ray Richardson: FOR Country Got Soul 19 May - 9 July ENTRIES CUT 15 July - 17 September Louise Bourgeois: Etchings NOW 23 September - 29 October Glasgow Print Studio Trongate 103, Merchant City Glasgow G1 5HD Gallery opening hours: OPEN Tuesday - Saturday 10am - The Royal Glasgow 5.30pm Institute of the Fine Arts Sunday 12 - 5.00pm Admission free The 154th Tel: 0141 552 0704 Open Annual Exhibition glasgowprintstudio.co.uk 11th - 26th November 2017

ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT 1ST OCTOBER 2017 Featuring a Selection of Cash Prizes Marlie Mul THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED 26 May – 29 October 2017 • Glasgow GoMA

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he Dunoon Burgh Hall reopens on the surrounding area of Ullapool (where stone, wood, metal and organic materials after a major refurbishment with Beth is based) and the West Highlands and by artists from around the world in a setting Warhol in Dunoon, an exhibition islands. Jun 24-Jul 30, unrivalled in Britain for outdoor sculpture. of portraits and self-portraits by www.antallasolais.org Visitors can view the works in the fifth the legendary American artist summer exhibition, Hortus Reduxas (Latin: AndyT Warhol. The exhibition is part of this Set in a spectacular, 20-acre garden on the garden redux) as they wander freely around year’s touring programme by Artist Rooms, a Kyles of Bute, the Scottish Sculpture Park the site, with its ancient rocks, dramatic collection of over 1,500 international modern at Caol Ruadh (pron. ‘col ru’, Gaelic: red views and soft sea light. Check opening and contemporary artworks donated by the house on the narrows) exhibits and sells hours before setting off. Jun 4-Oct 1, gallerist Anthony d’Offay and jointly owned contemporary outdoor sculpture created in www.scottishsculpturepark.com on behalf of the public by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Since its foundation in 2008 the Artist Rooms collection has been seen by some 40 million visitors. Jun 10-Sept 2, www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk

Ullapool’s An Talla Solais (Gaelic: hall of light) is presenting a selection of drawings and paintings by the renowned Beth Robertson Fiddes, a past winner of the prestigious Jolomo award for Scottish landscape painting whose work has been described as having an other- worldly quality. The pieces in this exhibition are based mainly BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES, ‘INVERKIRKAIG’ (AN TALLA SOLAIS) ANDY WARHOL, ‘SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SKULL’ (DUNOON BURGH HALL)

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LIME TREE GALLERY alan b hayman | at the water’s edge FORT WILLIAM 2 june - 5 july 2017 LIZ MYHILL EXHIBITION 1ST JULY-31ST JULY Pilgrim’s Haven Pilgrim’s

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berfeldy’s oldest and largest art gallery has “SUMMER” reopened under new ownership 34 years after A CONTINUALLY it was first established. TheA new owners of Aberfeldy Gallery are CHANGING Adam Seward and his wife Anna, whose grandparents helped establish the gallery EXHIBITION in 1983. It will continue to sell a wide variety THROUGH of paintings, pottery, woodwork, sculpture

Argyll Summer, Trout & Tea by Caroline Hunter Caroline by & Tea Trout Summer, Argyll Cummings Christine by Ceramics and jewellery by local talent and artists from JUNE AND JULY further afield in Scotland. www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk

Featuring Fiona MacRae, Potfest returns to the lovely grounds of Caroline Hunter, ceramics Scone Palace in Perth (home of the Stone of by Christine Cummings & Destiny, the crowning seat of former Scottish glass by Milagros POTFEST Mexican recycled glass by Milagros glass by recycled Mexican Still Life by Fiona MacRae Fiona by Still Life

The Archway Gallery 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 www.thearchway.co.uk

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kings), with potters and ceramic artists from held in the Arts and Craft-style Molteno Hall. Cathedral. Artists from all over the UK show all over the country showing some of the Don’t forget to check out the village’s most paintings, prints and sculptures and every beautiful things which can be done with a famous resident, the Fortingall Yew, which year the exhibition attracts some 10,000 lump of clay. Tip: Many of the exhibitors are at anything between 2,000 and 3,000 years visitors. A commission of 25 per cent is unable to process credit card transactions, old may be Britain’s most ancient tree. Jul donated to the cathedral. The exhibition so please take cash. Jun 12-14, 22-Aug 6, www.fortingallart.co.uk takes over the 19th century Gothic Parish www.potfest.co.uk Hall, the Duchess Anne. Some 400 works of The Dunkeld Art Exhibition has been art are shown at any one time, with displays It’s not all animal antics and wellies at the running every summer for almost 50 years constantly changing as works are sold. Jun Scottish Game Fair in the grounds of Scone to raise money for the upkeep of Dunkeld 22-Aug 31, www.dunkeldartexhibition.com Palace outside Perth. Each year a selection of artists and craftmakers who take their inspiration from wildlife and the countryside showcase their work and demonstrate their talents. This year they include Coral Rose, David Cemmick, Grace Scott and Colin Woolf. Jun 30-Jul 2, www.scottishfair.com

During the Pitlochry Art Walk Festival local businesses have donated space for Scottish artists and craftmakers to display and sell their work. The Art Walk is the brainchild of Melt Gallery owner Annie Stenhouse. Jun 10-18, www.meltgallery.com

Featuring over 30 local painters, photographers, printmakers, sculptors, jewellery designers and furniture makers, CORAL ROSE, ‘THAT’S THE SPOT!’ the Fortingall Art Summer Exhibition is (SCOTTISH GAME FAIR)

2017 SUMMER EXHIBITION Saturday 22nd July to Sunday 6th August 2017 Open daily 10am to 6pm Free entry

Fortingall village, with its unique Brian Baxter Arts and Crafts style of architecture, and the elegant Molteno Hall provide a setting for this selling exhibition of paintings, photography, sculpture, furniture, jewellery and more, with over 30 artists exhibiting. Also the popular Kate Henderson Mini-Art Exhibition. John Steele www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk “It gets better and better” Open: Mon, Thurs-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4 or by appointment Molteno Hall, Fortingall, Perthshire PH15 2LL Follow AA signs from A9 and A827 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BL www.fortingallart.co.uk 01887 829129

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cotland’s inland waterways are being committed to canvas by Scottish Canals’ first artist in residence Lesley Banks, who is in the process of walking theS 137 miles which make up the Forth & Clyde, Union, Monkland, Caledonian and Crinan canals network to create a series of paintings celebrating the 250 year old system. You can see the works in progress at Lesley’s studio in the Old Teashop and on display at the Park Gallery (until Jun 25), LESLEY BANKS, ‘CRINAN CANAL’ (PARK GALLERY) both in Falkirk’s Callendar Park, during Forth transforms raw materials into beautiful, Valley Artbeat, when artists and craftmakers timeless pieces. She also runs how-to invite the public into their work spaces. (See workshops. www.elinisaksson.com Open Studios, p9.) www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/venues/ As it approaches its 20th anniversary park-gallery, later this year, Fotheringham Gallery in www.lesleybanks.com, Bridge of Allan is now staging shorter - but www.scottishcanals.co.uk more - exhibitions. Co-owners Leigh and Claire Fotheringham found that previous One of the most interesting craft exhibition sales were brisk in the first weeks, demonstrations you may be lucky to see after which most of the selection had been during Forth Valley Artbeat is by the Stirling- sold and interest tailed off. So they have based Swedish glassmaker Elin Isakkson, shortened the runs, thus freeing up time for whose hand-blown range includes one of even more exhibitions. Coming up: Debra ROSANNE BARR, ‘SINGLE SAIL’ (FOTHERINGHAM GALLERY) a kind gifts, custom lighting and bespoke Philips, Jun 3-24; Rosanne Barr, Jun 24-Jul 7; glass sculpture for interior and garden. Try Alison Young, Jul 8-28 to catch the wonderful alchemy as Elin www.fotheringhamgallery.co.uk

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n the first ever exhibition in the to show the 600-plus Scottish works in its north of England dedicated to collection. Until Oct 15, the genre, Scottish Colourists www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk from the Fleming Collection at the Granary Gallery in Berwick- Living a hedonistic existence among the Iupon-Tweed includes works by the likes of performers and prostitutes on the fringes S.J. Peploe, J.D. Fergusson, George Leslie of 19th century Paris society, Henri de Hunter and F.C.B. Cadell. Hailed as leading Toulouse-Lautrec’s life was inseparable from exponents of post-impressionism in Britain, his art. A regular attendee of the numerous the Colourists are one of the most admired professional circuses around Paris, he schools of the early 20th century. This is had a passion for the whirling dancers, the first major touring exhibition since the flamboyant harlequins and graceful jockeys Fleming Wyfold Art Collection, which owns atop muscular horses, and with a keen the finest collection of Scottish art outside caricaturist’s eye captured their mesmerising institutions, closed its London gallery to acts in numerous drawings, paintings and pursue a ‘museum without walls’ strategy prints. His career coincided with the rising popularity of lithography, a medium which SAMUEL JOHN PEPLOE (1871-1935), ‘LUXEMBOURG helped to secure Toulouse-Lautrec’s place GARDENS’, C.1910, OIL ON PANEL COURTESY THE FLEMING-WYFOLD ART FOUNDATION (GRANARY GALLERY) in history. The Circus Suite at Newcastle’s Gallagher & Turner includes lithographs different parts of the collection based on printed by the legendary Atelier Mourlot, various themes, including Adam and Eve, which worked with some of the biggest the Body Beautiful, Visions of Gateshead, names in 20th century art, including Picasso, the Japanese Connection and Morals and Miro and Matisse. All works are for sale. Jun Politics. There is also a chance to go behind 3-Jul 8, www.gallagherandturner.co.uk the scenes at the Shipley on a one-hour tour of the gallery’s stores, when visitors can see The Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead some of the artworks which are not currently is celebrating its centenary year with on public display. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, ‘JOCKEY’ (GALLAGHER & TURNER) Companion Pieces, bringing together www.shipleyartgallery.org.uk

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