A New Way with Willow in the South West
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The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 180 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts September/October 2013 Alchemical Forge, by Alan Gouk, from his one man show on at the Kinblethmont Gallery in Angus, until September 22. The artist will be giving a talk about his work in the gallery on September 11. More at www.kinblethmont.co.uk. Inside: A new way with willow in the South West artWORK 180 September/October 2013 Page 2 artWORK 180 September/October 2013 Page 3 CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH LANDSCAPE GALLERY GALLERY HEINZEL CONTEMPORARY ART NEOS Exhibition 7th to 28th September Visit us at the Scottish Home Show, STAND A3 at the AECC 27th to 29th September Open: LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND Monday to Solo Exhibition by Kirstie Cohen - Oct 6th - Nov 14th Saturday www.theairtgallery.co.uk 01330 860333 from 10am LEYLODGE, ABERDEENSHIRE, ( 5 mins from A96), AB51 0XY Ryan Mutter “Overlooking the Docks” – Oil on canvas, 60cm x 50cm – Oil on canvas, “Overlooking the Docks” Mutter Ryan 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD WW T: 01224 625629 E: [email protected] W: www.galleryheinzel.com www.facebook.com/galleryheinzel ARTIST ROOMS Cyril Gerber Fine Art 19th-21st Century British Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture Ian Hamilton Finlay Nature over again after Poussin 1979-1980 theparkgallery - FALKIRK Callendar House, 23 August - 16 November 2013 Callendar Park, Falkirk, FK11YR Free Admisison Mon–Sat 10am–5pm FOR COURSES SOURCES www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org Last admission 4pm Tom H. Shanks, RSW RGI PAI The Road to the Isles - New Scottish Watercolours 31st August – 21st September 2013 178 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL, 0141 221 3095 www.gerberfineart.co.uk The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk KIRSTIE COHEN ERNI UPTON NEW WORK ...is freely available throughout Scotland and into the North of England in arts outlets, but because of growing demand copies are often snapped up soon after publication. To be sure of seeing each copy as it comes out take out a subscription. £10.00 (6 issues) £15.00 (12 issues) 7th – 25th September o o Open Daily NAME ................................................................................................................................................................. The exhibition displays two distinctly different approaches in oil to Scottish land and seascape painting. Kirstie Cohen - Turneresque, elemental and atmospheric. ADDRESS .......................................................................................................................................................... Erni Upton – inspired by the Scottish Colourists – painterly, colourful and light- filled. The natural beauty of Scotland is uniquely captured. ...........................................................................................................POSTCODE ............................................ 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MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, ON ANOTHER page in this the wrong place at the wrong question why she was subjected to 01224 523 700, Fax: 01224 632 133 Stonehaven, AB39 2UL, 01569 Over the summer the old primary school The same challenges Featherstone, founding artistic be identified with nationality. Until October 19 750 254 issue we show the current scene time, while farther north director of the National Theatre Some time before Vicky such an attack. LANG BYRE GALLERY, Woodend at the top of the valley has been playing face people as they SJ Peploe. The Scottish Colourist of devastation on Dundee’s still, in Banff, an ominous Was it an excuse for her Series. Barn Arts Centre, Burn O’Bennie, host to the James Hogg Exhibition in its did 200 years ago. of Scotland, left for the south. Featherstone left to take up the Until March 1 2014 Banchory, AB31 5QA, 01330 825 waterfront as the old, ill-thought- silence is hanging over Duff However, under her successor, reins at London’s Royal Court critics’ artistic mediocrity? Would The Lure of the Orient. Looks at 431, www.woodendbarn.co.uk, hall. “It’s a struggle for the [email protected] out order prepares to make way House. What seemed like an Laurie Sansom, NTS’s reputation theatre, the old guard of the a truly successful, dedicated artist how Far Eastern cultures have This seemed completely empty local people to survive influenced collectors over the Call for more details (one day) for the brand spanking inspired union between the hasn’t dimmed: during this year’s Scottish literary establishment care about an artistic director’s last 200 years Until September 30 until the poet Robert Wilson suddenly economically and it’s Oil Painting with Neal Mac- new. county, the National Galleries Edinburgh Festival, no fewer criticized her “programme choice,” nationality or bother if he or she ABERDEEN MARITIME MU- donald. appeared from the small office next to one of the challenges SEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, 01224 The intention is certainly an and Historic Scotland to than six of its productions were claiming she was neglecting the was oppressed or discriminated 337700, Fax: 01224 213066 THE LOST GALLERY, Aldachuie, the front door with the words “I’m just of isolation here. The admirable one and corrects an breathe new life into this vcry Until December 7 Strathdon, AB36 8UJ, 01975 651 nominated for awards. Scottish canon (which was hardly against? 287, Fax: 01975 651 287 finishing a poem.” valley depopulated Aberdeen welcomes Edward and appalling planning failure which handsome Adam house is Although Sansom plans surprising when Scottish Calvinism Max Beerbohm, the early MILTON ART GALLERY, Milton Looking casual in a T-shirt, he began because of people Alexandra. allowed the city to turn its back bearing signs of some distress. larger scale touring shows than forbade any theatre for over 300 twentieth century English essayist, Until January 4 2014 of Crathes, Nr Banchory, AB31 to show me around. Although no visitors moving away for jobs, Sue Jane Taylor. Beatrice Works. 5QH, 01330 844 664, www. on its principal – and celebrated – A trawl of the ‘Country before and promises main stage years). claimed that the true artist was miltonart.com were present, Wilson said there had and that’s the same GRAYS SCHOOL OF ART, Robert main asset, McGonagall’s ‘silvery’ House Gallery’s’ events classical productions, he has kept As the inhabitants of this always “in too much of a hurry” to Gordon University, Garthdee September 14 - 22 been a trickle every day. He pointed out today as in Hogg’s Road, AB10 7QB Lily Taylor and Lorna Craw- Tay. calendar on its website for at its heart NTS’s hallmark of country prepare to vote on whether worry about anything other than ford. NEOS. that six people a day here is equivalent time.” ABERDEEN ARTS CENTRE, 33 September 7 - October 26 Having wisely retreated the coming year makes championing experimental work to be or not to be part of the UK, it completing his art. It is, surely, King Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 Dancing Light. Themed show to a footfall of something like 600 in This depopulation 635 208 back from its precarious position depressing reading. To be and unconventional versions of the conjures up a sense of déjà vu. In irrelevant if the artistic director of from gallery artists September 18 - 21 Edinburgh. occurred he said, precise, at this stage, a search November 2 - February 23 perched over the poet’s favourite classics, played in unconventional the late 19th century, Norway was the NTS comes from south or north Spelling Bee. Musical Hogg had lived a few metres from the when local sheep September 25 - 28 2014 river, the centrepiece of this for forthcoming events and venues. poised to become an independent of the Scottish/English border. Les Miserables School Edition. Winter Exhibition. Mixed Win- school between 1770 and 1835, and was a farms were taken ter show from gallery artists ambitious re-vamp – Dundee’s exhibitions draws a complete NTS’s new artistic director country. Outsiders to a community often October 10 & 11 major literary figure and farmer. Wilson over by trees, by STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor own V & A – is, we are assured, blank and, notwithstanding enrich and throw valuable light on Shakespeare Festival. Comedy feels he ought to be commemorated as contractors and big recognizes the need to embrace However, its national Until November 2 2014 Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, on track to one day produce what enormous expenditure on the the independence debate. So, early playwright, Henrik Ibsen, (although to it. Take the Taiwan-born Ang Lee Ian Fleming - Master Printmaker. 01561 360 118 part of Scots culture and history and is companies, and the Paintings by Kate MacKenzie everyone hopes will be the city’s fabric of the house, opening next year the company will tour influenced by nationalism in his whose direction of the 1995 film BELVIDERE GALLERY, 221 building on this aspect of the area. commercially run At his desk, with crook, dog and bunnet, the poet Robert Wilson spent the Rosemount Place, AB25 2XS, THE STUDIO, Braeside Croft, summer in the Borders honouring the memory of the Ettrick Shepherd Bilbao moment.