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Taking Shape in Dundee, the New V & a Building Alongside RSS Discovery The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 170/1 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts Winter 2011/12 artWORK 201 Winter Issue 2017 Page 2 artWORK 201 Winter Issue 2017 Page 3 Taking shape in Dundee, North Lands Creative Gallery 27 November - 2 february Mon - Fri 10 - 5 the new V & A building alongside RSS Discovery GALLERY AT FIFTY FIVE CONTEMPORARY ART & FRAMING WINTER EXHIBITION FROM Image: Drystone Necklace, Lindsey Gallacher, 2017 25 NOVEMBER Our Winter Open Exhibition is an annual exhibition of work from artists across Scotland, chosen from an including Open Submission Call by North Lands Creative. Beth Robertson Fiddes Jonathan Shearer North Lands Creative Shop Jackie Gardiner Our shop stocks the latest contemporary craft using John Paul Raine traditional/non-traditional materials and also using experimental Mark Eve techniques. design and visual art. Representing work made in & more Scotland focusing on textiles, ceramics, jewellery and glass. 55 Allardice Street, Stonehaven AB39 2AB www.galleryatfiftyfive.co.uk Cliff Edge: the new ‘cliff inspired’ V & A Gallery, taking shape in its ‘berth’ alongside the RSS Discovery in Dundee ArtWork 31102017.inddGRACEFIELD 1 30/10/2017 12:30:13 ARTS CENTRE The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Paisley Art Institute Craft Shop Scottish Drawing Competition A selection of Saturday 28th October - Saturday 25th November 2017 hand-made crafts from Dumfries and Galloway with selected UK artist CALL FOR ENTRIES Gift Vouchers Available £12.00 (6 issues) o £18.00 (12 issues) o Schedule and Downloadable Labels available 1st September from www.paisleyartinstitute.com or send SAE to: NAME ............................................................................................................ 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Exhibitions Tues-Sat 10am-5pm Venue: Paisley Museum and Art Galleries Café Hubbub Tues-Sat 10am-3.30pm (hot food served 11am-3pm) High Street, Paisley 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ www.paisleyartinstitute.com [email protected] | www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield PLEASE SEND ME REGULAR COPIES OF WORK to this address: Tel 01387 262084 art Paisley Art Institute est. 1876 Paisley Art Inst.@secretary_76466 Send (with cheque/PO/postage stamps) Registered Charity No. SC000840 to:Famedram Publishers Ltd., PO Box 3, Ellon AB41 9EA Scotland Calum Colvin portrait - after Archibald Skirving, one of the works featuring in Burns Unbroke, an ambitious multi media event scheduled for early 2018 INSIDE: A new indie art school for East Lothian Don Giovanni reduced in Berwick : : Burns Unbroke artWORK 201 Winter Issue 2017 Page 4 artWORK 201 Winter Issue 2017 Page 5 Opera – cut Editorial Comment Brexit? No thank you! ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] Our South West Scotland correspondent, Mary Gladstone, cannot understand ‘this regressive step’ The down and A Pentland revolution for film? we are taking. Nor can her 27 year old daughter and her friends. ramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, WASN’T joining the EU the most mill buildings. Parliament building pays tribute wood and more from all over the sane thing we’ve ever done? For my He was appointed Dumfries & to two great European architects: Aberdeen British Isles. Featuring paintings THE DECISION by the Scottish film-making elsewhere in Britain generation and that of my parents, it Galloway inspector of historic buildings his compatriot, Antoni Gaudí and ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & by Kate MacKenzie made viable MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, Syl- Government to approve a planning and Eire. Among the Pentland was a proud moment. In their youths, and compiled the first statutory list of Scotland’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 01224 523 700 lavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, AB33 application for a £250m film facilities will be six sound stages ABERDEEN MARITIME 8AQ, 01975 562 273 YOU’D EXPECT live opera in Garsington, my Mum and Dad were conscripted to buildings of architectural and historical Miralles’s enthusiasm for the MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH Glyndebourne, and Covent Garden. But Berwick- studio complex on the outskirts of up to 70ft high, two Hollywood- fight Germans and Italians. Mum tried interest in Dumfries & Galloway. Scottish countryside, architecture, art 01224 337700 LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird Head, Edinburgh – thus overturning the style backlots a 180-bed hotel, a Until January 14 2018 Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 upon-Tweed? A town with a population around to shoot down German bombers while His contribution to architecture in and literature (he loved R L Stevenson), Sea Change. Paintings 511 022 12,000, with average income significantly below recommendation by the government 50,000sq ft creative hub, 50,000 RAF pilot Dad, dropped bombs on the southwest and appreciation for its is revealed in a number of details in GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Purpose-built museum with reporter that the scheme be thrown sq ft of workshop space and a film Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, multi-screen technology. Scot- the national average. Sicily. traditional buildings were immense. his design, like the upturned boats www.galleryheinzel.com land’s first lighthouse, built 1781. out – may bring to an end a debate academy. Contemporary Scottish art Open all year. Check holiday Surely not? Yet, this summer, I saw a great Damaged by war, they welcomed Wolffe’s enthusiasm for his and ironwork, echoes of Mackintosh’s November 11 - February 28 opening times Don Giovanni at Berwick Maltings. Live, not about the future of film-making in Altogether, some 1600 people the founding of the then European adoptive country echoes that of art delicate flower paintings. 2018 PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- Scotland that has gone on for years. are expected to be employed by the Mixed Winter Exhibition. A mix ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, live-streamed. Sitting at the front of the stalls, Economic Community as, if nothing and architectural historian Nikolaus A poignant story illustrating the of over 250 original artworks AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 practically in the orchestra pit, I was overwhelmed Despite the enthusiasm for studios. However, assuming the else, it would ensure peace. When an Pevsner, celebrated for his 46 volumes common thread uniting Europe, is when from across Scotland Experience Peterhead’s maritime making both films and tv series in Pentland studios are built, there will GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, Rob- life past and present not just by the power, presence and quality, but uncle, a diplomat, worked with Edward of English county-by county guides. in 1944 author and SOE officer, Patrick ert Gordon University, Garthdee GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- Scotland, and despite the lack of still be difficulties faced by people Heath, to secure Britain’s entry into the Pevsner, of German Jewish heritage, Leigh Fermor, led captured German Road, AB10 7QD, www.rgu.ac.uk/ ping Centre, Constitution Street, also the pertinence of this production. Inverurie, AB51 4UY purpose-built facilities, the industry who film in Scotland. about/faculties-schools-and-de- Set in the brash, corporate world of EEC, someone in the family asked why. settled in England in 1933 and was also general, Heinrich Kreipe, through the partments/faculty-of-design-and- HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, contemporary New York, a city of power and spent £52.7m on filming in Scotland Most concern those who “Isn’t it better to be part of Europe interned as ‘an enemy alien’ during Cretan mountains. technology/gray-s-school-of-art AB41 7EQ last year. THE ART GALLERY, Grampian COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden towers, where some men wear red ties a little make documentaries. Recent than a satellite of America?” he replied. WWII. Gazing up at the snow-covered Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, Recent productions have international hits include Anthony Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, 01569 740039 too long, professing great respect for women, but to attend Sir John Dankworth and Cleo Laine’s will also engage new audiences. The second is That was in the late 70s. We This little island, which can peaks, he mumbled lines in Latin AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 included Outlander, which had to Baxter’s You’ve Been Trumped, actually egocentric psychopaths. Wavendon Jazz courses and introducing him political. The Conservatives, have seats on both now see Mrs May, not just shaking be absurdly complacent, needs to from Horace. “Vides ut alta stet nive HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 be shot in Ward Park Studios in about Trump’s Aberdeenshire Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01224 Aberfeldy Timeless, relevant and accessible, great opera to many of the UK’s leading jazz performers, sides of the border: Northumberland in England Trump’s hand, but holding it. Of course, appreciate figures like Wolffe and candidum Soracte (“Do you see how 596 617 ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 Ken- is all about us – our hopes, fears, emotions and Cumbernauld, Trainspotting T2, golf course that’s already been Scotland, to its credit, voted to remain Pevsner, individuals from cultures Soracte stands white with deep snow?”). Limited edition prints by many of more Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 829 composers and arrangers. and Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk in shot in West Lothian, and The mentioned, and Sara Ishtaq’s Oscar- Gallery Heinzel’s artists 129, www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk ambitions. Its origins lie in Renaissance Italy, After graduating from St Andrews, he Scotland. They hope to fend off any prospect of in the EU but while we’re part of the other than our own, who have helped it Leigh Fermor continued the ode PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 Mon, Thurs-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-4 or when wealthy, proud city-states vied with each Avengers, shot in Leith. nominated Karama Has No Walls.
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