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ART ART TRAVEL TRAVEL KEEPING YOU IN THE PICTURE IN THE KEEPING YOU ALEXANDER MILLAR HEADS FOR NYC Critically acclaimed artist Alexander Millar opens his first ever international museum show in New York on 3rd April 2018. The exhibition, Everyday Heroes NYC pays tribute to the firefighters of New York as the working men and women of the city.

The exhibition at the New York City Fire Museum opens on Tuesday 3rd April and Millar will exhibit work in the city throughout April. "With this new museum collection, I was very keen to look at the late 20th and 21st century, and recognise the more modern eve???ryday heroes working to keep our cities and societies safe." Alexander Millar Fans can find out more and see some of the collection online or in person at the New York Fire Museum and the Alexander Millar pop- up gallery on 138 Wooster Street, New York.

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CROSS WORDS graphic designers, up-cyclers, upholsterers, A life-size statue entitled ‘Crucified ceramicists, sculptors, metalworkers, glass Stormtrooper’ depicting a famous Star Wars artists, furniture-makers and illustrators. character on a cross and featured in the Some run workshops and demonstrations. Art Below-curated Stations of the Cross Afterwards their brochures can be used as exhibition in London’s St Stephen Walbrook handy gift guides throughout the year. church was moved from the altar to a less AYRSHIRE prominent place following complaints from Open Studios Ayrshire, Apr 27-30, parishioners. www.openstudiosayrshire.com Launch Part of a series of crucifixion-themed event at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock, Thur works by 14 artists in the exhibition, the piece Apr 12, 5-7pm. Selections by participating is by the street artist Ryan Callanan, better artists and makers on display at the Barony known as RYCA. A church representative Centre, West Kilbride, until Apr 29. noted that the work ‘was larger and more RYAN “RYCA” DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY prominent than was anticipated when the CALLANAN, exhibition was approved. Its position in the ‘CRUCIFIED Spring Fling, May 26-28, STORMTROOPER’ church proved to be distracting for some www.spring-fling.co.uk See preview page 33. Also related exhibition, entitled Place, worshippers.’ with critics pointing out that she walked Ottersburn Gallery in Dumfries, Apr 17-May 7. Commenting on the debate, RYCA told without a limp, climbed a pyramid and Artnet News: “This is a crucified stormtrooper danced. FIFE and has nothing to do with religion. It is not Other critics have argued that her Open Studios North Fife. May 5-7, a method of capital punishment reserved clothes do not accurately represent the www.openstudiosfife.co.uk; Artline Open for the son of God. This work is like many traditional costumes Kahlo favoured and Doors Weekend, May 5 & 6, www.theartline. of my works, using symbology and pop even her most famous physical feature, her co.uk. See preview page 43. culture and mixing them up to create a new almost conjoined eyebrows, have been narrative.” www.artbelow.org.uk neatly trimmed. The Inspiring Women series was IT’S A DOLL’S LIFE launched on International Women’s Day, The Mattel toy company has caused a the same day Hayek posted a still from ruckus with the launch of a Frida Kahlo her movie on Instagram, depicting the artist doll as part of its Inspiring Women range. painting from a wheelchair. Mexican actress Salma Hayek, whose portrayal of her compatriot in the 2002 OPEN STUDIOS film ‘Frida’ earned her an Academy You can visit artists and craftmakers Award nomination, protested on Twitter in their workplaces and get a that Kahlo ‘never tried to be or look peek into their methods during like anyone else. She celebrated her open studios, when the creative uniqueness. How could they turn her into community opens its doors to a Barbie?’ workshops, spare rooms, garden The Independent weighed in, sheds and custom-built studios LANDSCAPE PAINTER HELEN GLASSFORD pointing out that the slimmed in some of the loveliest parts (OPEN STUDIOS FIFE) down doll bears no evidence of the country. You can buy of Kahlo’s physical disabilities. or commission directly from DEGREE SHOWS Check out this year’s crop of art graduates (She wore a body brace and – deep breath - painters, and perhaps spot a future star, when art suffered life-long pain due to printmakers, jewellers, textile colleges transform their premises into childhood polio and injuries designers, photographers, sustained in a tram accident). some of the country’s biggest galleries Hayek herself caught some showcasing the culmination of several years THE MATTEL TOY COMPANY’S FRIDA of creative development and hard work. flak for her movie portrayal, KAHLO DOLL

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DUNDEE around boats, the sea and coastal Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & landscapes. Design and Architecture Degree Show May www.docksidegallery.co.uk 19-27, www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow The Emma Herdman Gallery EDINBURGH recently opened its doors in Melrose Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show, to showcase work by regional artists featuring work by over 400 students in a and artisans, from recent graduates wide range of diciplines, including Fine Art, to established names. Owner Emma Product Design, Textiles, Architecture and Herdman, herself an artist who studied Illustration. Jun 2-10, www.eca.ed.ac.uk/ Fine Art at De Montfort University STUDIO BIZIO event/eca-degree-show and the École des Beaux Arts in Strasbourg, has sourced an eclectic NEW GALLERIES range of talents. illustration by C. L. Booth. There are also BORDERS www.emmaherdman.com/gallery month-long selling exhibitions by local guest artists, repurposed and upcycled Showcasing contemporary British artists A7 Art Space in Hawick features work by crafts and jewellery and artist talks and who find inspiration from Cornwall to the two resident artists: watercolour landscapes demonstrations. FB Scottish Highlands and Islands, Dockside by Tina Holley and travel photography and Gallery in Berwick-upon- Tweed selects artists EDINBURGH whose work is uplifting, The newest gallery in Stockbridge, Studio atmospheric, sometimes Bizio, has opened with an exhibition by humorous and often the American fine art photographer Lydia thought-provoking. In Panas, whose work has been shown in the keeping with the location Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the opposite Tweedmouth’s National Portrait Gallery in London. The working docks, much of works exhibited at Studio Bizio are from four the artwork is themed separate series spanning 20 years and are shown for the first time in the UK. Until Apr EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART 30, www.facebook.com/Studiobizio potfest AT THE PALACE

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NK GUY, ART OF BURNING MAN pub. Taschen

rom a public park next to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge F to a vast desert playa in Nevada, Burning Man has become an annual mecca for New Agers, dreamers, spiritual explorers, ravers and, more recently, techno-geeks. It is also a hub for uninhibited creative expression and an incubator for remarkable, site-specific outdoor art, which writer/photographer NK Guy has captured in all its phantasmagorical glory. FROM TAPESTRY TO FIBER ART: THE LAUSANNE BIENNIALS 1962-1995 pub. Skira Editore JOHN PAWSON, SPECTRUM he end of World War II saw the revival of tapestry pub. Phaidon art throughout Europe, with the International T Tapestry Biennial making Lausanne the world n architect known for his minimalist showcase for contemporary textile creation. This richly aesthetic and limited colour palette illustrated first book dedicated to the biennials traces A (mainly white, as seen in London’s the evolution of this mode of artistic expression from Design Museum), in contrast John Pawson’s decoration to art form with essays by textile specialists photography bursts with colour, patterns, from around the world. details and textures. The 320 images, taken on a digital camera or iPhone, reflect his world travels or a moment which caught his PATRICK eye in the course of an ordinary day. BADE, GUSTAV KLIMT AT 500 SELF-PORTRAITS HOME pub. Phaidon pub. Frances lowing chronologically from Lincoln antiquity to the present elebrating F day, this volume takes the 100 years of reader through the apparently C Gustav Klimt, infinite ways artists have found to a leading member represent themselves in of the Vienna sculptures, etchings, paintings, Secessionist movement, this further edition in the At film, installations and conceptual Home series (others focus on Frida Kahlo and Georgia works. From Durer and O’Keeffe) explores the influences of his home city and Rembrandt to Hockney and Sherman, artists seem compelled to make other places, such as Venice and Ravenna, where themselves the subject – and not always in a mirror image sense. the little travelled artist spent time. Paintings, archive Hence Bruegel the Elder as Christ carrying the cross, Caravaggio as the imagery and photographs give an insight into how decapitated head of Goliath held up by David or Dali as a melting mask people and places connected to his work. propped up on sticks.

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...GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR RICHARD PARRY

Previously curator-director of the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, where he was awarded an Art Fund New Collecting Award following the group exhibition Sensory Systems in 2015 and in 2016 curated NEON: The Charged Line, the largest exhibition of neon-based art yet staged in the UK, Richard Parry this year takes over the reins at GI, the contemporary art biennial. He spoke to PHOTO: JONATHAN LYNCH Artmag’s Poppy Jackson.

t’s been a case of hitting the ground very privileged and fortunate position to It allows new audiences to see their work “sprinting. What’s been exhilarating and be able to give a platform for certain artists and hopefully gain wider recognition or new challenging has been putting this giant to exhibit their work and for their voices to opportunities. It’s about how that incredible Ifestival programme and team together come across and you hope that you use that energy and production and spirit that’s here in about three or four months, while also in a way that is invigorating, enriching and within the artistic community in Glasgow can discovering the city and country and trying has a benefit to artists and audiences. have that dialogue with the city itself and to embed as quickly as possible to try to do with people that visit the city. something which is going to have resonance What’s interesting about this edition, in here and outside of Scotland as well. particular, is that since the last festival took I think the word ‘contemporary’ is about place in April 2016, the world has changed resonance with today. How is the work One of the brilliant things about Glasgow and a lot of those questions that we’re all being made resonant with the issues and International is that most of it is an open call, asking are being asked by artists as well questions that our society is facing and that so the vast majority of the programme really and we are noticing a change in a lot of artists right now are looking at in a broader comes from what artists are thinking and work. People feel like it’s no longer tenable sense? Many artists today are turning to feeling and making in the city of Glasgow. to just sit back and watch things happen, different materials, and for me that offers a There’s such an amazing community of artists because things have got so desperate, and powerful way of thinking about how art is working and making things that are having a many artists are taking a position on things changing in today’s world. huge impact both in Scotland and outside. It or are seeking to activate certain dialogues. really is known as a key centre of Europe for Through the open call process you can The main thing that’s different about the

the production of contemporary art. really look at all of those ideas and you festival this year is the relationship with the can see the patterns emerging, and that’s outside world. Artists are being energised

I feel right now that there’s never been a hopefully reflected in the programme. by world events in a way that is quite new more important time to listen to artists in the and very powerful. There’s a new generation wake of earth-changing events like Brexit The ethos of the festival is about doing coming through and“ people are going and Trump. Artists have a really important something that for artists has integrity, is to have the chance to see what this new and powerful voice, and I think as a curator impactful and allows them to do something generation is doing and what their works you’re essentially a facilitator. You’re in a that they wouldn’t always be able to do. are like.

The eighth edition of Glasgow International comprises new works, site-specific installations, exhibitions and events in over 70 venues throughout the city. April 20-May 7, www.glasgowinternational.org

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1 DAVID NICHOLAS DAVIES, ‘SUMMER EVENING’ 2 CATHRYN BALDOCK, ‘AZALEAS’ 3 CATHRYN BALDOCK, ‘LILY PADS’ 4 RON TEAR, ‘AFTERLIFE OF PLANTS’ 5 JOCELYN HORSFALL, ‘CROCOSMIA ABSTRACTION’ 6 GREG VIVASH, ‘FLORAL DREAMS’ 7 HELEN STORER, ‘TEMPLE HILL’ 8 GIUSEPPE SATRIANI, ‘LAKE OF THE ARBOREAL SWANS’ 9 ANNEMARIE FARLEY, ‘TULIP ABSTRACT’ 10 BOB LUIJKS, ‘BIRCH’

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THE FRIESMUSEUM IN LEEUWARDEN. PHOTO: RUBEN VAN VLIET

For the first time since the European Capital of Culture programme was inaugurated in 1985, an entire province is hosting this year’s event.*

ith an entry in the ‘Storm Rider’ - the visual art programme Particularly unnerving is Dominique Guinness Book of World brims with exhibitions and events drawing Teufen’s ‘Afgelopen’ (‘Over’), a full-size room Records for the most on the characteristics and landscape of this after a party completely drained of colour possible spellings of its unique part of the Netherlands and echoing and left looking like a 3D monochromatic name, Leeuwarden in some of the great names of art and design print. Even the left over red wine is black. Wthe north Holland province of Friesland is who had local affiliations. The deception continues outside the the focal point for the region and its eleven The glass-fronted Friesmuseum on the exhibition space, where the Netherlands’ main towns, where over 60 projects will city centre Wilhelminaplein (‘plein’ is Dutch Michiel Kluiters has turned halls and celebrate the European Capital of Culture for square) is part-history/part-art museum. stairwells into optical illusions. (You’ll wait a ethos of culture as a medium for change. Said the famous, perspective-bending long time for that lift door to open.) Going beyond “art for art’s sake”, graphic artist, Leeuwarden-born M.C. M.C. himself is featured in Escher’s Friesland aims to shed its self-image as Escher (1898-1972): “I could not resist fooling Journey (Apr 28-Oct 28), in which stairways small and isolated and to ensure that around with our established certainties”. lead neither up nor down, a floor appears the cultural year has a long-term legacy. This statement forms the starting point of to be a wall and water seems to flow Organisers cite the Friesian tradition of the exhibition Phantom Limb: Art Beyond upwards. In perhaps Escher’s best known ‘mienskip’, which translates as a sense of Escher (until Jan 6, 2019), in which ten work, ‘Day and Night’, white birds flying into community and an openness to cultural and contemporary European artists present daylight merge with black birds flying in the social diversity. 25 works playing with contrast, light and opposite direction into night, while they all As well as some blockbuster events with spatiality to create seemingly impossible merge with the fields below. The artist was wide appeal – the huge puppet group Giants realities that eyes and brain struggle to rediscovered by the 1960s pop generation, of the Royal de Luxe walking their narrowest compute. The exhibition takes its title from and posters of his work became a common streets ever in their Dutch premiere, the humans’ ability to experience impossible sight in student flats, sometimes with a new finish of the Tall Ships Race, the theatrical sensations, as when a limb has been *Continuing a trend of joint-presenters, Valletta in spectacular featuring a hundred horses in amputated. Malta is also a 2018 European Capital of Culture.

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title, as with ‘Dream’, which was renamed - wait for it - ‘Bad trip’. www.friesmuseum.nl All of the eleven main towns in Friesland are renovating their main square in readiness for the 11 Fountains project, in which each community will install a new fountain, symbolising the province’s long tradition of “taming” water. Each fountain has been designed by a different international artist in consultation with the locals. The fountains will be permanent and are all due to be completed by May 18, when each one will be activated by its designer. Unsurprisingly, the fountains are barely recognisable as such. In the town of Sneek, for example, German artist Stephan Balkenhal’s ‘Fortuna Fountain’ is a figure of THE NETHERLANDS’ MICHIEL KLUITERS HAS TURNED HALLS AND STAIRWELLS IN THE FRIESMUSEUM INTO OPTICAL ILLUSIONS a well dressed man holding the DURING THE EXHIBITION PHANTOM LIMB Horn of Plenty while trying to balance on a rotating ball. For www.2018.nl/en/thepauperfountain movement also officially ended there, when Sloten, the British-Argentinian Some 35 kilometres southeast of Schwitters held the group’s final soiree. couple Lucy and Jorge Orta have Leeuwarden, Drachten is closely associated A two-part exhibition at the Museum created ‘Kievit Fontein’ (‘Lapwing with De Stijl movement, founded locally Drachten entitled Beyond Dada and De Fountain’), which depicts a man by the designer Theo van Doesburg. For Stijl will showcase the ‘neo-Dada’ work standing on a tall stack of water vessels with another art movement, Drachten was the of artists who were inspired by De Stijl, a boy on his shoulders holding a lapwing. scene not of its birth, but of its demise. such as Richard Hamilton and Eduardo And in Leeuwarden, Spain’s Jaume Prensa’s While commonly linked with Zurich, Dada Paolozzi, and trace the influence of De Stijl ‘Love’, which is already in place, shows two art was active in Drachten through the likes on modern life. Sandwiched between the giant children’s heads, their eyes closed and of Kurt Schwitters and the shoemaker-artist two parts is Siep van den Berg: Kind van dreaming about the future. When switched brothers Thijs and Evert Rinsema. The Mondriaan (Child of Mondriaan, Apr 22-Jul on, a thin cloud of spray will play around 7) on the Friesian house painter turned artist the foot of the fountain to evoke water (1913-1998) whose style evolved through evaporating from the ground on a Dutch naturalism, impressionism, cubism and morning. Observers will be able to reach out constructivism. Later in the year, Friesian and touch the cloud. www.11fountains.nl Expressionism: Not Afraid of the New (Oct Protesting that no Fresian artists were 14-Jan 13, 2019) is a major retrospective commissioned to design a fountain, local of the museum’s post-WWII collection of artists have come up with their own. Made Friesian expressionism by the artists’ group from wooden penises, ‘The Pauper Fountain’ Yn ’e Line. www.museumdrachten.nl - or ‘penis fountain’, as it has already The Dutch national ceramic collection been dubbed - will include a WC in which is held in Leeuwarden’s Ceramic Museum visitors are invited to relieve themselves. Princessehof, a former palace which was Contributors to a crowdfunding campaign also the home of M.C. Escher during his time will get their own penis and be able to watch there. One of his sculptures is on the outside their urine spout from it. While the eleven of the building. ‘official’ fountains will be permanently Following last year’s exhibition, Sexy placed, ‘The Pauper Fountain’ will be mobile Ceramics, a celebration of erotica in and thus able to visit all eleven cities. Says STEPHAN ceramics old and new, Migrating Ceramics BALKENHOL the project’s originator Henk de Boer: “What (GERMANY), (Jun 2-Jun 30, 2019) tells the story of how the artwork is about is how the bullies and ‘FORTUNA the Dutch East India Company introduced FOUNTAIN’. big dicks forget that they can’t do anything PHOTO: TEAM porcelain to the Netherlands around 1600, without the little dicks. This is how society HORSTHUIS (11 FOUNTAINS) only for the Dutch to make their own, less actually works.” expensive version, often in factories in

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STILL LIFE AND LANDSCAPE IN PASTEL AND PENCIL FIONA CLASEN

31 March – 28 April 2018 A selling exhibition celebrating contemporary hand woven carpets and dhurries as well as Dunblane Museum recreations of 19th century carpets from The Cross our weavers in India. FK15 0AQ Monday-Saturday 10.30am-4.30pm Closed Sunday except Easter Sunday 2-4pm

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FROM: DADA IN DRACHTEN (MUSEUM DRACHTEN) DESIGN FOR ‘DIJK VAN EEN WIJF’ BY NIENKE BROKKE (SENSE OF PLACE) and around Delft, and sell it back to the rest nude woman, salt marshes designed like three artists from Ireland, the Netherlands of the world. a Mondrian painting and a giant mirror and Serbia, whose Dragan Despotovic will Also showing is In Motion: Ceramic ball atop a wooden tower reflecting the make a 3D copy of van Gogh’s ‘The Potato Reflections in Contemporary Art (until landscape in all directions. Made up entirely Eaters’ using fresh potatoes. www.friesland. May 6), in which six contemporary artists of reclaimed land, this coastal area is said nl/en/european-capital-of-culture/ showcase the versatility of ceramics in to be the first landscape created by man, programme/potatoes-go-wild installations. Particularly striking is and at less than a hundred years old is the Using a substance of a different type, Peruvian David Zink Yi’s magnificent, life-size youngest World Heritage Site in Dioni Ten Busschen found inspiration for her giant squid, made with an intense glazing the world. medium while walking in the Soosaare bog process which causes it to change colour www.sense-of-place.eu area of central Estonia, when she had the depending on how the light falls on it, and From May to September idea of modelling with peat. Beyond its uses Frenchman Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s in a project in Sloten in energy and horticulture and for its curative ‘Variation, Piscines’, in which white called The Colorfield and preservative properties (bog bodies are porcelain bowls float around in Performance, 400 artists perfectly mummified, with every bone, hair, two floor pools, clinking delicately. will fire bags of paint from a tooth and wrinkle visible centuries later), Says the exhibition’s curator Tanya cannon onto billboard-size Ten Busschen has found peat to be the Rumpff: “The exhibition shows that blank canvases set up in a perfect material for her sculptures. This year contemporary artists embrace field. The finished panels will she has a month’s residency at Museum ceramics and that it is no longer just then be assembled to make Opsterlan in Gorredijk, where she will be an applied art form, but a fully-fledged a huge whole – a coloured working on a nearly life-size Friesian horse artistic medium.” field. www.2018.nl/en/ made entirely of peat. Rather than cows, it www.princessehof.nl thecolorfieldperformance is of their horses that Friesians themselves Artist and art entrepreneur Joop Potatoes are a great are most proud. These majestic, all-black Mulder has taken on by far the largest source of Friesian pride, beauties with lush tails and manes and Capital of Culture project. Along with and they are celebrated in feathered feet even have a statue to their over 30 artists and architects, he a series of projects under honour in Leeuwarden, which is a popular will oversee A Sense of Place, the title Potatoes Go Wild. meeting point. www.peatart.com a 180-kilometre ribbon of Included in the programme Full programme: www.2018.nl landscape art, architecture are exhibitions in potato and ecological works barns of work by local artists DIONI TEN BUSSCHEN, stretching along the and craftmakers (Jun FRIESIAN HORSE HEAD, PEAT Wadden Sea coast. 21-Sep 3) and Artistic Work starts in May, and Potatoes (Oct 12-Jan 6, the 50 or so works are 2019) in the Friesian expected to take up to Nature Museum five years to complete. in Leeuwarden, They will include a featuring work by 100-metre green dike with the contours STUDIO JOB, ‘PYRAMIDS OF MAKKUM’ of a voluptuous (FROM: MIGRATING CERAMICS, CERAMIC MUSEUM PRINCESSEHOF)

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DAMIEN HIRST, ‘GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN’, 2014

DEADBeautiful THE CREATURES WITH AN AFTER-LIFE AS WORKS OF ART

hile some artists use the intrinsic beauty of nature and transform in a giant glass case in the grounds of the oils, pastels, acrylics, their subjects into works of art. Faena Hotel Miami Beach. Said Hirst: “The stone, marble, ceramic, mammoth comes from a time and place glass, wood, textiles For many people, their first encounter of that we cannot fully understand. Despite its or a range of other art incorporating a once living thing was scientific reality, it has an almost mythical Wmaterials to create, a more select group with works by Damien Hirst, whose famous status and I wanted to play with those ideas employ more, er, raw materials. These artists pieces - a shark (‘The Physical Impossibility of legend, history and science.” will tell tales of childhood fascination with of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, dead creatures and a compulsion to pick 1991’) and a sheep (‘Away from the Flock’, The work of Edinburgh-based Fiona Dean them up, take them home and admire them 1994), both floating in formaldehyde vitrines has evolved from a passion for art and as ornaments – until nature take its course – were created in association with the science, blurring the boundaries between the and decomposition sets in. taxidermist Emily Mayer. two. Trained at Central Saint Martins College These artists seem compelled to arrest Perhaps less well known is his ‘Gone of Arts and Design in London, she works both that process and suspend their subjects in but not forgotten’ (2014), a real mammoth on traditional taxidermy and on her own, an in-between state spanning life and death. skeleton treated with gold PVD-covered more conceptual pieces. The results, while shocking to some, capture stainless steel and gold leaf and displayed She says: “I find in taxidermy a perfect

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In 2014 Union Gallery in Edinburgh presented TILLY GIFFORD, POT WITH A DEER’S HEAD LID ‘High Tea for Six’ by Samantha Boyes, a 50-piece “menu” of mice rolls, a rack of rodent toast, a squirrel in a cream horn, bird head cakes and a raven-topped gateau - all dished up on Royal Stuart crockery with the finest silverware. It was named winner of the Themed Event award by the UK Guild of Taxidermists. The exhibition later appeared at the Royal Scottish Academy, where another piece, ‘The Golden Buddha’, a gilt doll with a rabbit’s head holding a tiny bird dressed like a nun, won the Ottillie Helen Wallace Prize. Boyes explains: “My work seeks to subvert the niceties of normality. It makes one uneasy at deriving aesthetic pleasure from others’ extinction. I like to think that my work is a collision of beauty, perversion and humour.” Her 2017 show, Gluttony, continued to explore the theme of food indulgences, from fast food (‘Subway baguette’, bursting with cheese, lettuce, tomato – and false teeth) to wholesome grub (‘Cumberlimb Sausage’, cured ox intestine stuffed with boiled doll’s body parts) to Michelin-type fine dining (‘Carrots three ways’, the same carrot cast in blend between art and science. You’re Working with road kill, she undertakes silicone, then with human hair replacing its working with chemicals and zoology, trying a long, complex and, she admits, “pretty foliage, then in a decomposed, dehydrated to recreate nature in an artistic form. A lot of gruesome” process of making plaster moulds state). people are uneducated on taxidermy. You’re from which she can make positives, thus A skilled taxidermist, Boyes’ work recreating beauty from something that’s preserving the aesthetics of the animal in includes processes familiar to the going to waste away and making people great, 3D print-like detail, right down to skin taxidermist’s workshops, such as moulding, look at things in a really incredible way.” texture or wrinkles around the eyes. She casting, expandable foams, clays, silicones Even when doing her conceptual work, then turns it into a functional household and a multitude of potions. She says: Dean studies the characteristics of the birds object in pure ceramic. she is working with. In ‘Best Shag I Ever Had’, She explains: “We have a very sanitised a pair of copulating cormorants, or shags, approach in this country and in this represent the species’ promiscuous nature, culture to deadness and meat, with bacon while ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’, a piece wrapped in cellophane and processed about immigration, features waxwings, a sausages, and I really love the idea of migratory bird. introducing something like a dead deer She also uses remnants from her or badger into someone’s home, and then taxidermy work in jewellery, such as her it becomes totally banal. The brutality hallmarked solid sterling silver or 24-carat wears off, because it becomes part of an gold-plated pieces cast from real claws and everyday object and loses its shock value.” bones. www.fionadean.co.uk She adds: “I want people to really appreciate beauty and pay homage to Need a pig’s head toilet paper dispenser, how beautiful and incredibly detailed a goat’s head cutlery drainer or a pot with these things are, whereas in the normal a deer’s head lid - all in earthenware cast context they would be dead and rotting at from actual dead animals? Tilly Gifford the side of the road. I like the idea of giving creates disconcerting household objects in them a use and for people to not be able all their original intricate detail and texture. to hide behind the super-sanitised culture Her family history has directly informed her we have. My dream is for them to live on artistic practice - she is directly related to in a neat, suburban home – not in quirky, the Van Ingens, the famous taxidermists from artistic houses.” FIONA DEAN, SOLID STERLING SILVER NECKLACE CAST FROM REAL BIRD CLAWS South India. www.uniqueceramique.com

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SAMANTHA BOYES, ‘CAKE STAND’ ANDREA ROE, ‘BLACKBIRD-MENAGERIE’

marble, she explains: Summers at the National Museums of “I needed a way of Scotland and cybernetician Richard Brown making work that was at the University of Edinburgh to challenge still discernibly mine, traditional ways of thinking about taxidermy but trying to move and animal after-lives. Through using away from more interactive animatronics, a blackbird in the narrative-based work. work is given a voice and presented as an The snakes were active subject. perfect. They’re long The work shows a male blackbird facing and thin and you a video recording of his own dissection. Just can use them as a before the skin is cut open, the bird shrieks sculpting material in a out in alarm, its beak and tail programmed way you can’t do with to activate at a particular point in the video a bird or a mammal.” recording. All the elements of the work With titles like ‘Some interact, with the video, the bird on the table “My work is still picking up on the skills I Sad Story’ and ‘Stacked Against Us, she and the soundtrack triggered by the viewer have in taxidermy, but not presented in a also cleverly mimicked the sibilance of a entering the gallery space. traditional taxidermy way.” snake’s hiss. Another piece, ‘Forever and Ever’, www.samanthaboyes.co.uk She continues: “I don’t have produced with taxidermist Jack anything against traditional Fishwick, was made to reveal a London-based Polly Morgan is probably taxidermy. In fact, I’m a relatively unknown aspect of bird Britain’s best-known practitioner of fan of it. But I never felt I behaviour and to consider taxidermy art. (Banksy called her “Britain’s had anything new to the constant state of hottest bird-stuffer”.) She has sold pieces bring to that. I have a ‘aliveness’ which to Sharleen Spiteri of the pop group Texas more minimal, cleaner traditional museum (a robin) and model Kate Moss (a blue tit aesthetic. It pleases taxidermy offers the sleeping on a leather-bound prayer book). me that people are viewer. Morgan says: “The beauty of taxidermy looking at taxidermy in Roe explains: is that there is a scientific and an artistic a new way.” “I’d read that a dove element to it. It’s a form of sculpting. With www.pollymorgan.co.uk will assume a death-like no soul left, the body becomes a beautiful position if it perceives there to ornament.” A lecturer at Edinburgh College be a threat to its life and that this She explains her entree into the medium: of Art, Andrea Roe explores state can be induced by placing “I felt that it was quite untapped. There what she calls the “uncanny in- the bird’s head under its wing. were contemporary artists using it, but not between state” between death The dove in ‘Forever and Ever’ exclusively. All the taxidermists I came and life which taxidermy exists always on the brink across would mimic the natural environment inhabits. For her of revival with the potential of the animal, and I was never interested in piece ‘Blackbird-Menagerie’ to become animate at any doing that. I felt it was something that could she collaborated with moment.” be explored further and modernised.” clockmaker Darren Cox, www.andrea-roe.com Describing a series of snake works she taxidermist made presenting the creatures as abstract Peter sculptures placed on a plinth of wood or POLLY MORGAN, ‘STACKED AGAINST US’

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On being asked if one of his totemic objects looked for ways of STEVE DILWORTH, ‘MOTHER AND CHILD’, BRONZE really did contain a bird, sculptor Steve encasing it in Dilworth replied: “Destroy it and see.” something. I’m One of the UK’s most innovative artists, trying to balance Dilworth has been working with found and materials with once living materials since moving to the the bird as an Outer Hebrides in the late 1970s, ascribing object. It’s like mythological purposes to his objects. poetry in itself. (Describing the timelessness of the That’s what landscape, he says: “I used to think of a tribe sculpture is, living in this place and I was making objects almost 3D poetry.” for it.”) He continues: In Dilworth’s hands dead birds preserved “All material contains in sodium fluoride are transformed by some energy, and by weird, wonderful alchemy into exquisite shaping it and putting it objects which might have been entombed in conjunction with other with a Pharaoh. ‘Heron’ is a gorgeously things, it can be made either crafted piece in polished mahogany weaker or stronger. Ultimately, all containing a real heron wrapped mummy- works of art are things which outgrow like in thin rope, while the beautiful bronze their size, are bigger than what they are. It ‘Mother and child’ represents a bird with an transcends. Somehow there’s a power which egg under its beak containing another tiny, is bigger than the object itself. They have a preserved bird. Another work, the presence. All art is like that. It goes beyond extraordinary ‘Three herons’, is like an avian the physicality of it.” version of Canova’s ‘The Three Graces’. www.dilworth.com He explains the essence of his work: “The birds is almost an obsessional thing. No creatures were harmed in the writing of I just use it as material, as a starting point. this article. Whenever I’ve found a dead bird, I’ve

MAKING THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND Open 18 May - 1 July Openat New daily Lanark from 18 May - 1 July at New Lanark World Heritage Site

e Great Tapestry of Scotland returns to New Lanark World Heritage Site – as you’ve never seen it before! Discover the story of the tapestry’s creation through original sketches, photography, memorabilia and memories from those closest to the project. If you have seen the tapestry before, or were involved in its creation – you don’t want to miss this. Book online at www.newlanark.org with code ‘artmag’ for 20% o tickets #GreatTapestry | © Images courtesy Alex Hewitt | New Lanark Mills, Lanark, ML11 9DB | [email protected] / 01555 661345 | New Lanark Trust is a Registered Scottish Charity SC008552

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PETER DAVIS HELEN GLASSFORD NERINE TASSIE 28 April - 2 June by Nerine Tassie Nerine by ‘Last Light’

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LEFT: MARIAN CLAYDEN, ‘COLLAR’, 1971, SILK FRINGE TIE-DYED, WRAPPED, DISCHARGED & ASSEMBLED (DRUM CASTLE) ABOVE: BOB DOUCETTE IN THE STUDIO (INVERARITY GALLERY)

the dappled sunlight terrace of the artist’s residence in Tangier. Duff House also has work by the likes of El Greco, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Henry Raeburn. Until Aug 5, www.historicenvironment.scot/visit- a-place/places/duff-house

eaturing around 30 drawings, Also near Banff, the Inverarity Gallery at watercolours and prints on loan Drywells is showing The Owl & the Pussycat, from the National Galleries a group exhibition by international artists of Scotland, Town and City: inspired by the imagery-rich poem by Views of Urban Scotland at Edward Lear. Special guest is celebrated Duff House near Banff looks at how artists US artist Bob Doucette, whose work to date

F Helen Forrest have interpreted Scottish urban life and includes art and direction on some of the landscape since the turn of the 17th century, biggest Warner Bros. animated shows. May offering intriguing glimpses of streets, 1-Jul 31, www.inveraritygallery.com buildings and ways of life now lost. Visitors to Duff House can also admire “Glasgow Marian Clayden: Dressing up Drum at Drum Boy” Sir John Lavery’s ‘The Pergola’ (1906), Castle near Banchory is a retrospective loaned by a private collector and on public look at the work of the influential textile display in the UK for the first time since the designer who drew influences from Iran, APRIL 1940s. It depicts Lavery’s favourite muse, the Japanese drama of Kabuki and ethnic HELEN FORREST Mary Auras, and his teenage daughter dance. A trend-setter in textile and wearable Eileen enjoying a leisurely breakfast in art for 40 years, Marian Clayden (1937- MAY 2015) brought a painter’s JUNE MEREDEW experience to her innovative approach to dyeing. Her artistic expression transitioned from the easel to the dye-bath in the mid- 1960s and after moving to Northern California in 1967,

her international reputation June Meredew grew, the New York Times declaring it ‘totally Bohemian chic’. Until Nov 10am-5pm MON, THU, FRI, SAT. 18, www.nts.org.uk/visit/ 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater • 013397 55888 places/drum-castle www.larksgallery.com FRANCIS GROSE, ‘TOLBOOTH, CULLEN, BANFFSHIRE’ (DUFF HOUSE)

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ART WORLD LOS ANGELES The J. Paul Getty TOLQUHON GALLERY Museum, commonly known as the Getty, www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk was founded by the late oil billionaire, initially to house his own fabulous collection. Featuring western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with around 1.8 million visitors a year it is one of the most visited art museums in the United States. www.getty.edu

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A pair of tickets to the A pair of tickets to one A pair of tickets to exclusive Preview of the following Scottish Potfest Scotland at Evening of the 4th Glasgow Ensemble performance Scone Palace in Perth WIN! Contemporary Art Fair on of Mozart By Numbers and a ceramic piece Friday May 11, 6-9pm Showcasing the impressive variety of worth £100! T&Cs: Staged for the first time at the Mozart’s works for strings, from duos Potfest returns June 8-10 for its to symphonies: Closing Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum! 22nd year in Scotland, showcasing This special night provides guests with Dumfries (May 25) work for sale by over 80 studio date for all the chance to be the first to see and Inverness (May 29) ceramics artists from the UK, Ireland competitions purchase work prior to the Saturday Dundee (May 30) and France. The biggest event of Friday May 12 and Sunday May 13 public days. Glasgow (May 31) its kind in Scotland, Potfest also It’s also a great opportunity to meet Edinburgh (Jun 1) features demonstrations, hands on May 4. www.scottishensemble.co.uk UK entrants some of the artists and get advice from activities and areas dedicated to new a wide range of gallery owners. Five exhibitors and the best emerging only. pair of tickets up for grabs! ceramicists. www.gcaf.co.uk www.potfest.co.uk

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aritime Perspectives: of Artists, Kramek paints mainly in oils, Collecting Art of a focussing on light, colour and texture. Until Seafaring Nation at May 4, www.patkramek.com GALLERY 2 the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine is the Allan McNally returns to Souter Johnnie’s Mfirst full showing of a new art collection Gallery in Kirkoswald with Scotland in which captures life along Scotland’s Watercolours. Working from his studio in a coastline in all its grit and glory. The former church in Dumfries and Galloway, exhibition features over 100 works gathered through SMMart, a project to create a nationally significant art SPRING collection to enrich the maritime heritage at the EXHIBITION museum. It includes works by such luminaries as F.C.B. HOPE Cadell, Ian Hamilton Finlay, BLAMIRE George Wylie, Kate Downie and John Bellany. They date from ‘On the Clyde’, painted in 1830 by James Francis Williams, to early Kyle of Durness Hope Blamire Peace and Tranquility, 21st century pieces. Subjects Gallery 2 offers a complete range of mouldings, range from striking scenes original art and contract picture framing for hotels, pubs and restaurants. With a large selection of from the heavy industries limited editions and unique gifts. of oil and shipbuilding and 72 John Finnie Street, Kilmarnock haunting memorials to lives 01563 550303 lost on dangerous seas to www.gallery2kilmarnock.co.uk GILLIAN PARK_AD1.pdf 1 16/03/2018 11:59 tranquil scenes of fishing Gallery2Kilmarnock JOHN BELLANY, ‘THE DAWN PEARL AT PORT SETON HARBOUR’ boats and travel posters (SCOTTISH MARITIME MUSEUM) promoting days out “doon the watter”. Jun 1-Oct 21, www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org

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scenes from his travels in the Himalaya andCY Tibetan Plateau. He will be explaining his CMY PAT KRAMEK, ‘TRAIGH, MHOR, BARRA’ painting process in a couple of afternoon (HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE) painting demonstrations during the K exhibition. Souter Johnnie’s Cottage is the Pat Kramek: West Side Glory at the Harbour former home of John Davidson, the souter Arts Centre in Irvine comprises a collection (shoemaker), immortalised by Robert Burns of paintings by the Ayrshire artist portraying in the famous poem ‘Tam o’Shanter’. It is now the stunning Scottish west coast from the in the care of the National Trust for Scotland Outer Hebrides to the Rhins of Galloway, the and includes a space for local artists to name given to the hammer-head peninsula showcase their work. Until Apr 29, in southwest Scotland. A member of the www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/souter- Paisley Art Institute and the Scottish Society johnnies-cottage

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Spring Awakening Exhibition 31st March to 30th May

Julie Dumbarton, Heloise Maylin, Susanne Hanl, Jennifer Watt, Newton Ross, Helen Welsh, Jacque Wakely, Jo Gallant, Ludmilla Kosmina, Hatti Pattisson, Paula Downey and many more. ‘Light House’ by Julie Dumbarton Julie by House’ ‘Light Wareing Peter by Plate Dumbarton Julie by Loch’ ‘Woodland Whitmuir is also home to Whitmuir Restaurant, Quercus Plant Nursery, Gladstone Bag Antiques, Farm shop and Fairy Walk ... something for everyone ...

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GEOF HICKEY, ‘TWEED REFLECTIONS 4’ (ART @ ANCRUM)

he beautiful village of Ancrum once again devotes the May Bank Holiday weekend to Art @ Ancrum, when over 30 artists and makers hold exhibitions Tand demonstrations and sell paintings, illustrations, ceramics, textiles, wood, sculpture, jewellery and more. Venues include artists’ studios, the village hall, the church, villagers’ front rooms, garages, gardens – and, of course, the local pub, The Cross Keys, where an exhibition entitled Absent Friends features work by artists who are not taking part themselves, but whose MARY GOULDEN, ‘NEW MOON’ (THE GALLERY MELROSE) work the organisers admire. This year’s chosen charity is the Borders Macmillan prime position in the central Market Square Centre Extension & Refurbishment Project, of the lovely town of Melrose, the gallery which you can support by popping a is emerging as a hub for the region’s artists contribution into one of the collecting cans and craftmakers. Until Apr 30, dotted around the village. May 5-7, www.thegallerymelrose.co.uk www.artatancrum.org.uk Now in its 24th year, the new season’s New Beginnings at The Gallery Melrose exhibition programme at the Hayloft Gallery is the theme of the first of a series entitled at Paxton House near Berwick-upon-Tweed Spring The Big G Exhibition, presenting new is underway. Three Artists From Paxton (until works in a specially prepared space in the May 26) features locals Janis Courtney, Mixed Exhibition gallery. Two more themed exhibitions are resident artist Judith Currie and Tommy 13 April - 7 July scheduled: Essence of Nature (Jun 29-Jul Newlands. Next up is Border Colourists 30) and Reflections (Nov 9-Dec 10). In its (May 26-Aug 25), which showcases artists from Berwickshire and Northumberland, followed by a mixed exhibition by invited artists (Aug 29-end Nov). Last year, visitors to the gallery bought over

300 paintings. As well as © Patricia Sadler the Hayloft Gallery, the The best in contemporary fine art, design & magnificent Picture Gallery craft in a spacious & welcoming gallery. (1813) can be visited on a tour of the house. Delicious coffee, tea & cakes served. www.paxtonhouse.co.uk/ events 51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 Tues – Sat 10am – 4pm. Wed 10am – 1pm

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PAINTER EMMA VISCA AND CERAMICIST Queensberry estate made from hundreds CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR. PHOTO: COLIN HATTERSLEY (SPRING FLING) of tons of earth and 2,000 boulders and set on the 55-acre site of a former open cast coal mine. Inspired by themes of space, paintings, glass, sculpture, ceramics astronomy and cosmology, it was created and much more. New artists to the by the award-winning land artist Charles gallery are: Tommy Fitchet, who Jencks, who also landscaped the lawn in paints his abstract landscapes front of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art directly onto glass; Heather in Edinburgh. The work features a network Blanchard, a professional fine art of paths leading visitors like a comet past painter working mainly in oils to features which represent the planets and create landscapes inspired by the galaxies. Adults £5/4, 5-16 yrs £2, u-5 free, Hebrides and Solway Coast; Nikki family (2 adults, 2 children) £12.50, Monaghan, who layers her paintings www.crawickmultiverse.co.uk with acrylics and oil pastels to create textures; and Lesley Seegar, best known for her semi- abstract interpretations in acrylic of flowers and landscapes. Until Apr 28, www. whitehousegallery.com

Somewhere between idely regarded as land art and an ancient planetary Scotland’s premier map, the ‘Crawick Multiverse’ open studios event, is a massive installation on Spring Fling this year the Duke of Buccleuch’s CHARLES JENCKS, ‘SUPERCLUSTER AND GALAXIES’ (CRAWICK MULTIVERSE) showcases (count ‘em) W86 participating artists and makers spread throughout one of the country’s most scenic regions, which is split into colour-coded routes to help you make the most of your W visit. Last year the studios welcomed over 43,000 visitors, who spent an estimated £1.7 THE million on art and craft, accommodation, WHITEHOUSE food and drink – up 16 per cent on 2016. GALLERY In this politically tumultuous year, look out for ceramicist Chris Taylor’s metre-high jar with a hidden image of Donald Trump with bombs raining down, created amid US-North peter foyle Korea tensions. May 26-28, www.spring-fling.co.uk

The Whitehouse Gallery in Kirkcudbright welcomes the arrival of spring with A Brush A BRUSH WITH COLOUR 17th March - 28th April With Colour, a mixed exhibition featuring

WILD SPACES 5th May - 23rd June

GLASGOW CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 11th - 13th May

marion drummond Please visit our website to see full lists of exhibitors. 47 St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU [email protected] 01557 330223

AMANDA SIMMONS, LARGE, ROUND, DEEP VESSEL FROM THE ACROTELM SERIES. KILN-FORMED, SAND-BLASTED louise o’hara www.whitehousegallery.co.uk GLASS (WHITEHOUSE GALLERY)

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Clience Studio Seascape and Landscape paintings by Angela Lawrence The beauty, changing time and tides of the Galloway Coast are a main focus of this artist’s gallery in Castle Douglas, with dramatic Highland and Lake District scenery also highlighted, mostly in oils. Other themes include Sea Spirits and Reflections. Newest paintings and work in progress on show, with a wide selection of signed giclee prints and art gifts from her paintings also available. Commissions welcome. An exhibitor at prestigious venues (most recently at RSA and the McLaurin Galleries) Angela Lawrence is participating as Studio 31 in Dumfries & Galloway’s Spring Fling 26 -28 May.

Open 10am-5pm, Mon-Sat Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk | @cliencestudio

LKIRK ARM SE HOTEL S www.selkirkarmshotel.co.uk SPRING BREAKS 3 NIGHTS IN APRIL TO JUNE .P. ON A BED AND BREAKFAST BASIS BOOK DIRECT ON 01557 330402

The Selkirk Arms Hotel, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway DG6 4JG

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and inviting us to question our understanding of what it means to be an immigrant today. A major heritage attraction, Verdant Works tells the story of Dundee’s textile industry in the atmospheric setting of a beautifully refurbished mill building. Until Jun 24, www.verdantworks.com

The artist-run Generator Projects third annual graduate show, They Had Four Years, features new work by four recent graduates from Scotland’s art colleges. This year’s selected artists are Johnny Walker (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and YVETTE BATHGATE, ‘SPECULATIVE EXCAVATIONS‘ Design), Yvette Bathgate (Gray’s School of (GENERATOR PROJECTS) Art), Alice Martin (Gray’s School of Art) and Lea Josephine Tetrick t the Designers + (Glasgow School of Artists Summer Sale at Art). May 19-Jun 10, WASPS artists studios www.facebook.com/ in Dundee you can GENERATORprojects browse and buy locally designed products, one-offs and limited Aeditions directly from artists and craftmakers working in the city. Part of the Dundee Design Month, the sale comprises a range LAURA DARLING, ‘BUT WHERE of disciplines, including prints, textiles, ARE YOU FROM?’ (DETAIL), PENCIL, INK & PHOTOSHOP. illustration, jewellery, ceramics, fashion wear PHOTO: BLAIR SCOTT and accessories, houseware, hand-printed (VERDANT WORKS) wallpapers, greetings cards and fine art. May 27, www.waspsstudios.org.uk

7TH OPEN SUMMER EXHIBITION 19 May – 29 June

Meffan Museum & Art Gallery GENNA DELANEY, 20 West High Street GOTHIC BANGLE (WASPS) Forfar DD8 1BB

When illustrator Laura Darling answered an Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm advertisement for a receptionist at Dundee International Women’s Centre, she was Admission free simply looking for a part-time job to help ‘The Beach Of The Nine Living’ - Derek Robertson RSW supplement her income as an artist. Three years on, her eye-opening experience has CALL FOR ENTRIES provided the inspiration for her first solo RECEIVING DAYS: 11 & 12 MAY exhibition, Patterns of Migration, at Verdant For schedule & labels please send C5 sae to: Works. Combining drawing, printmaking RSW, c/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, and hand lettering, the collection centres 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2QZ around fictional narratives inspired by real www.rsw.org.uk women living extraordinary lives in Dundee, Patron: HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Charity No: SC007247 highlighting the cultural diversity of the city

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Courtesy Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust ART WORLD MADRID Most famous for being home to Picasso’s ‘Guernica’, created in protest of the bombing of the Basque town of the same name in the Spanish Civil War, the Reina Sofia National Art Centre is Spain’s national museum of 20th century art. Along with the nearby Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, it forms the ‘Golden Triangle’ of Madrid’s three blockbuster art museums. www.museoreinasofia.es Look out for an Art & Travel feature on Madrid in Artmag later this year. Art in Healthcare is supported by BTO Solicitors LLP

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Sponsored by www.artinhealthcare.org.uk BTO Solicitors LLP Scottish Registered Charity SCO36222 www.bto.org.uk ‘Lochside’ Maryann Ryves 2-26 April Margaret Evans, Fiona Sturrock, HOMING Janette Phillips, Susan Reid, the ability and instinct to return to a territory after travelling away from it Jennifer Reid, Ali Dickson, Basia Roszak New Framing Studio The John Muir Residency Exhibition 2018 Workshops - furniture painting with Dalziel + Scullion Annie Sloan Chalk Paint™️ - Beginners & Advanced Opening Saturday 19May 2 .00 - 4.00pm Dunbar Town House Gallery | EH42 1ER | 01368 840471 Book launch & artist’s talk 23June | Last day 24June | Info: www.northlightarts.org.uk 58 St Stephen Street, Edinburgh EH3 5AL 0131 226 5022 www.laurelgallery.co.uk

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series of specially commissioned artworks focussing on the people and places in the area and an exhibition of original Matisse prints. Edinburgh College of Art graduate Paloma Proudfoot and dance artist Aniela Piasecka will collaborate on ‘The Engagement Party, A Labour of Love’, which through outsized, surreal sculpture and ceremonial performance brings to life records held in the National Records of Scotland on Gretna Green marriages. After an opening event at the Scottish Arts Club, the sculptural remains will be on show for the duration of the festival. The second commission is Kevin Harman’s ‘Ad plus Ads + Equal Adds = ADD’, for which he will create works and place them secretly throughout Edinburgh before the festival to document public reaction to them. The pieces and the response will then be exhibited at Union Gallery. Harman is becoming increasingly known for his provocative, guerilla-style

ALASDAIR GRAY, ‘INGE WITH FOX STOLE’ projects. The festival also includes a selling (OPEN EYE GALLERY) exhibition at Gallery Ten of original prints by Henri Matisse and glass work by Ruth lasdair Gray: Selected Shelley (until May 5). The festival is part Works 1962-2018 at the of a policy by West End BID to use art to Thomson Susan Open Eye Gallery focuses add to the area’s appeal as a destination. on Gray’s inimitable Apr 7-18, www.edinburgh-westend.co.uk/ draughtsmanship with a edinburghs-west-end-arts-festival FROM ART... selectionA of line drawings which includes portraits, life studies and figure sketches. TO CRAFT Often thought of as a writer before an artist, Gray is a cultural icon who has influenced botanicals, beads, bees literature, art and politics in Scotland and much much more throughout the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st. Until Apr 23, www.openeyegallery.co.uk

Now in its fifth edition, the Hidden Door Festival returns to Leith Theatre following last year’s big success in helping to transform the once neglected building into a major arts venue. Continuing the multi-arts festival’s tradition of discovering forgotten spaces, the festival will also take up residency in Leith’s empty and derelict former State Cinema building. For the visual art programme there are nine invited artists Amandine Vincent and 22 selected artists from diverse creative 93 CAUSEWAYSIDE backgrounds. The invited artists include Julia Oborne, whose colourful, playful EDINBURGH EH9 1QG paintings draw on her Thai heritage. May 0131 629 9123 25-Jun 3, www.hiddendoorblog.org 07801 581674 www.artcraftcollective.co.uk Edinburgh’s West End Business Improvement MONDAY TO SATURDAY 10-5 District (BID) has announced a new arts SUNDAY 11-5 festival. Spread across three venues, the West End Arts Festival comprises a HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954), ‘ZULMA’ (GALLERY TEN/WEST END ARTS FESTIVAL)

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SPRING EXHIBITION Over 40 gallery artists Jewellery by Sheana Stephen 6 April - 7 May

Gillian Goodheir & Vega original prints 12 - 28 May

22.03.18 contemporary arts & applied RUTH SHELLEY 05.05.18 new glass collection

36 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6JN 0131 556 6366 [email protected] 5 William Street Edinburgh THE TORRANCE THE TORRANCE GALLERY www.torrancegallery.co.uk www.galleryten.co.uk Picture framing service from our own workshops [email protected]

ATT A 4 Drumsheugh Place Edinburgh EH3 7PT Portraits www.uniongallery.co.uk Greg Lourens 28 April - 19 May 2018

‘SEPARATE’ A solo exhibition of new works by Jim McCutcheon

5.4.18 – 30.4.18 ‘Family’ by Jim McCutcheon West End Arts Festival 7-18.4.18

IAN KINNEAR AND JANET MELROSE RSW A beautiful, delicate exhibition perfect for the Spring 3 Barclay Terrace Edinburgh EH10 4HP 3.5.18 – 4.6.18 www.uprightgallery.com ‘Spring Flight’ by Ian Kinnear

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The capital’s largest artist studios complex, Edinburgh Palette, faces closure in 2019 after the sale of its building, St Margaret’s House, to a property developer. This has brought forward plans which have been in the pipeline for some time to develop a project to renovate and convert shipping containers into artist studios and workshops. A six-month lease has been signed with Edinburgh Council for an acre of land in Portobello, which will act as a prototype for a larger concept, in effect creating an “artists’ village”. www.edinburghpalette.co.uk

JOLOMO, ‘BEACH PATH SALIGO BAY, ISLE OF ISLAY’ Panas Lydia Fruit’ Dragon with ‘Quinn (SCOTTISH ART PORTFOLIO) Celebrating a 50-year friendship and 20 years of working with ow in its 192nd edition, the the artist John Lowrie “Jolomo” Morrison, Royal Scottish Academy Colin and Terry Kirkwood of Scottish Art STUDIO Annual Exhibition (May 5-Jun Portfolio host another solo exhibition of 6), this year convened by his latest work, Westering Home to Islay, Calum Colvin OBE RSA, at Edinburgh’s Dundas Street Gallery. BIZIO Nshowcases recent and new work by Royal Colin and Terry first exhibited Jolomo at the Scottish Academicians. Calum has also City of London Art Fair in 1998 and since Art Gallery invited a number of artists to cover the theme then have shown his work extensively. In of Art and Poetry, with an accompanying this latest exhibition Jolomo returns to a series of live poetry events. Also featured much loved theme - the beauty, colour and Photography are new works by 2016 and 2017 RSA ever-changing atmosphere of Islay, the award-winners, including the recipients of “Queen of the Hebrides”. The artist will be Lydia Panas the Morton Award for lens-based media and in attendance around noon on the opening to 30 April the William Littlejohn Award for watercolour, day. Apr 14-28, and newly commissioned prints completed www.scottishartportfolio.co.uk during the live printmaking demonstrations May artist – Galina Kurlat at the recent Ages of Wonder exhibition. To complement the art, the RSA Architecture 20a Raeburn Place Stockbridge Open, convened by Richard Murphy Edinburgh EH4 1HN RSA, looks at contemporary practice by 0131 466 2145 architects around the world. Showing in the Academicians’ Gallery (May 5-Jun 10) are new paintings by Lennox Dunbar RSA in Lewis & Other Journeys, while new prints proofed as part of the Ages of Wonder live printmaking project include works by Delia Baillie, Kate Downie, Stuart Duffin, Paul Furneaux, Jessica Harrison, Marion Smith and Frances Walker. www.royalscottishacademy.org LENNOX DUNBAR RSA, ‘GARYVARD 111’, MIXED MEDIA (ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY)

ARTIST’S IMPRESSION OF THE EDINBURGH PALETTE CONTAINER Lydia Panas Lydia PROJECT ‘January Gold 1’ Gold ‘January

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www.ourlinenstories.com EXHIBITION EVENTS TALKS Velvet Easel Gallery 5 - 26 May 2018 Tues - Fri 10am - 6pm 298 Portobello High St Sat - Sun 10am - 4pm Portobello Custom Lane Edinburgh Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LH EH15 2AS FREE 0781 391 664 velveteasel.co.uk [email protected]

@thevelveteasel @ourlinenstories #ourlinenstories SAORSA ART GALLERY ART SAORSA SOLO EXHIBITION BY TOMMY FITCHET

John Threfall ‘THE SCOTTISH ARTIST/OWNER TOMMY FITCHET April 7 – May 23 LANDSCAPE’ Scottish Ornithologists’ Club Waterston House, Aberlady EH32 0PY 26 April - 13 May Open daily 10am – 4pm Opening night 26 April 6-8.30pm 01875 871 330 www.the-soc.org.uk 8 Deanhaugh Street THE SOC IS A SCOTTISH Edinburgh, EH4 1LY CHARITABLE INCORPORATED 0131 343 1126 ORGANISATION SC009859 www.saorsa-art.com

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TONI HARROWER, the last 18 years. Sometimes taking up to ‘ONE’ (ART & CRAFT three months to complete, his drawings COLLECTIVE) are informed by three decades of practice in the psychotherapy field. The results may be described as modern spiritual icons, inviting the viewer to encounter themselves and humanity at a deeper level. Apr 28-May 19, www. uprightgallery.com

GREG LOURENS, ince its inauguration in 2015, away, with cells merging into ‘CAROLE’, PENCIL DRAWING the Visual Arts Scotland one another. In many ways the (UPRIGHT Graduate Showcase has paintings relate to uncontrollable GALLERY) offered a platform for the best events that happen in life and several in contemporary fine and pieces imply the notion of the mind – and appliedS art by the hottest recent graduates life - falling apart.” May 12-Jun 23, from Scottish art schools (less than five www.artcraftcollective.co.uk years out of art school), emerging artists and associate members of VAS. This year’s Greg Lourens: Portraits at Upright Gallery showcase, entitled Satellite, will track the features pencil and charcoal drawings by progress of some of the 25 aspiring artists the Johannesburg-born artist, who has who have been featured over our last four built up a substantial body of work over annual exhibitions. Each invited artist shows up to three pieces of work in any medium and with no size restriction. May 22-Jun 22, Summerhall, www.visualartsscotland.org

In line with its ethos of supporting new artists, Art & Craft Collective presents the first Edinburgh exhibition by Gray’s School of Art graduate Toni Harrower, whose work New to Westgate Galleries explores the physicality of paint in line with Wood and glass sculptures, inspired by nature her interest in dementia. She explains: “My Bass Rock range exclusive to Westgate Galleries paintings follow a ‘system’ and a set of restraints that determine colour, composition and scale. I create individual patterns and repeating geometric shapes that form a grid. The build-up of layers expresses the passing of time. As the paint gains depth and weight, gravity and a lack of control come into play, causing the paint to fall

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JEAN OBERLANDER, ‘STEP TOES II’, ACRYLIC TEL: 01620 894976 • www.westgategalleries.co.uk (VISUAL ARTS SCOTLAND)

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CELEBRATING SCOTTISH ART SINCE 1862

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THE GALLERY fraser gallery upstairs @ J & G INNES LTD St Andrews Robert MacMillan Small Works 31 MARCH – 15 APRIL 2018 by Helen Forest Helen by Mighty big dog! big Mighty Hadjitofi Karen by Estate Cambo through A walk

May-June Visiting Artists from NE Scotland Helen Forrest, Karen Hadjitofi, Fiona Jack, Liz Milne, Morag Stevenson and Val Thomson 53 South Street, StAndrews www.frasergallery.co.uk April 21-28 ‘Scottish Voice’ Scottish Tapestry Group 01Robert190318.indd A1 new contemporary 20/03/2018 10:23

art gallery in St Andrews by Morag Stevenson by Morag

Poppy Cyster ‘Raised by 2018 oil on canvas. the Tide’ Arisaig’s Setting Sun Arisaig’s by Fiona Jack by Fiona

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rtists and makers based in studios in refurbished station buildings along the East Coast railway mainlineA in Fife will open their doors to the public for Artline Open Doors Weekend. The Artline group was formed in 2015 to represent artists and makers involved in the Adopt a Station Scheme, which saw the restoration of railway buildings, in many cases retaining their original Victorian features, and their reuse as studios. In all, eleven venues, including heritage centres, can be visited, and visitors are encouraged to use the regular rail services between them and enjoy LEFT: E.A. WALTON, ‘THE WHITE FLOWER’ (DUNFERMLINE CARNEGIE LIBRARY & GALLERIES) one of the UK’s most scenic rail routes. ABOVE: KATE HAYWOOD, ‘CALLA’, PORCELAIN & GOLD May 5 & 6, www.theartline.co.uk LEATHER. PHOTO: OLE AKHØJ (KIRKCALDY GALLERIES)

Nexus: Meetings at the Edge at Kirkcaldy Galleries looks at some of the ways in collection, the exhibition celebrates the break with tradition paved the way for which 21st century artists and makers are famed group of artists linked by friendship other Scottish artists. Leading members of changing preconceptions about their art and a shared desire to rebel against the the group included Sir John Lavery, E. A. forms. Jewellery, silversmithing, textiles and existing art establishment in late 19th Hornel, George Henry, Arthur Melville and ceramics all have long histories and deep- century Scotland. They enjoyed critical James Guthrie. Until Apr 29, www.onfife. rooted traditions behind them. Today their acclaim and commercial success at home com/whats-on/detail/glasgow-boys-spirit- familiar, but often restricting boundaries are and abroad and their determination to rebellion-1 being expanded by makers taking leaps of imagination and devising fresh approaches to the way they work. Some exhibitors have adapted characteristics of one field to another, such as from textiles to jewellery, resulting in hybrids which are impossible to categorise. Until Jun 10, www.fcac.co.uk/ event/nexus-meetings-edge

The Glasgow Boys: A Spirit of Rebellion at Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries follows a successful run at Kirkcaldy Galleries last summer. Comprising over 40 paintings from the Fife Council fine art

SUSY KIRK, SILK CHIFFON SCARVES (ARTLINE)

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‘Road to Torridon’ Margaret Evans

The GLASGOW GALLERY is a new contemporary art gallery specialising in original contemporary Scottish art along with a range of jewellery, glass and ceramics. ‘Venice Light’ Peter Foyle April Exhibition

Peter Foyle, Sandra Moffat 182 Bath St Glasgow G2 4HG May Exhibition 0141 333 1991 Margaret Evans, Jane Birrell [email protected] glasgowgallery.com 10am – 5.30pm Tue to Fri & 10.30am – 4.30pm Sat. @glasgowgalleryltd artmag square shanks18.qxp_Layout 1 23/03/2018 11:36 Page 1

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duncan sh28 aparil - n29 mkay, 2s018 roger billcliffe gallery 134 blythswood street glasgow g2 4el 0141 332 027 • [email protected] • www.billcliffegallery.com

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n initiative is underway to KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, NEW HOME OF THE GLASGOW CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR recover artists’ work from storage and give it a new lease of life. The Sculpture Placement Group is giving educational and health organisations, art Ainstitutions, charities, housing associations and others the chance to show high quality works, many of which were commissioned for exhibitions at leading galleries, with little provision for what happens to pieces after an exhibition is over. One artist putting work up for adoption is Rachel Lowther, who said: “My studio is full of sculpture now and it can be a problem finding space to create anything new. It is better to have sculpture and photography at prices ranging art out in the world than in boxes.” You can from around £50 to over £10,000. Many of see a selection of works in search of a new the artists will be on hand to meet the public home at the group’s Sculpture Showroom and discuss their work. Participating exhibition. Apr 20-May 7, Glasgow galleries, artists and organisations include: Sculpture Studios, the Scottish Furniture Makers Association, www.sculptureplacementgroup.org.uk the Whitehouse Gallery, Dancing Light Gallery, Enid Hutt Gallery, Alastair Faulkner, Steeped in culture and heritage, the Mark A. Pearce, the Glasgow Gallery and Glasgow Art Club has long been a private Smithy Gallery. Preview evening Fri May meeting place for generations of the city’s 11, advance tickets only: Sat & Sun May 12 artists, and now the public are invited & 13, www.gcaf.co.uk For a chance to win to take a free guided tour of the historic a pair of tickets to the Preview Evening, go RACHEL LOWTHER IN HER STUDIO AT GLASGOW buildings. Notable features include the SCULPTURE STUDIOS WITH ‘MOHAMED PLAYS’. PHOTO: to p28. KATE V. ROBERTSON (SCULPTURE PLACEMENT GROUP) splendid Victorian gallery and the recreated Mackintosh Frieze, a stencilled artwork painted in 1893 which was Charles Rennie

Mackintosh’s first major public work. The compass gallery club also boasts an impressive collection of fine art paintings, sculpture and prints, many of which have never been on show to the public. www.glasgowartclub.co.uk

This year in its fourth edition, the Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair is relocating to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, where a marquee sited in the grounds will give exhibitors additional space, while visitors can take advantage of ample car parking as well as the gallery’s cafe and restaurant. Galleries, artists and printmakers from all over Scotland and further afield will offer original, contemporary fine art, prints,

178 West Regent Street Glasgow G2 4RL 0141 221 6370 www.compassgallery.co.uk Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30 Sat 10-5 GLASGOW ART CLUB GALLERY. PHOTO: MARTIN LYNAGH

APRIL/MAY 2018 45 GLASGOW & GREATER GLASGOW GLASGOW & GREATER GLASGOW Mark A Paisley Art Institute th Pearce ‘Untitled’, Karen Scopa (1974-2017) 130 Annual Exhibition Printmaker & Landscape Artist Oils, Linocuts & Mixed Media Paintings Mark works from his home in Ravenglass, Cumbria. He sells throughout the UK & Internationally.

Guest Painter: Bet Low (1924-2007) Guest Sculptor: Charles Poulsen Sat 19 May - Sun 24 June Tues-Sat: 11am-4pm Sun: 2-5pm Paisley Museum and Art Galleries High Street Paisley PA1 2BA Visit Mark at the Glasgow www.paisleyartinstitute.com Contemporary Art Fair 11 - 13 May Paisley Art Institute est 1876 Paisley Art Inst.@secretary_76466 Stand 17

You may also see his work at: 5-6 May Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria 27 May - 10 June Ravenglass 28 July - 8 Sept Grasmere, Lake Artists

Many more dates on our website www.markapearce.co.uk

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his year’s Spring Show at Resipole Studios is a group exhibition of work by painter Joyce Gunn- CairnsT MBE, printmaker Gillian Murray and painter/ceramicist Helen Michie. Joyce Gunn-Cairns is a multiple award-winning artist known for her expressive figurative paintings of famous writers. Nine of her works are in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Describing her fascination for ABOVE: ALAN DAVIE, ‘ZURICH printmaking, Gillian Murray says: “It is easy IMPROVISATIONS to be immersed in the process. Making XI’ (THE ARGYLL COLLECTION/ layers, trying to get the colours just right TIGHNABRUAICH and mixing subtle blends all add to the GALLERY) anticipation in revealing the final image from RIGHT: JOYCE GUNN-CAIRNS the press.” Helen Michie presents a body MBE, ‘LEIPZIG of work entitled Shoreline. In which she IN WINTER’ (RESIPOLE combines raku, stoneware and mixed media STUDIOS) paintings to evoke the strength, fragility and impermanence of the local coast. Until May 13, www.resipolestudios.com

Where The Streams Come From at Tighnabruaich Gallery (until Apr 22)

ART WORLD

Painting • Ceramics • Jewellery • Woodwork • Sculpture joyce gunn cairns & gillian murray infinite flow by anna bussot 55 x 46 cm ink and guoache

PHOTO: VLADISLAV ZUKOVSKY by gillian murray screen print (front) by anna bussot 50 x cm ink and pencil, by joyce gunn cairns oil and pencil on board (front)

Joyce Gunn Cairns & Gillian Murray the bow by andrew sinclair 90 x 60 cm oil ATHENS The longconference anticipated by brian henderson 31 x 41cm acrylic

leipzig in winter mull ardalanish bay, 2,5 magical miles helen michie | shoreline jug and onions by brian henderson 31 x 41cm acrylic National Museum of Contemporary Art finally reopened its doors in the reconstructed Fix brewery after 12 years of bureaucratic haggling. (Said the museum’s director Katerina Kosina: “Unfortunately, our politicians are not art-lovers.”) The museum shows 31st march till 10th may exhibitions of Greek and international art in all media, from painting to video to www.resipolestudios.co.uk | | experimental architecture. www.emst.gr loch sunart | acharacle argyll ph36 4hx 01967431506

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A selection of paintings collected by Argyll & Bute Council from the 1960s-1980s, mainly for use in schools. On display in this jointly presented exhibition are works from artists including Joan Eardley, Elizabeth Blackadder, Ann Redpath, David Donaldson, Alan Davie and Robin Philipson.

Beth Robertson Fiddes CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE PAINTING 21 April – 2 June Celebrating 10 years of Cowal Open Studios Dunoon Burgh Hall, 195 Argyll Street Dunoon, PA23 7DD Tue-Sat 12-4pm, Sun 1-4pm www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk f: dunoonburghhall

PAINTINGS ARE ARE FOR PEOPLE PAINTINGS 01369 710776

28 April – 3 June Tighnabruaich Gallery, Tighnabruaich, Argyll, PA21 2DR Sat 10am-5pm, Sun to Fri 11am-4pm www.tiggallery.com f: tiggallery 01700 811681

The studio is located in the centre of the lively village of Ullapool only 30" x 24" an hour’s drive from Inverness through stunning Highland scenery.

Visitors are welcome by appointment. West’ ‘Looking

Contact Beth on 07530 817 116 or via email at [email protected] to arrange a suitable time and for directions. Latheron Studio, Latheron Lane, Ullapool, IV26 2XB

48 APRIL/MAY 2018 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS features new work by ceramicist Michaela Goan and poet Chris Goan. The exhibition New work by explores where inspiration comes from and ceramicist Michaela how the creative process can transform a Goan and poet Where lump of clay to a finished ceramic piece. Chris Goan the This is followed by a selection of works from The Argyll Collection (Apr 28-Jun 1), which Streams was established between 1970 and 1990 as a learning resource for young people Come in Argyll and Bute. A snapshot of Scottish art, the collection consists of 173 pieces, From including prints, paintings, ceramics, textiles, drawing, sculpture and mixed media works. 31 March - Also showing is work by gallery artists. www.tiggallery.com 25April

An exploration of where inspiration comes from and how the creative process transforms raw clay to an exquisitely shaped and glazed pot, words dancing round the surface.

Tighnabruaich, PA21 2DR 01700 811 681 www.tiggallery.com www.facebook.com/tiggallery

LIZA HAWTHORNE, ‘BALANCED INTERPLAY’ (DETAIL), MIXED MEDIA (SKYEWORKS GALLERY) Northbound | Nordgående Located in a renovated Pringle woollen mill building, Skyeworks Gallery is the largest gallery on the Isle of Skye. It shows work by both Skye-based artists and Scottish guest An aa Soais artists, working with them over the course of aery a year to nurture their talent and develop West Aryle Street, their audience. Two of the gallery’s most / BIOSENARIO Twins Ullapool I26 2UG established artists, Marion Boddy-Evans BIOSENARIO en aiy (the first artist to exhibit at Skyeworks) and (Kjersti Slett eland 10a 10 5 Morag Archer, are often on hand to chat & Tone Boska) 015 6110 to visitors about their work. Marion Boddy- wwwantaasoaisor Evans creates expressive island seascapes Ingeborg Blom and inimitable “sheepscapes”, painting Andersskog primarily in acrylics, and more recently Jenny Mackenzie Ross in ink and watercolour. Morag Archer is a collage and mixed media artist who Rebecca Brown captures the essence of Skye in her layered paintings. The current exhibition, entitled Siri Brekke Fish, inspired over 20 artists to produce a range of underwater work, including life-size, detailed realism, whimsical collage, gentle watercolours, mixed media, ceramics and metalwork. www.skyeworksartgallery.scot 6 May 15 Juy aoo A touring exhibiti on of contemporary ceramics Ullapool - Caithness - Shetland - Norway

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Logie Steading Art Gallery

SUMMER EXHIBITION Featured artists May: Mandy Anderson June: Lynda Luck July: Michael Kitchen

he gallery Texhibits a rolling selection of work by over 100 artists, mostly from Scotland and beyond.

Oils, original prints, glass, watercolours, sculpture, turned wood, jewellery.

Also at Logie Steading Acclaimed Café Mandy Anderson Whisky & Wine Farm & Garden Shop 2nd Hand Books Vintage Clothes Crafts Playground

River Walks along the Luck Lynda River Findhorn.

A plAce to tAke your time ‘Full Moon Rising’ Iain McIntyre-Younger ‘Spring’ Gilly Semple ‘Birches’ Penny Kennedy Open every day 10am – 5pm

Michael Kitchen Fresh & Bold Logie Steading, Forres 1 April – 25 May Moray IV36 2QN 01309 611378 Open hours: 10am-5pm [email protected] 13-15 Bank St, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BB 01887 822700 www.logie.co.uk [email protected] www.artisanand.co.uk facebook

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VESSELS BY MOYRA STEWART (BARN GALLERY/SCOTTISH POTTERS ASSOCIATION)

Adam of the Adam Pottery, both in Edinburgh. Relative newcomers to the Scottish scene include Pascale Rentch, who was featured on BBC TV’s Countryfile, and Veronica Follow the footprints and Newman, who find original art and crafts was recently displayed in shops and cafes showcased in in this lovely Highland town. Innovations in s part of the Perth Festival Ceramic Art in Cambridge. Apr 14-29, A map of the venues will be of the Arts (May 17-26), www.scottishpotters.org available at the end of May ArTay is an exhibition of Scottish contemporary art Over 80 studio ceramics artists from the UK,

and craft held in a large Ireland and France will be selling their work www.pitlochryartwalk.co.uk Amarquee erected outside Perth Concert at Potfest Scotland at Scone Palace. Held Hall. It features some 300 works by over in seven large marquees, this is the biggest 80 artists and makers - far more than any ceramics event of its kind in Scotland, with Find us on Facebook commercial gallery could hold. Curated by works for sale, demonstrations and hands Hugh Goring of Perth’s Frames Gallery, it on activities. A new feature of the show is includes Royal Scottish Academy members such as Gordon Mitchell, Doug Cocker and Reinhard Behrens and members of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour such as Sandy Murphy, Charlie MacQueen, Christine Woodside alongside lesser known talent. May 17-20, www.perthfestival.co.uk/event/artay-2018

Space to Grow at the Barn Gallery, Bield Y o u n g at Blackruthven, features ceramics by over 40 members of the Scottish Potters G e o r g i Association, including planters, sculptures, large vessels and domestic scale functional and decorative items. Exhibitors include potters Moyra Stewart, who recently exhibited at The Scottish Gallery, and Janet

WORK BY MARIA CONNOLLY (POTFEST SCOTLAND)

an area dedicated to eighteen new Potfest exhibitors. There is also a student area where eight of Scotland’s finest new makers will be showcasing their work. Jun 8-10,

£5.50, u-16 free, incl. parking and entry to P h i l p s Palace gardens and grounds,

www.potfest.co.uk For a chance to win a D e b o r a h pair of tickets and a ceramic piece worth 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BL £100, go to p28. 01887 829129 ~ aberfeldygallery.co.uk ARTAY

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ecky Walker, owner of Green Gallery in Buchlyvie and Dollar, has been advising her clients for The years on how to position paintings and sculpture or find art objects Real Bto match their homes. Only when she Sicily searched online for art consultancy services in Scotland did she realise that nobody was Tutored and Untutored Painting actually offering it. That sparked the idea to Holidays in Idyllic Sicily launch her own “art matchmaking” service, called Rooms. Becky explains: “There is Seven-day tutored painting courses in nothing else like this in Scotland. It happens 2018 (June 23-30 or October 6-13) in the elsewhere - in London, Paris and New York, wooded, unspoilt mountains of Sicily. for example - but not in Scotland. At Rooms, GEORGE BIRRELL, ‘THREE BOATS’ (GALLERIA LUTI) I’ll be showing work by painters, textile For artists of all standards; small- artists, sculptors and furniture-makers. I’ll be prior to the addition of colour to create group teaching by qualified art setting up the Buchlyvie gallery as rooms, so deceptively simple compositions. The tutor, Linda Matthews. clients can see how things could fit together. grounding Jim Wylie received in composition Courses include full board at the beautiful It’s aimed at people who know what they and colour at Glasgow School of Art has Casa Serena, plus all transport. want, but don’t know how to get it.” She remained a mainstay of his work. For this continues: “I am not an interior designer, exhibition he has focussed his landscapes Reasonably priced painting weeks, but I can look at an interior and know what on the scenery around Callander. There is without tutor, also available in May, it needs. I often talk to clients who say that also original work by many other Scottish June, July, September and October. a room needs something to finish it off, but painters as well as jewellery and quality they are not sure what. I can find a beautiful, craftwork. Until Jun 1, hand-crafted piece of glass as opposed to www.gallerialuti.co.uk www.therealsicily.com a mass-produced vase.” Green Gallery in 07967 158 206 Buchlyvie celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. www.greengallery.com

The Spring Exhibition at Galleria Luti in Callander features new work by three very ART WORLD distinctive and recognisable artists. ANTWERP From the 15th to the late 17th Predominantly focusing on the towns and century, Flanders was the centre of art fishing villages of the Scottish east coast in Western Europe and the inspiration and Fife, George Birrell’s bold use of strong behind the most famous art movements colour and stylised compositions make his of the time: Early Netherlandish, paintings instantly identifiable. Equally Rennaissance and Baroque. Starting identifiable, Peter Luti’s depictions of the in June, a three-year programme will west coast of Scotland result from the celebrate the Flemish Masters, starting unusual technique of applying texture with Rubens and followed by Bruegel in

ALLISON YOUNG, ‘ROCKS AT CAOLAS, TIREE’ 2019 and van Eyck in 2020. (FOTHERINGHAM GALLERY) www.flemishmasters.com Look out for an Art & Travel feature on Antwerp in Showing at Fotheringham Gallery in Artmag later this year. Bridge of Allan is Allison Young: Tiree Beaches (until Apr 20), featuring one of the gallery’s best-selling artists, with a series of large scale canvases. Following Allison is Tim Cockburn (Apr 21-May 11) with a new collection of his instantly recognisable paintings of Scottish life, particularly ceilidhs and dancing. The gallery maintains a large stock of paintings by over 50 Scottish painters along with a collection of hand-made designer jewellery by Leigh Fotheringham. www.fotheringhamgallery.co.uk THE RUBENS HOUSE IN ANTWERP GREEN GALLERY OWNER BECKY WALKER

52 APRIL/MAY 2018 COURSES, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS COURSES, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS Artmag Promotion GET CREATIVE! Allanbank Arts Taught in their unique studios, Leith School the annual Summer School in July. Happy of Art offers a diverse range of year-long drawing! starting in September and short courses, www.edinburghdrawingschool.co.uk A VIBRANT ARTS which include a variety of weekend workshops and summer schools - all of Fancy sitting in a boat sketching elephants CENTRE IN THE which can be booked online. Subjects range playing in the water or fish eagles in the SCOTTISH BORDERS from drawing and painting to jewellery, trees on the lake shore? Designing trips of mixed media and printmaking. a lifetime for artists working in all styles, the Only 1 hour & 15 minutes www.LeithSchoolofArt.co.uk specialist painting holiday company Art from Edinburgh Safari returns to Malawi with the tutor-led Allanbank Arts in the Scottish Borders offers trip Big Game in Wide Open Spaces (Sep Spring/summer courses a year-round series of courses, workshops 6-20). Non-painting partners welcome. with: Ann Oram RSW, exhibitions and events. Courses include fine www.artsafari.co.uk Claire Beattie, Gill Walton, art, printmaking and photography taught Justine Miller & others by top tutors such as Ann Oram RSW, Gill If a painting or drawing break in a protected Walton, Claire Beattie and Justine Miller. regional park, home to 73 species of orchids, We are also delighted to www.allanbankarts.co.uk wild deer and eagles amid stunning vistas offer weekend workshops and quiet, shady forests is your idea of a with Ann Oram RSW Commencing Monday April 16, Spring Term dream holiday, The Real Sicily will take 21-22 July & 25-26 August II at the Edinburgh Drawing School sees you to the Madonie Mountains, a land time both the launch of a new city centre venue almost forgot, where artisanal farmers make fresh ricotta every day, ancient olive trees for around half of their courses, (the E.D.S. www.allanbankarts.co.uk Studio above Henderson’s cafe on haniver dot the landscape and fresh spring water Street) and several new artist-tutors joining flows from the mountains all year round. to offer brand new courses. Check the www.therealsicily.com Allanbank Courtyard Nr Duns, Berwickshire TD11 3PY website for the full time-table and details for 078999 03429

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Millers Art Shop has been supplying artists of all abilities since 1834 and is continually adding new products sourced from around the world to offer the broadest range of art and craft materials under one roof in central Glasgow, where you can hold and discuss the products with their knowledgeable, friendly staff - better than clicking on a computer screen to buy. www.millers-art.co.uk

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HAZEL MCLEOD PETER WAREING Open Studios North Fife Spring Fling Studio 3 CHRIS TAYLOR Facebook – Hazel McLeod - Artist www.peterwareingceramics.co.uk www.christaylorart.com

ALISON PROUDLOCK Spring Fling Studio 68 SAM CARTMAN LIDA HATRICK www.alisonproudlock.co.uk www.samcartman.com www.hatrick.org.uk

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HAYLEY MILLS Open Studios North Fife SEASCAPES JUDE EDGAR www.hayleymillsart.com www.eilidh-stewart.com www.judeedgar.com

LYS STEVENS PATTI LEAN GSWA Spring Show - Maclaurin Gallery Ayr Spring Fling Studio 36 JOHN PAUL RAINE www.lysstevens.co.uk www.pattilean.co.uk www.teapotpaintings.com

ISOBEL STAMFORD AMANDA PHILLIPS SCOTTISH ARTIST Open Studios North Fife www.amandaphillips.co.uk www.ann-armstrong-art.co.uk www.isabelajewellery.com

TONI HARROWER JANE B GIBSON R.M.S, H.S ANTHONY J BARBER Art & Craft Collective Exhibition Kirkcudbright Artist www.abarber.co.uk www.toniharrower.co.uk www.cornerwaysart.co.uk

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