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The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 177 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts March/April 2013 Number 170/1 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts Winter 2011/12 Night Harbour, Port-Vendres, one of a series of paintings produced by the Edinburgh artist Jacqueline Watt during her recent Charles Rennie Mackintosh residency in Collioure. A selection of her work will be shown later this year at the Castle Gallery, Inverness We’re 30 this year! ArtWork – the proof is in your hands artWORK 177 March/April 2013 Page 2 artWORK 177 March/April 2013 Page 3 36 of Ayrshire’s top artists and designers open their doors Maisie & Mac Art & Contemporary Craft Fri 22 • Sat 23 • Sun 24 March Fabulous work from artists and The new on-line art gallery for everyone. More information on designer-makers from all over www.openstudiosayrshire.com the UK ... www.maisieandmac.com www.anonymousart.co.uk OpenStudiosAyrshire 10-5, Mon-Sat, 2 Crossgate, Cupar, Fife George Wyllie: “My Words” £4.95 post free from www.northernbooks.co.uk NORTHERNBOOKS Spring Exhibition @ www.northernbooks.co.uk Chance Encounters An exhibition of Paintings by Ian Cameron Ann Vastano Ted Bowen Jane Lannagan 10-5, Mon-Sat,th 2 Crossgate, Cupar, Fife 20 www.maisieandmac.com April Neil McIntyre until 11th May For quality visual art and craft look no further 1 Biggiesknowe, PEEBLES The Watermill than Spring Fling 2013 in Dumfries and Galloway. 01721 With over 90 studios open to the public and an Organic Tearoom. array of additional activities over the late May 720246 Millshop. Gallery. bank holiday weekend the 11th Spring Fling promises to be bigger and better than ever. For more information please visit Sophie Martin Martin Sophie www.spring-fling.co.uk / Download the app / Two one act operas by Follow us on twitter @spring_fling / facebook Spring Fling Open Studios Puccini IL TABARRO Kittie Jones Little Salkeld and GIANNI SCHICCHI Penrith Cumbria CA10 1NN Nick Jones organicmill.co.uk One a tragedy the other a comedy. The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk At Haddo House Hall on 10th 12th and 13th April at 7.30 pm ...is freely available throughout Scotland and into the North of England in arts outlets, but because of growing demand copies are often snapped up soon after publication. 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PO/postage stamps) to:Famedram Publishers Ltd., PO Box 3, Ellon AB41 9EA Scotland artWORK 177 March/April 2013 Page 4 artWORK 177 March/April 2013 Page 5 Editorial Comment Beware the curse of ArtWork! Guide ArtWork Guide ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] In our last, Winter, issue this slot was filled with an interview with the then head of Creative O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, April 19 - 20 MONTROSE MUSEUM, Panmure 01330 825 431, www.woodendbarn. Place, Montrose, DD10 8HF, 01674 Scotland, Andrew Dixon. He promised readers he was in listening mode. His bosses had Aberdeen co.uk, [email protected] Ken Bryan. The Art of Wood- 673232, www.angus.gov.uk/history/ ABERDEEN ART GALLERY & land Photography. museums/montrose/default.htm Call for more details April 28 - June 6 Dundee’s aesthetic wasteland MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, THE LOST GALLERY, Aldachuie, HOSPITALFIELD, Centre for Art other ideas. Within a week he had been given the boot. Moral? Never talk to ArtWork. 01224 523 700, Fax: 01224 632 133, Strathdon, AB36 8UJ, 01975 651 Jonathan Shearer. Northern & Culture, Arbroath, DD11 2NH, www.aagm.co.uk 287, Fax: 01975 651 287, www. Scotland’s palm fringe Exposure. Solo exhibition. The 01241 872 333, www.hospitalfield. THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Glasgow won’t encourage Until March 30 lostgallery.co.uk North West Highlands and the org.uk, [email protected] the former Customs House & visitors. IT IS DIFFICULT not to feel some of over a million on BBC2, not be able to survive. Certainly there Oliver Godow. Plan B-Side A. MILTON ART GALLERY, Deep in the south west corner of the land things are stirring in the undergrowth North East Coast in oils and March 15 - 17 Photographs. Focuses on the Milton of Crathes, Nr Banchory, sketches Jennifer McRae and Robert Harbour Chambers is to be However, what is so sympathy for the departed head of to mention the basketful of are local authority run arts centres visual and poetic delight of AB31 5QH, 01330 844 664, www. SOMETHING very mecca for gardening HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, jackson. Weekend Courses. Life transformed into the very first sad about the waterfront the beleaguered Creative Scotland. international awards the film has that seem equal to the task. At colour and form miltonart.com specialists but he AB41 7EQ, www.hhcos.org.uk Drawing and Print - etching Until April 20 March 9 - May 26 unusual is happening April 10, 12 and 13 (7:30pm) March 22 - 24 5-star hotel in Dundee has been development is that converting With hindsight it would collected. Birnam (by Dunkeld) the old Selling Dreams. 100 Years of Renewal. A new mixed open on the remote hammer- must also draw in the Puccini Il Tabarro and Gianni Open Weekend. welcomed as a significant step existing buildings rather than probably have been wiser to keep Was pressure exerted on Birnam Institute has been pretty Fashion Photography explore show to celebrate Summer crowds. It is a tall order Schicchi. Two one act operas Argyll the work of international fashion May 4 - 29 head peninsula of the - one a tragedy the other a THE ARCHWAY, 7 Union Street, in implementing the £1 billion building new ones shows just well away. Support for the arts Creative Scotland from above, or successfully re-invented as an arts photographers Kanita Sim. Landscapes from Rhins of Galloway (in for such a remote place. comedy. Phone 01651 851111 Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS, 01546 606 Dundee Waterfront masterplan. how awful most new buildings in Scotland has been in a fairly was it a case of not wanting to centre with a wide social remit to March 23 - May 11 Collieston to Catterline. Scotland’s extreme “Rather than for tickets 894, www.thearchway.co.uk It follows the conversion in the masterplan are. shambolic state since goodness upset the boss, who at that time educate and entertain. Fashioning a Century. Display STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor STUDIO BARN ARGYLL, Leac ABERDEEN MARITIME MU- Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, south-west). just being a garden, Na Ban, Tayvallich, Lochgilphead, of the former Tay Hotel into a Office blocks, carparks knows when. was on best mate terms with Mr The coffee’s not bad either. SEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, 01224 01561 360 118, www.starfishstudio. Logan needs to Aberfeldy PA31 8PF, 01546 870 310, www. 337700, Fax: 01224 213066, www. co.uk Logan Botanic ABERFELDY GALLERY, 3 & 9 studiobarnargyll.co.uk, hamilton- Malmaison, while the frontage of and the Sensation building The long drawn out review Trump? In Stirling, the Changing aagm.co.uk Original art and handmade ce- Garden, an offshoot provide something for Kenmore Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 [email protected] Dundee railway station is to be west of the railway station that led to the unhappy marriage The boss, Alex Salmond, Room gallery, which has never Until June 15 ramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, 829 129, www.aberfeldygallery. Seasonal exhibition of orginal everyone,” he says. co.uk are ugly, unrelated to each had a very happy existence, either The Girdleness Outfall Scheme. wood and more from all over the of Edinburgh’s Royal art rebuilt to create a new entrance of Scottish Screen and the certainly seemed most March 23 - May 3 Photography British Isles. Featuring paintings Botanic Garden, is “We are a FYNE STUDIOS - THE HIDDEN with an hotel above. other and block views of the Scottish Arts Council was not unconcerned when, during in downtown Stirling or latterly by Kate MacKenzie 30th Anniversary Exhibition. A GALLERY, Newton, Strachur, (off GRAYS SCHOOL OF ART, Rob- destination garden and the A886), PA27 8DB, 01369 860 THE STUDIO, Braeside Croft, building a gigantic 22m great mixed show Given that the Apex City River Tay; farther up the river, given a rapturous welcome despite filming, Baxter and his team within the re-vamped Tolbooth, ert Gordon University, Garthdee 379, www.fyne-studios.com Road, AB10 7QB, www.rgu.ac.uk Mintlaw, Peterhead, AB42 4HH, should be good so that THE WATERMILL, Mill Street, the usual shed-like Tesco were arrested, had their cameras has had its light snuffed out. x 7m conservatory Gallery of two Scottish artists Quay, Holiday Express and its worthy attempt to make all thr ABERDEEN ARTS CENTRE, 01771 622989, www.joycetaylor. people will want to visit PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, www. 33 King Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 co.uk which will be completed aberfeldywatermill.com Don McNeil & Jean Bell Premier Inn have recently with its big car park does right noises.