Carnival of Roses by Victoria Scrivener-Anderson Is from Her Current Exhibition at Maisie & Mac in Cupar

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Carnival of Roses by Victoria Scrivener-Anderson is from her current exhibition at Maisie & Mac in Cupar. See ARTS NEWS. BEGINNERS DRAWING & PAINTING This course provides a structured introduction to drawing and painting and is designed for complete Autumn Exhibition beginners wishing to learn the basics. Students are taken through projects step by step to build up their confidence ‘Gleam into Leaf’ and ability. 22 August – 23 October

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One Square Mile at Tatha Gallery in Newport-on- Tay (until Sep 26) features paintings by Claire Harkess RSW and Madeleine Hand and ceramics by Michele Bianco. Claire Harkess’s keenly observed renderings of birds and animals celebrate nature seen within a mile of her home (hence the title of the show), Madeleine Hand’s watercolours capture everyday moments in life with a touch of nostalgia, while Michele Bianco’s sculptural ceramics echo the natural folds and forms of the Torridon coastline. Together they represent the beauty found close to home that we have come to appreciate more in the last few months. Pictured: Madeleine Hand, Dog he new exhibition in the downstairs sitting www.tathagallery.com Tgallery at Maisie & Mac in Cupar features botanical studies in acrylic Ancient Deities at Edinburgh’s and oil by Victoria Scrivener-Anderson Arusha Gallery (Sep 10-Oct 18) is (until Oct 31). A BA (Hons) and Master a new group exhibition featuring of Fine Art graduate from Duncan of painting, sculpture, sound and Jordanstone College of Art and design, installation for which 18 artists Victoria mainly paints flowers from her were invited to invoke and own garden in rural Fife, where she also create an ancient deity. Gods has a studio. Growing and nurturing and demons are omnipresent the plants is an intrinsic part of her in our consciousness, deeply artistic process. This new collection was rooted in various mythologies completed mainly during lockdown and reinterpreted in films and between March and June to illustrate TV programmes. The show the progression of the seasons and explores what happens when to convey the feeling of time slowed we bring together a melting down and nature contemplated. There pot of artistic responses to is also a Maisie & Mac shop in Dundee. channel a reimagining of a Pictured: Monochrome Spring world, reawakening the past and www.maisieandmac.com reconceptualising the future. Pictured: Leo Robinson, Black Faun, pencil & watercolour on paper www.arushagallery.com

Aberfeldy Gallery is hosting a solo show by the Scottish artist James Fraser RSW (Sep 5-28). James has exhibited at galleries throughout Scotland and at exhibitions for the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). He explains: “My work usually begins with chaos. I attack the surface with various materials, which could include collage, paint, pencils, pastel and ink. I then have to reorganise this chaos, through adding and subtracting and eventually relying on my intuition, into something more pleasing to the eye. It’s a way of reconciling that I can at least make a thing of beauty from what was once chaotic.” James’s work is shown alongside a mixed exhibition of contemporary work by established and emerging artists, including a wide range of landscape and wildlife art, ranging from representational to impressionistic, and a selection of Perthshire scenes. Pictured: James Fraser, Finch, Flowers and Fish www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk

Art Walk Porty returns to Portobello igne et Couleur Beach and Promenade with an outdoors Lin the upstairs programme spread over three weekends gallery at J&G Innes (Sep 5-6, Sep 26-27 & Oct 17-18). This year in St Andrews entitled All At Sea, it draws on the collective features work by spirit which has emerged within the arts members of the during this turbulent period. Scottish Society of The new works, including beach Architect Artists installation, live art, conversation and (until Sep 15). Their

Light after Lockdown ‘ Lowtide, Camursdarach ’, Pete Morrison projection, are centred on subjects critical colourful works to these times: freedom of movement, in ink, paint and food value, personal protection, ownership pencil produced of public space, change and shared during lockdown neighbourhoods. Pictured: Jenny Pope, Sea demonstrate how Masks www.artwalkporty.co.uk the architect’s eye for precision can translate and SUMMER interpret ideas EXHIBITION ONLINE AND into a looser, but featuring new work by IN GALLERY ultimately pleasing the following artists: 18 AUGUST - 17 SEPTEMBER artistic form. JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON O.B.E The SSAA is always keen to remind Scotland’s architectural practitioners MARGARET EVANS OPENING HOURS JANET McCRORIE 10.00 - 17.30 and students of the importance of keeping in touch with their ‘inner artist’. ALAN WILSON TUESDAY - THURSDAY LYNN HOWARTH This is one of a series of exhibitions in recent years designed to raise the PETE MORRISON society’s public profile and which have featured work by over 60 members, JOHN BATHGATE including several from sister organisations in France, Italy, Germany and 182 BATH STREET GLASGOW G2 4HG Poland. Pictured: Robert Moodie, Nature Conquers Machine T: 0141 333 1991 E: [email protected] W: WWW.GLASGOWGALLERY.CO.UK www.ssaagallery.co.uk

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he Stills photography centre in Edinburgh is Treopening with two exhibitions (Sep 8-Oct 24). The Torrance Gallery Elementary Blueprint is the result of an Sat 5 - Sat 26 September experiment in which photographers developed PAM CARTER 2020 cyanotype paper (also known as blueprint) Featured Artist by placing it outdoors and exposing it to the 8 August – 12 September | Over 40 original paintings Patricia Sadler unpredictability of the elements, with the sun, Drawing inspiration from the landscapes around her home wind and rain leaving their mark in various ways. in the Scottish Borders, West Coast and the Hebridean Isles Pictured: Image by Joanna Waclawski The Stills Academy Exhibition features work by five recent graduates who began their projects before lockdown and altered their original plans as

Dusk at the Stacks restrictions required, resulting in work which is a unique reflection of the time. www.stills.org

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Dock Street AUCTIONS THIS AUTUMN Studios in Dundee Contemporary & Post-War Art | 19 AUG has the first major Five Centuries: Furniture & Works of Art inc. Property exhibition by father of the Earls of Crawford & Balcarres | 2 & 3 SEPT and son landscape Jewellery, Watches & Silver | 15 SEPT photographers African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 16 SEPT Grant and Andrew Arum Lilly SUSIE HUNT Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 30 SEPT Bulloch (until Sep 26). Select Jewellery & Watches | LONDON | 22 OCT Norðurland (Icelandic: Modern Made: Modern & Post-War Art, northlands) features Design & Studio Ceramics | LONDON | 23 OCT Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 28 OCT images of the Scottish Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 03 DEC Highlands of Scotland 10-5 MON, THURS, FRI, SAT and Iceland and a selection of award-winning images by Andrew, who 11-5 SUN left: JOHN BELLANY (1942-2013) ‘RADIANT LIGHT’ IN HARBOUR has won the UK and Scottish Young Landscape Photographer of the Year competitions. Still only 18, he has also had photographs featured by the BBC, STV, Nikon, The Times, The Scotsman and FIFA. (Pictured: Stormy seas at 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater Portknockie) Prints of both photographers’ work are available for sale. 013397 55888 Located opposite the V&A Dundee, Dock Street Studios is also hosting www.larksgallery.com EDINBURGH 0131 557 8844 | www.lyonandturnbull.com several photography-related events, including a family photo-walk with fellow photographers and Instagramers and a talk with photographers David Queenan and John Pow. www.facebook.com/dockstreetstudios 10 | 4 September | Issue 129 4 September | Issue 129 | 11 Arts News

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WWW.NOMADSTENT.CO.UK Currently showing at the Glasgow Gallery is Light After Lockdown (until Sep 17), featuring new work by John Lowrie Morrison OBE (“Jolomo”), Margaret Evans, Janet McRorie, Alan Wilson, Lynn Howarth, Pete Morrison (pictured: Mid-flow) and John Bathgate. www.glasgowgallery.co.uk ast year Scottish wildlife and (until Oct 2) reflect the many hours Llandscape artist Alan B. Hayman Alan spent at sea and the breathtaking WINDS OF CHANGE sailed solo through perilous seas in his landscapes he witnessed. 12TH SEPTEMBER - 31ST OCTOBER 2020 small boat to the remote archipelago This exhibition opened almost WWW.WHITEHOUSEGALLERY.CO.UK of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Outer 90 years to the date when the last Hebrides and famous for imposing inhabitants of St Kilda left the islands sea stacks, towering cliffs (the highest for good as life became unsustainable. in Britain) and wildlife. They resettled on the Morvern Journey to St Kilda at Resipole peninsula on the west coast of R U G S & I N T E R I O R S Studios and Fine Art Gallery in Argyll Scotland, where Alan himself now

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n the 1880s, a group of young, Scottish artists rebelled against the Victorian Itaste for dramatic, Highland landscapes and sentimental ‘story pictures’. Originally dubbed the “Glasgow Boys” (although they featured three female Kirstin painters - Flora MacDonald Reid, Bessie MacNicol and Katherine Cameron), Heggie they preferred to depict the realities of The An Talla Solais Gallery in contemporary rural life. Ullapool has reopened with Room, The Glasgow Boys & Girls at the a new exhibition of contemporary Granary Gallery in Berwick-Upon- paintings, drawings, sculpture, Tweed (Sep 5-Nov 15) is a reminder of photography and prints - 46 artworks the breakthrough they made for modern in all by 18 artists, including some artists in Scotland, several of whom went whose shows were postponed on to achieve international fame. ‘Beyond’ because of the pandemic. Pictured: The exhibition features almost 40 oils Contemporary Abstract Landscapes Kirstie Cohen, Ocean, oil on canvas. and watercolours by every significant The full exhibition can be viewed member of the group and focuses on 18-23 September online, where you can also see Lomax the period between 1880 and 1895, Lomax, a collaborative project by when they were at the height of their Dundas Street Gallery visual artist Mark Lomax and musician/ creativity. Pictured: Flora MacDonald 6 Dundas St composer Dr Mark Lomax II, featuring Reid, Fieldworkers, courtesy the Fleming Edinburgh EH3 6HZ sculptural quilts, music and video. Collection www.kirstinheggie.com www.antallasolais.org www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk

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he Yellow Door in Dumfries is Chamber Music Soundscapes Photo: Ryan Buchanan/Edinburgh International Festival NEW WORK Tinviting entries until September was a three-week series of Scottish Houses by W A C Dawson 29 to its third biennial Open Portrait performances by leading 33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife tel: 01383 860602 Competition. Check FB page for chamber ensembles and Open from Easter until Christmas. Mon, Thurs - Sun details. Work is currently underway soloists beautifully filmed for www.thequaygallery.co.uk to refurb the gallery ahead of its this year’s ‘virtual’ Edinburgh October reopening. Pictured: Self- International Festival. You portrait by Cumbrian artist Fliss can enjoy performances Watts, winner of the previous portrait from the comfort of your home on the Festival’s YouTube channel, including competition www.facebook.com/ the Hebrides Ensemble performing Judith Weir’s The Bagpiper’s String Trio and theyellowdoordumfries Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4-KBDIzq5g

Aberdeen’s Nicole Porter Gallery turns ten this month and is celebrating by offering a ten per cent discount off all items in the newly stocked online store plus free UK shipping. The offer is good for the month of September with the code birthday10. Meanwhile the gallery is open by appointment. www.thenicoleportergallery.com

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Inspired by Roman, Greek and Sumerian ceramics, Andy Lang, aka The Potter of Leith*, produces quality, high- fired stoneware. Based on traditional recipes, his glazes use wood ash harvested from burned recycled scrap wood or from oil drum braziers. He has work in public collections, including Kelvingrove Art A member of Edge Textile Artists Scotland, Catherine Gallery and Museum in Gowthorpe cites Paul Klee and other Bauhaus artists Glasgow and The McManus in as inspirations. Mixing fabrics such as silk, linen, cotton Dundee. and wool, she uses appliqué and patchwork techniques, www.thepotterofleith.co.uk often colouring her materials with natural dyes. www.catherinegowthorpe.com

A member of the Scottish Furniture Makers Association, Adrian McCurdy says: “Cleaving wood into furniture is a craft that involves wood knowledge, lots of patience and a degree of luck throughout the splitting process.” Last year, a chest of his was voted ‘Best use of British Timber’ at the Celebration of Craftsmanship and Design, Hand-made the UK’s largest annual selling exhibition of contemporary, designer-maker furniture. Pictured: Beached Bench for you & your home (on white) www.adrianmccurdy.co.uk

Anne Watt of Rainbeau Based at the Jewellery* specialises Edinburgh in intricate wire Palette studio work. All complex, her items fused glass are one- artist Irina Relive your memories off pieces Stancheva* with a keepsake box by and most has used Neil Martin*, who works incorporate bright colours predominately in beautiful Scottish semi-precious as an escape timbers, such as ash, beech, birch, elm, gemstones with from feelings hornbeam, lime, oak, sycamore, walnut and copper, silver-plated or sterling silver wire. Some of anxiety caused by the current crisis. She says: “Glass is an yew, with a choice of luxurious interior linings, include fragments of Scottish sea glass or sea pottery. amazing material, which interacts with light in many interesting including leather, velvet, tartans and Harris tweed. Pictured: Textured copper bangle with jasper ways and offers infinite possibilities to explore combinations www.neilmartin.biz www.rainbeaujewellery.co.uk of colours, transparency, shape and texture.” www.edinburghpalette.co.uk/directory/irina-stancheva *Work also available at Art & Craft Collective, Edinburgh, www.artcraftcollective.co.uk

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Exhibitions dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, the Impressionists, J.M.W. Turner, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman Mall Galleries and others put a shine on the London gallery scene.

world’s leading contemporary artists such as Bridget Riley, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Ed Ruscha and Anish Kapoor. The gallery has reopened with Among the Trees (until Oct 31), the first exhibition in the UK to show how trees and forests have been represented in contemporary art. Spanning 50 years (and timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day), it features work by over three dozen artists from five continents and includes video installations, life-size Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Horizontal - Vaakasuora (2011) © Crystal Eye, Helsinki, 2020, sculptures, large scale paintings, drawings Photo: Linda Nylind (Hayward Gallery) Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith beheading Holofernes (National Gallery) and photography. Locations range from Colombian and offer educational activities to diverse world. Although its collection of some exhibition of her work in Artemisia (Oct rainforests and Japanese jungles to age groups and communities. 2,300 works is smaller than in many 3-Jan 24, 2021), a selective survey of the Scandinavian woods and olive groves Currently underway is the Festival European national galleries, its scope is artist’s career comprising around 30 in Israel. Highlights include: Eva Jospin’s of Figurative Art (until Dec 6), a series of encyclopedic, with virtually every major works, most of them being shown in the remarkable Foret Palatine, a wall-size, annual exhibitions by leading art societies name in western art represented from UK for the first time. fairy tale-like installation made entirely focusing on representational painting, the medieval period onwards. At a time when women artists from textured cardboard; film director drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Many of its works would make it into were not readily accepted, Artemisia Steve McQueen’s photograph of an The exhibitors are the Royal Institute a list of the most recognisable images in Gentileschi was exceptional. The first innocent-looking tree near New Orleans of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal art, including Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini woman to gain membership to the which was used to lynch black Americans; Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Portrait, Johannes Vermeer’s Lady artists’ academy in Florence, she gained and Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Horizontal - Society of Marine Artists, the New Standing at a Virginal, John Constable’s fame across Europe and counted leading The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson ocated in the Southbank Vaakasuora, a mesmerising, 16-metre showed a representation of the sun in the English Art Club, the Royal Institute of Oil The Hay Wain, Georges Seurat’s rulers among her patrons. Although Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in his 2003-04 Centre, the UK’s largest arts long video portrait of a Finnish spruce. Painters and the Hesketh Hubbard Art Bathers at Asnieres, Vincent van Gogh’s greatly admired during a 40-year career, exhibition The Weather Project. Photo: Tate Photography © Olafur Eliasson centre which also includes the www.haywardgallery.org.uk Society. Together they feature thousands Sunflowersand many more. she was essentially rediscovered in the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen of works by hundreds of artists. Inspired by the 2018 acquisition of 20th century and today is recognised as Elizabeth Hall, the National In their spacious rooms opposite St www.mallgalleries.org.uk Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as one of the most gifted painters of the Poetry Library and the Purcell Rooms, the James’s Park, the Mall Galleries are a Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c.1615–17), Italian Baroque period. LHayward Gallery opened in 1968 with a focal point for contemporary figurative Looking out over Trafalgar Square, the the first painting by the artist to enter a A particular highlight of the Matisse retrospective. Since then it has art. Operated by the Federation of British National Gallery is one of the top UK public collection, the National Gallery exhibition will be the display of the two presented major shows by some of the Artists, they host a series of exhibitions ten most visited art museums in the is about to present the first major UK versions of her most famous and 20 | 4 September | Issue 129 4 September | Issue 129 | 21 Art & Travel

Clience Seascape and Landscape Paintings by Studio Angela Lawrence Featuring Galloway, along with Highlands, Islands & Lake District, Angela’s varied work shows a love of the outdoors. Originals, a wide selection of signed prints & a selection of gifts from her Galloway paintings are also available online. Commissions happily accepted.

Open Mon-Sat 10.30 - 5 Tues 10.30 - 4 The Serpentine Sackler Gallery with its Zaha Hadid-designed extension By the Clocktower 212 King Street Established in 1768 as an independent, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS artist-run institution to host exhibitions 07902 301 883 and operate an art school to pass www.cliencestudio.co.uk angelalawrencecliencestudio on skills and knowledge, it counts George IV: Art & Spectacle is currently showing at innumerable distinguished artists One household at a time are welcome The Queen’s Gallery. to drop in or book a time o’Warren Port Quiet haven, among its Royal Academicians, or RAs. iconic composition, Judith beheading It marked its 250th anniversary in 2018 Holofernes (c.1612-13). Her ability to paint by commissioning the architect David female figures of strength and passion Chipperfield to link its Burlington FLAT CAT as well as vulnerability, often featuring Gardens and Piccadilly buildings to GALLERY herself as the model, was a frequent create the “new” RA. and cafe feature of her work. The academy continues a long history www.nationalgallery.org.uk of major exhibitions with Gauguin LINDA KINSMAN-BLAKE and the Impressionists (until Oct 18), 1 July – 31 August Occupying the former royal stables Paul Gauguin, Portrait of a Young Girl, featuring 60 works from Denmark’s Vaïte (Jeanne) Goupil, 1896, oil on canvas © New collection of paintings & ceramics. alongside Buckingham Palace, The Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Photo: Anders Ordrupgaard Collection by painters All work for sale online. Queen’s Gallery stages a series of Sune Berg (Royal Academy of Arts) such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Gift shop and café/takeaway service. themed exhibitions featuring works Morisot, Degas, Courbet, Corot and Mon-Sat 9.30-5, Sun 10-5 from the Royal Collection. Owned by Spectacle (until Oct 11). George IV Gauguin, many being seen in the UK for HM Elizabeth II, it is the largest private amassed an unrivalled art collection of the first time. art collection in the world. Spread over paintings, metalwork, textiles, furniture, www.royalacademy.org.uk several royal residences, it is made up watercolours, books and ceramics, many of over one million objects, including by the finest artists and craftmakers of Situated five minutes apart in Kensington 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on the day and including Dutch and Flemish Gardens are two sister galleries named paper and about 450,000 photographs masterpieces, portraits by Sir Thomas after the nearby lake in as bucolic a as well as sculptures, tapestries, furniture, Lawrence and Sir Joshua Reynolds, setting as you’ll find in London. Showing Scottish artists and makers ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, delicate French porcelain, intricate Celebrating its 50th anniversary in armour, jewellery, clocks, musical goldsmiths’ work, elegant books and 2020, the Serpentine Gallery occupies a Hare in Summer Hare 4A Hopetoun Road, South Queensferry, EH30 9RA instruments, tableware, manuscripts and drawings. www.rct.uk former 1930s tea pavilion. Every year since www.flatcatgallery.co.uk 2 Market Place 0131 319 2140 www.alliumqueensferry.com books. 2000 it has commissioned a temporary Lauder Berwickshire TD2 6SR Thurs-Mon 11-4 Appointments outwith these times Currently showing in sumptuous The Royal Academy of Arts has summer pavilion by a leading architect

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WEEKLY ONLINE the country, Thames, where the vast Turbine Hall it houses a forms an exhibition space unrivalled EXHIBITIONS SERIES substantial for sheer scale. Home to the national collection of collection of modern art from 1900 to British art from the present day, it was extended in 2016 1500 to the with the opening of the 10-floor Blavatnik present day. Building, with a viewing platform Works which offering a panorama of London, and the John McNulty may be on conversion of oil tanks into spaces for August 24-30 display at any performance art and film. one time are Currently showing is Andy Warhol by a roll-call of (until Nov 15). A major retrospective British greats, of the Pop Art superstar famous for such as William his iconic multiple images of Marilyn Blake, Thomas Monroe, Elvis Presley, Coca-Cola bottles Gainsborough, and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes Joe McIntyre 22 Aug to 19 Sept Joshua works never seen before in the UK. Reynolds, John Coming up is Bruce Nauman 80th Birthday Exhibition J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - the Great Western Railway (Tate Britain) Constable and (Oct 7-Feb 21, 2021), the first London Padraig McCaul three months for the public to explore. John Singer Sargent, while more recent exhibition in over 20 years to show the Over the years structures have appeared August 31-September 6 names include David Hockney, Peter full breadth of the artist’s work. Over 40 by the likes of Daniel Liebeskind, Oscar Blake and Francis Bacon. works produced over a 50-year career www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas and Frank The gallery also organises career encompass a range of media, including Gehry. retrospectives of British artists. With sculpture, sound, film, video and neon, Nearby the Serpentine Sackler a particularly large body of work by for which Nauman (b.1941) is particularly A contemporary art gallery Gallery is housed in The Magazine, a J.M.W. Turner, who bequeathed his own known. www.tate.org.uk Grade II-listed former gunpowder store collection to the nation, it will soon open in St Andrews from 1805 to which the late “starchitect” Turner’s Modern World (Oct 28-Mar Zaha Hadid added an extraordinary 7, 2021), a landmark exhibition showing HOW TO GET THERE flowing extension in a glass-fibre textile how Britain’s greatest landscape painter London North Eastern Railway which seems to grow organically from captured the momentous events of (LNER) has a new Azuma fleet of Maura Culbert the original brickwork. his day, from wars and independence trains calling at 53 stations along the east coast route, linking major September 7-13 This year the Serpentine is showing struggles to the impact of the industrial the first institutional solo exhibition in revolution on the natural world and the towns and cities between London, Europe by the New York-based painter effects of modernisation on society. the East Midlands, Yorkshire, North Jennifer Packer (from Nov 18), known Over 160 key works will show how East England and Scotland. for intimate portraits of her friends and Turner addressed these subjects with www.lner.co.uk family as well as floral studies. At the works such as The Battle of Trafalgar Serpentine Sackler, Formafantasma: (1806-8), The Burning of the Houses of Cambio (Sep 29-Nov 15) is an examination Lords and Commons (1835), The Fighting of the timber industry by the Italian ‘Téméraire’ (1839) and Rain, Steam and design duo Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Speed (1844). www.tate.org.uk by Yvonne Hair Yvonne by footprints’ only ‘Leave Farresin. www.serpentinegalleries.org www.thedoorwaygallery.com Now introducing This year celebrating its 20th anniversary 138 South Street St Andrews, KY16 9EQ Part of the Tate network of galleries (it was the most popular museum in Nature’s Movements: Magnificent 01334 474331 which also includes Tate Modern, Tate the world in its first year, drawing over VIEW THE ARTIST STUDIO AND [email protected] Waves and Splendid Breezes www.sprosongallery.com Liverpool and Tate St Ives, Tate Britain five million visitors), the Tate Modern HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Closed Sun & Mon sprosongallery is the oldest of them, having opened in occupies the former Bankside Power 1897. One of the largest art museums in Station on the south side of the River 24 | 4 September | Issue 129 4 September | Issue 129 | 25 Art & Travel

Drawing Aside the Journey Be an artful lodger After a day of gallery-hopping, you can continue your art experience at some of London’s top residences.

298 Portobello High St pened in 1837, Brown’s Hotel – no, not the soul singer, but the butler of sommelier’s choice wine. Advance Portobello in the heart of Mayfair to the Romantic poet Lord Byron – its booking is recommended. Edinburgh is London’s oldest hotel. guests over the years have included many Browns is also the exclusive hotel Named after James Brown stellar names. partner of the Mayfair Art Weekend EH15 2AS O Surrounded by elite international (Sep 25-27, www.mayfairartweekend. 07835 813689 galleries and a short walk from the Royal com), when around 50 galleries join Academy, Brown’s is a perfect base for forces for an extensive programme of velveteasel.co.uk the hotel’s Saturday Art Walks led by free exhibitions, events, performances [email protected] art curator and BBC Art Correspondent and talks. www.roccofortehotels.com/ Maeve Doyle. hotels-and-resorts/browns-hotel Open to both residents and non- residents, the cost of £85 per person The Cheval Gloucester Park is one includes tea or coffee in the Drawing of a collection of luxury apartment THE EDINBURGH ART BOOK Room upon arrival, a tour of up to four residences across London. Spread over galleries, a glass of champagne back at 10 floors, the fully-equipped apartments the hotel and a three-course lunch at “These are the streets of “Edinburgh’s unique can be booked for any length of stay Charlie’s restaurant (headed by Michelin- my childhood revealed character - old and from one night to one year or more and starred chef Adam Byatt) with a glass and adorned by the new, architectural include one-, two- and three- city‘s very own artists in and scenic, urban and a wonderful variety of coastal - is beautifully colour and style.“ captured by its artists.” - Iain Glen - Rory Bremner

Gallery-goers on a Brown’s Hotel Saturday Art Walk

Other titles in the series THE CITY THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS ARTISTS

No, not a salon in a Loire Valley chateau, but the Olga Sophie Derrick’s self-portraits (left) hang near work by Heidi Lanino (USA), one of several pieces in the Cheval Polizzi-designed Reception Room in Brown’s Hotel Gloucester Park with a horse theme. (‘Cheval’ is French for horse.) 26 | 4 September | Issue 129 4 September | Issue 129 | 27 Art & Travel

bedroom apartments as well as three maps to form clothes in her series Les spectacular, five-bedroom penthouses Robes Geographiques and whose framed with sweeping views over the London Tube Map dress hangs in the living room. cityscape. www.chevalcollection.com/cheval- Art consultants Verdigris Art gloucester-park commissioned original artwork to feature throughout the residence, which North East In the heart of bustling Soho, the Ham together form a private collection to rival Yard Hotel signals its commitment to many contemporary art galleries. Ensemble art before you even step inside the door, Artists include: Sophie Derrick with a large, specially commissioned (UK), who paints onto her own skin, bronze sculpture by Tony Cragg entitled photographs it, then paints onto the 12 June – 25 August Group standing in the courtyard. photographs, thus blurring the lines One of eight London properties William Morris-inspired wallpaper in a Junior between the two media; equine Suite at the Melia Kensington operated by Firmdale Hotels, Ham Yard’s Mixed Summer Show photographer Astrid Harrisson (UK), interior is alive with colour, pattern including: whose work appears in the photographic and texture put together under the book The Majesty of the Horse; and Mary Louise Butterworth supervision of co-owner Kit Kemp, Elisabeth Lecourt (France), who uses Stuart Buchanan herself an interior designer with David E Johnston RSW her own line of original fabrics Kate Steenhauer throughout the property. Shelagh Swanson The many beautiful touches include: a neon silk thread installation by RCA graduate Hermione Skye O’Hea hanging above the reception desk; bespoke rugs by Christina van Food as art at the Melia Kensington der Hurd; framed fabrics in the bedrooms designed by the young Australian artist Shilo The designer William Morris, a pioneer Engelbrecht; works by the of the British Arts and Crafts movement, Tony Cragg’s Group (2014) stands outside the Ham Yard Hotel British abstract painters Sandra was an avid ‘twitcher’ and his keen JAMES FRASER RSW: 5 - 28 Sept Blow (1925-2006) observations of birds found their way and Howard into his wallpapers. Rather than using & MIXED EXHIBITION Hodgkin (1932- realistic depictions, he abstracted their James Fraser RSW 2017) and one by form to give the patterns structure, his Joanna Carrington Strawberry Thief thrush design being one Contemporary art by established (1931-2003) in her of his most popular. and emerging Scottish artists. distinctive naive/ Conveniently located for some of Large variety of landscape and primitive style; London’s top attractions, including wildlife art - ranging from and a wall of representational to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Stuart Buchanan Stuart impressionistic - and a good illuminated pots Natural History Museum, the Science selection of Perthshire scenes. by ceramicist Museum and the Royal Albert Hall, the Catterline Martha Freud. Melia Kensington has Morris-patterned FREE UK DELIVERY eionstewartfineart.com www. wallpapers in the bedrooms and other aberfeldygallery.co.uk firmdalehotels. delightful design touches inspired by him Wed-Fri: 10-4 Sat: 10-2 Sun-Tue: Closed 9 Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, PH1 5 2BL com/hotels/ right down to the cocktail menu. The 01 887 8291 29 55 Allardice St Stonehaven Aberdeenshire london/ham- dinner menu is excellent for a boutique [email protected] AB39 2AB 01569 785 606 James Fraser RSW yard-hotel hotel. www.melia.com Work by the British abstract painter Sandra Blow (1925-2006) at the Ham Yard Hotel

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For the first time in over 70 years, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe did not happen this year due to you-know-what. In a series entitled The Lost Fringe, photographers Richard Davenport and Richard Lakos documented what this looked like from two perspectives: the acts with no venues and - shown here - the venues with no acts. www.theotherrichard.com Marketplace

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