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Victoria Crowe, ‘Known and Imagined Worlds 2012’, oil on linen, Photo: Forth Photography. From the exhibition Victoria Crowe: 50 Years of Painting at the , , until Oct 13, june 1st - july 30th, 2019 www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk Featuring over 150 works, from student paintings to assured landscapes and back to the drawing board portraits of later years, Victoria Crowe’s first roger billcliffe gallery major showcase embraces every aspect of 134 blythswood street glasgow g2 4el her practice. 0141 332 027 • [email protected] • www.billcliffegallery.com Drawn from 50 solo exhibitions, the exhibition takes up four gallery floors, each with its own distinctive colour key to complement Crowe’s work. Skilled at portraiture, landscape and THE LAKE ARTISTS still life, she moves effortlessly between SUMMER EXHIBITION painting, printmaking and designing for The Hall Grasmere LA22 9TA tapestries. A new film gives visitors a personal glimpse into her practice. 27 July-4 September 2019

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he Glasgow Jazz silent film, ‘Wunder Der Festival returns for its Schöpfung’ (‘Miracle 33rd edition, with over 300 of Creation’) under the international and home- planetarium’s spectacular grown musicians playing over 40 fulldome digital projection Tgigs covering jazz, blues, soul, funk, R&B, system. electronic and world music. Other new venues Opening night features English vocalist are House for an Art and songwriter David McAlmont at St Luke’s Lover, the Rost nightclub with Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall, a tribute and The Blue Arrow jazz to the jazz diva inspired by her legendary club, which closes the 1956 concert. McAlmont will give his unique festival with Brooklyn interpretations of the catalogue and quote singer-songwriter Madison from Holiday’s life story, Lady Sings the McFerrin, daughter of jazz Blues. royalty Bobby, with her Another favourite festival venue, the soulful take on a cappella. Old Fruitmarket, hosts Ethiopian musician/ For the second year VOCALIST GEORGIA CÉCILE AND SAXOPHONIST MATT CARMICHAEL GEAR UP FOR THE GLASGOW JAZZ FESTIVAL AT A NEW VENUE THIS YEAR, THE CHARLES RENNIE arranger Mulatu Astatke, known as the running, the festival MACKINTOSH-DESIGNED HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER. father of Ethio-jazz, as well as some of ensures that over half of Scotland’s most exciting young jazz bands. the acts include female musicians as part In Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit at Pitlochry Several new venues this year include of a pledge to the Keychange initiative to Festival Theatre (Jun 6-Sep 28), a charming the Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre, achieve a 50:50 gender balance at festivals writer invites an eccentric medium to hold where Herschel 36 will play their electronic by 2022. Jun 19-23, www.jazzfest.co.uk a seance at his house as research for his soundscapes live to the 1925 German For a chance to win tickets go to p8. latest book. Calling up the ghost of

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his first wife, the medium sets off a series of A pair of tickets to a double- A pair of tickets to The events which quickly move from harmless bill evening on Thurs July 25 Queen’s Hall Edinburgh’s to dangerous. Blithe Spirit was the longest- at Music at Paxton in the 40th Anniversary Concert running hit of Coward’s career, the film Scottish Borders, including and Reception on Sat July 6 version of which memorably starred Rex featuring Stephen Osborne VIP drinks reception! Harrison and Margaret Rutherford. (piano) & Alban Gerhardt (cello)! With Kaleidoscope Collective, music for violin, French horn and piano & In one of the most powerful pieces of The Jazz Age featuring Tom Poster, piano. 20th century theatre, Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible (Jun 20-Sep 27), the puritanical folk of Salem, Massachusetts, learning that www.queenshall.net Music at Paxton their young women have been conjuring up

Photo: Kaupo Kikkas July 19-28 spirits in the forest, set about driving out the www.musicatpaxton.co.uk devil among them. Written as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government persecuted its citizens for being communists, this parable of politics, religious fervour and fear still resonates in the 21st century. Photo: Mario Mainino In Heritage (Jul 25-Sep 26) a young Ulster woman and her family set out to create a new life in 1914 Canada. When a friendship with a neighbour evolves into something deeper, old battles are fought on new territory in a Romeo and Juliet-like Closing date Friday June 20 Closing date Monday July 15 exploration of love, identity and tribalism. Closing date Monday June 24 www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com

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SCOTTISH BALLET PRESENTS ‘THE CRUCIBLE’ fidget or a cough. Nothing disturbed the AT THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. PHOTO: NICOLA SELBY concentration. The whole experience was a kind of enchantment’, while the same newspaper described Gerhardt as ‘expressive, unshowy and infinitely classy’. The programme will include works by Schumann, Brahms, de Falla, Debussy and Ravel. Also appearing: Tommy Smith (saxophone), Brian Kellock (piano) & Kathleen MacInnes (vocals), Jun 13; Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Jun 28 www.thequeenshall.net For a chance to win tickets to the 40th Anniversary Concert go to p8.

With its large, domed roof and walls hung with paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland’s collection, the Picture Gallery at Paxton House in the Scottish Borders provides an idyllic setting for Music at Paxton, the annual summer festival of chamber music under new Artistic Director Pickett’s choreography expressing the Pop-up Opera, Scottish Opera’s specially Angus Smith. emotional force of Miller’s masterpiece adapted trailer featuring a storyteller, Highlights include: an opening recital by accompanied by the Scottish Ballet two singers, musicians and a series of pianist Paul Lewis; violinist Tasmin Little, who Orchestra performing a haunting new score colourful illustrations, is on the road again recently announced her retirement from the by the appropriately named Peter Salem. this summer at festivals and events around concert platform in 2020, in her only Scottish Scottish Ballet is also touring a small Scotland (until Jul 20). This year’s 25-minute date this year; young soprano Louise version of a big ballet, as Wee Hansel and selections are A Little Bit of Iolanthe, A Gretel visits venues across Scotland as Little Bit of Magic Flute and for younger part of the company’s 50th anniversary audiences Puffy McPuffer and The Crabbit celebrations (var. dates, Jul 5-Oct 26). Canals. www.scottishopera.org.uk Aimed at children aged three to eight and their families as a way of discovering Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall is gearing up the magic of ballet, the timeless fairytale for its 40th Anniversary Concert featuring follows Hansel and Gretel on their the multiple award-winning Scottish pianist adventure deep into the woods to an Steven Osborne and cellist Alban Gerhardt enchanted gingerbread house. (Jul 6). Dancers from Scottish Ballet will perform In a review of an Osborne recital The alongside talented students from the Guardian wrote: ‘There was barely a Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s BA in Modern Ballet accompanied by the music of POP-UP OPERA 2018 CAST MEMBERS Engelbert Humperdinck recorded live by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra. For a chance to win tickets to Wee Hansel and Gretel to p8. www.scottishballet.co.uk

In its European premiere, Scottish Opera performs American composer Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves at the Edinburgh International Festival (Aug 21-24). Based on Lars von Trier’s award-winning film, Mazzoli’s opera tells the story of Bess, a young woman living in a deeply religious community in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s. It won the 2017 Best New Opera Award from the Music Critics Association of North America.

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quartet tours throughout the UK, Europe and the USA. Other new features this year include a The Queen’s Hall 1979-2019 family concert in Kelso, the first time Music at 40th Anniversary Concert Paxton has taken the festival off-site and a free choral concert on the lawns of Paxton. Saturday July 6, 7.30pm There are also free, one-hour taster concerts and marquee events during the week Steven Osborne (piano) showcasing young talent from Live Music & Alban Gerhardt (cello) Now Scotland. Jul 19-28,

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ALBAN GERHARDT AND STEVEN concert of Hollywood movie music for OSBORNE WILL PERFORM IN THE 15,000 people at Tynecastle Park and the 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT AT THE QUEEN’S HALL Scottish Chamber Orchestra providing the live soundtrack to the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert, when crowded club night at forms a spectacular backdrop to the the end of the world and pyrotechnics. issues of race, class, Highlights in between include: a new and cultural identity version of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ by come to the fore. Chinese choreographer Yang Liping and Inspired by the Oscar-winning designer Tim Yip (‘Crouching original B-movie, in Tiger, Hidden Dragon’), inspired by Chinese which a nest of giant, and Tibetan symbols of nature, with 15 irradiated ants attacks dancers performing to specially created new Los Angeles, the music alongside Stravinsky’s original score; production will feature and Sir James MacMillan at 60, a special media event incorporating theatre, music, a colony of 150,000 leafcutter ants supplied series of five concerts celebrating the career television and film, at Glasgow’s . by a leading expert in the species. Jun 27- of Scotland’s most internationally renowned ‘Them!’ brings the audience onto the Jul 6, www.nationaltheatrescotland.com composer, culminating in the world premiere set of a live TV chat show. The lights are of his Symphony No.5 ‘Le grand inconnu’. up, cameras are rolling, the house band The Edinburgh International Festival All of Scotland’s national companies performs and the host meets the guest, a continues to be the world's biggest cultural are involved, while visiting companies and celebrated Scottish theatre-maker promoting gathering, this year comprising – count ‘em ensembles include the Sydney Theatre his remake of Them!, the seminal 1950s – 93 events, 293 performances, 17 venues Company, the London Symphony Orchestra, creature feature, now set in Glasgow. and some 2,600 artists from 40 nations to Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Shanghai As a diverse cast of performers take to celebrate its 73rd year. Symphony Orchestra. Aug 2-26, the chat show stage in the roles of host and Bookending the Festival are the Los www.eif.co.uk interviewees, everything begins to change. Angeles Philharmonic, led by conductor The scene shifts from the TV studio to a Gustavo Dudamel, with a special free

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Catch a rising star when art colleges transform their premises into some of the country’s biggest galleries to CAREER PEAK? showcase work by this year’s crop of graduates. Check for venues & times.

cottish artist Katie Paterson has been responsible for some of the most imaginative and & NORTHEAST Gray’s ingenious projects of recent years. For ‘All The Dead Stars’ (2009) she created a map of School of Art, Private View Fri Jun 14, open all the dead stars since the beginning of time – about 27,000 of them – represented as to the public Jun 15-22; Moray School of white dots laser-etched onto black aluminium. For ‘Totality’ (2016) she created a mirror Art, Opening Fri Jun 14, public access Jun Sball reflecting every solar eclipse documented over centuries. And for ‘Earth-Moon-Earth’ 17-21 (2008) the music for Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” was translated into Morse code, sent to the moon, where the surface fragmented the score, and when the message returned to earth, a new “composition” - minus the gaps - was played on an automated grand piano. For her latest project, ‘First There is a Mountain’, she has created a participatory artwork which invites the public to “sculpt” beaches into mountains of sand using moulds in the form of Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Shasta (USA), Mount Fuji (Asia), Stromboli (Europe) and Uluru (Oceania). Var. dates Jun 16-Jul 28, Edinburgh (Portobello Beach), Aberdeen Beach, Orkney (Waulkmill Bay), Isle of Lewis (Coll Beach), North Uist (Baile Sear Beach), Isle of Skye (Glenbrittle Beach) & Isle of Mull (Calgary Beach), www.firstthereisamountain.com

BORDERS Allanbank Mill Steading, Textiles by Pauline Burbidge, drawing and OPEN STUDIOS sculpture by Charles Paulsen, animated film by guest artist David Martin, Aug 2-5, Meet artists and makers in their www.allanbankmillsteading.co.uk work spaces, hear about their SCHOOL OF ART SUMMER EXHIBITION CENTRAL SCOTLAND Forth Valley Art methods and sources of inspiration, Beat, Jun 8-16, www.forthvalleyartbeat.com watch a demonstration and buy or EDINBURGH & LOTHIANS West Lothian commission a piece. EDINBURGH Coburg House, Jul 26 College, HNC Contemporary Art Practice, (opening night)-28, Edinburgh Palette (St Margaret’s House), ARRAN Arran Open Studios, Aug 2-5, www.coburghouse.co.uk Jun 4-9; Chippendale International www.arranopenstudios.com School of Furniture, Public exhibition, FIFE East Neuk Open Studios, Jun , Jun 10 & 11, Open Evening 22 & 23 and 29 & 30, at the school near Haddington Jun 14, www.eastneukopenstudios.org; Open Day Jun 15 See preview p29; Leith Largo Arts Week, Jul 19-28, School of Art, Summer Exhibition, Private www.largoartsweek.com View Thur Jun 27, open to public Jun 28-30 HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Bute Studio Trail, Jul 20 & 21, GLASGOW Royal Conservatoire of www.butestudiotrail.com Scotland, BA Production Arts and Design Showcase, Jun 26-28

NORTHERN ISLES Orkney College UHI, TEXTILE ARTIST PAULINE BURBIDGE. NC Art & Design, Private View Fri Jun 14, PHOTO: PHIL DICKSON (ALLANBANK MILL STEADING) open to public Jun 17-26

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IN 2017 LORENZO QUINN BUILT TWO GIANT HANDS REACHING UP OUT OF THE GRAND CANAL. THIS YEAR HIS ‘BUILDING BRIDGES’ FEATURES NOT ONE, BUT SIX PAIRS OF HANDS TOUCHING AND CLASPING ACROSS THE CANAL ENTERING THE ARSENALE, A SPRAWLING SITE HOSTING PART OF THE BIENNALE. IT IS HIS LARGEST WORK TO DATE. REPRESENTING THE SIX VALUES OF FRIENDSHIP, WISDOM, HELP, FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE, THE HANDS SYMBOLISE PEOPLE OVERCOMING THEIR DIFFERENCES. SAYS QUINN: “VENICE IS THE CITY OF BRIDGES. IT IS THE PERFECT LOCATION TO SPREAD A MESSAGE OF WORLD UNITY.”

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stablished in 1895 to promote Gallery. Think an Olympic Park for art. Italian art and interrupted only for Rugoff has assembled 80 artists and six years during WWII, the Venice collectives and installed their work both in Biennale is the largest gathering the Giardini and in the Arsenale, the great Eof its kind in the world. This year marks its 16th century shipyard where the Venetian 58th edition. empire built its fleet. Normally closed to the Over the years some major names public, this is a rare chance to see inside the have appeared, such as Gustav Klimt sprawling site. It’s so big that golf carts are (1905), Henri Matisse (1950), Cy Twombly available to the footsore. (2001), Ed Ruscha (2005), Tracey Emin (who original, picturesque site with permanent In addition, dozens of ‘collateral’ represented Great Britain in 2007) and ‘official’ pavilions designed by the likes of events, from museum quality exhibitions Damien Hirst (whose Treasures from the Gerrit Rietveld (Netherlands) and Alvar Aalto to pop-up shows, are dotted around the Wreck of the Unbelievable was a huge draw (Finland). city in deconsecrated churches, palaces, in 2017). These presentations are accompanied courtyards and other buildings. These Under this year’s theme May You Live by a huge mixed exhibition in the Central include 2018 Turner Prize-winner Charlotte In Interesting Times, almost 90 nations are Pavilion by this year’s guest curator Ralph Prodger’s presentation for Scotland, ‘SaF05’, represented in the Giardini (Gardens), the Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward the last in her video trilogy. A metaphor for

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Prodger’s theme of gender fluidity, the title refers to the name researchers have given a maned lioness in Botswana, which is displaying male characteristics. 1 - 22 June First-time visitors to the Biennale will be struck at how the lines between art, music, poetry, film, literature, performance, installation, soundscape, text, video, politics and social commentary have been blurred. This is the Turner Prize on steroids. Charles You’ll also learn that contemporary art isn’t just about looking any more. You also have to be a speed reader. As if it is not confusing enough just viewing some of the pieces and trying to fix their meaning, exhibitors shower you in ‘artspeak’ telling Monteith you what you’re seeing. Art, it seems, is now anything claimed to be such by anyone calling themselves an artist. The typical ‘artist statement’ (is there a more dreaded pairing of words in the English language?) is riddled with gobbledygook. And so you will read about art which Walker ‘illustrates...the contradictions of existence’ (Austria), ‘identifies...the critical answer to the complexity of our age’ (Czech Republic) 2019 EXHIBITION or ‘presents an other-worldly reflection on the concepts of personal memory, collective memory, history and identity’ (Denmark). There are screeds of this stuff. Not only will your feet ache, but your eyes too by the time you’re finished. (Is this an admission of failure to communicate in a visual language? And, if so, is it really art?) Best to ignore this mumbo-jumbo and just dive in. Inevitably, a visit to the Biennale becomes an endurance test. Good intentions to give every contribution a fair look eventually disappear under the sheer scale of it all and making it to the finishing line becomes the main aim. After a while one sign finally causes the heart to soar. It says ‘Cafe’. Conclusion: Great art? Very little. Bad www.eastudios.com art? Plenty. Non-art? Tons of it. Unmissable? catalogue available Absolutely.

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VENICE BIENNALE A FOUR NIGHT ESCORTED HOLIDAY | 20 OCTOBER 2019 Held since 1895, Biennale presents a diverse array of exhibitions, installations and events throughout the city. In the company of art expert Charlie Hall, who has worked in Venice for more than 25 years, we will take in both classical and modern art in an itinerary which has something for everyone with an interest in the visual arts. Based at the 4* Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, our first visit will be to the national pavilions in the Giardini. Entitled “May You Live In Interesting Times”, this year’s Biennale is curated by Ralph Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward Gallery. There are 91 national participants and this year’s British entry is by the Turner prize nominee Cathy Wilkes. An afternoon will be spent exploring the Cannaregio area of Venice, one of the most authentic districts of the city today, where you will still find local residents and few tourists. We will see the new installation by author and ceramicist Edmund de Waal in a 16th-century synagogue located in the former Jewish Ghetto, before visiting the church of I Gesuiti with its wonderful baroque interior, and Madonna dell’Orto, adorned with paintings by Tintoretto who was also buried here. Further highlights include Francois Pinault’s spectacular ‘Punta della Dogana’ gallery of Contemporary art, the Peggy Guggenheim collection and a visit to the Church of Gesuati, where we will see very important works by the 18th century Venetian masters Tiepolo, Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci.

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giant sculpture by Martin A Puryear greets visitors to the USA pavilion.

apan’s Mari Katayama Jfeatures herself in her photographic work surrounded by hand-made ‘body parts’ replicating those she lost when a rare congenital disorder affecting her shin bones and left hand he Golden Lion for Best National necessitated amputation aged nine. TPavilion went to Lithuania, which In 2016 she visited the island of created a ‘beach’ viewed from a Naoshima, home to an all-female style of surrounding balcony and peopled by opera- ‘bunraku’, the traditional Japanese puppet singing sunbathers of all ages complaining theatre. She photographed the puppeteers’ about life’s inconveniences. Entitled ‘Sun & hands, printed them on fabric and turned Sea (Marina)’, it is a comment on the laziness them into wearable soft sculptures to ‘BYSTANDER #23’ (2016). IMAGE COURTESY BEN DAVIS and self-indulgence which allow climate replace her lost limbs. Human hands, she change and other problems to develop. explains “are capable of making anything You can join in any Saturday throughout by changing shapes and sizes”. the Biennale by completing an online application. Just bring a bathing suit, a orking with recycled materials, towel, the kids and even your pets. Wi-fi and WYin Xiuzhen creates sculptures reading light provided. reflecting the excessive development and consumption of post-1989 China. ‘Trojan’ (pictured) depicts a passenger in the emergency ‘Brace!’ position in an airplane seat. Hollow and open at the back, you can enter a concealed space evoking a sense of anxiety and perhaps a warning to brace for turbulence ahead.

The 58th Venice Biennale runs until November 24. Further info: www.labiennale.org.

n the Poland pavilion ‘Flight’ by Roman Stanczak is a monument to his country post- ISoviet Union. An aircraft is literally turned inside out, thus revealing what is usually he most controversial ‘exhibit’ is ‘Barca concealed. Says Stanczak: “Turning things inside out speaks about hope.” TNostra’ (Our Ship) by Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel. Standing on the Arsenale dockside, it is the rusting hulk of a vessel which sank in the Mediterranean in 2015, taking hundreds of migrants down with it in the deadliest shipwreck in living memory. While Büchel argues that it is “a relic of a human tragedy (and) a monument to contemporary migration”, critics have called it ‘nauseous’, ‘vile’ and ‘barbarous’. Some observers are particularly angered by the number of people taking selfies in front of it.

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1 Pieter van der Werf and Fiona Page of West Coast- 4 Inspired by visits to the Western Isles and Japan, the based Studio Orains create hand-made textile art and Horizon Collection of ties by Niki Fulton combines wall works using Scottish wool and natural dyes and Hebridean hues with a Japanese sense of space, or ‘ma’. inspired by a sense of place. Pictured: ‘Wall Work 2’, Available in four colours: salt, rock, moss and peat. commissioned by Pippa Paton Design for a contemporary www.nikifulton.com cottage in the Cotswolds www.orains.com 5 Karolina Franceschini of Glasgow-based art studio and 2 Combining figurative sculpture and functionality, online shop More is More uses her visually intense silversmith Bryony Knox makes a range of items inspired oil painting as a base for textile designs, which are by the essence of animals and birds. Her pieces often transferred onto fabric by the Advance Textiles Centre incorporate glass, enamel or gilded details, resulting at of Art. She has just launched her in contemporary silverware with a twist. Pictured: first collection of velvet cushions and small fashion Hummingbird and hoopoe bud vases & brooches, silver & accessories. www.moreismore.shop glass. Photo: Shannon Tofts www.bryonyknox.com 6 Myer Halliday designs a range of household products 3 Working primarily in recycled Ecosilver, Akvile Su makes that he hopes you will “love to live with”, including bowls, minimalist, gender-neutral jewellery using traditional candle-holders, coffee pots, cups, jugs, trays and vases. techniques in modern ways. Inspired by everyday www.myerhalliday.co.uk surroundings, fashion forms and architectural designs, she refines her pieces to elegant simplicity. www.akvilesu.com

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elebrating as ever the beauty and colour of the Scottish west coast, Jolomo: A Tapestry of Colour at Tolquhon Gallery in rural brings HARRIS togetherC over fifty paintings of the artist’s An exhibition of new paintings favourite places, including the islands of by Kanita Sim Arran, Gigha, Iona, Jura, Mull and Tiree, always glorying in colour and painted in 12 July-9 September all seasons and weathers, whether fresh summer meadows, stormy winter seas, quiet moonlit skies or rich, intense sunsets.

Meet the artist/book signing 12 July & 20 July 2-4pm ‘Setting Sun Harris’ by Kanita Sim ‘Setting Sun Harris’

JOLOMO, ‘A STORMY SUNSET, DUNROSTAN K,NAPDALE’ (TOLQUHON GALLERY) MILTON ART GALLERY Often copied, but never bettered, John Open all week: Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 11-5 Lowrie Morrison OBE, known as Jolomo, Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH is one of Scotland’s most popular and successful artists, his landscapes recognised [email protected] 01330 844664 www.miltonart.com even by those with little interest in art. Jun 15-Jul 9, www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk TOLQUHON GALLERY

PENELOPE CAIN WITH WORK (GLENFIDDICH DISTILLERY)

This year the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown is celebrating the 50th anniversary as the first to open a dedicated visitor centre. However, for the past 18 years, as well as being a destination for whisky JOLOMO A Tapestry of Colour enthusiasts, it has also offered much sought after artists’ residencies. 15 June - 9 July Every summer since 2002 up to eight artists from every corner of the globe have spent three months in residence, creating new works inspired by their surroundings www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk and their time living and working in Dufftown. To date the distillery has hosted over 150 Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, AB41 7LP artists from over 20 countries. The 2019 programme includes artists T: 01651 842343 E: [email protected] from Scotland, India, Canada, the USA,

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Brian McFie Works on Paper 26 July - 22 August Margaretann Bennett RSW, ‘Autumn’ – Acrylic on canvas, 50cm x 40cm Acrylic – on canvas, ‘Autumn’ Margaretann Bennett RSW, ‘Rapsody’ by Letitia Smith-Burnett by ‘Rapsody’ The Braemar Gallery 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD 34 Mar Road, Braemar, 01224 625629 • [email protected] 10am-5pm MON, THU, FRI, SAT. Aberdeenshire AB35 5YL Open Mon–Sat from 10am 013397 41681 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater • 013397 55888 www.galleryheinzel.com www.larksgallery.com [email protected] www.braemargallery.co.uk

Summer Show Contemporary Scottish Painting and Sculpture June-Sept

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www.lostgallery.co.uk ‘Aonach Eagach Winter’ oil on canvas 61 x 91 cm Peter Goodfellow www.petergoodfellow.com

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Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia and Scotland's changing landscapes created by Taiwan, with each one given an opportunity artists and writers in the 19th century with the Come along and see a unique to show their work in a series of exhibitions reality of ordinary life. collection of over 100 original in the on-site gallery. Jul 27-Oct 13, The exhibition includes works by "Little Paintings" donated by www.glenfiddich.com/uk/explore/artists- renowned painters such as Sir John Lavery, artists in support of Hansel in-residence/welcome Patrick Nasmyth and Sir James Guthrie, Artist in Residence each day whose dramatic landscapes continue to Bringing together treasures from the shape perceptions of Scotland, and early Free Entry collections of the National Galleries of photography and historic objects which For more information please call Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland, reframe these works in their historical 01563 830340 Romantic Scotland at in context. Until Sep 29, Banff contrasts the romantic depictions of www.historicenvironment.scot

Come andWander see from us studio on to beautifulstudio on Arran. Arran! See paintings, drawings, etchings, sculpture, pottery, needlework, jewellery, furniture or wood turning, all on this tranquil island. You’re always welcome, whether you want to make a purchase or just pop in to see the work and have a wee chat. see you soon! www.arranopenstudios.com

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PHILLIP J. LITTLE, ‘WHITE JUG’ (HANSEL/ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM)

upporting people and Showcasing work by nearly 60 artists their families living with a who have used a variety of printmaking learning disability or autism, techniques, The Printed Line at the Dick the Ayrshire charity Hansel Institute in demonstrates how presents its Little Paintings they have explored the medium, from the ExhibitionS & Sale at the Robert Burns thick, velvety line of drypoint and the heavy Birthplace Museum in Alloway. cross-hatching of etching to delicate wood Each year more than 50 artists donate engraving and boldly coloured screenprints artworks measuring 20cm x 20cm. The and lithographs. exhibition has been held annually since The use of colour is also shown in 2008, raising £125,000 for the charity and screenprints by Sarah Whiteread, Bridget attracting support from well known artists Riley and Patrick Caulfield as well as Simon such as Gerard M. Burns and Lin Pattullo. Patterson's witty lithograph reworking the Jun 13-16, www.hansel.org.uk lines of the London tube map. Spanning the 20th century and up to During the 19th century, Ayrshire was at the the present day, this Arts Council Collection THE BIG forefront of Scotland’s industrial revolution. touring exhibition also includes work by The key lay below the ground in valuable Henri Matisse, David Hockney, Frank minerals such as coal and ironstone. Due to Auerbach, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Oskar EXHIBITIONS Kokoschka, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso Tom Davidson - 8th to 22nd June and Walter Sickert. Jul 6-Sep 7, 11 www.eastayrshire.com Shona Lenaghan - 20th July to 3rd Aug

THE POTTER’S CRAFT/BAIRD INSTITUTE its heat resistance another substance, fire Future Exhibitions: clay, was used to line the furnaces in which Colin Robertson - 10th to 24th August iron was smelted. Janet McCrorie - 7th to 21st September Clay also gave rise to the manufacture of the well known local product, Cumnock Ware. The Potter’s Craft – An Ayrshire Story at the Baird Institute in Cumnock features examples of Ayrshire’s ceramic industry and www.thegallerymelrose.co.uk examines the potter’s art from other cultures around the world. Until Aug 31, HENRI MATISSE, ‘LE GRAND BOIS’, LARGE WOODCUT, 1906. Tel: 01896 208190 ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION, SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON www.eastayrshire.com © THE ARTIST. DACS 2019 (DICK INSTITUTE) On-site Picture Framing Service

22 JUNE/JULY 2019 JUNE/JULY 2019 23 BORDERS dockside GALLERY Seawards... Summer Exhibition 7 July – 31 August ‘A Blue Dawn over the Sea’, by Patricia Sadler ‘Wave Form’, by Graham Muir

51 High Street, Coldstream TD12 4DL 01890 254 010 or 07980 402 755 Tues - Sat 10-4 www.whitefoxgallery.co.uk Wed 10-1 [email protected]

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2 Market Place Lauder THE THREE FISHES Berwickshire GALLERY & FRAMING TD2 6SR 19B Eastgate, Peebles 01578 722808 Mon – Fri (closed Wed) 10.00 –17.00 Sat 11.00 –16.30 www.flatcatgallery.co.uk 01721 720860 www.threefishesframing.com

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DAVID NASH, ‘THE THREE andscape artist Richard Brinley KNOBBERS’ (MARCHMONT HOUSE) of Ochre Gallery & Studio in Kirkcudbright looks set for a busy L year. With a revamped website offering originals and prints online and, as part of a group of local businesses and of many tours venues, the launch of the Kirkcudbright Art of the north of Map and associated website to help visitors England, journeys find their way around the town’s artistic which transformed treasures. him from an architectural draughtsman to a poet of the landscape. pproached along an The exhibition includes twelve colour arrow-straight avenue studies which represent the entire route of (at 1.3 miles the Turner’s 1797 tour. On loan from the Tate, longest in Scotland), they are displayed alongside two of his the magnificent, 18th sketchbooks of the River Tweed and lakes century Marchmont of the north of England. Until 13 Oct, House near the village of Greenlaw has www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk been reborn after a six-year restoration A RICHARD BRINLEY, 'SPRING GREENS, KNOCKBREX, GALLOWAY', by the current owners whose passion for OIL ON CANVAS (OCHRE GALLERY & STUDIO) craft and design tradition resulted in their receiving the 2018 Historic Houses/Sothebys Inside Ochre is work by photographer Restoration Award. David Whittingham and printer Claire Throughout the house there are period Cameron Smith alongside Richard’s own oil and contemporary artworks from the paintings of Galloway shores, estuaries and owners’ private collection ranging from landscapes on canvas and paper. Richard the 15th century to 2018. In the reception also has work in the exhibition Modern hall a sheep’s head by Henry Moore looks Makers at Kirkcudbright Galleries (until Aug down on Lynn Chadwick’s bronze sculpture 18). www.ochregallery.co.uk, ‘Stranger VII’ (1959) and a figure by Antony J.M.W. TURNER, ‘NORHAM CASTLE, ON THE RIVER TWEED’, www.kirkcudbrightmartmap.co.uk, Gormley, while in an alcove stand David C.1822-3 © TATE, LONDON 2019 (GRANARY GALLERY) www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk Nash’s monolithic black wood sculptures ‘The Three Knobbers’. To mark the opening of their new gallery, With featured artist Gordon Wilson, Fifteen Among the many highlights elsewhere Thirlestane Castle outside Lauder presents Years at the Whitehouse Gallery in are a beautiful Flanders tapestry from Theoretical Sharpness, a photographic Kirkcudbright celebrates a decade and 1580, a scale model of Gormley’s ‘Angel exhibition of never before seen images a half in business for one of Dumfries & of the North’ (the only one not in a public by the 14th Earl of Lauderdale Frederick Galloway’s top galleries. collection), a Pironesi vase, two Rob Hain Colin Maitland (1868-1931), consisting of Wilson’s subject matter ranges depictions of the house in his distinctive a selection of prints made from 120 year naive style and in the cavernous Music old negatives and appropriated in a Room ‘All That’s Left’, a giant left foot by contemporary style by the Borders-based Rebecca Ackroyd. photographic artist Sam Cornwell. Aug 5-8, Marchmont House is open to the public www.thirlestanecastle.co.uk for a limited number of days each year for guided tours and special events by prior booking. Coming up: Conversations in Wood, Sat Aug 3; Special tours & film screenings, Sun & Mon Aug 4 & 5. www.marchmonthouse.com

Turner: Northern Exposure at the Granary Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed is a major new exhibition of works by one of the most renowned English Romantic artists. ABIGAIL MCLELLAN, ‘YOUNG WOMAN SITTING’ In 1797 J.M.W. Turner undertook the first SEE THIRLESTANE CASTLE ()

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11 May - 29 June Gallery 1: Energise. An Angela Lawrence Upland project featuring Jason Nelson, Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson Andy Goldsworthy ‘Winter Harvest’ photography from the Gracefield Collection

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29 June - 24 August rtists gallery ehiiting ttish seasaes Gallery 2: Ladies First. 70 and dramati landsaes rm the ighlands and years of Women’s Art from the umria and a large seletin riginals limited Gracefield Collection editin signed rints and art gits aailale. 6 July - 3 August r in rgress in the studi. Gallery 1: D&G Fine Arts Society Annual mmissins welme. Exhibition

28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ [email protected] | www.dgculture.co.uk Open all year 10-5pm, Mon-Sat Clience Studio Clience Studio, By the Clocktower, 212 King Street, Castle Douglas DG7 1DS 01556 504318 | www.cliencestudio.co.uk

Charles Oppenheimer, Saturday 22 June - His Art Sunday 1 September Kirkcudbright Galleries Gallery Two, First Floor St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4AA

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Admission Admission £5.00. Free for under 18s, Art Fund members and Friends of Kirkcudbright Galleries

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GORDON WILSON, 'CLEAR SKY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT FIFTEEN YEARS BUT 'N' BEN' (THE WHITEHOUSE GALLERY) 22 June - 7 September from quirky portraiture to emotive Mixed group exhibition with featured artist GORDON WILSON. landscapes and seascapes. His love of Includes Rosanne Barr, Jen Collee, Emma S Davis RSW, Clare Flinn, Jackie Gardiner, Moy Mackay, the Scottish west coast and the ever- Suzan Malcolm PPAI, Margaret S Milligan, Fiona Millar, changing moods of the countryside is Fiona Sturrock & Cameron Watt. complemented by amusing narratives in his popular paintings of old ladies (biddies), Please check website for up to date opening times. belted Galloways (cows, that is) and Clyde The Whitehouse Gallery, 47 St Mary’s Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU “puffers”. t: 01557 330223 e: [email protected] www.whitehousegallery.co.uk A mixed exhibition, Fifteen Years also louise o’hara includes the return of the award-winning Scottish artist Emma Davis RSW PAI with a collection of landscapes and still lifes. She is joined by a number of new and returning artists and makers working in a diverse range of styles and media, including glass, ceramic, jewellery and sculpture. Jun 22- Sep 7, www.whitehousegallery.co.uk

Some of Britain’s most important women artists working from the 1950s to the present day are featured in Ladies First: 70 years of Women’s Art at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries. They include nationally and internationally known names such as Laura Knight, , Elizabeth Blackadder, Barbara Rae and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham as well local artists Chris Fergusson, Abigail McLellan and Silvana McLean. National art collections hold as little as 5% of work by women. The Gracefield Collection is better placed with 21%, while more needs to be done to redress the balance and representation. Exhibition curator Dawn Henderby will give a gallery talk at 2pm on the opening day. Space is limited, so pre-booking is advised. Jun 29-Aug 24, www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield

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lmost five years since Gallery Q Dundee his last exhibition, Charles Monteith Paintings - Prints - Ceramics Walker returns to Glass - Jewellery - Textiles Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry, 20/20 VISION which has shown one of the most distinctive Acolourists of his generation for over thirty Summer Exhibition years. Comprising fifteen new works, this 20 years of Gallery Q selection reaffirms the artist’s assured drawing 29 June - 10 August and trademark use of colour. Born in Falkirk in 1957, Charles Monteith Walker studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art under artistic luminaries

Matthew CATRIONA MILLAR, ‘VERA’ (GALLERY Q) Alberto Morrocco and David McClure. During several visits to Italy, Spain and regeneration of this year’s host city, the Snowden Portugal in the mid-1990s he found fresh exhibition explores renewal through the inspiration in the warm light and rich colour reuse of materials and new technologies. of the Mediterranean, embracing a newly Until Jun 29, enriched palette which would make him www.silberschmiede-forum.eu one of Scotland’s most original contemporary As part of its 20th year landscape painters. celebrations, Gallery Until Jun 22, www. Q in Dundee presents Gallery Q Dundee eastudios.com 20/20 Vision: Mixed Queen’s Hotel Buildings Summer Exhibition, 160 Nethergate Renewal at Dock which looks back Dundee DD1 4DU Street Studios marks at the history of the www.galleryq.co.uk the first visit to the gallery and forward to UK of the European the future by bringing Silversmiths Forum, together long-standing Ludwig Museum, Budapest also known as the gallery artists and new HammerClub. The faces from across the group convenes every UK. The exhibition will year in a different part also mark the launch of Europe to celebrate of a new logo and the ancient practice website.

of silversmithing in PAUL DE VRIES (NETHERLANDS), ‘FLUIDITY’ Returning artists which a flat sheet of (EUROPEAN SILVERSMITHS FORUM) include painters Francis metal is raised into a Boag, Catriona Millar, three-dimensional shape using hammers John Lowrie “Jolomo” Morrison, Claire and steel stakes. Taking its theme from the Harkess and George Gilbert, glassmakers Kim Bramley, Graham Muir and Mike Hunter and ceramicists Helen Kemp and Hilke MacIntytre. Featured artist Matthew Snowden is new to the gallery and, despite depicting the Scottish landscape for many years, has never exhibited in LOVE ART? Scotland before. Other newcomers include painters Dionne Sievewright, LOVE TRAVEL? Nikki Monaghan and Peter Kettle, ceramicists Meri Wells, Wendy Visit our website to Lawrence, Eric Moss and Mark Smith visit some of Europe’s and Fife glassmaker Charonne Ruth. top galleries and Jun 29-Aug 10, www.galleryq.co.uk museums CHARLES MONTEITH WALKER, 'GOLDEN SUN, www.artmag.co.uk/travel GRAND CANAL', PASTEL ON BOARD (EDUARDO ALESSANDRO STUDIOS)

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diplomatic and artistic associations between Britain and Russia and their royal families from the late 17th century to the reign of Russia’s last emperor, Nicholas II, and beyond. The exhibition includes portraits, sculpture, photographs and archival documents, many of which were commissioned as diplomatic gifts, others as intimate, personal mementos, including miniature masterpieces by Fabergé. Part of the , www.edinburghartfestival.com Jun 21-Nov 3, www.rct.uk/visit/the-queens-gallery- palace-of-holyroodhouse

The Chippendale International School of Furniture is Scotland’s only independent furniture design and making school. Opened in 1985 in old farm premises near ADE ADESINA, ‘TIC TOC’, LINOCUT. 2016 (THE GALLERY AT LINLITHGOW BURGH HALLS) Haddington in East Lothian, it takes in students from all over the world on 30-week lending African, Scottish professional courses. This year they came and European influences, from the UK, USA, Ireland, Iceland, Poland, Ade Adesina’s work as Germany, Italy, Australia and Canada. See a traditional printmaker, DEGREE & END OF YEAR SHOWS on page painter and sculptor 13. www.chippendale.com exploresB themes around ecology and how the human footprint is affecting our planet. Mirage at The Gallery at Linlithgow Burgh Halls showcases previous and new work by the Nigerian-born, Aberdeen-based artist. Working mostly in woodcarving, linocut, DESK IN WALNUT VANEER BY CANADIAN STUDENT PETER CAMPOSILVAN (CHIPPENDALE etching and oil paint, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF FURNITURE) he draws on his travel experiences in different cultures to create surreal, black and white works which cause viewers to reflect on themselves and their histories. A 2012 printmaking graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Adesina went on to become the Royal Scottish Academy’s Artist in Residence at Glasgow Print Studio. This exhibition includes work made in collaboration with other artists, including David Mach RA, June Carey RGI RSW, Tomasz Wrobel and Ian Burke. Until Jul 7, www.linlithgowburghhalls.co.uk

Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, LAURITS REGNER TUXEN, ‘THE MARRIAGE OF tells the story of the familial, political, NICHOLAS II, TSAR OF RUSSIA, 26 NOVEMBER 1894’, 1895-96 (THE QUEEN’S GALLERY)

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urner Prize winner GRAYSON PERRY, ‘JULIE AND and self-titled DAVE’, 2015. WOOL, COTTON, ACRYLIC, POLYESTER & SILK “unapologetic TAPESTRY © GRAYSON PERRY. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND fetishist” Grayson VICTORIA MIRO, LONDON/ Perry brings his VENICE () Rhythm Tfirst Scottish solo exhibition Soosan Danesh to Dovecot Studios with Julie group of artists who 21/6-12/7 Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story all graduated from of a Life. Edinburgh College of The show features the Art in 1975. complete set of tapestries Perry Based on themes designed with FAT Architecture of navigation and ‘Rhythm 5’ for A House for Essex, a real-life navigators, Navigate house evoking the tradition of (Jul 6-13) features wayside pilgrimage chapels painted and collaged and dedicated to Julie Cope, a fictional landscapes by Susie Paterson, ceramic everywoman. and glass vessels by Moray Miller and Precipitous City The story of Julie Cope is told in an constructed pieces using real charts by bound : unbound audio ballad spoken by Perry narrating key Jim Cursitor. https://navigate3exhibition. 16/8-6/9 events in the protagonist’s life from her birth wordpress.com. during the Canvey Island floods of 1953 to A number of Fife-based artists bring their her sudden death in a tragic accident. work to the attention of capital art-lovers in By delving into the narrative of fictional Fife in the City (Jul 22-28). Julie Cope, Perry explores in his own words, Having launched their first exhibition in ‘Easterly Mists...’ Lynda Wilson ‘Easterly Mists...’ “the trials, tribulations, celebrations and mistakes of an average life”. Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, 3 Barclay Terrace Edinburgh EH10 4HP www.edinburghartfestival. www.uprightgallery.com com Jul 25-Nov 2, www.dovecotstudios. com art in the garden In its prime location on Edinburgh’s famed “gallery row”, the Dundas Street Gallery is a DANIEL LIE, DEATH CENTRE FOR THE LIVING, VIENNA FESTWOCHEN, 2017. ‘rental space’ where both IMAGE COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JUPITER ARTLAND emerging and established artists can stage their own exhibitions. 1886, members of the New Club Coming up: stage their latest show in Edinburgh (Aug Paintings, drawings, prints and 2-9). HRH Prince Charles is their patron. photographs feature in Between Floor and www.newenglishartclub.co.uk Ceiling (Jul 14-21), a solo exhibition by Mary The Dundas Street Gallery is available Mackay. www.marymackaystudio.co.uk. for weekly, fortnightly or monthly hire and ECA ‘75 (Jun 17-30) features work by a evening events. www.dundas-street-gallery.co.uk

Jupiter Artland, the sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh, opens its 2019 programme with Daniel Lie: The Negative Years for which the Indonesian-Brazilian Original outdoor art installed in our 20 artist will use organic materials harvested display gardens for July & August from Jupiter Artland to create indoor and Free Entry outdoor installations which transform Open Daily 10am-5.30pm over their lifetime to create what the artist New Hopetoun Gardens RUTH STIVEN, describes as a “geography of emotion”. ‘PICNIC’ (ECA by Newton Village, Winchburgh, ‘75/DUNDAS Until Jul 14, www.jupiterartland.org West Lothian EH52 6QZ STREET www.newhopetoungardens.co.uk GALLERY)

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Exhibition & Sale of Work Wine & strawberries served at both events 6-8pm Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ Monday June 10, 1-8pm Tuesday June 11, 10am-8pm

The Chippendale International School of Furniture Myreside Grange, Gifford EH41 4JA (on the B6369 Haddington to Gifford road) Friday June 14, 6-8pm Saturday June 15, 10am-4pm Enquiries: Tom Fraser, 01620 810680 [email protected]

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rt in the Garden at RAYMOND DOUGLAS, ‘ROWAN TREE’, New Hopetoun PEOPLE’S VOTE WINNER AT ART IN THE Gardens in West GARDEN 2018 (NEW HOPETOUN GARDENS) Lothian features original outdoor works byA around a dozen Scottish-based artists displayed in themed spaces around the garden centre. There is a People’s Vote to choose visitors’ favourite piece. Jul 1-Aug 31, www.newhopetoungardens.co.uk

Often described as a 20th century invention, collage in fact dates back several centuries. The first survey exhibition of collage ever to take place in Britain, Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art () spans over 400 years and includes more than 250 works. A huge range of approaches is on show, including 16th century anatomical ‘flap prints’, computer- based images, 19th century do-it-yourself group of Dada and Surrealist collages collage kits and collage films from the by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Joan 1960s. Miró and Max Ernst; and major post-war Highlights include: Cubist masterpieces works by Robert Rauschenberg and Peter by Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris; a major Blake, including the only surviving

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an exhibition of paintings by selected members of the new english art club, london

‘Late Evening Porthmeor Beach St Ives’ ‘Late Evening www.newenglishartclub

ARTISTS SHOWING Peter Brown (p.neac, hon.rba.) | Tom Coates (pp.neac., rba, rws) | Paul Curtis (neac) ECA’75 Richard Pikesley (pp.neac) | Mary Jackson (neac, rws) | Louise Balaam (neac, rws) A collection of work from a group of students graduating from Edinburgh 2-9 august 2019 College of Art in 1975 private view sat 3 aug 10am-6pm th th JUNE 18 - 30 2019 Dundas Street Gallery 6 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6HZ

Dundas Street Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh The New English Art Club is part of the Federation of British Artists. Patron HRH The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM

Charlie Marshall NAVIGATE FIFE IN THE CITY Robbie Peterson An Exhibition featuring 3 Artists Helen Smart 4 Fife Artists Margaret Robertson Jim Cursiter Moray Miller Susie Paterson

6th July - 13th July 2019

The Dundas Street Gallery Helen Smart - ‘Along the Way: St. Monance’ 6 Dundas Street

Edinburgh EH3 6HZ Charlie Marshall - ‘Grace Darling’ Robbie Peterson - ‘the auld bowhead’ (beneath the Fine Art Society) 10.30am - 6pm Sun 7th - Sat 13th Dundas Street Gallery Sat 6th 12 - 6pm 22-28 July 10am till late for more information please visit our blog 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh https://navigate3exhibition.wordpress.com Margaret Robertson - ‘Flying High’ [email protected]

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Victoria Crowe Barbara Rae NATALYA GONCHAROVA, COSTUME DESIGN FOR ONE OF THE Jennifer McRae Andrew Mackenzie John Bellany THREE KINGS IN ‘LA LITURGIE’ (DETAIL), 1915. COLLECTION: Paul Furneaux Alexander Moffat Sarah Knox NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND © ADAGP, PARIS AND Jonathan Lloyd Hannah Mooney Leo du Feu DACS, LONDON 2019. PHOTO: ANTONIA REEVE Ewan McClure Euphrosyne Andrews Felix Carr original source photographs for Blake’s 7-16 June and Jann Haworth’s iconic cover for the Inverleith House Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Beatles’ album ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, www.edinburghartfestival.com Jun 29-Oct 27, www.nationalgalleries.org www.artinhealthcare.org.uk

AXE WITH COPPER CELT BLADE Claire Wills, ‘Yachts 2’ DRIVEN THROUGH THE HEAD OF A WOODEN HANDLE CARVED IN THE FORM OF A WOMAN (NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND)

A display at the National Museum of Scotland explores how brass and copper were used as objects of exchange, status and power in West and Central Africa, where the creation and trade of elaborate, decorated metalwork has been widespread for centuries. Objects in The Art of African Metalwork range from 19th and early 20th century Original Artwork, Limited Edition Prints, China & Glass, currency to ceremonial weaponry and items Jewellery, Fine Toiletries, Gifts & Licensed Café used for personal adornment. Opening Hours Part of a complex trade network, the Monday-Saturday 10.00am – 5.30pm objects were beaten, burnished, coiled or Sunday 12.00pm – 5.00pm cast in brass and copper by highly skilled 41 Westgate, North Berwick, East Lothian EH39 4AG metalworkers and were of significant cultural value. Until Aug 25, www.nms.ac.uk TEL: 01620 894976 • www.westgategalleries.co.uk

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LA P’TITE FOLIE

SETTING La P’tite Folie is a haven of fine French food and wine. As the weather heats up, the outdoor tables are perfect for people watching, while the quirky inside space is ideal for intimate meals or family feasts - especially on the last Sunday of the month, when the showstopping Sunday roast menu is available.

FOOD The carefully curated menu showcases the best of Gallic cuisine. During the summer months expect seasonal delights like chorizo and tomato Everything about La P’tite Folie is true tarte – sweet, smoky flavours working to the French way - where flavour is HELLO, MY NAME’S perfectly, or goats cheese panna cotta everything and bonhomie is everywhere. with a summer garden inspired pea and NEARBY GALLERIES DAVID STOTT mint puree. Mains include some of the best seafood in Edinburgh - a roast Union Gallery, Gallery Ten and the july 25-31 cod fillet with mussels, surf clams and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art samphire is exemplary and perfect when www.artmag.co.uk/la-ptite-folie THE LIFE ROOM GALLERY accompanied with a cool glass of white Rowan Anderson, Culinary Arts Editor 23B DUNDAS STREET from the cellar. EDINBURGH EH3 6QQ 9 Randolph Place, Edinburgh, EH3 7TE, 0131 225 8678, www.laptitefolie.co.uk enquiries: [email protected] Open Mon-Sat 12-3pm / 6-10pm (11pm Fri & Sat). Last Sunday of the month 12.30pm-3pm

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HELEN GLASSFORD, ‘ABSORB’, OIL ON BOARD (TATHA GALLERY)

ittenweem in August is a informal talk, take part in a craft workshop or paradise for art-lovers. That’s enjoy an evening concert or play. where over 130 artists meet Three invited artists headline this to celebrate the Pittenweem year’s event. Ceramicist Lara Scobie has Arts Festival in the historic a signature style of vivid graphic patterns Pseaside village in the beautiful East Neuk of on clear-cut forms. Line Mortensen uses Fife. found glass and recycled slate to form Painters, designers, sculptors and artisans large and small scale mosaics. Calum arrive from all over Britain to exhibit in Colvin will combine works from three of galleries, houses, halls, spare rooms, net lofts his series created in the last ten years, all and beside the harbour. The atmosphere encompassing painting, photography and is friendly and relaxed and you can meet sculpture to create layers of meaning. the artists, browse their work, listen to an They are joined by Bursary

THE DORY BISTRO & GALLERY in Pittenweem Ehibitin a collection of paintins, prints, lass and ceramics b Kirstie Behrens Malcolm Cheape Tim Cockburn Bobbie Coleman Melanie Comber Derek Guild ‘Crail Garden’ by George Gilbert RSW Iain McIntosh Sigrid Shone THE QUAY GALLERY David Smith RSW 33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife T 01383 860602 Open Wednesday to Monday 10am-10pm Open from Easter until Christmas. Mon, Thurs - Sun 15 East Shore KY10 2NH | t: 01333 311222 www.thequaygallery.co.uk e: [email protected] | www.thedory.co.uk

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Pittart with bleed2.indd 1 23/05/2019 17:02 FIFE GLASGOW

Award-winner Sophie Demery whose works social and personal histories and sites combine photography, printmaking, text and in Glasgow and around Scotland. collage, often depicting nautical themes. Following in the vein of previous Aug 3-11, works, this project takes as its starting www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk point the work of Glasgow-born architect and engineer , who began his career designing factories, the sole surviving example of which is the A-listed Sentinel Works at Jessie Street, Polmadie. Leitch went on to design over 20 football in the UK and Ireland between 1899 and 1939. CERAMICIST LARA SCOBIE IS ONE OF THE INVITED ARTISTS Through moving image, AT THIS YEAR’S PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTIVAL soundscape, salvaged architectural Part of the EDEN programme of art, music objects, typography and print, the (including “tasters” by Scottish Opera), exhibition explores the shared, JANE WHYTE, ‘FRIDA KAHLO’ (MILNGAVIE ART CLUB ANNUAL film, drama and community arts, the Cupar EXHIBITION/LILLIE ART GALLERY) transferable language of Arts Trail showcases local artists’ work in the town’s shops and businesses. This n the first exhibition of year’s featured artist is Celie Byrne, whose its 2019 programme, the work ranges from large scale murals to Studio Pavilion at House installation-based art to portrait painting. for an Art Lover presents The Visitors should head first for the Cupar Corn Failing Light but Polmadie Exchange, the hub for the nine-day event. Shines, a solo exhibition by Jun 15-23, FB artist and film-maker Callum Rice. IA 2013 graduate of Glasgow School Depicting more secluded parts of the of Art, Rice has directed and produced a Scottish landscape, Helen Glassford: FROM: CALLUM RICE - THE FAILING LIGHT BUT number of short films which intimately depict POLMADIE SHINES (STUDIO PAVILION) Immerse at Tatha Gallery in Newport on Tay features over 40 oil paintings by the artist and gallery owner in her first solo show for over a year. Searching out empty places, deserted beaches and rocky outcrops, she captures the feel of the weather and a sense of place to convey a sensory experience of landscape. Jun 22-Aug 24, www.tathagallery.com

KIT MARTIN, ‘FLUX VIII’, FROM A SERIES OF LUMEN PRINTS USING FRESH PLANTS, PHOTO-SENSITIVE PAPER AND THE SUN (CUPAR ARTS TRAIL)

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Pittart with bleed2.indd 1 23/05/2019 17:02 GLASGOW

industrial design and its lasting social impact. Until Jun 23, www.studiopavilion.co.uk

Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break at Pollok House, a National Trust for Scotland property on the south side of Glasgow, consists of 20 large scale photogravures from three experimental series exploring the artist’s fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories: Fox Talbot’s Articles of Emma Hales - ’Jack of All Trades, Master of All of Them’ Lucie Holzer - ‘Soft Burning’ Glass, One Day This Glass Will Break and Emma Hales & Lucie Holzer 8 June – 6 July Thirty Pieces of Silver (exposed). Recipients of the 2017 RGI Graduate Award CORNELIA PARKER, ‘ONE DAY THIS GLASS WILL BREAK’, 2015, COURTESY AND © THE ARTIST AND FREED SPIRIT 13 July – 10 August ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, Paintings by Maria Spadoni (1928 - 2014) 2019. PHOTO: FXP PHOTOGRAPHY, LONDON, 2015 (POLLOK HOUSE)

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts

RGI Kelly Gallery 118 Douglas Street, Glasgow G2 4ET 0141 248 6386 [email protected] www.royalglasgowinstitute.org Maria Spadoni - ‘Carnevale’ Scottish Registered Charity No. SC014650 Photogravure is a photomechanical process which produces an image through

‘Sunlight on Gigha v Paps of Jura’ - Jolomo the exposure of a photographic positive onto a copper printing plate. Inspired by the 19th century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, Parker created a new hybrid form of print by exposing three-dimensional objects to ultraviolet light. In these works, she uses found objects such as a tower of crystal glasses, a shattered light bulb and

melting ice cubes, with the resulting prints capturing their shadows in a spectral still life. ‘Sunset Arisaig’ - John Bathgate Presented in partnership with Hayward Touring and the Southbank Centre, London, MIXED SUMMER EXHIBITION the exhibition is included with normal admission to Pollok House. Until Sep 15, JUNE JULY Some of the exhibiting Artists: www.nts.org.uk Jolomo John Bathgate In Hiding Places at the Lillie Art Gallery Lex McFayden in Milngavie, photographer Mhairi Muir Sheila Fowler Jane Birrell explores escapism, the tendency to seek ‘The Mystery of the Cherries’ - Lex McFayden Margaret Evans distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy. From The GLASGOW GALLERY is a 182 Bath St the physical action of running away to the contemporary art gallery specialising in Glasgow G2 4HG simple act of listening to music through original contemporary along with 0141 333 1991 headphones, she shows how escapism can a range of jewellery, glass and ceramics. [email protected] take many different forms. Also showing is glasgowgallery.com the Milngavie Art Club Annual Exhibition, a Tue - Fri 10am - 5.30pm. Sat 10.30am - 4.30pm. @glasgowgalleryltd diverse range of media, styles and subjects. Until Jul 4, www.edlc.co.uk/heritage-arts

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Summer at the Archway A Mixed exhibition featuring some of our favourite artists, running through June & July Including: Caroline Hunter, Fiona MacRae, Karen Beauchamp Ceramics by Christine Cummings / Jewellery by Margaret Kerr & Helen Shere / Mosaics by Christophe Lefebvre Milagros Glass Milagros

‘Silver Bird Necklace ‘- Helen Shere

‘Tatty Fish’ - Oil by Fiona MacRae ‘Pulmonaria, Lemon & Limpet’- Oil by Caroline Hunter

The Archway Gallery 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 www.thearchway.co.uk

Painting • Ceramics • Jewellery • Woodwork • Sculpture charles simpson sam macdonald

Exciting Fresh Work from New and Established Artists jonathan shearer summer show

27th - 30th September 2019 www.cowalopenstudios.co.uk

opens 7th july 2019 all artwork from this exhibition will be available to view online www.resipolestudios.co.uk loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx 01967 431506

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D U N O O N B U R G H H A L L

For all makers and lovers of glass

Join us to celebrate 40 years of the work of the Society and our member artists, with exhibitions showcasing the wealth of glassmaking in Scotland.

On The Edge 8th-26th July

THE ROYAL SCOTTISH North Lands Creative, Lybster, Caithness 18th-25th September

Trades Hall, Glassford Street, Glasgow

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS Celebration! 18th-25th September

IN WATERCOLOUR Trades Hall, Glassford Street, Glasgow

8th Summer Exhibition For information on the full programme of events visit www.scottishglasssociety.com 2nd June - 14th Gallery Opening Hours: July 2019 Tuesday - Saturday 12-4pm Sunday 1-4pm

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Visit the beautiful Isle of Bute promoting and providing access to the diverse arts of the Highlands for the 11 May to 20 June A Sheltered Place - Mike Dodd Bute Studio Trail 22 June - 1 August 20-21 July 2019 Leafpoems’- India Flint 10am – 5pm each day In May two further galleries open at Inverewe Garden: the Art Hub, FREE Entry and Osgoods Café Gallery For listings of the exhibitions in all three galleries see: Follow the yellow balloons artists@inverewe to visit our artists in their studios email: [email protected] Download a brochure from: www.butestudiotrail.com

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FROM SEVEN WAVES BY ERLEND BROWN AND DAVE JACKSON (ST CLEMENT’S CHURCH)

scent: New Paintings by Ellis St Clement’s Church is a late 15th or early O’Connor at Rhueart Gallery 16th century church in Rodel, Isle of Harris is based on her experience in the Outer Hebrides. Built for the Chiefs of of Assynt, Sutherland in the the Macleod clan, it is dedicated to Pope far north of Scotland. Clement I. ‘West Highland iew’ - om Shans AShe explains: “I’m drawn to extremes, This summer it hosts Seven Waves by places that are raw, where the elements Erlend Brown and Dave Jackson, who have are unforgiving. It feels real to me and I’m suspended seven painted canvas waves fascinated by untamed lands and how they from the church ceiling in response to raings an make me feel alive. Being in nature gives George Mackay Brown’s poetic cycle, ‘Tryst me perspective and it is this feeling of awe on Egilsay’. Until Sep 1, Watercolours and my own experience of being immersed www.historicenvironment.scot S in a wild place that Tom Sans I aim to put across 15 June 1 Juy to the viewer, so they too can feel the ‘Sailboats o ona’ - Robert elsey sheer significance of the landscape.” Rhueart Gallery sits on a headland near Ullapool where Loch Broom faces LUCY WOODLEY, ‘HOSTILE LANDING’ (AN TOBAR GALLERY) the Summer Isles and ferries sail to and from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Naming her exhibition after both a Latin Hebrides. Until Aug 22, www.rhueart.co.uk name for an island north of Britain and an object on the edge of our solar system, artist Lucy Woodley’s Ultima Thule at An Tobar Gallery in Tobermory on the Isle of cottis Mull refers to the long journeys migrants are forced to make due to war, violence, poverty and orions persecution. oert esey Working with silver and Mni FS found objects, Woodley creates multi-media sculptures heavy Juy1 Septemer in symbolism, such as an abandoned boat, fish as an Tinaruai aery ancient symbol of faith and easide ouse, Tihnabruaich, rll, 21 2 hope or a black bird as an www.tialler.com ominous onlooker observing the www.facebook.comtialler displaced. Until Aug 9, www.instaram.comtihnabruaichaller www.comar.co.uk pen: unda, onda, Wednesda, Thursda, Frida 11am pm ELLIS O’CONNOR, ‘IN THE EYE OF A STORM’, aturda 10am pm losed: Tuesdas OIL ON CANVAS (RHUEART GALLERY)

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The Admiral’s House 15 June-19 July

a beautiful live/work residency retreat on the Isle of Skye ideal for artists, makers, designers, writers and performers looking for ‘Corvid Capers’ ‘Nocturne’ time, space and an inspirational A collaboration between Lorna C Radbourne (Catriona Glass) and Calum Graham (CMG Engineering) setting to develop their work. Availability throughout 2019. Open hours: 10am-5pm For more information visit: www.waspsstudios.org.uk 13-15 Bank St, Aberfeldy, PH15 2BB 01887 822700 [email protected] www.artisanand.co.uk

Gathering Light 27 June - 1 September

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CLARE BLOIS, ‘GATHERING OF THE LIGHT' (ABERFELDY GALLERY)

2019 SUMMER EXHIBITION Saturday 20tn July to Sunday 4th August Open daily 10am to 6pm Free Entry

eld in the arts and crafts- Artists from all over the UK show paintings, style Molteno Memorial prints and sculptures at the Dunkeld Art Hall, the Fortingall Exhibition, which runs for 10 weeks every Art Summer Exhibition summer to raise funds for the upkeep of features a mix of painting, Dunkeld Cathedral. Now in its 49th year, Hsculpture, ceramics, sculpture, glass and the exhibition takes a 25 per cent sales jewellery. This year has seen a record commission. In 2018 over 420 pieces of number of applications to exhibit, with the work were sold to the value of over £35,050 new work complementing that of the more and a donation of over £9,500 was made regular exhibitors. to Cathedral funds. Held in the 19th century Make it a full day out by having lunch Gothic Parish Hall, the Duchess Anne, the at the Fortingall Hotel and taking a guided exhibition attracts some 10,000 visitors each walk on the second and third weekends year. Jun 20-Aug 29, around the thatched village of Fortingall, www.dunkelartexhibition.com designed by James McLaren, a little recognised influencer of Charles Rennie MacIntosh. And of course the famous Fortingall yew is a ‘must see’, at 2,000 to 3,000 years old one of Europe’s most ancient trees. Jul 20-Aug 4, www.fortingallart.co.uk

Images: Helen Welsh, Erraid Gaskell, Ian Biggs, Angus Ross

FORTINGALL ART SUMMER EXHIBITION Showcases paintings, photography, With the focus on moments of extraordinary ceramics, furniture, sculpture, light which create real drama in the Scottish fused glass, and jewellery landscape, Gathering Light at the Aberfeldy created by 30 local artists and Gallery showcases north of Scotland artists the popular Mini Art Competition. Clare Blois, Fiona Matheson, Katherine Sutherland and Dot Walker, who regularly collaborate for exhibitions. Their work will be “Stunning as shown alongside a mixed selection by over sixty artists and makers. Jun 27-Sep 1, every year” www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk Molteno Hall, Fortingall, Perthshire PH15 2LL Follow AA signs from A9 and A827 www.fortingallart.co.uk ‘IRIS’ BY ANNIE GRANT, ONE OF THE INVITED ARTISTS AT THIS YEAR’S DUNKELD ART EXHIBITION

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nce described as ‘the best provincial museum and art gallery in Scotland’, NOT the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum continues its new exhibition in NEAR A the recently refurbished Gallery Two. OCelebrating the museum’s founder, GALLERY? selections in The Man Who Could Paint Anything: The Legacy of Thomas Stuart Smith are drawn from a collection which now comprises around 275 portraits and GET ARTMAG some 600 watercolours, oil paintings, prints and drawings by artists attracted by the DELIVERED beauty of Stirling and the Trossachs. Thomas Stuart Smith (1814-69) was a portrait and landscape painter who studied TO YOUR and worked in Italy and later exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris and the LEX MCFADYEN, ‘ORCHID IN A BLUE BOWL’ (GREENGALLERY) DOOR! work by regular artists Jim Wylie, George Birrell and Peter Luti and introduces new artist Penelope Timmis. www.gallerialuti. co.uk

Featured artist in the summer exhibition at Greengallery in Buchlyvie is Lex McFadyen in Greengallery meets EDWARD PRITCHETT, 'VENICE, THE PIAZETTA AND THE DOGE'S PALACE' (STIRLING SMITH Twine (until Jun 30), ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM) showing ‘modern Royal Academy in London. After coming into rustic’ pieces for the home and garden an inheritance from his landowner uncle, made in collaboration with Twine Kippen. Its he began to build up his own art collection sister gallery in Dollar is showing a mixed and devoted every penny of his estate exhibition of work by gallery favourites and to building what was originally the Smith new abstract artist Shona Harcus. Institute. www.greengallery.com Smith’s legacy enables the gallery,

known locally as “the Smith”, to continue PENELOPE TIMMIS, ‘INTO THE HILLS’ (GALLERIA LUTI) the tradition which its founder began of collecting some of the finest contemporary art. On show along with Smith’s own works (‘Dutch Breakfast’ exemplifies a contemporary’s description of him as ‘one of the finest living colourists’) are scenes of Venice by Edward Pritchett and works by SIX George Henry (a guiding light in the early days of the Glasgow Boys), Anne Redpath, BI-MONTHLY ISSUES William Gillies and William McTaggart. ONLY £16.95 INCL. P&P. www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk

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