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A colourful virtual recreation of an ancient cross from the exhibition Picts and Pixels, at the Perth Museum & Art Gallery until August 13. Inside: Demarco on EIF 70 :: A new Library for Dunfermline :: A Caithness Milestone artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 2 artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 3 Hidden in Plain Sight

SCATTERED on buildings across the cities cultural heritage, in a few the city are the remnants of hand- seconds, with the simple swipe of painted signs of times gone by. On a paintbrush. Paint over them and a buildings, in doorways, on window piece of the city’s history vanishes in sills, are traces of ’s an instant. past commercial life. There’s “It always breaks my heart to watchmakers, hosiers, hatters and find yet another beautiful old sign tailors. Photographer and ArtWork simply painted over and gone forever, contributor Frances Anderson has whereas they could, and should be been documenting these signs for the preserved. They tell a story and give past several years. us a glimpse into a world now long “I’ve been documenting these gone and forgotten. THE old signs around the city for several “These signs are an important Cyril Gerber Fine Art years. They’re fascinating as they part of the cities cultural heritage, 19th to 21st Century British Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture give us a direct link to the Edinburgh giving us information about the past. KRYSZTYNA GALLERY of old, telling us of professions past, “I’ve deliberately chosen not to 15A NELSON STREET DUNDEE DD1 2PN from tailors to chimney sweeps and disclose the location of many of the hatters. signs as I believe that part of their DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS “They’re all over the city, yet charm lies in people discovering people probably don’t even notice them for themselves, in suddenly TEL: 01382 322522 them.” turning a corner and stumbling upon While many are clearly visible, one – discovering a long forgotten e.mail:[email protected] some are sadly now illegible, while watchmaker, or chimney sweep. www.krysztynagallery.com some bear only the faintest trace of “The past is always with us, it’s what they once advertised. whether we notice it or not.” “Many have faded with time, which only adds to their sense of Frances is now producing a series Jane B. Gibson RMS Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI Idrigill watercolour 11” x 26” ‘other worldliness.’” of postcards of the signs entitled – Cornerways Studio/Gallery These signs provide a social ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’. Open every Friday or by appointment Showing ever changing exhibitions of , Glasgow Boys and Girls, Modern British and Scottish Masters and a selection of Contemporaries. commentary and a direct insight into 10.30am to 5pm KELSO POTTERY the city’s past. Tel:- 01557 331640 100 metresmetres behindbehind the Kelso Kelso Abbey 178 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL 0141 2213095 www.gerberfineart.co.uk Mon to Fri 9.30-5.30 Sat 10-5 “All the signs have a story to Scottish specialist in Miniature tell, of the city’s past commercial inAbbey the Knowesin The Knowes Car Park. Car Park. life and of the craft and the people Painting. involved. Commissions undertaken for pets and Mugs, jugs, bowls and “Time Tablets” fired in “There are some beautiful signs, people. Larger works on display. New chunky mugs and artWORK • www.artwork.co.uk which would all have been hand- Prints, cards etc. Browsers welcome. the Kelso Pit Kiln. painted and were works of art in Wheelchair access to new studio now! Openmixing Tuesday bowls to for Saturday sauces. their own right. 4 mins walk from Town Centre on A711. “Quite a few signs have been Look out for palette SIGN. 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm painted over since I photographed TelephoneOpen Tues -(01573) Sat 10 to224027 1 - 2 to 5 them, which is so sad. I don’t think NEWTelephone: SHOP, (01573) DISABLED 224027 ACCESS people realise they’re wiping out [email protected] both a piece of social history and

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PLEASE SEND ME REGULAR COPIES OF artWORK to this address: Send (with cheque/PO/postage stamps) to:Famedram Publishers Ltd., PO Box 3, Ellon AB41 9EA Scotland artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 4 An Italian artist The in Royston August 19 - September 5 LOOKING OUT of the window, you see Celtic Maggie Nickson - Blooming football stadium, otherwise known as ‘Paradise’, Aberdeen Marvellous & THE BUTTERWORTH GAL- and hear the growl of traffic on the M8. To the MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 1FQ, LERY, Ballogie, Near Aboyne, right but not in view is Glasgow cathedral and the 01224 523 700 AB34 5DP, 01339 886 104 Closed for major re-furbish- Paintings and prints by Howard Necropolis. Closer is Glasgow Royal Infirmary. ment Butterworth and daughter Mary This is Royston, otherwise the Garngad, ‘Garden of ABERDEEN MARITIME JOYCE TAYLOR STUDIO, MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, Braeside Croft, Hythie, Mintlaw, God’, originally populated by Irish Catholics and 01224 337700 Peterhead, AB42 4HH, 01779 not long ago, one of Glasgow’s worst slums. July 11 and 15 622989, www.joycetaylor.co.uk, Beside the Seaside. Seaside [email protected] Today few traces of old Royston remain inspired crafts and traditional LANG BYRE GALLERY, but the church steeple still stands and its hall is games. Age: 3-10 years Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Burn Until January 14 2018 O’Bennie, Banchory, AB31 5QA, a community centre. Social housing (new-builds Sea Change. Paintings 01330 825 431 three storeys high) dominate, but a number of GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Call for more details tower blocks interrupt the sky-line. A couple Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, MILTON ART GALLERY, www.galleryheinzel.com Milton of Crathes, Nr Banchory, were recently demolished, which is timely when artists’ studios by WASP. These studios (WASP’s they are transportable. Contemporary AB31 5QH, 01330 844 664 considering the fate of Grenfell Tower in West Artist Studios, Dennistoun) have an alias: ‘The Her sketch-books reveal muted shades for her June - August STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor Mixed Summer Exhibition Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, London. Wasp Factory’, referring to the building’s original west of Scotland landscapes and vibrant colours GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART, Rob- 01561 360 118 Here, in a one bedroom flat, lives artist purpose and to Iain Bank’s famous 1984 novel. for the Italian scenes. Unsurprisingly, the sea ert Gordon University, Garthdee Original art and handmade Road, AB10 7QD, www.rgu.ac.uk/ ceramics, jewellery, glass, tex- Margherita Muller, with her Rutherglen-born As Scotland’s first purpose-built studios, the predominates: Circe’s island painted in Anzio, the about/faculties-schools-and-de- tiles, wood and more from all husband, William. Born in the mid 60s in Italy to building offers space for over 200 artists. Facing sun setting over calm waters (she has a fondness partments/faculty-of-design-and- over the British Isles. Featuring for the colours, orange and blue), surf, whirlpools technology/gray-s-school-of-art paintings by Kate MacKenzie an Italian mother and north hers looks out over the M8 to the church ARTS CENTRE & THEATRE SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, Syl- French father, she was spire and her home. Margherita is no stranger and Anzio fishermen mending their nets but for (ACT) ABERDEEN, 33 King lavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, AB33 brought up in Anzio by to factories. In Italy she worked in several as a my money, I like her painting of lifebuoy rings, Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 635 208 8AQ, 01975 562 273 THE ART GALLERY, Grampian THE MUSEUM OF SCOTTISH the sea on Italy’s west translator (apart from Italian, she speaks fluent reminding me of early 20th century Cornish Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen LIGHTHOUSES, Kinnaird Head, coast, 32 miles south English and, French). In one, manufacturing artists, Christopher Wood and Alfred Wallis. Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Fraserburgh, AB43 9DU, 01346 AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 511 022 of Rome. In summer, metal parts, she employed scrap material to create Accompanying the image are the words, “We are HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 Purpose-built museum with Margherita stayed with pendants. all at sea, drifting, stopping and salvaging.” Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01224 multi-screen technology. 596 617 Scotland’s first lighthouse, built her French grandmother Margherita is Limited edition prints by many 1781. Open all year. Check at Mougins in France. doubtful that any other of Gallery Heinzel’s artists holiday opening times Her father was a artist lives locally. There ROSIES, 45-49 Holburn Street, PETERHEAD MARITIME AB10 6BR, 01224 577 325 HERITAGE, South Road, Peter- perfumier in nearby are none at The Wasp Crafts, art and gifts also head, AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 Grasse and her great Factory. This is ironic as framing Experience Peterhead’s mari- PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 time life past and present grandfather, Jacob, was WASPs prioritises the Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 GALLERYI, 2B Garioch Shop- a Swiss lithographer regeneration of deprived 639 539 ping Centre, Constitution Street, RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 Inverurie, AB51 4UY living in Cannes where communities. Her artist Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, El- he printed commercial companions come from 323 247 lon, AB41 7EQ posters. the south side and the PROVOST SKENE’S HOUSE, COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden Guestrow, (between Broad Street Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, Margherita never Byres Road area. and Flourmill Lane), AB10 1AS, 01569 740039 01224 641 086 saw them but is told “Traditionally, the TOLBOOTH MUSEUM, Castle she has the same ‘hand’ West End consisted Street, AB10 1EX, 01224 621 167 Aberfeldy Until April 13 2018 ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 as him. As a child of artists, writers and Tales from the Tolbooth. Kenmore Street, PH15 2BL, Margherita liked to musicians and the east had factories and its Margherita’s work owes much to her interest Tells the stories of five of the 01887 829 129, www.aberfeldygal- in literature. After a university degree in English Tolbooth’s earliest inhabit- lery.co.uk draw waves, hair and workers. Now the industry has gone, there’s ants - Alexander Fraser, Lillias From May 27 undulating forms. The widespread unemployment and not many literature (2007), she was awarded a distinction Skene, Margaret Campbell, Summer Mixed Exhibition. sea held a fascination for her; so did the paintings Royston residents find themselves as artists.” (2012) for her Masters in Literature, Culture and Charles Duff and Peter Wil- WATERMILL GALLERY, Mill liamson Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822 896, of the Japanese artist, Hokusai. She had dreams of Nevertheless, one mustn’t forget that this part of Place; Zola, Conrad, R.L. Stevenson and Ian H. CLAREMONT STUDIO, 66 www.aberfeldywatermill.com, the sea but they were not always benign. Waking Glasgow spawned Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Finlay influence her most. Claremont Street, AB10 6QY, [email protected] 01224 596 999 Art Gallery, Bookshop, Coffee in terror she remembered scenes of standing on the who grew up in nearby Townhead and Dennistoun. She used to depict the human form but today NICOLE PORTER GALLERY, & Music Shop promenade, watching waves engulf people, vehicles As a member of an Anzio art club, Margherita she concentrates on land and seascape. One of her 88 King Street, AB24 5BA, 01224 Until August 29 566 477 North and South: Landscapes and dwellings. sold locally and nationally. In the 1990s she most striking works, however, is ‘Jane Eyre, the of Lotte Glob by Lotte Glob With an analyst’s assistance, she domesticated exhibited at Knulp Gallery and several others in Threshold’. With her back to the viewer, the subject September 2 - October 1 Nettuno and in 2000 at the White Bear Gallery, gazes into the distance, suggesting anticipation and Aberdeenshire James Millar - A Winter the waves, discovering they represented BRAEMAR GALLERY, Mar Journey uncontrollable emotions and her art helped. In fact, Rome. fear. Road, Braemar, AB35 5YL, 01339 KELTNEYBURN SMITHY Margherita’s strong feelings, like anger and fear, In Scotland, a Glasgow venue in the West End After some challenging experiences in 741 681, www.braemargallery. AND GALLERY, The Bothy co.uk, [email protected] Showroom, Keltneyburn Smithy, stimulated her into painting. and WASPs studios have shown her work. Largely Royston, Margherita Muller has crossed the Oil paintings, watercolours, Keltneyburn, PH15 2LF, 01887 threshold and not only survived there, but thrived. etchings, engravings, sculpture, 830 267 In 2000 Margherita moved to Glasgow. Eight a figurative artist, she works in oil on canvas, in jewellery and cards Sculptures created by mother years later, she rented a studio across the road in Japanese block printing, screen prints and since LARKS GALLERY, 10 Braemar and daughter team, Morag and the old tobacco factory, recently developed into she injured her back in 2014, water-colours because MARY GLADSTONE Road, Ballater, AB35 5RL, 01339 Heather Cumming 755 888, www.larksgallery.com AUDREY SLORANCE GAL- Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, LERY, 6 The Square, PH15 2DD, glass, textiles, jewellery and 01887 829015 photography THE LOST GALLERY, Alda- chuie, Strathdon, AB36 8UJ, Aberlour GALLERY HEINZEL 01975 651 287, www.lostgallery. STILL LIFE STUDIO, High co.uk, [email protected] Street, AB38 9NX, 01340 871 457 CONTEMPORARY ART Alexander Robb “Summer Flowers” – Mixed Oil, 95 x 85cm TOLQUHON GALLERY, Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, AB41 7LP, 01651 842 343, www. Alloa tolquhon-gallery.co.uk THE GALLERY, Gordon McFar- Until August 13 lane, Watchmaker, 41 Mill Street, Summer Exhibition. FK10 1DW, 01259 723 303 Work from Ochil Craft As- NORTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS, www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk, sociation Mixed [email protected] RESONATE ARTS HOUSE, A non-profit organisation Units A3, North Castle Street, Summer promoting Arts, Crafts and FK10 1EU, 01259 928 014 galleries in the North East of Scotland Angus Exhibition September 9 - 17 KINBLETHMONT GALLERY, NEOS 2017. Arbroath, DD11 4RW, 01241 830 Saturday 10th ALBERTINO COSTA SCULP- 756, www.kinblethmontgallery. TURES, 5 Milltimber Brae East, co.uk, kinblethmont@btinternet. June - August Milltimber, AB13 0DN, 07917 482 com 351, [email protected] Until July 18 GALLERY AT FIFTY FIVE, Norma Maclean - A Retrospec- 55 Allardice Street, Stonehaven, tive AB39 2AB, 01569 785606, www. THE MEFFAN, 20 West High galleryatfiftyfive.co.uk Street, Forfar, DD8 1BB, 01307 August 12 - September 16 476 482, archive.angus.gov.uk/ Beth Robertson Fiddes - Skye historyaa/museums/meffan/, For- to Shore [email protected] COUNTRY FRAMES GAL- SPRINGFIELD CREATIVE LERY, Leslie, Insch, AB52 6PA, ARTS, Dr. Fran Marquis, 4 01464 820389, www.country- Springfield Terrace, Arbroath, frames.co.uk DD11 1EL, 01241 439 714, www. Until August 12 franmarquis.co.uk, info@fran- 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1XD Hebridean Lights marquis.co.uk Regular weekends and T: 01224 625629 E: [email protected] W: www.galleryheinzel.com OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY FROM 10am For the Guide online www.facebook.com/galleryheinzel artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 5 Editorial Comment THE Festival: A (very) Special Case ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] Richard Demarco, who at 87, has seen – and been involved in all of them – argues the Edinburgh International Festival, which What future for Inverleith House? rose from the ashes of World War II, deserves better than to be lumped together in a tourism marketing exercise WHEN DID the Edinburgh International over the responsibility of presenting the of over seven hundred festivals located , SOME DOUBT still hangs over example, Turner prize winners, Festival become promoted, not as an contemporary visual arts to the Fringe in cities, towns and villages. Within the future use of Inverleith House contemporary Scottish artists international festival of all the arts, programme under the aegis of what is this list, you will find the name of the in Edinburgh’s Botanic Garden and art that relates to botany and associated with an unofficial programme known as ‘The Edinburgh Art Festival’. Edinburgh International Festival; it surely following the announcement by biology. known as The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, For twenty-five years, from 1967 until deserves to be placed apart as a cultural This has been supported the garden’s management that the but as part of a programme defined as The 1991, I was director of the official Festival phenomenon, born out of the dreams, hopes building would no longer be used by grants amounting to £1.5m Edinburgh Festivals? contemporary visual arts programmes and aspirations of a small group of friends for art exhibitions. Instead, it will since then, including £148,483 be used for weddings and other to upgrade the building and an There are now eleven Festivals under the condition that I would have to who believed that the language of all the private events. £80,000 Flexible Open Project associated with the City of Edinburgh and find the necessary funding. arts could begin the process of healing the This immediately led grant supporting exhibitions. the majority take place within the month of This I did through the generous horrific wounds inflicted by the Second Christopher Breward, Principal of The domestic scale of August. support given chiefly by the governments of World War.

Edinburgh College of Art, calling Inverleith’s, rooms – and their small I am thinking particularly of the West Germany, France, Poland, Romania, I imagine they believed, as I do, that for a new, five year culture plan number – creates intimate spaces highly popular Edinburgh Book Festival, The Former Yugoslavia, Ireland, Australia, all true and enduring art ascends to the to be drawn up for the building, that are particularly suitable for and what is known as the Edinburgh New Zealand, Canada and, above all, from condition of prayer. and a protest petition, signed by looking at work that demands close Festival Tattoo, which is guaranteed to The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation. Certainly, this was evidenced in that 1947 scrutiny – and for showing a few more than 10,000 people and perform to capacity audiences against These exhibition programmes were Festival in the sublime singing of Kathleen backed by artists including Tracey major works so that they do not the incomparable backdrop of a floodlit incomplete without manifestations of film, Ferrier and the sound of the revived Vienna Emin, Anthony Gormley, Douglas have to compete with lots of others Gordon, Martin Boyce and Anish around them. Edinburgh Castle. video and what is known as ‘action’ art. Philharmonic Orchestra performing under Kapoor. This is situation that made the The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has These programmes never resorted to what the baton of Bruno Walter, a survivor of Inverleith House was first used Courtauld Gallery in Bloomsbury, become dominated by the presence of over is now recognised as ‘spectacle culture.’ Hitler’s Germany. for exhibitions when it became London such a pleasant place to one thousand stand-up comics, and the I am now tempted to question the Now, at the age of eighty-seven, I Scotland’s Gallery of Modern Art visit. And it remains an excellent word ‘international’ can hardly be applied significance of the Edinburgh Festival – for treasure my Festival memories, linked in 1960 and, since that institution’s reason to maintain Inverleith House to it as not one comic will use any other many, it is now seen as a successful part of to the lives of Lady Rosebery, Rudolf move to Belford Road in 1984, has as an important Scottish gallery. language but English. culture as a commercial venture. Bing, Tyrone Guthrie, Lord Harewood, continued to show work by, for In 1947, the Fringe consisted of I cannot forget the words of Sir John Drummond, Cordelia Oliver, Peter eight theatre productions and one of John Falconer, the 1947 Lord Provost of Diamand, Henry Harvey Wood, Richard them took place, not in Edinburgh, but Edinburgh and as such, Chairman of the Buckle, Alexander Schouvaloff, Joseph The International Festival at 70 in Dunfermline. It continued to be on a newly-established Edinburgh International Beuys, Tadeusz Kantor, Paul Neagu, and ALONGSIDE this editorial, one In these columns we have more human scale and therefore complementary Festival committee. my fellow co-founders of The Traverse of the stalwarts of the Edinburgh than once drawn attention to the to the official Festival programme until He wrote the foreword to the first Theatre Club, Andrew Elliott, James International Festival – and one of the lack lustre nature of, particularly. the it increased in size to such an extent that Edinburgh Festival programme and, in Walker, Tom Mitchell and Michael most active movers and shakers in music programme. became a dominant feature of what is doing so, took care to include this sentence: McLoughlin. the arts – 87 year old Ricky Demarco Granted we live in difficult loosely known as ‘The Edinburgh Festival’. “The Edinburgh Festival is in no way a Sadly, their names belong to the makes a strong case for the 70 year old times for the arts, but where is Only two years ago did the Fringe commercial venture.” vast majority who are no longer alive. Festival to be accorded a special status the sense of adventure in the Festival take place synchronised with Nowadays, the Edinburgh Thankfully, I can add those of John Martin, among festivals. programming? Does every the official Festival programme. For far Festival plays a major role in what most John Calder, Sheila Colvin, Tamara He is appalled that the EIF is programme have to consist of safe too long a period, it seemed to exist as an governments consider as the world of Alferoff, Sean Hignett and Jim Haynes, now bracketed with a whole cohort of choices that can be guaranteed to fill independent, self-sufficient artistic event. Creative Industries. The artist is no longer who are still very much alive and who festivals throughout Scotland in what the seats of the Usher Hall? As someone who has presented a prominent figure in the 21st century art belong to that unforgettable time when the he sees as a marketing exercise owing Where is the experimentation? innumerable programmes which brought world; the artist role is now controlled Edinburgh Festival miraculously came into more to the promotion of tourism than Where are the moves to bring in a the spirit of the international avant-garde in by market forces in the hands of those being, seventy years ago. the honouring of artistic endeavour. broader section of the community? the performing and visual arts into fruitful who place art firmly within the market At the same time some serious When it started, the Edinburgh collaboration, I am saddened by the fact place, firmly linked to tourism and leisure RICHARD DEMARCO questions need to be asked about the International Festival took risks and that, over the last three decades, the official industries. Kingston University Emeritus Professor direction that the Festival itself has made waves, internationally. It's all of European Cultural Studies, July 2017 taken in recent years. got a bit too cautious and comfy. Festival programmes have gradually given Now in Scotland there exists a list Real road movie – on the road again THE BIG BLUE heads back into marked by high winds and lashings HOLIDAYS IN SCOTLAND the wild: that’s the headline that says of rain. that Scotland’s Screen Machine is It is perhaps a testament to the back from its overhaul and upgrade French love of film that, blasting in Ladon, 80 miles south of Paris, the truck with water to give it a and is once again bringing films to thorough clean, and overhauling the EXHIBITION AND SALE the Highlands & Islands. hydraulics that turn it into a mobile OF PAINTINGS ETC. Seating up to 80 people at a picture house, should be done in INCLUDES WORKS BY time, the HGV, now familiar after a place that itself looks like a film JANET FORRY 12 years’ service, is renowned for set and proudly describes itself as DIANNE GARDNER showing films like Alan Bennett’s ‘carrossier de rêves’ – ‘coachbuilder NICOLE STEVENSON The Lady & the Van and Disney’s of dreams.’ musical, Moana, in sites that are May the next 12 years be as HELEN WILSON often no more than a car park in the successful as the last. August 24th & 25th 2pm – 9pm middle of nowhere, and during days August 26th 10 am – 4pm Kilbarchan Parish Church Hall A Caithness milestone (Off Steeple Square) Kilbarchan artistic fare. Harbour and Pool, Fife Archibald Dunbar McIntosh RSW RGI IN OUR LAST issue we marked Renfrewshire PA10 2JD the incredible achievement of the The founding and driving Scottish Gallery in celebrating 175 force over these years, William successful years in the business Wilson, is stepping aside to allow THE TOD ENDOWMENT FUND artWORK Charity No SC010046 others to take over. Anyone who of showing and selling pictures in The Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association is empowered by the above to Edinburgh. has been lucky enough to enjoy www.artwork.co.uk Many miles to the north another their musical, theatrical or artistic provide holidays in Scotland for artists (resident in Scotland for at least two brave artistic venture is celebrating presentations will want to applaud ...... years) who are experiencing difficulties. an anniversary. The ground breaking this achievement and wish the subscription APPLICATION FORMS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM: Lyth Arts Centre, situated way out Centre many more successful years The Secretary, Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association in the wilds of Caithness, roughly stimulating Northern tastes. form can be half way between Wick and Thurso, If you have never discovered found on C/o Robb Ferguson, Regent Court, 70 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2QZ, has notched up forty years serving Lyth, make a point of searching it a very scattered community with out and catching the special 40th page 3. Charity No SC011823 The Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association a varied and challenging menu of summer retrospective exhibition. artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 6 California Dreaming? The Reviewing the London Design Museum exhibition California: Designing Freedom, Richard Carr concludes that the dream may weekdays vices, Christian community yet turn into a digital nightmare Pottery Courses. Hand-building IONA GALLERY AND POT- wheelwork, functional and TERY, Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, THE EXHIBITION, California: Designing the ‘meet space.’ We now sculpture 01681 700 439 Monthly throughout the year ORSAY, 2 Stevenson Street, Freedom at the Design Museum in London marks have a whole new realm Ceramics Weekends in Oban, PA34 5NB, 01631 569 988 the change in design in America’s west coast online in which to create Arbroath. Learn to make Pots Jewellery, ceramics, glass from products to electronic platforms – from our identities... We have on a Wheel; Create Handbuilt metal, textiles, wood lights, Sculptures; Understand Glazes cards the iconic interiors and furniture of designers endless platforms for and Firing Processes; and learn INVERBEG GALLERIES, such as Charles and Ray Eames – to Apple’s first self-expression, or just about pots in other cultures Inverbeg, Argyll & Bute, Loch ANGUS OPEN STUDIO, www. Lomond, G83 8PD, 01436 860 277 computer that was introduced to the public by self-documentation. And angusopenstudios.com, openstu- CAOL RUADH SCULPTURE Ridley Scott’s promotional film of 1984. every tweet and selfie [email protected] PARK, Caol Ruadh, Colintraive, THE CANVAS ART GALLERY, PA22 3AR, 07771 996656 Before then, design was mainly concerned feeds the system.” 81 East High Street, Forfar, DD8 Scottish sculpture park with with products that reflected the boom years that But it also means, as 2EQ, 01307 465 715 wirk by Karen Scotland and Originals, prints, quality picture Anne Edmonds offering a followed the end of the Second World War. After he says, that designers at framing. Unusual giftware and memorable starting point 1984, the exhibition claims, what was important Apple, Facebook, Google jewellery to explore art in the Argyll was not hardware but information. etc have tremendous OATHLAW POTTERY & GAL- landscape There are, of course, other charges: that LERY, Oathlaw, Forfar, DD8 THE JETTY GALLERY, 100 Given the enormity of the change, the influence on our behaviour. Every swipe and 3PQ, 01307 850 272 George Street, Oban, PA34 5NR, exhibition is relatively sparse. It begins with the micro gesture that we make matters, and they Twitter’s anonymity ‘brings out the worst in CRAFTS OF ANGUS SHOW- 01631 570102 humans’; that gig-companies like Uber are CASE AND SHOP, 14 The Continuously changing con- Apple computer already mentioned and looks seem to be leading to a condition in which we Square, Letham, DD8 2PZ, 01674 temporary artwork - featuring at products and platforms that aim to maximise record ourselves in real time, all the time. We destroying job security; and that robots and AI 810379 paintings, sculpture, ceramics, (artificial intelligence) are already being used by Contemporary and Designer. glass, wood and jewellery by the freedom of the individual, which range are reaching a state when, if something isn’t Handcrafted Goods. well established and emerging from Google’s mobile search engine that can be photographed, it isn’t real – a state predicted by companies such as Amazon to get rid of error- MONTROSE MUSEUM, Pan- talents worn as a backpack and provides information Guy Debord’s book, The Society of the Spectacle, prone and unreliable workers. It seems, according mure Place, Montrose, DD10 8HF, BENMORE BOTANIC GAR- 01674 673232 DEN, Dunoon, PA23 8QU, 01369 on direct paths to in which everything must be to Taplin, that in the relatively near future, half of HOSPITALFIELD, Hospitalfield 706261 local amenities, to the rendered as an image. America’s jobs will be automated away. House, Arbroath, DD11 2NH, 01241 656 124 Waymo Firefly self- However, there is one aspect The freedom designed by California may yet MONTROSE LIBRARY EXHI- Ayr driving car that will of the dominance of California’s turn into a nightmare. BITION ROOM, 214 High Street, MACLAURIN ART GALLERY, Montrose , DD10 8PH, 01674 Rozelle Estate, Monument Road, take you to where you (and Seattle’s) technological 673256 KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, www. want to go. companies that the exhibition California: Designing Freedom continues till ARBROATH COMMUNITY south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ October 17. CENTRE, Marketgate, DD11 1AT maclaurin/ For the designer, does not examine: their ANNIE GILRUTH MEMORIAL July 2 – 30 there are the Adobe detrimental affect on creativity – HALL, Auchmithie, by Arbroath, John Lowrie Morrison ‘The DD11 5SY, 01241 431 511 Magical Light of the West’ typefaces and Emigre and on society at large. ARBROATH LIBRARY GAL- Until August 6 digital fonts that break As Jonathan Taplln says in his LERY, Hill Terrace, Arbroath, MESH - a diverse group of 10 out of the strictures of new book, Move Fast and Break DD11 1AH, 01241 872 248 Scottish artists August 20 - October 8 traditional typefaces, Things: How Facebook, Google Margaret Hunter. Duality. Argyll Sculpture and painting from and for the individual and Amazon have Cornered COWAL OPEN STUDIOS, PA23 Ayrshire and Berlin keen to experience Culture and What it Means for 8QU, www.cowalopenstudios. ROZELLE HOUSE GALLER- movement and speed, Us, his charge against Twitter, co.uk IES, Rozelle Park, Monument September 22 - 25 Road, KA7 4NQ, 01292 443 708, there are skateboards Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and Various artists. Open Studios www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/gal- for local travel and WhatsApp includes hate attacks, 2017. Professional artists ⲓ leries/rozellehouse/ painters, potters, sculptors, fur- Craft Shop - Range of unique Harley Davidson trolling, fake news, boycotting niture makers, jewellers, textile crafts and gifts motorbikes for the advertisers, cyber-bullying and artists and photographers, who Ongoing work on the Cowal peninsula Alexander Goudie. Tam freedom of the road. facilitating secret communication RESIPOLE STUDIOS, Achara- O’Shanter: A Tale Told in For those who like between terrorists. cle, PH36 4HX, 01967 431 506, Pictures. www.resipolestudios.co.uk August 6 - October 1 communal living, there Quite apart from the way in New artspace with studios, gal- Douglas Lennox and Jim are the geodesic domes which these companies move lery and framing service Wylie. Artists whose work is created by Buckminster money around the world to avoid Wide range of Summer 2017 inspired by our coasts, towns Jonathan Shearer - also show- and light, and their travels Fuller, and for paying taxes – and the EU has original paintings ing John Slavin, Ben Averis and overseas. architects like Frank recently ordered Apple to pay September 3 - October 1 by Liz Green Gehry, CAD (Computer 13bn Euros in back taxes, and TIGHNABRUAICH GALLERY, James Hutcheson. Creative Duncan Seaside House, Tighnabruaich, Director of Birlinn Books Aided Design) that fined Google 2.4bn Euros for PA21 2DR, 01700 811 681, www. tiggallery.com, robbie@tiggallery. enable them to destroy manipulating internet search Currie com Ayrshire the tyranny of the results – Taplin accuses Facebook Old Pier Rd Original art, sculpture, glass, OPEN STUDIOS AYRSHIRE, jewellery, poetry Venues throughout Ayrshire, right angle. And for and Google (which owns Broadford Isle of Skye THE HARBOUR GALLERY, www.openstudiosayrshire.com those who believe in YouTube) of stealing the work of Tel: 01471 822064 Knap, Harbour Street, Tarbert, Over 70 Ayrshire artists will PA29 6UA, 01880 821170, www. open their studios to the public democracy, there is the mobile, electronic voting artists, musicians and journalists, and claims that [email protected] theharbourgallery.com, info@ ARRAN OPEN STUDIOS, KA27, booth introduced by LA County in 2015 and still while Google, the largest media company in the www.duncancurrie.co.uk theharbourgallery.com www.arranopenstudios.com in use today. world, amasses $60bn COMFREY COTTAGE STUDIO, August 11 - 14 1 Tayness, Kilmartin, PA31 8QF, HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE, What the Apple computer of 1984, and advertising revenue a [email protected] 114-116 Harbour Street, Irvine, the Macintosh, the PowerBook, the iPod, the year, the artists, film- dandelion designs Small gallery where there are KA12 8EE, 01294 274 059, www. an assortment of paintings on whatsonayrshire.com/harbourar- iPhone and the iPad have done is to transfer the makers and musicians & view, painted in various media tscentre.html, harbourarts@ ability to communicate and store vast amounts have all become the IONA HOSTEL, Lagandorain, north-ayrshire.gov.uk images gallery Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, 01681 700 MCKECHNIE INSTITUTE, of information – originally developed for the poorer. 642, www.ionahostel.co.uk, info@ Dalrymple Street, Girvan, KA26 military – to everyone ionahostel.co.uk 9AE, 01465 713 643, www. stein waternish isle of skye The opportunity to focus on south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ across the globe. But your artistic development in a mckechnie/ not only have they Until September 30 original paintings, artist prints quiet and elemental Hebridean facilitated world-wide landscape Open Art. Artists living and photographs, cards & crafts THE ARCHWAY, 7 Union Street, working in Girvan connectivity; they have Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS, 01546 130th Birthday of the Ailsa also led to a fixation 606 894 Craig Lighthouse. open 11 - 5 daily, easter to october STUDIO BARN ARGYLL, Leac Until December 23 on the self. As Justin Na Ban, Tayvallich, Lochgilphead, Biff Smith Collection. McGuirk says in the 01470 592218 PA31 8PF, 01546 870 310 ART’N’JOY GALLERY AND

Seasonal exhibition of orginal PICTURE FRAMERS, 52 book that accompanies designs dandelion www.dandelion-designs.co.uk art Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, KA51 5DS, 01294 472 the exhibition, FYNE STUDIOS - THE HIDDEN 222, www.artnjoy.co.uk GALLERY, Newton, Strachur, “This fixation on the (off the A886), PA27 8DB, 01369 THE FRAMEWORK GALLERY, self goes far beyond 860 379 83 Portland Street, Troon, KA10 Gallery of two Scottish artists 6QU, 01292 316 144 Don McNeil & Jean Bell Continuous mix of original JUNO DESIGN GALLERY, 159 paintings and printwork by a Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7DD, variety of artists 01369 707 767 GLENBUCK ARTS, Glenbuck Residency with Studio THE STABLE GALLERY, Cottage, Glenbuck, East Ayrshire, Church Square, Inveraray, PA32 KA18 3SB, 01290 661 784 The Picking Shed, Voe, The Shetland Isles 8TY, 01499 302 800 Regular display of sculptures, Paintings, reproductions, greet- paintings and hand woven wall www.pickingshed.co.uk ings cards, exclusive post cards pieces. Sculpture Garden by IONA HERITAGE CENTRE, Isle the loch Prices:- £200 per week CRAFT TOWN SCOTLAND, of Iona, PA76 6SJ, 01681 700 576 £600 per month IONA ABBEY, Abbey & Ma- The Barony Centre, West Kil- cLeod Centres, Isle of Iona, PA76 bride, KA23 9AW, 01294 829179 6SN, 01681 700 404 THE WELLINGTON GAL- LERY, 13 Wellington Street, From 1st November to 25th April Inspirational setting for ser- The rest of the year holiday rates e: [email protected] For the Guide online artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 7

The Much-More-Than-Scottish- Much-More-Than-Colourists Guide I’M OFF TO A LECTURE about the Scottish invitingly. Bowled over, they revelled in sunlight, Kilmarnock, KA13 1DW, 01563 ture Café and walks Colourists by James Knox, Director of the wine, women, song, fresh air – everything that 523 176 BUY DESIGN GALLERY, 1 Original paintings, prints and Harestanes Craft Workshops, Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation. Haven’t heard of this exciting hub of European culture and avant other artworks mainly from Harestanes by Ancrum, Jedburgh, it? Nor had I. garde expression could offer. Scottish artists TD8 6UQ, 01835 830 718 The current edition of its glossy in-house They followed closely in the footsteps ARTI FARTI EXHIBITION Showspace for quality crafts GALLERY, 48 Hamilton Street, made in wood, metal, glass, magazine says it: “...owns the finest collection of of artistic legends Manet, Monet, and Cé Saltcoats, KA21 5DS, 01294 ceramic and textile Scottish art outside institutions, comprising over zanne. Three artists who, by then, were the 287207, www.arti-farti.co.uk, THE BORDER TART, Tart HQ, six hundred works from the seventeenth century establishment. More experimental and risky were [email protected] Chesters, nr Hawick, TD9 8TH Originals & Limited Editions Quirky workshop of textile and to the present day.” the Fauves and Neo-impressionists – Picasso, From July 7 paper artist Lindsay Roberts It ran a smart gallery in London’s Mayfair Matisse, Braque, Derain. Deconstructing form Janet McCrorie. TWEEDSIDE GALLERY, until 2016 when it announced the establishment of and content, rediscovering nature and primitivism, Tweedside Road, Newtown St Boswells, Roxburghshire, TD6 a ‘Museum without walls,’ to enable the collection these artists released and revealed primeval Banff 0PG, 01835 823473 to tour. Fitting that the first of these ventures is energy, movement and rhythm on canvas, just as DUFF HOUSE COUNTRY GAL- Picture Framing Plus beautiful to Berwick’s Granary Gallery, just inside some Diaghilev did for dance and Stravinsky for music. LERY, Duff House, AB45 3SX, crafts such as aromatic, ceram- 01261 818181, www.duffhouse. ics, glass and much more of the most spectacular and secure town walls in Interestingly, Peploe wrote to his wife that org.uk, duff.house@aberdeen- shire.gov.uk PROJECT ART GALLERY, 53 Britain, and a former Scottish capital to boot. the French had the same animal joi de vivre of the High Street, Lockerbie, DG11 MEADOWLANDS GALLERY, 2JH Quite a coup for Berwick Visual Arts Gaelic western islanders. 83 North Castle Street, AB45 1JJ, Paintings, photography, prints, Director James Lowther. I very much hope this Heady times. It rubbed off alright, and it 01261 818 535, meadowlands- Samuel John Peploe, Luxembourg Gardens c 1910 [email protected] jewellery, fish sculptures, cards partnership will offer shows. Fergusson’s ‘Blue Douglas Heggie - New work many more exhibitions. Nude’ from 1912 throws coast, country, and the Western Isles, taking their Bristol So, remind me, who are caution to the wind, French sunglasses with them. Banffshire ARNOLFINI, Bush House, 16 the Scottish Colourists, revelling in a daringly Works like Fergusson’s “The Drift Posts” of THE CREATIVE RETREAT, 5 Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA, 0117 are they any good, and strong, simple, sensual St Anne’s Terrace, Gardenstown, 917 2300 1922 show the Highlands disconcertingly a la Cé AB45 1AW, 01261 812 276, www. BRISTOL DRAWING SCHOOL, should you see this? line. Peploe’s ‘Lady in zanne. Accomplished certainly, but Scottish? creative-retreat.co.uk Unit 5.18, Paintworks, Arnos Glasgow 1948 – a White Dress’ is pure More homegrown is Cadell’s ‘Dunara Castle PORTSOY MARBLE GALLERY Vale, BS4 3EH bombed to hell and back. movement and loose & WORKSHOP, Harbour, off Iona’. Wisely he left it unvarnished, giving Shorehead, Portsoy, AB45 2PB, Caithness Joan Eardley, living in brushwork. a freshness of colour and texture that sings out. 01261 842 404 Ever-changing ongoing display NORTH LANDS CREATIVE and recording street As Fergusson Turn away and the yacht will have moved, its GLASS, Quatre Bras, Lybster, of pottery, Portsoy marble kids in damp, crumbling observed, light is the brilliant white mainsail tight to the wind. KW3 6BN, 01593 721 229, www. tenements. Smog so mystery that reveals work,hand-knits, books and northlandsglass.com, info@ That is a major strength of this exhibition. presents northlandsglass.com bad you could’na see truth and reality through You really can get up close and personal with TOMINTOUL MUSEUM & Until September 30 one side of Sauchiehall colour and form. Their these works. It’s a treat to be able to see their VISITOR CENTRE, The Square, Leap of Faith. Explores how Street from t’other. mastery of light and Tomintoul, AB37 9ET, 01309 glass continues to inspire belief three-dimensionality and to be surprised by 673 701 in both a traditional and wider Not that it made much movement is particularly colour and scale, often much smaller and more sense difference. Everything striking in Peploe’s intimate than you would suppose. Beauly October 10 - 12 Ian Pearson. Lampworking. was black, white or grey; ‘Luxembourg Gardens’, Colour? Yes, a vital element, well used, KILMORACK GALLERY, The or felt that way. People painted about 1910. It Old Kilmorack Church, IV4 7AL, LYTH ARTS CENTRE, Lyth, but no less important is their skill in adopting 01463 783 230 Wick, KW1 4UD, 01955 641 270, needed cheering, walls shimmers and shakes and adapting a French style and applying it THE BEAULY GALLERY, 3-4 www.lytharts.org.uk brightening up. with energy, colours High Street, IV4 7BY, 01463 Until August 31 so effectively to subjects that excited their 783 508 40th Year Retrospective – Fer- Any good marketing bright and brushstrokes imagination. So, more following in the footsteps gus Mather, George Legg, Julia pro knows you need a fresh. of great French artists, less taking off on their Rand, Mike Rand and others catchy strapline to define Peonies in a Chinese Vase, George Leslie Hunter Quick to absorb Berkshire from the Lyth Collection own. STANLEY SPENCER GAL- NORTHSHORE POTTERY, Mill and sell your wares. Canny Glaswegian art dealers and reflect the qualities and mannerisms of their What’s more, they provided a vital stepping LERY, High Street, Cookham, of Forse, Latheron, KW5 6DG, T and R Annan certainly got it right when they heroes, they learnt their lessons well and brought stone for those Scottish artists who admired, were SL6 9SJ, 01628 471 885 01593 741 777 came up with a cracker to describe the work of them home, leaving the avant garde behind. Studio pottery and ceramic influenced by, and came after them. sculpture by Jenny Mackenzie Cadell, Hunter, Peploe and Fergusson – “The I don’t think these four wanted to shake off But original? Risk-taking? Innovative? I Berwick-upon- Ross Scottish Colourists”. It stuck, and sticks still. their middle-class roots, or their Scottishness. don’t think so. Does it matter? Not a jot. The THURSO ART GALLERY, Except...except... labels restrict, confine, Paris was exhilarating, but its memories seem to Tweed Davidson’s Lane, Thurso, KW14 best of their work is of the best, and should be BERWICK GYMNASIUM ART 7AS, 01847 896 357 limit. These four artists are really “The Much- have been strong enough to inoculate them against appreciated as such. GALLERY, Berwick Barracks, ST FERGUS GALLERY, Wick More-Than- Scottish-Much-More-Than- dreich days and the Kirk. Forget labels, just enjoy the painting. The Parade, TD15 1DG, 01289 Library, Sinclair Terrace, Wick, Colourists”. Francophile British Europeans, of Favoured subjects? Fashionable Edinburgh 304 535 KW1 5AB, 01955 603 489 NUMBER FOUR GALLERY, international stature. drawing rooms and the delicate flowers and NICK JONES Northfield Farm, St Abbs, It’s not surprising that four well off, young, elegant ladies therein. This was just what the Berwickshire, TD14 5QF, 01890 Cambridge The Scottish Colourists, Granary Gallery, 771 111 KETTLE’S YARD, Castle Street, talented artists searching for inspiration and market wanted, something sophisticated and Berwick until October 15, 2017 11am-4pm (closed Contemporary work from art- CB3 0AQ, 01223 748100 excitement in the early 1900s would yearn for continental with a whiff of je ne sais quoi. Tues.) The Granary Gallery, 2nd Floor, Berwick ists and designer/makers from “Gai Paris”. Desperate to escape dreich weather, When city life palled, and it clearly did, they YHA, Dewar’s Lane,Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 both sides of the Border Castle Douglas urban industrialism, and the strictures of a dour wanted out, seeking air, light and water – sea, THE GRANARY GALLERY, 2nd 1AJ www.scottishcolouristsberwick.com Floor, Berwick YHA, Dewar’s CLIENCE STUDIO, 212 King Presbyterianism, La Belle France beckoned harbours, boats and beaches. They decamped for Lane, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 street, DG7 1DS, 01556 504318, 1HJ, 01289 303 232 www.cliencestudio.co.uk Until October 15 Gallery & studio of Angela Lawrence: changing displays The Scottish Colourists (www. scottishcolouristsberwick.com) of land & seascape paintings & prints, mostly Galloway & - see editorial p 7 Western Isles. Art gifts. Com- PAXTON HOUSE, Paxton house, Paxton, TD15 1SZ missions A D LIVINGSTON & SONS, 183 King Street, DG7 1DZ, 01556 Berwickshire 504 234 TOM DAVIDSON GALLERY, Furniture restorers’ workshop, East Mayfield, High Street, shop and gallery Paisley Art Institute Earlston, TD4 6BU, 01896 848 THE MCGILL-DUNCAN GAL- 898 LERY, 231 King Street, DG7 1DT, GRADUATE Scottish Drawing Competition Continuous work by Tom 01556 502 468 Davidson and work by artist ARTS OF ALBA, 39/40 Threave Saturday 28th October - Saturday 25th November 2017 Linda Lovatt Terrace, DG7 1HG, 01556 504 020 Featuring the work of Freida Dyson, Sam Mullen and Sheila Birmingham Mulllen DEGREE IKON GALLERY, 1 Oozells JANINAS ART, Meadowview, Square, Brindleyplace, B1 2HS, Springholm, DG7 3LP, 01556 0121 248 0708 650329 CALL FOR ENTRIES BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & Still lifes, landscapes, portraits, ART GALLERY, Chamberlain figures, abstracts, experimental SHOW Square, B3 3DH, 0121 303 2834 work in mixed media Schedule and Downloadable Labels THE GALLERY AT LAURIES- available 1st September from Borders TON, Woodbank House, Lauries- www.paisleyartinstitute.com THE SCOTT GALLERY, Hawick ton, DG7 2PW, 01644 450 235 or send SAE to: Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Contemporary and traditional 2017 Hawick, TD9 7JL, 01750 20096 Fine Art and Landscape images THE CHRISTOPHER BOYD of Galloway PAI Secretary GALLERY, Old Gala House, DALBEATTIE VISITOR Scott Cresent, Galashiels, TD1 INFORMATION AND CRAFT Box 114, Abbey House 3JS CENTRE, 24 High Street, Dalbe- 43 High Street FLAT CAT GALLERY, 2 Market attie, DG5 4AA, 01556 612 752 Preview: Place, Lauder, TD2 6SR, 01578 Paisley PA1 2AH 722 808 Cornwall THE ROADSTEAD GALLERY, ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM, Friday 1 September St Ellas Place, Eyemouth, TD14 River Street, Truro, TR1 2SJ, Venue: Paisley Museum and Art Galleries 5HP, 018907 52067 01872 272 205 High Street, Paisley REAL WOOD STUDIOS, From March 2017 Exhibition continues: Monteviot Nurseries, Nr Ancrum, Various artists. One of the www.paisleyartinstitute.com Jedburgh, TD8 6TU, 01835 2 - 7 September 830 767 County’s finest art collections. Contemporary Scottish furni- February 2017 to February Paisley Art Institute est. 1876 Paisley Art Inst.@secretary_76466 www.gsa.ac.uk/graddegreeshow2017 Registered Charity No. SC000840 Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 8 artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 9 The Against the trend… a new Guide 2018 library opens its doors Printing, etc legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton Poldark. Historical objects and Dumfriesshire 2nd Saturday of each month and Frank Hurley ‘stills’ from the current Poldark Frances Anderson finds a warm welcome for a new cultural complex in Sew Forth. Sewing and Craft SCOTTISH NATIONAL POR- TV series GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE, Group TRAIT GALLERY, 1 Queen St, 28 Edinburgh Road, DG1 1JQ, LEMON STREET GALLERY Dunfermline and discovers the architect’s thinking behind the project Starts April 17 EH2 1JD, 0131 624 6200 01387 262 084, www.dumgal.gov. (LSG), 13 Lemon Street, Truro, Term 3 Classes. Bookings uk/Gracefield, arts@dumgal. Until March 3 2019 TR1 2LS, 01872 275 757 gov.uk open 13th March. Everybody Scots in ltaly - Artists and welcome July 15 - August 19 SCOTLAND’S former historic medieval capital, the first of Carnegie’s public libraries was in his Adventurers. Explores the Scottish experience of Italy Dumfries & Galloway Fine FIDRA FINE ART, 45 Dirleton County Durham Dunfermline, is enjoying something of a cultural birthplace, Dunfermline in 1883. Born there in Avenue, North Berwick, EH39 in the eighteenth-century, the Arts Society 90th Annual BOWES MUSEUM, Newgate, 4BL, 01620 895057, www. period when fascination with exhibition comeback. Following the transformation of 1835, Carnegie grew up in a family that believed Barnard Castle, DL12 8NP, 01833 fidrafineart.co.uk, info@fidrafine- the country reached its height 690 606 August 26 - September30 the old unused fire station into a contemporary in the importance of books. Known as the ‘Patron art.co.uk Gallery 1 - People of Dumfries INVERLEITH HOUSE, Royal DLI MUSEUM & DURHAM arts centre in 2015, the town is now celebrating Saint of Libraries,’ he is credited with founding 200 years of Traditional and Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith ART GALLERY, Aykley Heads, and Galloway the creation of the new Dunfermline Carnegie some 2,509 libraries. Contemporary Scottish Art Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 248 2971 DH1 5TU, 0191 384 2214 August 26 - November 19 Until July 30 Until October 29 Regular exhibitions call for full Gallery 2 - Artist Rooms - Don Library and Galleries (DCL&G). The project is a Fife Council development, Mixed Summer Exhbition Plant Scenery of the World. listings McCullin Designed by Richard Murphy Architects, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the SEASHORE GALLERY, Mar- Celebrating 50 years of the THE ORIENTAL MUSEUM, El- THOMAS TOSH, 19 East shall Street, Cockenzie, EH32 ‘Front Range’, RBGE’s innova- vet Hill, DH1 3TH, 0191 334 5694 Morton Street & 55 Drumlanrig the DCL&G is a spectacular new museum and Carnegie Dunfermline Trust. Fife Cultural Trust 0HT, 0793 592 8288 Street, Thornhill, DG3 5LZ, tive modernist glasshouses art gallery in the heart of Dunfermline’s Heritage manages the project on behalf of Fife Council. Paintings, jewellery, wood, THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, 01848 331 553 ceramics, glass, prints, cards Crieff SPRING FLING OPEN STU- PALACE OF HOLYROOD- Quarter, integrating imaginatively with the The main museum covers six themes: June, July August HOUSE, Palace of Holyrood- AITON FINE ARTS, 63 King DIOS, Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Various artists. Summer Street, PH7 3HB, 01764 655 423 Edinburgh Rd, DG1 1JQ world’s first Carnegie Library. Industry; Transport; Recreation and Culture; house, Abbeyhill, EH8 8DX, 0131 Exhibition. 556 5100 Contemporary Scottish paint- CUT THE MUSTARD GAL- The impressive £ 12.4 million award- Home Life; Two World Wars; and Dunfermline as WESTGATE GALLERY, 39-41 ings and prints. Picture restor- LERY, 54-56 High Street, Lang- , Westgate, North Berwick, EH39 ers and framers holm, DG13 0JH, 01387 381 180, winning new building (EAA Building of the Year) a Centre of Royal and Religious Power, while the University of Edinburgh, Old 4AG, 01620 894 976 College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, THE STRATHEARN GALLERY, www.mustardgallery.co.uk houses a new museum, exhibition galleries, local galleries present a programme of changing visual Showcasing desirable Art & Paintings, limited edition prints, 0131 650 2211 32 West High Street, PH7 4DL, history reading room, new children’s library and a art exhibitions. sculptures, ceramics & glass. Until September 30 01764 656 100 Crafts in the South of Scotland Until August 24 mezzanine café . Local Sarah Brown, visiting with her parents Licensed Gallery café Stephen Sutcliffe. Sex Symbols Until September 17 in Sandwich Signs. Works Summer Colours Various artists. Summer The building boasts stunning views over the from Ayr, commented: “It’s stunning, with great BRAID IMAGE, 60 Rhodes Park, Exhibition. North Berwick, EH39 5NA, 01620 OPEN EYE GALLERY, 34 landscaped garden to Dunfermline Abbey and the exhibits. The way it incorporates the outside is 890 780 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE, Cumbria Heritage Quarter, which contains several historic amazing.” Large Panoramic Art Photo- 0131 557 1020 ART IN THE PEN, Borderway Dundee graphs, Printed on Canvas. TORRANCE GALLERY, 36 Auction Mart, Rosehill Industrial DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE buildings of national significance, such as the Local support worker Helen Montgomery, View on-line gallery or visitors Dundas Street, EH3 6JN, 0131 Estate, Montgomery Way, Carl- COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN medieval Dunfermline Abbey and Abbot House, visiting with a client, said: “I like to hear about by appointment 556 6366, www.torrancegallery. isle, CA1 2RS, www.artinthepen. GALLERIES, University of GULLANE ART GALLERY, 8 co.uk, enquiries@torrancegal- org.uk Dundee, 13 Perth Road, DD1 (shown top right) one of the few intact 15th the old days in Dunfermline,” adding, “I didn’t Stanley Road (Main Street), Gul- lery.co.uk Contemporary art fair 4HT, 01382 385 330 century buildings left in the country. use the library before, but will be back again now. lane, EH31 2AD, 01620 843 082 Until July 22 ABBOT HALL ART GALLERY, LAMB GALLERY, University of ST ANDREW BLACKADDER Vega Eilean Coaraich Kendal, LA9 5AL, 01539 722464 Dundee, Tower Building, Nether- Named after the Scottish-American I love the gardens.” CHURCH HALL, St Andrew July 29 - August 26 Exhibition talks, holiday gate, DD1 4HN, 01382 385330 industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, Heather Stuart, chief executive of Fife Cultural Trust, said: “This building will play a Kingdom. She said: Street, North Berwick, EH39 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition workshops, gallery book shop, HANNAH MACLURE CENTRE, key role in the regeneration of Dunfermline. It’s “I’ve been doing school also wanted to make a building that was easy to the amount of facilities inside the building had 4NU, 01620 895 233 Jewellery by Sheana Stephes, coffee shop University of Abertay, Top Floor, a community project in spirit and a great deal of visits for the last couple of weeks and in every find your way around in and to make it a sociable to be squeezed into the permitted envelope of BASS ROCK POTTERY, Paintings by Tim Cockburn, KENDAL MUSEUM, Station Abertay Student Centre, 1 - 3 Bell Tantallon Arts & Crafts Studios, Ronnie Ford, Carol Barrett, Road, Kendal, LA9 6BT, 01539 Street, DD1 1HP, 01382 308 777 blood, sweat and tears have gone into bringing it school I’ve asked “Who’s come to see the new place; a place where you would arrange to meet a development; and everything had to be specially North Berwick, EH39 5PW, 0131 Sonas Maclean, Jennifer 815597 THE MCMANUS: DUNDEE’S to life”. Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries?” friend for a cup of tea without necessarily using designed.” 467 8300 Mackenzie, Tom Watt, Deborah BLACKWELL, Bowness-on- ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, TANTALLON ARTS & CRAFTS Phillips, Mark Holden, Tom Windermere, LA23 3JT, 01539 Albert Square, Meadowside, DD1 Steve Grimmond, Fife Council’s Chief – hands always shoot up and those that haven’t any of the facilities. In that way we hope it both With two significant cultural projects STUDIOS, Halfland Barns Shanks 446 139 1DA, 01382 307 200 Executive, said: “This impressive new facility is come get really excited.” Jo Craig, a local, regenerates library usage but also the town centre.” completed, who knows what’s next for the town of Schoolhouse, North Berwick, Until September 16 BREWERY ARTS CENTRE, Until October 28 Inspiring the design, says Murphy, was, EH39 5PW, 0131 467 8300 Joseph Maxwell Stuart. Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4HE, Fire and Stone. Archaeology of set to be a real cultural asset for Fife. It’s been visiting for the first time with her two children, Dunfermline? LINDSEY ANTIQUES, 5a INGLEBY GALLERY, 6 Carlton 01539 725 133 Monifieth Laws an ambitious and demanding project for those says, “I’m very impressed and it’s lovely having “socially the building was predicated on being a Roseberry Place, Gullane, North Terrace, EH7 5DD, 0131 556 4441 Theatre, music, dance, comedy, DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY social centre. And in that sense it follows on from Berwick, EH31 2AN, 01620 Until October 29 exhibitions, cinema, literature, ARTS (DCA), 152 Nethergate, involved but seeing the finished product and the outdoor area for kids. I’ll definitely be back.” 842 326 Frank Walter. Flamboyant workshops, restaurant, bars DD1 4DY, 01382 909 900 the reaction from visitors highlights just how a number of buildings such as DCA in Dundee, 19th & 20th Century paintings Trees. Paintings Named building of the year in a prestigious and etchings & café COOPER GALLERY, Exhibi- significant this building will be for the town architectural competition, the project has Eastgate Centre in Peebles, Galeri in Caernarfon, The Torrance Gallery GALLERY TEN, 5 William EDEN ARTS, 1 Sandgate, Pen- tions, Duncan of Jordanstone Col- PAINTBOX ART CLASSES, Coc- Street, West End, EH3 7NG rith, CA11 7TP, 01768 899 444 lege of Art & Design, University centre.” subsequently won an RIAS 2017 Award. etc. where we have been successful in that regard. kenzie House & Gardens, www. EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, DD1 “Architecturally the plan owes a lot to the paintboxartclasses.com WORKSHOP GALLERY, 23 PENNINE POTTERY, Cargill 4HT, 01382 385 330 Fife Cultural Trust staff spent weeks moving Architect Richard Murphy said: “A contemporary Vega Offer a variety of classes, Head House, Alston, CA9 3NG, idea of ‘thick-walled’ architecture, such as the Union Street, EH1 3LR, 0131 01434 382 157 THE KRYSZTYNA GALLERY, thousands of books, museum objects, precious building at the heart of a conservation area is not Eilean Coaraich workshops, summer schools 557 2479 Pottery & kiln work of ce- 15A Nelson Street, DD1 2PN, plan of the Scottish castle, but here organised as and luxury residential courses PATRIOTHALL GALLERY 01382 322 522, www.krysztyna- archives and artworks into the building. Local an easy project to bring about but we hope that st nd ramicist Peter Lascelles - please 1 – 22 July across Scotland and also @ WASPS, 1d Patriothall, off gallery.com, krysztynart@gmail. three parallel rows. Within those thick walls the provide a distant learning telephone first studies officer Sara Ann Kelly explained how the this building, in the fullness of time, will take its Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, com ancillary accommodation is found and between programme EH3 5AY, 0131 226 7126 RED BARN GALLERY, Mel- Drawings, Paintings and Prints old – the world’s first Carnegie Library – married place alongside its historic neighbours.” THE DUNDAS STREET GAL- kinthorpe, Penrith, CA10 2DR, BROUGHTY CASTLE MUSE- them are all the main spaces and the internal street. 01931 212 767 to the new expansion. Murphy’s vision for the new building LERY, 6a Dundas Street, EH3 UM, Castle Approach, Broughty “In terms of other architects my own personal Edinburgh 6HZ MUSEUM OF LAKELAND Ferry, DD5 2TF, 01382 436916 “Artefacts in here link the two,” she said. incorporated many different agendas. THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN LIFE, Abbot Hall, Kirkland, Ken- Houses displays on the life and “Original book cases remain in the Carnegie “We wanted to make a building that is highly hero, Carlo Scarpa, has had a lot to do with the GALLERY, The Mound, Princes dal, LA9 5AL, 01539 722 464 Street, EH2 2EL, 0131 624 6200 EDINBURGH, 20A Inverleith times of Broughty Ferry, its Library, but just around the corner is a brand new main faç ade and the stepped section archive Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 552 7171 WILLOWPOOL DESIGNS, 9 people, the environment and contemporary but also complements the historic SCOTTISH NATIONAL GAL- Weston Houses, Endmoor, Ken- reading room owes a debt to Aalto.” Until September 25 the wildlife that live close by multi-layered Reading Room with stunning views buildings all around and in particular how it LERY OF MODERN ART, 75 The Flow Country. Focussing dal, LA8 0HA, 01539 567 056 Murphy admits it was a difficult project to Belford Road, EH4 3DR, 0131 Willow work by Simone Siegan MCMANUS COLLECTIONS of Dunfermline Abbey.” integrates with the existing library. When inside on one of Europe’s last wild UNIT, Barrack Street, DD1 1PG, 624 6200 & Steve Fuller Local resident Colin Maxwell, who writes the building we wanted to bring the presence of undertake: “We had Historic Scotland objections places, in the far north of 01382 307200 CITY ART CENTRE, 1-3 Market Scotland DOVE COTTAGE, The Words- New permanent home for the which resulted in a complete redesign of the Street, EH1 1DE, 0131 529 3993 Scottish historical comic books and was doing various historic buildings into the inside as well EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF worth Museum and Art Gallery, City’s History, Archaeology Until October 8 Grasmere, LA22 9SH, 015394 research said, “They’ve done a great job mixing as unexpected views of the wider landscape. We entrance; the budget was a continual challenge; Edinburgh Alphabet. An A-Z of ART, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF, and Natural History Collections 0131 221 6109 35544 Until Autumn 2017 the City’s Collections the old with the new, I love all the natural light.” , 10 FARFIELD MILL, Garsdale THE ROYAL SCOTTISH The Glasgow Boys, the Scot- Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT, 0131 Road, Sedbergh, LA10 5LW, tish Colourists, James McIn- Ailsa Gormley from Fife ACADEMY BUILDING, Upper 01539 621 958 550 3660 tosh Patrick and Joan Eardley. Cultural Trust says the centre has Galleries, The Mound, EH2 2EL, Until January 20 2018 MILL YARD STUDIOS, 3 Mill A Sense of Place: Twentieth 0131 225 6671, www.royalscot- Yard, Staveley, Kendal, LA8 7LR attracted children from all across the Daughters of Penelope. Looks Century Scottish Painting. tishacademy.org TULLIE HOUSE MUSEUM at the work of key women IARTSUPPLIES, 59 Perth Road, Until October 1 AND ART GALLERY, Castle weavers and artists who have DD1 4HU, 0330 223 0922, www. Exciting Fresh Work from RSA Open Exhibition of Art. Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP, 01228 contributed to Dovecot’s his- iartsupplies.co.uk Edinburgh Festival Exhibition Small and medium sized col- 618718 New and Established Artists tory and present Online Art Shop lectible artworks from Scotland THE GALLERY AT RHEGED, MORNING SIDE GALLERY, 94 LIFESPACE SCIENCE ART Jewellery by Sheana Stephen and beyond Rheged Centre, Redhills, Penrith, THE SCOTTISH GALLERY, 16 Morningside Road, EH10 4BY, CA11 0DQ, 01768 868 000 RESEARCH GALLERY, College 0131 447 3041. of Life Sciences, University of Paintings by Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 NENTHEAD MINES HERIT- Dundee, DD1 5EH, 01382 381023 558 1200, www.scottish-gallery. , 25 AGE CENTRE, Nenthead, Alston, co.uk, [email protected] North Junction Street, EH6 CA9 3PD, 01434 382 726 GALLERY Q, 160 Nethergate, Tim Cockburn : Ronnie Ford 6HW, 0131 554 5761, www. DD1 4DU, 01382 220 600 August 3 - September 2 Guided valley trails,1825 Centenary Exhibition - Alberto leithschoolofart.co.uk, enquiries@ leithschoolofart.co.uk planned Quaker village: N Pen- Carol Barrett : Sonas Maclean Morrocco nines ‘Klondyke’. Lead Mines; East Lothian Anatomy of Haste - Kate MUSEUMS COLLECTION Rampgill café CENTRE, 10 Broughton Market , GREENS & BLUES, 59 High Jennifer Mackenzie : Tom Watt Downie EH3 6NU, 0131 556 9536 UPFRONT GALLERY AND Street, North Berwick, EH39 Philip Elgin - Unfinished COFFEE SHOP, Nr Hutton-in- 4HG, 01620 890 666, www. The centre houses the reserve Deborah Phillips : Mark Holden Business collections of the city muse- the-Forest, Unthank, Penrith, greensandblues.co.uk, info@ Jacueline Mina at 75 CA11 9TG, 01768 484 538 greensandblues.co.uk ums, there are many interesting Tom Shanks 3D/2D, Unit 3, Albion Business objects on ‘open storage’ BRANTWOOD, The Brantwood BLUES & GREENS, 13 Market Centre, 78 Albion Road, EH7 Trust, Coniston, LA21 8AD, Place, North Berwick, EH39 4JF, th th 5QZ, 0131 661 6600, www.3d2d. display, especially social his- 01539 441 396 01620 893 377 29 July – 26 August co.uk, [email protected] tory objects, decorative art and archaeology collections POLDRATE ARTS AND THE FRUITMARKET GAL- MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOK- Devon CRAFTS CENTRE, Poldrate LERY, 45 Market Street, EH1 Granary, Haddington, EH41 1DF, 0131 225 2383 SHOPS AND GALLERY, 3a INSPIRED PAINTING HOLI- 4DA, 01620 823 738, www.pacc. Until October 22 & 4a Haddington Place, EH7 DAYS, Weston House, 6 Luke org.uk, [email protected] Jac Leirner. Add It Up. First 4AE, 0131 556 5897, www.mc- Street, Bampton, EX16 9NF, naughtansbookshop.com, info@ From January 9th for 10 36 Dundas Street : Edinburgh EH3 6JN solo in Scotland 01398 332094 , www.inspired- weeks 12 -17 mcnaughtans.co.uk paintingholidays.co.uk NATIONAL MUSEUM OF Please check our website for 0131 556 6366 THE VELVET EASEL GAL- Landscapes, gardens, coast SCOTLAND, Chambers Street, full list of classes. Term 2 LERY, 298 Portobello High painting courses with Catherine September 2017 EH1 1HF, 0131 225 7534 Classes. Spinning, Weaving, [email protected] Street, Portobello, EH15 2AS, Scott NATIONAL LIBRARY OF Pottery, Drawing, Sculp- 0131 629 1121, www.velveteasel. PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF www.nairnfestival.co.uk www.torrancegallery.co.uk SCOTLAND, George IV Bridge, co.uk ture, Kiln Glass, Painting, EH1 1EW, 0131 623 3700 ART, Tavistock Place, Plymouth, Upholstery, Basket Making, Until October 29 PL4 8AT, 01752 203 434 22nd - 25th September 2017 Until November 12 Woodcarving, Mixed Media, Book Now! Portobello Mon Amour – a new Enduring Eye. The Antarctic mixed exhibition www.cowalopenstudios.co.uk Picture framing service @Nairn_Festival from our own workshops For the Guide online Visit: www.artwork.co.uk

artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 10 The ArtWork Guide COBURG HOUSE ART STUDI- art, drawing, painting and forganartscentre.co.uk, info@ Square, G1 3AH, 0141 287 3050 OS, 15 Coburg Street, EH6 6ET, printmaking forganartscentre.co.uk Until May 20 2018 0131 553 2266, www.coburghou- UPRIGHT GALLERY, 3 Barclay Courses, workshop and events Hito Steyerl. Polygraphs. seartstudios.co.uk, exhibitions@ Terrace, EH10 4HP, 0131 221 in all form and for all ages and A group exhibition, centred coburghouse.co.uk 0265 abilities around Abstract, which EDINBURGH PALETTE, St CRAIL POTTERY, 75 Nether- explores truth, fiction and evi- Margaret’s House, 151 London gate, The Square, Crail, KY10 dence in a complicated world Road, Midlothian, EH7 6AE, 0131 Falkirk AUGUST 5th till 13th 3TX, 01333 451 212 RIVERSIDE MUSEUM, 1 661 1924, www.edinburghpalette. THE PARK GALLERY AND Huge variety of handthrown Bunhouse Road, G3 8DP, 0141 co.uk, info@edinburghpalette. CALLENDAR HOUSE, Cal- stoneware, terracotta, earthen- 287 2720 co.uk lendar Park, FK1 1YR, 01324 ware & raku Scotland’s Museum of Trans- EDINBURGH ART SHOP, 129 503 789, www.falkirkcommuni- SCOTTISH FISHERIES MU- port and Travel Lauriston Place, EH3 9JN, 0131 tytrust.org/venues/park-gallery, SEUM, St Ayles, Harbourhead, Until December 31 229 1809, www.EdinburghArt- artsandcrafts@falkirkcommuni- Anstruther, KY10 3AB, 01333 Clyde Life. Photography dis- Shop.com, info@EdinburghArt- tytrust.org 310 628 Shop.co.uk Until October 15 DEBORAH play captures the ever-changing GRISELDA HILL POTTERY landscape of Glasgow’s River SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF Michael Prince. Workhorse - PHILLIPS LTD, Kirkbrae, Ceres, Cupar, ARCHITECT-ARTISTS, RIAS, The Clydesdales of Flanders Clyde KY15 5ND, 01334 828 273 Until December 31 2019 15 Rutland Square, EH1 2BE, Moss. Photographs CONTEMPORARY SCOTTISH ARTIST Wemyss Ware. Fife’s famous www.ssaagallery.org.uk A Fair Life. Exploring the his- THE WEST END GALLERY, Pittenweem hand painted pottery COLLECTIVE GALLERY, 22-28 tory of Scottish fairgrounds 3-45 West Bridge Street, FK1 VENUE GERRY PINE GALLERY, Gerry Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY, 0131 5AZ, 01324 613 100 OF ART, 220 1260 Pine, 67 Nethergate North, Crail, 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ, DELTA STUDIOS, Lochlands ARTS Festival KY10 3TX, 01333 450 842 0141 353 4589, www.gsa.ac.uk THE SALTIRE SOCIETY, 9 Business Park, Larbert, FK5 3NS, Landscape Painting near St September 2 - 7 Fountain Close, 22 High Street, 01324 555 500 Andrews. Weekend and weekly EH1 1TF, 0131 556 1836, www. Graduate Degree Show 2017 Artists studios and workspaces August 5–13 courses in the medieval fishing saltiresociety.org.uk, saltire@ for rent or lease RGI KELLY GALLERY, 118 saltiresociety.org.uk village of Crail - one of the Douglas Street, G2 4ET, 0141 248 FORTH VALLEY OPEN STU- 45ABBEYWALL ROAD driest and sunniest climates in Artistic interests include 6386, www.royalglasgowinstitute. DIOS, 29 Gartcows Crescent, the UK! org/kelly.html, gallery@royalglas- awards for the weans in Scot- FK1 5QH www.deborahphillips.com tish song, and for artists in Arts KINGHORN GALLERY, King- gowinstitute.org An annual nine-day event horn, KY3 9RT, 01592 890 218 and Crafts in Architecture which takes place in the Forth GLASGOW ART CLUB, 185 Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 248 STILLS GALLERY, 23 Cockburn Valley, Central Scotland BALBIRNIE CRAFT CENTRE, Street, EH1 1BP, 0131 622 6200 Markinch, Glenrothes, Tayside, 5210, www.glasgowartclub.co.uk, PitArtsFestAd.indd 1 07/07/2017 19:58 KY7 6NE, 01592 753 743 [email protected] THE LAUREL GALLERY, The Laurel Gallery, 58 St Stephen Fife Alison & Roy Murray gold- Until August 5 J & G INNES LTD smithing & jewellery; also at 20 The Glasgow Art Club Summer Street, Stockbridge, EH3 5AL, KIRKCALDY MUSEUM & ART 0131 226 5022 GALLERY, War Memorial Gar- Thistle Street, Edinburgh Exhibition THE ADAM POTTERY, 76 dens, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy, Stationers Booksellers TWIST FIBRE CRAFT STUDIO, JOHN GREEN FINE ART, 182 Henderson Row, EH3 5BJ, 0131 KY1 1YG, 01592 412 860, www. 88 High Street, Newburgh, Cupar, Bath Street, G2 4HG, 0141 333 557 3978 onfife.com/venues/kirkcaldy- KY14 6AQ, 01337 842 843 1991, www.glasgowgallery.com, Thrown, sculptural and hand- galleries, kirkcaldy.galleries@ Art Suppliers & Gift Shop Workshops and supplies - knit- [email protected] built ceramics onfife.com ting, weaving, spinning, felt Specialist framers and restorers ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI Until November 5 making, natural dyeing. Natural COMPASS GALLERY, 178 West CULTURA, 82 Nicolson Street, Various artists. The Glasgow fibre yarns, books, magazines, Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 221 EH8 9EW, 0131 668 2232 Boys - A Spirit of Rebellion. equipment and kits 6370, www.compassgallery.co.uk, Ongoing arts lectures, exhibi- CUPAR ARTS & HERITAGE Graham Rich FIFE FOLK MUSEUM, High [email protected] tions & performances; Italian PROJECT (CAHP), 5 Ashlar Street, Ceres, KY15 5NF, 01334 Until July 14 classes Park, Lovers Lane, Cupar, KY15 828 180 The New Generation Show 5AQ Anna S King July 16, August 2 & 19 2017 L’INSTITUT FRANçAIS Ellie Angel for Rich Guardian Detail: Graham D’ECOSSE, 13 Randolph Cres- PETE CURA PICTURE FRAM- Fife Still Life. Drawing CYRIL GERBER FINE ART, 178 cent, EH3 7TT, 0131 225 5366 ING, At the Gallery, Burnside, workshops West Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 Cupar, KY15 4BH, 01334 652 353 Paul Furneaux OPEN STUDIOS NORTH FIFE 221 3095, www.gerberfineart. MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD, co.uk, [email protected] Lino cuts by Barbara Robert- Artists & makers open their 42 High Street, Royal Mile, High 19th-21st Century Brit- Street, EH1 1TG, 0131 529 4142 son, Caricatures by Donald workspaces to visitors the first ish Paintings, Drawings & Smart, New editions by Sonas full weekend in May annually Until September 18 Sculpture including works by It’s Alive. A cast of clockwork MacLean. Framing: over 100 CONTEMPORARY ARTS DUN- Scottish Contemporaries and characters mouldings to choose from FERMLINE (CAD), Upper Mall, Modern Masters MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH, EAST NEUK OPEN STUDIOS, The Kingsgate, Dunfermline GLASGOW MUSEUMS, Culture Huntly House, 142 Canongate, East Neuk Scottish artists work, mixed www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk and Sport Glasgow, 20 Trongate, Royal Mile, High Street, EH8 MAISIE & MAC ART AND media, 2d, 3d, small sculpture G1 5ES, 0141 287 4350

8DD, 0131 529 4143 CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, Sutherland Rachel work (ceramic, Glass and Call or visit website for full Until September 25 1 St. Catherine Street, Cupar, wood), Digital images KY15 4LS, 01334 656 523, www. details David Guillen. A Tale on the THE QUAY GALLERY, 33 High maisieandmac.com, info@maisie- Mile. Photography exhibition September Exhibition Street, Aberdour, KY3 0SH, 01383 ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF andmac.com focusing on The Royal Mile 860 602 RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ART, 2 Paintings, prints, sculpture, tex- upstairs @ J & G INNES LTD Castle Street, Glasgow City, G4 WHITESPACE GALLERY, 11 tiles, ceramics, wood & metal Pittarts Artwork July 17.indd 1 09/07/2017 10:23KIRKCALDY ART CLUB, Hot 0RH, 0141 276 1625 Gayfield Square, EH1 3NT, 0781 Pot Wynd, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Until October 31 451 4771 from UK artists and makers SSAA Ligne et Couleur KY1 2TQ, 01592 203270 Heavenly Creatures: Angels PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTI- Painting classes, Monday THE EDINBURGH GALLERY, in Faith, History and Popular VAL, Festival Office, 47 High 2-4pm and 7-9pm, Tuesday 20A Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, artworks by Culture. Features objects from 0131 557 5002 Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, 7-9pm and Thursday 10-noon. 01333 313 903, www.pitten- around the world and across Pottery classes, Monday ALPHA ART GALLERY, 52 weemartsfestival.co.uk, info@ Scottish Architect-Artists the centuries including paint- Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, 10-12pm and 7-9pm, Tuesday pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk ings, sculpture, stained glass, EH3 5AX, 0131 226 3066 7-9pm and Wednesday 2-4pm August 5 - 13 Mon-Sat 9.00 - 5.15pm photographs and multi-media THE WRITERS’ MUSEUM, Invited artists: Graham Rich, BIRCHWOOD COTTAGE GAL- displays Lady Stair’s Close, EH1 2PA, Anna S King, Paul Furneaux Sun 12.30 - 4.30pm LERY & TEAROOM, Balmungo, 0131 529 4901 St Andrews, KY16 8LW, 01334 SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL FISHER STUDIO AND GAL- 208220 MUSEUM, 225 Scotland Street, RICCIO GALLERY, 17 South LERY, 11-13 High Street, G5 8QB, 0141 287 0500 Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian, www.jg-innes.co.uk Gallery/tearoom just outside St Pittenweem, KY10 2LA, 01333 CENTRE FOR CONTEMPO- EH22 1AH, 0131 660 2561 312 255, www.fishergallery.co.uk, [email protected] | 01334 472174 Andrews on the B9131. Mixed rolling exhibition of original art RARY ARTS (CCA), 350 Sauchie- AMBER ARTS, 78 Montrose [email protected] hall Street, G2 3JD, 0141 352 4900 Terrace, Abbeyhill, EH7 5DP, 107 South Street | St Andrews | Fife | KY16 9QU work and prints by local artists A wide range of ceramics, MACKINTOSH CHURCH, CRM 0131 661 1167 MASPIE HOUSE GALLERY, studio glass, driftwood clocks, Society, Queen’s Cross Church, Picture Framers, Art Gallery High Street, Falkland, KY15 7BU, enamelling, metalworks etc and 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL, and Printmaking Studio 01337 857 735 limited edition of giclee prints 0141 946 6600 ART ET FACTS GALLERY, 19 Opens August 5 A wide selection of paint- July 8 & August 12; 11am- Roseburn Terrace, EH12 5NG, James Fraser, Jan Fisher, ings, giclee prints and cards, 4pm 0131 346 7730 George Gilbert, Lesley Gilbert, jewellery, books and stationery, Open Days. SUMMERHALL, 1 Summerhall, George Birrell, Fraser Shaw, Chhildren’s arts and crafts plus EH9 1PL, 0845 874 3000 ceramics and glass. Picture THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM Maralyn Reed-Wood. Pitten- AND ART GALLERY, University ROYAL FINE ART COMMIS- weem Festival Exhibition. framing service available of Glasgow, University Avenue, SION GALLERY, Bakehouse THE WEEM GALLERY, 16 ST. ANDREWS ART CLUB, G12 8QQ, 0141 330 4221 Close, 146 Canongate, Midlo- High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 14c Argyle Street, St Andrews, Until January 13 2018 thian, EH8 8DD 2LA, 01333 311 535 KY16 9BP Art of Power. Masterpieces DOUBTFIRE GALLERY, 3 August PAGE POTTERY GALLERY, 49 from the Bute Collection South East Circus Place, EH3 High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 Pittenweem Arts Festival MCLELLAN GALLERIES, 270 6TJ, 0131 225 6540 2PG, 01333 311402 Exhibition Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EH, 0141 QUEENSFERRY MUSEUM, 53 JOHN NELSON STUDIO WEEM GALLERY AND FRAM- 565 4137 High Street, South Queensferry, ER, 16 High Street, Pittenweem, GALLERY, 26 Milton Place, (on THE ANNAN GALLERY, 164 West Lothian, EH30 9HP, 0131 KY10 2LA, 01333 311535, www. A917 - 15mins from St Andrews), Woodlands Road, G3 6LL, 0141 331 5545 weemgalleryandframer.co.uk, Pittenweem, KY10 2LS, 01333 332 0028 Helps visitors to explore the [email protected] 312 112 ROGER BILLCLIFFE GAL- past and traditions of historic Featuring paintings and prints Open year round showing Queensferry and neighbouring contemporary art and craft; LERY, 134 Blythswood Street, G2 by John Nelson 4EL, 0141 332 4027 Dalmeny CULROSS POTTERY AND and hand-made picture framing service EWAN MUNDY FINE ART, THE PEOPLE’S STORY GALLERY (& BISCUIT 01436 821 533 MUSEUM, 163 Canongate, Royal GREENGATE GALLERY, CAFé), Sandhaven, Culross, GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Mile, EH8 8BN, 0131 529 4057 (near Dunfermline), KY12 8JG, Sandhaven, Culross, KY12 8JG, [email protected] GALLERY, 48 King Street, G1 THE FINE ART SOCIETY, 6 01383 882176, www.culrosspot- 5QT, 0141 552 0704 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 tery.com, camilla@culrosspot- 557 4050 tery.com GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS, The Whisky Bond, CARSON CLARK GALLERY, FIRE STATION CREATIVE, Glasgow KELVINGROVE ART GAL- 2 Dawson Road, G4 9SS, 0141 34 Northumberland Street, EH3 Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline, 353 3708 6LS, 0131 556 4710, www.car- KY12 7AN, 01383 721 564, www. LERY & MUSEUM, Argyle sonclarkgallery.co.uk, scotmap@ firestationcreative.co.uk, sarah@ Street, G3 8AG, 0141 287 2699 PLATFORM, The Bridge, 1800 aol.com firestationcreative.co.uk Until December 31 Westerhouse Road, G34 9JW, Antique maps, charts & prints. July 3 - 30 Daily Organ Recitals. Visitors 0141 276 9696 (Relocated from the Old Town) Everything You Think You to Kelvingrove can hear free CLYDE MARITIME CENTRE, 100 Stobcross Rd, G3 8QQ, 0141 & GALLERY, 17 Dundas Street, Need - Prints by Andrew recitals on 100 year old Organ 339 0631 EH3 6QG Gerald Redman from different performers A contemporary art gallery every day The Tall Ship at Glasgow FORGAN ART CENTRE, Harbour. Glenlee (1896), one of for a diverse range of fine Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay, GALLERY OF MODERN DD6 8RA, 01382 542 062, www. ART (GOMA), Royal Exchange only 5 Clyde-built sailing ships For the Guide online Visit: www.artwork.co.uk artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 11 The ArtWork Guide Ornsay, Sleat, IV43 8QR, 01471 tion Road, Kyle of Lochalsh, IV40 left afloat 01463 248 500 833 439, www.eileaniarmain. 8AE, 01599 530 039 TRAMWAY, 25 Albert Drive, G41 co.uk, [email protected] Judith Anne Currie paintings 2PE, 0141 276 0950 Inverness-shire Progressing from Picts to pixels July 22 - September 12 Until October 12 (Thursdays Pam Carter. Celebrates her 26th IONA GALLERY, Duke Street, Lanarkshire only) (ArtWork Year and will be present at the Indepen-dance: Creative Mov- PH21 1JG, 01540 664 535 A COUPLE of years ago we reported The exhibition also shows the recreation of Gallery IRONWORKS GALLERY, Sum- ers Adult Classes. A class for Regular exhibitions by local 187) on a small but beautifully designed and very Pictish and early medieval objects that has been merlee Heritage Park, Heritage artists in ‘handmade in the DIANA MACKIE, 10 Borreraig adults with diverse abilities and informative exhibition on the Romans in Britain, sponsored by Glenmorangie since 2008 and carried Park, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZX, Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, cairngorms’ 01236 431 261 their carers, to enjoy, express, held in the McManus in Dundee. Today, another out by Martin Goldberg of the National Museum of 01470 511 795 and fulfill their potential 1896 GALLERY & COFFEE Working studio and gallery - Call for details through dance SHOP, Deshar Rd, Boat of Gar- small and informative exhibition on the Picts in Scotland with the help of a number of craftspeople. paintings depict the climatic GOLD AND SILVER-ETC ART ten, PH24 3BN, 01479 831 111 Scotland is on at the Perth Museum & Art Gallery, One of these is the recreation of a Pictish throne changes of the Highlands and GALLERY, 41 High Street, ML11 STREET LEVEL PHOTOW- Art, photography, crafts, jewel- 7LU, 01555 665 342 ORKS, 48 King Street, Trongate Islands lery, books, cards and calendars though in this case there are fewer exhibits, perhaps shown on a Pictish stone at Fowlis near Crieff, Work by June Shirreffs, inc. 103, G1 5HD, 0141 552 2151 ORBOST GALLERY, Half CARRBRIDGE ARTISTS’ STU- reflecting the fact that we know much less about the which shows two people sitting on thrones that Bolvean, nr Dunvegan, IV55 8ZB, Bespoke jewellery, Quality LILLIE ART GALLERY, Sta- handbags tion Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ, DIO, Main Street, Cairngorms Picts. have a continuous curved arm and leg rest, a 01470 521 207 0141 956 5536, www.edlc.co.uk/ National Park, Carrbridge, Selling exhibitions of profes- WILLIAM WILSON FINE ART PH23 3AS, 01479 841 328, www. Since they had no writing, curving seat and a footstool. heritage-arts/exhibitions/lillie-art- sional artworks by local artists PHOTOGRAPHER, 75 Hyndford carrbridgestudios.com, alice@ historians have had to rely on the Close examination of the this gallery-exhibitions in Skye & Highlands Road, ML11 9AU, 01555 660 023 carrbridgestudios.com information provided by many image suggests that the thrones Limited edition giclée fine August 15 - September 27 Work by resident artists Jeff RAVEN PRESS GALLERY, RSW 6th Open Annual Summer art prints and canvases & Alice Buttress. Landscape Pictish stones in Scotland, some must have been of wood, while Colbost, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZS, Exhibition SUMMERLEE MUSEUM, Herit- & wildlife paintings, prints, of which record the conversion the continuous curvature suggest 01470 511 748 ART FORUM, 50 Station Road, Wood engravings of landscape age Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD, pottery, sculptures, raku, glass/ of Picts to Christianity in the 6th thats the wood must have been 01236 638460 Milngavie, G62 8AB, 0141 956 ceramic jewellery, leaded glass and wildlife. Resist dyed silks 6765 KILN SERVICES, Unit 8/11, and chainsaw carvings century AD. Also, because most oak. So a furniture maker was and hand knit design. Working Mixed exhibition of work studio of engraver Kathleen Whistleberry Park Industrial Es- ART LOCHABER, Lochaber, of their buildings were made of commissioned to recreate the including Peter Howson, Pam Lindsley tate, Hamilton, ML3 0ED, 01698 Carter, Mary Davidson, Walter Fort William, www.artlochaber. earth and wood, archeological throne, whose completion was 822032, www.kiln-services.co.uk, co.uk LYNNE’S ART SHED, Rose- Awlson, Marion Drummond remains are less definitive than delayed for two years to allow [email protected] A group of artists living in neath, 34 Lochbay, Waternish, and many more Provides kilns, clays and pot- Lochaber, West of those of the Romans, though it is the oak to season. The footstool IV55 8GD tery supplies GALLERY III, 25 King Street, Scotland, an area of extreme amazing what evidence of Pictish was recreated in stone. Townhead, G1 5QZ, 0141 552 natural beauty and home to 0704 sites can be gained from aerial Another of these projects in Kelso Lancashire Ben Nevis THE VENNEL GALLERY, WASPS ARTISTS STUDIOS, The photography, together with the the exhibition is a satchel in deer BLACKBURN MUSEUM & GLENFINNAN STATION MU- Denise Playfair, 11 Bridge Street, Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ, ART GALLERY, Museum Street, SEUM, Station Cottage, Glenfin- excavation of their forts. And, of leather that was probably used TD5 7HT, 01573 224 003, www. 0141 553 5890 Blackburn, BB1 7AJ, 01254 nan, PH37 4LT, 01397 722 295 playfairpetportraits.co.uk, ven- ARTERIES GALLERY, 185a course, there is the information for carrying a Bible. Based on 667 130 [email protected] Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 222 provided by the Romans, who fragments of a 6th-7th century Call for details 2830 Besposke Picture Framer. Ani- Isle of Arran fougfht many battles against the satchel found in a crannoch on mal portrait commissions. Art BOLTON MUSEUM ART GAL- EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CEN- STUDIO 4, Shore Road, Lamlash, Picts and gave them the name we Lochmaben, the leatherworker and needlework supplies LERY & AQUARIUM, Le Mans TRE, 51-53 Old Coach Road, KA27 8LA, 01770 600 919 Crescent, Bolton, BL1 1SE, 01204 East Kilbride, G74 4DU, 01355 now use: the painted people. responsible for the recreation KELSO POTTERY, The Knowes, 332 211 Lively contemporary art, 100 metres behind Kelso Abbey, 261 000, www.slleisureandculture. Masako Ritchie, Barbara The exhibition, Picts & had to work out details such as Call for details co.uk/info/48/east_kilbride_arts_ TD5 7BH, 01573 224 027 Young, Scott Irvine, Kirti Pixels, reflects the fact that it seams, rivets and the attachment Mugs, jugs, bowls & ‘Time KEN BROMLEY ART SUP- centre PLIES, Unit 13 Lodge Bank Mandir, R. Lele new works by is particularly concerned with of the leather strap, and by Tablets’ fired in the Kelso AULD KIRK MUSEUM, J. Broekhuizen Estate, Crown Lane, Horwich, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, East the way in which contemporary analysing how the weight of the Pit Kiln Bolton, BL6 5HY, 01204 690114 Dunbartonshire, G66 1HN, 0141 technology can be used to book would have borne down on BACK-RIDGE GALLERY, Twit- 578 0144 Isle of Bute Kirkcudbrightshire ter Lane, Waddington, Clitheroe, PULP PAPER ARTS WORK- enhance our knowledge about the the satchel’s base, discovered that BB73LQ, 01200 427304 MOUNT STUART, Mount Stu- HARBOUR COTTAGE GAL- SHOP, WASPS Factory, 77 art, PA20 9LR, 01700 503 877 Picts and our understanding of an earlier recreation had turned Former working farm has been Hanson Street, Dennistoun, LERY, Castlebank, Kirkcud- Until October 29 the way they lived. the satchel upside down. bright, DG6 4LB, 01557 330 073, transformed into a work- G31 2HF, 0141 337 2842, www. Steven Claydon. Introduced haven for local designers and paperartsworkshop.co.uk, alison. Thus the main exhibit is But probably the most www.harbourcottagegallery. [email protected] Species in Micronesia. Draws org.uk craftsmen upon a fusion of dynastic a virtual recreation of a Pictish fascinating recreation is a close PETER SCOTT GALLERY, MUSIC-MAKERS LIMITED, 17 July 10 - 22 and commercial interests as Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, North Gardner Street, G11 5BU, fort on Kinnoul Hill to the east examination of the 8th century Sandra Jackel 01524 594 151 0141 339 2708 a metaphor for the use of analo- of Perth, which both records Dupplin Cross at Dunning July 24 - August 10 gous materials, aesthetics and LYTHAM HERITAGE CEN- SCOTTISH ARTISTS’ BENEVO- Gallery Summer Exhibition the excavation of the fort and in Perth & Kinross. A grey TRE, 2 Henry Street, Lytham, LENT ASSOCIATION, Second techniques August 12 - 27 FY8 5LE, 01253 730787 Floor, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR provides an indication of how it (fibreglass?) replica of the Fine Art Society in Edinburgh Empowered by the TOD Isle Of Harris must have looked when occupied cross stands in the centre of the (Exhibition of Galloway Paintings) Endowment Fund to provide SKOON ART CAFE, 4 Geocrab, around 50 AD. exhibition and it was making a Leeds holidays in Scotland for artists HS3 3HB, 01859 530 268 August 28 - 31 HAREWOOD HOUSE, Hare- The fort is surrounded by a mould for the replica of the cross Gallery closed (resident in Scotland for at least Original art, home made cakes long perimeter earth wall within which are several, that revealed an inscription linking the cross to a wood House Trust, Harewood two years) who are experienc- and puddings, leaf and herbal September 1 - 16 House, Harewood, LS17 9LG, ing difficulties teas, coffee plus traditional mu- much smaller walls encompassing groups of round local king called Constantine. So the cross has now The Kirkcudbright Art Scene of 0113 218 1010 RSW, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR, sic. Original oils and exclusive houses as well as a larger, circular wall containing been renamed. 60 Years ago (Celebrating the Until September 17 (Thurs- 0141 248 7411, www.rsw.org.uk, art cards from resident artist the citadel. The shape of the houses is similar to However, an adjacent virtual recreation of the 60th Anniversary days only) [email protected] Andrew John Craig of the Harbour Cottage Gallery) Objects in Focus Discovery The Royal Scottish Society of the crannochs found in Scottish lochs. The fort cross sharpens the carvings on its four sides - and KIRKCUDRIGHT ARTS & Talks. Painters in Watercolour probably played a major role in the battle between adds colour to the knights on horses, simplified CRAFTS TRAIL HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE, August 15 - September 27 Isle of Islay rival Pictish kings, Angus and Alpin, c.725-728 animals and elaborate decoration. Pictish crosses, it Augusst 4 - 7 74 The Headrow, LS1 3AH, 0113 RSW 6th Open Annual Summer THE GALLERY, Bowmore CORNERWAYS STUDIO/GAL- 234 3158 Exhibition, Lillie Art Gallery, Distillery Visitor Centre, School AD. seems, were highly coloured. LERY, 7 Selkirk Road, Kirkcud- LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY, Station Road, Milngavie, Street, Bowmore, PA43 7JS, A personal touch is provided in the exhibition The same was true of the marble statues made bright, DG6 4BL, 01557 331 The Headrow, LS1 3AA, 0113 Glasgow 01496 810 441 by a Pictish skeleton found in a grave at Blair by the ancient Greeks and Romans. How different 640, www.cornerwaysart.co.uk, 247 8256 PEOPLE’S PALACE, Glasgow Regular exhibitions by local [email protected] Green, G40 1AT, 0141 550 0892 artists Atholl that dates from 410-590 AD, though the crosses must have looked in Pictish times Miniature paintings & larger UNLIMITED STUDIOS, 25 (perhaps unusually?) no grave goods were found against the dark green vegetation and grey skies of works in oil, pastel & watercol- Linlithgow Hyndland Street, G11 5QE, 0141 with the bones. The use of 3D analysis of the skull Scotland! our by Jane B Gibson THE LINE GALLERY, 238 High 338 6052 Isle of Lewis HIGH ST. 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Summer Mixed Changing exhibitions of origi- skill of the Pictish jewellers who create the same 47 St Mary’s Street, Dumfries Until September 9 Exhibition. nal art, crafts, photography & & Galloway, DG6 4DU, 01557 At the Heart of Liverpool October 6 - 28 tapestry weaving decorative, curved and highly entwined shapes, and 330223 Culture. Display John Wilson - Paintings of simplified animal forms found on Pictish stones. 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Call for details museum of human history and PICTURE THIS, 18 Church EDINBANE POTTERY, Edin- Tel: 01854 612103 Gallery: 01471 833439 culture in London. Street, IV1 1EB, 01463 238823 bane, Portree, IV51 9PW, 01470 582 234 September 14 - January 14 SCOTTISH FLAIR ART GAL- Hotel: 01471 833332 Kyle 2018 LERY, 11 Bank Street, IV1 1QY, GALLERY AN TALLA DEARG, e: [email protected] THE KYLE ART MARKET, Sta- www.theceilidhplace.com Email: [email protected] To Advertise... Web: www.pamcarter.co.uk [email protected] artWORK 199 July/August 2017 Page 12 The ArtWork Guide Scythians: warriors of ancient Daily Introductory Tour. Intro- Six miles south of Forres on Siberia. 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