Gracefield Arts Centre Exhibitions, Events and Workshops March - September 2019 Image: Siobhan Healy, Scientific Glass Apparatus GRACEFIELD ARTS CENTRE 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ 01387 262084 [email protected] www.dumgal.gov.uk Explore art and craft at Gracefield Arts Centre Open throughout the year in Dumfries. A packed programme of collection Tues to Sat 10am - 3.30pm Exhibitions: Tues-Sat 10am-5pm exhibitions and contemporary exhibitions Lunches 12noon - 3pm featuring regional, national and international Craft Shop: Tues-Fri 10.30am-3.30pm, artists and craft makers, along with art and Sat 10am-5pm Light lunches craft workshops for adults, children and Café Hubbub: Tues-Sat 10am-3.30pm families, ensures a lively atmosphere. The Arts (hot food served 11am-3pm) Home baking Centre also has a craft shop, café and an active Kids Menu print studio. Admission Free Speciality coffee and teas Gracefield Arts Centre is home to a collection Access: We are committed to making our of over 600 paintings and drawings by Scottish programme and facilities accessible. For more Take-away service artists, most with links to Dumfries and information on physical access please call on Galloway. 01387 262084. To preview the collection visit the web site Group visits: Schools, other groups and clubs are www.exploreart.co.uk and you can make an welcome to visit Gracefield. Staff can offer informal appointment to view artworks in our store. guided tours if arranged in advance. Workshop space for school group art activities on request. Room Hire: Meeting rooms and print studio This information is available in a large available for hire from £8.20 per hour. print format - call or email for details. Keep up-to-date with all events, at Gracefield Arts Centre exhibitions and activities at 28 Edinburgh Rd, Dumfries DG1 1JQ Cover image: Siobhan Healy www.dgculture.co.uk Tel 01387 262084 2 23 March - 4 May Gallery 1 30 March - 11 May Gallery 2 Camera Club Annual Exhibition Apothecary: Siobhan Healy and Alasdair Gray (including Café Gallery Exhibition 23 March-13 April) Apothecary features a series of handmade vessels and scientific glassware by Dumfries Camera Club was founded in 1947 and has continued to thrive from its Glasgow-based artist Siobhan Healy containing traditional herbal medicines and first meeting. It is recognised nationwide for the quality and variety of the images tonics. Shown at Gracefield Arts for the first time, selected glass exhibits have text produced by its members. This year’s show will be no exception with a stunning array produced especially for the project by writer Alasdair Gray incorporated into the of images in b&w and colour. work. Siobhan also worked closely with Auchencairn-based herbalist Alex Ross to develop the apothecary herb collection. This new exhibition will include some works The Camera Club gives a warm welcome to all levels of photographer, from beginner from Siobhan Healy’s previous body of work - Biodiversity 2018, which included to international award winner. Competitions are run throughout the year and contributions from Alasdair Gray, also a selection of contextual historical works by speakers, both national and local, visit the club to lecture and give presentations on both artists. various aspects of photography. You don’t even have to take photographs! Just come along to an enthusiastic club, who enjoy seeing each other’s pictures from a wide mix Siobhan Healy has received recognition for her work through prestigious awards; most of abilities and benefit from the fund of knowledge that is shared about all things recently in the worldwide tri-annual competition - ‘The International Glass Prize 2012’ - photographic. So if you are looking for inspiration, want to know which buttons to Public Prize. Healy specialises in glass commissions for public buildings and also sculptural press on your camera or just want to join a friendly progressive photographic club, artworks for museums and public spaces. She has also been recently commissioned by the why not come along to Gracefield on a Wednesday evening and give it a go. Dumfries Amazon series Outlander to produce specialist glassware for the programme. Camera Club meets on Wednesday evenings from the end of August to the beginning Alasdair Gray is an award-winning Scottish writer and artist best known for his work of May at Gracefield Studios. Lanark: A Life in Four Books. By his own description: ‘Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, Visit www.dumfriescameraclub.co.uk balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction’ (Canongate publishers). at Gracefield Arts Centre 28 Edinburgh Rd, Dumfries DG1 1JQ Meet the artist: Saturday 2-4pm, 30 March. Siobhan will be in the gallery to Tel 01387 262084 discuss the work and new projects. a free event with refreshments served. 3 Friday 19 and Saturday 20 April 10am - 2pm Join the Gracefield Kids Club team on Good Friday and Easter Saturday from 10am-2pm for the annual Easter egg hunt, art and craft taster hands-on activities and quizzes. You can book an hour-long spot at the activity tables in advance by calling 01387 262084 or just 11 May - 29 June Gallery 1 11 May - 29 June Gallery 1 drop in and grab a seat. Room 1-3: Energise: A residency programme and Room 4-5 (upstairs) • Easter egg hunt and quizzes exhibition exploring the history and legacy of the Galloway hydro- Andy Goldsworthy: Winter Harvest run all day 10am ‘til 5pm. electric power scheme. Andy Goldsworthy OBE (b.1956) is based near Thornhill and is an • Craft shop lucky dip Energise is a project run by Upland CIC which ran from October internationally renowned sculptor and photographer, best known and prize draw 2018 - April 2019 with the aim of giving artists the opportunity to for his site-specific work with natural materials such as ice, snow research and creatively explore the subject of climate change in • Café Hubbub Easter Cake and stone. The Gracefield Permanent Collection has a selection of relation to the unique landscape of Dumfries and Galloway. The Extravaganza - delicious early photographic works by Goldsworthy including Winter Harvest, project connected artists with local communities, including young savoury and sweet treats which was created as a large scale book and is now framed for people and schools, in order to explore perceptions and responses from 10am-3.30pm gallery display. This series of photographs of ephemeral works is to climate change with specific regard to renewable energy, in an shown alongside installation photographs of Gracefield’s three imaginative and positive way. cones (also in the grounds), leaf works and artist’s sketchbooks. The residencies were undertaken by photographers Ted Leeming Goldsworthy’s new film ‘Leaning into the Wind’ was and Morag Paterson and visual artist Jason Nelson, who was first show last year to two sold out screenings at the Robert assisted by associate artist Catherine Major. The work exhibited Burns Film Theatre with a talk from the artist, but for those that at Gracefield Arts Centre is a culmination of the residencies, missed it, it will be screened again on Tuesday 14 May at 7.30pm. presenting new art work that reflects the research and engagement £7/£5.30conc. Book online or call the RBC on 01387 264808 undertaken. For more info visit: www.weareupland.com Bring the family for some free arty fun for all ages! 18 May - 22 June Gallery 2 Tom Lindsay: Towards Freedom Tom Lindsay is an artist based in Dumfries and this exhibition is the first time his work has featured in a major exhibition on home Gill Glover Alison McCartney ground. “The show is based on Pop-up exhibition: the last two year’s work Dumfries and Galloway College HND Exhibition and reflects my aim to push towards producing work which excites and satisfies me. What you see is a small part of my output, much of which is either destroyed or Saturday 25 - Monday 27 May 10am-5pm painted over. The paintings are about my love of paint and surface, and not illusion. Please join the students for their end of year show opening on I work directly from stimuli in a variety of media. Passion and frustration with long Friday 24 May 5.30-7.30pm. periods of reflection contribute to work that can be complex or simple but never easy: You’ll find the group in room 2, off the main exhibition hall in Gallery 2. Featuring freedom is an unachievable aim, but one worth striving towards.” artwork by Gill Glover, Alison McCartney, Crystal Rose McKain, Rhianna McCartney, Tom graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1971 with a post diploma (highly Rosemary Nicholson and Heather Armstrong, the exhibition showcases work created commended) and was awarded an Andrew Grant travelling scholarship to Italy(spring as part of their HND studies. 1972). He has exhibited with the Richard Demarco Gallery, the McLaurin, Ayr, the Society Scottish of Artists, Open Eye, Compass Gallery, Paisley institute, and most recently a one-person show at the Dundas Street gallery in Edinburgh in April 2017. His teaching career takes in spells at the Douglas Ewart, Maxwellton High and Lockerbie Academy where he ran a successful department for twenty years and was an examiner with the SED. The exhibition also features some work by Tom’s daughter, jeweller Sarah Lindsay. Spring Fling Open Studios at Gracefield: Andrew Adair, Now based in London, Sarah graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2002 and Ceramic, Gwen Adair, Painting (Gallery 2, room 3 off main exhibition hall). See the she has been developing her use of acrylic. Her innovative technique has allowed Spring Fling website www.spring-fling.co.uk or pick up a brochure for full details of her to exhibit in shops and galleries throughout the UK, Europe, America and Japan, all 96 open studios.