The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 190 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts September/October 2015 Detail, from Adam & Oedipus, from the exhibition ‘Jim Petrie: Minnie Detail,the MinxBarn Owland More!’in the Snow,at the fromLamb an Gallery, etching Dundee by the lateuntil Malcolm September Davies, 19 from the exhibition of his work at Gracefield, Dumfries, May 23 - July 18 Inside: Edinburgh, oh Edinburgh : : Holyrood-on-Tay Inside:in the making?Edinburgh’s : : A planningNigerian shadejungle of:: ArtWork Gray’s goes to Orkney :: Gracefield re-visited artWORK 190 September/October 2015 Page 2 artWORK 190 September/October 2015 Page 3 Glasgow Society of Women Artists artWORK www.artwork.co.uk New Works West Highland Wayfarer www.westhighlandwayfarer.co.uk THE OTHER TITLES OTHER Whisky Trailer CHECK OUT OUR www.whiskytrailer.co.uk September: Ken Ferguson (above left) October: Mary Goulden (above right) 1 Biggiesknowe, Peebles | tweedart.co.uk FEATURED ARTISTS FEATURED artWORK AUTUMN 2015 Rosanne Barr - ‘Adrift’ Lillie Art Gallery Station Road Milngavie Patron: HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Glasgow G62 8BZ th 0141 956 5536 135 ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION 26th September – 5th November 2015 Upper Galleries, RSA Building, Edinburgh 27 November - 12 December 2015 CALL FOR ENTRIES EDLC Trust is a recognised Scottish Charity: SC 04 1942 VAT Registration No: GB 102892037 Company Registration No: 389516 Receiving Day – 14 November 2015 Many awards including Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award £3,000 (artists under the age of 30 on 14 November 2015) The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Please send schedule etc for the RSW 135th Annual Exhibition I enclose C5, 2nd Class SAE Name ................................................................................................ 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Seaside House, Tighnabruaich, direction being taken in recent have the tacit approval of bodies ABERDEEN ART GALLERY Safe for the moment? Angus com PA21 2DR, 01700 811 681 & MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 Until October 24 THE MEFFAN, 20 West High Original art, sculpture, glass, planning decisions is reaching a that might previously have been 1FQ, 01224 523 700, Fax: 01224 Mary Gladstone gets assurances for the future of the Castle Douglas Gallery Animal Magic Street, Forfar, DD8 1BB, 01307 jewellery, poetry critical level. expected to raise concerns. 632 133, www.aagm.co.uk, info@ 476 482, www.angus.gov.uk/mef- October 1 - 31 aagm.co.uk STARFISH STUDIO, 3 Anchor CASTLE DOUGLAS Art Gallery is a small, but It also includes semi-abstract figures with movement Lane, Johnshaven, DD10 0EN, fan, [email protected] Jemma Derbyshire. Her paintings As one articulate critic puts In past times a healthier and Closed for major refurb. as its central theme. Until September 12 come from her experience of, and 01561 360 118, www.starfishstu- significant art establishment in Dumfries & Galloway. it: “Edinburgh is becoming a rag- more robust local press provided a Richard Carr wonders if the new V & A building for Dundee is going ‘to do a Holyrood’? ABERDEEN MARITIME Ellis O’Connor. Edges. Photogra- relationship to the landscape dio.co.uk, kate@starfishstudio. Situated adjacent to the town library, it has been in In the latter part of September (until the 27th) a phy, printmaking and drawing MUSEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, co.uk October 1 - 31 bag of architectural blunders. The forum for informed discussion of SO, THE TRUTH has finally come single accountable project manager’ that the taxpayers funded, was the 01224 337700, Fax: 01224 213066 Original art and handmade ce- existence for 77 years ever since the local artist Ethel group of six local artists who meet to promote their September 19 - October 17 Light and Shade. J. Gordon Brown. Seeing the student ghetto vogue spawns horrors matters such as these, but facing out: an independent enquiry led by meaning, McLelland says, that there fact that many of the MSPs couldn’t Until November 29 ramics, jewellery, glass, textiles, Bristowe gave the building to the town. differing styles of work stage the result of their efforts IONA HERITAGE CENTRE, George Jamesone - Portrait wood and more from all over the Light. Isle of Iona, PA76 6SJ, 01681 like Sugar House Close. The soul- catastrophic circulation falls and John McClelland, formerly chairman was ‘ambiguity’ about responsibility. In be bothered to see an exhibition put Painter. British Isles. Featuring paintings Back in 1996, the Scottish Arts Council with in ‘Variety is the Spice of Life’. October 24 - November 21 700 576 James Barclay, Barbara Robert- ABERDEEN ARTS CENTRE, by Kate MacKenzie IONA ABBEY, Abbey & Ma- sapping mediocrity of Caltongate savage staff cuts, Edinburgh’s of Rangers Football Club, into the addition, construction became three on for their benefit that showed them 33 King Street, AB24 5AA, lottery money, undertook a major renovation of the Castle Douglas Art Gallery occupies a central son & John Johnston. Forfar 3. SYLLAVETHY GALLERY, December 5 - January 2 2016 cLeod Centres, Isle of Iona, PA76 continues under another name. morning and evening papers face a construction costs of the V&A years behind schedule and the museum what was being built. 01224 635 208, www.act- Syllavethy, Montgarrie, Alford, gallery with the aim of creating an impressive arts position in what is now termed the Food Town of 6SN, 01681 700 404, Fax: 01681 aberdeen.org.uk Winter Exhibition 2015. Museum of Design in Dundee (the is not expected to open until 2018. There is one other factor that AB33 8AQ, 01975 562 273 venue. Fast forward to 2013 and this distinguished Scotland, although Castle Douglas’s main street is full 700460 The glass cliff known as the Omni struggle to survive, let alone take up THE ART GALLERY, Grampian THE CANVAS ART GALLERY, TOLQUHON GALLERY, Inspirational setting for services, third of its various appellations), What has happened in Dundee is going to affect both the Scottish Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen of art galleries. A distinct advantage is the gallery’s 81 East High Street, Forfar, DD8 Christian community centre is an aesthetic atrocity.” a campaigning stance. Tolquhon, Tarves, Ellon, AB41 gallery, run and funded by D & G Council, found Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, 2EQ, 01307 465 715 has found that there was always echoes what happened when the Parliament and the V&A Museum of 7LP, 01651 842 343, www. IONA GALLERY AND POT- Now the plans for an American In the circumstances it is not AB25 2ZN, 01224 552 429 itself under threat of closure. situation next to the library as it profits from the Originals, prints, quality picture tolquhon-gallery.co.uk framing. Unusual giftware and TERY, Isle of Iona, PA76 6SW, ‘little prospect’ of the building being Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh Design: maintenance. Because of its GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle It wasn’t the only one. Gracefield Arts Centre, latter’s visitors just as the library benefits from people pension fund backed hotel on the old surprising that there is a body of THE MILL OF UDNY, The Mill, jewellery 01681 700 439, www.ionagallery. Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, completed to its original budget of was being built. Then, another differently angled roofs and windows, Udny, Pitmedden, AB41 7RQ, the Council’s flagship, was also on the list, until a who visit the gallery. com, [email protected] St James’s Centre site are provoking resistance growing up to what is www.galleryheinzel.com KINBLETHMONT GALLERY, £27million (though it is understood foreign architect, Enric Miralles, was and the irregularity of its floor plan, 01651 842 429 Arbroath, DD11 4RW, 01241 830 ORSAY, 2 Stevenson Street, what might fairly be described as perceived