The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 187 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts March/April 2015 George Birrell: Fishboxes and Lobster Pots, mixed media, 40x40cm, from his one-man show at Gallery Heinzel, Thistle Street, Aberdeen, March 21 - May 2 Inside: Jonathan Shearer paints en plein air :: Duncan Macmillan on Glasgow’s £250,000 spending spree artWORK 187 March/April 2015 Page 4 artWORK 187 March/April 2015 Page 5 The new V & A – Holyrood-on-Tay? Editorial Comment As Glasgow prepares to fork out a quarter of a million, Duncan Macmillan asks… The Richard Carr asks if UNESCO’s Design City award for Dundee is a bit premature Guide ArtWork PO Box 3 AB41 9EA :: [email protected] Can no one stop the pernicious The same old tunes again? year. Check holiday opening times DD11 1AH, 01241 872 248 paintings and hand woven wall pieces. Sculpture Garden by ANOTHER YEAR, another now, in 2015, cutting edge. Aberdeen PETERHEAD MARITIME HER- MONTROSE MUSEUM, Pan- the loch Festival. The advance programme Like most arts organisations, Turner Prize bandwagon? ABERDEEN ART GALLERY ITAGE, South Road, Peterhead, mure Place, Montrose, DD10 8HF, AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 01674 673232 HARBOUR ARTS CENTRE, & MUSEUM, Schoolhill, AB10 114-116 Harbour Street, Irvine, for this year's Edinburgh the Festival is facing very testing Experience Peterhead’s maritime HOSPITALFIELD, Centre for Art 1FQ, 01224 523 700, Fax: 01224 life past and present KA12 8EE, 01294 274 059, www. International Festival is full of the times. There is always the 632 133, www.aagm.co.uk, info@ & Culture, Arbroath, DD11 2NH, harbourartscentre.com, har- GLASGOW is to spend £250,000 Generation, the extravaganza of The SNGMA also have their own NORTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS, aagm.co.uk 01241 872 333, www.hospitalfield. [email protected] usual very worthy fare. There are temptation to play safe and to Closing for major refurbishment NEOS Coordinator, 107 Selbie org.uk, [email protected] on work by Douglas Gordon. It bad art put on by our National Douglas Gordon, expensive of Drive, Inverurie, AB51 3YB, 01467 MCKECHNIE INSTITUTE, the usual guest appearances from make sure you fill the hall with ABERDEEN MARITIME MU- MONTROSE LIBRARY EXHIBI- doesn’t seem to be clear what the Gallery. course, but just a list, the names of 670 122 Dalrymple Street, Girvan, KA26 SEUM, Shiprow, AB11 5BY, 01224 TION ROOM, 214 High Street, some of the great orchestras of the tried and tested favourites. A non-profit organisation promot- 9AE, 01465 713 643, www. work is exactly, but “included It was the Turner Prize everyone he ever met, or at least 337700, Fax: 01224 213066 ing Arts, Crafts and galleries in the Montrose , DD10 8PH, 01674 south-ayrshire.gov.uk/galleries/ world playing some of the finest Breaking new ground might ABERDEEN ARTS CENTRE, 33 North East of Scotland 673256 mckechnie/ in the overall acquisition are all generation, of course. Opening can remember meeting. It really is ARBROATH COMMUNITY work from the classical repertoire. have seemed to be the job of the King Street, AB24 5AA, 01224 635 ALBERTINO COSTA SCULP- March/April - TBC CENTRE, Marketgate, DD11 1AT regular updates of future films by the show, NGS chairman Ben just a list, too. It is displayed in a 208, www.act-aberdeen.org.uk TURES, Camphill School, North- Home and Away. Carrick in World But search the music Fringe but, as many observers War I March 6 - 29 deeside Road, Bieldside, AB15 the artist, which will be added to Thomson crowed about Turner stairwell. When it was repainted Merlyn Riggs. Seeing Red. April 24 - 27 programme for anything have noted, the Fringe has, for all Celebrates the last six years of 9EP, 07917 482351 Argyll Open Studios Ayrshire. Artists the piece.” Prize success as though it was recently, it was painted out. Put International Women’s Day GALLERY AT FIFTY FIVE, 55 THE ARCHWAY, 7 Union Street, on show at Rozelle, Maclaurin & very challenging, any new practical purposes, become the Allardice Street, Stonehaven, GALLERY HEINZEL, 24 Thistle Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS, 01546 McKechnie commissions, anything that Festival of Standup. Why are they forking out such some universal accolade. back again, even at a casual AB39 2AB, 01569 785606, www. Street, AB10 1XD, 01224 625 629, 606 894 THE WAVE CRAFT GALLERY, galleryatfiftyfive.co.uk could be called even vaguely Isn’t there a musical space, a huge sum from their precious It isn’t. But before that the glance, I noticed two names www.galleryheinzel.com STUDIO BARN ARGYLL, Leac 4 Knockcushan Street, Girvan, March 12 - April 18 March 21 - May 2 Na Ban, Tayvallich, Lochgilphead, KA26 9AG, 01465 712 897 experimental and you will search somewhere, for the way-out, the resources? Simple. He won the SNGMA had already adopted the misspelt.Maybe they didn’t pay for Ade Adesina. Prints - Lino cuts, Contemporary crafts, pottery George Birrell Wood cuts & Etchings PA31 8PF, 01546 870 310, www. in vain. challenging, maybe the plain Turner Prize. That puts him fad. A good deal of our money aftercare. HOLBURN GALLERY, 83 studiobarnargyll.co.uk, hamilton- classes HADDO HOUSE, Methlick, Ellon, [email protected] CRAFT TOWN SCOTLAND, The A bit of John Adams, a bit of crazy? It’s Edinburgh’s loss, Holburn Street, AB10 6BQ, 01224 AB41 7EQ, www.hhcos.org.uk beyond price, for that quarter has been spent on works by artists Nor is it an original idea. It’s a 596 617 Seasonal exhibition of orginal art Barony Centre, West Kilbride, Steve Reich - welcome, but hardly surely? Limited edition prints by many of COWDEN STUDIO, Cowden FYNE STUDIOS - THE HIDDEN KA23 9AW, 01294 829179, www. million is a bargain, they say. He lift from Tracy Emin’s Everybody Gallery Heinzel’s artists Farm, Drumlithie, AB39 3YN, GALLERY, Newton, Strachur, (off crafttownscotland.org, info@craft- slowed down Hitchcock’s Psycho I ever Slept With. That at least ROSIES, 45-49 Holburn Street, 01569 740039, www.cowdenstudio. the A886), PA27 8DB, 01369 860 townscotland.org AB10 6BR, 01224 577 325 com, [email protected] by Dundee and Abertay Universities respectively 379, www.fyne-studios.com March 14 - May 10 and appropriated one or two other has a frisson of prurience to give Crafts, art and gifts also framing COUNTRY FRAMES GALLERY, WITHIN the next few weeks work is to begin on Gallery of two Scottish artists Don Various artists. We Are All Bas- Leslie, Insch, AB52 6PA, 01464 Dundee’s iconic building on the waterfront – the – Dundee has just been awarded UNESCO City McNeil & Jean Bell ketmakers. Scottish Basketmakers Tilting at windmills (again) people’s films, often without it edge and is, or was (it was PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS, 21 Circle Castle Street, AB11 5BQ, 01224 820389, www.countryframes.co.uk JUNO DESIGN GALLERY, 159 “Future generations Wide variety of art and craft work V&A Museum of Design by the Japanese architect, of Design. Such a title implies good environmental acknowledgement. destroyed in a fire) an art work, 639 539, www.peacockvisualarts. Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7DD, ART’N’JOY GALLERY AND THE RECENT joint letter of short lived imported junk and co.uk, info@peacockvisualarts. JOYCE TAYLOR STUDIO, Kengo Kuma. design, among other things, and Dundee’s waterfront 01369 707 767, www.junogallery. PICTURE FRAMERS, 48 That was the beginning of not just a list. Braeside Croft, Hythie, Mintlaw, com Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, North alarm from the heads of virtually mad subsidies to reward foreign will scratch their co.uk Conceived as a repeat on a much grander scale is quite simply a disgrace. the ‘Glasgow Miracle.’ What But Gordon’s list says it Until March 21 Peterhead, AB42 4HH, 01779 Until March 27 Ayrshire, KA51 5DS, 01294 472 all the environmental and outdoor owned power companies and The prime position is occupied by TESCO and Mixed exhibition 222, www.artnjoy.co.uk Hisko Hulsing. In Motion Anima- 622989, www.joycetaylor.co.uk, of Richard Murphy’s conversion of a 1920s garage on bodies in Scotland should act large landowners at the expense miracle would that be? Answer heads in wonder that all. The only person there who tion Festival 2015. [email protected] Perth Road into Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), its filling station (below). Farther along is an ugly RESIPOLE STUDIOS, Acharacle, OPEN STUDIOS AYRSHIRE, PH36 4HX, 01967 431 506, www. Venues throughout Ayrshire, www. as a wake-up call to those who of the most vulnerable members again, the Turner Prize. Since matters is the artist himself, his RENDEZVOUS GALLERY, 100 block of flats (above) so badly positioned that the dual Forest Avenue, AB15 4TL, 01224 Aberfeldy the V&A museum is intended to do what the DCA resipolestudios.co.uk openstudiosayrshire.com are supposed to be running our of society who can afford only Gordon’s success, half a dozen or we spent good money presence implicit in all the other 323 247 carriageway has had to be narrowed to a single lane April 3 - 30 Over 70 Ayrshire artists will open ABERFELDY GALLERY, 9 Ken- has failed to do, namely stage exhibitions and other Various artists. The Spring Show. their studios to the public PROVOST SKENE’S HOUSE, energy policy in Scotland. the most basic heating systems. more graduates from the Glasgow names that mutely pay tribute to more Street, PH15 2BL, 01887 829 events that will bring people flocking to Dundee. and, farther back from the river, is an equally ugly May 1 - 31 April 24 - 27 on such ephemeral Guestrow, (between Broad Street 129, www.aberfeldygallery.co.uk Jim Wright.