Visual Arts
Silvy Weatherall show comes to Dumfries
SCOTTISH artist Silvy Weatherall has a new exhibition, “Broken Journeys”, opening next week at Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries. Weatherall describes herself as “a hater of waste”. She works with “objects that have become obsolete and worthless, whether it is smashed china or other broken things destined for landfill”. Works on show at the centre…
Read MoreDumfries and Galloway soil and rock turned into art
ROCKS and soil gathered in Dumfries and Galloway has been used to create works of art for a forthcoming exhibition, Made Ground. Arts organisation Cample Line, which is based in a former mill north of Dumfries, will host the paintings and textiles created by Nottingham-based artist Yelena Popova. Popova, who was born in the Soviet…
Read MoreScottish Portrait Awards winners named
THE winners of the Scottish Portrait Awards have been unveiled. Sam Dalby from Moffat won the Scottish Portrait Award in Fine Art and £5,000 for his painting “Meeting Daniel”, a posthumous portrait of the artist’s mother, meeting her grandson, Daniel, for the first time. Gordon Mitchell, director of the Scottish Portrait Awards and chair of…
Read MoreArtificial intelligence gets arty for Scotland
TOURISM marketing body VisitScotland has used an artificial intelligence (AI) program to create pictures of Scotland. Photographs and paintings were fed into the NightCafe AI art generator, which then produced images in-keeping with the originals. The agency is using the images to promote the 13 sites on Scotland’s United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation…
Read MoreAberdeen Art Fair returns on Friday
FIFTEEN exhibitors are lined up for this weekend’s 10th Aberdeen Art Fair in the city’s music hall. The fair begins on Friday evening with a complimentary tasting hosted by Aberdeen Local Wine School. The free event then continues on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Emma Louise Wilson, who studied at Gray’s School of…
Read MoreHannah Lim solo show comes to Edinburgh
EDINBURGH Printmakers is to host the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Singaporean-British artist Hannah Lim. The London-based artist will make prints for the first time as she continues her exploration of East and South East Asian culture and its appropriation for Western audiences. Lim’s Scottish show opens on 29 September and runs until 20…
Read MorePioneering Frames Gallery goes up for sale
AFTER 43 years promoting Scottish artists, Frames Gallery in Perth is looking for its own buyer. Hugh and Julie Goring opened their gallery in 1979 after her father offered them cash for a formal wedding or to start their own business. “We weren’t the first gallery in Perth showing contemporary Scottish art as acclaimed Scottish…
Read MorePaolozzi comes to Hospitalfield
HOSPITALFIELD House near Arbroath is putting a sculpture by Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi on display in its garden this summer. The bronze work, entitled Rio, is on loan from the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian art gallery. The work was commissioned in 1964 by Dundee surrealist art collector Gabrielle Keille and is part of Paolozzi’s…
Read MoreMarianne Dissard debut photo show in Glasgow
GLASGOW is hosting the debut solo photography exhibition by singer, author, and filmmaker Marianne Dissard. Dissard found herself living in Kent at the end of 2020 after her singing tour of Europe was cancelled. Over the next 18 months, she turned to street photography and captured life on the Isle of Thanet. She moved to…
Read MoreVincent van Gogh portrait found in Scotland by x-rays
A SELF-PORTRAIT by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered in Scotland using x-rays. Conservators scanned the artist’s 1885 painting, Head of a Peasant Woman, ahead of it going on show at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh on 30 July. They found a hidden self-portrait by the painter on the other side of the canvas,…
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