Posts Tagged ‘art gallery’
Two Scottish sites among ‘museums of the year’
A PAIR of Scottish attractions has been named among the “museums of the year” by Art Fund. Aberdeen Art Gallery and Gairloch Museum were two of the five sites that shared this year’s prize. Each museum will receive £200,000. Councillor Marie Boulton, Aberdeen City Council’s culture spokeswoman, said: “Covid-19 abruptly halted the fantastic momentum that…
Read MoreArt gallery to continue with new exhibition showing
An Edinburgh art gallery is to press ahead to show the work of three artists, exhibiting together for the first time. The Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh will display the work of regular Ken Ferguson, who will exhibit his spectacular new forest and treescapes, alongside some more familiar snowy mountains and peaceful seascapes. Featuring alongside Ken,…
Read MoreScotland will make a splash at this year’s Collect
Scotland will be represented at this year’s Crafts Council event Collect, when it returns for its 16th edition. Presented for the first time at Somerset House in London, the Crafts Council founded Collect in 2004 with the aim to build the profile and sales for collectable craft and to promote the very best galleries and…
Read MoreOver 635,000 people flocked to see Dippy the dinosaur
After delighting more than 635,000 visitors Dippy, the Natural History Museum London’s famous dinosaur, has bowed out to rapturous applause at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Following a record-breaking stop in Glasgow, Dippy is being dismantled and packed away, ready to head to Great North Museum: Hancock, opening there on 18 May. Newcastle upon Tyne…
Read MoreFundraising for our seas is in the picture
A Stirlingshire artist who was inspired by the TV series Blue Planet II is selling art will help raise funds for the UK seas. Dunblane artist, Jeremy Wyatt, will support the Marine Conversation Society as his latest exhibition has been inspired by the sea, and he says he’ll be giving half the proceeds from the sale…
Read MoreMeet the Maker at an art gallery this Saturday
The Open Eye Gallery is inviting the public to Meet the Maker on Saturday. Taking place on 23 March at 11am, Anna Younie, an Orkney based ceramicist and recipient of the Craft Scotland Graduate Award in 2018., will be speaking about her latest body of work The Brodgar Collection. Working with black stoneware clay and…
Read MoreLanguage is no barrier in Glasgow’s museums
Glasgow Museums holds a treasure chest of wonderful objects and artworks that can fire the imagination, start conversations and inspire creativity. Now, for the first time, a new family learning resource has been translated into the six most widely spoken community languages used by bilingual citizens living in Glasgow. The cross-venue trail has been created…
Read MoreThe free art gallery on the streets of Glasgow
Travelling into Manchester city centre in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games made for an interesting journey. While state-of-the-art facilities popped up, such as the £32m aquatics centre and the City of Manchester Stadium, old buildings were shrouded from view. Some of the city centre’s derelict structures which escaped demolition prior to the Games, were…
Read MoreBeano’s 80th birthday exhibition breaks record
An exhibition marking 80 years of The Beano has become the most popular comics exhibition the UK has ever held. Bash Street’s Back at The McMenace at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, has drawn more than 80,000 visitors since opening in June. The exhibition has now entered its final weeks, and is due…
Read MoreGaze over the Kyles of Bute from this classic villa
A substantial, stone-built Victorian villa with an attached self-contained cottage, mature gardensand stunning panoramic views over the Kyles of Bute is now on the market. Presented for sale by Bell Ingram, Sherbrooke, in Tighnabruaich, has a stone portico with double storm doors which open to a vestibule with a mosaic tiled floor. From the vestibule,…
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