Posts Tagged ‘arts’
Maggie’s funding boost from Christie’s auction
AUCTION house Christie’s will launch an online sale on Wednesday to raise money for Maggie’s cancer support centres. Works have been donated for the auction by artists including David Bailey, Antony Gormley, and the estate of Lucian Freud. Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery and now chair of Maggie’s art group, said: “These…
Read MoreV&A names new Dundee director
V&A Dundee has unveiled Leonie Bell as its new director. Bell joins Scotland’s first design museum from Renfrewshire Council, where she was the strategic lead for its Future Paisley Partnership. She replaces Philip Long, who has taken over as chief executive at the National Trust for Scotland. Bell began her career at Glasgow 1999: UK…
Read MoreArtist supports golden eagle project
PRINTMAKER Lisa Hooper has won a competition to create a print that will promote the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project. The Wigtownshire-based artist’s design will be used on a poster and information leaflets. Hooper said: “I don’t normally do commissioned work, but this brief really grabbed me because of the subject matter and the…
Read MoreTrailer lands for Scottish Opera’s fishy tale
SCOTTISH Opera will next week unveil its latest work online – and it’s released a trailer to whet your appetite. The Narcissistic Fish is set in the kitchen of a seafood restaurant in Leith. The 12-minute film is a collaboration between Scottish Opera composer in residence Samuel Bordoli, The Panopticon author Jenni Fagan and the company’s…
Read MoreScottish artist scoops award in Derwent Art Prize
A SCOTTISH artist has taken second place in the Derwent Art Prize, which attracted 4,756 entries from 1,884 artists in 72 different countries. Irvine-based Maree Hughes, who studied at Glasgow School of Art, was awarded £2,000 for 15. Fellow Scottish artist Charles Avery – who was one of the judges alongside director of Turner Contemporary Victoria…
Read MoreJazz star Fergus McCreadie kicks off Conservatoire lunchtime concerts
RISING jazz star Fergus McCreadie will perform at today’s maiden lunchtime online concert organised by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and Scotland House, the Scottish Government’s centre in London. McCreadie will begin his concert at 1pm on the YouTube channel run by the Glasgow-based RCS, formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama…
Read MoreOnline auction supports Borders artists
TWO horse sculptures gilded in 24-carat gold are among the works going under the hammer at a special online sale on 25 June organised by Jedburgh auction house Brown & Turner and the Borders Art Fair. The event will help artists from the Borders and beyond who have been unable to use galleries to sell…
Read MoreGreengallery profiles its artists online
ART emporium Greengallery has switched to online viewings during the lockdown. The gallery’s current exhibition of more than 100 paintings was open for just three hours at Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire before the lockdown began and so owner Becky Walker turned to the internet to help connect her customers to her artists. Walker has been running…
Read MoreGlasgow artists turn tattie display into community food project
ARTISTS Angus Farquhar and Rudy Kanhye have turned what was intended as a display at the SWG3 complex in Glasgow into a community food project. As part of “An Empty Gunny Bag Cannot Stand”, 120 brightly-coloured hessian sacks have been distributed around the area, allowing households to grow potatoes on their doorsteps. The bilingual title…
Read MoreLeith Theatre gets £11,000 grant and support package
WORK to reopen Leith Theatre is taking a further step forward after the category B-listed building was awarded a grant from Theatres Trust. The theatre, which lay empty between 1988 and 2016, has been awarded £11,000 to support Leith Theatre Trust with business planning, leadership training and a package of consultancy work to strengthen its…
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