Posts Tagged ‘Turner Prize’
Turner Prize winning Scottish artist Martin Boyce opens Fruitmarket celebrations
Turner Prize winning Scottish artist Martin Boyce is opening a new exhibition in Edinburgh, to celebrate the Fruitmarket’s 50th anniversary. The Glasgow based artist’s sculptures rework the textures and forms of the built environment. Using the iconography of the everyday he creates poetic landscapes which merge interior and exterior spaces. Boyce last showed at Fruitmarket…
Read MoreExtraordinary whiskies at the first One of One Auction
Earlier this summer, The Distillers’ Charity and Sotheby’s announced a six-year partnership to host three biennial auctions of ultra-rare and unique Scotch whiskies and experiences under the name The Distillers One of One. The first Distillers One of One auction – comprising one-off, never-to-be-repeated lots specially created and donated by companies from across the Scotch…
Read MoreStill Life with Melon and Fruit to go on show
A Scottish art gallery is holding an exhibition entitled Still Life throughout May. Guy Peploe, managing director the The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, has selected works from the subject of Still Life. In art history this subject has produced many masterpieces, countless sub-genres, and lot of efficient, academic works which might not win the Turner…
Read MoreYour first look inside the new V&A Dundee
The V&A Dundee will open its doors to the public for the first time this Saturday. Today its beautiful, light-filled interiors designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been revealed for the first time. As Scotland’s first design museum, V&A Dundee tells a global story, investigating the international importance of design alongside presenting Scotland’s…
Read MoreCrafts from the Scottish capital to the British
An Edinburgh studio is taking part in this year’s London Craft Week. The Clothworkers’ Company of London, are generously supporting a series of ticketed events in association with the Dovecot Studios in the Scottish capital, as part of London Craft Week, which runs 9 to 13 May. The public will attend a series of unique…
Read MoreOutstanding show of work from Turner Prize-nominated artist
A solo exhibition by Turner Prize-shortlisted artist Nathan Coley is currently on show in East Ayrshire. The show of his work is running at the main gallery at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. One of the UK’s best-known artists, Glasgow-based Coley has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe with both gallery-based and publicly-situated artworks.…
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