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Inside: Which is Scotland’s Artists’ Town?A Home from Home for Artists in London

Self Portrait, George Dutch Davidson, 1898. From Art in Dundee 1867-1924, by Matthew Jarron, reviewed in this issue. Image © Dundee City Council.

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MATTHEW JARRON`S book, Art in Dundee:1867-1924 is a meticulously researched, beautifully written and lavishly illustrated work that also serves as a social history of the city, given that during this period, its artists, patrons, collectors and galleries – both civic and commercial – were so closely bound together, especially during the second half of the 19th century. Then, as he says, Dundee was blessed with a number of philanthropic collectors, Alexander Crawford Lamb, John Mitchell Keiller, Isaac Julius Weinburg, J G Orchar and John Robertson of Emslea among the most notable. They belonged to the increasingly prosperous industrial and professional classes who would make Dundee one of the richest cities in Britain at the turn of the century But they also included Jason Goodchild, a steeplejack and electrician, who was unfortunately killed by falling off a ladder when only 45 years old; and local aristocrats including Lord Kinnaird and the Earl of Dalhousie. ThestoryofhowartflourishedinDundee during the second half of the 19th century is greatly helped by two things: the coverage of art exhibitions given by the publishing houses of John Leng and W & DC Thomson, and the opening of the Albert Institute in Albert Square in 1867 and its subsequent enlargement containing the Victoria Galleries in 1888. In the mid 20th century, the building’s name was changed to the McManus Art Gallery & Museum and, in the 21st century, it was extensively remodelled to provide an atrium and increased service areas at the cost of three exhibition galleries. The inspiration for the Albert Institute was derived from the Great

Exhibition of 1851, which not only led to the South Kensington Museum (now the VIctoria & Albert Museum) and other museums and cultural organisation in the area, but also encouraged the creation of Mechanical Institutes in many British cities. This followed the recognition by Prince Albert and Henry Cole that Britain was facing increasing competition in Europe – and especially from what

was to become Germany – so that the artistic education of apprentices had to be improved. The Albert Institute, allied to various education establishments, was seen as a way of achieving this. And, when it came to surrounding the institute with statues, Jarron describes how John Steell’s statue of Dundee’s great Radical politician, George Kinloch, of 1872 might have be mounted on a turntable because there was so much disagreement about the direction he should face. Similar disagreements about location affected Harry Bates’s statue of Queen Victoria. When it arrived in Dundee in 1899, the statue languished for sometime in a railways goods shed – “in a site devoted to left luggage” – before its position in front of the grand staircase of the Albert Institute was agreed. Duringthefirsthalfofthe19thcentury, only the wealthiest people could collect art and, among these, was Dundee’s local MP, David Hunter of Blackness, who

had works by Giotto, Raphael, Titian, Brueghel, Rubens, Velasquez, Van Dyke and Rembrandt. In the second half of the century, however, buying art

became possible for a much wider circle of people, many of whom (in Dundee) collected the work of Scottish artists. Among them were Eduardo Leon Garrido, William Quiller Orchardson, David Farquharson and William McTaggart, and works from these and other contemporary artists in Scotland were donated to the Albert Institure. There were also collectors, like Alexander Crawford Lamb, who

specialised in subjects like typographical works of Old Dundee, and an exhibition of these works in 1892 proved especially popular as swathes of the city – including its Adam-designed Town House – made way for re-development. To the interest in art depicting the landscape, and in portraiture – among them ex-Provost Alexander Hay

Moncur by John Reid of 1886, ex-Lord Provost Henry McGrady by Hubert von Herkomer of 1900, Miss Agnes Husband by Alec Grieve of 1909 and Sir James Key Caird by David Foggie of 1928-9 – was added an interest in the decorative arts from the 1890s onwards. This was encouraged by the demands for decoration of a number of important churches. St Salvador’s in the Hill Town has an amazingNeo-Gothicinteriorreflectingthe style of its architect, George Frederick Bodley (though you’d never guess this from the outside), while the City Churches have stainedglass windows by William Morris and Edward Burn-Jones and there are yet more windows by these artists in St Stephen’s Church, Broughty Ferry. ThustheinfluenceofthePre-Raphaelites and William Morris was seen in Dundee, though Jarron’s assertion that a briefly-livedjournalcalledThe Evergreen, whichreflectedthenotoriousYellow Book that featured illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, can be compared to Morris’ Kelmscott Press, is surely a bit over the top. The Celtic Revival can be seen in St John’s Cross Church in Blackness Avenue, Dundee... Continued on page 7

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SITUATED opposite Wood Green underground station in North London, 12 minutes from Kings Cross and St. Pancras International stations and 20 minutes from the West End, a grand Art Deco property originally built in 1925 for the North Metropolitan Power and Electric Company is undergoing a major restoration. This will be the f irst hotel in the UK designed primarily for artists, actors and people in the creative industries. The inspired new idea is the result of collaboration between two entrepreneurs, Nick Hartwright – co-founder of The Mill Company Project – and Kurt Bredenbeck who devised the concept of ‘luxury budget’ hotels with the creation of the highly successful Hoxton Hotel project (two in London and one just opened in Amsterdam). With support from Greater London

Authority and Haringey Council, the Green Rooms Hotel, opening in May, will be the f irst arts-led social enterprise offering affordable accommodation to artists visiting and working in London. Accommodation at the four-f loor hotel includes 22 double rooms, two studio apartments and two dormitory rooms sleeping 12 and 16 people respectively. Prices start at £18 per night for a dorm bed, with double rooms starting at £45 per night. A bar on the top f loor and another bar

in the lobby will welcome “both guests and local residents.” The hotel will also offer other public areas such as exhibition spaces and a restaurant. The principal aim of the hotel, say its promoters, is to act as a creative centre in the local community hosting regular events, exhibitions and workshops with a café, bar and a restaurant open to the public. The plan is to have a programme of free monthly events led by artists staying at the hotel and the property’s cultural partners such as the Royal Court Theatre, the British Council and Create London using it for performances, exhibitions, and rehearsals. There will also be artist-in-residence opportunities funded by Arts Council England. Potential restaurauteurs will, it is hoped, be offered year-long rent-free rotational residencies to run the ground f loor restaurant. Dan Turner – pr Consultant for the Green Rooms Hotel – has articulated the main benefit of this kind of project: “Obviously a lot of people in the arts – particularly emerging artists – don’t have a lot of spare cash and f inding suitable places to stay when they go to London can be really diff icult. Green Rooms should be a solution to a problem for a lot of young creative people.” Priority will be given to artists in terms of bookings and they will also obtain marginally cheaper rates, but the hotel will be open to the wider public too. According to Dan Turner: “If people

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Green rooms in Wood GreenReasonably priced accommodation for artists in London? You must be joking.

Not just jute, jam and journalismThe arts flourished spectacularly for half a century in Dundee, as a new book reviewed by Richard Carr reveals

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THIS YEAR, Scotland is celebrating a Year of Architecture in which, led by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, more than 90 organisations across the country will be involved. The Festival is a key part of an even wider celebration – Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture & Design. The Year of Architecture kicks off with a truly ground-breaking event from 18-27 of this month: Hinterland, which is a walked route through the woodland to the abandoned St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, which was designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia and opened in1966andwasgreatlyinfluencedby the work of Le Corbusier. The walk will be accompanied by a music and light show in which a haunting oral landscape, composed by Rory Boyle, features the choir of St Salvator’s Chapel of the University of St Andrews. Hinterland precedes the restoration of St Peter’s that is expected to begin later in the year. Then, at the end of this month, an exhibition called Scotstyle, featuring buildings that have been chosen by the public, begins its tour around the country, and in May another exhibition called The Ideal Hut Show also begins a country-wide tour. Among its venues are the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. From July-September,

Adventures in Space will be held at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. This will offer insights into the architectureofsciencefiction.Films to be shown include early productions such as Metropolis and Things to Come, and more recent productions including Blade Runner, Flash Gordon and The Matrix. Also across the summer (from June to September), an exhibition called Out of their Heads at the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh will connect some of Scotland’s most prestigious architects with their buildings using portraits, photographic portraits and busts of the architects, and representations of the buildings they have designed. And, also in the summer, Pop-up World Cities Expo will be held in Mound Square, Edinburgh. This exhibition will build on the universal success of temporary buildings and the popularity of present-day pop-ups. And it will demonstrate how architects have risen to the challenge of creating innovative and engaging pop-up designs that capture the public’s imagination. There will also be hundreds of otherexhibitions,workshops,filmscreenings, musical celebrations and other events involving many people from home and abroad. And, as the brochure says, “It will also be fun!” For once, a Year of... with a little sense behind it.More on:www.foa2016.com

THESE ARE worrying times for the media. Despite the brave appearance of a new paid-for title, New Day, newspapers everywhere are in decline and the much vaunted replacement, online websites, leave much to be desired particularlyintermsoffinancialbackbone. Whatever income can be generated by folk clicking on to them comes nowhere near that which comes from ‘real’ advertising and real sales revenue from a product you can hold in your hands. Don’t worry, though, the BBC is still there to do the ncessary digging and to take the transgressor to task. Or is it? Nationally there are are some ominous signs of cracks in a structure the whole world admires. While there is plenty wrong with the Beeb – far too many cosy

gravy trains running for ever and ever, for instance, there is a lot that is right. This becomes obvious when one contemplates the home baked alternative being proposed by the Nationalists. If the present output of BBC Scotland is any sort of indication of what one might get, one can only cringe. The much discussed – and now being actively promoted – Scottish Six has understandably been castigated in advance. At a time when the overall structure of the BBC is under threat, knocking bits off it makes no sense at all. Much better to look very critically at how it operates nationally and especially in these parts. Now more than ever we need strong and truly independent branches of an ailing media.

JUST AFTER our last issue of the paper hit the streets our long serving advertising chief, Sandra, announced that she was hanging up her receiver and retiring. For getting on for a score of years Sandra did a sterling job for the paper. Modest though the publication may be, it is thanks to many Sandras that we continue to thrive against all

the odds and that in a climate that can be seen as pretty challenging. There are the Sandras who write the paper, the (Alex-) Sanders (?) who print and distribute it and, above all, our very faithful and supportive advertisers without whom a paper such as this would simply not exist. Oh, and dear reader, thank you too. Do keep picking us up, please!

“I WENT to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,” Thoreau wrote, “to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau – who died aged 44 – was an early advocate of the Tiny House movement – his two year long sabbatical, Walden, written about his time spent living in a cabin overlooking Walden pond and published in 1854 still serves as a useful antidote to over expansive living. Now those into the Tiny House movement are less concerned about social experimenting and more about the lack of boundaries such a way of life allows. In America, where the tiny house movement kicked off, it is a growing group of people who are happy to downsize the space that they live in and enjoy a more liberated way of life as a result. On average the typical American home takes up around 2600 square feet, of space – whereas the typical small or tiny house is around 100-400 square feet. Large homes come at rocketing costs nowadays and most Americans spend between a third and a half of their income on keeping a roof over their heads, meaning around 76 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. To escape the cycle of debt that increasingly comes with the large house and the white picket fence, a lot of people are attracted by the simplicity of the Tiny House Movement. Now a Scottish company, started by father and daughter, Jennifer and Ian Hope, have created a house building company to house even the tiniest of dreams.The wee house company was started in 2013. One of the reasons Jennifer, 23, was inspired to start the company was because she and her partner Mark, could not afford to buy a house near the family home in Ayrshire. “There wasn’t much we could afford, and we looked at some alternative options and became interested in the idea of a one bed, pre-fab home which would be built in modules in a factory and transported on a lorry to a plot,” she said. Yet until her parents offered her and her partner a small patch of land to build on this could not become a reality. “Then our dreams began to take shape,” she said. Now the Wee House Company offers all types of pre built modular houses. Jennifer says the most

popular is the two bedroom. The house takes around eightweekstocomplete(fiveweeksintheirworkshopbeing assembled and then three weeks on site). They aim to provide what Jennifer calls a ‘turn key service.’ Aiming to help with everything from planning applications to on site building. “My parents have had a house-building company for 23 years and my dad and I always liked the idea of

a modular house. There are some out there already but they’re quite contemporary. I wanted something that looked more traditional, like a but-and-ben.” Jennifer started working on designs and plans, and the business has quickly come together. She also sought advice from the architect Ben Pentreath. “The houses are suitable for starter homes, peoplelookingtodownsize,agrannyflatforanelderly relative or even as holiday homes. They’re certifieddwellinghousesthatyoucangetamortgageon and as such planning permission is required. “Our manufacturing base is in Cumnock and we construct the houses in sections and then transport them to the destination.”

“One of the most popular areas we have found is the Highlands ,” Jennifer revealed. “It’sveryhardforpeopletoevenfindbuildersinthese areas as they are so rural and they can have to wait up to two years to get building a house,” she said. “I live in a one-bedroom Wee House with my boyfriend and dog. We built it in my parents’ garden and we love it,” Jennifer added. “The only downside is I have to be careful with the amount of clothes I buy,” she laughed. “It’s a great bonus, though, that our yearly gas bill, which includes cooking, heating and hot water, is only around £ 330. The houses come in three sizes: the Studio Wee House costs £ 54,000, the One Bedroom Wee House, £ 75,000 and the Two Bedroomed comes in at £ 99,000. Mark Burton’s company, Tiny House UK, works on an even smaller scale — and his homes come on wheels! Measuring from 12ft to 16ft depending on the design, prices start from as little as £ 6,500. He said: “The tiny house movement is already big in America, but it’s catching on here now too. I was a builder for a long time but it became really cut-throat. “I’d heard of tiny houses and a couple of years ago I thought the time was right, with all of the housing problems in the UK. Mine look a little different, almost like sheds, but that’s to blend in with the garden. “They feel like a house inside and are very cosy. They’re like a portable loft conversion and can be used forallsortsofpurposes—homegym,office,studenthousing. “The sleeping accommodation is upstairs and there’s also a shower, toilet and kitchen, which can be hooked up to the main house’s power supply or operated off-grid. We’re getting more and more interest all the time.” Books and television are getting in on the act too, with Cabin Porn, (Particular Books) published Vimeo creator and Shed of the Year (Channel 4)

Not THATtiny, are they?Tessa Williams looks at some ‘tiny’ houses

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Ron Smart. Here, There and Everywhere. Includes works in pencil, pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolours

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Art in Dundee:1867-1924(continued from p 5)The turn of the century was also when Dundee became important for the incredible contribution made to philosophy, art, design, science, education and the environment by Patrick Geddes and D’Arcy Wentworth Thomson. Geddes, who in 1889 took up the Chair of Botany at Dundee University College, is more associated with his work in Edinburgh, including the commissioning of Ramsay Garden, but there is a garden in Dundee University designed by him, and he took a great interest in Dundee’s newly-found Graphics Art Association. This was a time when Dundee had its own Celtic Revival, featuring work by John Duncan, and its own Symbolist Movement featuring work by George Dutch Davidson. As for D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, who took up the Chair of Natural History at Dundee University College in 1885, not only was he very knowledgeable about art, and a patron who employed James Eadie Reid to create drawings and diagrams for him, but his book, On Growth of Form, which describes how geometry is a fundamental force of nature, hashadaninfluencethatcomesdowntothisday Among those who have studied the book are Henry Moore, Herbert Reid, the St Ives painters, Paul Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Salvador Dali, Richard Hamilton and even Jackson Pollock! There are two other major developments covered by Jarron’s book: the work of illustrators working for Dundee magazines and newspapers, and the teaching of art in the city. Jarron dates the beginnings of illustration in Dundee’s journals to the engravings showing the collapse of the original Tay Bridge in 1879. John Leng then invested in machines that could engrave pictures on to plaster of Paris, and later in the newzincographicprocess.Andamonghisfirstartists were Martin Anderson, who drew for newspapers and magazines, and also for cartoons. D C Thomson soon followed suit, led by Max Cowper. By 1894, he had moved to London and was working for Punch, Pall Mall Magazine, The London illustrated News and a host of other publications. But it was not long before his book

of sharp and radical political cartoons forced him to return to Scotland and live in Tayport! The second development – teaching art in Dundee – also goes back to the inspiration

provided by the Great Exhibition of 1851 because it led to the establishment of Mechanical Institutes. That in Dundee was founded by Sir David Baxter’s bequest of £ 20,000. Art classes were also provided by the Young Man’s Christian Association. There then followed teaching in a building in Smalls Wynd and then Bell Street, where the School of Art was a part of the Dundee Technical College. And it was a bequest of £60,000 to set up an art school made by James Duncan of Jordanstone in 1909 that led, eventually, to the establishment of the art school that bears his name in 1975 after many battles between the technical college and the art school over the possession of the bequest. By the beginning of the 20th century, Jarron says, the great days of collecting and donating art to the public good were over. Hugh MacDiarmid described the culture in Dundee as “sterile and degenerate,” though London’s The Year’s Art describes the city as the most important

in Scotland for private collections. But though public patronage was greatly diminished, people stillflockedtoexhibitionsattheAlbertInstitute. What Art in Dundee demonstrates, however,

is the extraordinary generosity of wealthy patrons for half a century and how, from the 1900s onwards, private collections were built up bylesser-knownfigures. Matthew Justice, a furniture retailer, collected Vuillard and Van Gogh, as well as G L Hunter and S J Peploe; William Boyd, Managing Director of Keiller’s, Dutch paintings, sculptures by Rodin and work by Monet, Sisley and others; the dentist John Robertson, works by McTaggart, Lamond, Hutchison and the Glasgow Boys; and the butcher-then-grocer John Tattersall, work by Hornel, Henry Walton, the Scottish Colourists and Japanese prints. Thislistreflectstheincredibleresearchneeded to make the book possible, while its many short biographies and illuminating stories enliven what is a very exhaustive text. It is also notable for the design by Andy Rice.

Art in Dundee: 1867-1924 by Matthew Jarron is published by the Art Historical Society of Abertay in association with the University of Dundee Museum Services, price £14.99 (to be confirmed)

Edwin J Smith, promotional design for Dundee Art Society exhibition from the Piper o’ Dundee, 1906

THESE DAYS, when it comes to the arts, it’s the Southwest that’s climbing up the league table. Doubtless the presence of Scotland’s Book Town in Wigtown, its Food Town in Castle Douglas and its Artists’ Toon in Kirkcudbright has raised the region’s profile. But are these tags, especially for the latter, really justified?Farbeitformetoknockthis neck of the woods (I’ve even decided to settle here recently) but I’ve sometimes asked myself, when strolling through its genteel streets, if Kirkcudbright should continue to be Scotland’s artists’ town. OK. Once upon a time, at the beginning of the last century this picturesque settlement on the Solway led the way in the visual arts when the Glasgow Boys and Girls (names like Jessie M. King, George Henry, Charles Oppenheimer and E.A. Hornel) colonised it each summer, renting rooms in its attractive Georgian houses. For me, an old-fashioned, artistic eccentricity still prevails in Kirkcudbright. It’s as if in the front room of each house stands an easel and palette belonging to characters straight out of Dorothy L. Sayers’s murder mystery novel, ‘Five Red Herrings,’ whose suspects are mostly artists. These men (none are women) use bicycles for transport and (nostalgically) catch the local train for more distant journeys. Kirkcudbright hasn’t much moved on since those days. True, there are lovely galleries like the Tolbooth a couple of doors down from Jessie M. King’s old residence, the Harbour Cottage, the Whitehouse and High Street galleries, to name but a few. There’s

Hornel’s house in which the public can view his saccharine portraits of romanticised young women and girls.

But where are the artists? Admittedly, the town has a WASP (Workshop Artist Studio Provision) studio in which several local artists like Cressa McLaren, Lizzie Farey, Suzi Plunkett and Morag Macpherson practise.

However, there are just as many serious artists working outside the town, e.g. in Auchencairn, Castle Douglas and Gatehouse-of-

Fleet. Maybe this is because Kirkcudbright house and studio prices are too high for many up-and-coming artists. Nevertheless, the Southwest is very friendly towards the artist and has drawn big names like the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy from Penpont in Dumfriesshire. The internationallyrenownedfigurevowsthathewould never have stayed in the region had it not been so welcoming. SomecreditshouldgotoGracefieldArts Centre in Dumfries. Partly funded by Dumfries & Galloway Council, the Centre is a splendid platform for local artists and internationalnames(Gracefieldevenhoststhe distinguished Tate Artists’ Rooms). Early this year, the gallery held an exhibition selecting from its permanent collection landscape water-colours to complement the work of the Gatehouse-of-Fleet contemporary landscape artist, Jeremy Carlisle. The Dumfries & Galloway Spring FlingowesitsexistencetostaffatGracefieldwho founded what is now claimed to be Scotland’s premier arts and crafts open studios event. It began 14 years ago as an experiment. Today, some 90 - 100 professional artists throw open their studios for three days in late May. This year, the Spring Fling runs from May 28th to the 30th. Since 2003, it has attracted over 100,000 visitors who have made 300,000 studio visits. During this period, £1.9 million was spent in the artists’

studios and the event itself is said to have brought £8.5 million to the local economy. Kirkcudbright is no slouch when it comes to staging artistic events. Its thirteenth Arts & Crafts Trail this year runs from July

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200 years of Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Art

Until April 10Ian Cook. Compass Points.

SEASHORE GALLERY, Mar-shall Street, Cockenzie, EH32 0HT, 0793 592 8288

Paintings, jewellery, wood, ceramics, glass, prints, cards

WESTGATE GALLERY, 39-41 Westgate, North Berwick, EH39 4AG, 01620 894 976

Paintings, limited edition prints, sculptures, ceramics & glass. Licensed Gallery café

BRAID IMAGE, 60 Rhodes Park, North Berwick, EH39 5NA, 01620 890 780

View on-line gallery or visitors by appointment

GULLANE ART GALLERY, 8 Stanley Road (Main Street), Gullane, EH31 2AD, 01620 843 082LINDSEY ANTIQUES, 5a Roseberry Place, Gullane, North Berwick, EH31 2AN, 01620 842 326ST ANDREW BLACKADDER CHURCH HALL, St Andrew Street, North Berwick, EH39 4NU, 01620 895 233March 25 - 28

Art Exhibition 2016. 350 origi-nal pictures by over 40 artists. Guest artist: Pam Carter

BASS ROCK POTTERY, Tantallon Arts & Crafts Studios, North Berwick, EH39 5PW, 0131 467 8300TANTALLON ARTS & CRAFTS STUDIOS, Halfland Barns Schoolhouse, North Ber-wick, EH39 5PW, 0131 467 8300

EdinburghNATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND, The Mound, Princes Street, EH2 2EL, 0131 624 6200Until May 29

David Forster. The Eye Never Has Enough of Seeing

Until June 12Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Vision-ary Palaces

Until January 30 2017Asbjörn Lunde. Rocks & Rivers.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GAL-LERY OF MODERN ART, 75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR, 0131 624 6200Until May 8

British Art Show 8. TouringUntil June 25

Modern Scottish Women. Paint-ers and Sculptors 1885-1965

DEAN GALLERY, 75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR, 0131 624 6200CITY ART CENTRE, 1-3 Market Street, EH1 1DE, 0131 529 3993Until May 8

John Bellany, William McTag-gart and Joan Eardley. The Artist and the Sea. Landscape, history and culture

THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY BUILDING, Upper Galleries, The Mound, EH2 2EL, 0131 225 6671, www.royalscottishacademy.orgUntil March 30

RSA New Contemporaries 2016.

April 16 - May 25RSA Annual Exhibition 2016.

Until August 1The Academicians’ Gallery. New venture aiming to provide destination for collectors interested in the work of RSA Academicians

THE SCOTTISH GALLERY, 16 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 558 1200, www.scottish-gallery.co.uk, mail@scottish-gallery.co.ukUntil March 30

Sir Robin Philipson. Centenary Exhibition. Visual arts

Until March 30Jo Barker, Sara Brennan, Kirsten Coelho, Susan Cross, Akiko Hirai, Bodil Manz, Jim Partridge, Liz Walmsley, Lara Scobie, Christiane Wilhelm, Andrea Walsh and Malin Winberg. Distilled Tone.

Until March 30Diana Leslie. A Small Town. Work

THE FRUITMARKET GAL-LERY, 45 Market Street, EH1 1DF, 0131 225 2383NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND, Chambers Street, EH1 1HF, 0131 225 7534March 10 - September 25

Celts. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND, George IV Bridge, EH1 1EW, 0131 623 3700Until May 29

Plague! Scotland’s history of contagions

info@urbaneart.co.uk SCOTTISH NATIONAL POR-TRAIT GALLERY, 1 Queen St, EH2 1JD, 0131 624 6200Until May 8

The Untitled. Bad Entertain-ment - contemporary art

INVERLEITH HOUSE, Royal Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 248 2971THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Abbeyhill, EH8 8DX, 0131 556 5100TALBOT RICE GALLERY, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, 0131 650 2211BOURNE FINE ART, 6 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 557 4050OPEN EYE GALLERY, 34 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE, 0131 557 1020TORRANCE GALLERY, 36 Dundas Street, EH3 6JN, 0131 556 6366INGLEBY GALLERY, 15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL, 0131 556 4441GALLERY TEN, 10 Stafford Street, West End, EH3 7AUEDINBURGH PRINTMAK-ERS WORKSHOP GALLERY, 23 Union Street, EH1 3LR, 0131 557 2479PATRIOTHALL GALLERY @ WASPS, 1d Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, EH3 5AY, 0131 226 7126From March 4

Laura LightbodyTHE DUNDAS STREET GALLERY, 6a Dundas Street, EH3 6HZApril 9 - 23

Douglas Davies: New Paintings(www.douglasdaviesgallery.co.uk)

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH, 20A Inverleith Row, EH3 5LR, 0131 552 7171 Until May 15

Kate Bajic. Exchange. Li-chenology

EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF, 0131 221 6109DOVECOT STUDIOS, 10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT, 0131 550 3660MORNING SIDE GALLERY, 94 Morningside Road, EH10 4BY, 0131 447 3041.LEITH SCHOOL OF ART, 25 North Junction Street, EH6 6HW, 0131 554 5761, www.leithschoolofart.co.uk, enquir-ies@leithschoolofart.co.ukUntil March 19

Jo Pudelko. Exothermic: Ad-ventures in Ultra-Adornment.

MCNAUGHTAN’S BOOK-SHOPS AND GALLERY, 3a & 4a Haddington Place, EH7 4AE, 0131 556 5897, www.mcnaughtansbookshop.com, info@mcnaughtans.co.ukTHE VELVET EASEL GAL-LERY, 298 Portobello High Street, Portobello, EH15 2AS, 0131 629 1121, www.velveteasel.co.ukUntil June 28

In Light, In Shade. A new media exhibition

THE LEITH GALLERY, 65 The Shore, EH6 6RA, 0131 553

5255, www.the-leith-gallery.co.uk, info@the-leith-gallery.co.ukCOBURG HOUSE ART STUDIOS, 15 Coburg Street, EH6 6ET, 0131 553 2266, www.coburghouseartstudios.co.uk, exhibitions@coburghouse.co.ukEDINBURGH PALETTE, St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Midlothian, EH7 6AE, 0131 661 1924, www.edinburghpalette.co.uk, info@edinburghpalette.co.ukEDINBURGH ART SHOP, 129 Lauriston Place, EH3 9JN, 0131 229 1809, www.EdinburghArtShop.com, info@EdinburghArtShop.co.ukURBANE ART GALLERY, 25-27 Jeffrey Street, Mid Lothian, EH1 1DH, 0131 556 8379, www.urbaneart.co.uk, SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF AR-CHITECT ARTISTS, RIAS, 15 Rutland Square, EH1 2BE, www.ssaagallery.org.ukApril 6 - 30

SSAA Drawing on their Imagi-nation (Scottish Arts Club, 24 Rutland Square)

THE SALTIRE SOCIETY, 9 Fountain Close, 22 High Street, EH1 1TF, 0131 556 1836, www.saltiresociety.org.uk, saltire@saltiresociety.org.uk

Artistic awards for artists in Arts and Crafts in Architecture

COLLECTIVE GALLERY, 22-28 Cockburn Street, EH1 1NY, 0131 220 1260STILLS GALLERY, 23 Cock-burn Street, EH1 1BP, 0131 622 6200TARTAN GALLERY AT THE LAUREL GALLERY, The Laurel Gallery, 58 St Stephen Street, Stockbridge, EH3 5AL, 0131 226 5022THE ADAM POTTERY, 76 Henderson Row, EH3 5BJ, 0131 557 3978

Thrown, sculptural and hand-built ceramics

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA, 82 Nicolson Street, EH8 9EW, 0131 668 2232

Ongoing arts lectures, exhibi-tions & performances; Italian classes

L’INSTITUT FRANçAIS D’ECOSSE, 13 Randolph Cres-cent, EH3 7TT, 0131 225 5366MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD, 42 High Street, Royal Mile, High Street, EH1 1TG, 0131 529 4142Until May 17

26 Children’s Winters.Making Movies: Children and Amateur Media in Scotland.

MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH, Huntly House, 142 Canongate, Royal Mile, High Street, EH8 8DD, 0131 529 4143Until June 25

Raise your Glass!. Celebrating Scotland’s Brewing Heritage

PENICUIK COMMUNITY ARTS ASSOCIATION, 4 West Street, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 9DL, 01968 678 804WHITESPACE GALLERY, 11 Gayfield Square, EH1 3NT, 0781 451 4771THE EDINBURGH GAL-LERY, 20A Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ, 0131 557 5002ALPHA ART GALLERY, 52 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, EH3 5AX, 0131 226 3066THE WRITERS’ MUSEUM, Lady Stair’s Close, EH1 2PA, 0131 529 4901RICCIO GALLERY, 17 South Street, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 1AH, 0131 660 2561AMBER ARTS, 78 Montrose Terrace, Abbeyhill, EH7 5DP, 0131 661 1167

Picture Framers, Art Gallery and Printmaking Studio

ART ET FACTS GALLERY, 19 Roseburn Terrace, EH12 5NG, 0131 346 7730

FalkirkTHE PARK GALLERY AND CALLENDAR HOUSE, Cal-lendar Park, FK1 1YR, 01324 503 789, www.falkirkcommuni-tytrust.org/venues/park-gallery, artsandcrafts@falkirkcommu-nitytrust.orgUntil March 12

The Yellow Wallpaper. Until May 2

A History of Underwear(see review p 10)

THE WEST END GALLERY, 3-45 West Bridge Street, FK1 5AZ, 01324 613 100DELTA STUDIOS, Lochlands Business Park, Larbert, FK5 3NS, 01324 555 500

Artists studios and workspaces for rent or lease

FORTH VALLEY OPEN STU-

Which one really is the Artists’ Toon?Mary Gladstone wonders which of the many possible contenders truly deserves the epithet of artists' town

Pittenweem – home of the celebrated Pittenweem arts festival

29th to August 1st. It is a time when local visitors and many from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Cumbria come to view Kirkcudbright’s hidden studios, secret gardens and the Town Hall art exhibition. Recently, several excellent shows have been staged in this venue, especially “The Glasgow Girls 1920 - 1960”. Last year, as a mark of their hard work, the Trail’s organisers, Pauline Saul and Vivien Dania were voted Kirkcudbright Citizens of the Year. Is it churlish, then, to call into question Kirkcudbright’s pre-eminent position as Scotland’s artists’ town? And if I were to play devil’s advocate, who should I choose as a competitor? For my money, it’s Pittenween,thesmallfishingvillagein the East Neuk of Fife. Situated close to Scotland’s capital city, Pittenween holds its annual Arts Festival this year from August 6 - 18 when it celebrates, much like Dumfries & Galloway’s Spring Fling and Kirkcudbright’s Arts & Crafts Trail, the visual arts in galleries, homes, studios and other venues. Founded in 1982 by a handful of

resident artists, it has grown to providing a platform for some100 artists who now come from all over the UK. The Festival is a hugely popular nine day jamboree in what’s termed a painters’

paradise. The open sea, charming cottages and steep, stone streets are a delightful backdrop for some 25,000 visitors to sample exhibitions, workshops, talks, children’s events and evening performances.

And what about Peebles, which runs ‘an eclectic mix of events’ during its arts festival from 28 - 31 August 28 - 31 featuring the visual arts,crafts,music,film,theatre,wordsandphotography. This vibrant cultural celebration

was set up in 1982 to acknowledge the cultural life of the town and was involved in a campaign to open the Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre. There’s even a case for Aberfeldy with its clutch of interesting galleries, particularly the Watermill,nowfirmlyonthemapwith its combination of award-winning bookshop, gallery, café and other artefacts. Or North Berwick, which holdsafilmandmediaartsfestivalandplans to build a performance space and arts centre. The seaside town is well-furnished with art galleries and local art groups. And anyway, who says the artists’ toon must be rural or chocolate-boxy pleasant. If Cumbernauld has a theatre, why can’t it also champion the visual arts?

As for Livingston in West Lothian, with its large collection of internationally recognised public art (80 pieces in and around the town), why shouldn’t it grab the tag of Scotland’s Artists’ Toon?

Kirkcudbright-sur-mer, with the Harbour Gallery right in the picture (in front ot the castle), and below

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HARBOURCOTTAGEGALLERY

KIRKCUDBRIGHTW.A.S.P.S.

(Kirkcudbright)Gallery Easter Exhibition

The Redden Family (Arts & Crafts)

Sheena McCurrach & Pauline Saul (Artists)Kirkcudbright Arts & Crafts Association

More information at:www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk

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DIOS, 29 Gartcows Crescent, FK1 5QH

An annual nine-day event which takes place in the Forth Valley, Central Scotland

FifeKIRKCALDY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, War Memo-rial Gardens, Abbotshall Road, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1YG, 01592 412 860, www.onfife.com/venues/kirkcaldy-galleries, kirkcaldy.galleries@onfife.comUntil March 20

Made in Fife. Until March 31

The Great War: Every Object Tells A Story.

March 5 - June 5 Shelters - as part of Scotland’s Festival of Architecture 2016 (FCA & C)

March 25 - June 5In Stitches. Celebrating 15 years of Kirkcaldy Galleries’ Sewing Circle

CUPAR ARTS & HERITAGE PROJECT (CAHP), 5 Ashlar Park, Lovers Lane, Cupar, KY15 5AQJune 18 - 25

Cupar Arts Festival 2016. Inter-national festival of contemporary visual art.

PETE CURA PICTURE FRAM-ING, At the Gallery, Burnside, Cupar, KY15 4BH, 01334 652 353

Lino cuts by Barbara Robertson, Caricatures by Donald Smart, New editions by Sonas MacLean. Framing: over 100 mouldings to choose from

MAISIE & MAC ART AND CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, 1 St. Catherine Street, Cupar, KY15 4LS, 01334 656 523, www.maisieandmac.com, info@maisieandmac.com

Paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, wood & metal from UK artists and makers

PITTENWEEM ARTS FESTIVAL, Festival Office, 47 High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, 01333 313 903, www.pit-tenweemartsfestival.co.uk, info@pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk

A celebration of the visual artsFISHER STUDIO AND GAL-LERY, 11-13 High Street, Pit-tenweem, KY10 2LA, 01333 312 255, www.fishergallery.co.uk, enquiries@fishergallery.co.uk

Ceramics, studio glass, driftwood clocks, enamelling, metalworks etc and limited edition of giclee prints

March 19 - May 3Suzie Gilmour, Penelope Anstice, Jan Fisher, James Fraser and Domenique Cameron. Spring Ex-hibition. Selection of craftwork and limited giclee prints

THE LITTLE GALLERY, 20 High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2LA, 01333 311 227FUNKY SCOTTISH, 41 High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, 01333 312 567JOHN NELSON STUDIO GAL-LERY, 26 Milton Place, (on A917 - 15mins from St Andrews), Pittenweem, KY10 2LS, 01333 312 112

Featuring paintings and prints by John Nelson

THE COACH HOUSE GAL-LERY, School Wynd, Pitten-weem, Anstruther, KY10 2PN, 01333 313 700CULROSS POTTERY AND GALLERY (& BISCUIT CAFE), Sandhaven, Culross, (near Dunfermline), KY12 8JG, 01383 882176, www.culrosspot-tery.com, camilla@culrosspot-tery.comFIRE STATION CREATIVE, Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline, KY12 7AN, 01383 721 564, www.firestationcreative.co.uk, sarah@firestationcreative.co.ukUntil April 2

Kyra Clegg and Su Grierson. Land of the Living.

FORGAN ART CENTRE, Cupar Road, Newport-on-Tay, DD6 8RA, 01382 542 062, www.forganartscentre.co.uk, info@forganartscentre.co.uk

Courses, workshop and events in all form and for all ages and abilities

CRAIL POTTERY, 75 Nether-gate, The Square, Crail, KY10 3TX, 01333 451 212

Huge variety of handthrown stoneware, terracotta, earthen-ware & raku

SCOTTISH FISHERIES MU-SEUM, St Ayles, Harbourhead, Anstruther, KY10 3AB, 01333 310 628March 18 - May 8

Katie Scarlett Howard. The Her-ring Girls. Ceramic sculptures

GRISELDA HILL POTTERY LTD, Kirkbrae, Ceres, Cupar, KY15 5ND, 01334 828 273

Wemyss Ware. Fife’s famous hand painted pottery

GERRY PINE GALLERY, Gerry Pine, 67 Nethergate North, Crail, KY10 3TX, 01333 450 842

Landscape Painting near St Andrews. Weekend and weekly coursesinthemedievalfishingvillage of Crail

KINGHORN GALLERY, King-horn, KY3 9RT, 01592 890 218THE QUAY GALLERY, 33 High Street, Aberdour, KY3 0SH, 01383 860 602BALBIRNIE CRAFT CENTRE, Markinch, Glenrothes, Tayside, KY7 6NE, 01592 753 743

Alison & Roy Murray gold-smithing & jewellery; also at 20 Thistle Street, Edinburgh

TWIST FIBRE CRAFT STU-DIO, 88 High Street, Newburgh, Cupar, KY14 6AQ, 01337 842 843

Workshops and supplies - knit-ting, weaving, spinning, felt making, natural dyeing. Natural fibreyarns,books,magazines,equipment and kits

FIFE FOLK MUSEUM, High Street, Ceres, KY15 5NF, 01334 828 180OPEN STUDIOS NORTH FIFE

Artists & makers open their workspacestovisitorsthefirstfull weekend in May annually

May 7 - 9Various artists. Open Studios North Fife.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS DUNFERMLINE (CAD), Upper Mall, The Kingsgate, Dunfermline

Scottish artists work, mixed media, 2d, 3d, small sculpture work (ceramic, Glass and wood), Digital images

ATTFIFE @ FIFESPACE, Rothes Hall, Rothes Square, Glenrothes, KY7 5NX, 01592 611101KIRKCALDY ART CLUB, Hot Pot Wynd, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, KY1 2TQ, 01592 203270

Painting classes, Monday 2-4pm and 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm and Thursday 10-noon. Pottery classes, Monday 10-12pm and 7-9pm, Tuesday 7-9pm and Wednesday 2-4pm

BIRCHWOOD COTTAGE GALLERY & TEAROOM, Balmungo, St Andrews, KY16 8LW, 01334 208220

Gallery/tearoom just outside St Andrews on the B9131. Mixed rolling exhibition of original art work and prints by local artists

MASPIE HOUSE GALLERY, High Street, Falkland, KY15 7BU, 01337 857 735

A wide selection of paintings, giclee prints and cards, jewellery, books and stationery, Chhildren’s arts and crafts plus ceramics and glass. Picture framing service available

ST. ANDREWS ART CLUB, 14c Argyle Street, St Andrews, KY16 9BPPAGE POTTERY GALLERY, 49 High Street, Pittenweem, KY10 2PG, 01333 311402

GlasgowKELVINGROVE ART GAL-LERY & MUSEUM, Argyle Street, G3 8AG, 0141 287 2699

For full details of refurbished Kelvingrove and all Glasgow Museums exhibitions, events, etc

THE BURRELL COLLEC-TION, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, G43 1AT, 0141 287 2550GALLERY OF MODERN ART (GOMA), Royal Exchange Square, G1 3AH, 0141 287 3050RIVERSIDE MUSEUM, 1 Bunhouse Road, G3 8DP, 0141 287 2720

Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel

Until April 29Ewan McGregor, Mark Beau-mont, Karen Darke, Andy Brown and Kate Rawles. The Adventur-ers. Celebrates contemporary Scottish adventurers

<Until April 30Blood, Sweat and Gears. Celebrates the achievements of para-sport tandem cyclists Aileen McGlynn and Louise Haston

RSW, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR, 0141 248 7411, www.rsw.org.uk, info@rsw.org.uk

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

April 30 - May 29 (Receiving Day: April 19)

5th Summer Open Annua Exhibition. Meffan Institute. Call for entries

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, 167 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ, 0141 353 4589, www.gsa.ac.ukUntil March 20

Rachel Lowther. RGI KELLY GALLERY, 118 Douglas Street, G2 4ET, 0141 248 6386, www.royalglasgowin-stitute.org/kelly.html, gallery@

royalglasgowinstitute.orgGLASGOW ART CLUB, 185 Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 248 5210, www.glasgowartclub.co.uk, info@glasgowartclub.co.ukMarch 25 - April 2

Spring Exhibition. JOHN GREEN FINE ART, 182 Bath Street, G2 4HG, 0141 333 1991, www.glasgowgallery.com, mail@glasgowgallery.com

Specialist framers and restorersCOMPASS GALLERY, 178 West Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 221 6370, www.compassgallery.co.uk, web@compassgallery.co.ukMarch 17 - April 9

Gregor Smith. The Far Shore 2016. Sketchbook landscapes

CYRIL GERBER FINE ART, 178 West Regent Street, G2 4RL, 0141 221 3095, www.gerberfineart.co.uk, mail@gerberfineart.co.uk

British paintings, sculpture and drawings

The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane. Glasgow G2 6PHMarch 8 and 9

Rule of Thirds - A collaborative exhibition by BA contemporary art practice students

GLASGOW MUSEUMS, Culture and Sport Glasgow, 20 Trongate, G1 5ES, 0141 287 4350

Call or visit website for full details

ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ART, 2 Castle Street, Glasgow City, G4 0RH, 0141 276 1625SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM, 225 Scotland Street, G5 8QB, 0141 287 0500CENTRE FOR CONTEM-PORARY ARTS (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD, 0141 352 4900MACKINTOSH CHURCH, CRM Society, Queen’s Cross Church, 870 Garscube Road, G20 7EL, 0141 946 6600THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, Uni-versity of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ, 0141 330 4221MCLELLAN GALLERIES, 270 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3EH, 0141 565 4137THE ANNAN GALLERY, 164 Woodlands Road, G3 6LL, 0141 332 0028ROGER BILLCLIFFE GAL-LERY, 134 Blythswood Street, G2 4EL, 0141 332 4027EWAN MUNDY FINE ART, 211 West George Street, G2 2LW, 0141 248 9755GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO GALLERY, 48 King Street, G1 5QT, 0141 552 0704GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS, The Whisky Bond, 2 Dawson Road, G4 9SS, 0141 353 3708THE HIDDEN LANE, 1103 Argyll Street, G3 8ND, 0141 564 1363PLATFORM, The Bridge, 1800 Westerhouse Road, G34 9JW, 0141 276 9696CLYDE MARITIME CENTRE, 100 Stobcross Rd, G3 8QQ, 0141 339 0631

The Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour. Glenlee (1896), one of only 5 Clyde-built sailing ships leftafloat

TRAMWAY, 25 Albert Drive, G41 2PE, 0141 276 0950STREET LEVEL PHO-TOWORKS, 48 King Street, Trongate 103, G1 5HD, 0141 552 2151LILLIE ART GALLERY, Sta-tion Road, Milngavie, G62 8BZ, 0141 956 5536, www.edlc.co.uk/arts/lillie_art_gallery.aspxUntil March 31

Sparkling at Sixty. Glasgow and District Embroiderers’ Guild 60th Anniversary exhibition.

ART FORUM, 50 Station Road, Milngavie, G62 8AB, 0141 956 6765

Mixed exhibition GALLERY III, 25 King Street, Townhead, G1 5QZ, 0141 552 0704WASPS ARTISTS STUDIOS, The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ, 0141 553 5890EALAIN GALLERY, 36-42 Main Street, Drymen, Stirling-shire, G63 OBG, 01360 660 996ARTERIES GALLERY, 185a Bath Street, G2 4HU, 0141 222 2830EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CEN-TRE, 51-53 Old Coach Road, East Kilbride, G74 4DU, 01355 261 000, www.eastkilbride.org.ukAULD KIRK MUSEUM, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, East

Dunbartonshire, G66 1HN, 0141 578 0144ARTISTS SURFACES LTD (ART REQ LTD), Unit 49, Anniesland Business Park, G13 1EU, 0141 950 6460, www.artreq.co.uk

Suppliers of Premium Art Products, including Canvases, Paints etc. Bespoke Framing Services

CASS ART, 63-67 Queen Street, G1 3EN, 0207 619 2601, www.cassart.co.uk

For all your art supplies and gifts

PULP PAPER ARTS WORK-SHOP, WASPS Factory, 77 Hanson Street, Dennistoun, G31 2HF, 0141 337 2842, www.paperartsworkshop.co.uk, ali-son.paperprintbook@virgin.netMarch 12 & 13

Casting Paper. April 2 & 3

Plant Papers.DOWNIE ALLISON DOWNIE BOOKBINDERS LTD, Unit H, Purdon Street, Partick, G11 6AF, 0141 339 0333, www.dadbookbinders.com, mail@dadbookbinders.comMUSIC-MAKERS LIMITED, 17 North Gardner Street, G11 5BU, 0141 339 2708SCOTTISH ARTISTS’ BE-NEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, Second Floor, 5 Oswald Street, G1 4QR

InvernessCASTLE GALLERY, 43 Castle Street, IV2 3DU, 01463 729 512, www.castlegallery.co.uk, info@castlegallery.co.ukUntil March 26

Shazia Mahmood. New Paint-ings from Skye and the North West Highlands

April 1 - 30Various artists. Mixed Spring Exhibition.

May 6 - 28Chagall, Matisse and Picasso. Fully authenticated, original, hand-made prints

HIGHLAND PRINT STUDIO, 20 Bank Street, IV1 1QU, 01463 718 999, www.high-landprintstudio.co.uk, info@highlandprintstudio.co.uk

Open access print studio and education facility. Regular weekend and evening courses available - call for full details

EDEN COURT THEATRE, Eden Court, Bishops Road, IV3 5SA, 01463 234 234INVERNESS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, Castle Wynd, IV2 3EB, 01463 237114INCHMORE GALLERY, Inchmore, by Inverness, six miles W. of Inverness on (A862) Beauly Boad, IV5 7PX, 01463 831 573PICTURE THIS, 18 Church Street, IV1 1EB, 01463 238823SCOTTISH FLAIR ART GAL-LERY, 11 Bank Street, IV1 1QY, 01463 248 500

Inverness-shireHICA (HIGHLAND INSTI-TUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART), Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Dores, IV2 6UA, 1808 521 3061896 GALLERY & COFFEE SHOP, Deshar Rd, Boat of Gar-ten, PH24 3BN, 01479 831 111

Art, photography, crafts, jewel-lery, books, cards and calendars

CARRBRIDGE ARTISTS’ STUDIO, Main Street, Cairngorms National Park, Carrbridge, PH23 3AS, 01479 841 328, www.carrbridgestu-dios.com, alice@carrbridges-tudios.com

Work by resident artists Jeff & Alice Buttress.

ART LOCHABER, Lochaber, www.artlochaber.co.uk

Artist group for Lochaber and West Highland of Scotland

May 21 - June 1Ben Nevis Distillery.

LOCH SHIEL SPRING FES-TIVAL, c/o Station Cottage, Glenfinnan, PH37 4LT, 01397 722 334April 15 - 19

Various artists. The Loch Shiel Festival. Celebrating 20 years

GLENFINNAN STATION MUSEUM, Station Cottage, Glenfinnan, PH37 4LT, 01397 722 295BEN NEVIS DISTILLERY (FORT WILLIAM), Lochy Bridge, Fort William, PH33 6TJ, 01397 702476

Isle of ArranSTUDIO 4, Shore Road, Lam-lash, KA27 8LA, 01770 600 919

Masako Ritchie, Barbara Young, Scott Irvine, Kirti Mandir, R. Lele new works by J. Broekhuizen

Isle of ButeMOUNT STUART, Mount Stu-art, PA20 9LR, 01700 503 877

Isle Of HarrisSKOON ART CAFE, 4 Ge-ocrab, HS3 3HB, 01859 530 268

Original oils and exclusive art cards from resident artist Andrew John Craig

Isle of IslayTHE GALLERY, Bowmore Distillery Visitor Centre, School Street, Bowmore, PA43 7JS, 01496 810 441

Regular exhibitions by local artists

Isle of LewisAN LANNTAIR, Town Hall, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, HS1 2DS, 01851 703 307HARBOUR VIEW GALLERY, Port of Ness, HS2 0XA, 01851 810 735

Original paintings and prints by Anthony J Barber

MORVEN GALLERY, Upper Barvas, Outer Hebrides, HS2 0QX, 01851 840 216

Changing exhibitions of origi-nal art, crafts, photography & tapestry weaving

Isle of SkyeDANDELION DESIGNS, Stein, Waternish, IV55 8GA, 01470 592 218, www.dandelion-designs.co.uk

Permanent exhibition of many contemporary and traditional artists, and an interesting range of crafts

SANDBANK STUDIO, Old Pier Road, Sandbank, Broad-ford, IV49 9AE, 01471 822 011, www.duncancurrie.net, duncan.currie@tiscali.co.uk

Wide range of original paintings by Duncan Currie and works by Pam Carter and other well-known Scottish artists

AROS SKYE HERITAGE CENTRE, Viewfield Road, Por-tree, IV51 9EU, 01478 613 750

Video exhibition of Skye scenery and local history

EDINBANE POTTERY, Edinbane, Portree, IV51 9PW, 01470 582 234GALLERY AN TALLA DEARG, Ornsay, Sleat, IV43 8QR, 01471 833 439DIANA MACKIE, 10 Bor-reraig Park, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZX, 01470 511 795

Working studio and gallery - paintings depict the climatic changes of the Highlands and Islands

ORBOST GALLERY, Half Bolvean, nr Dunvegan, IV55 8ZB, 01470 521 207

Selling exhibitions of profes-sional artworks by local artists in Skye & Highlands

RAVEN PRESS GALLERY, Colbost, Dunvegan, IV55 8ZS, 01470 511 748

Wood engravings of landscape and wildlife. Resist dyed silks and hand knit design. Working studio of engraver Kathleen Lindsley

KelsoTHE VENNEL GALLERY, Denise Playfair, 11 Bridge Street, TD5 7HT, 01573 224 003, www.playfairpetportraits.co.uk, vennelgallery@live.co.uk

Besposke Picture Framer. Ani-mal portrait commissions. Art and needlework supplies.

KingussieMCINTOSH GALLERY/SHIRAK, 38 High Street, PH21 1HX, 01540 662 280

Local artists’ works and oriental carpets from Afghanistan

IONA GALLERY, Duke Street, PH21 1JG, 01540 664 535

Regular exhibitions by local artists in ‘handmade in the cairngorms’ plus national/inter-national collections each month

KirkcudbrightHARBOUR COTTAGE GAL-LERY, Castlebank, DG6 4LB, 01557 330 073, www.harbour-cottagegallery.org.ukMarch 21 - April 9

Easter Exhibition. April 11 - 23

The Redden Family. Arts and crafts

April 11 - 23Sheena McCurrach and Pauline Saul.

April 25 - May 7

Kirkcudbright Arts and Crafts Association.

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Working gallery and studioTHE STEWARTRY MUSEUM, 47 St Mary’s Street, Dumfries & Galloway, DG6 4DU, 01557 330223KIRKCUDBRIGHT TOWN HALL, Town Hall, St Mary Street, DG6 4AA, 01557 331089TOLBOOTH ART CENTRE, High Street, DG6 4JL, 01557 331 556THE FAED GALLERY, The Mill on the Fleet Visitor Centre, 56 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HP, 01557 814 458NORTH GLEN GALLERY, North Glen, Palnackie, Castle Douglas, DG7 1PN, 01556 600 200

KyleTHE KYLE ART MARKET, Station Road, Kyle of Lochalsh, IV40 8AE, 01599 530 039

Judith Anne Currie paintings

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LancashireBLACKBURN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, Museum Street, Blackburn, BB1 7AJ, 01254 667 130

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Former working farm has been transformed into a work-haven for local designers and craftsmen

PETER SCOTT GALLERY, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, 01524 594 151

LarbertBARBARA DAVIDSON POTTERY, Muirhall Farm, (10 minutes from the Falkirk Wheel), Stirlingshire, FK5 4EW, 01324 554 430, www.barbara-davidson.com, mail-room@barbara-davidson.comBarbaraDavidson-finehandthrown stoneware. Prod-ucts sent worldwide

LeedsHAREWOOD HOUSE, Hare-wood House Trust, Harewood House, Harewood, LS17 9LG, 0113 218 1010HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE, 74 The Headrow, LS1 3AH, 0113 234 3158LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY, The Headrow, LS1 3AA, 0113 247 8256

LinlithgowTHE LINE GALLERY, 238 High Street, EH49 7ES, 01506 670 268

LiverpoolTATE LIVERPOOL, Albert Dock, L3 4BB, 0151 702 7400BLUECOAT ARTS CENTRE, School Lane, L1 3BX, 0151 709 5689LADY LEVER ART GAL-LERY, Lower Road, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, CH62 5EQ, 0151 478 4136THE WALKER, William Brown Street, L3 8EL, 0151 478 4199

LivingstonHOWDEN PARK CENTRE, Arts Services, West Lothian Council, Howden Park Centre, EH54 6AE, 01506 777 666

LondonMALL GALLERIES, The Mall, near Trafalgar Square, SW1Y 5AH, 0207 930 6844, www.mallgalleries.org.uk, info@mallgalleries.com Until March 10

RBA Rising Stars 2016 - An Investment in the Future. Show-casing young artists

March 7 - 13British Life Photography Awards 2016. A photographic competition showcasing contemporary and imaginative images that capture the essence and spirit of British life

March 17 - April 2The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2016. Promoting skill, concept and draughtsmanship in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing

April 6 - 16Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2016. Over 300 works by artists selected from the open submission - mix of traditional watercolour painting and contemporary, experimental works produced in many differ-ent water-soluble media

April 11 - 16Alexander Goudie (1933-2004). Alexander Goudie: A Retrospec-tive. Portrait painting

JACKSONS ART SUPPLIES LTD, 1 Farleigh Place, N16 7SX, 0844 499 8430, www.jacksonsart.com, sales@jack-sonsart.co.ukTHE BRITISH MUSEUM, Great Russell Street, Blooms-bury Square, WC1A 2RJ, 0207 323 8181

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London.

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, Romney Road, Greenwich, SE10 9NF, 0208 858 4422THE NATIONAL GALLERY, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN, 0207 747 2885THE BARBICAN, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, 0207 638 4141 Until March 6

Shakespeare Weekender. Play - come and join in

TATE MODERN, Bankside, SE1 9TG, 0207 887 8008 Until April 3

Alexander Calder. Perform-ing Sculpture. Performance art, portraiture, or just simply posing for the camera? What does is it mean to perform for the camera?

TATE BRITAIN, Millbank, SW1P 4RG, 0207 887 8888 Until March 13

Frank Auerbach. Recent paintings

BANKSIDE GALLERY, 48 Hopton Street, (Next to Tate Modern), SE1 9JH, 0207 928 7521HAYWARD GALLERY, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, 08703 800 400IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ, 0207 416 5320 Until September 25

Visions of War Above and Below.

THE QUEEN’S GALLERY, Buckingham Palace, SW1A 1AA, 0207 766 7301THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD, 0207 300 8000THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3 4SR, 0207 881 5200BROADBENT GALLERY, 25 Chepstow Corner, Chepstow Place, W2 4XE, 0207 229 8811REBECCA HOSSACK GAL-LERY, 2a Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, W1T 6BA, 0207 436 4899RIBA GALLERY 1, 66 Port-land Place, W1B 1ADPM GALLERY & HOUSE,

Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W5 5EQ, 020 8567 1227KENTISH TOWN HEALTH CENTRE, 2 Bartholomew Road, NW5 2AJ, 0207 530 4700MCKENZIE PAVILION GAL-LERY SPACE, Finsbury Park, N4 2NQ, 0208 889 9555SIMS REED GALLERY, The Economist Building, 30 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AU, 0207 930 5111ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY, 31 & 34 Cork Street, W1S 3NU, 0207 439 1866 Until March 12

Gabo’s Monoprints: A Family Collection. Woodblock prints by Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977)

March 17Paul Winstanley. Art School: New Prints and Panel Paintings. New paintings

PURDY HICKS GALLERY, 65 Hopton Street, SE1 9GZ, 0207 401 9229GILDEN’S ART GALLERY, 87 Heath Street, NW3 6UG, 0207 435 3340WILLIAM WESTON GAL-LERY, 7 Royal Arcade, W1S 4SG, 0207 493 0722THE REDFERN GALLERY, 20 Cork Street, W1S 3HL, 0207 734 1732BLACK DOG PUBLISHING LIMITED, 10a Acton Street, WC1X 9NG, 0207 713 5097GUILDHALL ART GALLERY & ROMAN LONDON’S AM-PHITHEATRE, Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, EC2V 5AE, 0207 332 3700DOMINIC GUERRINI, 18 Redburn Street, SW3 4BX, 0207 565 2333WADDINGTON GALLERIES, 11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT, 0207 851 2200MUSEUM OF LONDON, 50 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN, 0207 001 9844MESSUM’S, 8 Cork Street, W1S 3LJ, 0207 437 5545

A second-generation family firmofartdealersspecialisingin British Art from 1750 to the present day

GALLERY 27, 27 Cork Street, W1S 3NQ, 07950 177 679THE ARCHITECT’S GAL-LERY, The Powder Rooms, 69-71 Broad Street, Teddington, TW11 8QZ, 0208 977 2175CAROLINE WISEMAN MOD-ERN & CONTEMPORARY, 26 Lansdowne’s Gardens, Stock-well, SW8 2EG, 0207 622 2500THE CYNTHIA CORBETT GALLERY, 15 Claremont Lodge, 15 The Downs, Wimble-don Common, SW20 8UA, 0208 947 6782DULWICH PICTURE GAL-LERY, Gallery Road, Dulwich Village, SE21 7AD, 0208 693 5254 Until May 15

Nikolai Astrup. Painting Norway.

GX GALLERY, 43 Denmark Hill, SE5 8RS, 0207 703 8396INGO FINCKE GALLERY, 24 Battersea Rise, SW11 1EE, 0207 228 7966NORTHCOTE GALLERY, 253 King’s Road, Chelsea, SW3 5EL, 0207 351 0830

Modern British and Interna-tional Contemporary paintings and sculpture

POSK GALLERY, 238-246 King Street, W6 0RF, 0208 741 1940RED GATE GALLERY, 209a Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8RU, 0207 326 0993THE RUSSELL GALLERY, 12 Lower Richmond Road, Putney, SW15 1JP, 0208 780 5228WIMBLEDON ART STUDIOS, Riverside Yard, Riverside Road, SW17 0BB, 0208 947 1183GREENWICH PRINTMAK-ERS GALLERY, 1a The Market, Greenwich, SE10 9HZ, 0208 858 1569

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New Art Gallery in the heart of Chelsea dealing in Contempo-rary painters and sculptors

FAIRFAX GALLERY, 5 Park Walk, SW10 0AJ, 0207 751 4477

UNDERWEAR, the most everyday of objects, attracts interest, debate, and sometimes controversy. Undergarments through the ages are on display in the exhibition ‘A History of Underwear’ at Callendar Park House in Falkirk. Offering a brief but intimate insight into the world of underwear and its evolvement through the ages, the show is themed into key stories, exhibiting corsets, crinolines, knickers, bras and male underwear. Nicola Wilson, Assistant Curator at Falkirk Community Trust, says: “The exhibition aims to look at the history of underwear and allows visitors to get close to some of the museum collection’s most intimate items. It focuses on how underwear has been used as a foundation for fashion, from the Victorian era, right through to modern day.” Wilson states that the idea behind the exhibition was to illustrate how design, innovation and even architecture have fashioned underwear. “It’s been really fascinating putting it together,” says Nicola. “We’ve a large costume collection at the Falkirk Community Trust, with a lot of underwear, so we thought we’d focus on that because of the changes through the years and because it’s the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.” Exploring both the practicalities and the sensual appeal of underwear, one of its main functions is to support, firm and shape the body to create the ideal body shape for the latest fashions. As the designer Christian Dior stated: “Without proper foundations there can be no fashion.” “For women underwear has been driven by fashion – how they want their bodies to look in certain clothes. Even today there’s the popularity of Spanx and other underwear to hold the body in a particular shape – though that’s nothing like the Victorian corsets which would reduce a woman’s lung

capacity by nine per cent,” says Wilson. She adds: “What was also interesting was the innovation in bra design. Its function has remained the same, but the changes in design have mostly

been led by women who have modified their own bras then patented the design.” Also revealed are fascinating facts such as Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried with 145 loincloths; that the knicker elastic in M&S pants is designed to survive 1000 washes; that underwear company Jockey had its own plane “The Mascu-Line” to deliver its support briefs across the USA; and that Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit was made by the bra firm Playtex. The undergarments of our ancestors were often complicated affairs resembling contraptions of cruelty, designed to emphasise, to the extreme, the shape of a woman, but often at the expense of comfort and even health.

Whereas vanity often dictated design, modern day underwear, thanks to designers and technology, is now both functional and decorative.

FRANCES ANDERSON

A History of Underwear is at Callendar Park House, Falkirk until May 2. Admission is free.

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PACC MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2016 APRIL 9th—17th

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Underwear’s unseen architectureSO, HAVE you heard? The next President of the United States is probably going to be a Hebridean. That’s the good bit. Here’s the bad. His name is Donald Trump. A Hebridean? Well, his mother came from Tong, a wee village four miles north west of Stornaway. Her name was Mary Macleod and her parents had croft No 5 there. She was also almost certainly a Gaelic speaker, so calling Donald half a Hebridean isn’t too wide of the mark. Now the piece of this information that probably sticks in your throat is that I write – probably – when in my experience most Brits have yet to digest the information that, yes, it is quite probable that Donald Mor as his Mother doubtless called him in the crib (or possibly Dubh if she had the second sight) will indeed be the man with his hand on the button that might blow up the world. Never mind the columnists, trust the bookmakers and as we go to press the bookies are offering a mere 5/2 on Trump making the Oval Office,withHillaryonlyabaw’heidaheadat8/2. So, let’s face it, after November the American economy may soon be in such a bad state that it will be giving President Trump (the man who allegedly once remarked that he thought his daughter so pretty that if they weren’t related he would probably date her)sleepless afternoons. It’s a nightmare. So how has this come about? Well let me give you my own experience from last year when I was working as a writer in residence at Mississippi State University and met many hundreds of Trump supporters. So what were they like? Worryingly, quite normal. Let me tell you about two restaurants where I used to often debate with them. One was called Larry’s Cat Fish and More. Now Larry’s was the hot ticket for the lost and lonely amongst the blacks, or people of colour as I was told I had to call them. Now these poor blacks were poorer than anybody I have ever come across in Britain. They had no

proper buses, lousy schools, no health insurance and if you asked them whether they wanted safe and solid Hillary or superman Trump to get them out of this horror, they didn’t hesitate to tell you the latter. The other restaurant where I met people was at the other end of the scale, the super rich, and whilst none were so daft as not to recognise that Trump of Tong had his weaknesses, few would say that they wouldn’t vote for him if the only other option was Hillary. So where do we go with this? Well here’s my best advice. Buy a letting cottage in Tong. If Trump wins, the American hordes will soon be overwiththeirselfiecamerastocroftNo5andthey will all be needing digs. Oh, and if Big Donald does decide to kill us all, then maybe Tong will be the place to be, after all living there is probably as near to being dead as it’s possible to be on this earth, so you may not even notice the transfer. (Sorry if you love Tong, my problem is that sometimes the world is so worrying that you mun laugh as ye dare’nae cry.)

MAXWELL MACLEOD

A Hebridean president? (well, half)

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LOGIE STEADING ART GAL-LERY, Logie, Dunphail, Forres, IV36 2QN, 01309 611 378

Shows of contemporary art in the gallery by local artists. Six miles south of Forres on the A940

A’ANSIDE, Main Street, Tomintoul, AB37 9EX, 01479 872 074

Scottish Art, ceramics and sculpture - craftsmanship at its best - etchings, pottery, sporting prints

MORAY COLLEGE UHI, Moray Street, Elgin, IV30 1JJ, 01343 576 413, www.moray.ac.ukFALCONER MUSEUM, Tol-booth Street, Forres, IV36 1PH, 01309 673 701THE MUSEUMS OF MORAY, Tolbooth Street, Forres, IV36 1PH, 01309 673701

Visit Moray Council’s museums at Forres, Tomintoul & Buckie

THE BOOKMARK, 34 High Street, Grantown-on-Spey, PH26 3EH, 01479 873433

MotherwellMOTHERWELL HERITAGE CENTRE, 1 High Street, ML1 3HU, 01698 251 000

MullAN TOBAR ARTS CENTRE, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, PA75 6PB, 01688 302 211MULL THEATRE, Royal Buildings, Main Street, Tober-mory, PA75 6QB, 01688 302 828

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NairnNAIRN BOOK AND ART FESTIVAL, 53 King Street, IV12 4NP, 01467 451 804, www.nairnfestival.co.uk, enquiries@nairnfestival.co.ukAugust 30 - September 4BOATH HOUSE, Auldearn, IV12 5TE, 01667 454 896

Changing exhibitions by Scots contemporary artists

CAWDOR CASTLE, Cawdor, IV12 5RD, 01667 404 401THE COURT HOUSE, THE SEAMAN’S HALL, IV12 4AU, 01667 458510GREENTREE ARTS STUDIO, The School House, Ferness, Nairnshire, IV12 5UP, 01309 651 319

Studio spaces, workshops and art therapy

NorthumberlandMARY ANN ROGERS, West Woodburn, Hexham, NE48 2SE, 01434 270 216, www.marogers.com, info@marogers.comQUEEN’S HALL, Beaumont Street, Hexham, NE46 3LS, 01434 652 477

Visit website for full programmeSARAH RISEBOROUGH, 21 The Gables, West Street, Bel-ford, NE70 7QB, 01668 213618CROWN STUDIO GALLERY, Bridge Street, Rothbury, NE65 7SE, 01669 622890PHOTOWORKSHOPS, The Old School House, Fair Hill, Haltwhistle, NE49 9EE, 01434 322 595

Photography tuition - digital and traditional B&W, holiday breaks

and workshops at all levels, facilities hire

SHIRE POTTERY, Miller’s Yard, Prudhoe Street, Alnwick, NE66 1UW, 01665 602 277WESTSIDE CONTEMPO-RARY FINE ART, Westside Farm, Newton, Stocksfield, NE43 7TW, 01661 843 778INSPIRED BY GARDENS, 3 The Courtyard, Ochrelands, Hexham, NE46 1SB, 01661 842 713

Art workshops and creative breaks with Northumberland artist Catherine Stott

CORNHILL CRAFTS, 3 St Cuthberts Farm Cottages, Nr Tillmouth, Cornhill-on-Tweed, TD12 4UP, 01890 883038

Craft workshops in Natural Dyes, Simple Weaving, Felt, Papermaking

OrkneyWATERFRONT GALLERY, 128 Victoria Street, Stromness, KW16 3BU, 01856 850 644, www.waterfrontgallery.co.uk

In the shop: Orkney silver, pot-tery, knitwear and gifts. In the Back Room Local paintings, prints and designer crafts

PIER ARTS CENTRE, Victo-ria Street, Stromness, KW16 3AA, 01856 850 209Until April 9

A Total Experience. Modernist Landscapes - collection

THE GALLERY, Pierowall, Westray, KW17 2BZ, 01857 677 770

Ongoing: Contemporary art of Westray

YELLOWBIRD GALLERY, Chocolate Cottage, Birsay, KW17 2LT, 01856 721 360

Celebration of birds through drawings, paintings and carv-ing by sculptor John Thompson and artist Lesley Murdoch

SHORELINES GALLERY & STUDIO, Maitland Place, Finstown, Orkney Isles, KW17 2EQ, 01856 761142

Original gallery & shop selling prints & watercolours by Orkney artist Jane Glue

THE LOFT GALLERY, ST Margarets Hope, KW17 2SLNORTHLIGHT STUDIO, Stromness, KW16 3BY, 01856 850 671

Specialist tapestry studio and gallery in the historic harbour of Stromness

BILL MCARTHUR SEASCAPE ART, 3 Lettan, Sanday, KW17 2BP

OxfordMODERN ART OXFORD, 30 Pembroke Street, OX1 1BP, 01865 722 733ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, Beaumont Street, OX1 2PH, 01865 278 000

PaisleyPAISLEY MUSEUM & ART GALLERIES, 60 High Street, Town Centre, PA1 2BA, 0141 889 3151, www.renfrewshire.gov.ukMay 14 - June 26

128th Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition

PAISLEY ART CENTRE, New Street, PA1 1EZ, 0141 887 1010

Regular performances and events, call for listings

PeeblesTWEED ART, 1 Biggiesknowe, EH45 8HS, 01721 720 246, www.tweedart.co.uk, info@tweedart.co.uk

Framing studio artists and craftmakers gallery

TWEEDDALE MUSEUM AND GALLERY, Chambers Institution, High Street, EH45 8AG, 01721 724 820Until April 11

Working Perspectives - a dozen artists from Crossing Borders

MOY MACKAY GALLERY, 17 Northgate, EH45 8RX, 01721 722116

Contemporary Art and Craft from Scotland

THE CAIRNS GALLERY, 72 High Street, EH45 8SW, 01721 729441PEEBLES CRAFT CENTRE, Newby Court, EH45 8AG, 01721 722875

Craft centre with 4 studios - Dunnydeer Studio Porcelain - Ceramicist Duncan Hood (01721) 722 875. Woodworks by Bruce Prost - (01721) 724 442. Jewellery by Lynn Tindale - (01721) 720 112

TRAQUAIR HOUSE, Traquair House, Innerleithen, EH44 6PW, 01896 830 323DAWYCK BOTANIC GAR-DEN, Stobo, EH45 9JU, 01721

760254Until April 24

Volunteer Photographers. Dawyck in Photographs. Work from the last four years

CHAPEL STREET GALLERY, 19 Chapel Street, Innerleithen, EH44 6HN, 01896 833 448

New works by members of Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Also: affordable art

HILL HOUSE GALLERY, Broughton, Biggar, ML12 6HQ, 07768 690 069, www.hillhousegallery.com, jan@hillhousegallery.comApril

Spring exhibition - Sarah Dawnay and Graham Buchanan Dunlop

PerthPERTH & KINROSS MUSE-UMS & ART GALLERIES, 78 George Street, PH1 5LB, 01738 632 488, www.pkc.gov.uk/article/6482/Visiting-Perth-Mu-seum--Art-Gallery, museum@pkc.gov.ukFRAMES GALLERY, 10 Victo-ria Street, PH2 8LW, 01738 631 085, www.framesgallery.co.uk, info@framesgallery.co.ukUntil April 2

Freya Cummings, Dave Hunt, Babs Pease, Clive Ramage, Barbara Robertson and Gordon Slater. The Art of Printmaking.

THE BARN GALLERY, The Bield, Blackruthven, Tibber-more, PH1 1PY, 01968 677854, www.bieldatblackruthven.org.uk, info@bieldatblackruthven.org.uk

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PERTHSHIRE AGRICUL-TURAL SOCIETY, 26 York Place, PH2 8EH, 01738 623 780, www.perthshow.co.uk, secretary@perthshow.co.ukBOO VAKE (BUTH BHEAG), 5 Watergate, PH1 5TF, 01738 442263, www.boovake.co.uk, mail@boovake.co.uk

Original gifts from artists, mak-ers & designers from Scotland and the UK

FERGUSSON GALLERY, Marshall Place, PH2 8NS, 01738 783 425TAYBERRY GALLERY, 19 Princes Street, PH2 8NG, 01738 440 899

British made art and design from a range of disciplines including jewellery, ceramics, glass, wood and more

JARDINE GALLERY & WORKSHOP, 45 New Row, PH1 5QA, 01738 621 836PERTH THEATRE, 185 High Street, PH1 5UW, 01738 621 031

Call for full listingsPERTH CONCERT HALL, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621 031THE PERTHSHIRE ART AS-SOCIATION, 5 Westehill, PH1 1DH, 01738 626307

PerthshireBIRNAM ARTS & CONFER-ENCE CENTRE, Station Road, Birnam, Dunkeld, PH8 0DS, 01350 727 674April 2-29

Edge Textiles Scotland - Be-tween Myth and Ledgend

GALLERIA LUTI, 16 Ancaster Square, Callander, FK17 8BL, 01877 339577, www.gallerialuti.co.uk, info@gallerialuti.co.ukPERTHSHIRE OPEN STU-DIOS, Kinross, KY13, 01738 477 834THE ATHOLL GALLERY, 6 Atholl Street, Dunkeld, PH8 0AR, 01350 728 855Until March 12

Winter exhibitionFORTINGALL ART, Molteno Hall, (8 miles W. of Aberfeldy off B846), Aberfeldy, PH15 2LL, 01887 830 254L CHRISTIE CAMPBELL FINE ART, Rait Village An-tique Centre, Rait, PH2 7RT, 01821 670 379

Ongoing exhibition of 19th-21st century oils, watercolours, etch-ings and prints

THE RUTHVEN GALLERY, 90 High Street, Auchterarder, PH3 1BJ, 01764 664 233

Contemporary Art and Framing

PitlochryPITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE, Port-Na-Craig, PH16 5DR, 01796 484 626JOHN MUIR TRUST - WILD SPACE, Tower House, Station Road, PH16 5AN, 01796 484975

RenfrewshireMCLEAN MUSEUM & ART

GALLERY, 15 Kelly Street, Greenock, PA16 8JX, 01475 715 624, www.inverclyde.gov.ukKILBARCHAN EAST CHURCH HALL, Off Steeple Square, Kilbarchan, PA10 2JD, www.kilbarchaneastchurch.btck.co.ukCRAFTS OF CALDER GAL-LERY AND FRAMING, 8 High Street, Lochwinnoch, PA12 4DA, 01505 844 980

Ross-shireNORTH WEST HIGHLANDS ART, Brynaport, Achintraid, Strathcarron, IV54 8XB, 01520 733 227, www.nwhighlandsart.co.uk, gillian@nwhighlandsart.co.uk

North West Highlands Art provides the ultimate in paint-ing courses at Brynaport and Hosted by Mark and Gillian Pattinson

April 9 - 15Eleanor White. Five Days, Five Locations, Five Different Media.

SOLAS GALLERY, Flowerd-ale Bay, Wester-Ross, Gairloch, IV21 2BD, 01445 712626

Paintings, prints & ceramics by artists Rob Howard & Lyn Beckett

HIGHLAND MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD, The Old Sta-tion, Strathpeffer, IV14 9DH, 01997 421 031GROAM HOUSE MUSEUM, High Street, Rosemarkie, IV10 8UF, 01381 620 961THE CROMARTY GALLERY, 20 Church Street, Cromarty, IV11 8XA, 01381 600 816SUTOR CREEK RESTAU-RANT, Bank Street, Cromarty, IV11 8YEINVERGORDON ARTS CENTRE, Town Hall, High Street, Invergordon, IV18 0EL, 01349 868479GAIRLOCH HERITAGE MU-SEUM, Achtercairn, Gairloch, IV21 2BP, 01445 712287

SelkirkSCOTTISH BORDERS COUNCIL (MUSEUM & GALLERY), Municipal Buildings, High Street, TD7 4JX, www.scotborders.gov.uk, ehume@scotborders.gov.uk

ShetlandSHETLAND MUSEUM, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick, ZE1 0WP, 01595 695 057

Da Gadderie - new exhibition space in the new Shetland Museum

Until April 10Lois Walpole. Weaving Ghosts. Items created from material washed up on the shore

April 16 - June 12Kay Aplin & Joseph Young. In a Shetland Landscape. Sound and ceramics celebrating the Shetland landscape

THE TAIT GALLERY, 11c Union Street, Lerwick, ZE1 0ET, 01595 690 143

Jim Tait: Marine and landscape artist

BONHOGA GALLERY, Weis-dale Mill, Weisdale, ZE2 9LW, 01595 830 400VAILA FINE ART, 61 Com-mercial Street, Lerwick, ZEI 0US, 01595 6937374

St AndrewsFIFE CONTEMPORARY ART AND CRAFT (FCA&C), Town Hall, Queen’s Gardens, KY16 9AD, 01334 474 610FCA&C @ ST ANDREWS MUSEUM, Kinnesburn Park, Doubledykes Road, KY16 9TA, 01334 659 380YOUNGER HALL, University of St Andrews, Music Centre, North Street, KY16 9AJ, 01334 462226FRASER GALLERY, 53 South Street, KY16 9QR, 01334 479 647ST ANDREWS MUSEUM GARDENS, Kinburn Park, Doubledykes Road, KY16 9DP, 01334 659380J & G INNES LTD, 107 South Street, KY16 9QW, 01334 472 174, www.jg-innes.co.uk, enquiries@jg-innes.co.uk

Stationery, Art Supplies, Books & Gifts

StirlingSMITH ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, Dumbarton Road, FK8 2RQ, 01786 471 917, www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk, museum@smithartgal-lery.co.ukFRAMED IMAGES GAL-LERY, 31-33 Dumbarton Road,

FK8 2LQ, 01786 451 018, www.framedimages.co.uk, framed-images@btconnect.com

New and exciting art work. Large selection of original art and limited edition prints

GARTMORE HOUSE, Gartmore House, Gartmore, FK8 3RS, 01877 382991, www.gartmorehouse.com, mail@gartmorehouse.com

Tutor-led watercolour painting holidays in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Scotland. Suitable for all levels

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH HALL, Albert Place, Dumbar-ton Road, FK8 2QLTHE FOTHERINGHAM GALLERY, 78 Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan, FK9 4HS, 01786 832 861THE GREEN GALLERY, The Coachhouse, Ballamenoch, Buchlyvie, FK8 3NE, 01360 850 180BUCHLYVIE POTTERY SHOP, Main Street, Buchlyvie, (on A811), FK8 3LP, 01360 850 405SMITHY GALLERY, 74/76 Glasgow Road, Blanefield, G63 9HX, 01360 770 551& COLLECTIVE, Maple House, 28 Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan, FK9 4HR, 01786 359864Until April 14

Susie Leiper. Into The Mountain.

SunderlandSUNDERLAND MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, Burdon Road, SR1 1PP, 0191 553 2323

Victorian Dreams watercolours from Tyne & Wear Museums’ nationally-acclaimed collection

NATIONAL GLASS CENTRE, Liberty Way, SR6 0GL, 0191 515 5555VARDY GALLERY, University of Sunderland, Ashbourne House, Ryhope Road, SR2 7EF, 0191 515 2128

SutherlandTIMESPAN HERITAGE CENTRE, Dunrobin Street, Helmsdale, KW8 6JX, 01431 821327, www.timespan.org.uk, enquiries@timespan.org.ukBALNAKEIL CRAFT VIL-LAGE, Balnakeil, Durness, IV27 4PT, 01971 511 277

Studios/galleries including: pottery, paintings, printmaking, wood-turning, clothes, baskets, enamelling and jewellery

LOTTE GLOB CERAMICS, 105 Laid, Loch Eriboll, IV27 4UN, 01971 511 727WILD TILES AND TEX-TILES, Cul Mor, Elphin, Near Ullapool, IV27 4HH, 01854 666279

Courses in mosaic, embroidered textiles,and creative writing

HIGHLAND STONEWARE, Lochinver, IV27 4LP, 01571 844 376

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BUDDING GENIUS, 5 Church Street, Dornoch, IV25 3LP, 01862 810 407

TainBROWN’S GALLERY, Castle Brae, Ivy Lane, IV19 1AJ, 01862 893 884GLASSTORM CONTEMPO-RARY GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY, 2 Chapel Street, IV19 1EL, 01862 893 189

Tyne & WearAD HOC GALLERY, Buddle Arts Centre, 258b Station Road, Wallsend, NE28 8RH, 0191 200 7132LAING ART GALLERY, Higham Place, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AG, 0191 232 7734

Permanent: Proctor & Gamble Children’s Gallery; Art on Tyneside.

HATTON GALLERY, Univer-sity of Newcastle, Claremont Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, 0191 222 6057SIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, 9 Side, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 3JE, 0191 232 2208

Time Tunnel: a whirlwind tour through Newcastle’s history; also Science Factory

HANCOCK MUSEUM, Barras Bridge, Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PT, 0191 222 7418

‘Venom’: deadly cast of world’s most poisonous creatures & plants

DISCOVERY MUSEUM, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA, 0191 232 6789BALTIC - CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA, 0191 478 1810BLAGDON GALLERY, Milkhope Centre, Berwick Hill Road, Seaton Burn, NE13 6DA, 01670 789 944SHIPLEY ART GALLERY, Prince Consort Road, Gates-head, NE8 4JB, 0191 477 1495

UllapoolTHE CEILIDH PLACE, 14 West Argyle Street, IV26 2TY, 01854 612 103, www.theceilidh-place.com, jean@theceilidh-place.com

Cafe/Bar/Shop. Programme of Events and Exhibitions. Com-fortable Accommodation

RHUEART GALLERY, RhueArt Ltd, Rhue, IV26 2TJ, 01854 612460, www.rhueart.co.uk, flick@rhueart.co.ukMarch 26 - May 4

Peter White and Joanna Wright. It’s the grass that suffers. Work created during a visit to north-ern Uganda

May 7 - June 17Jon Schueler. Distillation of Light. Paintings

THE HARBOUR GALLERY, Argyll Street, IV26 2UB, 01854 612 282, www.theharbourgal-lery.com

Original art, contemporary, retro and vintage; framed/mounted prints

HIGHLAND STONEWARE, North Road, Wester Ross, IV26 2UN, 01571 844 376AN TALLA SOLAIS, Ullapool Visual Arts, Market Street, IV26 2XE, 01854 612 310March 12 - 17

Diyanne Ross. Stained Glass WIndows Workshop.

LAEL CRAFTS GALLERY, 3 Lael, IV23 2RS

WigtownshireSTRANRAER MUSEUM, 55 George Street, Stranraer, DG9 7JP, 01776 705 088WILLIAM NEAL PAINT-INGS, 24 Ryan Gardens, Innermessan, Stranraer, DG9 8QP, 01776 706 953

Moonlight & Dusk themes of Galloway in watermedia

HOOPOE PRINTS, Seymour House, 25 High Street, Port William, Newton Stewart, DG8 9SL, 01988 700 392

Range of original prints of birds and landscape by Lisa Hooper

WHITHORN VISITOR CEN-TRE, 45 - 47 George Street, Whithorn, DG8 8NS, 01988 500 508KEVAN MCGINTY PAINT-INGS, The Studio, 107 George Street, Whithorn, Newton Stewart, DG8 8PZ

Atmospheric landscapes from the Scottish Highlands and lowlands

YorkshireIMPRESSIONS GALLERY, Centenary Square, 29 Castle-gate, Bradford, BD1 1SD, 01904 654724YORK ART GALLERY, Exhi-bition Square, York, YO1 7EW, 01904 687 687NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Pictureville, Queensbury, Bradford, BD1 1NQ, 01274 203 305YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK, West Bretton, Wake-field, WF4 4LG, 01924 832631GALLERY ON THE GREEN, The Curator, Gallery on the Green, Upper Settle, BD24 9HG, 07908 792 713April 16 - May 20

Art and the world of cycling. To mark the visit of the Tour de Yorkshire to Settle and look at the links between art and the world of cycling

THE GALLERY UPSTAIRS, Off Main Square, (above Harle-quin), Grassington, BD23 5AT, 01756 753099INSPIRED BY... GALLERY, The Moors National Park Centre, Danby, Whitby, YO21 2NB, 01439 772 737

Showcasing artists inspired by the North York Moors National ParkJANETTE RAY BOOK-SELLERS, 8 Bootham, YO30 7BL, 01904 623 088GALLERY 49, 1 Market Place, Old Town Bridlington, YO16 4QJ, 01262 679472

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Trapped behind the peeling wallpaper…CALLENDAR House’s Park Gallery in Falkirk has been hosting the Crafts Council touring show The Yellow Wallpaper which was inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 novella of the same name. Written as a series of diary entries from the perspective of a woman suffering from a nervous condition, the narrator isconfinedtoaroombyher physician husband who, contrary to her wishes, insists that recuperation in solitude is the best remedy. Peeling yellow wallpaper covers the room and the narrator’s fascination with it takes over her life. Believing a woman is trapped behind the pattern, she becomes determined to free her. As her obsession spirals, and convinced she is the woman trapped behind the wallpaper, the story climaxes with the narrator tearing down the wallpaper in an effort to free the trapped woman. The artist Tom Gallant has selected quotes from this story to introduce examples of furniture, photography, animation and digital art. The exhibition takes us into the world of storytelling and imagery that has influencedhispracticeand the making of Dress 09, (above) in which Gallant skilfully realised the transition of his paper works into a wearable material form. Made by Gallant in collaboration with fashion designer Marios Schwab, Dress 09 was acquired for the Crafts Council Collection in 2011. Gallant’s practice as a contemporary artist is concerned with the western world’s continuing fascination with the industry of pornography, collector culture and the visual representations of our society. His interests in Victorian decorative

craft, printmaking and traditional Asian techniques of Kirigami conjoin in his works in which highly intricate and beautiful shapes are cut by hand. Craft is embedded in the core of Tom Gallant’s highly collectable and widely exhibited paper works. GillianSmith,ArtsDevelopmentOfficerat

Falkirk Community Trust states: “The Yellow Wallpaper exhibition presents a rich collection of different media and provides an insightful glimpse into what inspires Tom Gallant – an artist whose work has a strong craft sensibility.” Gallant’s ‘Dress 09,’ a striking but sinister black paper cut dress, dominates the space, and casts an equally eerie paper cut shadow, creating a slightly distorted effect. and working perfectly as a representation of the hallucinatory effects of isolation as experienced by the novella’s narrator. Gallant states: “William Morris was an idealfiguretodescribethe relationship between man and nature, artist and craftsman both great andflawed. “His company’s wallpaper designs were the obvious choice for relating the repression of women through pornography, inspired by the 19th-century novel

Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This short story became my impetus for creating a series of collections.” Gallant has shown internationally and his work is included in a substantial number of private collections all over the world. At The Park Gallery, Callendar Park House, Falkirk, until March 12.

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