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13 November 2020
Issue 139
Nichol Wheatley’s Moonrise
over the pine strand at
Tioram is included in Strange
Path, his latest exhibition of
Scottish landscapes.
See ARTS NEWS.
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ith family roots on
A time and a place
A ticket to the French Harris, John Lowrie
Morrison, better
Film Festival online
known as “Jolomo”,
screening of your is familiar with the
choice plus delivery of A new collection of paintings and limited edition prints everyday hardships which the weather in the
a set menu of French bistro western outreaches of Scotland can bring to
cuisine for two people from Alexander Millar transports his ‘ Youth and Young Manhood’ characters people in croft houses living off the land and
Côte at Home, including wine – to iconic city locations that have been very important in his life – from the sea.
High Level Bridge in Newcastle to the Trocadero Gardens in Paris. The croft has been the artist’s main motif
delivered in time for the movie! since the 1960s. He says: “My paintings are
not just pretty pictures of croft houses, but a
Just Kids directed by Christophe Blanc
record of crofts and crofting. Those who still
live in crofts have to be very clever against
the elements, for instance tying everything
down with rope or wire to stop things ending
up in Newfoundland or keeping the roof on
by putting rope over it with large boulders
hanging down.”
“But even in foul weather the isles are are truly wonderful.” Gallery (until Nov 29). Pictured: Haystacks in
the most beautiful places on the planet, with A new selection of works is featured in On a Harvest Moon, Isle of Mull
amazing colours, and the sunrises and sunsets the Edge: The Scottish Isles at the Glasgow www.glasgowgallery.com
The online festival, fff @ home,
(Nov 27-Dec 4) features a great From the Archive at
selection of full-length films Edinburgh Printmakers (until
and shorts. Jan 31, 2021) is the first of a
series of digital exhibitions
highlighting rare or unseen
prints by leading Scottish
artists from the past 50
years. All made at Edinburgh
Printmakers, the prints
have been selected from
a collection of over 2,000
works and demonstrate how
printmaking has been a key
part of the practice of some
The Butterworth Gallery in of Scotland’s best known
Enjoy a French meal and a movie, Ballogie, Aberdeenshire is offering artists.
Highlights include Callum
with the best seat in the house! 25 per cent off all unframed print
Innes’s CMW1, John Bellany’s
orders until December 14. The
The Barber’s Chair, Rachel
ENTRY DEADLINE annual Winter Exhibition features
new work by the renowned Maclean’s The Lion, John
19 NOV 2020 Scottish landscape artist Howard Byrne’s Moonstruck (pictured)
www.alexandermillar.com Butterworth, whose work is in the
Royal Collection (pictured: Wintry
and Adrian Wiszniewski’s Tate
Etat. There are also prints by
Calm), and his daughter Mary Kate Downie, Graham Fagen,
Princes Square 55-59 Grey Street Louise, who specialises in night-time Alasdair Gray, Calum Colvin
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he Scottish National Portrait
Julie Barnes ( BRITISH B.1972 ) The Magic of Space and Time
Gallery has partially reopened,
with the Great Hall, the first floor
ambulatory (pictured) and the
second floor galleries now accessible to
visitors.
Exhibitions include: You Are Here
2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions, about
people’s experiences in Scotland during the
pandemic; Reformation to Revolution, The
King’s Last Day: The Execution of Charles I;
Art & Analysis: Two Netherlandish Painters
Working in Jacobean Scotland; Imagining
Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite
Cause; Scots in Italy: Artists and Adventurers;
The Remaking of Scotland: Nation, Migration,
Contemporary Art Auction Globalisation 1760-1860; and Heroes and
Heroines: The Victorian Age.
www.brownandturner.co.uk Provisionally the gallery will be open
14 November | Live Online three days a week – Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday – due to the staffing levels
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Viewing by appointment Email us at info@brownandturner.co.uk to request a catalogue standards.
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C E L E B R A T I N G S C O T T I S H A R T S I N C E 1 8 6 2
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S T A N D R E W S
Amaranthine – The Everlasting at the memories and landscapes both real and
Dundas Street Gallery (Nov 19-25) features imagined.
a selection of paintings by Edinburgh artist Born in India, she grew up with the
Vibha Pankaj, whose work reflects feelings, mighty Himalayas as a backdrop, listening
to her grandmother’s
stories about the birth
of the river Ganges from
heaven and the everlasting
benevolence of nature
and enjoying childhood
holidays to tempestuous
rivers, waterfalls and dense
jungles. Named after John Milton’s term for the
Living in Scotland for capital city of Hell (Pandaemonium) in his
over 20 years now, her two epic poem Paradise Lost, Pandemonium is
worlds come together in the winter open exhibition at An Tobar in
Francis Boag
Summer Dreaming
meditative paintings using
colour and texture to
create an interplay of land,
Tobermory, featuring new work by artists
from Mull, Iona and Argyll. The show’s title
encompasses the notion of uproar, chaos
Mixed media on canvas 80cm x 120cm water and light. Pictured: and confusion, hinting at the distress and
Missives from nature disruption caused by the pandemic.
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lexander Millar has launched a new collection of
large, original paintings and limited edition prints
entitled A Time and a Place, in which his Youth and
Young Manhood/Peaky Blinders characters appear in
period clothing and are transported to locations throughout the
UK and further afield which are significant in Millar’s life, from
the High Level Bridge in Newcastle and the Trocadero in Paris to
the mean streets of New York and Glasgow. Some titles come
with a free, Peaky Blinders-inspired mug.
Alexander says: “I’ve built my reputation on painting
traditional, working class men in flat caps and old, baggy suits,
as I’ve always loved painting wool and tweed, so portraying
figures in the dress code of the 1920s and 1930s was what partly
inspired me to paint these characters in well known places. The
old black and white photos of my grandfather from the 1930s,
showing him as a young Dapper Dan dressed in his finest for a
night on the town, also motivated me to imagine my well kent
“gadgies” as younger, romantic figures.”
The collection is available to view online and in the galleries
in Newcastle (subject to lockdown) and Glasgow. Pictured: The
Done Deal www.alexandermillar.com
new paintings
29 oct – 21 nov
ronald smith The next live online auction by the
Edinburgh branch of Lyon & Turnbull is
Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works
RSW RGI PAI
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the Royal Academy of Arts (RA).
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RSW RGI PAI British Furniture & Works of Art, Paintings
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roger billcliffe gallery Garden. Pictured: Four William and Mary
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0141 332 027 | infobillcliffegallery.com | www.billcliffegallery.com Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI), the Pictured: Simon Laurie, West Highland walnut chairs (Lot 10), est. £400-£600
Paisley Art Institute (PAI), the Fellowship View www.lemondgallery.com www.lyonandturnbull.com
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ARTS NEWS
murals depicting
the tale of Tam
JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON O.B.E. o’Shanter by Robert
Burns on display
at Glasgow’s Oran
Mor bar and his
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film makers and The online Getting to Know series at
musicians, including Dublin’s Doorway Gallery continues
singer-songwriter with a new solo exhibition by Alison
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its excellent Great Art series with Van new and exciting direction for his work. The The Visible: Hilma Af Klint (Nov 14 & 15)
Gogh & Japan, based on the exhibition film travels to France, the Netherlands and about the Swedish abstract artist whose
Wildlife Art of the same name at the Van Gogh Museum
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colourful abstract landscapes by Ann Wegmuller RSW (pictured: Last of
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Two of Scotland’s finest landscape artists
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Sandy Murphy has had numerous solo
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Ronald Smith (pictured: Clifftop) is a
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UK, Europe and North America.
Both artists are members of the Royal
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he Skye and Lochalsh Arts & Crafts
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Francis Boag Spring Snows, Craigievar
Association has been promoting
artists and craftmakers along the
west coast of Scotland for almost 30 years
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This minimalist overhead light in steam-bent ash by Yellow Broom With a range of influences, from ancient Greece and the
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Nesting Season by Isle of Skye-based Growing up on the west coast island of Jura Hebridean Candles has teamed up with
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seasonal changes while beachcombing College of Textiles in Galashiels, Edinburgh-based Mairi
a combination of vintage china, glass and to produce the Island Girl range of floral-
these often wild and windy coastlands Brown illustrates images and designs using free motion
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distressed-style frame complete with fittings gorse, bluebell and honeysuckle, all found in
Purvis. Now based in Aberdeenshire, she sewing machine. Building on her knowledge of garment
and ready to display. Says Morag: “I love the Western Isles. All profits will be donated
fuses precious metals, sometimes enhanced construction, she specialises in historic stay and
creating something beautiful from something to the trust established in the name of the
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which has lost its purpose. I use anything 14-year-old from Barra, who died in the 2017
that will stick, even sweet wrappers.” organic pieces available in retail outlets and Manchester Arena attack.
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While its national art and then the Soviet Union before gaining
independence from Russia in 1990.
extensively renovated for the city’s turn as
the European Capital of Culture in 2009. The
museums celebrate The Lithuanian Art Museum is an vast Grand Exhibition Hall is an impressive
umbrella organisation responsible for several space for hosting special exhibitions by
native-born artists of Vilnius museums. The most recent of these international artists.
is the National Gallery of Art. Overlooking
the past, the capital of the Old Town from the opposite bank of Near the town centre, the reconstructed
Lithuania also has a clutch the River Neris which Vilnius straddles (there Old Arsenal houses the Museum of
are fine views from the terrace cafe), it is Applied Arts and Design, which has a fine
of contemporary galleries home to an extensive collection of 20th and collection of furniture, tapestries, jewellery,
21st century Lithuanian painting, sculpture, costumes, ceramics and other objects from
revealing more recent graphic art and photography. These are the 15th century onwards. Originally one of
Vilnius Picture Gallery
talents. arranged in chronological order, each room the buildings of the Lower Castle (the main
V
examining the styles and influences of a castle tops the hill behind it), the building In a building modelled after the Luxembourg and book illustrations represents his entire, The newest art museum in Vilnius is MO.
ilnius is a fine looking city which particular period. is entered through a high, pointed ‘gate’ Palace in Paris, the Baroque Radvilas Palace prolific output. The museum also shows Open in 2018 in an angular building designed
wears its mix of late Gothic, Formerly the Museum of with the remains of the 14th century Museum has a permanent exhibition work by other Lithuanian emigre artists. by the architect Daniel Libeskind (Royal
Renaissance and Baroque the Revolution during foundations visible from the stairs comprising over 300 works from the 16th Ontario Museum, Denver Art Museum, V&A
architecture well. Its Old Town, Soviet times, the leading down to the reception to the 19th century reflecting the changes Open by appointment only, the Kazys London et al), it houses the 5,000-work
the largest in Eastern Europe, has building was hall. in style from Gothic to Renaissance to Varnelis House Museum holds the private collection of Lithuanian art from
witnessed dramatic and traumatic events Romanticism to Realism. Religious, mythical, extraordinary collection accumulated over 1960 onwards belonging to the husband and
over the centuries, changing hands between pastoral and hunting scenes abound, while 50 years by the artist and collector (1917- wife philanthropists Viktoras and Danguol
Poland and Russia and enduring the other works include 15th century Gothic 2010), who escaped Lithuania in the 1940s Butkus.
dual oppressions of first the Nazis altar wings and 15th and 16th century and earned moderate fame and fortune in Since the city of Vilnius has no collecting
German and Dutch engravings. America for his dizzying, abstract patterns. institution devoted to contemporary art, the
Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 MO is a much needed addition to the local
Housed in a former 17th century palace built and brought with him his immense, mind- and national gallery scene. The museum
for one of the city’s ruling families (and used boggling collection, which he left to the has no permanent display, but rotates the
A new angle on
as flats during the Soviet era), the Vilnius state. The 30-odd rooms in the early Gothic- selections several times a year to reflect
Picture Gallery has a permanent collection style residential house contain many of his different themes and artists, most of whom
Vilnius
of Lithuanian art from the 16th to the early own works along with a fascinating array of are still active today. Many of the works were
20th century. Renaissance and Baroque furniture, prints, banned from public display during the Soviet
Here the emphasis is on historical, maps, sculptures and antiques. years. www.mo.lt
religious, mythological and rural scenes as
well as depictions of Vilnius through the For links to all the above museums go to
ages and portraits of the great and good www.ldm.lt/en
(men, that is) over the centuries. Concerts are
often held in the beautifully restored rooms.
In a tastefully modernised early 20th century
neo-Classical building refurbished and
modernised with EU funds, the Vytautas
Kasiulis Art Museum has a permanent
exhibition of 950 works by the Lithuanian
emigre artist, donated to the state by the
artist’s widow and son.
Kasiulis (1918-95) spent the later WWII
years in Germany before settling in Paris,
never to return to his then Communist-held
homeland. He particularly enjoyed painting
studio and cafe scenes in his unique style
suggestive of a film negative, an effect
achieved by light brushstrokes, resulting
in a strange balance between reality and
MO Museum is the newest art museum in Vilnius. Photo © Hufton Crow fantasy. The collection of paintings, drawings A ‘gate’ from the original Lower Castle buildings leads down into the Museum of Applied Arts and Design.
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Ian Ledward Spring Storm across the West Sands
Kazys Varnelis House Museum Contemporary Art Centre
Just off the main square near the Town The Radvilas Palace Museum is modelled
after the Luxembourg Palace in Paris
Hall, the Contemporary Art Centre is the
largest of its kind in the Baltic states, staging
Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Vytautas Kasiulis, The artist and a up to six large scale exhibitions a year as
Closed Sun & Mon client, 1950s (Vytautas Kasiulis Art
Museum) well as smaller projects. Although it has no
collection of its own, it is the permanent
Now introducing 138 South Street
home of the Fluxus Archive, commemorating
A Scottish Autumnal Collection
St Andrews, KY16 9EQ
01334 474331 the work of the movement’s Lithuanian co-
info@sprosongallery.com founder George Maciunas. It also hosts the
www.sprosongallery.com Baltic Triennial. www.cac.lt/en
A contemporary art gallery in St Andrews sprosongallery
The students of the Vilnius Academy of Arts,
the oldest and largest art university in the
Baltics, have their own exhibition space in
the Titanikas Gallery, where you can see
a changing exhibition of work in multiple
disciplines. www.vda.lt/en/titanikas
Further info: www.govilnius.lt
REPUBLIC OF UZUPIS
Symbolically separated from the rest
of the Old Town by a tributary of the
River Neris and reached by a small bridge
festooned with “love locks”, the self-
declared Republic of Uzupis is an artists’
enclave with its own anthem, president,
constitution (including the clause ‘People
have the right to be happy’) and even
bishop.
Its streets and courtyards are dotted
with art galleries, studios and artisan
shops and its honorary citizens include
the Dalai Lama. Find a seat on the terrace
of the riverside pub Uzupio Kavine
298 Portobello High St | Portobello | Edinburgh, EH15 2AS (Republic of Uzupis) and watch the river
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along its course.
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F
ounded in 1991 by the Lithuanian
sculptor Gintaras Karosas while he
was still a student at the Vilnius
Academy of Art, Europos Parkas
(the Park of Europe) is a permanent
exhibition of outdoor art spread over
135 acres of gently rolling, wooded
countryside 17 kilometres from Vilnius. It
NEW WORK is near the geographic centre of Europe, as
determined in 1989 by the French National
Scottish Houses Geographic Institute.
by W A C Dawson Karosas’ acievement is remarkable,
given that he started the project during
the Soviet era, when land was the
Towering
33 High Street, Aberdour, Fife tel: 01383 860602
Open from Easter until Christmas. property of the state and artists were
Mon, Thurs - Sun discouraged from having international
www.thequaygallery.co.uk aspirations. After years of petitioning,
during which he was expelled by one
achievement
Academy director and reinstated by
another, he was eventually granted a
dozen acres of undeveloped land and for
the first few years worked alone, cutting,
clearing and burning trees.
Karosas’ vision – “to connect nature
with art” – has resulted in a beautiful
setting in which the location of each
How a
piece is chosen to harmonise with the Lithuanian
site’s water features, surrounding trees and
artist turned
Clience
plants and the daily patterning of light and
shadow.
undeveloped
Studio
The first non-governmental museum
in Lithuania, the park features over 100 land into one
pieces donated by artists from nearly 30
countries (some as gifts in the 1900s to the of Europe’s
Highlands, Islands, Galloway and newly independent Lithuania), including
Cumbria feature at this artist’s studio
Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim and
most fascinating
and gallery.
Magdalena Abakanowicz. sculpture parks
Angela works in a variety of sizes and
In 2001 Karosas’ own work LNK
also presents a wide selection of signed Infotree was recognised by the Guinness
archival prints as well as art gifts and Book of World Records as the world’s
calendars from her Galloway painting.
Seascape and Landscape Paintings by
largest artwork made from TV sets. In its Europos Parkas founder
original form visitors walked through a Gintaras Karosas with
Angela Lawrence
Paintings, Prints and Commissions. his work The Place
700-metre labyrinth with nearly 3,000 TV
sets stacked on both sides, a comment
on the power of television in the Soviet
Mon-Sat 10.30-5 era to disseminate information. For safety
Tues 10.30-4
reasons, much of the original work has
By the Clocktower
Rugged Fleet isles at Sundown Mountain Side,
212 King Street
been dismantled, but not before some TVs
Castle Douglas DG7 1DS were plundered by locals for spare parts.
07902 301 883 The park hosts the annual International
www.cliencestudio.co.uk Sculpture Symposium in its modern
angelalawrencecliencestudio conference centre, which seems to grow
Dennis Oppenheim (USA), Chair/Pool, 1996 A section of Gintaras Karosas’ LNK Infotree with a
One household at a time are welcome out of the landscape. toppled statue of Lenin (since broken in protest by
to drop in or book a time www.europosparkas.lt visitors)
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The Painter’s Hidden Masterpiece: The
MILTON Story of Johannes Matthaeus Koelz,
by Simon Lake, pub. SAL Research &
46 The Creation of a Secret
Koelz’s vision for the triptych followed three parts:
The Creation of a Secret
The second part was the hypocrisy of war. Above the opposing groups, a bishop and priest
47
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had been depicted blessing the weapons and means of warfare. Both the elderly and child
The first overarching theme was anti-war, and the destructive effects of conflict. On the two figures could be seen uniting in the act of prayer, and Koelz had interwoven within the
outer panels, instead of medieval saints, he had painted opposing soldiers holding rifles with composition jewel-like flowers both cultivated and wild, insects and animals. There were
Publication Johannes Koelz (1895-1971)
bayonets, awaiting an uncertain but terrible fate. Further figures had been arranged around yellow and white daisies; the nodding, bell-shaped heads of blue campanulas; slender trumpet
them - families and loved ones, hands clutched in prayer, appealing almost blindly to an flowers of the willow gentian; red poppies, symbolic of those who had died in war, and in
invisible divine will to keep their young men safe from harm. On the left-hand panel, the Christianity for the blood of Christ. White roses for peace and innocence and red roses for
German side; on the right-hand panel, the Allied side. love and friendship. Butterflies silently resting on the flowers as Christian symbols of resur-
was a Bavarian painter who fled Nazi
rection. Beautiful images, yet at odds with the holy figures above them, offering absolution
for the act of war.
The darkest, most terrifying part of the composition was revealed in the centre panel. A dead
Germany in 1937, eventually making
German soldier, helmeted and with his identity obscured behind a gasmask, was positioned
bolt upright, arms flung out and pinioned to barbed wire in a grotesque parody of life; a
modern crucifixion of war. Behind, disappearing into a hopeless, dark horizon lay a desolate
scorched landscape of shell-holes and blasted craters. Lower down and to the right Koelz
his way to England. Before he left, he
would paint a second soldier, also frozen in death, the flesh on his face decaying away to
reveal a grinning skull. Finally a worm, slim and pink, sliding out from the eye socket.
It was a monument to the insanity of war. An unforgettable, visceral image that would burn
instructed a man from a local wood mill
itself into the minds of all who laid eyes on it.
to cut up his major work, a large, anti-
war triptych criticising the rise of Adolf
Hitler and fascism. After Koelz’s death, his
daughter donated four fragments of the
Festive Window – Catherine Imhof Cardinal painting, bearing the marks of saw cuts 26.i. Detail, left-hand panel (Flowers fragment), 1930-37, oil on blockboard
Private collection
ii. Detail, right-hand panel, (Sieglinde Fritz fragment), 1930-37, oil on blockboard 27.i. Detail, left-hand panel fragment, Child with a Flag, 1930-37, oil on blockboard. Private collection
ii. Detail, left-hand panel, Old Couple, 1930-37, oil on blockboard. Leicester Museums
along their edges, to a Leicester museum.
Leicester Museums
This is the fascinating true story of the
artist’s life and work.
A warm inviting independent gallery Forgotten Heritage, by
offering a wide range of Scottish artists, Matthew Emmett, pub.
designers and makers. Jonglez Publishing Named
Italian psychiatric hospital
Historical Photographer
New Autumn works of the Year in 2017, Matt
Catherine Imhof Cardinal Emmett seeks out power
During a photographic trip to northern Italy in April 2015, I had the chance to visit a location that I had wanted to see
for a long time. Having seen many photographs from inside this large, abandoned psychiatric hospital, I was struck
with just how rich in fantastic imagery it was. Normally, a location yielding two or three high-quality images would be
enough to justify the time spent travelling to see it. However, this one looked to be blessed with glorious features and
stations, steelworks, mines,
vistas throughout, so a trip to this hospital was one of our main motivations for coming to Italy.
Pete Morrison bunkers, tunnels, schools,
Constructed in 1871 in a figure-of-eight layout around two outdoor garden pavilions, the building has three floors
and covers an internal area greater than 30,000 square metres. One half of the hospital was designed for male
patients and the other for female. Each pavilion was an open garden space where the patients could spend time
outside while being kept secure within the walls. In the centre of the structure, separating the two pavilions, was the
Sarah Koetsier
medical wing. Clinical research, and studies in the fields of pathology and radiology, were carried out here by some
of Italy’s most respected doctors. There was also a dental suite, an electrotherapy suite and an operating room, all
engine sheds, hotels,
of which can still be found on the site. Exploring these facilities and knowing their tragic history made for a strange
and unsettling experience.
hospitals, castles and a 37
myriad of other buildings to
uncover the brutal beauty of
Scottish Potters
these abandoned buildings
and ‘listen’ to their stories movement now stand silent and still, but no less
without the distraction, sensory, slowly surrendering to the inexorable
Coorie In by Fran Marquis
sounds and people who advance of nature. Emmett captures the
Sarah Koetsier
inhabited them. Places once essence of these locations in words and pictures
alive with voices, noises and and walks us through the remaining ruins.
Mon-Sat 10.30-4.30, Sun 11-4.30
Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH
Shaping the World: Sculpture from Pre-
info@miltonart.com 01330 844664 History to Now, by Antony Gormley &
www.miltonart.com Martin Gayford, pub. Thames & Hudson
Practised since ancient times by every culture
throughout the world, sculpture may be
the universal art. The first surviving shaped
stones may even predate the advent of
Within
language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood
and metal into shapes evidently runs deep
A
in the human psyche. In this wide-ranging
book Gormley, the artist who looks to
Space
Asian and Buddhist traditions as much as to O P PO S I T E
Auguste Rodin
The Kiss, 1901–4
AB OV E
Constantin Brancusi
The Kiss, 1916
Tide, Sanna – Pete Morrison
Marble Limestone
Western sculptural history, and a critic and
182.2 × 121.9 × 153 cm 58.4 × 33.7 × 25.4 cm
(71¾ × 48 × 60¼ in.) (23 × 13¼ × 10 in.)
Tate Philadelphia Museum of Art
historian consider how sculpture is central
Trees & Life 77
31 Oct - 29 Nov 2020 to humankind’s urge to make its mark on the
02765_Shaping_World_Repro.indd 76 18/06/2020 21:22 02765_Shaping_World_Repro.indd 77 18/06/2020 21:23
Online exhibition at www.scottishpotters.org landscape, to build, make pictures, practise
religion and develop philosophical thought.
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Ideal home shows
THE TORRANCE GALLERY
Many of Scotland’s grandest houses, once the private reserve of the
super-rich, are now open to the public. Works of art in themselves, they
often hold collections of art, craft and artefacts fit to grace any gallery.
(N.B. Check websites for opening days and times.)
ARGYLL & BUTE
Overlooking the River Clyde in Helensburgh, Margaret Macdonald designed and made
the Hill House is regarded as Charles Rennie many of the textiles as well as a beautiful
Mackintosh’s finest residential building. A mix fireplace panel.
of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Scottish Much of the house has been restored to
Baronial and Japonisme, its interior was look almost exactly as it did in 1904, when
almost entirely designed by Mackintosh, from its first residents, Glasgow publisher Walter
NOVEMBER MORAG LLOYDS the decorative schemes and furniture to Blackie and his family, moved in.
DECEMBER RONA KANT the fittings and contents. Mackintosh’s wife www.nts.org.uk/Property/The-Hill-House
Siobhan O’Hehir FINE ART GALLERY
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The Hill House
AYRSHIRE
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10-5 MON, THURS, FRI, SAT adventure playgrounds, Kelburn
11-5 SUN Castle and Estate near Largs
drew international attention
10 Braemar Rd, Ballater when the 13th century building
013397 55888 received an amazing makeover by
www.larksgallery.com a team of Brazilian graffiti artists.
It was subsequently named one
small works
of the world’s top ten examples www.resipolestudios.co.uk
www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 of street art. loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx
Kelburn Castle
www.kelburnestate.com
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Research has revealed the black girl to works by El Greco, Goya and Murillo.
be the result of a liaison between a Royal www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/pollok-
AUTUMN EXHIBITION Navy officer and a Caribbean woman and house
Featuring local artists who was subsequently brought up as the
Pollok House
adoptive sister of her cousin. The painting was
Caroline Hunter traditionally attributed to the German artist
Arthur Ker Johann Zoffany, but has since been reclassified
as by an unknown artist.
Caroline Hunter
Victoria Maxwell Macdonald www.scone-palace.co.uk
GLASGOW
Dido and Lady Elizabeth Murray (Scone Palace)
Set in the tranquillity of Pollok Country Park
just a 15-minute drive from Glasgow city
PERTHSHIRE centre, Pollok House is the ancestral home
Victoria Maxwell Macdonald
The former seat of Scottish kings, Scone of the Maxwell family. The present day
Palace near Perth has a varied collection house was begun in the mid-18th century
of objets d’art, including Rococo chairs and and extended in the Victorian period and
Arthur Ker
Sevres, Ludwigsburg, Dresden and Meissen is presented today as it would have looked
porcelain. There are also notable paintings around 1930.
by Sir Joshua Reynolds (the first President of Along with period furnishings, silverware
The Archway Gallery the Royal Academy) and Sir David Wilkie as and ceramics, there is a fine art collection,
7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 well as the enigmatic portrait Dido and Lady including major pieces by the English artist
www.thearchway.co.uk Elizabeth Murray, a portrait of two cousins, and poet William Blake and a particularly
one black and one white. impressive selection of Spanish art, including
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‘By accessing found
Talk about giving art a bad name.
(Names withheld to protect the guilty.)
‘(The artist‘s) work focuses on the role
objects play in our identity formation
‘(The artist) is interested
in how accumulations
texts and researching of subjective experiences
and how they connect us to the larger
local archives, pastiche superstructures of society.’
may complicate linear
recreations of places time in loss, geographical
and scenes are re- displacement and in how
created with items ‘I invite you to project your own sacred and secular spaces
Winter Mixed Exhibition that have been pulled narrative upon the work as your mind emerge and break down in a
directly from the ponders over the abstract geometry.’ globalised, materialistic age.’
Friday 6 Nov - early Jan
landfills of history.’
‘(The artist) engages the multitudinous ‘As a series of contractions and depletions,
Winter Seas Kirstin Heggie
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2 Marie Bovo, Evening setting, 6 Negin Sharifzadeh, Modern Forest Divonne, Paris & Brussels) 7
Sunday (Atelier EXB, Paris) Girls, Ancient Rite (Roya 9 Scarlett Hooft Graafland,
3 Camilla Borghese, Gazometro Khadjavi Projects, New York) Moonlight, Renala (Flowers
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