I came away from the textile design graduate exhibition having picked up a substantial selection of business cards. In the one I’m holding, I can see repeating motifs – a distant sun emerging from an earthly globe, its horizontal rays transforming a dark cloud, a shadowy mountain. I’m holding Kirsten McLoskey’s card upside down, her Read More
Should you find yourself arriving to this year’s DJCAD degree show in need of a bit of relaxation, then consider heading straight to the lower foyer in the Cooper Gallery to experience the immersive Ego Death by Laura Stubbings. Inner peace restored, prepare to focus on some of the amazing work on display. Focus and Read More
Students here know how to justify their Department’s place. Too easily seen by some as mere adornment, that facile view fails to consider what these students take on board…jewellery can be worn when textiles are not, often occupying a far from trivial, enduring, intimate and symbolic connection with the wearer or holder. There is no Read More
Ingela Ihrman is a Swedish artist and ‘We Thrive’ at Cooper Gallery is her first UK solo exhibition. Ihrman explores the complex relationship between humans and animals or plants in her work. Using a mixture of tactile handicraft, performance art, installation, video and writing, she creates absurd theatrical pieces that are often humorous, showing a Read More
As part of Creative Scotland and the National Library of Scotland’s year-long celebration of the life and works of Muriel Spark, the International Style of Muriel Spark exhibition is being held at NLS. Spark, who said she threw away “practically nothing on paper”, forms one of the largest archives at the library, and the exhibition Read More
Aberdeen Artists Society (AAS) and Historic Environmental Scotland are hosting an open exhibition at Duff House in Banff. With Aberdeen Art Gallery closed for refurbishment, the AAS has had to look further afield to show their work. Duff House is a prestigious location, home to many significant works of art from the National Galleries of Read More
“The variety of work a photographer, who devotes his time to subjects outside the studio, is called upon to do […] is what no one would believe.” So said Magnus Jackson in a communication to the Dundee and East of Scotland Photographic Association in 1881. This new exhibition at Perth Museum, of reproductions of his Read More
The Scythians were a group of nomadic tribes skilled in the art of mounted warfare who ruled the Siberian plains between 900 – 200 BC. They left no settlements or records, but are mentioned in the histories of the Greeks, Assyrians and Persians. Forgotten until recent times, their ferocious reputation lingered in the popular imagination Read More
Nicola Wiltshire Verdant Works 29th July- 29th October 2017 Nestled in a small makeshift studio, surrounded by the noise and bustle of a working factory, artist Nicola Wiltshire produced the series of paintings now on show at the Verdant Works. The paintings are a depiction of the people, places and activities hidden within the factory Read More
Visitors entering through the main foyer may well have their attention caught by the major Pictish cross-slab, the St Madoes Stone, or by the delicately embroidered butterflies in glass cases, before they notice the unexpected large black steel arachnid on the wall above eye level. This is placed above the entrance to the Louise Bourgeois Read More