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Artmag | Jul 01 2022

ARTS NEWS
Keeping you in the picture A round-up of the best exhibitions and events across Scotland

SIX OF THE BEST
Top picks Dates for your diary

PERFORMING ARTS
Live & online Opera, Jazz, Chamber Music, Skiffle, Trad Folk

IN FROM THE MARGINS
A new residency programme for refugee artists

ART & TRAVEL
Oslo New museums put it on the art world map

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ART BOOKS
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IMAGE ANALYSIS
Anatomy of a painting

PHOTO-SPREAD
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Catch up on all the latest exhibition news and reviews across the Scottish art scene and further afield.

Lorena Levi, 'Tell your mum, free chips as compensation'

Lorena Levi’s Trip Advice at The Alchemy Experiment Glasgow

7 July 2022

Based on Tripadvisor restaurant reviews, Lorena Levi: I Would Give Zero Stars If I Could at the Alchemy Experiment in Glasgow is the painter’s debut solo show.

A Summery Outlook at Art & Craft Collective Edinburgh

6 July 2022

Postcards from the Edge (of Recovery) at Art & Craft Collective in Edinburgh features work by a number of ‘Collectivists’ on the theme of a summer afternoon.

Summer Selected at Gallery Q Dundee

6 July 2022

The Summer Selection at Gallery Q in Dundee is an eclectic mix of paintings and prints by fifteen gallery artists, joined by gallery newcomer Theo Crutchley-Mack.

Garry Harper, 'I send my Love', oil on board

New for the Summer at City Contemporary Art, Perth

6 July 2022

The Summer Show at City Contemporary Art in Perth is a mixed exhibition featuring new paintings by both established and emerging artists.

A Growing Appreciation at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

6 July 2022

Ruby Flowers: Flowers at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock features a selection of floral studies by the Glasgow-based florist.

Zanna Wilson, 'Looking West, Ben Lawers', acrylic on board

Looking to a Wintry West at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy

6 July 2022

Zanna Wilson: Call to the West at the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy features over sixty new landscapes of December skies, low horizons and winter moons, from weeks spent on Mull and Tiree.

Quercus Pods by invited artist Angus Ross

Pittenweem Arts Festival Returns to Harbour

6 July 2022

One of the biggest regional events of its kind in the UK, the Pittenweem Arts Festival is back with over a hundred artists and makers from across Britain showing in almost eighty venues.

Spring Turns to Summer at The Velvet Easel Gallery, Portobello

6 July 2022

Portobello’s Velvet Easel Gallery is continuing to show an eclectic range of art by local, Scottish and international artists, with a new exhibition for the summer.

Eric Ravilious, 'Commander of a Submarine Looking Through a Periscope'. Photo © www.foxtrotfilms.com

Eric Ravilious: Artist on the Frontline

6 July 2022

Review: A new film about English artist Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) is an insightful, balanced and ultimately touching portrait of a fascinating talent who has remained relatively unknown.

July’s Featured Artist at Larks Gallery is Mary Welfare

5 July 2022

Featured artist for July at Larks Gallery in Ballater is Mary Welfare, whose semi-abstract landscapes are influenced by the landscape of the Howe of Cromar in Aberdeenshire and beyond.

David Jones, 'The Chapel in gthe Park' (c) The Trustees of the David Jones Estate and Bridgeman Images. Photo Tate

Pre-War British Art Revisited at Berwick-upon-Tweed’s Granary Gallery

5 July 2022

An exhibition at the Granary Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed celebrates the life of an art patron who contributed to the development of modern British art in the early 1930s.

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Art in the Garden 2022 is a Reality at New Hopetoun Gardens

5 July 2022

Art in the Garden 2022 at New Hopetoun Gardens in West Lothian features original outdoor art installed in twenty display gardens throughout July and August.

Capital Looks Up to Visiting Giraffes This Summer

4 July 2022

Edinburgh’s extraordinary heritage and cultural diversity are being celebrated in an unusual way: a trail of forty individually-designed giraffe sculptures around the city.

Fran Lebowitz. Image copyright Brigitte Lacombe

New York-ing the World with Fran Lebowitz

29 June 2022

Review: The New York-based author and commentator Fran Lebowitz visits Edinburgh’s Usher Hall to offer her sardonic take on life.

Boots on the Ground for Art at SWG3 Glasgow

23 June 2022

Busy Glasgow arts venue SWG3 is hosting the return of the Art Car Boot Sale Glasgow – a chance to discover and purchase works from a host of specially-invited artists.

The Writing’s on the Wall at SWG3 Glasgow

15 June 2022

One of Europe’s biggest events dedicated to street art and graffiti, Yardworks is set to return to SWG3 in Glasgow.

Hetty Haxworth, 'Spring Tide II', woodcut

Glasgow Hosts Auction for Ukraine War Victims

14 June 2022

Around 100 Scottish artists, including David Mach, Barbara Rae, Adrian Wiszniewski and Ken Currie, have donated works for sale in Artist Aid Ukraine – a fundraising exhibition to support victims of the war in Ukraine.

Petal Pincher Stem Vase by Bowbeer Designs

Tea Green Pops-Up Again for 2022

10 June 2022

Dundee-based Tea Green showcases Scotland’s most talented independent artists and designers at pop-up events planned for June and July.

Royal high with banner. Image Chris Scott

Hidden Doors Wide Open at Edinburgh’s Royal High School Building

7 June 2022

This year’s Hidden Door festival of music, art, dance, theatre and spoken word by emerging talent has taken over the imposing former Royal High School building on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

George Leslie Hunter, 'The Blue Tablecloth (Still Life With Tasselled Fan)', oil on canvas

Lyon & Turnbull’s Colourful Spread of June Auctions

7 June 2022

Edinburgh saleroom Lyon & Turnbull’s programme of auctions continues through June with a busy spread of online and in-person auctions.

Join us as we highlight the news and reviews from the world of music, opera, dance theatre and film.

Player Piano: Pianodrome at Royal High School Building Edinburgh

1 July 2022

Following its debut during the recent Hidden Door festival in the historic Old Royal High building in Edinburgh, Pianodrome remains in place as the world’s first fully playable venue.

Cherrelle Skeete and Suzette Llewellyn, Image Hampstead Theatre

Race Relations: The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre London

29 June 2022

Review: The intricacies of relationships cut across one family’s navigation of death, violence, race and systemic injustice in The Fellowship, at London’s Hampstead Theatre.

Saints of Jazz & Blues are Marching in to Edinburgh

29 June 2022

The annual Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is back with a host of top Scottish and international talent across the city.

Scottish Theatres Go Technicolor for Joseph

22 June 2022

The new touring production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes to Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Artist and playwright John Byrne’s artwork for Underwood Lane

Byrne Brings Back 1960’s Paisley, from Underwood Lane to Baker Street

22 June 2022

Artist and playwright revisits early-1960’s Paisley in Underwood Lane, inspired by his late friend Gerrry Rafferty, and a companion piece to The Slab Boys.

Scottish Opera Popping-Up Around Scotland

22 June 2022

Scottish Opera is back on the road with Pop-up Opera, featuring three half-hour shows for audiences of all ages. All the drama of grand opera

Kamal and Reita in 'Lotus Beauty', image Hampstead Theatre

A Skin-Deep Look on the South Asian Women of Southall

15 June 2022

Review: A Southall beauty salon is the setting for an examination of life in mid-1960s London for South Asian and Sikh women, in Hampstead Theatre’s production of Tamasha theatre company’s ‘Lotus Beauty’.

Laurel and Hardy, Revisited by Stan and Ollie, at Edinburgh’s Lyceum

7 June 2022

Laurel and Hardy returns to The Lyceum in Edinburgh nearly twenty years after it was first performed at the Theatre.

The Real Jerusalem, the Future Palestine, at The Royal Court Theatre London

7 June 2022

Review: London’s Royal Court Theatre offers a futuristic history of Palestine’s contested land and legacies from a surprising perspective.

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