Open Studios | borders 2016
5 August 2016
August 5-8 / October 1-2
Several artists at Allanbank Mill Steading and the Selkirk WASPS artists’ studio open their doors for visitors to explore.
August 5, 2016
Open Studios | Dumfries & Galloway 2016
5 August 2016
Until August 28
Occupying two adjoining, refurbished buildings, Kircudbright Artist’s Studios, also part of the WASPS network, are currently inviting the public to view their work.
open studios | Edinburgh 2016
5 August 2016
August 6 – 7 / September 17 – 18
Dotted around Edinburgh are Victorian housing developments known as the Colonies, built by trades cooperatives to house skilled workers. In the Abbeyhill area more than 30 members of the Colony of Artists open the doors to 20 or so homes and other venues.
Open Studios | Fife 2016
5 August 2016
September 17 – 18
Stretching from Inverkeithing in the west, up to Glenrothes and to Leven in the east, Central Fife Open Studios features over two dozen professional artists and designers living and working in “the Kingdom”.
Open Studios | Highlands & Islands 2016
5 August 2016
September 23 – 26 / August 26 – 29
Over 50 artists feature in this year’s Cowal Open Studios, with some 40 venues spread along the stunningly beautiful Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute.
Open Studios | Perthshire 2016
5 August 2016
September 3 – 11
Attracting around 18,000 visitors annually, Perthshire Open Studios will include over 200 artists in 140 venues dotted along seven routes around Perthshire and Kinross-shire.
Open Studios | Ayrshire & Arran 2016
5 August 2016
October 1 – 2 / August 12 – 15
Home to 17 very different artists, a number of them award-winners, Courtyard Studios invites visitors to their purpose-built studio complex on Irvine’s regenerated harbour side.
Beauty is in the Detail Framing Studio, Edinburgh
5 August 2016
Just opened in Edinburgh’s Lochrin Place, Detail Framing Studio has a gallery space showing primarily Scottish-based emerging artists and makers in rotating shows.
The Life Room Springs Into Life in Edinburgh
5 August 2016
Artist Paul Munzi has opened The Life Room on Dundas Street, where he hosts classes working from life models as well as producing and displaying his own work.
Greengallery Opens in Dollar, Clackmannshire
5 August 2016
A new little sister for the long-standing greengallery Buchlyvie near Loch Lomond!
Northeast England | Old Low Light Heritage Centre
5 August 2016
The Shipyard Painters at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre in North Shields comprises artworks created by employees of the Tyne’s famous shipyards, most of it is little known outside the local area.
Stirlingshire & Clackmannanshire | Stirling Smith Museum & Art Gallery
5 August 2016
Part of the Festival of Architecture 2016, The Vital Art at Stirling Smith Museum & Art Gallery celebrates the artistic skills and visual sensitivities that architect-artists develop during their training and practice.
Perthshire | Rattray Art Festival
5 August 2016
Hilary Barker’s highland cows and Janet McCrorie’s highland dancers are among the most popular images created by contemporary Scottish artists, both series finding their way onto a range of prints, cards and other merchandise.
Highlands & Islands | Nairn Book & Arts Festival
5 August 2016
This year’s Nairn Book & Arts Festival includes its largest ever programme of art exhibitions, talks, workshops and tours.
Glasgow & Greater Glasgow | Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
5 August 2016
One of Glasgow’s most iconic buildings has had one of its finest features spruced up. The clock tower and weather vane at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) have been cleaned, restored and reinstated.
August 2016 – Lorna Fraser
5 August 2016
Ceramicist Lorna Fraser is inspired by the botanical world, in particular the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Her new collection of porcelain vessels features etchings and imagery
August 2016 – Fiona McIntosh
5 August 2016
Influenced by iconic graphic symbols of the 1950s and Pop Art, Fiona McIntosh uses vintage colours of russet, chocolate brown, charcoal, green, ochre and sky on each unique scarf
August 2016 – Marion Kane
5 August 2016
Based in the “Craft Town” of West Kilbride, jeweller Marion Kane has created a new range of silver necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings featuring shells from Scottish beaches, found
August 2016 – Majid Lavasani
5 August 2016
From his studio at Mushroom Works in Newcastle’s Ouseburn cultural hub, woodcarver and furniture-maker Majid Lavasani hand-crafts chairs, tables, wall plaques, picture frames and lamp stands influenced by 18th century
August 2016 – Susan Dawn
5 August 2016
On the tiny island of Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides, Susan Dawn combines her life as a crofter and peat-cutter with basketry, using willow from the 60
August 2016 – Natalie J. Wood
5 August 2016
Using new technologies such as laser-cutting and 3D printing, ceramicist Natalie J. Wood examines the place of craft in contemporary society with functional objects which play a daily part
