Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey

By Susan Mansfield, 16.11.2024

Jill Smith, Sagittarius performance from A Zodiac Journey. Photo by Mhairi Law

As part of the celebrations for its 50th anniversary year, the Fruitmarket has commissioned a year-long project by Jill Smith, the first woman artist to make work in the gallery - a woman who was nearly written out of its history.

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Dunfermline’s Greatest Son

11.11.2024

Joseph Noel Paton, Oberon and Titania, First Study for the Quarrel. Image courtesy of Fife Cultural Trust

Dunfermline Carnegie's latest exhibition celebrates the Dunfermline-born Victorian artist Joseph Noel Paton. Curator Lesley Lettice writes about the show's focus on the artist's personal life, and the new light this approach has shed on his work...

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A Shared Journey - but a different vocabulary?

By Susan Mansfield, 04.11.2024

Elizabeth Blackadder, Flowers and Red Table, (1969). The Fleming Collection

Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston’s work is shown side-by-side in the RSA’s recent touring exhibition, leading to inevitable comparisons about each artists’ practice. But has this led to limiting, gendered readings of Blackadder’s work? Susan Mansfield writes.

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Who is showing at Patricia Fleming's Art Car Boot Sale this year?

By Patricia-Ann Young, 21.10.2024

Sam Ainsley, 'Idiot Futures'. Image courtesy of the artist.

Mark it in your diaries if you haven’t already – the Art Car Boot Sale, Scotland’s largest contemporary art market, returns at the end of this month at Tramway in Glasgow’s Southside. On the 26^th and 27^th October, over 100 of Scotland’s most talented artists will gather in a curated showcase by Patricia Fleming Gallery.

Art lovers will have a unique opportunity to meet, chat and buy from their favourite local artists, as well as familiarise themselves with Scotland’s new and emerging artistic talent. Artists will be displaying their work from the back of their cars, bikes – even skateboards – at this fun opportunity to buy and view.

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Alexander Nasmyth: A Castle Conundrum

By Theodore Albano, 12.10.2024

Alexander Nasmyth, A Stormy Highland Scene (View of Culzean Castle Looking Towards Arran), c. 1810, oil on canvas. © The Fleming Collection

Long attributed as featuring Culzean Castle in Ayrshire, new evidence suggests a striking landscape by Alexander Nasmyth in the Fleming Collection may in fact portray a historic fortress from the opposite coast of Scotland.

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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

By Jen McLaren, 07.10.2024

Mark Cousins Grindelwald, credit Adam Dawtrey

An award-winning documentary about the Scottish artist Wilhemina Barns-Graham is released in UK cinemas this month. Jen McLaren meets the film’s director, Mark Cousins, to find out more…

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