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The Fleming Wyfold Art Foundation and Lyon & Turnbull mark J D Fergusson’s 150th anniversary with new exhibition

By Susan Mansfield, 15.03.2024
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A Scottish Colourist at 150: J D Fergusson, exhibited at Lyon & Turnbull Glasgow. Image by Philip Connor

An exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson affirms the artist’s important role in the development of modernism in the UK.

 

 

 

 

 

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Interview: David and Robert Mach

By Susan Mansfield, 01.03.2024
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David and Robert Mach, 'The Easy Tiger, 2024, image courtesy of the artist and the Stirling Smith Museum and Gallery

Susan Mansfield meets artists David and Robert Mach as they prepare for the opening of their first joint exhibition, MACH2 showing at Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.

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Remembering Janet Boulton at Little Sparta

By Greg Thomas, 28.02.2024
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Portrait of Janet Boulton, image courtesy of Jess Baines

The artist Janet Boulton, who has died at the age of 87, was a painter and gardener whose wide oeuvre includes remarkable sequences of watercolours responding to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s poem-sculpture garden, Little Sparta.

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Review: Richard Walker, Kildrum

By Neil Cooper, 20.02.2024
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Richard Walker, Kildrum, 2019. Image courtesy of A_Place Gallery

Richard Walker presents a captivating body of contrasting and enigmatic paintings at A_Place Gallery, Glasgow. Neil Cooper reviews.

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries: Scottish Connections

By Gemma Batchelor, 20.02.2024
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Thomas Cameron, Delivery, 2022

Now over 70 years in the making, the annual survey show of early career artists, New Contemporaries, is hosted this year by Camden Arts Centre, London. 55 artists from UK art schools have been selected by internationally established artists Helen Cammock, Sunil Gupta, and Heather Philipson, as a way to capture the mood of contemporary art today. Gemma Batchelor writes about five emerging Scottish born or trained artists featured in the show.

 

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Review: Deep Rooted

By Neil Cooper, 13.02.2024
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Anya Gallaccio, I cant get no, 2005, © Anya Gallaccio

Katie Paterson’s ritual ‘To Burn, Forest, Fire,’ fills the City Art Centre’s upper gallery with the scent of a 385-million-year-old forest. The work is presented as part of Deep Rooted, a group show exploring our relationship with the natural environment. Neil Cooper visits.

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