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Twenty Twenty One
30 Sep - 15 Nov 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by Scottish artists, including Allan Ramsay, Sir Henry Raeburn, John Knox, Sir David Wilkie, Patrick Nasmyth, David Roberts, Alexander Johnston, Sam Bough, Robert Herdman, Phoebe Traquair, Sir James Guthrie, Charles Hodge Mackie, Sir D Y Cameron, John Maclauchlin Milne, Sir James... Read more -
Through the Eyes of Anthony Whishaw RA
4 Oct - 5 Nov 2021 London This Autumn, The Fine Art Society in London will be holding a large retrospective show of nonagenarian Royal Academician, Anthony Whishaw, with works from the 1950s through to the present day. They will map the artist's unique and mercurial vision across his long career, and recreate a sense of his... Read more
Past
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The Glasgow Boys & Galloway Pictures
Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright 14 - 29 Aug 2021 Edinburgh Harbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB Open 11am to 5pm Monday through Saturday 12pm to 5pm on Sundays In this, our 6th exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery and 43rd in Galloway, The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by The Glasgow Boys, alongside pictures by 19th... Read more -
Summer
The Fine Art Society in London 1 Aug - 1 Sep 2021 London 'The Fine Art Society...where beautiful things are as plentiful as blackberries in September' In 1896, not twenty-five years after the company had opened, the arts editor of The Sketch penned this lovely phrase, describing our galleries as he was guided around admiring 'the many prints, curios and pictures there enshrined.'... Read more -
Hylton Nel at Eighty
17 Jun - 30 Jul 2021 London For the London Art Week 2021, displayed in our gallery on Soho's Carnaby Street, we are thrilled to present Hylton Nel at Eighty. Celebrating Hylton's 80th birthday year and over five decades working as an 'artist-potter', this exhibition is also significant as it marks his relationship with The Fine Art... Read more -
John Armstrong
An Artist's Themes 17 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 London John Armstrong was an artist on the peripheries: unlabelled, and unallied to any artistic movement. His career is a peculiar, rich and varied one devoted to surface texture, allegory and symbolism. This small collection of works does not seek to demonstrate the breadth of Armstrong's career, but provides an insight... Read more -
The Glasgow Boys
10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 Edinburgh When the Glasgow Boys rose to prominence in the 1880s, there was a sense of wonder at how a group of Scottish painters could hold such sway in the academies, salons and secessions of western Europe and North America. The group’s firm grasp on modernity brought a new lease of... Read more -
Disegno
17th to 21st century drawings by Scottish artists 10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents Disegno, an exhibition of drawings by Scottish artists from the 17th through 21st centuries. Draughtsmanship and linework are at the forefront of this exhibition, bringing together portraiture, landscape and historical subjects. With work by: David Allan, John Byrne, John Clerk of Eldin, Robert... Read more -
Anthony Whishaw RA: Downstream Flood
4 - 6 Jun 2021 London Anthony Whishaw RA claims no association with any particular art movement, stating instead that ‘each painting and work on paper makes its own separate demands’. His work deals with explorations of memory and experience. On the edge of representation, varying in intent, scale and depiction, it seeks to reconcile illusion... Read more -
Joan Eardley
6 - 29 May 2021 Edinburgh Unafraid to step outside societal conventions, from the outset, Joan Eardley developed a practice that challenged the norms of her time. The result was a defining Scottish style and a visceral account of people and place from Townhead in Glasgow to Catterline in Angus. To mark a centenary since her... Read more -
New Works
6 - 29 May 2021 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of newly acquired work from 19th and 20th century Scottish artists, including: Patrick William Adam, Cosmo Alexander, Phyllis Bone, Sam Bough, John Boyd, John Byrne, George Paul Chalmers, James Cowie, William Gouw Ferguson, William Miller Frazer, Jack Knox, Charles Hodge Mackie, John MacWhirter,... Read more -
Spring '21
12 Apr - 31 May 2021 London Celebrating our return to the gallery on Carnaby Street, Spring '21 also revisits a grand old Fine Art Society tradition of holding mixed shows comprised of decorative arts and furniture alongside paintings, prints and sculpture. Held across two floors of our new Georgian townhouse gallery, Spring '21 represents the diversity of artwork that pass through the gallery from late nineteenth century artworks from James Whistler and Walter Greaves, to early twentieth century pictures by Walter Sickert the British Post-Impressiosnts Clare Atwood and Spencer Gore. Eric Ravilious' 1937 lithograph, Newhaven Harbour, leads our print offering, alongside other works on paper by Modern British Artists including Maxwell Ashby Armfield, Edward Bawden, Augustus Edwin John, Richard Eurich, and David Bomberg. Keith Coventry tops the bill with his Hertford Estate, 1996, which originates from a series of works that nod to late-twentieth century experiences of the modernist utopian approach to architecture of post-war Britain. Read more -
Coast
1 Apr - 1 May 2021 Edinburgh Find the online viewing room for Coast here. Scotland’s coastline is one which naturally inspires in its dramatic geography. Coast presents a journey around the shores of the Scottish homeland, from Shetland to Galloway, uncovering the artists and works which have helped shape Scottish artistic identity through the centuries. The... Read more -
Stuart Franklin
Narcissus 6 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 Edinburgh Find the online viewing room for Stuart Franklin: Narcissus here . Stuart Franklin (born 1956), member of Magnum Photos since 1989, has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st Century – from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to the Intifada – as well as producing many... Read more -
Modern
18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Edinburgh 20th century Scottish works of art, including Barbara Balmer, Robert Henderson Blyth, John Boyd, John Byrne, FCB Cadell, Ian Fleming, William Gillies, Jack Knox, William McCance, and John McLean. Read more -
Looking Out
18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Edinburgh Read more -
John McLean
Forza: works on paper 14 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Edinburgh As a gallery whose offering spans the centuries, the radical shift in the way our spaces look with John’s work always gives us an uplifting and refreshing surprise. The Boston Pictures, our penultimate show with John, felt as if the marks were dancing along the walls; the effect on visitors... Read more -
John McLean
Forza: prints 14 Jan - 27 Mar 2021 London As a gallery whose offering spans the centuries, the radical shift in the way our spaces look with John’s work always gives us an uplifting and refreshing surprise. The Boston Pictures, our penultimate show with John, felt as if the marks were dancing along the walls; the effect on visitors... Read more -
Printmaking
1920-1940 14 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Edinburgh Read more -
Christmas
at The Fine Art Society 4 - 23 Dec 2020 Edinburgh Read more -
Victoria Orr Ewing
The Light Between 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2020 Edinburgh The light between charts the ever changing skies over Harris and South Uist. Churning, luminescent clouds dwarf empty land and seascapes. Painted last autumn, the glowing machair and heatherclad hillsides inject colour into otherwise dream like scenes. Large scale oils and smaller, quickly worked acrylics on paper make up Victoria... Read more -
Nicole Farhi
Couples 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2020 London The Fine Art Society in London is delighted to announce Couples, an exhibition of miniature busts of the leading voices of 20th century female liberation that guide us through the history of women’s sexual emancipation, sculpted and painted over the last seven months by Nicole Farhi MRSS. These couples were... Read more -
Robert Powell
Phantom Things 30 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 Edinburgh A highly scholarly body of work, Phantom Things both intellectually and visually identifies the oddly dystopian future we face as a result of our constant need to collect and consume. In this, Robert’s second solo exhibition with The Fine Art Society, his singular voice draws attention towards our obsessions with... Read more -
Twenty Twenty
2 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 London The Fine Art Society is now almost 145 years old and has survived two world wars, depressions, a financial crash and, most recently, a global pandemic. The decision to relinquish our original building on New Bond Street was a sad one, but necessary. With the slate wiped clean, we have... Read more -
The Wilkie Tradition
25 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Edinburgh Scottish pastoral life became a literary focus at the close of the 18th century in the poetry of Burns, Ramsay and Fergusson. This, combined with an emerging availability of engravings after the Dutch and Fleming masters, encouraged artists in Scotland to look closer to home for their subject matter and... Read more -
Twenty Twenty
25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 Edinburgh Fra Giovanni Giocondo, a late 15th, early 16th century priest and scholar who designed the bridge at Notre Dame said, 'The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see -... Read more -
Simple Forms
The language of British Abstraction 3 - 25 Sep 2020 London 'The creative spirit is one, indivisible goal, and the greatness of a civilization rests on achieving a creative unit. Unity does not mean, however, uniformity as each artist should be the expression not only of a common spirit but also of a personality... so much more meaningfully the more unconsciously.'... Read more -
Hang 4 //
Modern Scottish Pictures 1 - 19 Sep 2020 Edinburgh Celebrating the variety of 20th century Scottish Art, this selection of works captures modern perspectives of Scottish identity. In the face of global societal and technological change, the artists’ focus on the natural is evident, from Marzaroli’s photographic captures of traditional Scottish pastoral life, to Jennifer McRae’s latest work West... Read more -
John Byrne and Ron Sandford
Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright 15 - 30 Aug 2020 Harbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB In this extraordinary year, we have broken with tradition and bring two great living artists to Kirkcudbright. Great draftsmanship underpins both; one looking out, the other looking in. Now octogenarians, we can see the culmination of a life time’s practise. JOHN BYRNE... Read more -
A History in Small Pictures
31 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 Edinburgh A survey of Scottish art over three centuries. Diminutive paintings by, amongst others, John Clerk of Eldin, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sam Bough, John MacWhirter, E A Walton, Anne Redpath, William Crosbie and John Houston. Together they bring together aspects of Scottish culture, geography and identity.... Read more -
British Realism
1900-1935 30 Jul - 1 Sep 2020 London 'Realism is a fine, manly, practical word that appeals to everyone as safe and satisfactory' -- Wyndam Lewis Since the emergence of Post-War abstraction realism in art, particularly in Britain, has often been written off as retrograde and the anthethis to Modernism. Yet the Realist movement itself, which started in... Read more -
James McNeill Whistler
The Original Printmaker 19 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 London James McNeill Whistler was one of the first and most illustrious artists to show in our gallery’s history. The Fine Art Society was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs, the exhibition he called Arrangement in White and Yellow held in 1883. It was a revolutionary show conceived by... Read more -
John Byrne
Welcome To My World 19 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 Edinburgh John is an epiphany baby, born 6th January 1940. 2020 began, then, with a notable birthday and an unreasonably busy calendar that included a new theatre production, in conversations, a television profile, a legion of requests that are patiently accepted and a gallery show. Much of it to celebrate him... Read more -
Ron Sandford
114°E / 1°W Hong Kong to Shetland 14 May - 13 Jun 2020 Edinburgh Hong Kong and Yell: two halves of The Fine Art Society’s first exhibition of drawings by Ron Sandford (b.1937). Island life from two geographically and culturally distinct and distant places are united in Ron’s appreciation of the commonplace – or common place – both richly detailed microcosms. In the mid... Read more -
Hang 3 //
Scottish Painting 1950-1980 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Edinburgh The decades following WW2 saw artists take new forms of artistic expression. The order and rationalism that had preceded was rejected. Painting became more gestural and instinctive; this was achieved through the application of paint not just from brushes but palette knives and any other means that gave the artist... Read more -
John Halliday
The Monkey Palace 6 - 28 Mar 2020 Edinburgh Now in his late 80s, John Halliday lives two doors away from where he was born in Kirkcudbright. Life and travels have taken him far and wide to complete this circle. His childhood in the town brought him in contact with the likes of Jessie M King, her husband, EA... Read more -
John Clerk of Eldin
1728-1812 13 - 29 Feb 2020 Edinburgh A prominent figure in Enlightenment circles, John Clerk began producing prints in his 40s with the encouragement of English landscape painter Paul Sandby and architect Robert Adam. The three took drawing trips together having met through the business dealings of their families. Clerk produced sets of etchings that were sold... Read more -
Hang 2 //
Scottish Painting 1900-1940 13 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 Edinburgh The years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional, figurative art. The brutality of war encouraged them to step away from the radical. Amongst the artists whose pictures have... Read more -
Hang 1 //
Early Scottish painting from the 17th & 18th centuries 13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 Edinburgh Read more -
The Print Show
13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 Edinburgh The Print Show presented an annual exhibition of Scottish printmaking, featuring three centuries of etchings, drypoint, woodcuts and lithography. Exhibited artists included: Sir Muirhead Bone, James Mcbey, Gerald Brockhurst, Robert Sargent Austin, Charles Tunnicliffe, William Wilson, Ian Fleming, James Mcintosh Patrick Read more -
Scottish Painting
1650-1950 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh 1650 to 1950 was a presentation of three centuries of Scottish Painting, from 17 th century works by William Gouw Ferguson through still life, landscape painting and portraiture to the 20th century. Included were works by Alexander Runciman, Alexander Nasmyth, John Knox, Horatio McCulloch, Sam Bough, Arthur Melville, Sir D... Read more -
Fiona Dean
The Arrangement of Skin 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh The arrangement of skin, was an exhibition of taxidermy art by Fiona Dean. Blending science and artistry, Dean showcases a variety of bird species in surprising and unconstrained arrangements. Dean’s fascination with the process of taxidermy became an artistic calling following training with Scottish taxidermist George Jamieson in 2012. Dean’s... Read more -
Timorous Beasties
15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh Design duo Timorous Beasties returned to The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for their third exhibition, showcasing a series of folding privacy screens. Each featured a unique screenprinted design over their signature fabrics. Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met studying... Read more -
John Byrne
Then Till Now 27 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Edinburgh John Byrne: Then Till Now was a small exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by John Byrne, dating from the late 1960s to today. Early works included watercolours signed 'Patrick' and a hand painted guitar from 1968. Robbie Coltrane was depicted as Danny McGlone from the BBC's Tutti Frutti, written... Read more -
Intimate
A Portrait 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Close and personal portraiture: painting, sculpture and photography by living and twentieth century artists whose sitters are closest to them or whose inner workings engage them, sometimes the artist themselves. Scottishness links the artists, be that by birth, training or home. With work by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, Mabel Royds, William... Read more -
Nicole Farhi
Writing Heads 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Writing Heads was an exhibition of 25 busts of 20th century novelists and playwrights sculpted in ciment fondu and painted by Nicole Farhi MRSS, from Françoise Sagan to Muriel Spark and Samuel Beckett. Farhi models her figures as a response to their identity and work, sculpting after her feelings towards... Read more -
Holy Rood
Norman McBeath and Robert Crawford 31 May - 22 Jun 2019 Edinburgh Holy Rood presented a series of 7 photographs by Edinburgh based photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath that ran alongside a long form poem by Robert Crawford. Holy Rood is a translation of the untitled Old English poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’. The collaboration between Crawford and McBeath sees the... Read more -
The Sublime And The Beautiful
31 May - 20 Jul 2019 Edinburgh The Sublime And The Beautiful was an exhibition of Scottish artworks from the 17th through 21st centuries. Incorporating oil, watercolour, sculpture and printmaking, the exhibited works depicted the sublime or the beautiful in their portrayals of nature, mythology, death and humanity. With work by William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Runciman, Alexander... Read more -
John McLean
Behind the Mirror 3 - 25 May 2019 Edinburgh The work in this show was produced in the face of considerable adversity. John was diagnosed with MSA/P – a nasty, neurological disease with some symptoms similar to Parkinson’s - but continued to visit his studio twice a week to produce a remarkable body of work. At the time he... Read more -
In The Frame
Small Paintings and Antique Frames 18 Jan - 16 Feb 2019 Edinburgh An exhibition of small paintings by Scottish artists displayed within groups of antique frames from the 18th-20th centuries. These were a selection of frames from our extensive period frame stock and are for sale. With work by Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie, John Fleming, William Kidd, William Clark of... Read more -
Tim Pomeroy
Marble Slate Wood 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Edinburgh Based on northern European archaeology, natural history and the everyday designed world, the sculptures on display were made in traditional sculptural materials: stone, wood, slate, and marble. The forms, shapes and ideas are both contemporary and ancient. The Neolithic archaeological finds of Arran inspire Pomeroy. They lend his work a... Read more -
John McLean
The Boston Pictures, 1982 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 Edinburgh The Boston Pictures, 1982 was an exhibition of works by John McLean, regarded internationally as one of Britain’s most significant abstract painters. In 1982, a teaching job at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School took John McLean to America. Upon arrival, he discovered that his workload was lighter than... Read more -
Fleming At Fifty
Radicals, Pioneers and Rebels 15 Aug - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh In partnership with The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the exhibition showcased historic nineteenth and early twentieth Scottish paintings in modern and timely contexts, focusing on pioneering female artists, migration and refugee status, and the endless search for truth in art. The exhibition centred around six historic paintings from the Fleming Collection... Read more -
Assemblage
Found Objects and Boxed Reliefs 20 Jul - 11 Aug 2018 Edinburgh As part of Edinburgh Art Festival (26 July – 26 August 2018), Assemblage focused on Scottish artists’ contribution to the medium pioneered by Cubism and Surrealism, exploring the significance of found objects and constructed narratives in conveying history and cultural identity. With works by a variety of artists and covering... Read more -
Robert Powell
Between the Lost Places 20 Jul - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh Powell’s minutely detailed etchings and sculptures often depict satirical and dark humoured scenes, referencing art history, literature and modern society. Between The Lost Places is a meditation on real and imagined topographies, cartography and modern travel, recalling the sensibility of his home city of Edinburgh. A graduate of Edinburgh College... Read more -
Ten Paintings By A. R. Sturrock RSA (1885-1953)
15 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Edinburgh Alick Riddell Sturrock RSA (1885-1953), brought together ten works depicting scenes across Scotland and England. Sturrock had great affinity with rural and country locales; a love reflected in his art. The ten exhibited paintings represent the breadth of Sturrock’s depictions – from farmhouses and cottages to lochs, coastal scenes and... Read more -
Will Maclean
Narratives 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Edinburgh Will Maclean’s art serves as a tangible record and reference to culture, tradition, history and identity. A proponent of box construction art and the examination of found objects, the narratives in his works document the cultural and practical traditions of Scottish Highland and coastal communities. Alongside his academic career at... Read more -
Graham Rich
Anchored Under Red Rock 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Edinburgh Anchored Under Red Rock was an exhibition of works from across the career of Devonshire-based artist Graham Rich. Rich’s works range from large scale installations to small constructed scenes formed from the remnants of boats and objects he has found along the Devonshire coast. Often dwarfed against a backdrop of... Read more -
John Byrne
The Boy and the Jabberwock 28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh This exhibition included John Byrne's work in theatre, film and television through preliminary drawings and character sketches from Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys and Writer's Cramp. A highlight among these was a framed storyboard from the film adaptation of The Slab Boys, showcasing Byrne's involvement in the project and the... Read more -
Barbara Balmer 1929-2017
28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh Barbara Balmer 1929-2017 was an exhibition of landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil and watercolour by Barbara Balmer RSA RSW RGI. Balmer first visited Italy in 1973, and the experience had a dramatic effect on her art. She painted large-scale stylised landscapes of the Tuscan landscape, using soft colour... Read more -
Gerald Brockhurst
A Private Collection 1 - 28 Feb 2018 London Comprising works created between 1920 and 1945, this private collection covered the greater part of the artist’s printmaking practice. Born in Birmingham in 1890, Brockhurst showed promising signs of his artistic talent while very young: the then headmaster of the Birmingham School of Art even announced he had discovered ”a... Read more -
Alan Davie
Abstracts 8 - 29 Jan 2018 London Providing an opportunity to consider the breadth of the career of Alan Davie (1920-2014) , the exhibition presented a retrospective view of the artist’s work over six decades from 1945 to 2005. The twenty-two works reflected Davie’s early interest in jazz music, and the spontaneous and automatic practice of painting... Read more -
Ethel Gabain
A Distinctive Look 27 Nov 2017 - 3 Jan 2018 London This exhibition highlighted many of Ethel Gabain’s characteristic lithographs. It followed on from a successful show earlier this year that introduced her work to a new audience, and re-established her reputation as one of the most skilled and engaging artist-printmakers of her generation. For this exhibition the gallery brought together... Read more -
British Design
27 Nov 2017 - 3 Jan 2018 London From Edward William Godwin's remodelling of the gallery's facade in 1881 to James Whistler's redesigning of the gallery space for his seminal exhibition Arrangement in White and Yellow, the gallery has held a long engagment with designers and the decorative arts. The gallery's history represents an intersection of these two... Read more -
Modern Paintings 1940-1985
24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 Modern Scottish Paintings 1940-1985, was exhibition of works created by Scottish artists in a period that emphasised individualism and rebellion against perceived safety and mundanity in the art that preceded it. Central to the exhibition was the large scale Teddy Boys by Pat Douthwaite, painted two years into her career... Read more -
John Byrne
Rock 'n' Roll 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 Edinburgh The Fine Art Society presents Rock ‘n’ Roll, a selling exhibition of works by John Byrne RSA. Central to the exhibition is a large scale oil The Song of the South,which records the link between the thriving textile industry of ninteenth century Paisley and cotton imported from slave plantations in... Read more -
Vigorous Imagination
Then and Now 26 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Edinburgh 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition ‘The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art’ presented at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987 as the lead Edinburgh International Festival art exhibition. In 1987, The Vigorous Imagination showcased the works of 17 young artists who were making waves... Read more -
Lasting Impressions
British Prints from the 19th and 20th Centuries 3 Oct - 21 Nov 2017 London Ranging from James McNeill Whistler's visionary etchings of the late 19th century to Victor Pasmore's abstract screenprints of the 1960s, this exhibition presented 19th and 20th century prints by the following British artists: Frank Auerbach, Edward Bawden, Robert Bevan, Edmund Blampied, Gerald Brockhurst, Edward Calvert, David Young Cameron, Geoffrey Clarke,... Read more -
John Byrne
Lullaby of Broadway 12 - 29 Sep 2017 London Lullaby of Broadway was the fifth solo exhibition of acclaimed Scottish painter John Byrne at our London gallery. The title of the show is a song known to many. First sung by the Dorsey Brothers in the musical, The Gold Diggers of 1935, the Andrew Sisters took it up a... Read more -
John Copley
The Etchings 12 - 29 Sep 2017 London The etchings of John Copley possess an oddity of vision and a highly personal approach to the human body. Ranging from his Mediterranean landscapes and subjects from 1927 to the poignant and innovative self-portrait of his final years, the exhibition presented a varied selection of his works, allowing for his... Read more -
The Glasgow Boys 1870-1910
21 Jul - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh In a reaction to the prescribed approach to the Victorian painting of the late nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys sought a new and ‘modern’ style of painting, where their compositions showed a particular interest in rural realism, in working out-of-doors, and in French-inspired tonal and compositional techniques. This exhibition brought... Read more -
Notable
Highlights from the year 23 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 Edinburgh Notable drew together a selection of the most memorable and significant paintings to have passed through the doors of The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh in 2017. The rarity, ingenuity, ambition and technical wizardry of these works – dating from the 17th century to the present – marked them out... Read more -
Ornis Logos
Paintings, Prints, Taxidermy 21 Jun - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh Ornis Logos: an ornithologically themed exhibition of paintings, prints, taxidermy and design from Scottish artists spanning 300 years. The exhibition included one off prints on canvas by Timorous Beasties, taxidermy by Fiona Dean, and deconstructed taxidermy by Silvy Weatherall. Additional works by William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Fraser Jnr, Edwin Alexander,... Read more -
Modern British Sculpture
20 Jun - 7 Jul 2017 London Modern British Sculpture presented an exhibition of works spanning the whole of the twentieth century. Featuring sculptures made from a variety of media and techniques: from academic cast bronzes, to primal stone carvings, to hand-modeled post-war assemblages, these works reflect the rapid trajectory British sculpture over the course of... Read more -
Muse
26 May - 17 Jun 2017 Edinburgh A small exhibition, Muse, drew together a select group of works that reflect the source of artistic inspiration be it an individual, a character from literature or a group. Central to the show was a large and important work by Sir William Quiller Orchardson of Ophelia. Painted in his singular... Read more -
Between Tides
Scotland's working culture of the sea 26 May - 17 Jun 2017 Edinburgh For centuries, artists have been inspired by the sea. A natural boundary, Scotland's coasts and seas are dramatic, varied, highly productive and often awe-inspiring. This exhibition looks at the varied interpretations of a common subject, whether it be natural history, industry, or the people whose lives are determined and shaped... Read more -
Folk and Fancy
Tales and Tradition 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Central to the show was a large-scale painting by James Howe (1780-1836) of All Hallow’s Fair on Calton Hill (c .1817-22). The last All Hallow’s fair was held in 1813 and Howe has cited a depiction of recent history (the fair) in a part of the historic townscape that was... Read more -
Hamish Fulton
Walking is a Se7en Letter Word 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Since the early 1970s Fulton has been labelled sculptor, photographer, land artist and conceptual artist. He, however, describes himself as a ‘walking artist’. In 1971 he made the first of numerous walks as a way to experience a physical engagement between man and nature. The resulting work is a translation... Read more -
Modern British Women
6 - 28 Feb 2017 London Featuring works by 14 artists, the exhibition sought to uncover and emblazon the work of both celebrated and lesser-known artists working throughout the twentieth century. With a diverse range of mediums, subjects and artistic styles represented, the broad scope of this exhibition provided an insight into how women artists worked... Read more -
GLUCK
6 - 28 Feb 2017 London The Fine Art Society was pleased to present a major exhibition of the British painter, Gluck (1895-1978). Featuring 32 works including Gluck’s most important painting, Medallion (1937), the exhibition explored the fascinating life, work and legacy of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation. Born into the wealthy... Read more -
John Copley
An Observer 6 - 23 Dec 2016 London The prolific printmaker John Copley (1875-1950), already established as a lithographer, turned to etching in 1917. For the last 20 years of his life it was his preferred medium. Copley, at a time when etching had become unfashionable, enjoyed the lack of constraints and freedom of utterance etching permitted, as... Read more -
British Design
6 Dec 2016 - 5 Jan 2017 London Following on from the success of The John Scott Collection exhibition series, The Fine Art Society presented British Design, a celebration of British designers, manufacturers and styles from the late-nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The exhibition included furniture, textile, glass, metal and ceramic design by: A.W. Pugin, John Hardman,... Read more
