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  • Timorous Beasties

    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
  • Fiona Dean The Arrangement of Skin

    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
  • Scottish Painting 1650-1950

    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
  • John Byrne Then Till Now

    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
  • Nicole Farhi Writing Heads

    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
  • Intimate A Portrait

    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
  • The Sublime And The Beautiful

    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
  • Holy Rood Norman McBeath and Robert Crawford

    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 RSA 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... Read more
  • John McLean Behind the Mirror

    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

    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

  

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