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20/09/2024

Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy through Craft 💫 Coming March 2025.

Provocatively titled but thoughtfully curated, our 2025 exhibition will bring together the work of 13 of Scotland’s most inventive, creative and impactful women craft artists: Lise Bech, Judith Davies, Caroline Dear, Claire Heminsley, Fiona Hutchison, Ruth Elizabeth Jones, Gilly Langton, Jo McDonald, Susie Redman, Patricia Shone, Carol Sinclair, Amanda Simmons and Emma Louise Wilson. Celebrating the knowledge, power and alchemy mediated by their work, the exhibition will celebrate craft skills and approaches to practice developed by these significant women over decades of work and personal endeavour.

Fife Contemporary are delighted to be working with Curator, Kate Pickering, and our partners at ONFife, with support from the William Grant Foundation to bring this exhibition to Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries in March 2025.

Read more 🔗 https://www.fcac.co.uk/programmes/hag

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Image: Township Bowl by Patricia Shone, photo by Shannon Tofts . The picture shows a close up of the bowl which has a cracked, fissured and rippled texture. The raku fired surface graduates from paler greys and browns, to dark grey and black. In the centre is large white text that reads "HAG." and below in smaller italics "Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft".

20/09/2024

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06/09/2024

Graystone Gallery in Edinburgh has launched a new exhibition with the focus on the urban environment's shapes, shadows and rhythms.
https://artmag.co.uk/edinburghs-graystone-gallery-finds-the-rhythm/
Image Anna Sudbina.

06/09/2024

In this Artists' Newsflash - VACMA 2025 is now open! Plus two Fife Contemporary September events, artist awards and studio space to rent, a budgeting talk, a Linen Pilgrimage and more - https://mailchi.mp/68828da84494/fife-contemporarys-news-opportunities-for-artists-no-649



Image: Photo of blue and white cyanotypes of natural items with the Fife Contemporary logo on top and text "Artists' Newsflash" in white.

06/09/2024

06/09/2024

📢 MEMBER NEWS 📢

SSA Member, Andrew Phillips has work in the 171st Royal West of England Academy Annual Exhibition, Bristol.

Featuring all kinds of artwork including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, film, sculpture and architecture by artists ranging from leading professionals to emerging talent, from across the UK and beyond. The RWA Annual Open is the largest open in the South West. All work is for sale and the exhibition attracts art-lovers and art-buyers from far and wide.

🗓️ 14 September 2024 - 5 January 2025
📍 Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Clifton Bristol BS8 1PX
🔗 https://buff.ly/4cy5aeI
📸 Andrew Phillips, 'The Unquiet Land'. Ink, pastel, graphite, on paper. 2024.

06/09/2024

06/09/2024

returns today! ☀️

The Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards (VACMA) are a programme of small grants schemes delivered in partnership with local authorities and art organisations across Scotland.

VACMA is designed to support you if you're a visual artists or craft maker in your creative and professional development at any stage of your career

It's open to you if you’re a Scotland-based visual artist or craft maker and you can demonstrate a commitment to developing your creative practice.

🔎 How much can I apply for?
VACMA has two types of fixed bursaries: a £500 Early-Career Bursary and a £1,000 Bursary for artists and makers who have been practising for over 5 years

🍂 When can I apply?
The next deadline is the Autumn deadline at 5pm on 22 October 2024

ℹ️ How do I apply?
Head over to our website to learn which round your Local Authority is participating in, and visit their website to apply 🌿

https://pulse.ly/2y8ey3lgxz

06/09/2024

📣 Arts Funding & Listening Session Update

Craft Scotland welcome the news that the Scottish Government have reinstated the £6.6m investment for Creative Scotland, this includes £3m for the Open Fund for Individuals.

Creative Scotland note that they are now considering how to work through the recent applications (819 applications, with a total ask of £11,893,366) and re-open the fund.

While this is welcome news, the funding situation for Scottish craft and culture is still precarious.

In light of the news, we will postpone next week’s Listening Session until we have more information to share.

Craft Scotland will continue to keep the sector informed as this situation develops. The Craft Scotland team are here to listen, and sign-post, for those affected by the news. Please email [email protected].

24/05/2024

Dunfermline artist Scott Hunter rising through the ranks of intellectual art and practice.. Scott is presenting his work in London's Saatchi gallery thay opens on this week and runs until July 28. Well done Scott. You are a scientific artist providing evidence as your art.

THE work of a Dunfermline artist is to go on display at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London.

11/05/2024

GSA's first public showcase of the International Foundation Programme opens tonight from 4-7pm at 6 Rose St!

Pop in this evening or between 12-4pm on the 13th, 14th and 15th of May.

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11/05/2024

11/05/2024

The 198th RSA Annual Exhibition is now available to view online.

This year, the exhibition encompasses both the physical and digital, combining the works displayed in the galleries with those shown online, some exclusively designed as such, and others as companions to work in the galleries. Explore painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and installation, alongside work by some of the country’s leading architects.

🔗View now: www.rsaannualexhibition.org
🖼️Ian Mcnicol, White Rectangle II, 2024

04/05/2024

Deadline: 27 June 2024, 23:59 UK time.

23/04/2024

Remembering Tom Bishop de Main. An artist conducive to Dunfermlines art scene. Tom was a major influence to many artists, art lovers, browsers and buyers. He had time to talk and introduce people into his storytelling art. Tom will always be missed and remembered with love x ❤️

23/04/2024

We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for the RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting.

Funded by the MacRobert Trust, the £20,000 award will fund a 12-month period of research and development for a mid-career painter. The award aims to provide a chance for someone whose life challenges have, for whatever reason, made it difficult to develop and demonstrate their artistic talent. Whilst the award is financial, the real reward is the opportunity that the funds can directly, or indirectly, provide or allow.

Find out more: bit.ly/447CzdY
Deadline: Sun 23 June

🖼️Samantha Clark, From Yesnaby
- 2023 RSA MacRobert Art Award recipient

23/04/2024

🌟 OPPORTUNITY 🌟

‘Castle Mills Then and Now | Whose Gallery is it Anyway?’

📆 From 19th April – 30th June,

An interactive project welcoming the community and audience to take charge of our gallery space. Anyone will be able to bring in their own creations, choose where to display artworks on the walls, and book the space to meet, workshop, make new work and creatively respond to the freely evolving exhibition.

Find out more here: https://edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/news/48-castle-mills-then-now-whose-gallery-18-april-30-june-2024/

📍Edinburgh Printmakers , Castle Mills, 1 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9FP

23/04/2024

📢 MEMBER NEWS | KATE HENDERSON: HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER AWARD

SSA Member, Kate Henderson has been awarded the House for an Art Lover Award at this year's Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition.

The PAI 135th Annual Exhibition continues at the Glasgow Art Club until 8 June 2024 where you can see Kate's work alongside many other SSA Members work.

🗓️ 16 April - 8 June 2024
📍 Glasgow arts club, 185 Bath street, Glasgow, G2 4HU
🔗 https://buff.ly/4aXEaFh
📸 Fancy door - mixed media Kate Henderson (photo Gordon Bell)

23/04/2024

MY NEW ART - EUAN TAIT
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Euan's painting of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow is part of the University of the West of Scotland New Media Art Degree show held at in Ayr until 5th May.
Send your recent work to artmag.co.uk/my-new-art.

23/04/2024

Community Wellbeing Collective Anchor Event:

Growing Grassroots Organisations
Community Wellbeing Collective: What's Next?

🗓️ Saturday 27th April
🕛 12—7pm
📍Community Wellbeing Space, Westside Plaza, Edinburgh, EH14 2ST

After 1 year of being a registered charity, and even longer growing together and running The Community Wellbeing Space, the Community Wellbeing Collective celebrates, looks back on their journey so far, and asks: “Where can we go next?".

Expect wellbeing tasters from local members, presentations about CWC's work, timeline mapping, and the opportunity to discuss with other charities how to continue making positive change in Wester Hailes, and building towards a world where wellbeing and togetherness is possible for all.

🥘 Free community lunch (1pm)
💃 Celebratory ceilidh!

Find out more at watchthisspace.online

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22/03/2024

Partner Exhibition Spotlight | Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians 🪡

We are delighted that The King's Gallery (formerly The Queen's Gallery) will be part of the EAF24 programme with their new exhibition exploring Georgian fashion, from the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court. This expansive new showcase examines how these items ushered in many of the cultural trends we know today, including the first stylists and influencers and the development of shopping as a leisure activity.

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgian opens this Friday 22 March and runs till 22 Sept, as part of EAF24 between 9–25 August.

Find out more about EAF's partner galleries at the link in our bio. 🔗

Image credit: Attributed to British School, 18th Century. St James's Park and the Mall
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22/03/2024

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03/03/2024

📢WE'RE HIRING!📢

We are looking for a Collections Development Manager to join OnFife's Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing team!

⏰ Full time - 36 hours per week
💰 £42,686 – £51,302 per annum
🗓️ Closing date: Thursday 14 March at 9am

In this role, you will lead a team of Curators and Collections Support Assistants to ensure the highest possible standards of collections care, management and conservation plans and to create opportunities for widening public access to and enjoyment of the collections.

For more information, and how to apply, visit our website:
https://www.onfife.com/vacancies/collections-development-manager/

03/03/2024

19/02/2024

What's On! This year, Fife Contemporary are pleased to be taking part in StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival, "Warp and Weft: a tapestry of poetry". Between 1st – 16th March 2024 we are collaborating with StAnza to produce an exciting programme of visual art and craft will showcase embroidery, weaving and gun-tufted textiles alongside poetic connections and responses.

Find out more and plan your visit to St Andrews 👉 https://www.fcac.co.uk/event/fife-contemporary-at-stanza/

Dovecot

Image: Adil Iqbal, Washroom Chapals (Slippers), 2012 (detail). Photo by Alan Dimmick. The embroidered/woven artwork features a bright blue background, with a black, criss-crossed pattern across it. On the top a numerous pairs of sandals arranged in a circular format. Each sandal is different and a range of colours are used: purples, blues, yellows, pinks and oranges.

19/02/2024

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12/02/2024

Deadline next week! 🔔

If you're a mid-career writer, the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship is an opportunity to spend a year dedicated to producing new writing, gaining support and inspiration from this year's host organisation, the University of Stirling 💡

https://pulse.ly/hjf6szm51j

12/02/2024

Until 25th February... don't miss out. National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

"Rarely does one emerge from an exhibition of work by diverse artists so entirely impressed. The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego is genuinely unmissable." – The National Everyone has the power to make a print. It’s one of the most accessible art forms. Now come and experience the print pio...

03/02/2024

A once in a lifetime opportunity has come up for Outlander fans as producers are looking for people to work on Season 8 as it films in Scotland in…