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The Scottish Gallery The Scottish Gallery exhibit the best in Scottish painting, from the 20th century and contemporary,

Over the last 175 years the history of painting in Scotland and the firm of Aitken Dott, The Scottish Gallery have been vitally linked. It is a relationship which continues today as we exhibit the best in Scottish painting, from the 20th century and contemporary, as well as museum quality international applied art. The Scottish Gallery is the oldest and largest private Gallery in Scotland.

'As the organisers of this impeccably curated, sensitive and surprising show point out, trees have taken a central place...
11/06/2024

'As the organisers of this impeccably curated, sensitive and surprising show point out, trees have taken a central place in art-making from the earliest times.'

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Show at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, is also a tribute to the cultural philanthropist Hugo Burge, who died suddenly last year at the age of 51

09/05/2024

Shining a light on the incredible New Town arts community since '23💡

With just over a month until the festival begins, this quote from The Scottish Gallery brings us back to why NT Art Month is so important.

Will you be joining us to highlight the rich heritage, culture, community and independent businesses in the New Town this June? 🎨

🔗Find out more: linktr.ee/ntartmonth

Doug Cocker’s sculpture is the artist’s response to the landscape and natural environment around him. Working predominat...
25/04/2024

Doug Cocker’s sculpture is the artist’s response to the landscape and natural environment around him. Working predominately in wood, his studio in Lundie, outside Dundee, is a magnificent thinking space where the walls are littered with evolving ideas.

'Themes and Variations' is his first solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery which will be shown in conjunction with Dovecot Studios.

Find out more in this short film by Jack Cocker.

A film by Jack CockerDoug Cocker’s sculpture is the artist’s response to the landscape and natural environment around him. Working predominately in wood, his...

Amanda Simmons presents a new series of glass vessels inspired by two poems from the Ted Hughes Crow collection from 197...
20/03/2024

Amanda Simmons presents a new series of glass vessels inspired by two poems from the Ted Hughes Crow collection from 1970 and the accompanying illustrations by Leonard Baskin. In this short film, she shares an insight into her making process and details of final works in the exhibition... Enjoy!

Amanda Simmons presents a new series of glass vessels inspired by two poems from the Ted Hughes Crow collection from 1970 and the accompanying illustrations ...

As we gently segway into spring, we present Claire Harkess’s poetically titled Seasons Song. Harkess continues to captur...
14/03/2024

As we gently segway into spring, we present Claire Harkess’s poetically titled Seasons Song. Harkess continues to capture fine detail from the natural world, encapsulating the flora and fauna as the seasons change, her truthful and poignant observation an exposition of the extraordinary nature of the ordinary.

Watch Claire Harkess's beautiful film here and experience the poetry and magic unfold...

As we gently segway into spring, we present Claire Harkess’s poetically titled Seasons Song. Harkess continues to capture fine detail from the natural world,...

14/02/2024

“Braham has one eye on the lie of the land and another on how it reflects our world.”
My latest art column for The Sunday Post. Philip Braham’s Prescient Nature at The Scottish Gallery until 2 March.

>>> In last week's column I wrote about how some artists express the intense feelings they have at being immersed in the landscape or standing looking out to sea through the medium of painting.

This week, I've been looking at the paintings of Philip Braham. The artist's landscape paintings, which have just gone on show at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, are often described as 'hyperrealist' in that they almost look like a photograph.

It's true his paintings have a real sense of stillness. They are beautifully controlled and shimmer with atmosphere. There is a very sure creative hand at work applying paint to a stretched piece of linen, distilling it into a people-less landscape.

Having viewed Braham's work many times over the years, I'd say that although they may look, on first glance, like a ruined forest or trees reflected beautifully in a Highland river, they always have layers after layer to excavate.

Braham has one eye on the lie of the land and another on how it reflects our world. His new exhibition is called Prescient Nature and in works such as Mirrorpool in a Birch Wood or Dawn in Torlum Wood, it's like he is painting a visual poem.

In a personal reflection in the catalogue for Prescient Nature, Braham, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, writes about how, in November 2021, Storm Arwen wreaked havoc in forests and woodlands around his home in Perthshire – and across Scotland.

He writes: "Torlum Wood, on the outskirts of Crieff, was turned into a sea of shattered limbs and foliage, leaving trunks standing like broken matchsticks against the sky."

Braham took photographs of what he called a 'forlorn scene' as a 'record of its fate'. Some three months later, Russia invaded Ukraine and as our media was filled with scenes of the mass bombardment and destruction of towns and cities.

"Nature cannot be said to be prescient," he adds, "but imagination permits us that thought. Thus, to me, the destruction wrought by the storm acted as a harbinger for the destruction of Ukraine and later of Gaza, and no doubt of other places yet to come."

08/02/2024

Showcasing a selection of hyperreal landscapes, The Scottish Gallery presents a new series of landscape paintings by Philip Braham in his upcoming exhibition 'Prescient Nature'. What's On Edinburgh - your guide to events in Edinburgh!

There's still a few days to apply with your proposal to participate in Platform: 2024 – Edinburgh Art Festival’s Early C...
31/01/2024

There's still a few days to apply with your proposal to participate in Platform: 2024 – Edinburgh Art Festival’s Early Career Artist Award.

This annual group exhibition is designed to provide a dedicated platform for early-career artists based in Scotland and working in the field of contemporary art within Edinburgh Art Festival’s programme.

Selected artists will receive:

- £1,500 artist fee
- £1,500 to produce your work
- £500 mentoring support

Find out more information and how to apply here:
https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/platform-2024-open-call/

17/01/2024

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We love this collaborative film by @themodernhouse x @toast of @__olivercook work away! ‘The second edition of Modern Pioneers, a collaborative series between The Modern House and TOAST, spotlighting the practices of four creatives across the country, sees us venture north to the studio of stone sculptor Oliver Cook (@__olivercook ). Oliver owes it to chance – or fate, even – that he now works in alabaster. If it wasn’t for a trip to Kettle’s Yard in 2019, where he was struck by an exhibition on stoneware, he might still be woodworking. Alabaster might be more commonly used for intricate ornamental sculptures, but Oliver is doing things differently. Instead, the 30-year-old is creating contemporary functional vessels and objects that make the most of the diaphanous qualities of the ancient material. Head to the bio of The Modern House to watch the full film and read the interview.’ — we’ve linked it in ours too!

Originally from Japan, Yuta Segawa lives and works in London and specialises in making miniature pots. Each pot is thrown individually by hand, hand turned and hand glazed. In Miniature also debuts new forms and glazes including a series in silver, pewter and gold. Enjoy this short film of Yuta making one of his miniature pots🏺 Yuta Segawa / In Miniature 03-26 March 2022 @yutasegawa_ceramics #thescottishgallery #yutasegawa #inminiature #miniaturepots #handglazed #glazedceramics #handthrown #artfromhome

Little pots of love ❤️ on #valentinesday @yutasegawa_ceramics

And one last film for good measure! A tour of S. J. Peploe’s studios etc around Edinburgh’s New Town with @guy_peploe - we recommend watching til the end! 😌 #thescottishgallery #sjpeploe #samueljohnpeploe #scottishcolourists #thecolourists #scottishpainter #studiotours #edinburghnewtown #edinburghtour

Philip Eglin / The Making of a Priest and Pin-Up Oval Dish Our October exhibitions are now finished but you can still explore each of them courtesy of our Viewing Rooms. We also share studio insight films and more, which you will find on each artist page or you can subscribe to our YouTube channel - link in bio. We thought we’d share one last film of @philipeglin making an oval dish illustrated with line drawings generated from photographs and carte de visite images. Strange Bedfellows delved deep into Eglin’s image making and he re-visited a subject he first explored in 2009; the priest and pin-up. Philip Eglin / Strange Bedfellows 30 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 @philipeglin

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