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This work, 'Textile Design: Saltire', by Charles Rennie is part of our collection at the University of Glasgow.
Mackintosh's design in pencil and watercolour on paper makes a play on the Saltire, the Scottish flag, which shows a white St Andrew's cross against a blue background.
‘The Trembling Museum’ opens this weekend at the Hunterian Art Gallery. A collaboration between The Hunterian and scholar Manthia Diawara and curator Terri Geis, the exhibition reframes the African art and textiles that form part of our permanent collection.
'The Trembling Museum'
2 December 2023–19 May 2024
Hunterian Art Gallery
Free entry
🤔 Did you know that ‘The Fairy Queen’ by Henry Purcell is a semi-opera in five acts, based on Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?
This costume design for Oberon is by British artist and writer Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), who designed the set and costumes for the 1946 production of ‘The Fairy Queen’, performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company.
You can see the design in our current exhibition, , at the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Free entry.
🖼️ Michael Ayrton, ‘Costume design for Oberon, The Fairy Queen’, 1946. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. © Estate of Michael Ayrton.
On International Day of People with Disabilities, BSL users are invited to join us for the last of this year's series of BSL tours of the Hunterian Art Gallery .
Here is one of the highlights – the much-loved 'Lady Taking Tea' by Chardin, seen surrounded by Whistler’s collection of white and blue ceramics in the 'World in a Teacup' display.
Does the painting tell a different story in this new setting?
Written and delivered in British Sign Language by art fan and guide Trudi Collier, the tour presents our recently redisplayed main gallery.
BSL Art Gallery Tour
2.00pm–3.30pm
Sunday 3 December
https://tinyurl.com/ydwj9dnw
Book now for our upcoming event 'The Pulse of the Earth', taking place in the Hunterian Art Gallery after hours. We'll be joined by geographer and lecturer Adam Bobbette, artist Ilana Halperin and anthoropologist Zeynep Oguz who'll be looking at the politics of volcanoes, cosmology, theories of the earth, and what it means to be human.
'The Pulse of the Earth'
5.00pm - 7.00pm
Saturday 2 December
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pulse-of-the-earth-tickets-745146020807?aff=oddtdtcreator
This is one of a series of drawings by John Byrne of characters from his 1978 play ‘The Slab Boys', possibly intended as costume designs.
As important as the clothes they wear are their extravagant 1950s hairstyles! This design is for the character Jack Hogg.
See it in our exhibition ‘Stage and Screen: Designs from the James L Gordon Collection’ at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Free entry.
🖼️ John Byrne, 'Costume design for Jack Hogg, The Slab Boys', 1978. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. © John Byrne. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
In John Byrne’s 1978 play ‘The Slab Boys’, office secretary Lucille is an unattainable object of desire: beautiful, but given to withering put-downs.
This is one of a series of drawings by Byrne of characters from the play, possibly intended as costume designs.
See it in our exhibition ‘Stage and Screen: Designs from the James L Gordon Collection’ at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Free entry.
🖼️ John Byrne, 'Costume design for Lucille, The Slab Boys', 1978. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. © John Byrne. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
Throughout his career, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) employed pastel as a drawing medium to make preparatory drawings for his oil paintings, and later to create stand-alone works.
Hear from technical art historian Tess Visser at this week's Friday Focus where she'll be discussing Whistler's pastel works and her own technical examination of them. Tess has been working to create a better understanding of the role of pastels in Whistler’s artistic practice and in identifying and understanding the materials used to make these works.
Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/friday-focus-whistlers-pastels-tickets-723401622727
Image of Whistler's work 'Salute – Sundown' under various lenses (from left to right: visible light, raking light, UV light, Infrared reflectography)
Artist and writer John Byrne was born in Paisley and studied at the Glasgow School of Art.
His 1978 play ‘The Slab Boys’ is set in a Paisley carpet factory in 1957 and focuses on the lives of its lowliest employees, the ‘slab boys’ who grind colours for the designers.
This is one of a series of drawings by Byrne of characters from the play, possibly intended as costume designs.
See it in our exhibition ‘Stage and Screen: Designs from the James L Gordon Collection’ at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Free entry.
🖼️ John Byrne, 'Costume design for Alan Downie, The Slab Boys', 1978. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. © John Byrne. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
On International Day of People with Disabilities, we present the last of this year's series of BSL tours of the Hunterian Art Gallery . Written and delivered in BSL by art fan and guide Trudi Collier, the tour presents our recently redisplayed main gallery.
3 December, 2pm.
There are a few places remaining. Full details and booking: https://tinyurl.com/ydwj9dnw
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Not only are back in the charts this month, they also feature in our latest exhibition, ‘Stage and Screen’, at the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow!
The exhibition presents a rare costume design drawing for the band by British designer Michael Baldwin.
The costumes were created by Baldwin for The Beatles performance of the play-within-a-play from Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, broadcast on British television in 1964.
The coloured drawing features designs for four costumes and handwritten notes listing Ringo Starr as ‘Lion’, George Harrison as ‘Moon’, John Lennon as ‘Pyramus’ and Paul McCartney as ‘Thisbe’.
You can see the designs alongside a newspaper clipping with photos of the in costume and a typed document to Michael Baldwin listing their measurements.
Although Paul was meant to be Thisbe and John was meant to be Pyramus, they swapped roles for the actual performance, so the dress was worn by John. The typed list of measurements has been amended in red biro to show the change.
is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00am until 5.00pm. Entry is free.
'The Trembling Museum' opens in two weeks at the Hunterian Art Gallery! Spanning three centuries of African art history, our upcoming exhibition looks to reconsider how we present this collection in the 21st century.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/exhibitionprogramme/thetremblingmuseum/
📖 What are you reading this ?
We’re reading the wonderful publication that accompanies our current exhibition, ‘Stage and Screen: Designs from the James L Gordon Collection’.😜
Visit the exhibition (free entry) and get your copy (£9.95) at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow!
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10.00am until 5.00pm.
📸 Martin Shields.
Find out all about our latest exhibition 'Stage and Screen' with curator Joseph Sharples at this week's Friday Focus! 🌟
Joseph will fill us in on the behind-the-scenes process of putting the exhibition together and will spotlight some of the outstanding works from the hundreds on display.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus-stage-and-screen-with-joseph-sharples-tickets-723399315827?aff=oddtdtcreator
🤔 Did you know that our new exhibition, at the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, is a showcase of designs for theatre, film and television, spanning the entire 20th century?
From Shakespeare to pantomime, opera to ballet, Hammer horror to Hollywood musicals and Doctor Who to the Eurovision Song Contest, this exhibition is a must for anyone interested in the world of entertainment and performance!
This design by Scottish artist Doris Zinkeisen (1897–1991) is a set design for the Prologue of the 1934 production ‘Streamline’.
'Stage and Screen' is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am until 5pm. Free entry.
🤔Did you know that The at the University of Glasgow is home to a number of medals that commemorate the ?
Medals to mark the end of the First World War were struck around the world, including this bronze Corporation of Glasgow Declaration of Peace Medal, which dates to 1919.
🎭Curtain up!
Our new exhibition ‘Stage and Screen’ is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow!
Showcasing designs for theatre, film and television, features works on paper from the James L Gordon Collection, on show in Scotland for the first time.
Not only does it present set designs for a number of famous productions, but also costume designs for stars such as Rudolf Nureyev, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones!
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Free entry.
📣Don't miss the next Kelvin Hall Family Day!
Join us for an afternoon of free family events, including craft activities, a pedal-powered cinema, games and taster sessions.
Saturday 11 November from 12.00pm until 4.00pm.
Drop-in, no booking required.
Not long now until we raise the curtain on our new exhibition ‘Stage and Screen’ at the Art Gallery!
Spanning the whole of the 20th century and featuring designs for theatre, film and television, includes works by leading artists such as Cecil Beaton and David Hockney and designs for famous productions including ‘Hair’, ‘Cats’, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and ‘The Slab Boys’.
From Friday 10 November in the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Free entry.
🖼️ Patrick Caulfield, ‘Design for backcloth, Party Game’, 1984. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2023.
Enjoy this beautiful oil painting of fireworks by Walter Greaves this Bonfire Night. Greaves was studio assistant to James McNeill Whistler, and his father had been J.M.W. Turner's boatman. Greaves originally trained as a boatman and often rowed Whistler on the River Thames in London, a favourite subject of both artists. This painting is of Cremorne Gardens by the Thames, of which now only a small patch of land remains.
‘The Trembling Museum’ opens four weeks today at the Hunterian Art Gallery. We can’t wait for you to see it! Our upcoming exhibition offers a new exploration of our permanent collection and includes historic works from Africa and contemporary art from the African Diaspora and beyond.
'The Trembling Museum'
2 December 2023–19 May 2024
Hunterian Art Gallery
Admission free
Find out more: https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/exhibitionprogramme/thetremblingmuseum/
Scotland has a particularly grim history of witch-hunting, with over 3000 people accused of and executed for witchcraft from the mid-16th century to the early 18th century. Find out more about the trials and how they feature in modern memory at tomorrow's Friday Focus with Stephanie Shakay Tierney, 'Remembering the Scottish Witchcraft Trials'.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus-remembering-the-scottish-witchcraft-trials-tickets-698438687917?aff=oddtdtcreator
Scottish artist Frances Macdonald attended Glasgow School of Art with her sister Margaret, where they met fellow artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair. The group had a similar stylistic approach and came to be referred to as 'The Four'.
This beautiful watercolour by Frances Macdonald McNair was originally known as 'Ill Omen', with an alternative title of 'Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon'. The work captures Frances Macdonald's interest in the twilight world of Celtic legend, and the crossed hands recall renaissance tomb effigies. Death and mystery were frequent subjects in her work.
This stunning watercolour illustration of a chafer beetle (Cetonia ignita) is now on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery as part of our new selection of works on paper.
It is one of around 59 illustrations of insects that we have by artist Margaret Rankin Wilson (1901–1987). Most are watercolours and illustrate specimens from our collections at the University of Glasgow.
The works were donated to us by Wilson in the 1980s.
📅 A date for your diary!
The next Kelvin Hall Family Day takes place on Saturday 11 November. Join us from 12.00pm until 4.00pm for an afternoon of free family events to celebrate our 7th Birthday.
Themed around nature, wildlife and sports, you can expect craft activities, pedal-powered cinema and plenty of games and taster sessions.
Drop-in, no booking required.
For centuries, it was believed that the touch of a divinely appointed monarch could cure scrofula, a medical condition that causes painful neck sores. The practice of doing so is known as touching for the 'king’s evil'. It has its origins in the Middle Ages and continued to be carried out by the exiled Jacobite claimants for nearly a century after it was abandoned by Britain’s monarchs.
Don't miss this week's Friday Focus with numismatist Cameron Maclean, who'll explore how the Jacobite pretenders and their reigning ancestors utilised the ceremony.
Find zoom link here (under 'Location/Access link): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus-jacobites-and-the-kings-evil-tickets-689205310637?aff=oddtdtcreator
This beautiful work on vellum by Glasgow Girl Jessie Marion King (1875–1949) is another of our new selection of works on paper, now on display in the Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow.
‘May Fortune's Faerie Barque by Wind and Wave be Wafted Thee’ is one of a group of greeting cards intended for publication by the Glasgow firm of Alexander Baird.
The lavish design wishes a traveller a safe journey through life.
This poster by Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker Carlos Schwabe (1866–1926) is one of our new rotations of works on paper, now on display in the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
‘Salon Rose Croix’ dates to 1892 and was designed to advertise the inaugural exhibition of paintings at the Salon de la Rose et Croix in Paris.
📣 We're delighted to announce that our 'Chasing the Jacobite Dream' exhibition has been extended until January 2024!
'Chasing the Jacobite Dream' reveals our extensive collection of Jacobite medals and explores how they played a key role in the foundation of this afterlife as powerful objects in a long propaganda war.
Highlights include a rare badge depicting Bonnie Prince Charlie worn by a soldier during the ’45, a scarce medal struck in Edinburgh during the city’s occupation by Jacobite forces in September and October 1745, and a discreet medal designed to be worn as jewellery by supporters of the prince.
See it in the Museum, University of Glasgow.
Open 10am–5pm Tuesday–Sunday. Free entry!
📣 Calling all ! Come along to The at the University of Glasgow this October week and try our free, drop-in, self-led activities!
You'll find our 'Jacobites at the Museum' craft corner in the Hunterian Museum and 'Art Explorers' family trail in the Hunterian Art Gallery, featuring Buckie the blackbuck!
Fun for all the family!
🤔 Did you know we have a bronze bust of Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord Boyd Orr in the Museum?
John Boyd Orr (1880–1971) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Lord Boyd Orr had many links to the University of Glasgow. Not only did he study here, he was Chancellor from 1946–71, Rector in 1965 AND the famous Boyd Orr Building on the UofG campus is named after him!
Unleash your inner Fantasy writer! Calling all 12 to 16-year-old budding authors!
Come and join us for a workshop in the fabulous Museum surroundings with fascinating objects to inspire your own fantasy writing.
Wednesday 18 October from 2.00pm until 4.00pm in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Book your free place: https://tinyurl.com/42frmacd
📣Last chance to see some of the amazing works currently on display in the Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow!
They are temporarily making way for our next exciting major exhibition, so catch them while you can.
And don’t despair. If you can’t make it along by 5.00pm tomorrow (Sunday 15 October), they'll be back on display from June 2024. 🤩
📣 This weekend is your last chance to see our critically acclaimed contemporary art exhibition, 'Unravelling Times'.
The show features works by pioneering experimental filmmaker Lis Rhodes and three contemporary artists living and working in Glasgow, Anne-Marie Copestake, Francis McKee and Iman Tajik.
Open until 5.00pm on Sunday 15 October. Free entry.
📣 We're developing a new LGBTQIA tour as part of our student-led tours of the Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow.
The new tour will cover our main gallery's displays and draw particularly on LGBTQIA stories and themes.
We're looking for responses to help us refine the tour content.
Join us for a draft tour walkthrough and group discussion on Thursday 19 October at 2.00pm OR Friday 20 October at 10.30am.
Find details and booking here: https://tinyurl.com/27anhkvm
Join us for this week's Friday Focus with Dr. Shantel George, historian and lecturer in Transatlantic Slavery at University of Glasgow.
Shantel will chart the complex history and wide-ranging influence of the African kola nut, focusing on Nigeria, Jamaica and Scotland from 1500 to 1900. This case study will emphasise and explain the long-neglected role of Africans as distributors and consumers of global commodities and will highlight the relationship between consumption cultures and imperialism in late-nineteenth-century Britain.
Friday 13 October
1.00pm
Via Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus-the-kola-nut-in-the-atlantic-world-tickets-690873018797?aff=oddtdtcreator
🤔 What’s new at the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow?
We’ve been updating our displays and introducing some new works on paper.
You can see them throughout the main gallery, including this stunner, Alison McKenzie's 'Yorkshire Coast' poster for LNER (1936).
Our back two bays in the main gallery are currently closed for work on our exciting new exhibition, which opens on Saturday 2 December!
📣 We’re delighted to announce that a new exhibition, 'Stage and Screen', will open at the Hunterian Art Gallery next month!
features works on paper from the James L Gordon Collection, on show in Scotland for the first time.
Covering designs for theatre, film and television, the exhibition offers a rare glimpse into this unique personal collection of rich and diverse material.
From Friday 10 November in the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Free entry.
🖼️ John Macfarlane, 'Costume design for Matamore, Blanchwerk', 1995. Image © John Macfarlane.
We have an exciting new exhibition opening in the Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, in December, so watch this space for more details!
The two back bays of the Hunterian Art Gallery main gallery will close from Tuesday 17 October so we can start work, but we still have loads for you to see when you visit!
Visit our website to find out more.
Why are there Jamaican Giant Galliwasps in Scotland but none in Jamaica?
Join our curator of zoology Mike Rutherford for this week's Friday Focus to find out more. In this talk Mike will look at the group of lizards known as galliwasps, the history of their discovery, their strange name, how some went extinct and what threats they still face, and the museums around the world where specimens can be found but why there are so few in Jamaican collections.
Friday 6 October 2023
1pm
Via Zoom
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-focus-the-hunterians-giant-galliwasp-tickets-690871494237?aff=oddtdtcreator
This talk is programmed in collaboration with the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights for their Black History Month 2023 programme.
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👉 In case you missed it, we’re opening a bit later today to allow for some very important staff training. The #Hunterian Museum, Hunterian Art Gallery and #Mackintosh House at the University of Glasgow will open at 11.00am. So we'll see you later!
🤔What is Impressionism? Watch our short video featuring #Hunterian Art Curator Anne Dulau-Beveridge to find out more about this style of painting developed in France in the mid-to-late 19th century. You can see works by Impressionists Pissarro and Sisley amongst the paintings and scientific instruments in our 'Colour and Light, Art and Science' display in the #reframed Hunterian Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow. The display explores how technical transformations in science and art influenced each other at this time and how Impressionism spread beyond France, influencing the Scottish Colourists and Glasgow Boys and Girls. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am until 5pm. Admission free.
“Working with contemporary artists in the context of The Hunterian is a real joy…” In this short video featuring our Curator of Contemporary Art, Dominic Paterson, find out how our #Hunterian collections at the University of Glasgow have influenced contemporary artists from around the world. Come along and see our current contemporary art exhibition, 'Unravelling Times', at the Hunterian Art Gallery this weekend. Open 10.00am until 5.00pm on Saturday and Sunday. Admission free.
Not all paintings are made on canvas… 🖼️ If you’re visiting the #reframed #Hunterian Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow this weekend, keep an eye out for a very special artwork that was painted on slate. Find out more in this short video with Hunterian Art Curator Lola Sanchez-Jauregui. Open this weekend. 10.00am until 5.00pm on Saturday and Sunday. Admission free.
🎂🎉Happy 6th Birthday Kelvin Hall! Come along and celebrate with some fun family activities on a Mary Queen of Scots theme. Try peg doll making, stamp crafts and dressing up. Plus film screenings and traditional sports in the games halls. Free and drop in. Today at Kelvin Hall between 12 noon and 4pm. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3FZ42V4
Come along and see the Mackintosh House for free this Saturday 17 September as part of #DoorsOpenDay! Open 10.00am - 5.00pm (last entry 4.15pm). Explore the stunning Glasgow home of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and in our Mackintosh House Introduction Gallery, discover the fascinating story of the artists, their house and the Mackintosh collection at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival Doors Open Days
When visiting our exhibition 'Workaround' you might be surprised by what you find...ten different species of worker ant are nestled amongst the artworks! 🐜 Join us for this week's Friday Focus talk to hear from our curator of entomology Jeanne as she tells us more about these clever wee creatures and all the different types of work they carry out. Book here for Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hunterians-weekly-talk-workaround-ants-with-curator-of-entomology-tickets-410517668397
Book now for 'Temperance and the Demon Drink' and find out more about this social campaign and its propaganda, as campaigners of teetotalism highlighted the horrors that the 'demon drink' unleashed. Hear from leading scholar in UK temperance history, Dr. Annemarie McAllister and enjoy our exhibition 'Demon Drink' in the Hunterian Art Gallery after hours. Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/temperance-and-the-demon-drink-tickets-313338703497
The concept of work is essential to our new exhibition ‘Workaround’. Artist Charlie Hammond uses various series of images related to work and labour including high vis vests, office chairs and Tetley tea cartoons of the ‘Gaffer’ taking a break. Visit the Hunterian Art Gallery this weekend!
“There’s a myth from Islay that involves the islanders chasing the Devil from the round church…” So begins the story of how internationally renowned graphic artist Frank Quitely created his artwork ‘No Corners to Hide’ which features in the ‘Demon Drink’ exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. In this first instalment from an amazing short film made by Vincent Deighan, Frank talks about the Islay Legend and his research visit to Islay, the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides islands, off the west coast of Scotland. Film by Vincent Deighan Featuring Frank Quitely Music by Gavin Lamont
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