201 Telephone Box Gallery

19/11/2024

19/11/2024

Kirsty Lochart's exhibition - ‘Abundance’ is the culmination of 7 months’ worth of weekly observational drawing from life in the Strathkinness Community Gardens & Allotments.
Since March, Kirsty has been visiting Strathkinness to document the progress of the community gardens and record the life and goodness she has observed growing there. Struck by the generous abundance of the earth under the careful stewardship of the gardeners, Kirsty has filled seven sketchbooks with rhubarb, courgettes, gro-bags and flowers. She works as fast as possible in an attempt to capture the life that she sees growing in real time. ‘The Bothy’ has proved to be a subject which keeps ‘drawing’ her back, a central hub which safeguards shared tools and provides shelter from the elements.
Throughout this project Kirsty has been reminded of the opening lines of the book of Genesis “In the beginning, God created... And God saw that it was good.” v12.

Kirsty Lockhart graduated with a degree in Illustration from DJCAD (University of Dundee) in 2010. She runs the international speed-drawing portraiture group ‘Pencils4Tea’ and also works as a sessional tutor with the Open College of the

19/11/2024

Exciting event this Saturday.
Join us - hop on/off
more info & booking https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artmovesfife-we-are-sixty-four-tickets-1053622395949

01/07/2024

New exhibition from yesterday until 4 August 2024

17/06/2024

This Sunday at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in Strathkinness - 23 June 2024 at 3 pm - CHIAROSCURO event: meet the artist Louise Schmid and make a drawing or two, if you like.
All welcome!

The event is free and there will be some refreshments and nibbles.

10/05/2024

And, who would have thought that 201 Telephone Box Gallery would get on the 'Scotia Challenge' list.
Here is a photo of Allan from the Club and his bike. Allan surprised us when he came by while Louise Schmid was installing her exhibition ECHOLILY.
Thank you Allan for cheering us up!

We hope to see many more ticking the 'number 5' off their list of challenges.

10/05/2024

Last Sunday marked the start of a new exhibition - ECHOLILY - an interactive 24/7 drawing project by Swiss born, Glasgow based visual artist Louise Schmid.
The installation will run on the cusp of spring until Equinox - 5 May to 23 June 2024, culminating in a celebratory solstice event on Sunday 23 June 2024, from 3 pm, including conversation and collaborative drawing on the village green next to the gallery.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED & CONTRIBUTE
please feel free to email drawing to [email protected]
or call Louise on 07496 231 333

07/04/2024

Molly Kent 'The House on the Hill’
26 March - 28 April 2024
Molly Kent's art practice centres around their experiences with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD); creating narrative scenes that allude to trauma leading to their diagnosis or the emotional response their condition causes. Recently, a motif has appeared several times within Molly's work – a silhouetted house on fire. A symbol of childhood trauma, the motif features in many of their dreams, feeling like an accurate portrayal of their mental state and associated emotions. From the house, smoke and flames rise, as the destructive force of the fire takes hold.

about the artist
Molly Kent is a textile artist who represents mental and physical health notions through mediums such as rug tufting and weaving. They portray contemporary existence regarding social media and internet living and how this affects our perception of self. This stems from their personal experiences of their mental health condition CPTSD but also reflects on broader anxieties and fears that have come to their attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://mollyhkent.com/

12/03/2024

Sunday 17 March 2024
Please join us for a very special community event - Strathkinness Community Trust, Bob Bilson, Lada Wilson and Fife based artists Colin Andrews are inviting you to participate in a tree planting event.
Please gather at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery on Sunnyside on Sunday 17 March 2024 at 3 pm. We will take a small oak tree from the gallery to Bonfield park and plant it there. Afterwards, at the village hall, artist Colin Andrews will present his akin project and talk about his work 2230, especiually created for Strathkinness community and the 201 Telephone Box Gallery. Warm drinks and cake will be provided. All welcome!

about 2230
2230 is an audio work which serves as a parallel to the planting of an oak tree, at Bonfield, in the Fife village of Strathkinness, in 2024. This tree, planted by the community of Strathkinness, is oak #114 in the artwork, akin.

akin is a long-term, large scale, participatory, public artwork in which 200 oak trees have been planted across the region of Fife, to create a ‘future forest’ as a symbol of empowerment, sustainability and commitment to our shared future.

2230 is a telephone call to the future. It is a soundscape created as an imagined audio recording from the location of oak #114 in the year 2230. By then, oak #114 will be 216 years old. What will have changed at Bonfield? How might the oak have influenced and shaped the environment and ecosystem around it? What bugs or birdsong might we hear? What music is drifting on the wind? Whose voice is passing by?

The soundscape can be listened to by calling the local telephone number
01334 402230.


Further information about akin can be found here:

https://www.colinandrews.org/project/akin/

08/03/2024

Have you seen the new exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery?
There is a feature in The Courier about it
www.thecourier.co.uk/?post_type=fp&p=4917030

Entitled “Ten Yen 'En” is exhibition by Masahiro Kawanaka and Aya Shimamoto, who came from Japan to show their work in the UK. This participatory artwork, made of ready-made objects such as Japanese public telephone set, 10 Yen coins, pencils, paper, etc., explores ideas of communication by inviting you to make an artwork.
By following a set of instructions (inside the phone box) those visiting the 201 Telephone Box Gallery could engage in art-making: using the 10 Yen coins and ‘frottage’ technique (obtaining an impression of the texture of a material on paper by rubbing with a pencil). You can take the artwork home or leave it in the gallery.
Masahiro Kawanaka is an artist and gallery director. Since 2000 he has been presenting his work both in Japan and internationally, mainly focusing on site-specific artworks. In 2011 he started LOCALSHIP PROJECT which brought him to a residency at the Sealoft in Kinghorn, Scotland for the first time. Since 2013 he serves as a director at the Art Spot Korin, a gallery that engages in a number of international projects in Kyoto, Japan.
Aya Shimamoto is an artist who has a degree in Science as well as in Art. This is her first visit to the UK and it has been a busy one. In three exhibitions – in Newcastle, Strathkinness and Dundee, her print works and small sculptural objects are exhibited alongside Masahiro’s work.

Exhibition runs until 10 March 2024.
More information: [email protected]

28/01/2024

Today marks the start of a new exhibition - entitled ‘After the Tone’ and made of ready-made objects, this participatory artwork by Awright Projects artists collective, explores ideas of communication.
The Awright Projects’ idea is to connect their own networks with those visiting the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in hope that new connections can be made and exciting conversations can be had.

Awright Projects invited participants to have their phone number be a part of a yellow pages book [Yellae Pages] which is left in the 201 Telephone Box Gallery, alongside a mobile phone and some pens. Visitors are encouraged to use the phone to call a number from the yellow pages and have a conversation or leave a message. It is also possible for the mobile phone to receive calls and those who can’t make it out to the gallery and want to be involved are able to call from their own phone instead. The number to call and leave a message is: 07874 979 931

Awright Projects is a non-hierarchical, not for profit, artist led collective made up of 5 recent University of Dundee / Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design graduates. The Edinburgh/Dundee based group covers a diverse range of interests and media. Initially meeting back in 2018, Awright Projects have been working consistently alongside one another long before officially forming AP in 2023. The collective takes a DIY approach to exhibitions, projects and events with a commitment to its local community and keeping art accessible.

16/01/2024

New year starts with a new exhibition!

‘Looking at You, Looking at Me - Blossom’ is an installation by Tom Fairlamb, a sculptural response to how we use our phones and how our phones use us. Tom Fairlamb’s artwork touches on topics to do with: technology, the self, identity, awareness, beauty and the gaze.

Placing this sculpture in 201 Telephone Box Gallery brings us back to the primary use of our phones - communication. The now obsolete phone box has been replaced by a gallery and contains the very technology that made this shift happen. In this setting, the phone box invites you to peer inside to see the sculpture, endlessly applying lipstick. You are placed in the role of the vo**ur.
In a world of uncontrollable postings online and smartphone selfies we are constantly observed and observing, reducing ourselves and others to an appearance, an object.
Tom Fairlamb is University of Dundee (DJCAD) graduate, currently studying on a MFA programme in London.

The exhibition runs until 21 January 2024.

24/12/2023

It is beginning to look like Christmas 🎄

“Tree of Life”, 2022
by ‘The Brownlee Brothers’ - Calum and Fraser Brownlee, graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee (DJCAD) and awards winning artists.