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MAIN SPONSORS:
LOOK! A ten day celebration of the arts in Aberdeen.
See your city in a different light. Discover the power
of imagination.
EVENT SPONSORS:
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
15th June - 24th June 2005
MAIN SPONSORS
LOOK!
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is for you.
Look!
is a ten day festival of the arts in Aberdeen.
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runs from 15th June through to 24th June 2005.
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events will span fine art, design and architecture.
Look!
is about the power of visual arts in the community.
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is for everyone.
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So have a look through our programme
of events, see which appeal to you. on pages
22 - 24 there is an events diary and map.
EVENTS
EVENTS
GRAY'S
SCHOOL OF ART
SAVE THE
CHILDREN
DEGREE SHOW
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ART FOR CHILDREN
DATE:
TIME:
Friday 17th June - Friday 24th June
Opening Night 7pm - 10pm
10am - 8pm, 10am - 5pm Weekends
VENUE: Gray's School of Art, Garthdee Campus
WEB: www.rgu.ac.uk
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
WEB:
ENTRY:
WEB:
The Gray’s School of Art annual degree show is a unique showcase of work
across the visual arts and design. This year Gray’s will celebrate its 120th
anniversary with a degree show that demonstrates its value to the culture
and economy of Scotland. Gray’s is one of the UK’s leading art schools, and
the show features the work of 130 graduating students in sculpture,
printmaking, painting, textiles, 3D design, visual communications,
product design and digital media. Gray’s graduates have gone on to
become leading names in art and design, so the show is an opportunity to
enjoy the work of tomorrow’s creative stars today. Visitors to the show,
which is generously sponsored by BP, can buy or commission work from
the exhibitors, and gain an insight into the creative energies of the School.
Art for Children, an art exhibition and sale to support Save the Children’s
global education work, is generously sponsored by Ernst & Young and is
being hosted by Robert Gordon University in the Faculty of Health and
Social Care. The exhibition, which is open to the public free of charge
between 15th-21st June, features original work for sale from prominent
artists working throughout Scotland and further afield. In addition,
there will be the opportunity to see work from local children who have
participated in our primary school art competition ‘Children for Art’ and
vote on the overall winning entry.
Sponsored by:
Sponsored by:
Wednesday
Wednesday15th
15thJune
June--Tuesday
Friday 24th
21stJune
June
10am
Evening
- 4pm
Faculty
The Salvation
of Health
Army
& Social
Citadel,
Science,
Castlegate,
Garthdee
Aberdeen
Campus
Free
www.peacockvisualarts.co.uk
Entry
www.savethechildren.org.uk
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EVENTS
SCOTT
SUTHERLAND
DEGREE SHOW
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EVENTS
HOUSE
BUILDING
DATE:
TIME:
Saturday 18th June - Friday 24th June
10am - 8pm Monday - Thursday
10am - 4pm Friday
10am - 5pm Weekends
VENUE: Scott Sutherland, Garthdee Campus
WEB: www.rgu.ac.uk
DATE: Wednesday 15th June - Friday 24th June
ARTIST: Professor Jonathan Woolf
VENUE: The Green
St. Nicholas
Castlegate
Provost Skene House
Marischal College
This year's show is chance to view a curated selection of the best work
from students across all five years of the Architecture and Interior
Architecture, under the direction of the new Professor in Architecture,
Jonathan Woolf. Scott Sutherland student's will be joined by young
London based architects who have been working with the students here
in Aberdeen. The exhibition has a themed programme based on the
relationship of typology to innovation, seeing the city (and urbanism)
as constituting a body undergoing continuous change.
The project invites reflection on the nature of the city and how we
choose to make it. The installation of miniature houses throughout the
city refers back to a known building type, the ‘bothy’, a traditional
Scottish vernacular small dwelling. It is dignified, humble and strong,
representing our nostalgic longing to live independently, surrounded
in nature. The layout, however, mimics the march of suburban
development that has blurred the relationship between city and
countryside at the same time creating a whole new set of spatial and
cultural conditions. Analogous to suburban development, these baby
houses can turn up in a all sorts of places.
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EVENTS
EVENTS
NEW WORKS
VALERIO OLGIATI
GREY’S
PRESENTATION
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DATE: Saturday 18th June
TIME: 12.00 Noon
VENUE: Scott Sutherland, Garthdee Campus
ARTIST: Valerio Olgiati
LIMITED TICKETS: T: 01224 262037 Booking necessary
DATE:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Friday 17th June - Friday 24th June
Bon Accord Centre
Paul Haywood & Maxine Kennedy
Since the completion in 1998 of his project for the school in Paspels,
Switzerland, Architect Valerio Olgiati has established his position as an
important figure in European architecture. His work sits squarely within
the framework of the Swiss tendency which has developed a formidable
command of both architectural conceptual thinking and the details of
construction. This deftness is perhaps at its most austere in the work of
Olgiati whose interest in the monumental sets his work apart from his
colleagues. Working often in white concrete and bronze, this primordial
form making also connects back to classic pre-Renaissance
architecture, including the medieval castles of Scotland. For this
presentation Olgiati will be looking at some of his recent works,
reflecting on their themes and pre-occupations. Following the
presentation there will be a discussion between Olgiati and London
architect Jonathan Woolf with invited questions from the audience.
Paul Haywood and Maxine Kennedy have worked on a number of Public
Art commissions, utilising a process of research and observation to
capture a representation of localised landscapes that correspond, in
some part, to the experiences of local people. In Aberdeen, they will
investigate and analyse colour and its occurrence across physical
spaces of the city. Specifically, it will be an observation of the
relationship between the built environment and the sea. This will result
in a colour range, manufactured in household paints, abstracted from
built and natural landscape associated with the City of Aberdeen. There
will be an exhibition/display of the paints and a printed colour chart,
representing the full range of colours designed for the project which
will be distributed at the event.
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EVENTS
EVENTS
Sponsored by:
TRACKED
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
WEB:
Monday 23rd May - Saturday 2nd July
10am - 10pm (Closed Sun & Mon)
The Foyer, Crown St, Aberdeen
Sarah Matheson
www.foyerrestaurant.com
A response to the effects of photography on our sense of reality and on
memory. Influenced by travel and the reflective thought induced by the
atmosphere of cities and of the fleeting moment, Sarah's work can be seen
as a reflection of the inability to fully retain and capture the essence of a
moment. It is a subtle observation of photography's failure to do this and
our ability to seem to forget this.
DATE:
Wednesday15th Friday 24th June
VENUE: Exchequer Row,
Aberdeen
ARTIST: Kevin Jamieson
Kevin Jamieson will visit various locations around the city, take in the urban
landscape and then, blindfolded paint directly onto the plywood boards the
image of the landscape in his mind and add details of what that significant
area means to him and may mean to others. The practice gives a very
instinctual and almost sub-conscious emotion to the art piece and also has
an element of performance art to it.
BEND
+ SEE
DATE:
VENUE:
TIME:
ARTIST:
Tuesday 21st June
Scuplture Park, Kirkhill Forest, Dyce
8pm - 10pm
Sally Moir
Bend and See on a Mid-Summers Night is an event that brings contemporary
art forms together to create a site specific cloth piece to be set in the
canopies of the trees of Kirkhill Forest, Aberdeen accompanied by the
beautiful, elegant and graceful string music of a quartet. By constantly
being enthralled by new methods of presenting her work, Sally has taken it
out with the normal white cube context, creating an event that conveys
climate and mood using an array of contemporary art forms.
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EXTERNAL
MENTAL
LANDSCAPE
RAINBOW
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Wednesday 15th June - Friday 24th June
Hours of Darkness
Mystery Locations, Aberdeen
Jim Buckley
Jim Buckley’s work concentrates predominately on Public Art projects and
installations involving light. He has been commissioned by organisations as
diverse as Art Connexion, Lille, France; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
Cork City Corporation, Ireland; Gifu Prefecture, Japan; The Highland Council,
Scotland and Gwangju Biennale in Korea. These commissions have taken
place within particular geographic and architectural contexts, involving not
just buildings but also the surrounding environments and inhabitants.
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ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL
ABERDEEN
CITY
COUNCIL
EVENTS
PAINTINGS AND
PHOTOGRAPHS
OF PLANT FORMS
DATE:
Saturday 18th June
TIME:
11am - 3pm
ARTIST: Arts Development Team,
Aberdeen City Council
No booking necessary
Movement - a multi-art
programme for young people
aged 12 - 25yrs, from the Arts
Development Team, ACC. Come
along and try different art forms
at various venues in the city
centre. Then later visit the web
site: www.lookevents.co.uk to see
all the work produced on the day.
Sculpture/Environmental
Arts Program
DATE:
TIME:
Friday 17th June - Sunday 24th July
8am - 8pm
VENUE: Union Terrace Gardens
VENUE:
Help create one large-scale sculpture
throughout the day or work on individual
pieces to be temporally placed within
the gardens.
ARTIST:
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, The Art Gallery, Aberdeen Royal
Infirmary, Foresterhill Aberdeen T/F: 01224 552429
e-mail: [email protected]
Mandy Owen and Lynsey Ewan
Drawing Arts Program
Photography Art Program
VENUE: Studio Workshop,
VENUE: Quadrangle, RGU,
Schoolhill, Aberdeen
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Large scale drawing workshop - visit for
any length of time adding to one piece
which will evolve throughout the day.
Pinhole camera workshop allowing you
to take the camera away to produce an
image, bring it back and one tutor will
act as runner to the darkroom and
back. Photographs produced will be
on display throughout the day.
Textiles/Fashion/3D Design
Arts Program
Visual Communication
Art Program
VENUE: The Courtyard,
VENUE: The Courtyard,
Academy Shopping Centre
Academy Shopping Centre
Taking inspiration from our location come and design your own fashion
accessories with interesting materials
provided.
Have your input into the look and feel
of the web site and work on 2d graphic
projects inspired by signage and
display within the city centre.
An exciting exhibition by two young artists, Mandy Owen and Lynsey Ewan
working in the contrasting mediums of photography and painting exploring
plant forms. Grampian Hospitals Art Trust (GHAT) is a registered charity
which was formed twenty years ago with the main aim of enhancing
healthcare spaces throughout Grampian by the provision of art and artworks.
The gallery exhibitions change on a monthly basis and offer the public a
great opportunity to view and purchase original Scottish art. All gallery
proceeds go towards purchasing art for hospital and healthcare wall space.
EXHIBITION BY
STEPHEN
SHANKLAND
DATE:
TIME:
Wednesday 15th June - Friday 24th June
9 am - 6pm Daily
Café Open 8.30am - 3.30pm (Mon-Fri)
VENUE:
Bridge View (Petrofac Building)
1 North Esplanade West, Aberdeen
Stephen Shankland
ARTIST:
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Animation Arts Program
Performance Art Program
VENUE: The Courtyard,
VENUE: Venue to Venue
Academy Shopping Centre
throughout the Day
Looking at low-tech animation
techniques focusing on illustration
and using still photography to make
flick books and zoetropes.
Catch up with a performance artist who
will be looking to involve the public in
ways of physically linking each of the
venues together.
Born in Irvine, Scotland, in 1971 and a graduate of Gray's in 1995, Steven
Shankland’s paintings contain thoughtful figures usually wrapped up in a
sense of narrative. Composition & draughtmanship as well as colour all
contribute to the story that unfolds in each scene. Figures often gaze from
their world with the story being readable in their eyes. Often the figures share
the composition with objects that have symbolic relevance. Steven has many
awards including First Prize in the 2004 BP Portrait Award at the National
Portrait Gallery. See www.stephenshankland.com
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EVENTS
EVENTS
Peripatetic Randomiser for the Pleasurable
Negation of Spectacular Space
DATE: Wednesday 15th - Friday 24th June
VENUE: Various
ARTIST: Jim Colquhoun
Glasgow-based artist Jim Colquhoun’s work unfolds around an engagement
with place and space and the experience this engenders. Drawn to the
margins, be they cultural, political, psychological, social or spatial, his work
blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, history and myth. Jim will
encourage others to cast themselves adrift with him into the collective
unconscious of contemporary and historical Aberdeen. This will take various
forms, including organised ‘psychogeographical’ walks, a map detailing
localities in which concupiscence and micturation take place and the
production of a pseudo-historical broadsheet, ‘The Castle Spectre’ with allied
urban camping performance. There will be a complementary programme of
talks and a series of film screenings at the Belmont Picturehouse.
For more info on Gangrel Bodies please contact PEACOCK VISUAL ARTS
OPENING TIMES:
9.30am - 5.30pm, closed Sunday and Monday
ADDRESS:
21 Castle St, Aberdeen
T: 01224 639539
WEB:
www.peacockvisualarts.co.uk
PEACOCK visual arts reception provides up-to-date information on all
Gangrel Bodies events and activities throughout the project, as well as
background reading on the political and theoretical subtexts of the project.
Concupiscence & Micturation: An experiment in
Pataphysical Cartography
DATE: Wednesday 15th - Friday 24th June
ARTIST: Jim Colquhoun
A cartographic response to the ’unorthodox‘ ways in which we use cities, those places
where the private and the public have become blurred will be mapped.
the castle spectre
DATE: Wednesday 15th - Friday 24th June
VENUE: The Salvation Army Citadel, 26 Castle St, Aberdeen
ARTIST: Jim Colquhoun
Glasgow-based artist Jim Colquhoun will camp on the tower of the Salvation
Army Citadel. This cultural-spatial intervention is partly based on an old Norse
practice known as UTISETA (out-sitting), wherein people sat outside on mounds,
standing stones, mountains etc. The performance also references the idea of the
romantic artist/hermit figure.
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DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Wednesday 15th June
2pm
PEACOCK Visual Arts
Jim Colquhoun
A walk with Jim Colquhoun starting at PEACOCK visual arts. The Peripatetic
Randomiser is a device, which through the application of chance, enables
the deconstruction of habitual patterns of movement through the city. Each
participant will receive their own Randomiser.
CULTURE FROM THE GROUND: Walking, movement &
place making (2004 - 2006)
DATE: Thursday 16th June
TIME: 6pm
VENUE: John Skinner Centre,King Street (next door to PEACOCK visual arts)
A talk by Dr. Jo Lee, Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen
Anthropology Department about his ongoing research. This research is about
how walking around is fundamental to everyday social life. For the greater
part of history, and today in much of the world, almost all human activities
have been carried out on foot. We will investigate the links between walking
and culture, using examples from around the world and the city and
surroundings of Aberdeen.
Surrealist Deambulation
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Friday 17th June
2pm
PEACOCK Visual Arts
Jim Colquhoun
A walk with Jim Colquhoun starting at Peacock Visual Arts. The Surrealists
described their walking experiments as ‘automatic writing in real space’ or ‘an
exploration between waking life and dream life’. The walks were essentially
aimless wanderings in ‘empty’ territory. In the course of this walk we will head
deliberately towards the margins of the city and out into the countryside.
Salvation army
DATE: Saturday 18th June
TIME: 10am - 2pm
VENUE: The Salvation Army Citadel, 26 Castle Street, Aberdeen
A tour with Mrs. Margaret Ross, Salvation Army Director for Social Work, and
viewing of the artist’s campsite. Tea and coffee provided by the Salvation Army.
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EVENTS
EVENTS
McKays of Queen Street
a walk with stewart home
DATE: Wednesday 15th - Friday 24th June
TIME: 9am - 5.30pm Mon-Fri, 9am - 7pm Thu, 11am - 5.30pm Sun
VENUE: McKays, 29-31 Queen Street, Aberdeen
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
An installation of films on walking and exploration at this most traditional of
outdoor equipment purveyors.
Stewart Home. Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Oedipus Complex, 41 min
This film was made in Australia while Home was artist-in-residence at
Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts in May 2004. In the film avant-garde
techniques and the avant-garde obsession with death interweave with
reflections on the life and death of his mother Julia Callan-Thompson. This is
simultaneously an expression of love and loss and an attempt to draw out the
ways in which the avant-garde Lettrist cinema of the early fifties in France was
commercialised in the later work of Godard, Marker and Resnais.
Chris Petit/Ian Sinclair. The Cardinal and the Corpse (1992),
The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000)
Three collaborations between director Chris Petit and psychogeographer, poet
and novelist Iain Sinclair about marginalized cultural figures, produced by
Illuminations Films for Channel Four.
Bill Thompson, ‘aberdeen’, audio installation, 8 hours
This soundwalk piece was recorded during one long continuous exploration of
Aberdeen. Throughout our day we filter out the sounds around us in order to
focus on what we need to do. As a result, we miss the beauty of our ambient
surroundings. Due to the sheer length of the piece, it is hoped that listeners will
'get lost' within the work and not be able to predict when or where they are
within the soundwalk.
Tom Weir. Weir’s Way, approx. 20 min. each
Four episodes of the TV-series featuring Scotland’s pioneering psychogeographer as
he explores Glen Affric, Wester Ross, Loch Torridon and the coastline of Applecross.
A Notational Walk with Ray Lucas
DATE: Saturday 18th June
TIME: 2pm
VENUE: PEACOCK Visual Arts
A walk/workshop with Ray Lucas starting at Peacock visual arts. Ray Lucas is an
anthropologist with a background in architecture. This workshop looks at how
we represent movement with inscription. What aspects of a movement do we
choose to record? The route, the actual movements of the legs, the encounters
made along the way? By making marks, we can make the experience of the city
available to our creative and descriptive processes. The workshop begins with
a short talk followed by a walking and sketching exercise. In a discussion at
the end observations can be shared and reconstructions attempted.
A talk with ray lucas
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Saturday 18th June
6pm
The Noose & Monkey, 31-35 Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen
Ray Lucas
Tuesday 21st June
2pm
PEACOCK Visual Arts
Stewart Home
Stewart Home - writer, artist, film-maker, prankster and occultist - will lead a
walk through the harbour to Fittie featuring audio recordings from Stewart
Home’s Cambridge Junction Torkradio project. Home was born in London in 1962
and the bulk of his novels use the English capital as their setting. His rare one
person gallery shows have to date been restricted to London: ‘Humanity In
Ruins’ at Central Space in 1988, ‘Vermeer II’ at workfortheeyetodo in 1996, and
earlier this year ‘Becoming (M)other’ at T1&2 Artspace (a collaborative
installation with Chris Dorley Brown).
A talk with Stewart Home
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Tuesday 21st June
6pm
Fittie Bar, 18 Wellington Street, Aberdeen
Stewart Home
Stewart Home's walk will be followed by a talk at the Fittie bar. This will focus in
particular on his novel ’69 Things to do with a Dead Princess’ (Canongate 2002),
which has been described as the strangest work of fiction to be set in and
around Aberdeen.
A Situationist Drift with Jim Colquhoun
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Wednesday 22nd June
2pm
PEACOCK Visual Arts
Jim Colquhoun
The Situationist Drift is a technique for defining the unconscious zones of a city.
A collective undertaking, that attempts to liberate the participants from
bourgeois society, or ‘a technique of transient passages through varied
ambiances’. Participants will be encouraged to respond instinctively when
striking a passage through the city.
Premiere of new work from ‘Aberdeen’
by Bill Thompson
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Friday 24th June
6.30pm - 7.30pm
TBC
Bill Thompson
This soundwalk piece was recorded during one long continuous exploration
of Aberdeen. In hearing these sounds 'out of context', listeners are
encouraged to 'hear' to them as though for the first time. The performance
will conclude with an after-project festivity.
Ray Lucas' walk/workshop ends with a talk at the Noose & Monkey.
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EVENTS
HANDS ON & EVE ARNOLD EXHIBITION
quateRmass and the pit (15)
DATE: Wednesday 15th June
TIME: 6.30pm
VENUE: The Belmont Picturehouse, 49 Belmont Street,
Aberdeen
T: 01224 343534
COST: £4/£3 Friends
WEB: www.picturehouses.co.uk
Director: Roy Ward Baker. UK 1967. 97 min. During excavations in London a large
unidentified object is unearthed. Within its walls Professor Quatermass discovers
the remains of intelligent alien creatures that attempted to conquer the Earth in
prehistoric times and, through their experiments on early man, altered human
evolution to its present state. Though dormant for many centuries, the power
supply from the excavations is being drained by the ship until its terrifying force can
be unleashed and the creatures can reinstate their violent dominance over man.
PAINTING ON
CERAMICS
DATE: Wednesday 15th
- Friday 17th June
Wednesday 22nd
- Friday 24th June
DATE: Thursday 16th June
& Thursday 23rd June
TIME: 10am - 4.30pm
VENUE: Dab Hand Ceramics
245 Union Grove, Aberdeen
T: 01224 322302
VENUE: Dab Hand Ceramics
245 Union Grove, Aberdeen
T: 01224 322302
COST : £6 - Booking Necessary
sans soleil (15)
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
COST:
Sunday 19th June
1pm
The Belmont Picturehouse
£4/£3 Friends
Your choice of small plate or mug Decorate your chosen piece with an
Aberdeen twist - Prizes on offer! No
experience necessary as all materials
provided.
Director: Chris Marker. Fr 1982. 104 min. A poetic documentary tour of Tokyo,
Guinea-Bissau, Iceland and San Francisco, the film mingles personal
reflections with the history of the world. The female narrator reads letters sent
by fictional Sandor Krasna, writing from ’another world‘. The spoken word,
synthesized sound and haunting visuals investigate relationships between
developed and developing societies. Virtuoso editing and special effects
conjure the disorientation of a world traveller, journeying through cultures,
secret rituals and confusions of time. Masters of montage Vertov, Eisentein,
Kuleshov and Medvedkin have all left their mark on this beautiful film of
impossible memories, but Sans Soleil still defies categorisation.
Radio On (18)
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
COST:
Wednesday 22nd June
6.30pm
The Belmont Picturehouse
£4/£3 Friends
Director: Chris Petit. UK/West Germany 1979. 102 min. Following a young man
(David Beames) as he travels to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his
brother, Radio On offers a mythic vision of a late 1970s England, stalled between
failed hopes of cultural and social change and the imminent upheavals of
Thatcherism. As Beames drives, he encounters figures as rootless as himself: an
army deserter from Northern Ireland, a German woman looking for her lost child, and
a garage mechanic (Sting in an early singing cameo). Stunningly photographed in
luminous monochrome by Martin Schaefer, Radio On is ripe for rediscovery.
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PAINTING ON
CANVAS - OIL
& ACRYLIC
TIME: 7pm - 8.30pm
COST: £18 per child (2 sessions)
£22 per adult (2 sessions)
Booking Necessary - Suitable
for children 8+ and adults
During the two sessions - Paint your Choice
of City, Girdleness Lighthouse, Harbour or
Round House. No experience necessary as
all materials provided.
EVE ARNOLD IN
RETROSPECT
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
COST:
ARTIST :
WEB:
Saturday 11th June - Saturday 20th August
10am - 5pm (Sunday 2pm - 5pm)
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
Admission Free
Eve Arnold
www.aagm.co.uk
The only showing in Britain of a major restrospective of the work of Eve Arnold,
one of the world’s leading photographers. The exhibition also includes the first
showing of a series of images taken by Arnold throughout her career, in which
she focused on her subjects’ hands and feet. For information on events
celebrating photography please contact Aberdeen Art Gallery on (01224)
523700. Organised by Magnum Photos, London and courtesy of the National
Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
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GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Paintings & sculpture
Scottish Contemporary Art
DATE:
TIME:
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTISTS:
WEB:
Sunday 12th June - Tuesday 28th June
10.00am -12.30pm Tuesday-Friday
and 1.30pm - 5.30pm, 10am - 4pm Saturday
VENUE: Riverside Gallery, 28 David St, Stonehaven
T: 01569 763931
ARTISTS: Doug Cocker, Gordon Bryce, Keith Grant, Kathryn Monteith,
Winifred Fergus, James R Livingstone, Ewan Douglas, Anne
Murray, David Greenall and Ruth O'Dell
WEB:
www.riverside-gallery.com
Wednesday 15th June - Friday 24th June
10am - 5pm (Closed 1pm-2pm and Sunday's & Tuesday's)
Larks Gallery, Ballater
Scottish Artists
www.larksgallery.com
Larks offers a changing selection of work from leading Scottish artists, as
well as some of the best emerging talents in painting, sculpture, ceramics,
glass, textiles, photography and jewellery design.
Contemporary Art since 1981. Riverside shows work by young as well as
established artists working in the North East of Scotland.
Brunch @ The Heinzel
THE MA Show
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTISTS:
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
WEB:
Saturday 4th June - Wednesday 29th June
10am - 5pm
Carby Art Gallery, 50 Cotton St, Aberdeen
T: 01224 595080
Various
www.carbyart.net
Work from photographer Stefan Syrowatka, painter Niamh Lucey and
ceramicist Elaine Edwards.
Home-Maker
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTISTS:
COST:
WEB:
Until Saturday 20th August
10am - 5pm (Sunday 2pm - 5pm)
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
Jeanie Finlay
Admission Free
www.home-maker.org.uk
What makes a house a home? How does this change if you cannot leave?
Artist Jeanie Finlay’s award winning interactive domestic installation,
Home-Maker, takes us into the living rooms of seven housebound older
people in South Derbyshire, England and Tokyo, Japan. Home-Maker is
complemented by a display of domestic objects from Aberdeen Art Gallery &
Museums’ Collections, reflecting different rooms in a house. Home-Maker is
a Ruby Project supported by: Arts Council England National Touring, EM
Media, UK Film Council, Year of the Artist, Esmeé Fairbairn Charitable Trust,
Peoplexpress and Muse Company. In collaboration with On the Edge
Research, Gray’s School of Art, the Robert Gordon University. www.homemaker.org.uk
Recent Paintings of Orkney
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
WEB:
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GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Saturday 4th June - Saturday 18th June
10am - 6pm Closed Sunday
Rendezvous Gallery, 100 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen
T: 01224 323247
Mark Scadding
www.rendezvous-gallery.co.uk
COST:
WEB:
Saturday 25th June
11am-1pm
Gallery Heinzel, 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen
Over 40 of the galleries regular exhibitors as well as recent
graduates from the four main Scottish Art Schools.
Admission Free
www.galleryheinzel.com
A selection of work from the galleries established artists as well as some new
introductions.
The Heinzel Mixed Summer Exhibition
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTISTS:
COST:
WEB:
Saturday 25th June - Saturday 13th August
10am - 5pm (Closed Sunday)
Gallery Heinzel, 24 Thistle Street, Aberdeen
Over 40 of the galleries regular exhibitors as well as recent
graduates from the four main Scottish Art Schools.
Admission Free
www.galleryheinzel.com
A selection of work from the galleries established artists as well as some new
introductions.
Paintings
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
Thursday 5th May - Saturday 2nd July
9 am - 6pm Daily, Café Open 8.30am - 3.30pm Mon-Fri
Bridge View (Petrofac Building), 1 North Esplanade West,
Aberdeen
ARTISTS: Kelly-Anne Cairns, Carolyn Couper, Michele David,
Gabrielle Reith
WEB:
www.rendezvous-gallery.co.uk
KELLY ANNE CAIRNS: Graduated from Gray's in 1999, Kelly Anne won a John
Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence; she has gone on to be one of
Scotland's finest figurative painters. She has exhibited in the BP portrait
award (and was the subject of this years winning painting by her husband
Stephen Shankland). Her paintings are influenced by her love for fabric
designs and textures and portray the human form and emotions; they have
an oriental feel in their colour and composition. Kelly exhibits regularly in
London, New York and the Scottish cities. Her work is collected by author JK
Rowling. See www.kellyannecairns.com
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GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
CAROLYN COUPER: Studied at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, Carolyn
paints the wild beauty of the North Sea coastline in an exuberant painterly
style. Lighthouses, beached boats, the colours of sea, sand and rocks appear
in the paintings. This is a chance to see a collection of new large paintings
as well as a selection of smaller ones. Carolyn visits Catterline regularly to
paint at the Watchouse studio, with the cliffs and wild seas on the doorstep;
you can almost smell the sea in her work !
MICHELE DAVID: We are pleased to give Glasgow School of Art graduate
Michele her first exhibition in Aberdeen. Michele became Artist in
Residence for the Shetland Isles after graduating. She went on to win travel
awards (Alastair Salveson and David Villiers awards) to enable her to travel
in Australia, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and America, South East Asia and
other exotic locations, igniting her passion for volcanic and geothermal
landscapes, where we can witness the powerful forces active beneath the
earth's crust. Her wonderful complex paintings capture the peculiarities of
these places. See www.micheledavid.co.uk
GABRIELLE REITH: Graduated from Gray's in 1998. Pattern and colour in the
landscape, the changing seasons, architectural details, these are all
influences for Gabi's mixed media paintings. She uses wonderful jewel-like
colours and collaged textures in her abstract compositions. Gabi was
recently hailed in an arts supplement by the Scotsman, as one of Scotland's
top 20 young artists. See www.g-r-a.co.uk
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
space retail magic
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Friday 10th June - Saturday 25th June
Opening night 7pm - 9pm
12 noon - 5pm Monday - Saturday
Limousine Bull, Unit 3c, Deemouth Business Centre,
South Esplanade East, Aberdeen
Eva Merz
Three large-scale photographic collages (200 x 400 cm), each containing some
1000 single images and depicting three sites in three towns in across Northeast
Scotland. SPACE/RETAIL/MAGIC reflects concerns about supermarket
development and decline in rural areas, specifically concentrating on the
sustainability of large-scale supermarket buildings and the visual impact they
have on our towns and cities, not only through the buildings they create but also
the opportunities and spaces they can destroy.
Presentation by eva merz space retail magic
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
Thursday 16th June
6.30pm
Limousine Bull, Unit 3c, Deemouth Business Centre,
South Esplanade East, Aberdeen
ARTIST: Eva Merz
BOOKING: Contact Limousine Bull T: 01224 877001
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
- UK Tour '05
DATE:
Tuesday 21st June - Wednesday 22nd June
VENUE: P E A C O C K visual arts
ARTISTS: Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
BOOKING: To book a place for the training workshop, e-mail
[email protected], call PEACOCK visual arts on 01224 639
539, or sign up at PEACOCK visual arts during our opening hours.
WEB:
www.clownarmy.org, www.labofii.net
In the lead up to the protests against the G8 summit, to be held in Scotland
in July, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a mixture of live art
and cultural resistance training camp, is touring the UK with members of the
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Army and The Church of The Immaculate
Consumption. The lab brings artists and activists together to apply creativity
to radical social and ecological change. The Labofii’s nomadic solar powered
information center will set up on the Castlegate and be the basis for their
ridiculous recruitment cabaret show and street interventions on 21st June
from 8 pm on. Their two-day intensive Rebel Clowning and direct action
training will take place on 21 and 22 June from 10am to 6pm at The Tunnels,
Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen.
Abergreen
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
ARTIST:
Friday 8th April - Sunday 26th June
9.30 - 5.30, closed Sunday and Monday
P E A C O C K visual arts
Steven Duval
LOCALE is a programme of residencies that give artists from both the UK and
abroad the opportunity to engage with the many varied communities of
Aberdeen in collaborative projects. With Abergreen, Edinburgh-based artist
Steven Duval invites us to investigate the social, physical and ecological
make-up of Aberdeen. For three months the gallery is his living room and
laboratory for collective discussion and discovery, with games, films, talks,
books and more. Some of the events envisioned for the space are talks by
experts on the built environment and interpersonal behaviour, film nights
programmed by users of the space, and student projects. LOCALE is funded
by the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery, Aberdeen City Council and
Communities Scotland: Grampian Housing Association.
Harbour Works
DATE:
TIME:
VENUE:
Until Saturday 6th August
10am - 5pm (Sunday 12 noon - 3pm)
Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow Aberdeen.
Aberdeen Harbour has played an important role in industries as diverse as
fishing and papermaking. This exhibition looks at businesses based in and
around the area, ranging from ship repair to the comb works, plus those
whose raw materials were imported via the harbour or whose finished
products departed the city by sea.
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EVENTS AT A GLANCE
EVENTS AT A GLANCE
look events from WEDnesday 15th june through to friday 24th JunE
event
start date
end date
other JUNE events
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Gray’s School of Art
Degree Show
Friday 17th June
Friday 24th June
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Scott Sutherland
Degree Show
Saturday 18th June
Friday 24th June
4
Concupiscence & Micturation
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
12
McKays of Queen Street
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
14
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Abergreen
Friday 8th April
Sunday 26th June
21
Castle Spectre
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
12
Tracked
Monday 23rd May
Saturday 2nd July
8
Space Retail Magic
Friday 10th June
Saturday 25th June
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Fr 17
Sa 18
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Peripatetic Randomiser for the Pleasurable, Negotiation of Spectacular Space
13
Quatermass & The Pit (15) 6.30pm
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Painting on Ceramics
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Recent Paintings of Orkney Starts: Saturday 4th June Ends: Saturday 18th June
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Culture from the ground: Walking Movement & Place Making (2004-2006)
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Painting on Canvas
Painting on Ceramics
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Surrealist Deambulation
13
Painting on Ceramics
17
Valerio Olgiati
6
MULTI ARTS: Performance Art Program
10
Salvation Army Tour
13
A Notational Walk with Ray Lucas
A talk with Ray Lucas
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Sans Soleil (15) 1pm
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Paintings & Sculpture
Sunday 12th June
Tuesday 28th June
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Eve Arnold in Retrospect
Saturday 11th June
Saturday 20th August
17
Home-Maker
Wednesday 15th June
Saturday 20th August
18
Bend & See on a Mid-Summers Night
18
A Walk with Stewart Home
15
A Talk with Stewart Home
15
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
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The MA Show
Thursday 4th June
Wednesday 29th June
Harbour Works
Wednesday 15th June
Saturday 6th August
20
Scottish Contemporary Art
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
19
Art for Children
Wednesday 15th June
Tuesday 21st June
3
‘Grey’s’
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
7
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Mo 20
Tu 21
A Situationist Drift with Jim Colquhoun
15
Radio On (18) 6.30pm
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Painting on Ceramics
17
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
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Painting on Ceramics
Painting on Canvas
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Premiere of new work from ‘Aberdeen’ by Bill Thompson - Venue TBC
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Painting on Ceramics
17
Brunch @ the Heinzel
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External Mental Landscape
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
9
Paintings
Thursday 5th May
Saturday 2nd July
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Paintings & Photographs
of Plant Forms
Friday 17th June
Sunday 24th July
11
Steve Shankland Exhibition
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
11
Rainbow
Wednesday 15th June
Friday 24th June
9
The Heinzel Mixed
Summer Exhibition
Saturday 25th June
Saturday 13th August
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Key to Venues for events
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Garthdee Campus
Rendezvous Gallery
Art Gallery Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Gallery Heinzel
Riverside Gallery
Belmont Picture House
John Skinner Centre
Salvation Army
Bon Accord Centre
Larks Gallery, Ballater
Sculpture Park, Kirkhill
Bridge View (Petrofac Building)
Limousine Bull
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Carby Art Gallery
Mackays of Queen St
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Maritime Museum
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