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■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Nov–Mar 9.30am–4.30pm Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein Until Sun 14 Apr. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free; family £15.50). An impressive collection of works by Northern European artists of the turbulent 15th and 16th centuries.
■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Nov–Jan daily 10am–4pm. Heather Raeburn: Through the Looking Glass Until Sun 24 Feb. Botanical artist Heather Raeburn uses a magnifying glass to capture the minute details of plants, which she then renders in her plant studies. Roots to Shoots: Celebrating Ten years of Dewar Arts Awards Until Sun 10 Mar. Celebrating ten years of Scottish visual arts talent that have been encouraged and supported by the Dewar Arts Awards. ■ ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. LAST CHANCE The Force and Form of Memory Until Sun 20 Jan. Daily 10am–6pm. An exhibition of work by 76 artists on the theme of memory, jointly organised by Compass Gallery in Glasgow and Alzheimer Scotland.
■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. LAST CHANCE RSA Architecture Open 2012 Until Sun 16 Dec. The RSA showcases the range of new architecture in Scotland. All work in the show is from open submission. RSA Open 2012 Until Thu 31 Jan. The Royal Scottish Academy’s annual selection of the best works chosen by open submission. Scottish Painters and Limners: works from the RSA Collection Until Mon 18 Mar. Looking at the historical position of Painter and Limner, a position in the Royal Household in Scotland that since 1823 has been occupied by a series of eminent Scottish artists: the current one is Elizabeth Blackadder, but previous examples include Henry Raeburn, David Wilkie, William Allan, John Watson Gordon, Joseph Noel Paton, Robert Gibb, David Young Cameron, Stanley Cursiter and David Donaldson, all of whom are represented in this exhibition.
■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. LAST CHANCE David Michie: Belgrade Prints Until Mon 24 Dec. Prints made in 1980 by David Michie during his tenure as visiting professor of the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, recently rediscovered by the artist in his studio. LAST CHANCE Victoria Crowe: Ti Sorprendo Until Mon 24 Dec. Much- garlanded painter who’s just become the subject of a new monograph. LAST CHANCE Visions of Edinburgh Until Mon 24 Dec. Images of Edinburgh from current and former gallery artists including Stephanie Dees, Henry Kondracki, Calum McClure, Aleksander Zyw and others. NEW: Lisa Hammond: Ceramics Sat 5 Jan–Wed 30 Jan. Ceramics from artist working with the salt and soda vapour glaze. NEW: Sir William Gillies: Works on Paper Sat 5 Jan–Wed 30 Jan. Still lifes and landscapes from the renowned painter. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). John Bellany: A Passion for Life Until Sun 27 Jan. £tbc. Major
retrospective celebrating the 70th birthday of John Bellany. Featuring work from all periods of his career, from the early paintings of fisher-folk through the more expressionist work of the 70s and 80s that reflected the artist’s battles with inner demons and physical illness, to his more recent richly coloured allegorical paintings. This is the largest retrospective of Bellany’s work for 25 years and is a proud celebration of a major Scottish artist. Town and City: Scotland’s Urbanised Landscape 1700–1900 Until Sun 10 Feb. Paintings, drawings and prints from the Gallery’s collection, showing the gradual development of urban life in Scotland over the course of two centuries. Featuring works from Turner, Sandby, Girtin and Nasmyth and remarkable amateurs like Henriette Ouchterlony and Gregory Sharpe. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. NEW From Death to Death and Other Small Tales Sat 15 Dec–Sun 8 Sep. Works from the collection of Dimitri Daskalopolous, Greek industrialist and art collector, with a common focus on themes of the body. Works from the collection will be shown in groups and pairings with works in the Gallery’s own collection, and the list of featured artists is Marina Abramovic, Jean Arp, Balthus, Matthew Barney, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Beuys, Boyle Family, Louise Bourgeois, Andre Breton, Gunter Brus, Vlassis Caniaris, Helen Chadwick, John Coplans, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Delvaux, Otto Dix, Tracey Emin, Max Ernst, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Stathis Logothetis, Sarah Lucas, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Pablo Picasso, Dieter Roth, Doris Salcedo, Kiki Smith, Rachel Whiteread, Sue Williams and Francesca Woodman.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. The Scottish Colourist Series: SJ Peploe Until Sun 23 Jun. £7 (£5). Retrospective of the work of Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), the eldest of the artists known as the Scottish Colourists (the others being FCB Cadell, JD Fergusson and GL Hunter). Peploe studied in Edinburgh and two years in Paris introduced him to new developments in French painting. Here are nearly seventy paintings, some of which have rarely if ever been exhibited before.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). LAST CHANCE Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits Until Mon 31 Dec. Examining what tartan meant to six people painted between 1680 and 1780. LAST CHANCE Citizens of the World: David Hume & Allan Ramsay Until Mon 31 Dec. Looking at the relationship between Hume and Ramsay and the circles that surrounded them. Too few Scots are aware that Scotland has its own Enlightenment, and a hugely influential one at that, with a world-class philosopher in David Hume, an equally heavy-hitting economist in Adam Smith, an outstanding painter in Allan Ramsay, plus less well-known intellectual giants like Hutcheson, Ferguson, Reid and others. LAST CHANCE Close Encounters: Thomas Annan’s Glasgow Until Mon 31 Dec. In 1866, Glasgow’s City Improvement Trust set about planning large-scale improvements of old
Glasgow city, large parts of which were among the worst slums in Britain. They commissioned photographer Thomas Annan to document what was going to be knocked down, and the result was the first photographic record ever made of slum housing and a fascinating and haunting series of photographs in its own right. LAST CHANCE George Jamesone: Scotland’s First Portrait Painter Until Mon 31 Dec. George Jamesone (c 1690–1644) was the first great native portrait painter in Scotland, master of a rich, colourful and intricate style and so successful that he had two houses, one in his native Aberdeen and one in Edinburgh, so that he could take commissions from people all over the country. LAST CHANCE Imagining Power: the Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause Until Mon 31 Dec. Looking at the way the Jacobites presented themselves in portraiture. Jitka Hanzlová Until Sun 3 Feb. Photographs by Czech-born photographer who settled in what was then West Germany, in 1982. Hanzlová’s photographs trace how home and belonging shape identity. LAST CHANCE John Slezer: A Survey of Scotland Until Mon 31 Dec. Some of the earliest images of Scotland ever produced. Military engineer John Slezer (c 1650–1717) came from the continent to Scotland in 1671 and worked for the army surveying fortifications, but in the course of his travels he also drew a series of stunning views of Scotland’s landscapes, which were subsequently engraved and which he published in a book called Theatrum Scotiae in 1693. Leading Lights: Portraits by KK Dundas Until Sun 3 Mar. A set of portraits commissioned by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly the RSAMD) in its 60th anniversary year, featuring the school’s best known alumni.
VISUAL ART Lucknow to Lahore: Fred Bremner’s Vision of India Until Sun 7 Apr. Scottish commercial photographer who travelled widely in India between 1882 and 1922 and took spectacular photographs of the country and its people. LAST CHANCE Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland Until Mon 31 Dec. Exploring how women were depicted (not to mention which women were depicted) in the visual arts between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, from Newhaven fishwife Elizabeth Hall to ruler of the British Empire Queen Victoria. Also Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780–1872), an exceptionally intelligent science fan who was lucky enough to have a second husband who was fully supportive of her scientific interests, with the result that she became one of the most brilliant and successful popular science writers of her time: she now has a college, an island, an asteroid and a lunar crater named after her. LAST CHANCE Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport Until Mon 31 Dec. Examining the way sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Check out the fabulously suspicious scowl of the gentleman on the poster; whoever he played for, he looks like he was a sore loser. LAST CHANCE Reformation to Revolution Until Mon 31 Dec. Covering the transformation of Scotland from an independent nation ruled by Catholic monarchs in the beginning of the 16th century, to a part of the Union with Protestant England at the end of the 17th. Among the portraits included are Adrian Vanson’s brilliant depiction of the then James VI of Scotland as a hood-eyed melancholic and Marcus Gheeraerts’ touching portrait of James’ fool, Tom Derry.
Cyril Gerber Fine Art 19th-21st Century British Drawings, Paintings & Sculpture
The Winter Collection 2012 Throughout December and January
Specially selected works by 19th-21st Century British artists and Scottish Modern
Masters with works by Colquhoun, Cowie, Eardley, Fry, Gaudier-Brezska, Herman, Knox, Lanyon, Paterson, Reeves, Sandeman, The Scottish
Colourists, Westwood and many others.
Compass Gallery The Cabinet Exhibition
An exhibition of specially commissioned small scale works from over 100 Contemporary artists. Runs throughout December and January.
178 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 4RL • 0141 221 3095 • www.gerber(cid:191) neart.co.uk www.compassgallery.co.uk • Open Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30, Sat 10-5.30, Thurs till 6.30
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