Tim Pomeroy

Marble Slate Wood 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Based on northern European archaeology, natural history and the everyday designed world, the sculptures on display were made in traditional sculptural materials: stone, wood, slate, and marble. The forms, shapes and ideas are both contemporary and ancient. The Neolithic archaeological finds of Arran inspire Pomeroy. They lend his work a... Read more

John McLean

The Boston Pictures, 1982 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 The Boston Pictures, 1982 was an exhibition of works by John McLean, regarded internationally as one of Britain’s most significant abstract painters. In 1982, a teaching job at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School took John McLean to America. Upon arrival, he discovered that his workload was lighter than... Read more

Fleming At Fifty

Radicals, Pioneers and Rebels 15 Aug - 3 Sep 2018 In partnership with The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the exhibition showcased historic nineteenth and early twentieth Scottish paintings in modern and timely contexts, focusing on pioneering female artists, migration and refugee status, and the endless search for truth in art. The exhibition centred around six historic paintings from the Fleming Collection... Read more

Robert Powell

Between the Lost Places 20 Jul - 3 Sep 2018 Powell’s minutely detailed etchings and sculptures often depict satirical and dark humoured scenes, referencing art history, literature and modern society. Between The Lost Places is a meditation on real and imagined topographies, cartography and modern travel, recalling the sensibility of his home city of Edinburgh. A graduate of Edinburgh College... Read more

Assemblage

Found Objects and Boxed Reliefs 20 Jul - 11 Aug 2018 As part of Edinburgh Art Festival (26 July – 26 August 2018), Assemblage focused on Scottish artists’ contribution to the medium pioneered by Cubism and Surrealism, exploring the significance of found objects and constructed narratives in conveying history and cultural identity. With works by a variety of artists and covering... Read more

Ten Paintings By A. R. Sturrock RSA (1885-1953)

15 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Alick Riddell Sturrock RSA (1885-1953), brought together ten works depicting scenes across Scotland and England. Sturrock had great affinity with rural and country locales; a love reflected in his art. The ten exhibited paintings represent the breadth of Sturrock’s depictions – from farmhouses and cottages to lochs, coastal scenes and... Read more

Graham Rich

Anchored Under Red Rock 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Anchored Under Red Rock was an exhibition of works from across the career of Devonshire-based artist Graham Rich. Rich’s works range from large scale installations to small constructed scenes formed from the remnants of boats and objects he has found along the Devonshire coast. Often dwarfed against a backdrop of... Read more

Will Maclean

Narratives 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Will Maclean’s art serves as a tangible record and reference to culture, tradition, history and identity. A proponent of box construction art and the examination of found objects, the narratives in his works document the cultural and practical traditions of Scottish Highland and coastal communities. Alongside his academic career at... Read more

Barbara Balmer 1929-2017

28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Barbara Balmer 1929-2017 was an exhibition of landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil and watercolour by Barbara Balmer RSA RSW RGI. Balmer first visited Italy in 1973, and the experience had a dramatic effect on her art. She painted large-scale stylised landscapes of the Tuscan landscape, using soft colour... Read more

John Byrne

The Boy and the Jabberwock 28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 This exhibition included John Byrne's work in theatre, film and television through preliminary drawings and character sketches from Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys and Writer's Cramp. A highlight among these was a framed storyboard from the film adaptation of The Slab Boys, showcasing Byrne's involvement in the project and the... Read more

Gerald Brockhurst

A Private Collection 1 - 28 Feb 2018 Comprising works created between 1920 and 1945, this private collection covered the greater part of the artist’s printmaking practice. Born in Birmingham in 1890, Brockhurst showed promising signs of his artistic talent while very young: the then headmaster of the Birmingham School of Art even announced he had discovered ”a... Read more

Alan Davie

Abstracts 8 - 29 Jan 2018 Providing an opportunity to consider the breadth of the career of Alan Davie (1920-2014) , the exhibition presented a retrospective view of the artist’s work over six decades from 1945 to 2005. The twenty-two works reflected Davie’s early interest in jazz music, and the spontaneous and automatic practice of painting... Read more

British Design

27 Nov 2017 - 3 Jan 2018 From Edward William Godwin's remodelling of the gallery's facade in 1881 to James Whistler's redesigning of the gallery space for his seminal exhibition Arrangement in White and Yellow, the gallery has held a long engagment with designers and the decorative arts. The gallery's history represents an intersection of these two... Read more