Scotland

2 - 22 Dec 2021 For a small country, and one whose nation school was late in developing, the history of Scotland’s visual arts is particularly rich and diverse. After The Act of Union in 1707, the newly founded image of Great Britain provoked Scotland into defining its own identity. For many Scots, The Act... Read more

Barbara Balmer

18 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Barbara Balmer’s pictures have a curious, even surreal, edge. In her instantly recognisable style, she took the everyday and simplified it into shapes and patterns filled with subtle gradations of colour. Balmer produced work over five decades. Her quiet, often large-scale oils, belie a poetry of mood. Their stillness gives... Read more

Rituals

New sculpture by Tim Pomeroy 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 For Tim, ritual is a multi-layered term. On one level, the process of sculpting with its repeated, meditative motions of carving, smoothing, refining forms a sort of ritual, paying reverence to the material being worked. On another, notions of ceremony and mysticism are embedded in the forms these works take... Read more

James McBey

Etchings and Watercolours 11 - 26 Nov 2021 'He began at dawn; he spent hours at the end of the Rialto or at a table under the shady colonnade of the Chioggia Cafe in the Piazzetta making pen and ink notes of figures; or in a gondola on the canals or the Giudecca, making studies of shipping, of... Read more

Through the Eyes of Anthony Whishaw RA

4 Oct - 26 Nov 2021 This Autumn, The Fine Art Society in London will be holding a large retrospective show of nonagenarian Royal Academician, Anthony Whishaw, with works from the 1950s through to the present day. They will map the artist's unique and mercurial vision across his long career, and recreate a sense of his... Read more

Twenty Twenty One

30 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by Scottish artists, including: Allan Ramsay, Sir Henry Raeburn, John Knox, Sir David Wilkie, Patrick Nasmyth, David Roberts, Alexander Johnston, Sam Bough, Robert Herdman, Phoebe Traquair, Sir James Guthrie, Charles Hodge Mackie, Sir D Y Cameron, John Maclauchlin Milne, Sir James... Read more

Nicola Tassie

Sweet Dreams 1 - 24 Sep 2021 Nicola Tassie is a ceramicist who initially studied painting at the Central School of Art. The crossover between the painted image and mark making in clay is a continuing preoccupation in her practice. Her wall-mounted ‘slip pillows’ playfully evoke a painted canvas on the wall, and present us with a... Read more

The Glasgow Boys & Galloway Pictures

Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright 14 - 29 Aug 2021 Harbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB Open 11am to 5pm Monday through Saturday 12pm to 5pm on Sundays In this, our 6th exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery and 43rd in Galloway, The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by The Glasgow Boys, alongside pictures by 19th... Read more

Summer

The Fine Art Society in London 1 Aug - 1 Sep 2021 'The Fine Art Society...where beautiful things are as plentiful as blackberries in September' In 1896, not twenty-five years after the company had opened, the arts editor of The Sketch penned this lovely phrase, describing our galleries as he was guided around admiring 'the many prints, curios and pictures there enshrined.'... Read more

Owners of the Soil

Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser 29 Jul - 18 Sep 2021 The Fine Art Society presents Owners of the Soil, an exhibition of work by Will Maclean and Shaun Fraser, examining ties between land, identity and ownership through the early Scottish diaspora’s dual identity of colonised and coloniser. Maclean’s boxed constructions, collages and drawings recount the experiences of six residents of... Read more

John Armstrong

An Artist's Themes 17 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 John Armstrong was an artist on the peripheries: unlabelled, and unallied to any artistic movement. His career is a peculiar, rich and varied one devoted to surface texture, allegory and symbolism. This small collection of works does not seek to demonstrate the breadth of Armstrong's career, but provides an insight... Read more

Hylton Nel at Eighty

17 Jun - 30 Jul 2021 For the London Art Week 2021, displayed in our gallery on Soho's Carnaby Street, we are thrilled to present Hylton Nel at Eighty. Celebrating Hylton's 80th birthday year and over five decades working as an 'artist-potter', this exhibition is also significant as it marks his relationship with The Fine Art... Read more

Disegno

17th to 21st century drawings by Scottish artists 10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents Disegno, an exhibition of drawings by Scottish artists from the 17th through 21st centuries. Draughtsmanship and linework are at the forefront of this exhibition, bringing together portraiture, landscape and historical subjects. With work by: David Allan, John Byrne, John Clerk of Eldin, Robert... Read more

The Glasgow Boys

10 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 When the Glasgow Boys rose to prominence in the 1880s, there was a sense of wonder at how a group of Scottish painters could hold such sway in the academies, salons and secessions of western Europe and North America. The group’s firm grasp on modernity brought a new lease of... Read more

Anthony Whishaw RA: Downstream Flood

4 - 6 Jun 2021 Anthony Whishaw RA claims no association with any particular art movement, stating instead that ‘each painting and work on paper makes its own separate demands’. His work deals with explorations of memory and experience. On the edge of representation, varying in intent, scale and depiction, it seeks to reconcile illusion... Read more

New Works

6 - 29 May 2021 The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of newly acquired work from 19th and 20th century Scottish artists, including: Patrick William Adam, Cosmo Alexander, Phyllis Bone, Sam Bough, John Boyd, John Byrne, George Paul Chalmers, James Cowie, William Gouw Ferguson, William Miller Frazer, Jack Knox, Charles Hodge Mackie, John MacWhirter,... Read more

Joan Eardley

6 - 29 May 2021 Unafraid to step outside societal conventions, from the outset, Joan Eardley developed a practice that challenged the norms of her time. The result was a defining Scottish style and a visceral account of people and place from Townhead in Glasgow to Catterline in Angus. To mark a centenary since her... Read more

Spring '21

12 Apr - 31 May 2021 Celebrating our return to the gallery on Carnaby Street, Spring '21 also revisits a grand old Fine Art Society tradition of holding mixed shows comprised of decorative arts and furniture alongside paintings, prints and sculpture. Held across two floors of our new Georgian townhouse gallery, Spring '21 represents the diversity of artwork that pass through the gallery from late nineteenth century artworks from James Whistler and Walter Greaves, to early twentieth century pictures by Walter Sickert the British Post-Impressiosnts Clare Atwood and Spencer Gore. Eric Ravilious' 1937 lithograph, Newhaven Harbour, leads our print offering, alongside other works on paper by Modern British Artists including Maxwell Ashby Armfield, Edward Bawden, Augustus Edwin John, Richard Eurich, and David Bomberg. Keith Coventry tops the bill with his Hertford Estate, 1996, which originates from a series of works that nod to late-twentieth century experiences of the modernist utopian approach to architecture of post-war Britain. Read more

Coast

1 Apr - 1 May 2021 Find the online viewing room for Coast here. Scotland’s coastline is one which naturally inspires in its dramatic geography. Coast presents a journey around the shores of the Scottish homeland, from Shetland to Galloway, uncovering the artists and works which have helped shape Scottish artistic identity through the centuries. The... Read more

Stuart Franklin

Narcissus 6 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 Find the online viewing room for Stuart Franklin: Narcissus here . Stuart Franklin (born 1956), member of Magnum Photos since 1989, has photographed some of the most important news events of the 21st Century – from the massacre at Tiananmen Square to the Intifada – as well as producing many... Read more

Looking Out

18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Read more

Modern

18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 20th century Scottish works of art, including Barbara Balmer, Robert Henderson Blyth, John Boyd, John Byrne, FCB Cadell, Ian Fleming, William Gillies, Jack Knox, William McCance, and John McLean. Read more

Printmaking

1920-1940 14 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Read more

John McLean

Forza: prints 14 Jan - 27 Mar 2021 As a gallery whose offering spans the centuries, the radical shift in the way our spaces look with John’s work always gives us an uplifting and refreshing surprise. The Boston Pictures, our penultimate show with John, felt as if the marks were dancing along the walls; the effect on visitors... Read more