Exhibitions 2024
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The Glasgow Boys
20 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 Read more -
Karen Lamond
Rubbish 20 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 Read more -
John McLean
Pleasure Garden 20 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 I work towards such an interdependence of parts that nothing could be added or taken away: a kind of absolute. When it happens, the eye and the spirit join up, just as the ear and soul do when you listen to a fine song. The Fine Art Society presents an... Read more -
The Extinction Collection
with Explorers Against Extinction 20 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Daniel Beltrá, Bigert & Bergström, Richard Deacon, Jon Foreman, Andy Goldsworthy, Beverly Joubert, Michael Kenna, Eleanor Lakelin, Richard Mosse, David Nash, Michael Pinsky, Peter Randall-Page, Sebastião Salgado, Conrad Shawcross, Julian Stair, Emily Young Explorers Against Extinction has partnered with The Fine Art Society to exhibit a remarkable collection of work... Read more -
Scottish Impressions
6 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 Our summer exhibition opens with an exquisite example of Pre-Raphaelite painting by Waller Hugh Paton. Sublime evening light suffuses the scene which takes in a moored boat on a loch in the Trossachs. Loch Achray, the subject of this painting, is only a couple of miles from Glen Finglas, the... Read more -
Gerald Laing: Myth & Muse
The Cult of Celebrity 6 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 Over five decades Gerald Laing explored the cult of celebrity. He made the myth and mystery of stars his subject, elevating them to become his muse. Enigmatic and depersonalised through dot art and abstraction, their public image – disseminated through mass imagery – often belies tales of tragedy. Laing’s first... Read more -
Art & Design
1950 - 2000 26 Apr - 1 Jun 2024 The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of paintings, prints textiles and objects from 1950 to 2000 including a group of textiles by Trinidad-born designer Althea McNish, produced by Heal's and Hull Traders Ltd in 1958-1960. Artists include Edward Bawden, John Byrne, Waistel Cooper, Pat Douthwaite, Ian Fleming, John Houston,... Read more -
Derek Clarke RSA RSW
Watercolours of Donegal and Connemara, 1938-1946 22 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 1912 Born Longthorpe, Peterborough, England 1927-1931 Educated at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire 1931-1935 Studied at Slade School of Art, London University 1937 Portrait painting in the Republic of Ireland 1938-1939 Lived and painted in Connemara 1939-1945 Served in Durham Light Infantry (commissioned) 1943-1944 Wounded in Tunisia and spend... Read more -
Works on Paper
18th & 19th century 22 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Read more -
Art & Design
1890 - 1950 22 Mar - 1 Jun 2024 Read more -
Fine Shadings
250 Years of Painting in Scotland 1 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 The definition of Scottish Art is wide and draws in artworks and artists with many kinds of association with Scotland. The pictures in this show illustrate not just topography, for which Scottish art is best known, but culture too: daily life, farming, fishing and religion. Within them are observations of... Read more -
20th Century Printmaking
1 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 Read more -
Twentieth Century
16 Nov - 23 Dec 2024 Modern paintings, drawings, ceramics and textiles from the 20th century: Maxwell Armfield Robert Henderson Blyth RSA RSW William Crosbie RSA Pat Douthwaite Ian Fleming RSA RSW William Gillies RA RSA PRSW Gerald Laing Jennifer McRae RSA Austin Osman Spare Keith Vaughan Betty Blandino Robin Welch Althea McNish, and more. Read more -
John Byrne
In the Studio 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2024 The Fine Art Society presents John Byrne: In the Studio at 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh from 15 November to 23 December, with paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by the inimitable John Byrne (1940-2023). Included in the exhibition are personal effects from the artist's studio with costumes, character designs and works... Read more
