Art, craft and family fun highlights
Written by admin on June 28, 2012
Whether you are local or visiting the region come and visit this summer to discover more about the artwork held in the Dumfries and Galloway Council collections. Dumfries and Galloway is home to over 1000 artworks and the Highlights exhibition offers a chance to view some of the best examples of work by Scottish artists dating from the 1850s to the present day, including works by the Scottish Colourists, Glasgow Boys, Elizabeth Blackadder and John Bellany. It’s a fabulous collection which visitors are already enjoying, commenting: “A fantastic show, beautiful work”, “So glad to see these works out of the store and on display – a treasure trove”.
The artworks have been selected from the Dumfries and Galloway Council and Dumfriesshire Educational Trust collections held at Gracefield, with contributions from Annan Museum, The Stewartry Museum Kirkcudbright and Stranrear Museum. A full colour booklet accompanies the exhibition priced £3.
Still to come this summer, David Steel will be giving a free talk on Scottish Art in Galloway this Friday (29th) at 7.30pm and then in the summer holidays there are lots of free hands-on family activities to enjoy inspired by the artworks in the exhibition:
Wednesday 11 July: Felting fruit with artist Janet Renouf-Miller
Wednesday 18 July: Travel diaries with artist Isabell Buenz
Wednesday 25 July: Mischievous monkeys with artist Pamela Grace
Wednesday 1st August: Japanese paper sculptures with artist Pamela Grace;
Wednesday 8th August: Life in pattern with artist Pamela Grace
Booking can be made for either 10am-12noon or 2-4pm (a refundable deposit will be requested) – please see the website at www.dumgal.gov.uk/gracefield or call us on 01387 262084 for details and book soon for these fantastic fun art days! If you can’t make any of these days there will still be a drop-in art room to try your hand at art activities inspired by the Highlights exhibition. Entry to Gracefield Arts Centre is FREE and usual opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm.
Alongside the main exhibition, Gracefield Craft shop is delighted to be showing works by Linda Evans. Linda creates beautiful, unique one off stitched decorative collage/textile pictures and we will have on show a selection of her framed work. The pieces are all original art work and as Linda says: “I am a contemporary mixed media/textile artist, drawing inspiration from a wide variety of sources. I work with colour, pattern and embellishment, combining these with recycled materials and fabrics to create unique decorative textile pieces.” He unique work is show is on until Saturday 1st of September. The Gracefield Craft Shop is open Tuesday-Friday 10.30am – 3.30pm, Saturday 10am – 5pm and can be found in Gallery 2 with the Café, art activity rooms and main exhibition.
