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Greg Thomas’ forthcoming book brings together interviews and testimonies from those who worked with Ian Hamilton Finlay from the 1950s to the 2000s, the culmination of a five-year project, supported by the Fleming Collection.
🔗 Crowdfunding link: tinyurl.com/y737d85d
This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Christopher Ivor Adam 🎨
His prints, paintings, drawings, films, songs and stories draw on imagination and historical records while flitting between Gaelic, Scots and English.
'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine' at the V&A Dundee brings together Palestinian hand-embroidered material culture from the 19th century to the present day.
🔗 Read Shalmali Shetty's review of the exhibition on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/2uky6xs9
Beth Williamson shares why a cultural biography tracing the life, influences and impact of William Johnstone, the enigmatic Scottish artist and educator, was long overdue.
🔗 Read 'Unravelling the riddle of William Johnstone' on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/pcfydwzj
Happy Earth Day from the Fleming Collection! 🌱🌏
This work by Scottish artist Alasdair Wallace portrays a flock of birds, rendered against a pale blue sky above a green landscape punctuated by electric pylons, contrasting the rhythms of nature with the imprint of modern life.
📣 Exhibition Announcement!
The Maltings presents Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline, an exhibition curated in partnership with The Fleming Collection and part of RSA200: Celebrating Together.
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This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Lisa Speirs-Fleming 🎨
Her prints draw on experiences of motherhood, intertwined with the fragility of mental health, expressed through a surreal and symbolic visual language.
⭐️ Fleming Collection Artwork on Loan! ‘Light Divine Sky 2’ by Zimbabwean-Scottish artist Sekai Machache is now on display at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, as part of their Earth Matters exhibition.
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Reminder: Applications for the Curatorial Research Residency (2026-27), offered by the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC), are closing in a week!
📩 Don't miss your chance to apply!
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From the Clyde to Sarajevo & The Venice Lagoon, is on display at the Wyllieum in Greenock until 31 May.
🔗 Read Neil Cooper's (@cooperhack1) review of the exhibition on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/ekx86hry
This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Emily McLatchie 🎨
Her practice draws on traditional craftsmanship and natural materials to explore cycles of decay, renewal, and return.
The work of Glasgow-based artist and curator Siobhan McLaughlin will feature in Extraction, a group show at Jupiter Artland this spring.
🔗 Read Jelena Sofronijevic's conversation with the artist here: tinyurl.com/3weya6kj
Happy Easter from the Fleming Collection! 🐣🌼
This work by Scottish artist Gary Anderson depicts a scene featuring four chickens and is titled From Eggs (of Four Chickens). It is characteristic of Anderson’s earlier work, which focused on close observation of the natural world
This painting, by dance pioneer Margaret Morris, was of one of her young dancers, Flossie Jolley 🩰
Morris was a trailblazing dancer. Encouraged by a supportive network, she became a deft painter too.
ALT Margaret Morris, Flossie Jolley (c. 1915). The Fleming Collection.
This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Amelia Barratt 🎨
Her paintings are often inspired by Glasgow’s urban landscape, with her abstract approach transforming everyday scenes into something strange and mysterious. Her work uncovers beauty in unlikely places.
ALT Amelia Barratt, Boiler (c. 2025). © the artist.
ALT Amelia Barratt, Shipping (c. 2026). © the artist.
ALT Amelia Barratt, Heating (c. 2025). © the artist.
The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) are excited to announce a Curatorial Research Residency for 2026-27!
🚨 Applications close on 22 April 2026 at 10am.
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Artist and writer Lachlan Goudie explores the history of art through 20 masterpieces in his new book The Secrets of Painting.
Read our interview with him about the book here: bit.ly/secretsofpainting
In A Newhaven Fishwife, Glasgow Boy Alexander Roche gives the woman an allure that is at odds with her unromantic occupation.
Some have interpreted the black cat as a symbol of female sexuality, but it could just as easily be there waiting to steal some freshly caught fish!
ALT Painting of a late 19th century young fisherwife. She is centre and is staring straight at the viewer, with a huge basket full of fish on her back. To her right is a young girl holding a small basket of fish. On her left is a small black cat wearing a blue ribbon.
This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Siobhan McLaughlin 🎨
Working with remnant textiles and gathered earth pigments, McLaughlin explores themes of place, care and sustainability through painting, printmaking and installation.
ALT Sionhan McLaughlin, Renewal of the Five Sisters. © the artist.
ALT Sionhan McLaughlin, Run Off the Mine. © the artist.
ALT Sionhan McLaughlin, Pioneer Speices. © the artist.
ALT Sionhan McLaughlin, Tidal Pool, Pittemween. © the artist.
Simon Phipps photographed 160 of Scotland's Brutalist buildings. The resulting exhibition, Brutal Scotland at @StreetLevel_ immerses visitors in the visual and cultural atmosphere of the Brutalist era.
Read @NeilCooper1 review on Scottish Art News: bit.ly/brutalscotland
