We aim to uncover and share the stories of women artists, designers, makers and collectors in Scottish collections.
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Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Please join me when I give the talk 'Queen of Edinburgh: Anne Redpath and her Circle' @EdinCulture on 16 August 2024. Info: bit.ly/3I1Jqv9 Image: Anne Redpath, Black and White Checks, 1952, presented to @EdinCulture in 1964 (c) Artist's Estate courtesy @RoyalScotAcad
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Kirstin Mackinnon's paper '40 Years’ Progress on Gender Equality in Contemp Scottish Painting' is part of @SSAHistory 40 Years of Art & Art History in Scotland 1984-2024 Study Days 1-2 March: bit.ly/3UBEMvn Image: Mackinnon's A Painter Worth Taking Seriously? @DJCAD coll
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Handful of tickets left for our @FriendsofGUL Bet Low talk this Thurs! 22 Feb, 7pm, Level 12 @UofGLibrary.
Book now on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-stre…
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This month is #LGBTHistoryMonth🏳️🌈
From the 1st LGBT+ museum to the home of an iconic gay rights activist, these places are preserving & celebrating important stories for future generations👉 bit.ly/47HU18Y
@MuseumLiverpool @QueerBritain @CharlestonTrust @NtlMuseumsScot
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
The Strange Horizons – Millie Frood exhibition is now open at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre. Read all about Millie Frood from our Assistant Curator, Rosie Shackleton, via Art UK.
Read the article here: ow.ly/c8WR50Qwhv0
@artukdotorg @NL_Heritage
ALT Winter Sunset, Millie Frood (1900–1988), Perth Art Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross)
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NOW OPEN - @britishmuseum is a display of the WBG Trust's recent gift of 12 major WBG works on paper to the Museum's collection. The display is in gallery G90a in the Prints and Drawings area until 12 May - included is this stunning drawing - Lava Forms Lanzarote 2, 1993.
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With the weather being so unpredictable, join us for a free online tour of our current collection landscape exhibition 'Shifting Vistas: 250 Years of Scottish Landscape'. An illustrated tour from the comfort of your own home. Book here for 8 Feb: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/what…
ALT Painting of hills in Scotland with a loch in centre of image
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Coming up March 1-2! In-person (@UofAlabama & @bhammuseum) & online -
Challenging Empire: Women, Art, & the Global Early Modern World
Organizers: Doris Sung, Becky Teague & Tanja Jones
Conf website: art.ua.edu/challenging-empir…
Register here: art.ua.edu/challenging-empir…
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
I've posted the text of my latest @Sunday_Post column on @ScottishGallery's Modern Masters XVI exhibition on my work Facebook page. LOVE Pat Douthwaite and Joan Eardley so here's a double helping for your delectation.... facebook.com/JanPatienceArt
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Thanks to @ScottishGallery for this wee film which captures Joan Eardley’s Catterline beautifully.
There is a room in the gallery’s new Modern Masters XVI exhibition (opens today) devoted to Catterline. It includes work by Joan, Lil Neilson and James Morrison. Runs until 27 Jan.
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
We’re delighted to announce the award of £60,000 by @MuseumsGalScot for a project to explore North Lanarkshire’s links with slavery and empire. We’re excited to be working with our communities and the University of Glasgow to establish new narratives and ways of working.
ALT Samples from Shotts Iron Works in our collection. The company benefitted from the profits of slavery.
ALT Armlet from Uganda, part of our World Cultures Collection which will be researched as part of the project
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
And just like that, we're back! We have several exhibitions taking place across the building, books to browse & borrow, spaces to study, free WiFi, tea making facilities, & more. Everyone is welcome, & a warm welcome awaits!
Find us at 23 Landressy Street, Bridgeton, G40 1BP – at Glasgow, Scotland
ALT vinyl lettering on a window reads "Come on In We're Home", through the glass we see the main library space of the Glasgow Women's Library filled with stacks of books
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
As an outdoor painter Joan Eardley captured the seasons on the coast at Catterline in all their moods. In the middle of winter look forward to summer with this wonderful painting "Summer Grasses and Barley on the Clifftop" (1962) @EdinCulture
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Hannah Frank (1908–died #OTD 2008) Scottish born artist, studied at Glasgow Uni and Art School Art Nouveau style black and white drawings (@womenslibrary ), later figurative sculpture (@GSofA ) Also egs @NatGalleriesSco @BenUriOnline Excellent website hannahfrank.org.uk/
ALT https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/GLA/GWL/GLA_GWL_GWL_2010_40-001.jpg © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Glasgow Women's Library
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Join our curator of British Art Anne Dulau today at 1pm for our last Friday Focus of the year!
Anne will discuss Hunterian acquisitions of Scottish art made in recent years, including works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Bessie MacNicol.
eventbrite.co.uk/x/friday-fo…
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Our City Art Centre exhibition 'Shifting Vistas: 250 Years of Scottish Landscape' explores the evolution of landscape painting seen through the eyes of our celebrated collection. Open daily from 10am until 5pm. #Edinburgh #artist #exhibition #art
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🔸New Article 🔸
Strength and Sentiment: Early Eardley
By Greg Thomas @ Gregchthomas
Full article: mtr.cool/kmdpgnkdrm
#scottishartnews #scottishart #glasgowschoolofart #joaneardley
ALT 🖼️Covered Market, Glasgow (circa 1945-49) Joan Eardley NMC/0087 In the collection of The Glasgow School of Art Archives & Collections © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 202
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
This is an absolutely beautiful and moving poem. Do listen to and read the text. And take a look at Gerda's collection 'Quines', on women of Scotland, in which this poem appears. @Scotlit @SWARNetwork #MaryQueenofScots @GerdaStevenson8
Fir #GiesAScotsPoemDay here's yin o ma favourites:
'The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots' by @GerdaStevenson8
Stevenson's Mary is saft an teuch, thrawn an scunnert aw at the same time.
Ye can find the text here: scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk…
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Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Joan Eardley's 'Footsteps in the Snow, The Row, Catterline' shows the artist's route from her cottage to the spot from which she painted it after a snowfall. There is a surprise on its reverse! It is being offered by @LyonandTurnbull on 8 June. Info: bit.ly/3WuvPmx
