Tag: Arthur Watson
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Elaine Shemilt – interview
An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees…
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Arthur Watson: ‘Central to the organisation of the show was that work would be presented as it would have been when first made or acquired’
The president of the Royal Scottish Academy discusses Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now, an ambitious and exciting exhibition that was more than three years in the making
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Arthur Watson: ‘What connected Nagoya and Chicago was the level of interest in the work. “Not bad,” is as good as it gets in north-east Scotland’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, Double Diablerie, in which he explores superstitions around the Devil, along with fellow Scottish artist Ian Howard and two Japanese artists
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Tadeusz Kantor: Inbetween Structures
As two exhibitions celebrate the centenary of the birth of Polish artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, Richard Demarco, who first brought him to Britain and has ensured his legacy continues, talks about his work
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Drawing as the catalyst for contemporary printmaking in the UK
We look at how printmaking has influenced the work of Arthur Watson, Paul Coldwell, Christopher Le Brun, Charlotte Hodes and Grayson Perry
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Joyce Cairns: interview
A visit to France in 1984, where she observed the ceremonies to mark the liberation of the country in 1944, prompted Cairns to make paintings that would enable her to explore her father’s war experience. There followed works in 1986…
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The Drawn Word
The Drawn Word is the product of a research project funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council networking grant that explored the relationship between writing, drawing and literacy. As such it is a collaborative publication between Studio International, the…
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Alan Robb
Aesthetic and intellectual clarity defines the painting of Alan Robb, who lives in Newport-on-Tay in Scotland. A retrospective, spanning almost 40 years from 1974 to 2012, was staged at the McManus Gallery, Dundee, earlier this year enabling the artist’s work…
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New Studio Collaboration In Perth, Scotland
Perth, Scotland is undergoing something of an “enlightenment” where the planning process operates. A traditionally conservative city, there is evidence of a mediaeval core, and ancient St John’s Kirk, surrounded by 19th-century Georgian housing. Since Perth had been the capital…
