If you haven’t been the exhibition at Modern One Gallery in Edinburgh by Do Ho Suh – just time to catch it – ends on 1st September!
This expansive exhibition (17 February–1 September 2024) explores the foundational role that drawing and paper play in Do Ho Suh’s artistic practice, focusing on his collaborative methods, experimental techniques, and innovative use of materials.
Dovecot Exhibitions – Chris Offili until 5th October + other events https://dovecotstudios.com/whats-on
Plant Magic Talk with Dr Greg Kenicer
Wed 25 September | 17:30 – 19:00 | £15.00
Fascinated by the myths and magic of tropical plant life in Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song? Join Dr Greg Kenicer, Royal Botanic Gardens’ botanist and lecturer, to explore how and why plants have been used in magic for centuries!
Combining botanical insight with historical examples and anecdotes, Dr Kenicer explores patterns of plant use across a wide array of west-Eurasian magical traditions. The talk is followed by a special book signing of Plant Magic by Greg Kenicer and includes entry to Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird’s Song.
Lots of events across Fife and Edinburgh with Journeys in Design – flax events
Up Now & Next | Flax Futures Dunbar Aug 5 – September 15
Flax Futures: our latest touring exhibition and events series visits Dunbar in East Lothian, exploring the exceptional potential of Scotland’s ancient fibre crop, with design from Scotland and beyond, exploring local resilience and climate change in new and engaging ways. Look out for our Sunday strolls tracing ‘Linen Routes in Dunbar’, our ‘Seed to Shelf’ flax chats and demos, and a new Twilight Talk about Design: ‘Flax Routes to a Regenerative Future’.
All Event Details and Registration on Journeys in Design Eventbrite here.
Flax Futures
Our Linen Stories | Flax Futures is a series of Exhibition and Events celebrating contemporary design in Flax Fibre and Linen, drawing on Scotland’s rich industrial and trading heritage, with a focus on sustainability and the regenerative textile economy.
Coming up this harvest, FlaxFest24 in Dunfermline and beyond, is a cultural celebration of flax and linen across art, design and industry, building on Scotland’s first Flax and Linen Festival in 2021.
Flax Futures is our current touring exhibition and set of collaborative design projects, featured below, including educational outreach and regenerative textile network development. In collaboration with key allies and local communities, we aim to share more of our material culture and strengthen cultural connections, You can review our Events page for recent Flax Futures exhibitions, local Linen Routes, Twilight Talks and Workshops and our Tours page for more on our community activities.
Since 2018, Our Linen Stories has brought exhibitions and events to Fife, the Lothians, the Borders, the Highlands, N.Ireland and Portugal, holding a landmark exhibition at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios in 2019/20, with more than 8000 direct engagements to date and many more via social media. Reaching beyond borders, Flax Futures continue to explore Scotland’s extraordinary relationship with this quintessentially European textile, gathering stories from our partner Linen Nations and developing creative collaborations with like minds beyond borders.
For more of our Journeys in Design, you can link to our website here, follow as we go on our socials @journeysindesign and sign up for seasonal newsletters and bulletins. Register on Journeys in Design Eventbrite for our latest events.
Interesting looking exhibition at the DCA
Every seed is awakened
We’re delighted to present the first solo exhibition in Scotland from artist Claudia Martínez Garay.
Claudia Martínez Garay is a Peruvian artist who lives and works between Amsterdam and Lima. Martínez Garay’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, and site-specific installation. As well as interrogating European museum collections and histories, Martínez Garay also takes inspiration from her own Andean heritage, exploring historical images, propaganda, and sounds from her home country. Her sculptural works frequently reference pre-Columbian knowledge systems and are often combined in larger installations in dialogue with symbolic elements derived from her research.
https://www.dca.org.uk/events/N2m-claudia-martnez-garay/
This might be worth a look. http://ragrugstudygroup
1/2 Flex is a three-day exhibition (6-8 September) hosted by the Rag Rug Study Group that includes fresh-off-the-loom rag rugs by New York-based artists Mariah Smith and Mae Colburn and invited guest artist, Francesca Martinazzi from Italy. All three use scraps of worn, surplus and discarded fabric to create complex, meaningful compositions that refer to this medium’s domestic function while examining its aesthetic and narrative possibilities.
Just in from various sources:
Dear Friends,
You will possibly have read that Creative Scotland has withdrawn funding for individual artist projects citing the Scottish Government being unable to commit the necessary funds at present.
There is an online petition to reverse this, with a deadline of today to be submitted. While we are in no way pressing you to sign this, we thought it would be useful to provide a link in case you wish to do so. Here it is:
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/scotland-2024/
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