On This Day – 21 June 2009 – Object as Muse

This emotional and thought provoking exhibition, presented by Fife Contemporary from The Crafts Council, ran from 9 May to 21 June 2009 at Kirkcaldy Galleries, and presented six different artists’ responses to the Asentamiento Dress by textile artist Julie Cook…. Read More

Banner Exhibition – All About Shipping Containers!

They’re pretty ubiquitous nowadays – hundreds of thousands cross oceans every day; you see them being used as offices on building sites, or rusting away on waste land, their original purpose forgotten. But what do you know about the average… Read More

Not able to visit REFUGIO? Download our free leaflet instead!

We do of course appreciate that it’s not always possible to visit every exhibition you might want to. Neither do all exhibitions work with lots of text panels and captions included in the actual layout. So we often produce some… Read More

Robinson Crusoe at 300

Just over a week ago, on 25 April 2019, a gathering of 30 or so people came together in Kirkcaldy Galleries to mark the 300th anniversary since Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe was published. It was such a festive occasion, we… Read More

Was Alexander Selkirk the Model for Robinson Crusoe?

There’s a statue in Lower Largo, Fife, of local man Alexander Selkirk (originally Selcraig). His claim to fame is that he was a sailor who was marooned on a remote island off the coast of Chile for just over 4… Read More