Tag: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Digital Summer School 2021
Fife Contemporary has run annual Summer Schools for senior Fife art & design pupils since 2012. Sadly we missed last year due to Covid-19 and were determined to offer something this year. Our solution, as with so many things at the moment, is to go digital.
This year’s Summer School, as in previous years, has been generously supported by the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust.
We’re most grateful to them for this, and for maintaining the important link these Summer Schools have to one of Fife’s foremost artists.
With 3 artist-made films as a starting point, 12 Fife secondary schools are receiving boxes of materials with which to get creating.
Printmaker Ade Adesina, artist jeweller Stefanie Cheong, and GSA graduate from 2020, Michelle Currie, provide the inspiration.
Taking part this year are:
- Waid Academy, Anstruther
- Glenwood High School, Glenrothes
- Woodmill High School, Dunfermline
- Madras College, St Andrews
- Viewforth High School, Kirkcaldy
- Auchmuty High School, Glenrothes
- St Columba’s High School, Dunfermline
- Levenmouth Academy, Buckhaven
- Glenrothes High School
- Bell Baxter High School, Cupar
- Dunfermline High School
- Lochgelly High School
Teachers can decide whether to run the workshops within school, or give the packs to pupils for home use. As flexibility is key, we’re also running this until the end of September – quite a change from the 2 or 3 days in June of previous years!
For the first time, we plan to host an online exhibition of the work produced during this year’s Digital Summer School on our microsite. We look forward to sharing the wonderful things we know Fife’s young creative people can make this autumn.
But meanwhile, here’s a short ‘behind the scenes’ film of how 40 of the 100 boxes of materials were put together…!
Lines from Scotland – in Dunfermline
Our series of online INSIGHTS – giving viewers a chance to hear from the exhibition curator Amanda Game and some of the participating artists – will remain live on our online microsite exhibition.
Having had a very successful showing in NE Fife, Lines from Scotland now moves down to the SW of the Kingdom and takes up residence in Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries.
Curated by Amanda Game, Lines from Scotland explores some of the many, varied ways that Scottish artists work/have worked with drawing and physical acts of mark-making as a way of developing and communicating thoughts and ideas. It is designed to reveal something of the ever-evolving depth, diversity and richness of thinking in the arts in Scotland through linking works that spring from distinct disciplinary traditions, across media. Animation, archaeological records, botanical drawing, landscapes, portraits and designs for objects are just some of the lines that will be included.
Exhibitors span three generations:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Elizabeth Blackadder; Thomas A and Laurie Clark; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Andy Goldsworthy; Dorothy Hogg; John Houston; Susie Leiper; Michael Lloyd; Rory McEwen; Deirdre Nelson/Inge Thomson; Frances Priest; Carol Rhodes; Lizzie Sanders; David Shrigley; Lucy Skaer; Norma Starszakowna; Hanna Tuulikki/High Heels and Horse Hair; Frances Walker.
A small selection of archaeological drawings and photographic material from Historic Environment Scotland also feature to suggest some of the wider ways that human beings have drawn from and recorded their environments through time.
A 52 page, full colour publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition.
Header image: Work by Frances Priest, photo by Rob Page
Lines from Scotland
Fife Contemporary has commissioned independent curator Amanda Game to curate the exhibition Lines from Scotland.
It will be shown in Fife at St Andrews Museum (9 Nov 2019-22 Feb 2020) and touring to Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (7 Mar-10 May 2020)
Curated by Amanda Game, Lines from Scotland explores some of the many, varied ways that Scottish artists work/have worked with drawing and physical acts of mark-making as a way of developing and communicating thoughts and ideas. It is designed to reveal something of the ever-evolving depth, diversity and richness of thinking in the arts in Scotland through linking works that spring from distinct disciplinary traditions, across media. Animation, archaeological records, botanical drawing, landscapes, portraits and designs for objects are just some of the lines that will be included.
Exhibitors span three generations:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Elizabeth Blackadder; Thomas A and Laurie Clark; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Andy Goldsworthy; Dorothy Hogg; John Houston; Susie Leiper; Michael Lloyd; Rory McEwen; Deirdre Nelson/Inge Thomson; Frances Priest; Carol Rhodes; Lizzie Sanders; David Shrigley; Lucy Skaer; Norma Starszakowna; Hanna Tuulikki/High Heels and Horse Hair; Frances Walker.
A small selection of archaeological drawings and photographic material from Historic Environment Scotland also feature to suggest some of the wider ways that human beings have drawn from and recorded their environments through time.
A 52 page, full colour publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition.
Header image: St Andrews Looking West, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust; photo by Bruce Pert.