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Artist Roy Wood at 75 – Odyssey Exhibition
After gaining much inspiration from visits to Italy, Japan and China throughout his life as an art lecturer, Edinburgh’s artist and printmaker Roy Wood has mounted a stunning exhibition using Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” as his inspiration. As a sub-title he calls the Exhibition ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. The result is a beautiful set of work, bright with colour, light and shade. Read the rest of this entry »
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Quite a Collection at the Scottish Gallery
Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery in Dundas Street is well-known for its boldness of approach and for showing a wide range of artists’ work both past and present. The current Exhibition features the work of Sir Robin Philipson and Aleksander Zyw, sadly no longer with us, alongside work by contemporary artist Cameron Sandilands and Alison Kinnaird MBE who combines a career as a leading harpist with glass engraving and painting. Read the rest of this entry »
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Munch at the Scottish National Gallery
There are a few works of art which have entered the popular imagination and are known far beyond the world of art-lovers: The Mona Lisa for certain, Guernica perhaps, and, almost certainly, Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Warning- bloodbath! At the end of “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” the cast and stage probably have to be hosed down to remove the buckets of carmine and guts that are scattered and splattered around. Earlier on stage we had a decapitated cat, a blood covered man hanging upside down to be tortured, and throughout the evening there was a steady ricochet of gunfire. This is a seriously funny play. |inline
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