Kilmorack Gallery has many exhibitions throughout the year, and new work arriving most weeks, which we have moved to our Arrivals page. Please contact the gallery if you would like early notification about either exhibition or arrivals.
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NORMAN SHAW
Introducing Norman Shaw 22 May - 21 Jun 2025 Norman Shaw was born in Ullapool, growing up for a while next to the Stones of Callanish, and surrounded by the sights, sounds and feelings of Gaeldom. This is the deepest vein in his paintings and drawings (and music and writing,) which describe a mythological version of the landscape, a... Read more -
PAMELA TAIT | Into the Woods
An Exhibition of new monotypes 23 May - 21 Jun 2025 Come join us in the woods and expore Pamela Tait's latest work and a world seen in the shapes and textures of nature. Monotypes are unlike monoprints because no plate is reused. Every image is unique, like the leaves printed into them, and the spirits staring out. Read more -
BECS BOYD | Everything Under the Sky
An Exhibition of New Paintings 23 May - 21 Jun 2025 The world is many layered - rich in ecology and pattern - and we pass through it moment by moment. Becs Boyd captures this with refreshing honesty and a love of wild places that makes her work stay with you, reminding us that we are part of a bigger web.... Read more -
iLLONA MORRICE | Somebody's Dad and other Folk
Five New Portraits 23 May - 21 Jun 2025 We never know quite what will come from illona's studio next. This time we have five more portrait heads that exude Morrice's wit and radiate an enjoyment in creating and reflecting the strange things around her. Read more
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CAROLYNDA MACDONALD | Hidden Gardens
An Exhibition of new paintings 19 Apr - 17 May 2025 We are very pleased to share with you CAROLYNDA MACDONALD's latest exhibition 'Hidden Gardens.' In these fourteen works, Macdonald shows us some of the doors that can be opened and the places we can visit through a virtuoso of paint. In 'Hidden Gardens, the birds are a little like you... Read more -
JANETTE KERR | Surge - into the sea
An Exhibition of new paintings 19 Apr - 17 May 2025 Janette Kerr paints the sea in its wildest moments, when it fizzes and foams with the energy of a wrathful god - a god who is so beautiful it is hard not to stare at her. It is not surprising that Kerr has been described as one of the best... Read more -
PETER DAVIS RSW
New paintings 14 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 Water and pigment has held a lifetime fascination for Peter Davis, and the sea too. That has always been close. Davis's present studio is by the sea in Shetland, facing west - next stop America - and for many years he has studied its endless play of water and light.... Read more -
PATRICIA SHONE | Forest Vessels
seven new ceramic vessels 14 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 Patricia Shone is one of the finest ceramic artists anywhere and we are pleased to share with you seven new vessels. In this collection, Shone's time-honed skills conjure up woodlands, or maybe bark, in vessels that could have arrived here in the gallery, not in human time, but in earth-time. Read more -
LIZZIE ROSE
New work: above and below 14 Mar - 12 Apr 2025 Drawings have an immediacy and can connect the thinking mind with the tangible world. This is Lizzie Rose's secret. Her world is a connected one - where oak roots join air and sea reaches to meet the sky.
These latest thirteen painting include ink drawings, mixed media paintings and plant-based acrylics. Read more -
TANSY LEE MOIR | Witches' Broom
New Work 13 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 Tansy Lee Moir's latest collection of work explores the tangles of twigs formed by witches’ broom on a single birch tree in Calder Wood not far from her studio. The wild-growing mass of twigs produced by the witches' broom gives an architecture within an architecture, and reaffirms the beauty in... Read more -
GEORGINA COBURN
Women in Greek Mythology | Three New Paintings 15 Jan 2025 Following her series of six paintings featured in Kilmorack Gallery’s 10” x 12” exhibition, Coburn explores three new heroines from Greek mythology. Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, Atalanta, follower of Artemis and Eurydice escaping the underworld. 'After my series of six collage and mixed media works inspired by Women... Read more -
NICOLA MOSS | Elementals
new work 3 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 We are excited to share with you a small exhibition of Nicola Moss's 'elementals' in egg tempera and shellac. This is a collection of 12" x 10" paintings which explore the visions that come from sitting quietly in the land. She has channelled these into works with a unique but understandable language of geometries, symbols and hope. Read more -
COLIN BROWN | The Spirit of Edo 2
new work 3 Jan - 1 Feb 2025 We are excited to share with you eight new collaged paintings from Colin Brown. This is Brown's second collection of works inspired by woodblock prints from Edo Japan. He has reimagined this nineteenth-century collaged source material, and given it a vitality and an extra relevance to our twenty-first century lives. Read more -
MAGGIE NEW
new paintings 3 Jan 2025 The greatest artist is nature. Her palettes, shapes and forms, movements and transitions, from one moment to the next, are unsurpassed. And she has created the playground and source of Maggie New's work. We are excited to share with you seven new paintings. Read more -
PAUL BARNES | Natural Affinity
an exhibition of new work 23 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 The jewel-like paintings of Paul Barnes blend tribal art, folk and fairy law with a level of craftsmanship that gives the impression of timelessness, of being a secret found or discovered. This is an exhibition of fourteen new works, with a catalogue, which lets us step for a moment into Barnes' world of light and dark. Read more -
WINTER EXHIBITION | small wall
10" x 12" paintings 23 Nov 2024 - 4 Jan 2025 We have some hand-crafted oak frames available for an additional £80. Please contact the gallery for more information. Read more -
WINTER EXHIBITIONS
23 Nov 2024 - 8 Mar 2025 Our Winter Exhibitions run through until March. It's an opportunity to see work from the many artists we represent. This includes sculpture from Gerald Laing, Helen Denerley, Lotte Glob and more, and paintings which stretch across the alphabet from James Newton Adams to Christine Woodside. We look forward to your visit. Read more -
ALLAN MACDONALD | new work
Twelve New Paintings from Iceland 6 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 MacDonald's latest twelve paintings are inspired by an expedition to Iceland in 2022, and they capture some of the unexpected wonders of a country famous for sagas, ice, volcanoes and epic waterfalls. These paintings let us see the land and the all-powerful forces that form it in new ways, and... Read more -
COLIN BROWN
Spirit of Edo 19 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 Colin Brown is unique in Scottish art for the geographic journeys he takes us on. Not long ago, it was to close shores with ‘Love Letter to Europe.’ After this it was to Belgium with Redouté’s botanical painting in the exhibition ‘In Bloom.’ Now we are in the Far East,... Read more -
ANTHONY SCULLION | new work
5 - 31 Oct 2024 There is a silent voice that only paint can offer, and the figures Anthony Scullion paints sing with this. He is is a master of nuance – raising the colour and subtleties of paint and line to a fresh plateau. These latest thirteen paintings do not disappoint. They combine this... Read more -
HELEN DENERLEY | a cow, a girl and a dog
new work 27 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 Few sculptors anywhere brings so much life to the inanimate, which is what an artist should do, elevate their medium. Egg and pigment, in an artist’s hands, becomes tempera and then a timeless fresco, and a tube of yellow oil paint becomes a sunflower. Helen Denerley does this again and... Read more -
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
New Paintings 5 - 31 Aug 2024 Read more -
CHRISTINE WOODSIDE | Sea Window, Doves and other works
new paintings 1 - 27 Jul 2024 The moon, night, flowers in bloom, ghost-white doves and the tabled and curtained settings of human life are all inspirations for Christine Woodside. These paintings take us to an ecstatic vibrating place. Read more -
ROBERT MCAULAY
new work by Robert Mcaulay 1 - 27 Jul 2024 Here, in Robert McAulay's latest work, are portraits of tall grass. They pop with reds, yellows and blues and continue McAulay’s exploration of still places and the resilience of nature. This series of work invites us to sit under the warm grass and to be still. Read more -
IONA ROBERTS | Pink Moon Flower Studies
14 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 Iona Roberts painted these flower studies to catch them in full freshness, while they are alive with sap. A pink moon is April’s full moon (named after the early booms of April) and these paintings, like a diary, capture moments with Roberts’ fresh and subtle oils. They are a delight. Read more -
TANSY LEE MOIR
Ghosts 1 Jun - 5 Jul 2024 Tansy Lee Moir exists in the upper branches of tree obsessives, an ever-spreading canopy of arboreal-loving people, and charcoal (itself the remains of a tree) is her main tool for understanding time-travelling treedom. Her fascinations are many - tales of human and natural ecosystems and how it is often the... Read more -
BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
Water and Light 27 Apr - 25 May 2024 Paintings in this exhibition are inspired by the northwest coast around Beth Robertson Fiddes' studio, and from journeys to the Isle of Lewis. There were moments on these adventures, Robertson Fiddes tells me, that the sea performed like it was doing it just for her. It had its own story... Read more -
World on Fire | LOTTE GLOB
ceramic paintings and lava bombs 15 Apr - 18 May 2024 Fire has always fascinated Lotte Glob. It has transformational powers and a hot danger that draws us towards it. Without fire and the sun, there would be no life. This is a small exhibition of some of Lotte Glob's latest ceramic paintings that show the beauty and power of a... Read more -
House of Macdonald
Alan Macdonald | Carolynda Macdonald | Rory Macdonald 16 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 HOUSE OF MACDONALD brings together Scotland's most exciting Neo-Enlightenment dynasty of artists. Alan, Carolynda and Rory Macdonald have three distinctive voices, flawless technique, and irrepressible curiosities in the riddles of life and the places that oil paint can take them. This is a not-to-miss exhibition that, like a Shakespeare folio, bridges time and place. Read more -
Nicky Moss
Tree - Mountain - Sky 16 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 This is Nicola Moss's first exhibition at Kilmorack Gallery and we are very excited to show these seven bronzes and a triptych of drawings from this remarkable artists. These are not premeditated images. They come from sitting out and observing the world, from visions and meditations that come to Moss's... Read more -
STANDING BUDDHA | GERALD LAING
Three works | Standing Buddha, Pacing Mare and Hijacker 15 Mar 2024 Read more -
BORROWED LAND exhibition
Reinventing Scottish Landscape 18 Nov 2023 - 2 Mar 2024 BORROWED LAND is an exhibition which celebrates the importance of land, sea and sky, and the artists who have made it their muse. Scottish landscape has a power known throughout the world, but it is more than this - it is a home and an ecology.
This exhibition includes work by twenty-five artists: from the awe-inspired painters, the northern romantics, to others who see it as a metaphor or celebrate its silence, and ceramic artists who reform its clay-body with fire. Read more -
JANE MACNEILL
Seven New Paintings 2 - 21 Oct 2023 Read more -
CHRISTOPHER WOOD | new painting
Between Tides 11 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Christopher Wood is one of the finest abstracted painters of the sea you can find anywhere. They are never a specific place, a view, because each painting is returned to and savoured so many times they become many places. Each time they are returned to, Wood enriches them; balancing their... Read more -
TANSY LEE MOIR
Conversations with Trees 2 - 30 Sep 2023 Read more -
HELEN DENERLEY | Salvage
a solo exhibition of new work by Helen Denerley 5 - 31 Aug 2023 Salvage has come together with the sort of great leaps only an artist with a lifetime sculpting experience can conjure. It is in many ways Helen Denerley’s Everest, a peak, in her output and at a time when most see the fragility in the natural world around us. Read more -
IAN WESTACOTT | Beauly Elm and Birnham Oak
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RUTH BROWNLEE | new work
four new paintings 3 - 10 Jul 2023 Read more -
COLIN BROWN
White Lily, Rose and Shiva 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2023 Colin Brown's latest paintings collage worlds together. The botanical works of eighteenth-century Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté, images scraped from walls in Berlin and present-day icons, merge in these popping Pop images. Brown’s latest three paintings, Felix Rose, Shiva and Sven Vath, are on a large scale which allows his work... Read more -
SHONA BARR
Summer Sea, Tangled Branches and Hellebore 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2023 Read more -
ROBERT MCAULAY
Down in the Tall Grass 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2023 Robert McAulay's latest paintings leave the city and head into the countryside, and I love the freshness of these twelve works. Reedbeds, fields, tall grass and the flat earth are tackled with a joy, and the eye of an artist in full flow. The largest of McAulay’s paintings, ‘Down in... Read more -
ADRIAN WISZNIEWSKI
Day Break, The Changeling and other works 29 May - 30 Jun 2023 Adrian Wiszniewski is one of the most active of the Glasgow Boys of the 1980s. His ambitious work creates dream-like images that take us through the looking glass and into a world that is just a rabbit hole away. These eight paintings reflect the scale of Wiszniewski’s ambition. ‘Day Break’... Read more -
BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
six new paintings 29 May - 30 Jun 2023 Beth Robertson Fiddes’ landscapes are cinematic, in widescreen, and with a brilliant soundtrack. They take you to rarely seen moments and places in the sublime northwest of Scotland, places which Robertson Fiddes seeks out, and studies, while always experimenting with her incredible lexicon of techniques. The more you look at... Read more -
PETER DAVIS
Kwikn 6 - 27 May 2023 Kwikn: to quicken, to come to life. 'Kwiknin o de tide:' the increasing of the sea-current with the changing of the phases of the moon. The bible says the first word was ‘God,’ but in the north, it was probably a weather-word: kwikn, krotl, dask, drooklin, innsog, pusk, skuder, gruggie,... Read more -
JANETTE KERR
Krotli 6 - 27 May 2023 Krotli: agitated: choppy (with small waves breaking against each other): a krotli sea.’ South Shetland The bible says the first word was ‘God,’ but in the north, it was probably a weather-word: kwikn, krotl, dask, drooklin, innsog, pusk, skuder, gruggie, snarr. These are all Shetland words that describe the intimacies... Read more -
Allison Weightman | new ceramics
April snow on the ridge 22 Apr 2023 Read more -
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
Seven paintings 21 Apr 2023 Read more -
LIZ KNOX
four new paintings 21 Apr 2023 Read more -
LOTTE GLOB | Eriboll Creatures
a solo exhibition 18 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 'Eriboll Creatures' has been evolving for over twenty years. It is Lotte Glob’s first solo exhibition in Kilmorack, and it includes a large selection of etchings, drawings and paintings as well as over 100 ceramic sculptures. As an exhibition, it is a coherent whole, the secrete ecology of Loch Eriboll; and a lifetime’s ceramic knowledge is felt through the deceptive ease and fun of each sculpture. Glob’s deep understanding of place and both human and non-human culture adds to this exhibition’s power. It makes our world bigger. Read more -
ANTHONY SCULLION
four new paintings 17 Feb 2023 We are excited to exhibit work by Anthony Scullion for the first time. We love his paintings for their humanity, beauty and understanding of paint. We have four new works – Sisters, Leaving, Lost Cause and Inheritance. Read more -
PATRICIA PAOLOZZI CAIN
Entanglement 21 Jan - 28 Feb 2023 We are very pleased to have five fresh works by Patricia Paolozzi Cain. Paolozzi Cain uses observation, drawing and nature to unlock a place of contemplation; somewhere that allows absorbing complexity to resolve into nothing and everything. They fizz with energy and artistic maturity. Read more -
PATRICIA SHONE
Erosion Vessels 3 - 31 Jan 2023 Read more -
ALLISON WEIGHTMAN
Winter 2022 21 Dec 2022 Read more -
PAUL BLOOMER
Entering the Dark | Return of the Light | Whispers of the Wind 7 Dec 2022 - 4 Feb 2023 Read more -
HENRY FRASER
new paintings 17 Oct 2022 Read more -
BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
five new paintings 17 Oct 2022 Read more -
Skyfield | ROBERT MCAULAY
new paintings 19 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 We are very excited to bring to you Robert McAulay's latest body of work in an exhibition, Skyfield. Here, twenty new paintings add to the body of wonderful paintings we have shown over the many years we have exhibited McAulay's work. In these latest works McAulay continues his exploration of... Read more -
ALAN MACDONALD | eight new paintings
The Temple of Life 16 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 Read more -
GERALD LAING | Galina series
Galina ii, vi, and viii 14 Sep 2022 Read more -
PAUL BLOOMER
a new series of woodcuts 9 Sep 2022 'Legend has it that the first bansuri flute was born when the wind whispered a song through a piece of bamboo that had been made by an insect. It's a story where wind, bamboon and insect come together in an act of creativity than enables the whispers of the wind... Read more -
LOTTE GLOB | Sea Pools
new work by LOTTE GLOB 9 Sep 2022 Read more -
PETER DAVIS | six new paintings
new work by Peter Davis 9 Sep 2022 Read more -
STEVE DILWORTH | three new objects
money egg | stormwater | balancing stone 9 Sep 2022 Read more -
ALLAN MACDONALD | Yesnaby and other paintings
new paintings 22 Aug - 12 Sep 2022 Read more -
Jane MacNeill | When Mountain calls to Water
solo exhibition by Jane MacNeill 29 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 Inspired by Orkney and the Western Isles, Jane MacNeil's latest solo exhibition opens on Friday 29th July. These worls explore the deep, slilent calm of mountain and sea. Read more -
ANN ORAM | eight new paintings
8 Jul 2022 Read more -
KIRSTIE COHEN | four new paintings
Sea Breeze and Yellow Light 27 Jun 2022 Read more -
PATRICIA SHONE | new raku vessels
strata jars and a lidded pot 27 Jun 2022 Read more -
LIZZIE ROSE
woven skies 13 Jun - 1 Jul 2022 'All my work is a phenomenological response to place, to moving through air, sensing undercurrents, noting potent imagery, reflecting the, healing and illusion of being. My drawings are a first response, to the rhythms, energy and scale of air, space, time and place. The hidden landscape of night, offering peace... Read more -
Pinkie Maclure
Brigid in Dualchas 13 Jun 2022 The Gaelic word Dualchas refers to the intimate bonds that exist between the natural world, the land and its people, transmitted through the generations. Pre-Christian Celtic deity Brigid (or Brighde in the Hebrides) was a protector of nature and was associated with perpetual, sacred flames, surrounded by a hedge which... Read more -
Journeys close to home | CHRISTINE WOODSIDE
An exhibition of new work by CHRISINE WOODSIDE 21 May - 11 Jun 2022 There is something wonderful about CHRISTINE WOODSIDE’s paintings: the weave of life that’s painted into them, the many years of knowledge that come to bare and the sense of joy. This is the largest exhibition of her work we have had since Kilmorack first exhibited Woodside’s work almost twenty years ago. This show is unusual. All fifteen paintings are inspired by walks around Woodside’s Fife home, rather than trips away, to Italy or India, and this makes them connected in a special way. We hope you enjoy them. Read more -
Colour Distilled | SHONA BARR
An exhibition of new work by Shona Barr 22 Apr - 14 May 2022 This is our largest ever exhibition of work by Shona Barr, with over thirty-five new works painted over the last two years. We have called it 'Colour Distilled' because Barr has painted nature and distilled it to a purity of colour. Uplifting, vibrant, brilliant: we hope you are able to make it.
A catalogue to celebrate this exhibition is available.
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Pathways | BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
a solo exhibition of new work by Beth Robertson Fiddes 25 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 This is Beth Robertson Fiddes' third solo exhibition in Kilmorack Gallery, and here Robertson Fiddes leads us into and around the hills, lochs and puddles that surround her studio north of Ullapool. She is the ultimate guide, with a deep understanding of this landscape and an always innovative approach to painting.
There are over twenty-five new works in this exhibition and an accompanying catalogue. Read more -
PINKIE MACLURE | stained glass enlightenment
five works 16 Mar - 8 Apr 2022 We are very exciting to bring to you four new stained glass light boxes by Pinkie Maclure - Nestling Listening, The Gathering, Exit Tree and Un Eezee Kleen. Like medieval stained glass, Pinkie Maclure’s work combines narration with beauty. They are unique in the world of stained glass and enlightening in every way. Read more -
GAIL HARVEY | Moment Within
Paintings inspired by Sheltand 2 - 31 Jan 2022 We are very pleased to share with you an exhibition of eleven new work by Gail Harvey. Harvey grew up and studied art in Glasgow and moved to Shetland in the late 1980s. Since then she has painted from her studio overlooking a sandy but stormy bay. Her work captures this and much much more. Read more -
ROBERT MCAULAY | a dreamed of garden
ten new paintings 13 Dec 2021 Read more -
ALLAN MACDONALD | Algonquin
new paintings inspired by Canada 3 - 25 Sep 2021 Inspired by iconic artist Tom Thomson, Allan MacDonald returned from a visit to the lakes and rivers of Thomson’s Canada to Scotland in the fall of 2019. In his baggage were small carefully wrapped paintings in bright autumn colours. These have now been worked up into a major exhibition – ‘Algonquin’ - showing in Kilmorack Gallery in September this year. This new body of work brings Canada and Scotland together and remind us of the small moments that both artists, Thomson and MacDonald, stretch out to become rapturous and significant. Read more -
CARINA PRIGMORE
Touched by Nature 1 - 24 Jul 2021 This solo exhibition showcases the work of Carina Prigmore. These latest paintings are inspired by the quiet and fortifying landscape that surrounds her Speyside studio. Read more -
JANETTE KERR
Hyperborea | beyond the north wind 28 May - 26 Jun 2021 This solo exhibition showcases the work of Janette Kerr, one of the UK's most important painters of seas. In Hyperborea, beyond the north wind - we see the extreme elemental power of nature in Shetland and Iceland. Read more -
COLIN BROWN
in Bloom 10 May - 4 Jun 2021 This solo exhibition showcases the latest work by Scottish collage artist Coln Brown, in response to the work of 18th Century Belgian botanical painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Read more -
SHONA BARR | new paintings
from sea to blooms 15 Apr 2021 Read more -
CHRISTOPHER WOOD rsw | nine small works
abstraction, sea and colour: new work by Christopher Wood 5 Apr 2021 Read more -
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS | six new paintings
Dangerous Liaisons, Night Sail, Three Chances of Luck and other works 22 Mar 2021 We are very pleased to share with you James Newton Adam's six most recent paintings: from Night Sait to Dangerous Liaisons. Please contact the gallery for more information. Read more -
HENRY FRASER | three new paintings
Icarus Ascending, The Snowball and Onion Eater 5 Mar 2021 We are very pleased to share with you Henry Fraser's three most recent paintings: Icarus Ascending, the Snowball and Onion Eater. Please contact the gallery for more information. Read more
