Exhibitions and arrivals

Kilmorack Gallery has many exhibitions throughout the year, and new work arriving at the gallery most weeks. Please contact us if you wish to receive emails about exhibitions, new arrivals, or if you have an interest in any artist or type of work.

Current

LIZ KNOX
Mind's Eye 18 Jul - 8 Aug 2020 An exhibition of new work by Liz Knox, the ultimate master of colour and composition. These incredible paintings are a symphony of balance that takes us between worlds - from the tangible universe of seen things, to a mysterious vibrating underworld. They are works from an artist who has lived and looked deeply. Read more

Forthcoming

JANE MACNEILL
The Silence of Mountains 15 Aug - 5 Sep 2020 These are the mountains of my childhood, the hills of home. They are ancient, weathered, and rounded by retreating ice; the colours they reflect are dictated by their geology, by the plants that manage to grow on them, by the quality of snow and ice, and by water. Although I have walked countless times amongst them, it is their distance that moves me. Read more

PETER DAVIS
A Sense of Place 12 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 Most of the paintings in this exhibition are the result of walking the same Atlantic-facing walks in all weather. Peter Davis has trodden them so many times that the essence of sea and cliffs has become part of him. They follow him home at night and enter his dreams. Meticulous... Read more

Past

LOTTE GLOB | Rock Eyes, Wanderers and Vases
new sculpture from Lotte Glob 29 Jul 2020 Rock eyes and wanderers, vases and books. The landscape is always the inspiration behind Lotte Glob’s work. It is the well that she draws from: that we all need to drink from. With over fifty years of experimentation and creation in the far north of Scotland alone, Lotte Glob knowledge of glazes, shaping and firing clay is vast and unique. She has become an important international artist.

We are excited to share with you these latest creations: rock eyes, wanders and large vases. Read more

ANN WEGMULLER | six new works
winter landmarks 27 Jul 2020 'Colour is very important to me. It is probably the subject of my paintings. The painting itself starts from my feeling for a place and the colour is the mood. It is like music: different sounds are like different colours. Each colour has its own beauty and strength but can... Read more

ALLISON WEIGHTMAN | new pots
the skill and beauty of ceramics 19 Jul 2020 One of the earliest and the most remarkable human achievements is the pot. Fire, clay and minerals combine to form a practical or religious object, or sometimes just a beautiful thing. We are excited to bring to you seven new pots by one of Scotland's top ceramic artists, Allison Weightman. Read more

BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES | four new works july 2020
powers of the sea 5 Jul 2020 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with you four fresh works from Beth Robertson Fiddes. The power of sea, pool and shore ir rarely caught with such power. Read more

STEVE DILWORTH | five new objects
energy, power and craftsmanship 3 Jul 2020 ‘The earliest forms of art in clay and on cave walls were tactile and born of ritual. Steve Dilworth’s art taps into that primacy of touch, in how we make sense of the world as human beings and how we relate to nature.

The point of ignition in all of Dilworth’s objects is the raw energy of material. This vital, originary spark is held inside the object, like a battery that creatively lights the world.’
Georgina Coburn, June 2020

Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with you five new works from one of the UK’s most exciting and ground-breaking artists. Read more

Catch-up exhibition
work exhibited during lock-down 29 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 Kilmorack Gallery are rehanging work exhibited behind closed doors during lockdown. For two weeks from lock-down's unlatching we will rehang work. This includes Ian Westacott and Raymond Arnolds work from Double Vision and Ann Oram's 'A Journey in Colour. ' Also work be illona Morrice, Paul Barnes, Peter White, Kirstie Cohen, Christine Woodside and Charles MacQueen.

This will be a bright and wonderful exhibition and a celebration of the value of artists' work. Read more

iLLONA MORRICE | four new works
Puffin, stone, wave and whale 20 Jun 2020 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with you more new work by illona Morrice., the fruits of lockdown in her Moray studio. Read more

MARK EDWARDS
watching the fire 1 Jun 2020 Journey into the White Wood with Mark Edwards and weave your own narratives. In this mysterious, icy world, imagination ignites pathways between trees, architecture and enigmatic figures. Filled with intrigue and dark humour, Edwards' masterful, intensely layered paintings invite the viewer to become the protagonist. We are pleased to share... Read more

ALLAN MACDONALD
Speed of Light 25 May 2020 Last year, Allan MacDonald walked with another artist over west. His aim was to capture what lies underneath the surface of the landscape: topography, geometry and trees; and capture something deeper. Here is the realm of infinitely small and infinitely large, the quickness of light. The moment when… Read more

CARINA PRIGMORE
Three New Paintings 21 May 2020 Three new works by Carina Prigmore: three seasons. Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share new work. Read more

ROBERT MCAULAY
Revisiting the Estate 14 May 2020 Read more

CHARLES MACQUEEN RSW RGI
four new paintings 7 May 2020 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share the lastest works by Scottish artist Charles MacQueen. Here MacQueen continues his exploration of the mysteries behind doorways, things glimpsed in the darkness. Read more

CHRISTINE WOODSIDE RSW RGI
five new works 2 May 2020 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share five new works by Scottish artist Christine Woodside RSW RGI. Woodside's painting beautiful compositions capture a natural world: conversations between dogs, crow and nature. Man is a distant, secondary, part of her story. Read more

Kirstie Cohen
new work for 2020 27 Apr 2020 Kirstie Cohen is one of Scotland's finest landscape artists. We at Kilmorack Gallery are pleased to share with you Cohen's latest paitnting - new work for 2020. Read more

Peter White
New Work 20 Apr 2020 Kilmorack Gallery is excited to share with you the lastest work by Scottish artist Peter White. This includes two large paintings - bowl and boat: and a series of smaller works including for the first time insects. Read more

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PAUL BARNES | four new works 10 Apr 2020 Read more

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illona Morrice 27 Mar 2020 Read more

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Henry Fraser 25 Mar 2020 Read more

ANN ORAM
A Journey in Colour 14 Mar - 18 Apr 2020 There is a joy in Ann Oram’s work. Not just from her obvious skills. Indeed, few artists in Britain are as technically masterful as Oram. Paint flows with deceptive ease - colour, structure and form; everything there and perfectly placed, but don’t be fooled. This level of understanding has taken... Read more

IAN WESTACOTT and RAYMOND ARNOLD
Double Vision 14 Mar - 18 Apr 2020 There is more than ‘double vision’ in the combined etchings of Raymond Arnold and Ian Westacott. There is a synergy in the work of the two long-time friends. The work is an on-going project in which Westacott and Arnold produce a copperplate each, and then print them on top of... Read more

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DUKE CHRISTIE 14 Mar 2020 Read more

PAUL BLOOMER
Entering the Dark 25 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 This exhibition celebrates the second set of etchings by Paul Bloomer to explore messages given to us by the wildlife of Shetland. The first was 'the Coming of the Light' and this, part two of four, is called 'Entering the Dark.' from catalogue forward What is a prophet? A person... Read more

Winter Exhibition
work for art lovers 23 Nov 2019 - 7 Mar 2020 Kilmorack Gallery’s winter exhibition is always a favourite. It is a time when the gallery’s woodburning stove roars its welcome, and the former church's fabulous pink walls are full of fresh and inspiring work by a wide range of familiar and new artists. This is one of the best exhibitions... Read more

ROBERT POWELL
Bound for other Isolations 28 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 You put the magnifying glass up to a Robert Powell etching and what do you see? It’s always eye-poppingly detailed and enlightening: an over-crowded island after the flood, Daphne escaping Apollo’s advances by turning into a laurel, wildmen, a city of mirrors, an oligarch on tour, a vain architect. These... Read more

ALAN MACDONALD
Journeys into the Unknown 28 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 It is common to see a huddle of admirers in front of an Alan Macdonald painting; the on-lookers savouring the painting’s almost theatrical performance. Our huddle tries, and ultimately fails, to de-riddle Macdonald’s painterly fable of the absurd. They are also mesmerised by Macdonald’s mastery of Dutch and Renaissance painting,... Read more

ALLAN MACDONALD
transparency 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2019 In this wonderful new body of work Allan MacDonald furthers his exploration of untouched places and their closeness to an enduring and powerful presence. This is done with MacDonald's infinitely expressive paint. Few artists have such an ability to capture places where the veil is thin and transparent. MacDonald is... Read more

HELEN DENERLEY
Beast 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Our primal need for connection with nature is expressed in the work of celebrated sculptor Helen Denerley. Seeing her work in the studio is a revelation of sensitivity, as one piece of metal flows into another, crafting the line and creating positive space. Rendered from life, this new collection of... Read more

KIRSTIE COHEN
ST KILDA | an Atlantic journey 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Kirstie Cohen is one of Scotland's foremost landscape artists. This exhibition - St Kilda | an Atlantic journey - Cohen explores the wild isolation of St Kilda. 'These paintings are my response to the landscape of St. Kilda. With all the images fresh in my mind, I started to work... Read more

ALAN MCGOWAN
The Poetry of Presence 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Alan McGowan is one of the finest contemporary figure painters so it is a great joy to host this exhibition of his latest works - a poetry of presence. Showing in Kilmorack Gallery from the 20th June 2019. Read more

CHARLES MACQUEEN
Through the Door 27 Apr - 25 May 2019 With over fifty-five years as professional artist, Charles MacQueen is still very much still at the peak of his artistic creativity. He left Glasgow School of Art in 1963. This is a stunning exhibition of MacQueen's latest work which brings to us glimpsed worlds seen through portals, and energised with MacQueen's incredible use of colour and composition. Read more

COLIN BROWN
Love letter to Europe 16 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 With over thirty years practice, Colin Brown has become Scotland's most prominent collage artist. For this show Brown has produced fifteen incredible new works which celebrate the diverse and shared heritage of fifteen cities in Europe from Gothenberg in Sweden to Lisbon in the south.

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BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
RECOLLECTION | northern dreams 16 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 Beth Robertson Fiddes is one of the most exciting landscape artists in Scotland. For this exhibition Robertson Fiddes has produced over sixteen exciting new works, ambitious and powerful. Read more

PAUL BLOOMER
The Return of the Light 29 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Paul Bloomer's latest work is magical. Inspired by great print makers of the past and the circular world around him in Shetland and beyond, Bloomer's latest etching create enduring images, eye-worms that are hard to forget. Read more

JOYCE W CAIRNS
The Magic Gate and other Stories 29 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 The power of Joyce W Cairn's work punches far beyond her pocket of north east Scotland and far beyond the UK borders too. It is built from memories - from her own childhood as well as ancestoral and arcytypal memories. This is why it is so human and so important.... Read more

SAM CARTMAN
new work by Sam Cartman 1 - 25 Sep 2018 Part landscape artist and part Rothko, Sam Cartman's work is a wildscape that reverberates with expressive paint and echoes with forgotten history. Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to present his latest work. Read more

LOTTE GLOB
new work by Lotte Glob 24 Aug - 23 Sep 2018 We are very pleased announce the arrival of fresh sculpture by Lotte Glob. This includes some of Glob's finest large works - an incredible 'out of the sea' creature, guardians and a 'looking through you.' Read more

SHONA BARR
new paintings 18 Aug 2018 Shona Barr's work is full of energy and colour but always retains balance and calm. We are very pleased to bring a small selection of new works to the gallery for the end of August. Read more

ALAN MACDONALD
new work 4 Aug 2018 Hot of the pallette. We are pleased to show four more remarkable paintings by Alan Macdonald - Man with a Fertile Imagination, Night Sprite, Dominion of the Diminutive and General Doge. Read more

ROBERT MCAULAY
new work 3 Aug - 3 Sep 2018 We have been showing work by Glasgow-based Robert McAulay for over twenty years. Just arrived in the gallery are some of his latest works; his 'Upright' series. Read more

Allison Weightman
new work 27 Jul 2018 Fresh out of the kiln. New ceramic sculpture by Allison Weightman. Read more

Catherine Imhof-Cardinal
new paintings by Catherine Imhof-Cardinal 17 Jul 2018 We are very pleased to bring to you six new paintings by Catherine Imhof-Cardinal; uniting her love of colour, landscape and powerful abstraction. Latest Catherine Imhof-Cardinal works Read more

Ade Adesina
17 Jul 2018 We are very pleased to share with you work by the hugely talented Ade Adesina. Just arrived in the gallery are three linocuts. They are ambitious, technically brilliant and much more. Read more

KIRSTIE COHEN
An exhibition of new paintings by Kirstie Cohen 7 Jul 2018 Kilmorack Gallery is very pleased to present the latest work by Kirstie Cohen. Read more

JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
new work 7 Jul 2018 It is a long time since we have had smaller works by the wonderful James Newton Adams. In July a selection of works on paper will arrive in the gallery. It is always a joy to show work with Adams' wit, fun and references that stetch from his home in... Read more

BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
new work 7 Jul 2018 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with new fresh work by one of Scotland's finest painters of the sublime. These four new works by Beth Robertson Fiddes are shown for the first time on Saturday 7th July 2018. Read more

Illona Morrice
new work 22 Jun 2018 We are very pleased to show the lastest work by one of our hardest working sculptors, Illona Morrice. Work includes Morrice's newest bronze sculpture - a finely balanced mother penguin and her chick and two ceramic pieces - 'sisters.' Read more

JANETTE KERR
North: an exhibition of new paintings 2 Jun - 5 Jul 2018 Janette Kerr is one of the UK's foremost painters of the sea; remote liminal places that draw us in and push us out. We are very pleased to share with you her latest work. Read more

GAIL HARVEY
An exhibition of new work from Shetland 2 - 23 Jun 2018 We are pleased to share with you six fantastic new works by Glasgow-born and Shetland-based Gail Harvey. Read more

PATRICIA CAIN
new work 2 - 23 Jun 2018 We are very pleased to share with you three new large pastels by the much aclaimed artist Patricia Cain. Patricia Cain completed a PHD in drawing and how it helps us see, and the importance of it to creativity. These painstaiking works are concrete proof of the power of drawing. Read more

PAUL REID
2 Jun 2018 We are very pleased to share with work by Paul Reid this summer. Paul Reid is one of the most interesting artists to emerge form Scottish Art schools in the 1990s. His work rejects much of 'contemporary art's values and fucueses on narrative figure painting. This is what makes it... Read more

ANN ORAM
new work 5 May 2018 Ann Oram is one of the UK’s leading exponents of a very Scottish way of using colourful and expressive paint. New work in Kilmorack over May includes still-lives as well as winter landscapes. Read more

ALAN MCGOWAN
An exhibition of drawings and sculpture 5 May - 16 Jun 2018 Edinburgh based Alan McGowan is one of the UK's finest painters of the human figure. Over the last few years McGowan has explored working with sculpture aswell; bringing his knowledge of the anatomy and economy of line to bare in three dimensions. In May Kilmorack is showing new bronzes as well as drawings. Read more

LOTTE GLOB
new work 5 May - 16 Jun 2018 Read more

ALLISON WEIGHTMAN
new ceramics 8 Apr 2018 We are very pleased welcome Allison Weightman back to Kilmorack Gallery and to share with you her latest works. Read more

PETER DAVIS
new paintings 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to share with you new work by artist-in-watercolour Peter Davis. Read more

ALAN MACDONALD
new work 17 Mar 2018 Read more

STEVE DILWORTH
new work 17 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 Read more

ALLAN MACDONALD
new work 16 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased exhibit the lastest paintings by Allan MacDonald this March. This is our twenty-first year exhibiting the work of MacDonald and it is always a joy to show. This year he has continued to push the frontiers of how to use oil paint. He captures all the... Read more

PART THREE 2017
SHONA BARR | JAMES NEWTON ADAMS | MARK EDWARDS | LOTTE GLOB 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Kilmorack Gallery is pleased to present the last in a group of three exhibitions focusing on the work of four selected Scottish artists in each exhibition. In part three we presend work by SHONA BARR, JAMES NEWTON ADAMS, MARK EDWARDS and LOTTE GLOB. Read more

LOTTE GLOB
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Danish born LOTTE GLOB made her home and studio in wild Scotland over fifty years ago; drawing inspiration and materials from the environment – the mountains, sea and rivers. Creativity and overcoming technical challenges has always been central to Glob’s work, as has been the influence of archeology (her father... Read more

MARK EDWARDS
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Alluring and psychological, MARK EDWARDS’s paintings stay with you, or maybe they have always been there buried like deja vu. His subject is often similar – men in hats and jackets, snow and often a train or a red balloon. He deservedly has a large following despite his remote location... Read more

JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 JAMES NEWTON ADAMS is best known for his faux naïve paintings and steel sculpture inspired by the peoples, animals and landscape of the Isle of Skye where he lives and works. Read more

SHONA BARR
15 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 SHONA BARR’s paintings vibrate with energy. Colours, light and the atmosphere of nature are captured quickly by Barr, en plein air in watercolour, and then worked up into oils that retain this vibrancy. Her wonderfully loose brush-marks and bold colours put Shona Barr clearly as an inheritor and pioneer of... Read more

Hollow
HELEN DENERLEY | PETER WHITE 11 Aug - 9 Sep 2017 Kilmorack Gallery is delighted to bring together the work of Helen Denerley and Peter White in this exhibition. ‘Hollow’ explores a powerful hinterland – the land of empty bits and hollows. A place where absences are frequently more powerful than presences. Helen Denerley and Peter White are hugely respected artists... Read more

EOGHAN BRIDGE
27 May - 5 Aug 2017 The sculpture of EOGHAN BRIDGE is always immediately recognisable – a horse and a man or women, possibly all three – balanced in harmony. In his latest work, Bridge experiments with larger scales, and new forms and colours. They are more unmissable than ever. Read more

FIONNA CARLISLE
27 May - 5 Aug 2017 This is almost the first-time Scottish artist FIONNA CARLISLE’s has exhibited in in the North of Scotland, despite being a native of Wick. Her paintings always embrace vibrant energy and incandescent colour. This show at Kilmorack includes work inspired both by her native Wick as well as more sunny images... Read more

ALAN MACDONALD
27 May - 5 Aug 2017 An exhibition by ALAN MACDONALD is always an event. His paintings are reminiscent of old masters’ work, but they have been updated for our modern age, often with a dark, humorous or uplifting twist. We are extremely excited about these latest works; where Macdonald has developed new compositions framing subject... Read more

KIRSTIE COHEN
27 May - 5 Aug 2017 Last year (2016) KIRSTIE COHEN had a major solo exhibition here in Kilmorack Gallery. This is her first body of new work since then. In these latest works Cohen, who is best known for her rich layered oil-paintings, experiments with the acrylics, collage and new compositions. The result is exciting,... Read more

SAM CARTMAN
27 May - 5 Aug 2017 SAM CARTMAN’s paintings involve the bold application of oil-paint and carefully placed colour to explore remote, lost and abandoned features of the Scottish landscape. His latest works include some wonderful large canvases inspired by travels around his studio in Dumfriesshires. Read more

PART ONE 2017
COLIN BROWN | ANNETTE EDGAR | ROBERT MCAULAY | ALLAN MACDONALD | ANN WEGMULLER 18 Mar - 20 May 2017 Kilmorack Gallery is please to present the first in a group of three exhibitions which focus on the work of five selected Scottish artists in each exhibition. In part one we present work by COLIN BROWN, ANNETTE EDGAR, ALLAN MACDONALD, ROBERT MCAULAY and ANN WEGMULLER. Read more

ALLAN MACDONALD
18 Mar - 20 May 2017 We are pleased to present new landscapes by Highland-based ALLAN MACDONALD (b. 1965.) This is MACDONALD’s twenteith year exhibiting in Kilmorack Gallery in which time he has aquired a reputation for his powerful impasto paint. MACDONALD’s work is often large and dramatic, capturing the transcient quality of nature, and pushing... Read more

ROBERT MCAULAY
18 Mar - 20 May 2017 Kilmorack Gallery is excited to show ROBERT MCAULAY's latest works in 'squeezed trees and communities' this spring. Few artists evolve their work as dramatically as ROBERT MCAULAY, and these latest paintings are no exception. All of them embody the features of his finest works - beautiful colours, absorbing texture and... Read more

ANNETTE EDGAR
18 Mar - 20 May 2017 The work of ANNETTE EDGAR is welcome addition to Kilmorack's stable of artists. We are pleased to present new paintings in this show by Edgar, who is one of Scotland's most interesting inheritors of the colourist tradition. Works include a series of new works based around the observations of everyday... Read more

ANN WEGMULLER
18 Mar - 20 May 2017 I first saw ANN WEGMULLER's work twenty years ago. I loved the original and harmonious use of colour, and her uniquely effective abstraction, so I'm very pleased to announce Kilmorack Gallery's first showing of WEGMULLER's new work this March. These latest works are paintied over the Autumn and winter and... Read more

COLIN BROWN
18 Mar - 20 May 2017 We are pleased to share with you COLIN BROWN’s latest works this March. For many years BROWN has been one of the UKs leading collage artists. His work is always rich and evocative; and this year he has pushed the artistic envelope still further. These latest ten paintings show even... Read more

Scottish artists inspired by the SEA
17 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Scottish artists have always been drawn to the sea, pulled along by instinct, like salmon, to the coast. It was a powerful draw to twentieth century artists – Eardley, Houston and Bellany - and it is equally powerful now. Kilmorack Gallery’s exhibition ‘SEA’ looks at its influence on Scottish artists... Read more

KIRSTIE COHEN
northern horizon 13 Aug - 10 Sep 2016 Kilmorack Gallery is delighted to present a major exhibition of KIRSTIE COHEN's work this August. COHEN is known for her dramatic landscapes, often with an unsurpassed richness that comes from the laborious layering and manipulation of slow-drying oil-paint. It has taken KIRSTIE COHEN over two years to produce the fifty-plus... Read more

SARAH CARRINGTON
Coastlines: New work by Sarah Carrington 19 Sep - 24 Oct 2015 SARAH CARRINGTON’s paintings in this autumn’s exhibition in Kilmorack Gallery (19th September – 24th October 2015) include a range of works from her large triptychs to her smaller more intimate works. CARRINGTON’s paintings are always of the highest quality: achieving precision and painterliness, and magnificence with intimacy. Read more

PAUL BLOOMER
Flight: woodcuts by Paul Bloomer 19 Sep - 24 Oct 2015 We are pleased to show the work of Shetland based Paul Bloomer this autumn (19th Sept – 24th October 2015). The show includes some of his monolithic Black Country woodcuts and drawings. This is figure painting, or to be more precise drawing, at its best and includes works like his... Read more

ALLAN MACDONALD
Rock of Ages 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2015 ALLAN MACDONALD's paintings of the Scottish landscape are increasingly sought after. Works in this August's exhibition - Rock of Ages - are inspired by trips to the wildest coasts MACDONALD could find; round the Shetland Isles and the north coast of Scotland and it includes some of his largest most... Read more

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