St Fergus Gallery

Sinclair Terrace, Wick KW1 5AB

01955 603489

Current Exhibition:

19 July to 16 Aug ~ Highland Printmakers' Exhibition

ORIGINAL PRINT – an exhibition of contemporary hand-made artists' prints

Highland Print Studio is bringing to Caithness an exhibition of contemporary artwork celebrating the diversity of work that can be created using traditional printmaking techniques. The exhibition, in collaboration with the Highland Council Exhibitions Unit, contains etchings, screenprints, relief prints and lithographs by artist printmakers based in the Highlands and beyond.
The show also includes displays of the equipment and tools used to create artwork using these fascinating techniques.

Work on show includes:

Steven Campbell – ‘The Rosslyn Experience’ – a woodcut of the apprentice pillar at Rosslyn Chapel.
John McNaught – ‘Playing for the Jersey’ – 20 linocuts in the artist’s series of images representing every Scottish Football League club.
Adrian Wiszniewski – ‘Whispering Hag’ – woodcut from ‘The Girl, the Boy and the Hag’, a modern gothic fairytale written and illustrated by the artist.
Bronwen Sleigh – ‘Petrolia’ – etching from a series on the Cromarty Firth area.

30 Aug to 20 Sept ~ Louis Wain - Cats

Louis Wain studied at West London School of Art and began his career as an art journalist. However it was for his pictures of cats that he became famous. From the 1880s until the outbreak of the First World War the ‘Louis Wain cat’ was hugely popular. Appearing in books, magazines and postcards, Wain’s cats are to be found engaging in many forms of human activity from playing cricket, digging up roads and riding bicycles to parading the latest fashions at Ascot. In spite of his fame, Louis Wain suffered real poverty during the war and, always known as being eccentric, he developed signs of serious mental disorder and was eventually certified insane in 1924. He was transferred to the Bethlem Hospital in 1925. The works in this exhibition are from the Bethlem Art and History Collections Trust.

Forthcoming Exhibitions

27 Sept to 25 Oct ~ Foyer Gallery Launch - Local Artists

1 Nov to 29 Nov ~ Highland Journey

Dec ~ China

Recent Exhibitions

14 June to 12 July ~ Scape and Landscape

A photographic exhibition highlighting the plight of Scotland's threatened coastlines. Featuring award-winning images taken by members of the public. Organised by the Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion (SCAPE).

http://www.scapetrust.org/ctc/

Accompanying the exhibition are selected landscapes from the Highland Council's Scottish Arts Council collection, including by Wendy Sutherland, Glen Onwin, Barbara Rae, Robyn Kennedy and Kirsteen Body

17 May to 7 June ~ Over The Hills Crafts Exhibition

Showing the work from the 2006/7 Highland Council Exhibitions Units Craft Residency Project. It features new work from ceramicist Hanne Mannheimer, who was based in Rosebank Primary, Nairn and glass artist Carole Robinson who was resident in Inverness Royal Academy.

Also showing is work created by the pupils during the residencies and new work by the participating makers from previous years, including Tim Johnson, Gilly Langton and Rachel Higgins.

The craft residency project covered all eight areas of the Highlands and placed makers in schools to work with pupils and teachers. The pupils themselves selected the maker to work with them. Makers created a body of new work in response to their residency and the location.

The project is funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the Highland Council.
 
Showing alongside the exhibition is selected work by Highland makers that has been created in response to other Highland school projects. These include the Golden Broom tartan from Mulbuie Primary school and the Highland Constellation bound book and Star Jewellery collection, featuring work by Laura West, Beth Legg, Lucy Woodley and Gilly Langton.

14 April to 10 May

Young at Art ~ Pulteneytown Academy and South Primary pupils

Still Life and 3D pieces to accompany it ; Pupils’ own take on Andy Warhol ; ‘One Offs’.

Derek Robertson ~ Exhibition

23 Feb to 22 March 2008

St Fergus Gallery, Wick will be exhibiting works in a wide range of media by North East artist Derek Robertson as the first of its annual exhibition programme this year.

Derek Robertson’s work is often described as narrative, or poetic. It is work that is profoundly inspired by the natural world, the landscape and its history, and reflects man’s relationship with his environment through imagery derived from the cultural references of folklore and custom. Despite having a love and fascination for nature, his paintings depict something of its dark underbelly: an elemental force that is at once part of, and somehow separate from, the human experience.

Swanson opening times; M, T, W 1 to 5pm, Fr 1 to 8pm, Sat 10am to 1pm, Closed Thurs and Sun

Further information:

Area Cultural Officer 01349 885114

Wick Library, Sinclair Terrace, Wick, Caithness KW1 5AB
Tel: +44(0)1955 603489

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