The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has launched never-before-seen concert footage as part of their new online ‘RSNO Friday Night Club’, enabling people to enjoy music while staying at home.
With the RSA’s gallery spaces on Princes Street closed to the public until May at the earliest, the 194th exhibition will be available to view entirely online.
Sad news concerning this year’s Edinburgh’s Festivals – the second biggest cultural event in the world after the Olympics.
Note: Gallery currently closed. Upstairs & J & G Innes is hosting an exhibition of the career of local artist Helen Firth.
Artmag is pleased to launch a new initiative: we’re asking anyone producing new visual art and craft/sculpture work since the lockdown to send us a good-quality photo of it to a page on our website.
St Andrews’ Fraser Gallery is among the many showing and selling work online and welcoming orders during the current public health situation.
Edinburgh-based Alpha Art is among the many galleries currently showing and selling work online.
A suite of three charming Scottish landscape watercolours by the English painter and illustrator E.W. Haslehust RI, RBA, RBC (1866-1949). Haslehust studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and exhibited regularly, including at the Royal Academy in London. He also designed travel posters and illustrated travel books published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow
Note: online only. Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles’ new exhibition begins 21st March, featuring the work of Ann Flynn, Maggie New and Alison Cowan.
A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Ellis O’Connor’s visceral and elemental work is among the new work from several artists at Edinburgh’s Morningside Gallery.
Note: viewing online only. Edinburgh’s Open Eye Gallery’s exhibitions continue to be shown online, with three new ones showing in April, from Susie Leiper, Catharine Davison and Charlie Yates.
In Lochaber on Scotland’s west coast, Resipole Studios is hosting its Spring Fling – a group exhibition showcasing new work by many of their regular roster of artists.
Note: viewing by arrangement. Edinburgh’s Atelier Gallery continues its exhibition featuring the vigorous work of Linda Park.
Note: postponed; mixed exhibition available to view online. Perthshire-based Kevin Fleming’s paintings burst with enlivening colour and ingenuity in a contribution to a contemporary Scottish artistic language giving visual expression to uniquely Scottish themes.
Note: check with Gallery for current opening arrangements. Edinburgh’s Torrance Gallery is staging an exhibition of original and beautifully-executed work by three artists, exhibiting together for the first time.
Note: online viewing only. Landscape painter Beth Robertson Fiddes’ exhibition of her latest paintings is at Strathearn Gallery in beautiful Perthshire.
Viewing online only (this exhibition currently unavailable). Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios is to stage an exhibition celebrating the heady era of 20th-century modern design revolutionaries such as Terence Conran and Mary Quant.
Note: open by appointment only. An insight into the distinct, challenging life of the prodigiously talented painter William Crosbie is among the new exhibitions at The Scottish Gallery.
Online only: Edinburgh’s Arusha Gallery is hosting an exhibition by Danny Leyland, exploring ideas around action, labour and deed.
Glasgow’s The Modern Institute has an online viewing room at Art Basel – a great way of viewing art from home!
Viewing online only: one of Dundee’s finest landscape painters, Fiona Haldane is particularly admired for her innovative and distinctive use of pastels. Available online from 18th March.
Note Gallery currently closed. Recent paintings of Fife’s East Neuk are the focus of Ruth Nicol’s exhibition at Linlithgow’s Line Gallery, showcasing her analytical, expressive painterly style.
Note: Opening delayed due to public health situation. Now in its 194th year, the RSA Annual Exhibition is the most extensive exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland, providing a platform for Scottish art alongside myriad international artists.
Note: cancelled due to public health situation. James MacMillan’s landmark setting of the dying words of Jesus Christ, Seven Last Words from the Cross will be performed by the Scottish Ensemble and Dunedin Consort in the former’s 50th anniversary year, across Scotland and in London.
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