THREE female artists are to be exhibited at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh in July. The Lines & Lineage show features work from Jo Barker, Sara Brennan and Susan Mowatt, three Scottish textile artists.

All three artists studied at Edinburgh College of Art and each was a recipient of the Cordis Prize. Jo Barker works from a studio in Edinburgh and is also a senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. Sara Brennan has won a number of awards and prizes including the Polish Artists’ Union Prize at the 10th international Tapestry Triennial in Lodz. Susan Mowatt is Programme Director of Intermedia at Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating she worked in the Frankische Gobelin Manufactur in Bavaria and later in the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, Australia as an invited weaver on the Federation Tapestry.

During July there will also be an exhibition of limited edition prints by some of Scotland’s leading female contemporary artists such as Elizabeth Blackadder, Frances Walker, Wilhelmina Barns Graham and Victoria Crowe many of whom have had a link to Edinburgh based print workshop Graal Press. The shows will run from July 5 to 29.

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ARTIST Simon Bedwell is being shown at the Hospitalfield art centre and artists residency in Abroath, Angus. His show, Society, runs until July 8. Inspired by Brian Yuzna’s 1989 film, in which the poor are eaten by the rich, Simon Bedwell’s installation features portraits heads of the most recent Cabinet.

It part of the inaugural Hospitalfield Summer Festival 2017 – a series of events launching on 19 June with a new commission by artists Pester + Rossi,and continuing until July 15. Bedwell, born in 1963, lives and works in London. He graduated from the MFA course at Goldsmiths College, London, in 1993, and has been teaching there since 2000.

Hospitalfield is also presenting a display of protest material from the collection of Aberdeen based activist and collector Andrew MacGregor.

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MOST cultural organisations still find it "challenging" to forge successful partnerships with businesses, according to a new survey of Scottish arts and heritage organisations carried out by charity Arts & Business Scotland.

In total, 65 individuals representing cultural organisations of all types and sizes and located throughout Scotland participated, responding to questions about how difficult their organisation finds it to secure partnerships, sponsorship and funding from the business sector, rating their response from zero (impossible) to ten (extremely easy). The average rating from all organisations taking part was 3.7, with only twelve respondents giving an answer higher than five.

Arts & Business Scotland recently launched the new Culture & Business Fund Scotland, designed to promote collaboration between the business and cultural sectors.

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