AN EXHIBITION of works by the renowned British artist Jenny Saville is to open at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in Edinburgh this spring.
Saville, who attended Glasgow School of Art, is known for her large depictions of the female form.
Her 21-foot-long triptych Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face) reached a wide audience when it appeared on the cover of the 1994 album The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers.
The show will feature 17 works from private and public collections across the world.
This will be the first museum exhibition of Saville’s work to be held in Scotland, and only her third in the UK.
The selection will span 26 years, from early paintings such as Propped (1992) and Trace (1993-4), to recent charcoal and pastel drawings.
Other highlights will include a series of large-scale head paintings, such as Rosetta II (2005-6), made while the artist was based in Italy, and the premier of a major new work, Aleppo (2017-18), that will be hung at the Scottish National Gallery alongside historic works from the collection.
www.nationalgalleries.org
THE SCOTTISH Book Trust has announced the books chosen for the 2018/19 Bookbug Bags that are distributed free to every baby, toddler and 3-year-old in Scotland.
Every year, Bookbug gives more than 800,000 books to families across Scotland.
The baby bag books are Peekaboo! in the Jungle by Cocoretto (Child’s Play), Baby’s Very First Black and White Book: Faces by Stella Baggott (Usborne) and If You’re Happy and You Know It… by Annie Kubler (Child’s Play)
The toddler bag includes How to Bath Your Little Dinosaur by Jane Clarke & Georgie Birkett (Penguin Random House), Maisy's Bus by Lucy Cousins (Walker Books)and Flip and Find Farmers by Samantha Meredith (Campbell / Macmillan).
The books for older children are You Choose by Pippa Goodhart & Nick Sharratt (Penguin Random House), Penguin by Polly Dunbar (Walker Books) and Is That an Elephant in My Fridge? by Caroline Crowe & Claudia Ranucci (Scholastic)
www.scottishbooktrust.com
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