THE GREAT tapestry of Scotland is to be displayed at the new exhibition gallery at New Lanark.
The tapestry will be on display from May 18 to July 1.
New Lanark first hosted the tapestry in 2014, exhibiting it to over 13,000 visitors.
For the first time, panels from ‘The Great Tapestry of Scotland’ will be exhibited alongside insights from Dorie Wilkie, Lead Stitcher and her team of more than 1000 stitchers who worked on the project across Scotland.
The exhibition will also include original sketches and personal works by Andrew Crummy, the man behind the tapestry’s beautiful illustrative designs depicting key moments in Scotland’s history.
The tapestry took 65,000 hours of stitching and used more than 300 miles of wool, illustrating 420 million years of Scottish history in 160 panels.
www.newlanark.org
A NEW solo exhibition by Edinburgh artist, Rachael Rebus, will explore the female form and how it is portrayed in contemporary Scottish culture.
Women’s Work includes portraits of political activist Mary Barbour - best known for her leadership role in the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915; and Edith Pechey, one of the Edinburgh Seven, a group of women who fought Edinburgh University to gain the same educational rights as men.
Also to be featured are Scottish Makar, Jackie Kay; First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon and Monica Lennon MSP.
Women’s Work exhibits at the Six Foot Gallery in Glasgow’s Pentagon Centre from June 14.
www.rachaelrebus.com
WORKERS at the Victorian creamery at Bladnoch, near Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway - the closure of which caused economic woe - are being honoured in a new art project and as part of the region’s Spring Fling open art studios festival.
The festival begins on May 26.
Hope London painted The Bladnoch Altarpiece as the centrepiece of a body of work created during a two-month residency focused on the former Co-Operative Wholesale Society creamery at Bladnoch.
Its closure in 1989, with the loss of over 140 jobs, was an economic blow to the area.
Some of the imagery used by Hope recalls medieval religious art.
The Bladnoch Altarpiece itself involves a triptych with an industrial valve presented like a Celtic cross.
www.spring-fling.co.uk
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