THE National Galleries of Scotland is to revamp its branding.
The galleries have advertised a search for a "creative partner to support our ambitious vision and help us to reach and engage more audiences and diverse groups via a refreshed brand."
The brand will include a new visual identity for the galleries.
The first stage of the tender process closes on 25 September.
It is expected that a creative partner will be appointed before the end of 2018.
Jo Coomber, director of public engagement at the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "We have grown our visitor numbers year on year and last year attracted a record 2.5 million people and over 1.9 million visits to our website, but we know that we need to keep evolving to ensure that we continue to remain relevant.
"We are passionate about the power of art and how it can move, inspire and inform."
www.nationalgalleries.org
THE Transmission Gallery in Glasgow is to stage the solo exhibition of the Scottish visual artist Rabiya Choudhry this September.
The show, called COCO!NUTS! is the first Scottish solo exhibition by Choudhry in Scotland and her hometown of Glasgow.
The exhibition will feature a selection of Choudhry’s paintings, as well as experimentations by the artist into text-based media, textiles and painted sculptures.
The gallery said the show will explore themes of "faith; race; identity; and politics in vibrant portrayals of the different autobiographical factors present in her life.
"Choudhry's work specifically references her personal experience of South Asian diaspora and cultural displacement in Scotland, coupled with dark comedic Scottish humour. "
The artist said: "I am delighted to be having my first solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery in my hometown of Glasgow later this year.
"I’ve always loved the space since I was a wee girl, and it’s a great privilege to be selected by the Transmission committee to be the recipient of the Scottish Solo Show commission in 2018.
"I am also particularly excited to be presenting work in this gallery at a time it’s being run by a wholly diverse committee."
The show will run from September 15 to October 20.
Rabiya Choudhry was born in Glasgow in 1982 and trained at Edinburgh College of Art to MA level.
Since then, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; most recently producing work for Dundee Contemporary Arts’ (DCA) exhibition DCA Thomson (2016); and commissioned by Glasgow Tramway’s ‘Tramway Local’ programme to produce Govanhill-based public engagement project Signs Of The Times (2017).
www.rabiyachoudhry.com
ART by artists from India, South Korea, Canada and Scotland have gone on show at The Glenfiddich Distillery as part of its International Artists in Residence programme.
Hosted at the Dufftown, Aberdeenshire, home the whisky, the exhibition includes a number of cocktail-inspired sculptural items by South Korean Artist, Choi Saejin.
Biplab Sarkar has created a panorama of the surrounding landscape in ten postcard-sized watercolours, while Canadian artist Vanessa Maltese explores the brain’s ability to make sense of random patterns.
Scottish artist Rhona Jack is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee and won her place on the Residency following her participation in the 2017 RSA New Contemporaries exhibition.
For her first piece of work at the Distillery, she completed a seating area created by combining dry-stane dyking inspired by the architecture of the Distillery Warehouse No. 1, which was built by William Grant.
Work by artists Wang Te-Yu from Taiwan and Elyse de Valle from Melbourne, Australia will feature in the final Glenfiddich Artists in Residence exhibition in late September alongside a new selection of paintings by Biplab Sarkar.
The show runs until 23 September.
www.glenfiddich.com
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