Wee Dinkies watercolours exhibition
Wee Dinkies watercolours exhibition
A NEW exhibition of small watercolours depicting familiar sights around Inverclyde opens this Friday night in Greenock.
The Wee Dinkies show features tiny framed watercolours by Gourock-based painter Anne McKay.
Subjects include the Clydeport cranes, the Sugar Sheds at James Watt Dock and landscapes beyond the three towns of Inverclyde.
Prices start at £45 and the artist will be donating 25 per cent of all profits to Inverclyde Foodbank.
The exhibition opens to the public at Aves Business Centre on Jamaica Street, Greenock, on Monday.
It runs until January 10, and the centre is open, Monday-Friday, from 10am-5pm.
McKay is a member of the Absent Voices group of artists whose exhibition, Sugar Archive, telling the story of Greenock's once booming sugar industry, is currently running at the nearby McLean Gallery in Greenock.
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East meets west in Gamelan gigs
GLASGOW-based Gamelan Naga Mas are staging two performances of their multi-media project Gamelan Untethered at the city's Old Hairdressers venue on Saturday, December 13 at 7pm and 9pm.
Based on the theme of our relationship, perceptions and understanding of the cosmos, it features the traditional Javanese instruments of a gamelan ensemble alongside synthesiser, guitars, piano, voice with processed visual accompaniment by VJ Alex Mackay in original compositions by group members and music by the great jazz eccentric and self-proclaimed son of Saturn, Sun Ra.
Discussions are under way to take the piece to the Edinburgh Fringe next summer,
These two performances will be Glasgow audiences' only chance to experience it beforehand.
Gordon Mackinnon of the Gamelan Naga Mas ensemble, which formed in 1990 and has appeared all over the UK, said: "We had a test flight earlier this year and the juxtaposition of instruments old and new, east and west, and visuals has been very well received.
"We're looking to take the piece to the Fringe and then beyond that into the international arena."
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