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Artists: Helen Wilson, Robin Gillanders, Donna McGlynn, Robert Andrew Mercer, Steve Higginson and Simon Larson The winners of the Scottish Portrait Awards 2017 have been announced at a ceremony in ...
Michael Youds, a gallery attendant at the Scottish National Galleries, won the Scottish Portrait Award, one of Scotland’s biggest art prizes. Michael Youds, I Was Blue, He Was Red (2019).
Scottish artist gives historical portraits a modern makeover by turning them into ‘neds’ Lisa Bowman Published March 21, 2018 4:52pm Updated December 12, 2019 3:55pm ...
THOMAS CARLYLE, JAMES WATT, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott… the entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) is usually populated by imposing, marble likenesses of ...
Andrew Geddes' portrait of himself with John Burnet and Anthony Stewart, part of Scottish portraits 1700-1950 at the Fine Art Society, Edinburgh. The sitter is Mrs Hannah Lowfield Turner.
The awards honour Scottish talent from across the country, including new young artists.
Two people from the group have claimed to spray one of the King’s paintings in Edinburgh’s National Portrait Gallery with the words “The people are mightier than the lord”, at around 3 pm ...
A new body of work by one of the leading contemporary painters in the UK is to go on display for the first time. The paintings by Alison Watt, best known for her intricate large-scale representations ...
Artists: Helen Wilson, Robin Gillanders, Donna McGlynn, Robert Andrew Mercer, Steve Higginson and Simon Larson The winners of the Scottish Portrait Awards 2017 have been announced at a ceremony in ...