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2010

 

5 - 26 June

CRINAN 2010 SUMMER EXHIBITION

Crinan Hotel

 

Tuesday 22 June

INVERARITY ONE TO ONE WINE-TASTING WITH PETE STEWART

 

22 & 23 May

ART IN THE PARK

RGI stand

Queen's Park, Glasgow

 

Tuesday 18 May

CAROL FOREMAN
'The Lost & Hidden Architectural Heritage of Glasgow' (lunch-time talk)

 

Tuesday 27 April

GORDON McCRACKEN

'THE ART OF FRAMING' (lunch-time talk)

 

Tuesday 23 March

JOE MULHOLLAND
'THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MARGARET WATKINS' (lunch-time talk)

 

Tuesday 23 February

PAUL DOWDS

'THE GLASGOW ART CLUB' (Lunch-time talks)

 

2009

 

Monday 14th December

WINE TASTING EVENING WITH INVERARITY ONE TO ONE
"Little Crackers for Christmas"

 

Tuesday 8th December

JILA PEACOCK
"The Hafez calligraphy" (Lunch-time talks)

 

Monday 16th November

JOHN BYRNE HRGI

RGI Annual Exhibition Lecture

 

Tuesday 10th November

PATRICIA CAIN

"Drawing as thinking" (Lunch-time talks)

 

Sunday 18th October

Life Class with The Royal Glasgow Institute
Free drawing session as part of The Big Draw, with support from the ArtStore.

 

Tuesday 6th October

GORDON MITCHELL RSA RSW RGI

"Painting demonstration" (Lunch-time talks)

 

Tuesday 8th September

SIMON LAURIE RSW RGI

(Lunch-time talks)

 

Tuesday 7 April

Terry Anderson, cartoonist - "Scottish Cartoon Art"

 

Tuesday 10 March

Carol Foreman, architectural historian (accidental!) - "Hidden Glasgow"

 

Tuesday 17 February

Minty Donald, artist - Art - Site - Audience

 

Tuesday 27 January

Malcolm Lochhead, Textile Artist & Fellow in Design, Glasgow Caledonian University

"My work – and welcome to it"

 

 

2008

 

Tuesday 9 December

Peter Trowles curator of The Mackintosh Collection discusses "Preserving the Past : Managing the Future" - the Mackintosh conservation and access project at The Glasgow School of Art.

 

Tuesday 11 November

Alastair Ross, internationally renowned sculptor, presents his Sculptural Reminiscences.

 

Tuesday 21 October

Judith Bowers of Glasgow's Britannia Panopticon music hall presents "Laugh, I nearly died!" - the history of Glasgow's oldest theatre building.

 

Tuesday 30 September

Mark O'Neill, Glasgow's Head of Arts & Museums, presents an illustrated talk on the renewal of Kelvingrove.

 

Tuesday 13 May

Thoughts of a Marine Artist at the RGI Kelly Gallery : Illustrated Talk by James Watt RGI

 

Scotland's premier maritime painter illustrates how he approaches his subject and how his paintings are constructed; demonstrating his lifelong passion for ships and the sea, and showing a wide range of his work throughout his career.

 

“The most any artist can hope for is to do his own thing and get some appreciation from some people! If you can do that as honestly as you can it’s all worthwhile. I like to think that in my painting I have made some small comment upon the way of life which I have so greatly enjoyed.” - James Watt RGI

 

Tuesday 15 April

"Whistler & Glasgow" at the RGI Kelly Gallery

Illustrated Talk By Professor Nigel Thorp, Honorary Research Fellow and Project Director

The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, of the University of Glasgow reveals the man behind the art, through his copious writings.

 

James McNeill Whistler’s artistic and literary estate was presented to the University of Glasgow in recognition of the support he had received from the city. Eighty paintings and a thousand other works form the central collection of the Hunterian Art Galley, and together with his correspondence, books, photographs, furniture and personal effects have made Glasgow the Centre for Whistler Studies, the primary focus in Europe for the study and appreciation of his work. www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk

 

Tuesday 18 March

Portrait Painting Demonstration by George Devlin RSW, RGI, RBA, ROI, ARWS, FRSA

 

Glasgow School of Art prodigy – the much-honoured, widely-travelled and internationally exhibited and collected George Devlin will demonstrate how he sets about painting a portrait. From how he sets up his model - on this occasion one of his former students and now magazine editor, Lynne Kennedy – through why he does what in his painting, to answering questions in the sociably informal setting of The Kelly Gallery.

 

George is then off to the south of France for the month of May on a fellowship as Artist-in-Residence in Collioure – just round the corner from the landscape of Port Vendres, made famous by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – where he will be doing a similar painting demonstration, with the local Mayor as his model!

 

Tuesday 19 February

The Art of Radio Times by broadcaster and writer Tony Currie

 

The RADIO TIMES was created in 1923 by the controversial Glaswegian Lord Reith, father of the BBC. For much of its life the Corporation's weekly journal was Britain's biggest commissioner of original artwork.

 

Some of the finest contemporary artists in the British Isles have decorated the covers, pages and programme billings. Off-the-peg commercial art has never been an option for the world's best broadcaster. With the work of Rex Whistler, Jean Cocteau, Bob Sherriffs, Eric Fraser, Victor Reinganum, Robert Micklewright, Peter Brookes and Edward Ardizzone - to name but a few - gracing its pages, the Radio Times swiftly gained the reputation of being art's greatest national patron. TONY CURRIE is the author of the definitive history of the BBC's journal, "The Radio Times Story". His talk will be supplemented by previously unseen original artwork and from his own archive collection of issues of The Radio Times.

 

 

2007

 

Tuesday 30 October

A Talk & Demonstration by James Spence RGI RSW, co-founder of the Glasgow Group of Artists

 

Tuesday 16 October

An Audience with Evelyne Anderson, first lady President of the RGI and member of the Glasgow Art Club council