Creag agus uisge: if you are in Edinburgh in the next two weeks check out this exhibition at Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh from 15-25 January of painting, sculpture and books by 5 artists from and associated with North Uist: Marnie Keltie, Fiona Pearson, Fergus Granville, Anja Baarmann, Corrina Krause. If you miss it you can…
at Taigh Chearsabhagh Cafe, Lochmaddy Saturday 24th November – Saturday 5th January An exhibition of small works. Following the success of last winter, we are returning to the CD format that we devised last year: all works are 12cm x 12 cm, small enough to fit inside a CD case. This enables us to show …
Join a World War One commemoration event at Culla Bay, Benbecula. Sunday 11th November, 3.30 to 4.30 A large-scale portrait of a local WWI casualty etched into the sand on Culla Bay beach on 11th November 2018. Sand artists ‘Sand In Your Eye’ will design the portrait, which will be washed away as the tide comes…
12 x 12 at Taigh Chearsabhagh Cafe, Lochmaddy Saturday 24th November – Saturday 5th January Preview – 7pm on Friday 23rd November Following the success of last winter, we are returning to the CD format that we devised last year as it enabled us to show such a varied and rich selection of our members works…
Here’s a new art project with a Uist connection, inspired by house dresses and wrap aprons. The artist is Joanne B Kaar The house dress was often worn by women when dyeing yarns with lichen (crottle/crotal) in the Scottish Highland and Islands. Traditionally, this type of work clothing had a small, repeat floral pattern. Uses…
This is a quiet slow landscape where edges mingle, and the tide seeps silently asking the question: Uist, land or water? A series of prints and paintings by Catherine Yeatman UAA cafe exhibition at Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy 6th October to 17th November 2018 More from Catherine Yeatman
Katharine Barr (1935 – 2014) was an artist and a very popular art teacher in the Uists. The Arts Bursary which has been set up in Katharine’s memory will be awarded annually for four years. For the first three years it will be awarded to an artist. In the fourth year it will be awarded…
Uist artists can now share profiles of their work on the new Uist Arts Association at https://uistarts.org/ If you are a UAA member, you can login and upload photos of your work, a description of your practice, contact details and (if you have a gallery or open studio) details of opening hours and location. See examples…
The Claddach Kirkibost centre has announced its events programme for September 2018: Thursday 13th September 7pm Margaret Joan MacIsaac – Pinhole Photography Workshop Part I Local resident Margaret Joan will explore how to create photographs using a simple homemade camera which participants will make from recycled materials. Please note that this is a two-part workshop.…
Judith Entwisle-Baker
The Uist Arts Association has been very saddened to hear of the sudden passing yesterday of one of our most talented and active members, Judith Entwisle-Baker. Judith was an active and passionate supporter of arts in the Uists and a member of the UAA committee for as long as we can remember. She had also…
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