Aberdeen Art Gallery

The Herdman Bequest of James Giles Watercolours
(15 January - 15 March)

A collection of works by the Scottish artist.

 

Woven Image - Contemporary British Tapestry
(25 January - 22 February)

Only Scottish showing of this exhibition of over 50 diverse works by accomplished artists including Mary Farmer, Archie Brennan, Lynn Curran, Clio Pandovani and Justine Randall.

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Scottish Tapestry
(25 January- 1 March)

To complement Woven Image, works from the City's Collections, including Mr Adam's Apple by Archie Brennan, the Dovecot Tapestry Studio's interpretation of Hockney's Blue Guitar No1, and Elizabeth Blackadder's Still Life with Indian Toy.

 

Beauty and the Banknote - Images of Women on Paper Money
(1 February - 29 March)

Examples of banknotes illustrated with female characters, from the collections of the British Museum and the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

In association with the British Museum.

 

Silver from Scotland
(1 March - 5 April)

Bringing together work by twelve of Scotland's leading silversmiths including Malcolm Appleby, Michael Lloyd and Adrian Hope.

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

La Fin de Siècle
(1 March - 5 April)

Works created at the end of the nineteenth century, including paintings by John Singer Sargent, P W Steer and W R Sickert, from the City's Collections.

 

Enterprise Oil First Exhibition Award: Instill - New Work by Clare Phillips
(8 March - 5 April)

A series of glass sculptures creating distorted images and shadows, affected by visitor interaction.
Supported by Enterprise Oil plc.

 

Present and Past - Prints from the Collection
(15 January- 15 March)

Works acquired by the City over the last five years, including work by Lucien Freud, Victor Pasmore, Adrian Wiszniewski and William Dyce, as well as Pauline Jacobson, George Mackley, Monica Poole and Paul Furneaux and Malcolm Appleby.

 

Rex Nan Kivell Gift
(19 March - 17 May)

A selection of the 146 woodcuts, including prints by Clare Leighton, Agnes Miller Parker, Paul and John Nash and Eric Gill, gifted to the City's Collections.

 

Aberdeen Artists Society 63rd Annual Exhibition
(3 May - 25 May)

Aberdeen Artists Society's annual 'open' exhibition with painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, photography, film and printmaking.

Supported by Shell UK Limited.

 

James McBey in Venice
(21 May - 19 July)

Oils, etchings and sketchbooks from 1924 and 1925.

 

Fishing & Farming
(31 May - 26 July)

Paintings from the City's Collections depicting these traditional livelihoods.

 

Hats Off!
(7 June - 2 August)

150 years of hats, headwear and millinery from the City's Collections.

 

Men at Work
(23 July - 20 September)

Illustrative work by engraver, painter and writer Clare Leighton (1898-1989), forming part of the Rex Nan Kivell gift presented to the Gallery in 1951.

 

Inner Necessity
(9 August - 20 September)

The history of Art Therapy and Art Extraordinary in Scotland, featuring artwork created in clinical settings including the world's oldest collection from Crichton Royal Hospital (1840-1847), Dumfries, and that from the collection of Joyce Laing, the first art therapist at Aberdeen's Ross Clinic in the 1970s.

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Big Works, Big Names
(16 August - 6 September)

The largest works of contemporary art from the City's Collections, including Albert Irvin's Across, Bridget Riley's To a Summer's Day, and Richard Long's Geneva Circle.

 

79 - 97: Sara Radstone Ceramics
(13 September - 4 October)

Works by internationally-renowned ceramic artist Radstone, showing how her style has developed over eighteen years.

In association with An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis; supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Fotofeis
(10 October - 9 November)

The third, Scotland-wide, biennial festival of international, photo-based art sees a suite of exciting new exhibitions taking place at Aberdeen Art Gallery:

• Black Carnival: Larger-than-life photographs by New Zealand artist Christine Webster, surrounding the viewer with a bizarre cast of characters who line the walls of the darkened exhibition room.
• The Eden Cycle: Fruits of Desire - Initiation from childhood to adulthood as symbolised by the myth of Adam and Eve, explored by Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi.
• Utensils 1-16: Black and white prints by USA artist Clint Imboden, which juxtapose written text with images of hotel silverware.
• Private Bodies, Public Forms: Photographs taken between 1840 and 1940, demonstrating the distinction between naked and nude in the discipline of photographic imaging.
• Dorigen's Promise (Photo-love Vol 3): a 32 page full colour 'Hello'-style, pocket-sized magazine, which is a photo-based novella based on Chaucer's Franklin's Tale.
• Transgender Portraits: Close-up portraits of transvestites and transsexuals by San Francisco based artist Deborah Hammond.

 Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

BP Portrait Award 1997
(25 October - 22 November)

Prize-winning contemporary portraiture in this immensely popular exhibition.

A National Portrait Gallery Touring Exhibition; supported by BP.

 

Neolithic Carved Stone Ball
(2 October - 3 November)

A 5,000-year-old artefact, the original purpose of which remains mysterious.

 

Robert Griffith: Tables and Sculpture
(8 November - 6 December)

Innovative furniture from one of America's leading sculptural artists, who erases the often fine line between craft and art.

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Shipwrecked
(12 November - 10 January 1998)

Drawings and pastels by Jack Fleming DA RSW MSIA Hon RGI (1912-1986), who was twice on ships being bombed during WWII.

 

William Gear and COBRA
(15 November - 10 January 1998)

Work by this group, which included Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Stephen Gilbert, Asger Jorn, Karl Otto Götz and Carl-Henning Pedersen.

Supported by the Elephant Trust and Hiskia van Kralingen, Shippers, The Hague.

 

Gray's Former Students
(22 November - 13 December)

Including invitation work by graduate art professionals, painter Christine Woodside, printmaker Nikke Mcharg, textile designer Aase Randl Elk, ceramicist Simon Rochford, jeweller Margaret Shepherd RCA, photographer and graphic artist Steven McLeod and innovative sculptor Silvia Stewart, with additional works by the school's former Head of drawing and painting Alexander Fraser, and former Head of Sculpture Syd Burnett.

Supported by Mobil North Sea Ltd.

 

Alison Watt: Fold (New Paintings 1996-97)
(20 December - 7 February 1998)

A major solo exhibition by one of Scotland's most highly regarded young painters.

Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Aberdeen Maritime Museum

(Re-opened May 15 1997)

Homage to the Sea
(15 May - 21 June)

A selection of paintings and sculpture from the City's Collections which take the sea as their inspiration. Works by Fred Bushem Sylvia Wishart, Will MacLean, Frances Pelly, Robert Callendar, William Littlejohn and Martin Raynor

 

Tall Ships - High Tea
(5 July - 23 August)

To celebrate the Cutty Sark Tall Ships race - a special exhibition about the tea trade and the magnificent clipper ships which vied for the honour for the honour of bringing the first of the new season's tea from China to London in the 1860s and 70s.

 

On The Rigs
(30 August- 27 September)

How An Industry Changed A City
The role of the oil rigs and the people who worked on them plus the effects the industry had on Aberdeen and its people.

 

Germany at Sea
(4 October - 1 November)

Featuring paper money dating from the years just after the First World War

 

Star Tracking
(15 November - 10 January 1998)

An exhibition Exploring Time, Space and Navigation
Working models, replica equipment and photographs explain the movements of the stars and planets and how they served as beacons to help sailors across the ocean.

A Museums in Essex touring exhibition.

 

Old Torry
(17 January - 28 February 1998)

 

Provost Skene's House

The Needle's Excellency - Samplers and Sample Sewing
(1 February - 12 April)

Highlights from the City's extensive collection of Victorian samplers and whitework.

 

Celebration - Victorian Commemorative Ware
(8 November - 17 January 1998)

Marking the centenary of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Drawn from the collection of Sandy Dolan, Montrose, items celebrating the life of Queen Victoria from coronation and marriage through the birth of her children, the Boer War and her death in 1901.