Aberdeen Art Gallery

Aberdeen Artists Society 70^th Annual Exhibition
(6 March - 3 April)

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

Supported by Shell UK Limited.

 

Colour
(13 March - 5 February 2005)

Examining the history of colour through the City's Applied Art Collections.

 

Time for Tea
(13 March - 22 May)

An exhibition telling the story of teapots and tea drinking through a selection of pots from the superb collection held by Norwich Castle.

In association with Norwich Castle; supported by Twinings.

 

Collection Classics
(1 April - February 2005)

Highlights of the Applied Art collections, including Aberdeen silver, Meissen porcelain figures, Scottish glass, and a superb enamelled marmalade pot by leading enamellist Maureen Edgar.

Marmalade pot purchase supported by the National Fund for Acquisitions, the National Art Collections Fund, and the friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.

 

Gates of the West
(1 April - 23 October)

A new, site-specific installation created for Aberdeen Art Gallery by acclaimed Scottish artist Kenny Hunter.

Purchased through the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland; supported by the National Fund for Acquisitions and the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Manipulating Metal
(1 April 2004 - 9 April 2005)

This exhibition, regularly updated to included new acquisitions, showcases the City's exceptional collection of works in metal, which includes pieces by international metalworkers such as Horoki Iwata and Robert Foster, and by leading Scottish metalworkers, including Malcolm Appleby, Adrian Hope and Michael Lloyd.

Many purchases for the collection were supported by grant aid bodies, the friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, and the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland.

 

Spotlight on Douglas Gordon
(17 April - 19 June)

First showing in Scotland of 'Croque Mort, 2000', a series of large-scale images of a baby biting her toes, arranged so as to appear unsettling rather than sentimental or innocent.

 

f-stop
(17 April - 19 June)

A major exhibition of contemporary photography brought together by Aberdeen Art Gallery in conjunction with the Arts Council Collection, featuring works by leading photographic artists.

In association with the Arts Council Collection.

 

North, South, Central
(24 April - 5 June)

Artworks by participants of all ages in classes run by the City Council's Arts development team, featuring paintings, film-making, glass, ceramics and photography.

 

Quentin Blake: Fifty Years of Illustration
(3 July - 11 September)

The only Scottish showing of this major exhibition celebrating the career and distinctive drawing style of the popular illustrator.

In association with the Quentin Blake Gallery of Illustration.

 

Paul Sandby Watercolours
(10 July - 4 December)

Aberdeen Art Gallery's holdings of works by the eighteenth century watercolourist and topographical artist.

 

Michael Rowe
(25 September - 20 November)

The only Scottish showing of a major retrospective of the work of Michael Rowe, the leading artist and designer in metal.

A National Touring Exhibition from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, part of the Crafts Council-initiated Show5 exhibition series. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

 

John Leslie: 18^th Century Aberdeen Goldsmith
(2 October - 5 February 2005)

Rare opportunity to see work by a leading eighteenth cebtury goldsmith.

In association with the Clan Leslie Charitable Trust.

 

BP Portrait Award 2004
(4 December - 22 January 2005)

The only Scottish showing of this hugely popular and critically-acclaimed exhibition.

A National Portrait Gallery Touring Exhibition. Supported by BP.

 

Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Super Models
(31 January - 17 April)

The world of model-making is explored in this exhibition of scale replicas of a wide range of items, made from materials as diverse as bone, rubber and toothpicks.

 

Life at Sea
(1 May 2004 - 17 July)

A unique selection of historically significant models, paintings and objects from maritime collections across the UK, brought together by the Maritime Curators Group and starting its national tour in Aberdeen.

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

 

Banking on Winning
(17 July - 28 August)

A small exhibition to coincide with the 2004 Olympic Games, bringing together coins, medals and banknotes with a sporting theme.

 

Little But Good: The Great North of Scotland Railway
(31 July - 2 October)

An exhibition commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the North-east's own railway, tracing its unusual and intriguing history.

 

That's Shell - That Was!
(16 October - 9 January 2005)

Posters and original artworks from the Shell Advertising Art Collection, featuring a poster campaign that employed the talents of some of the leading artists of the 1930s.

 

Provost Skene's House

Always the Bridesmaid
(24 January - 20 March)

Bridesmaids' fashions from the nineteenth century onwards.

 

The Needle's Art
(3 April - 29 May)

Embroidered clothes and textiles from the City's Collections.

 

At Your Leisure
(12 June - 7 August)

Leisurewear from the last 150 years, from a Victorian lady's riding habit to a 1960s ski-suit.

 

The Land of Nod
(21 August - 16 October)

Fashions in nightwear from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries.

 

A Feat of Clay: The History of Seaton Pottery
(21 November - 2 October 2005)

Major exhibition telling the story of Scotland's most northerly pottery at Seaton, Aberdeen, using items discovered in a recent large-scale archaeological excavation, as well as artefacts from the City's Collections and from those of Marischal Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, other Scottish museums and a number of private collections.