Independent Art Consultancy
SATURDAY 10 MARCH 2018
At times witty, controversial and tender, Calum Colvin’s images are presented alongside poems in response by poet Rab Wilson.
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SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2018
Graham Fagen gives a tour of his exhibition.
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SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2018
Adrian Wiszniewski will be talking about his practice, with a particular focus on the large body of work on Burns he has produced over the years and what he has found so inspiring about the Bard’s life and work.
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SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2018
Artist Brigid Collins and Eddie Small* discuss the concept behind the book ‘For A’That’, illustrated by Collins and edited by Kirsty Gunn alongside Anna Day, Cultural Project Manager for the University of Dundee.
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*Eddie Small lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. He was awarded the Student-led ‘Most Inspirational Teacher at the University’ in May 2016. In 2013 he was awarded the Stephen Fry Award for a project and publication on body donation entitled In Memoriam and subsequently ran a conference on the subject in the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His biography of Mary Lily Walker, Forgotten Visionary of Dundee, was launched in 2013, and his stage-play, Dundee’s Four Marys, has been very successful and has been published too. He wrote (and performed in) ‘Pantomime of Death’ for the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe.
SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2018
Cartoonists Greg Moodie and Chris Cairns* discuss politics, satire and their latest books Send in the Clowns and Cool Scots.
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*Chris Cairns is a political cartoonist and author living in Edinburgh. A former journalist with The Scotsman, he has also written freelance for The Sunday Times, The Herald and Scotland on Sunday, among others. His books include the best socio-political history travelogue ever written about golf, a gritty urban thriller set in Portree, and Welcome to Cairnstoon, a collection of cartoons.
SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2018
Award winning text artist Catherine Sargeant is joined by Tom Houston, an original and compelling Scottish singer songwriter.
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SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018
Kenny Hunter will discuss his practice as an artist in relation to the life and work of Robert Burns.
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SUNDAY 28 JANUARY 2018
Ciara Veronica Dunne, Ross Fleming, Derrick Guild and Robert Powell in conversation with Festival Director Sheilagh Tennant and Exhibitions Facilitator Holly Knox Yeoman.
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SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2018
David Mach RA discusses his fascination with Robert Burns with Burns biographer Robert Crawford*. They will also discuss some of David’s recent work merging collage and poetry, as well as performing some of his lyrical works.
*Robert Crawford’s eighth collection of poems, Testament, was published by Cape in 2014. His biography of Robert Burns, The Bard, is published by Vintage and won the Saltire Society’s Book of the Year award. He is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews.
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