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BofA Contemporary Arts Festival

Saturday 1^st November 2014, 10-5pm

Four venues throughout Bridge of Allan; The Queens Hotel, The Lodge, Chalmers and Honeyman Hall.

BofA Contemporary Arts Festival now in it’s third year, features a variety of fine artists, wood turners, ceramicists,
textile artists, crafters, photographers, weavers, printmakers and jewellers.  The festival attracts artists from Glasgow, Dundee, Perth and Edinburgh as well as local artists including; Kerr Watson, Paul Howarth, Gio Martin, Angela Learoyd, Sara Greenwood, Jackie Park, Sarah Bramley, Charlotte Anker & Ann Shaw.

Ann Shaw, artist and writer, is participating in this years event with an Inter-active Sound Installation – ‘Tweet of the Day’ – an interactive fun piece of installation art where visitors to the festival can type their thoughts, wishes, or comments from the day and a voice will read them out to all that can here.  Find the Sound Installation in the foyer at Chalmers Hall.

The annual, free festival takes place at four locations – The Queens Hotel in Henderson Street, The Lodge on Union Street and the Chalmers and Honeyman Halls in Bridge of Allan Parish Church on Keir Street.

Sunday 2nd November 6pm at University of Stirling Pathfoot Building

A gala evening featuring Contemporary Art Auction, Anonymous Postcard Sale and live music! Drinks and canapés will be served while you appreciate the hundreds of artworks on display. Your chance to pick up unique Christmas gifts or invest in original artwork by some of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists.

Original artworks by some of Scotland’s leading artists, including:
Catriona Campbell
Graham Stewart
Lesley Banks
George Gilbert
Jack Knox
Claudia Massie
Lesley Anne Derks
Jacqueline Marr
and many more

Proudly supported by:

Smith and Williamson, WoodWinters Wines and Whiskies & United Auctions

Viewing from 6.00pm
Postcard sale 7.30pm
Auction 8.00pm
Tickets by donation from:
Artlink Central, Cowane Centre, Cowane Street, Stirling, FK8 1JP
Tel: 01786 450971  Email: [email protected]

In conjunction with John Shankie’s current exhibition Refractory and Refrigeration at The Park Gallery, Falkirk, we would like to invite you to meet the artist at the following event:

Artist’s Talk 10 Oct 11am-12noon

John will talk about his work, exploring the themes of memorial, reflection and restoration in connection with the First World War.

John Shankie is a Lanark-born artist and lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art who works across a wide range of mediums, taking everyday objects and processes and drawing a sense of poetry from them. Coming to prominence as an artist in the 1990s, he has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and internationally. His work takes simple everyday actions and materials – cooking a meal, making a phone call, a fridge – and finds a rich seam of meaning in them with a deeper emotional or social resonance. As a former engineer, he is interested in making, mechanics and the technical process, but explores them for their ability to express ideas or emotions in unexpected ways.

John Shankie’s current exhibition Refractory and Refrigeration runs at The Park Gallery, Falkirk until 25 October.

Refractory and Refrigeration is an exhibition showing as part of GENERATION, a major nation-wide exhibition programme showcasing some of the best and most significant artists to have emerged from Scotland over the last 25 years, and is part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. The exhibition shows an artistic response through visual art to the themes of memorial, reflection and restoration, in connection to the First World War, as part of commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of war.

The event is free, but please contact the box office on 01324 506850 to book a place, thanks.

The Park Gallery, Callendar House, Callendar Park, Falkirk, FK1 1YR.   Tel: 01324 503789

http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org

12 July – 24 September

Lillie Art Gallery, Station Road, Milngavie, Glasgow, G62 8BZ

A vibrant and challenging selection of work from the ’80s to the present day by Lys Hansen, an inspiring Scottish artist with  European reputation.  ‘Love and War – the stuff of life’.

ARTIST TALKS
Lys Hansen will be giving talks on her work on Saturday 26 July and Saturday 16 August at 2.30pm (Admission Free)