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Stunning selling exhibition representing the crafts of Ethiopia, an ancient land with links to early Christianity. This exhibition comprises beautiful hand carved, hand painted wooden icons, Coptic crosses, carvings and furniture, traditional textiles and basketwork from the Simien mountains.

Original prints and books from the internationally acclaimed Royal Academician painter and printmaker. Purchases welcome. Admission free. 'One of our great painters and printmakers in superb form' (Andrew Lambirth, Spectator).

Seductive, provocative and powerful - rare fashion photographs and original magazines from the Condé Nast archives, presenting early work by key figures including Helmut Newton, David Bailey and Mario Testino.

With their bold colours, fresh prints, improvisational piecing and minimalism, modern quilters are updating classic quilt designs for contemporary interiors and utilising the internet to become a global community. Our exhibition will inspire and surprise you.

Printmaking today embodies many different kinds of artistic practice. Gallery TEN presents an exhibition of the expressive and varied range of output by artists who use old and new image making processes to communicate their ideas. www.galleryten.co.uk

Our festival jewellery exhibition is now an established festival favourite. Ethiopian Coptic crosses, antique trade beads and Roman glass jewellery feature alongside pearls, amber and classic modern Polish designer jewellery to create an unrivalled jewellery exhibition.

This exhibition will examine the motivations, processes and benefits of collecting contemporary art through displaying works owned by a wide variety of participating collectors: from first-time buyers to corporates, and from family collections to those held by national institutions.

The artists whose works are displayed by the collectors have also been invited to exhibit new works from their studios, offering visitors the opportunity to begin – or enhance – their own collections.

Supporting the exhibition will be a programme of events involving the participating collectors and artists, in which both parties will be invited to discuss the role of collections and collectors, the dynamics of their relationship, the processes involved, the way in which collections are constructed and how people interested in buying contemporary art can plan their first steps towards building their own collection.
Supported by Own Art and Creative Scotland.

GARAGE presents new works and collaborations by artists created during a series of micro-residencies in this unique project space which comprises three garages and a garden.

The artists exhibiting include Ailie Rutherford, Ary D Cahyono, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Bob Moyler, Christine Hilditch, David MacDiarmid, Emma Bowen, Jo Arksey, Jo Marsh, Kati Niemelä, Kirsten Welsh, Malcy Duff, Owen Davison, Pester & Rossi with The Bearded Clams, Rebecca Key, Sarah Kenchington, Sharon Quigley, Steff Norwood, Stéphane Cattaneo and Thomas MacGregor.

The projects presented will include a series of live events and performances, creating links between artists and artist groups from many areas of the UK and providing the opportunity for public engagement and exchange during the festival. The curators and several of the artists will be available for interview and discussion on site.

Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) is the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. Launched in 1991, the library has amassed a remarkable collection that charts women’s and equalities campaigns, showcasing and conserving the diversity of women’s history and creativity.

To mark the library’s 21st birthday in 2012, GWL commissioned 21 female artists to create limited edition fine art prints inspired by items in its collections, from campaign badges and knitting patterns to Suffragette memorabilia, album covers and feminist newsletters.

The exhibition includes works by Claire Barclay, Sam Ainsley, Jacki Parry, Kate Davis, Ellie Harrison, Ciara Phillips and Corin Sworn, and will also include 21 new texts generated by a renowned group of women writers.
Supported by Museums Galleries Scotland, The National Lottery and Creative Scotland.

This exhibition of new work by Bobby Niven brings together anthropomorphic sculptures with more solemn, abstract structures, finding humour in the tension between animate and inert forms.

Made from mud, sprayed concrete and carved wood, Niven’s sculptures act as plinths for found objects and artifacts which they generously offer up to the viewer. A complex layering of motifs between prop, artifact and sculpture is repeated and distorted through scale and form across the installation, creating a conversation between the objects on display and their component parts.

The work presented here was developed during Niven’s residency at Triangle France in Marseille as part of the Glasgow Sculpture Studios exchange programme.
Supported by Triangle France and Glasgow Sculpture Studios.