Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network

We aim to uncover and share the stories of women artists, designers, makers and collectors in Scottish collections.

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

🌿REMINDER🌿

Two days until Women & the Natural Environment!

Have you seen our programme for Saturday's webinar with @SSAHistory + British Art Network?

Full Programme: https://t.co/kFSlU8nBcF
Register: https://t.co/YbVoivzIMe

[Alice Strang Art @AliceStrang]

Please join me when I give the talk 'Queen of Edinburgh: Anne Redpath and her Circle' @EdinCulture on 16 August 2024. Info: https://t.co/0KeQwvEcyc Image: Anne Redpath, Black and White Checks, 1952, presented to @EdinCulture in 1964 (c) Artist's Estate courtesy @RoyalScotAcad

[Alice Strang Art @AliceStrang]

Kirstin Mackinnon's paper '40 Years’ Progress on Gender Equality in Contemp Scottish Painting' is part of @SSAHistory 40 Years of Art & Art History in Scotland 1984-2024 Study Days 1-2 March: https://t.co/FsjNKFFmZq Image: Mackinnon's A Painter Worth Taking Seriously? @DJCAD coll

[UofGlasgowASC @UofGlasgowASC]

Handful of tickets left for our @FriendsofGUL Bet Low talk this Thurs! 22 Feb, 7pm, Level 12 @UofGLibrary.

Book now on Eventbrite: https://t.co/0wWyO3F6lM

[Art Fund @artfund]

This month is #LGBTHistoryMonth🏳️‍🌈

From the 1st LGBT+ museum to the home of an iconic gay rights activist, these places are preserving & celebrating important stories for future generations👉 https://t.co/DKU1Gj0ACD

@MuseumLiverpool @QueerBritain @CharlestonTrust @NtlMuseumsScot

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

Registration is now open for the @SSAHistory Study Days, taking place 1-2 March @EdinburghUni. Full programme can be found in this post by our member @AliceStrang who is also presenting!

[Alice Strang Art @AliceStrang]

@SSAHistory 40 Years of Art & Art History in Scotland 1984-2024 Study Days 1-2 March @EdinburghUni with @artukdotorg @NatGalleriesSco & @VisualArtsScot. Info https://t.co/0oTU2oUYAm Image is Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's Studio Interior (Red Stool) of 1945, coll and (c) @barnsgraham

[North Lanarkshire's Arts & You @Arts_NL]

The Strange Horizons – Millie Frood exhibition is now open at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre. Read all about Millie Frood from our Assistant Curator, Rosie Shackleton, via Art UK.

Read the article here: https://t.co/PH1kREnbaI

@artukdotorg @NL_Heritage

[Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust @WBGTrust]

NOW OPEN - @britishmuseum is a display of the WBG Trust's recent gift of 12 major WBG works on paper to the Museum's collection. The display is in gallery G90a in the Prints and Drawings area until 12 May - included is this stunning drawing - Lava Forms Lanzarote 2, 1993.

[Edinburgh Museums @EdinCulture]

With the weather being so unpredictable, join us for a free online tour of our current collection landscape exhibition 'Shifting Vistas: 250 Years of Scottish Landscape'. An illustrated tour from the comfort of your own home. Book here for 8 Feb: https://t.co/EzXdw8uvp7

[ArtHerstory | artherstory.bsky.social @NoteArtHerstory]

Coming up March 1-2! In-person (@UofAlabama & @bhammuseum) & online -

Challenging Empire: Women, Art, & the Global Early Modern World
Organizers: Doris Sung, Becky Teague & Tanja Jones

Conf website: https://t.co/p3YpOdTqA5
Register here: https://t.co/p3YpOdTqA5

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

Love to see more of the research some of our members are up to!

[Jenny.MacLeod @jennyefteling]

Stepping into the shoes of the women etchers of my #PhD by creating my very own etchings with aquatint, start to finish @GlasPrintStudio. Thanks to @sgsah & their Engagement Funding for this incredible opportunity! A total dream.

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

Fantastic to see more Scottish women artists being celebrated! Looking forward to seeing more of Millie Frood's (1900-1988) work next month!

[NorthLan Heritage @NL_Heritage]

'Strange Horizons' opens 3rd February📢
A new exhibition celebrating the life and work of artist Millie Frood in her hometown of Motherwell!
We're delighted to show a range of her works, objects from her home, and snippets from an interview with people who knew her
See you there!

[Jan Patience @JanPatience]

I've posted the text of my latest @Sunday_Post column on @ScottishGallery's Modern Masters XVI exhibition on my work Facebook page. LOVE Pat Douthwaite and Joan Eardley so here's a double helping for your delectation.... https://t.co/LXxnH6RMVQ

[JoanEardleyOfficial @THEJoanEardley]

Thanks to @ScottishGallery for this wee film which captures Joan Eardley’s Catterline beautifully.
There is a room in the gallery’s new Modern Masters XVI exhibition (opens today) devoted to Catterline. It includes work by Joan, Lil Neilson and James Morrison. Runs until 27 Jan.

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

Scottish Women Artists at the Fleming Collection. We can't wait for this!

[Fleming Collection @FlemingArtColl]

💠Reminder 💠

Online Talk: Scottish Women Artists at the Fleming Collection

Our Director James Knox will give the inside story on the Fleming Collection’s remarkable acquisition strategy with @DovecotStudios

📆 Friday January 19th
🎟️ Book Tickets £5

https://t.co/3XSQMIrGwp

[NorthLan Heritage @NL_Heritage]

We’re delighted to announce the award of £60,000 by @MuseumsGalScot for a project to explore North Lanarkshire’s links with slavery and empire. We’re excited to be working with our communities and the University of Glasgow to establish new narratives and ways of working.

[Glasgow Women's Library - follow us on Bluesky @womenslibrary]

And just like that, we're back! We have several exhibitions taking place across the building, books to browse & borrow, spaces to study, free WiFi, tea making facilities, & more. Everyone is welcome, & a warm welcome awaits!

Find us at 23 Landressy Street, Bridgeton, G40 1BP

[Coble and Keelboat Society @coble_and_keel]

As an outdoor painter Joan Eardley captured the seasons on the coast at Catterline in all their moods. In the middle of winter look forward to summer with this wonderful painting "Summer Grasses and Barley on the Clifftop" (1962) @EdinCulture

[Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @SWARNetwork]

For today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange we have chosen Joan Eardley's (1921-1963) atmospheric 'Catterline in Winter' from @NatGalleriesSco @THEJoanEardley.

A wonderfully elemental landscape to mark this week's theme of winter! ❄️

[Catriona Miller @cmillerartlife]

Hannah Frank (1908–died #OTD 2008) Scottish born artist, studied at Glasgow Uni and Art School Art Nouveau style black and white drawings (@womenslibrary ), later figurative sculpture (@GSofA ) Also egs @NatGalleriesSco @BenUriOnline Excellent website https://t.co/GRRCBHx2s7

[The Hunterian @hunterian]

Join our curator of British Art Anne Dulau today at 1pm for our last Friday Focus of the year!

Anne will discuss Hunterian acquisitions of Scottish art made in recent years, including works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Bessie MacNicol.

https://t.co/0zwKlJdFWa