1984
4 jan GMA new acquisitions.
5 January Winston Link Solo, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
6 January Scots abroad, City Art Centre Edinburgh, George Henry, David Roberts
6 jan (Perspective) New Director Colin Thompson National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh
9 Jan Ewan Mundy Fine Art Gallery Glasgow & Cyril Gerber Fine Art Gallery Glasgow, David Gill, Elizabeth Frink
10 January French Prints and Watercolours, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgo
11 January Scotland’s Art, Collins Gallery Glasgow, Tessa Jackson, John Bellany, Graeme Swanson, Ken Dingwall
13 January Fine Art Society Glasgow and Edinburgh,
16 January Crawford Campbell and Contemporary British Studio Glass, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Anthony Stern, Charlie Meaker, Peter Layton
17 January (Feature) New Scottish Prints at Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
17 January Art Matters, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, Marion Mitchell, Brian McGeoch
18 January Joan Eardley & Joan Renton, National Gallery of Scotland
Turner Watercolours, National Gallery of Scotland
19 January Construction Painting, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Matthew Inglis, David Heale, Alistair Magee, Alastair Strachan
23 January (Feature) Barbican International Art Fair, London
23 jan Alexander Frazer Solo, New 57 Gallery Edinburgh
24 January David Mullen & Aileen Alexander, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
Robert Paul Solo show, Printmakers Workshop Edinburgh
25 January The Omega Workshop 1913-19, Craft Council Gallery London
26 January British Studio Glass, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow, Charlie Meake, Colin Reid, Jenny Antonio
27 January Scottish Watercolours, Victoria & Albert Museum London, John Bellany, Bruce McLean, Edwardo Palozzi, Stephen Cox
30 jan Robert Adam, the Hunterian, Glasgow
31 January Royal Scottish Society of Watercolourists, RSW at RSA, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, John Mooney, David Martin, George Melvin
1 February Paul Hill Solo, Glasgow School of Art
1 February Artists Intervention Association, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
2 February (Feature) Scottish Portrait Commissions, William Dobson, Bryan Organ, Duncan Thomson
3 February Don Emery Solo, Glasgow Print Studios
6 February Keith McIntyre Solo show, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
7 February (Feature) Germinations exhibition by German-French Youth Office, Adrian Wisniewski, Christopher Taylor, Stuart MacKenzie at RSA
8 February Edward Ardizzione Solo, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh
9 February Gift from Glasgow and Greenock, Collins Gallery Glasgow
13 February Art Teachers Exhibition, Lillie Gallery Milngavie, Willie Rodger, Dawson Murray, Joan Palmer
14 February JD Ferguson Solo, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
15 February Alex Pearce Solo, Scottish Amicable Glasgow
Mary Louise Colouris, Glasgow Art Centre
16 February Traverse, Demarco
17 February Capricious View, National Gallery Edinburgh
20 February Kaye Lynch Solo, Compass Gallery Glasgow, Lesley Main at Main Fine Art
21 February Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, Sylvia Von Hartman, Ian D Cook
22 February Treasures From Korea, British Museum London
24 February Lys Hansen Solo, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
27 February William Brotherson Solo, New 57 Gallery Edinburgh
Anthony Armstrong Solo, Cadogan Gallery London
28 February Print Room Stars, Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, George Seurat, Pieter Saenredam
29 February Blank Images, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Allan Ewing, Christopher Taylor, Andrew Webber
2 March The Kessler Bequest, Tate Gallery London
5 March Four Women Printmakers, Fine Art Society Glasgow, Jacki Parry, Barbara Robertson Nicki McHarg, Carmen Ambrozevich, Duncan Shanks
6 March Student Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, Michael Kerr, Judith Findlay, Susannah Robinson, George Wilson
7 March The Arts of Japan, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
8 March Maker Designers Today, Camden Art Centre London, Paul Connell, Fred Baler, Floris van der Broecke
9 March Three Artists from Aberdeen, Robert Black, Ian Robertson, Graeme Swenson 369 Gallery Edinburgh
Scoular Anderson, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow
Phil Braham, Main Fine Art
13 March Scottish Print Open, Glasgow Print Studios, Ian Howard, George Donald, Bobbie Wallace
14 March The Glasgow Boys, Graham Mundy Fine Art Glasgow ; Claire Scullion Solo, Traverse Gallery Edinburgh
Claude Villat Solo, French Institute Edinburgh
15 March Chris Wainwright Solo, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
19 March Highland Region Art Exhibition, Inverness Art Gallery, Allan Thomson
20 March Susan Hiller, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
21 March Lennox Dunbar & Ian Howard, Glasgow Art Centre
22 March French and British Gravure, Edinburgh College of Art, Denise Brown, Andre Stempfel, Paolo Boni
23 march Graham Dallachie, Compass gallery; David Atack at Netherbow.
26 Douglas Swan, French Institute, Demarco & Moira Maitland at Open Eye.
27 Elizabeth Ogilvie at Talbot Rice
28 The Orientalists, RA London.
29 Cadburys children competition, City Art Centre Ed
30 March Gill Tyson Solo, Printmakers Workshop Edinburgh
Sir William Gilles, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh
APRIL
3 April Winning hearts and minds, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Lesley Raeside, Peter Howson, Helen Gibson, Andrew Squire
4 April Graham Crowley & Judith Rugg, New 57 Gallery Edinburgh
5 April Hugh Buchanan & Marjorie Lucas, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
6 April Romanesque Art, Hayward Gallery London
9 April Kirsty Davidson, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh;Tom Wilson, Macaulay Gallery Stenton
10 April Geoff McEwan Solo, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
11Apr Sue Mackecknie & Jonathon Robertson, Glasgow Print Studio
12 April Margaret Malty & John Holmes, Moffat Gallery,
13 April 19th Century Dutch Watercolours, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
16 April Margaret Morris Solo, Cyril Gerber Fine Art Glasgow
17 April Adrian Wiszniewski Solo, Compass Gallery Glasgow (plus Air Gallery London)
18 April Tom Scott, Solo, Bourne Fine Art Edinburgh; Hilda Goldwag Solo, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow;
Jim Nicholson Solo, Gladstone’s Land Gallery Edinburgh
19 April Design Review 1984, Scottish Design Centre Glasgow (including Scottish Craft Centre Edinburgh)
20 April Artspace Gallery Poll, Aberdeen, Karl Horst Hodicke , Winifred McKenzie at The English Speaking Union Gallery Edinburgh)
23 April Five From Saskatchewan, MacRobert Arts Centre Stirling, Joe Faford, Dorothy Knowles, Eli Bronstein;
Ian McPherson Solo, Glasgow School of Art,
24 April Karsh 50 years of Photography Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Yousuf Karsh
Action Portraits, Collins Gallery Glasgow, Richard Weaver, Helen Marmott
Work Music People, Glasgow Print Studios, Simon Burden, Dominic Sryder, Mary Louise Coulouris
25 April Gaudier Brzeska Solo, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh (including Forte silver commissions)
26 April Michael Windle Solo, Traverse Gallery Edinburgh; Sax Shaw Solo, Calton Gallery Edinburgh
27 April Alasdair Gray Solo, Corners Gallery Glasgow
Easter Exhibition, Main Fine Arts The Studio Gallery Glasgow
30 April The Forties, Cyril Gerber Fine Art Glasgow, Bet Low, Tom Macdonald; Bill Wright Solo, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh
1 May Greek Thompson, Third Eye Central Glasgow for Mayfest
2 May 3 artists, & Dominic Snyder, GPS
3 May Islands Exhibition, Compass Gallery Glasgow, and Barbara Rae
4 May Oscar Mazaroli Solo, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
7 May Scottish Sculpture Trust Conference, Dundee
8 May (Feature) Mayfest Art 1984 John Byrne,
10 May Hanael Cassidy Solo, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
16 May Mayfest Scotstyle, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
16 Artists in Industry, City Art Centre Edinburgh, Andrew Hambleton, Davy Mckee, Artajeer Dhanjal
17 May (News Feature) Extra £1 million Sponsorship by Government
18 May Royal Scottish Academy RSA, Ed, and Royal Academy London annual exhibitions
21 May Women Live, Theatre Workshop Gallery London, Alisa Hyslop, Mary McCaan, Debbie Ball
Four Women Artists, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Alison Dunlop, Jenny Grevatte, Janet Patterson, Fiona Robertson
22 May Murihead Bone & Elizabeth Blackadder, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh
23 May Rococo Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum London
24 May Gregor Smith Solo, Lillie Gall Milngavie; Glasgow School of Art Painters, Strathclyde University Glasgow, Stephen Barclay, Graham Crowley, Malcolm Dickson
25 May Peter Howson & Renwick Thompson, Glasgow School of Art, Goethe Institute
28 May Leonard McComb, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
29 May (Feature) Whistler’s 150th Anniversary, Huntarian Gallery Glasgow
Martin Rayner , 369 Gallery Edinburgh,
Marie Goodenough Solo, ESU Gallery Edinburgh
30 May Scottish Contemporary Art, Caledonian Club London, Sylvia Stevenson, William Maclean, Martin Rayner
31 May Crawford Centre St Andrews, George Wyllie, Margaret Milne, James Castle, Winifred McKenzie, Alison McKenzie
1 June Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery, Diana Sykes, Bill Buchanan, Bet Low, Joan Eardley, Cliff Bowen
4 June New Print Studio Prints, Peacock Printmakers Aberdeen, Marion Mitchell, Brian McGeoch, Artspace
5 June The 21th? ? Glasgow Group Exhibition, McLellan Galleries Glasgow, Douglas Thompson, Tom Macdonald, Tom Shanks, John McCulloch, James Connell, George Wyllie
5 june Feature: Demarco & the Ed Festival
6 June Royal Glasgow Institute, RGI Exhibition, JD Kelly Gallery, David Donaldson Lennox Patterson
6 Artists at Sotheby’s, Anne Anderson, Anne Gordon
7 June Modern British Abstracts, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow, William Turnbull, Richard Lin, Matthew Rugg
8 June Sylvia Wishart Solo, Compass Gallery Glasgow
William Littlejohn, Scottish Gallery Glasgow
11 June The Individual Landscape, Glasgow Print Studios, William Cowan, Stephen McNulty, Donald Wilkinson
12 June George Wyllie Solo, Aberdeen Artspace
13 June Stefano della Bella Solo, National Gallery of Scotland
15 June Gerard Hemsworth, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
16 June Farm Security Photos, Stills Gallery Edinburgh, Jack Delans, Russell Lee
19 June (Feature) Degree shows Glasgow School of Art
19 june The Golden Age of British Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum London, Fox Talbot, Sylvia Margaret Cameron, Craig Annan, Hill & Adamson
20 June William Crosbie Solo, Ewan Mundy Fine Art Glasgo; Brian Kelly Solo, Corners Gallery Glasgow)
21 June Henri Chopin, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
22 June Landscape in Mixed Media, Gladstone’s Land Gallery Edinburgh, Keith Dunkley, George McGavin, Jack Firth
Decorative Ceramics, Scottish Amicable Gallery Glasgow
25 June Robert Fitcher Solo, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
26 June (Feature) Venice Biennale 1984
27 June The Artist Delineated, Fine Art Society Edinburgh, John Ballantyne, Thomas Faed, Harry Woolford
28 June Scottish Expressionism, Warwick Arts Trust London, June Redfern, Graham Durward
20 June French Graphics, Images Gallery Glasgow,
2 July Past into Future, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, James Patterson, Sandy Moffat, Victoria Crowe
3 July (Feature) Third Eye Centre Exhibitions, Felim Egan, Dennis Shields, John Carson
4 July Ten Years Collecting, National Museum of Antiquities
5 July New Generation Artists, Compass Gallery Glasgow, Dougie Thomson, Elizabeth McBride, Stephen Barclay
6 July New French Painting, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh
9 July Dutch Church Painters, National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh
10 July (Feature) Paisley Ceramics, Bernard Leech, Hans Coper
11 July Etching The Glasgow Style, Glasgow Print Studio, John Mackenchie, Jonathan Robertson, Dawson Murray
13 July Scottish Landscape, Bourne Fine Art Edinburgh, Patrick Nasmyth
Hocus Pocus, Shepherd’s Pie Bistro Glasgow, Graham Bell, Elizabeth McLean, Karen Michel
16 July Graduate Students, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Stephen Barclay, Lesley Cullon, Callum Innes, Fiona Dean
17 July Douglas Thompson Solo, 369 Gallery Edinburgh
Gwen Hardie, Studio Gallery Main Fine Art Glasgow
23 July Gavin Scobie Solo, Talbot Rice Galelry Glasgow
24 July (Feature) Liverpool Garden Festival: sculpture
24 july Bradford Print Biennale
25 July Early Views of England and Wales, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow
27 july Glasgow style, Kelvingrove
30 July Denis Peploe Solo, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh; Jane Soeder Solo, Shore Gallery Leith
(Feature) Scottish National Portrait Sale, Richard Dadd, Sir Alex Morrison
31 July (Feature) Castle Toward
1 july Daniel Ranalli Solo, Stills Gallery Edinburgh
2 August Peacock Printmakers, Fine Art Society Glasgow, Beth Fisher, John Houston, Elizabeth Blackadder
3 August FESTIVAL: Henri Matisse, City Arts Centre Edinburgh
6 August Tom McKenzie Solo, Glasgow Print Studios
Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Linda Taylor, David Linley, Ian Macpherson
7 August Space Complex, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, Tony Robin, Simon Reed, Hannah Collins
8 August Clay on Walls, Collins Gallery Glasgow, Tessa Jackson
(News Desk Feature) Turner Acquisition for Edinburgh
9 August (Feature) The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago
10 August John Bellany Solo, Mercury Gallery Glasgow
The New Waves, 369 Gallery Edinburgh, Alan Watson, Adrian Wiszniewski
11 August (WEEKENDER Feature) ED FESTIVAL< new Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh Festival Opening
13 August Anton Krajnc & Brenda Lenagan, Calton Gallery Edinburgh
14 August Demarcation Exhibition and Conference, Edinburgh College of Art, Richard Demarco, Howard Hodgkin, Susan Hiller, Yoko Terancho, Paul Negai
16 Paolozzi at the RSA Ed
17 August Jean Michel Basquiat & John Cage, Fruitmarket Gallery Glasgow
23 August Alfred Steiglitz Solo, Stills Gallery Glasgow; Sir John Lavery, Fine Art Society Edinburgh; George Donald & Henry Moore,, Ed Printmakers.
27 August Andrea Palladio Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
28 August Chinese Watercolours, University of Edinburgh; Collective Gallery Edinburgh, opening
31 August Fionna Carlisle Solo, Traverse gallery Edinburgh
William Baillie Solo, Haddington House
5 September (Feature) WASPS New Building Patriothall Edinburgh
(Feature) Yulla Lipticz , 369 Gallery Edinburgh
11 September Kes Mosaics Gallery Edinburgh, Torrance Gallery Edinburgh, Tom Shanks, David Martin, Templeton Carpets, Torquil Anderson, Tom Allan, John Sanders
14 September (Friday art Feature) Scottish Young Contemporaries, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, Heather Walker, Alexander Fraser, Alistair Magee, Lesley Raeside, Richard Wright, Andrew Walker, Fiona MacInnes
Josef Herman Solo, Cybil Gerber Fine Art Glasgow
Graham Munro Solo, Douglas Fraser Antiques Glasgow
Anthony Armstrong Solo, Scottish Amicable Glasgow
21 September (Feature) Anthony Green, Dundee Art Gallery
Dundee Printmakers, Elizabeth Shepherd, Andrew Hanbleton, Jill Patterson, Jill Downie
Eight Swedish artists, Edinburgh Printmakers
Barbara Robertson, Glasgow Print Studio
Ikiki Gallery Glasgow, Jack Miller, Elspeth Lamb
24 September Joan Eardley Solo, Crawford Arts Centre St Andrews
25 September (Feature) SSA at RSA Scottish Society of Artists at Royal Scottish Academy.
28 Friday art: Glasgow Society of Women Artists, Lillie Art Gallery Milngavie, Sheila MacMillan, Anne Mackintosh, Margot Gardiner, Moira Whitfield (including galleries briefing for; Crawford Arts Centre St Andrews, Compass Gallery Glasgow, Corners Gallery Glasgow, The Gallery Moffat, Tom McKendrick, Peter Warren, Graham Dallachie, Glasgow Art Centre, Studio Main Fine Art Gallery Glasgow, David Bachelor, June McMillan, Stansmore Dean
Stevenson)
2 October Museums Council Conference Report
4 oct Liberty Four Rooms, Aberdeen Art Gallery.
5 October (Feature) RGI Royal Glasgow Institute, McLellan Galleries Glasgow, David Donaldson, Robin Philipson, Dougie Thomson, Helen Wilson (including galleries briefing for; Castle Toward, Aberdeen Artspace, Crawford Arts Centre St Andrews, Joyce Cairns)
Artspace (Cut) + St Andrews, Ceramics from 3
8 October Kate Whiteford Solo, Third Eye Centre Glasgow
12 October (Feature) Anthony Green Solo, Glasgow Art Centre (including gallery briefings: Lennox Paterson at Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow School of Art, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, , Norman Wilkinson, Winston Link)
Scotland’s Story
19 October Richard Deacon Solo, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (including gallery briefing; City Art Centre, Collins Gallery Glasgow, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow, Thomas Duncan, Nancy Hemingway)
20 Oct Stubbs at Tate Gallery, London.
24 October Graeme Murray Fine Art at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
26 October (Feature) Contemporary Scottish Drawings, Fine Art Society Glasgow (including galleries briefings; linda green, Edinburgh College of Art, Traverse Gallery Edinburgh, Sttephen Lawson at Demarco Gallery Edinburgh, Compass Gallery Glasgow, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Colin Ruscoe)
31 October Adrian Wiszniewski, June Redfern, AIR Gallery London,
2 November (Feature) ‘When Attitudes Became Form, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (including gallery briefings; Collective Gallery Edinburgh, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Art Curial Gallery Paris, reinhardt behrens at Glasgow School of Art: Angela Flowers London: Colin Cina, Carol Rhodes, Alastair Strachen, Richard Wright)
6 November (Feature) Introducing the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery London
9 November Jacki Parry Solo, Compass Gallery Glasgow
About Face, Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh (including galleries briefings; City Art Centre, JD Kelly Gallery Glasgow, Kathryn Kynoch, stanczyk at Open Eye Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh)
13 November albert Durer in Dublin, Kelvingrove Gallery Glasgow.
16 November (Feature) Aberdeen Peacock Printmakers 10th Birthday (including gallery briefings; Mercury Gallery London, John Houston
23 November (Feature) Scottish Society of Watercolour Painters, RSA, RSW, SSWA, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh (including galleries briefings; Molly Bullick at Scottish Gallery Edinburgh,; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Glasgow School of Art, Robert Sinclair Thomson memorial exh, GSA
26 November Pradip Malde Solo, Collins Gallery Glasgow
27 November Antonie Watteau, Grande Palais Paris
30 November (Feature) Geometry of Rage, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, Denis Masi, Deanna Pethebridge, Michael Sandle (including galleries briefings; Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, John Piper)
7 December Francesco Clemente, Fruitmarket Edinburgh (including galleries briefing; Cybil Gerber Fine Art, Compass Gallery, Charles McCall, Arthur Anderson, New Glasgow Society)
11 December Glasgow Print Studio, Members Exhibition, Kathleen Lindsey, Varsha Ancha;
12 December ‘Decisions’ MA Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art
14 December Local Heroes Fine, Art Society Glasgow, Helen Wilson, George Devlin
Barclay Lennie Fine Art Glasgow, James Fullerton (including galleries briefings; Calton Gallery Edinburgh, Corners Gallery Glasgow, Main Fine Art Glasgow, Mercury Gallery Edinburgh, Anthony Armstrong, John Mathison, Chris Serle, Tony Armstrong) Inn on the Green
21 December Western Approaches, Lillie Art Gallery Milngavie, Somerville Shanks, James Simpson
Group 81, McLellan Galleries, JR Hargan, George Epsworth
(including galleries briefings; Main Fine Art Glasgow, Saltoun pottery, Nancy Smillie; Gian Carlo Venuto, Moray Miller at Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinbro.
28 December (Feature) 41% Funding increase Scottish Museums Council: Provision of Exhibitions for Children, Haggs Castle, Canongate Tolbooth Edinburgh (including galleries briefings; Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow, Burrell Collection Glasgow, Serpentine Gallery London, Graeme Murray Fine Art Edinburgh, Printmakers Workshop Edinburgh
31 December (Feature) Henry Oscars for Art 1984