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National Galleries shine a light on artistic brilliance during the winter season
Open daily, 10am-5pm
Admission free, advance booking recommended
This two-room display marks 100 years since the birth of Eardley, who is widely regarded as one of the most influential painters of her generation. It offers an insight into her working practice and focuses on works produced in Catterline, the coastal village in Kincardineshire, where she worked from the early 1950s.
The works featured are all drawn from the National Galleries of Scotland’s collection and include some of her most iconic paintings, 11 works on paper, and a selection of photographs and archival materials.
ALISON WATT | A PORTRAIT WITHOUT LIKENESS
Until Sunday 9 January 2022 Open daily, 10am-5pm Admission free, advance booking recommended
Alison Watt (born 1965) is widely regarded as one of the leading painters working in the UK today. This significant body of new work consists of paintings made in response to the practice of the celebrated eighteenth-century portrait artist Allan Ramsay (1713-84) and are on show for the first time.
The exhibition explores the artist’s continuing fascination with Ramsay’s portraits. Watt has long been an admirer of Ramsay’s portraits of women, in particular the intensely personal images of his first and second wives, Anne Bayne and Margaret Lindsay of Evelick.
RAY HARRYHAUSEN | TITAN OF CINEMA Until Sunday 20 February 2022
Open daily, 10am-5pm
£14-12 (concessions available), booking recommended. Free to Friends
Film special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen helped elevate stop motion animation to an art. His innovative and inspiring films, from the 1950s onwards, changed the face of modern movie making forever.
RUINED | REINVENTING SCOTTISH HISTORY
Until Sunday 9 February 2022
Open daily, 10am-5pm Admission free
Ruined was created over the last four years by young Scots re-inventing Scottish history imaginatively mashing-up works from the national collection. In the exhibition, visitors will enter an immersive time-machine where multiple video projections flicker across a set of ruins showing shocking events and ghosts from Scotland’s past. Subjects covered include disputed territories, false heroes and heroines, wicked tyrants and bloodied martyrs.