Work on Paper

Work on Paper Featuring work by; Georgina Bown, Alfons Bytautas, Stephanie Dees, Ailsa Magnus, Patrick Mitchell, Charlene Scott, Sue Shields, Matthew Storstein, Alasdair Wallace & Graeme Wilcox. 12 October to 24 November Opening at 11am Saturday 12 October with refreshments and meet the artists from 2-5pm. Work on Paper pulls together 10 artists whose work encompasses a range of media including printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture…all on, or in the case of the sculpture, of, paper. There are a variety of interesting printmaking techniques represented by several of the ...

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Take 5

George Birrell, John Brown, Matthew Draper, Jacqueline Orr and Astrid Trügg 31 August to 6 October Our next exhibition pulls together work from five artists whose work is both bold in style and instantly recognisable. No strangers to previous exhibitions at the gallery, all five are among the most highly regarded and popular artists working in Scotland today. It is a real treat to be able to show a good range of their new work in the same exhibition. George Birrell’s colourful reimagining of the sights and sounds of the harbours and castles found along the East Coast of Scotland are well...

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Summer Exhibition

This year's Summer Exhibition kicks off on 15 June and continues until 25 August. Our Summer Exhibition features a variety of new work from established gallery artists as well as pieces from a few new faces. This year we have work from: Rosy Barnes, Kate Bentley, George Birrell, Georgina Bown, Davy Brown, Alan Connell, Ian Cook, Ann Cowan, Stephanie Dees, Fee Dickson Reid, Aine Divine, Matthew Draper, Michael Durning, Ronnie Fulton, Neal Greig, Andy Heald, Sarah Lawson, Steven Lindsay, Sam MacDonald, Liz Maclarty Jones (Winner of Dunbar Arts Landscape Artist of the Year 2023), Ged Lerpin...

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Abstracted

  27 April to 9 June Featuring painting by Chris Brook RSW, Dominique Cameron RSW, John Kingsley DA RSW PAI, Simon Laurie RSW RGI & Ronald F Smith RSW RGI PAI and 3d sculptural work by Ailsa Magnus MRSS & Lorraine Robson VAS SSA. Opening at 11am Saturday 27 April with refreshments and meet the artists from 2-5pm. Our next exhibition is quite a contrast to the detailed drawing and representational nature of the work by the 5 artists in 5@Fidra. Any narrative in the work in Abstracted, might be less clear but will appeal more to memory and emotions. In this exhibition mos...

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5@Fidra

5@Fidra Rosemary Beaton RGI, June Carey RSW RGI PAI ASWA SSA, Alice McMurrough RGI RSW PAI, Heather Nevay RGI & Helen Wilson RGI RSW PAI 9 March to 21 April The exhibition opens at 11am on Saturday 9 March but between 2 and 5pm refreshments will be served as well as a chance to meet the artists.   They are all respected painters with decades worth of experience, big individual fan bases and countless awards to their names, but until a few years ago, Rosemary Beaton, Alice McMurrough, Heather Nevay and Helen Wilson, all said they felt intimidated by printmaking. Today, th...

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Land & Sea – Kirstie Behrens, Andy Heald & John McClenaghen

Land & Sea Kirstie Behrens, Andy Heald & John McClenaghen 27 January to 3 March 2024 Our first exhibition of 2024 features the work of three landscape artists. John and Andy's work is very expressive and largely worked en plein air, responding to the changes in the environment around them. Their work focusses on the landscape around the coast of East Lothian so it will be interesting to see how they approach a similar subject in a similar way. Kirstie's work is a real contrast to the expressive painting of John & Andy. Kirstie's collection of etchings evolve from dra...

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