Trench Z..….From The John Rae Society…..From Kilmorack Gallery…...
by Bernie Bell - 08:57 on 23 October 2024
Trench Z….
Was the last trench opened at the Ness of Brodgar – and this is what was un-earthed….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/3d-trenchz/
From The John Rae Society….
“Understanding Hall of Clestrain: Community Archaeology Days
Join us on Oct 26 and 27 to learn more about the Hall as experts work to uncover its secrets
Built around 1769, Category A Listed Hall of Clestrain is an exceptionally rare Palladian style mid-Georgian villa overlooking the Sound of Hoy on Mainland Orkney. It lies within a well-preserved and extensive contemporary landscape, including a substantial walled garden. Untouched and unoccupied since the 1950s, the Hall’s surviving interior features include timber structures, joinery and paint finishes.
This is a unique opportunity to see how archaeologists and building historians are working to uncover clues to the construction and development of the Hall and its former appearance. The results will help inform ongoing work to conserve and restore this unique building.
As well as the chance to visit the excavations and explore recent finds, there will be guided tours of the Hall and site.
- Learn about the archaeology of Clestrain with ORCA archaeologists
- View historical items and get hands-on cleaning finds
- Take a tour of Hall of Clestrain with renowned buildings historian Tom Addyman
Facilities: Parking, toilets, stairs.
Additional access and health & safety information: Access is via a working farm. Please be careful and leave the gates as you find them.
The Hall is derelict. Please do not enter closed areas. Please mind slippery stone surfaces outside and inside the building. Sturdy boots and outerwear are recommended.
https://www.johnraesociety.com/
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From Kilmorack Gallery….
“T-shirts yesterday and thermals, waterproofs and wind today. T'is the season of change, including in the gallery, where it's the last chance to see some of our exhibitions before sold work is sent to new homes. We will keep much of Peter White and Jane MacNeill's paintings on the gallery's walls until the end of October, and these will run alongside exhibitions of work by Anthony Scullion and Helen Denerley. Our newest exhibition is Colin Brown's Spirit of Edo, inspired by the prints and kubuki plays of the floating world.
We also have the gallery's extensive vaults. One introduction to this is throughout collections page.
And our second work of the week looks at Helen Denerley and her life-size dairy cow.
Tony
Latest Exhibitions
Colin Brown
19 September - 16 October
Colin Brown is unique in Scottish art for the geographic journeys he takes us on. Not long ago, it was to close shores with ‘Love Letter to Europe.’ After this it was to Belgium with Redouté’s botanical painting in the exhibition ‘In Bloom.’ Now we are in the Far East, during Edo Japan, inspired by the prints and kabuki plays of the floating world, where the transience of life and the power of art is celebrated.
JANETTE KERR
12 October - 10 November 2024
Janette Kerr captures the movement of the sea like no other artist. When she paints, the sea is alive. It is a god and a force of nature, and her paintings turn our hearts north toward wildness. We have four new canvases, an appetiser before for a larger show of Kerr's work in April 2025.
Anthony Scullion
5 - 31 October
The souls of the figures Anthony Scullions paints sing-out with the silent voice that only oil paint offers. He is is a master of nuance – raising the colour and subtleties of paint to a fresh plateau. These latest thirteen paintings do not disappoint. They combine this knowledge, with Scullion’s sensitive and poetic look at humanity, and they make us look at the world with a rekindled passion.
Helen Denerley | a cow, a girl and a dog
27 September - 31 October
Few sculptors bring so much life to the inanimate, but Denerley does this repeatedly, ascending scrap, what we have thrown away, into new life.
This exhibition unveils Denerley's latest works - a dairy cow, a standing man and a sitting girl, birds and dogs and, for the non-arachnophobic, there are spiders too.
Gallery Hours
Always open by appointment.
Full opening times online
Kilmorack Gallery
by Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7AL
01463 783 230
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