• Measuring by Eye Workshop with Elizabeth Gilbey

    Kirkcudbright Galleries 3B St Mary St, Kirkcudbright

    Topic of workshop In this workshop, we will explore drawing techniques aimed at improving accuracy and the ability to handle complexity through simplification. What we will do We will examine how well we can measure by eye. We will look at finding a point of view; the use of one shape to represent a whole...

  • Rosemary Goring: Treachery, Deceit, Hope and Despair: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Kirkcudbright Galleries 3B St Mary St, Kirkcudbright

    Historian and writer Rosemary Goring’s books about Mary, Queen of Scots - Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots and Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots - explore different periods of Mary's life, with Homecoming focusing on her time in Scotland and Exile detailing her lengthy imprisonment in England after...

  • The Story of a Fairy Family: A Portable Archive – DJ McDowall 

    Kirkcudbright Galleries 3B St Mary St, Kirkcudbright

    DJ McDowall explores the creative and queer world of Dorothy Johnstone, Vera (Jack) Holme, Cecile Walton and Anne Finlay in Jessie M King’s Greengate Close. The creation of a new publication weaves letters, diaries photos and artworks with the fairylore and enchanting places that shaped their lives as chosen family in Kirkcudbright.

  • Three Words for Forest: love to surprise

    Kirkcudbright Galleries 3B St Mary St, Kirkcudbright

    Three Words for Forest is an original verbatim play that was created from 30 interviews with forestry specialists from across the UK and Europe. It explores the challenges, complexities, hopes and fears of working with trees and forests in a time of climate crisis. The play emerged as part of newLEAF, a UK Treescapes project.