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New exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery of work by Victoria Crowe, who many of you will have looked at in class for inspiration.


Victoria Crowe’s long term interest in the study and drawing of flowers and plants naturally lead to an exchange between the artist and the scientist David Ingram, Master of St Catherine’s College in Cambridge and formerly Regius Keeper at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh on the wider aspects of knowledge of plants and nature. 
The exhibition is based on the artist’s study of the wonderful old archives, herbals and historic collections of plants in Cambridge and Venice. The delicate beauty and detailed analysis of the plant forms illustrate the natural link between science and art.


The exhibition is open until January 8th 2011 and admission is free.

A new term and lots of new art students.
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There will also be a whole heap of art and design programmes to watch in the department that I have recorded - some you will watch in class, but there are other you might want to watch during lunchtime, study periods etc.
Ask me if you want to find out about a specific area of art and design - I might just have the programme for you!

Calum Colvin exhibition in Kingussie

An exhibition of stereoscopic images by artist Calum Colvin entitled ‘Natural Magic’ that was on show at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery will be on display 8th May - 5th June at the Iona Gallery, Kingussie.
 
The exhibition is inspired by Scotsman David Brewster (1781 - 1868) who pioneered 3-D in Victorian Britain and is an open-ended exploration of a time of great change in science, religion, nationality and our understanding of the visual world.
The exhibition explores parallels between the invention and development of the stereoscopic viewer in 1838 and the development of the digital camera and printed digital image towards the end of the 20th century.
The artworks are presented as a series of wall-based and free-standing stereoscopic images some of which require to be viewed through 3-D specs whilst others are viewed through angled mirrors.
Based on portraits of Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, who created the ‘mirrored stereoscope’  and Lord Byron, and including shadowy rabbits, skulls and a host of  other objects, Colvin plays with perception and cultural identity.
Colvin makes photographs by constructing a three-dimensional assemblage of objects which is then photographed from a particular viewpoint which means that the image portrayed only exists as a photograph rather than in real life. It is then and printed onto canvas. In this exhibition the images are then bounced back to the viewer in three dimensions.
First shown a the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh last year, the exhibition is toured in partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland, the Royal  Scottish Academy and The Highland Council.
Artworks by Colvin have turned up in the Higher/Int2 papers before, so it would be useful for your revision.

Check out some of the works of art you will be seeing at www.art.highlandschools.org.uk
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