A wonderfully thought-provoking talk from Declan Long today reflecting on art after the Troubles and the work of Cathy Wilkes at the Hunterian Art Gallery

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‘Cathy Wilkes’ is now open at the Hunterian Art Gallery! We are delighted to exhibit this new commission as part of @glasgowinternational, Scotland’s biennial contemporary art festival.

‘Cathy Wilkes’
7 June – 29 September 2024
Admission free

In full swing this morning at the Hunterian Art Gallery for Glasgow International preview day! ‘Cathy Wilkes’ opens tomorrow at 10am, we can’t wait for you to see it

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Book now for 'Art After The Troubles' and hear from arts writer Declan Long. In this one-off talk, Long will reflect on post-Troubles anxieties and how these concerns might inform our understanding of our new Cathy Wilkes exhibition.

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‘Cathy Wilkes’ opens tomorrow at the Hunterian Art Gallery.

The exhibition is influenced by Cathy’s childhood in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and by experiences of violence not usually given expression within official representations of war

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'Cathy Wilkes' opens this Friday at the Hunterian Art Gallery. We can't wait for you to see it! Glasgow International Imperial War Museums The Modern Institute TPA theposterassociates

Ready for a wee #MackintoshMoment ?

Here's ‘Cuckoo Flower, Chiddingstone’ from The Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

🖼️ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ‘Cuckoo Flower, Chiddingstone’, 1910. Pencil and watercolour on paper.

🚨 New job alert! We're looking for a Business Support Assistant to join our team at The #Hunterian University of Glasgow.

Grade 3, part-time (27.5 hours p/w, Mon to Fri) and open ended. Closing date 16 June 2024.

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Enter vacancy ref 147568 or search 'Hunterian'.

Join us this Saturday at the Hunterian Art Gallery to hear from Declan Long on Art After The Troubles in response to our new exhibition of work by artist Cathy Wilkes.

Saturday 8 June
2.00pm-3.00pm
Free entry

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‘Cathy Wilkes’ opens next week at the Hunterian Art Gallery.

The exhibition of new work responds to issues of war and conflict and has been realised through the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, a national partnership programme of artist commissions led by Imperial War Museums.

📣Don't miss our #WeeWorldChangers family event glasgowscifest! Follow our wee beasties trail, create eco-friendly crafts and get super close to some beautiful bug specimens.🐝

Saturday 15 June from 11am-3pm, #Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow. Free, drop in. Suitable for all.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 'Design for a Plaster Panel Frieze, Willow Tea Rooms', 1903.

This pencil and watercolour design was created by #Mackintosh for Catherine Cranston’s Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow.

It is part of our #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

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🎫 Tickets are still available for the Mackintosh Symposium at Mackintosh Queen's Cross on 6 and 7 June 2024.

Speakers include our #Hunterian Curator of Mackintosh Collections and Applied Art, Joseph Sharples.

Find out more or book via Eventbrite:
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As part of @uofglasgow GALLANT project, researchers are investigating how Glasgow can become a more climate resilient city. Join Emma Plant at this week's Friday Focus to discover her research on Glasgow's pollinators 🐝

Online at 1pm: eventbrite.com/e/friday-focus…

🍋 When life gives you lemons...

‘Still Life with Half Peeled Lemon’ by George Leslie Hunter, 1919.

See it for free in the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow.

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For today's #Mackintosh Moment , enjoy ‘Spurge, Withyham’ from The #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

By 1909, the style and format of #Mackintosh 's flower drawings were well established.

🖼️ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ‘Spurge, Withyham’, 1909. Pencil and watercolour on paper.

Join Curator of Numismatics Jesper Ericsson for this week's Friday Focus about the British Aluminium Company, its deep roots in Scotland, connections to @uofglasgow and historical links to the British Empire.

Friday 17 May
1pm - 1.30pm
Online via Zoom

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'Studio Interior' by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, c.1924.

With its vivid colours and bold composition, this work is typical of the elegant interiors Cadell painted between 1920 and 1927.

See it for free in the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow.

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Take a #Mackintosh Moment and enjoy 'Stork’s-bill, Holy Island’ from The #Hunterian collection University of Glasgow.

This is one of a number of botanical drawings by the Scottish artist.

🖼️ Charles Rennie #Mackintosh , ‘Stork’s-bill, Holy Island’, 1901. Pencil and watercolour on paper.

What does it mean to re-play something - an event, a film, a history, a politics, a building, a body, a set of gestures, an earth, a life, a landscape?

Explore this question at Re-Playing it Again, a symposium at CCA this week!

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