Events

An Insight to Local Exhibitions

Here in Uist, we have a strong arts community; Uist Arts Association hold summer and winter exhibitions, we have our local art school at Taigh Chearsabhagh as well as local craft producers. Check out the current exhibitions across the islands.

Meall bhon Àird an lar: Gösta Sandber

  • Museum nan Eilean Lionacleit

Saturday 10 February – Friday 31 May 2024

 

Meall bhon Àird an Iar: ’S e fear-togail dhealbhan-camara a tha ann an Gösta Sandberg. Thug e iomadh bliadhna ag obair san taigh-tasgaidh ionadail aige ann an Alingsås anns an t-Suain. San Iuchair 1977 chuir e seachad grunn sheachdainean a’ siubhal anns na h-Eileanan an Iar. Tha a dhealbhan ealanta a bharrachd air a bhith aithriseach nan stoidhle, agus tha iad nan clàr sònraichte de na h-eileanan air an t-samhradh ud.
Rain coming from the Hebrides: Gösta Sandberg is a retired museum photographer who worked for many years in his local museum in Alingsås, Sweden. In July 1977 he spent a few weeks touring the Outer Hebrides. His photographs are artistic as well as documentary in style and provide an excellent record of the islands that summer.

 

Open…

Tues & Thurs: 10am – 1pm & 2- 4pm

Wed: 10am-1pm

Friday: 10am-1pm & 2-5pm

Saturday: 10am-3.30 pm

Sunday & Monday: Closed

 

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Dùthchas: Tro lèirsinn a’ pheantair

  • Gallery 2, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist

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Dùthchas: through the Artist’s Lens is a new body of work painting from cinematic archive film ‘stills’ of 1960s and 70s Berneray captured by Ann and Bill Scott, transcribed anew by painter Yasmin Davidson.

 

Yasmin Davidson was born in Dundee in 1990. She grew up in the city and studied Fine Art at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art graduating in 2013. Davidson has lived in Canada and travelled extensively across the United States. She moved to North Uist in 2019 and now lives and works on the Isle of Berneray.  Yasmin Davidson regularly exhibits work with the Uist Arts Association and in galleries across the Western Isles.

 

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Donald McLeod Retrospective: The Receding Tide

  • Gallery 1, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist

Donald McLeod Retrospective: The Receding Tide is open to view in Gallery 1 from 10th February-4th May, 10am-4pm, Monday to Saturday.

 

A retrospective exhibition of mostly geological and coastally-themed large-scale mixed media artworks by local artist and art teacher, the late Donald McLeod (1948-2016). This body of work created in the early 2000s is inspired by the convoluted stratification of Lewisian Gneiss found in Uist, some of the oldest rock on the planet at around 3 billion years old.

 

Donald produced a varied body of work over a 40 year period. He was an accomplished draughtsman, painter, photographer and printer having studied at Glasgow School of Art and later at Glasgow College of Building and Printing where he graduated with distinction as top student.

 

His later series of mixed media works were inspired by and later titled The Receding Tide. They were developed as a way of interpreting the coastal landscape of Uist in the pointillist style, a way of working which increasingly fascinated him and which led to each piece taking months of painstaking work to produce.

 

The exhibition is free and suitable for all ages.

 

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‘Bold Mythology’ Exhibition

  • Café Gallery, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist

FREE exhibition Bold Mythology opens in the Taigh Chearsabhagh Cafe Gallery, from 1st April – 30th May, Monday to Saturday.

 

Bold Mythology by Uist artist, Kathrhona Lawson, presents a series of screen prints based on Hebridean folklore, with accompanying descriptions of the characters and stories.

 

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