THE 100 years since the birth of the first of the modern Scottish Makars, Edwin Morgan, is to be marked by a series of events.
The year 2020 will see the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Morgan.
Creative Scotland have backed the Edwin Morgan Trust to lead the coordination of the year, and the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School will deliver two Edwin Morgan Translation Fellowships.
The £6000 grant will enable the trust to create a programme in celebration of the poet, who lives from 1920 to 2010.
The Edwin Morgan Trust aims to mark this centenary by "bringing together curators, creative artists and academics to celebrate the poet’s range of interests and ongoing creative impact, and to provide opportunities for public engagement, scholarship, knowledge exchange and new work."
Morgan, who lived and worked in Glasgow, is acknowledged as one of the finest Scottish poets of the last century.
He was named Makar in 2004, and also won the T. S. Eliot Prize, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
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THE art of Victoria Crowe is to be the focus of a major new show at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh next year.
Victoria Crowe - 50 Years of Painting will run from 18 May to 13 October.
The exhibition will feature over 150 pieces, from student paintings to the landscapes and portraits of recent years.
Drawing from 50 solo exhibitions, 50 Years of Painting will, the gallery says "trace the rise of this exceptional artist, from early beginnings in which we catch glimpses of riches to come, through the highs and lows of her personal and professional life played out on canvas and paper, to recent years, where the cold light of a winter’s day in the Scottish Borders or the heat of a Venetian sunset still echo Crowe’s appreciation of early Renaissance and North European Painting."
The exhibition is displayed throughout the City Art Centre, over four gallery floors.
Ms Crowe said: "This exhibition spans a long period of my work as an artist — a chance to see the threads of ideas and their development over time. The exhibition will trace many concerns in the work, from starting points in sketch books through to finished works, commissions and the fruits of recent residences. As a gallery, the City Art Centre has been very supportive of Scottish artists, as its collection confirms, and I am delighted to be holding this major retrospective within their galleries."
Crowe was born in Kingston-on-Thames in 1945.
She studied at Kingston School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London.
In 1968, Robin Philipson, then Head of the School of Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, invited her to join his staff.
Her appointment at the age of twenty-three marked the start of a teaching career spanning thirty years.
In 2000 her exhibition ‘A Shepherd’s Life. Paintings of Jenny Armstrong’ was displayed in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
Edinburgh’s Chinese New Year, a new co-ordinated festival, is to be the largest Chinese New Year celebration in Scotland.
A programme of special events are planned across Scotland’s capital, to officially celebrate the Year of the Pig.
These will include a Chinese New Year Gala concert at the Usher Hall, the Giant Lanterns of China Exhibition at Edinburgh Zoo and a special Chinese music concert at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.
In addition the National Museums of Scotland will display open up its Chinese Collection when its new the East Asia Galleries open on 8 February.
The celebrations have been organised by the Edinburgh Tourism Action Group and supported by the Scottish Confucius Institute for Business & Communication at Heriot-Watt University.
Chinese New Year Edinburgh runs from 2 to 17 February 2019.
www.chinesenewyear.scot
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