We aim to uncover and share the stories of women artists, designers, makers and collectors in Scottish collections.
Joined May 2020
- Tweets 437
- Following 437
- Followers 833
- Likes 518
39 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
🌿REMINDER🌿
Two days until Women & the Natural Environment!
Have you seen our programme for Saturday's webinar with @SSAHistory British Art Network?
Full Programme: bit.ly/3n74VDR
Register: bit.ly/42dSQwk
1
11
24
4,076
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
15 Feb 2024
Please join me when I give the talk 'Queen of Edinburgh: Anne Redpath and her Circle' @EdinCulture on 16 August 2024. Info: bit.ly/3I1Jqv9 Image: Anne Redpath, Black and White Checks, 1952, presented to @EdinCulture in 1964 (c) Artist's Estate courtesy @RoyalScotAcad
5
11
767
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
18 Feb 2024
Kirstin Mackinnon's paper '40 Years’ Progress on Gender Equality in Contemp Scottish Painting' is part of @SSAHistory 40 Years of Art & Art History in Scotland 1984-2024 Study Days 1-2 March: bit.ly/3UBEMvn Image: Mackinnon's A Painter Worth Taking Seriously? @DJCAD coll
4
4
528
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
20 Feb 2024
Handful of tickets left for our @FriendsofGUL Bet Low talk this Thurs! 22 Feb, 7pm, Level 12 @UofGLibrary.
Book now on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-stre…
4
2
843
This month is #LGBTHistoryMonth🏳️🌈
From the 1st LGBT museum to the home of an iconic gay rights activist, these places are preserving & celebrating important stories for future generations👉 bit.ly/47HU18Y
@MuseumLiverpool @QueerBritain @CharlestonTrust @NtlMuseumsScot
2
15
25
4,379
Registration is now open for the @SSAHistory Study Days, taking place 1-2 March @EdinburghUni. Full programme can be found in this post by our member @AliceStrang who is also presenting!
4 Feb 2024
@SSAHistory 40 Years of Art & Art History in Scotland 1984-2024 Study Days 1-2 March @EdinburghUni with @artukdotorg @NatGalleriesSco & @VisualArtsScot. Info bit.ly/42t2Tyn Image is Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's Studio Interior (Red Stool) of 1945, coll and (c) @barnsgraham
1
216
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
4 Feb 2024
The Strange Horizons – Millie Frood exhibition is now open at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre. Read all about Millie Frood from our Assistant Curator, Rosie Shackleton, via Art UK.
Read the article here: ow.ly/c8WR50Qwhv0
@artukdotorg @NL_Heritage
ALT Winter Sunset, Millie Frood (1900–1988), Perth Art Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross)
9
12
1,633
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
30 Jan 2024
NOW OPEN - @britishmuseum is a display of the WBG Trust's recent gift of 12 major WBG works on paper to the Museum's collection. The display is in gallery G90a in the Prints and Drawings area until 12 May - included is this stunning drawing - Lava Forms Lanzarote 2, 1993.
6
13
896
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
29 Jan 2024
With the weather being so unpredictable, join us for a free online tour of our current collection landscape exhibition 'Shifting Vistas: 250 Years of Scottish Landscape'. An illustrated tour from the comfort of your own home. Book here for 8 Feb: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/what…
ALT Painting of hills in Scotland with a loch in centre of image
2
8
937
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
Coming up March 1-2! In-person (@UofAlabama & @bhammuseum) & online -
Challenging Empire: Women, Art, & the Global Early Modern World
Organizers: Doris Sung, Becky Teague & Tanja Jones
Conf website: art.ua.edu/challenging-empir…
Register here: art.ua.edu/challenging-empir…
2
6
341
Love to see more of the research some of our members are up to!
29 Jan 2024
Stepping into the shoes of the women etchers of my #PhD by creating my very own etchings with aquatint, start to finish @GlasPrintStudio. Thanks to @sgsah & their Engagement Funding for this incredible opportunity! A total dream.
1
118
Fantastic to see more Scottish women artists being celebrated! Looking forward to seeing more of Millie Frood's (1900-1988) work next month!
18 Jan 2024
'Strange Horizons' opens 3rd February📢
A new exhibition celebrating the life and work of artist Millie Frood in her hometown of Motherwell!
We're delighted to show a range of her works, objects from her home, and snippets from an interview with people who knew her
See you there!
3
6
697
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
16 Jan 2024
I've posted the text of my latest @Sunday_Post column on @ScottishGallery's Modern Masters XVI exhibition on my work Facebook page. LOVE Pat Douthwaite and Joan Eardley so here's a double helping for your delectation.... facebook.com/JanPatienceArt
3
6
575
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
6 Jan 2024
Thanks to @ScottishGallery for this wee film which captures Joan Eardley’s Catterline beautifully.
There is a room in the gallery’s new Modern Masters XVI exhibition (opens today) devoted to Catterline. It includes work by Joan, Lil Neilson and James Morrison. Runs until 27 Jan.
26
76
5,365
Scottish Women Artists at the Fleming Collection. We can't wait for this!
16 Jan 2024
💠Reminder 💠
Online Talk: Scottish Women Artists at the Fleming Collection
Our Director James Knox will give the inside story on the Fleming Collection’s remarkable acquisition strategy with @DovecotStudios
📆 Friday January 19th
🎟️ Book Tickets £5
i.mtr.cool/anqhuhsrzg
ALT photo credit: Phil Wilkinson
130
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
9 Jan 2024
We’re delighted to announce the award of £60,000 by @MuseumsGalScot for a project to explore North Lanarkshire’s links with slavery and empire. We’re excited to be working with our communities and the University of Glasgow to establish new narratives and ways of working.
ALT Samples from Shotts Iron Works in our collection. The company benefitted from the profits of slavery.
ALT Armlet from Uganda, part of our World Cultures Collection which will be researched as part of the project
2
15
75
13,251
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
And just like that, we're back! We have several exhibitions taking place across the building, books to browse & borrow, spaces to study, free WiFi, tea making facilities, & more. Everyone is welcome, & a warm welcome awaits!
Find us at 23 Landressy Street, Bridgeton, G40 1BP
ALT vinyl lettering on a window reads "Come on In We're Home", through the glass we see the main library space of the Glasgow Women's Library filled with stacks of books
1
9
30
2,554
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
4 Jan 2024
As an outdoor painter Joan Eardley captured the seasons on the coast at Catterline in all their moods. In the middle of winter look forward to summer with this wonderful painting "Summer Grasses and Barley on the Clifftop" (1962) @EdinCulture
5
13
983
For today's @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange we have chosen Joan Eardley's (1921-1963) atmospheric 'Catterline in Winter' from @NatGalleriesSco @THEJoanEardley.
A wonderfully elemental landscape to mark this week's theme of winter! ❄️
6
21
1,205
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
18 Dec 2023
Hannah Frank (1908–died #OTD 2008) Scottish born artist, studied at Glasgow Uni and Art School Art Nouveau style black and white drawings (@womenslibrary ), later figurative sculpture (@GSofA ) Also egs @NatGalleriesSco @BenUriOnline Excellent website hannahfrank.org.uk/
ALT https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/GLA/GWL/GLA_GWL_GWL_2010_40-001.jpg © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Glasgow Women's Library
5
17
1,819
Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network retweeted
15 Dec 2023
Join our curator of British Art Anne Dulau today at 1pm for our last Friday Focus of the year!
Anne will discuss Hunterian acquisitions of Scottish art made in recent years, including works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Bessie MacNicol.
eventbrite.co.uk/x/friday-fo…
1
7
741