News
Dec/Jan 22/23 BirchTree Gallery in Dundas Street, (23a), Edinburgh.
I was asked to be part of this group show at the BirchTree Gallery in Dundas Street, (23a), Edinburgh.
We were asked to make something in response to this beautiful poem by Antanas Skéma, a Lithuanian poet.
SNOW
It is written that snow is white.
Angels' wings are from non-melting snow.
And the souls of infants in their mothers' wombs,
And other comparisons.
Where is my soulmate, who has turned snow into a Eucharistic wafer,
Into a farewell kiss,
Into permafrost death
and my own elderliness?
Who is my soulmate, who has never been born as he is eternally alive?
Where can I find him?
But that is meaningless.
Would I wish to lose him once I find him?
I would be seeking for snow that has melted
It is on between November 18th - December 21st, 11-4pm Mon-Sat
I have seen some of the work in the show and it is wonderful, so really this is a plug for the exhibition rather than a plug for me.
Jurgita Galbraith , the gallery owner is from Lithuania and the exhibition is a tribute to her father who died last year. She has commissioned a short film about the exhibition, which is also beautiful. Here is a link to it that Simon Mills (@PhotosbySi) created for this exhibition:
https://vimeo.com/769607896
I'm doing an exhibition of my current work that I've done over the last two years throughout the lockdown period.
It's at the Stick Gallery, 69c Mayfield Road, Edinburgh
12-5pm Mondays- Saturdays.
October 29-Jan28th.
August 2020
PENTLAND DAYS
During lockdown I decided to do a drawing project about the local area. I wanted to look at the Pentland Hills, where I have lived for 23 years, and see it afresh. So on my daily walk I found a scene or a vista or a detail that I wanted to do a drawing of. These are the results. All pictures are 21 x 29cm. The originals are available to buy. I've also had high quality Giclee prints made which can be bought for £30 each. Please contact me for more information and to order a print.
MAY 2019
August 2016
Land and Sea
I have a solo exhibition at Chambers Institute, Peebles from July 30th - Sep 3rd. Opening times:
Monday – Friday
10.30am – 12.30pm & 1pm – 4pm
Saturday 9.30 - 12.30pm
The exhibition explores themes suggested by words from the Shipping News to evoke a sense of our coastal landscape.
July/August 2014
This has been a very busy year as my Leverhulme Artist in Residency with the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies came to a conclusion with an exhibition at the the National Museum of Scotland as part of an International Conference on Global Scots Since the 1700s directed by Sir Professor Tom Devine. I also showed the work in august at the Scottish Parliament.
Sep/Oct 2013
I have recently been awarded an Arts and Business residency with Craig&Rose Paint Company, Dunfermline, as part of Creative Scotland's activities for the Year of Creative Scotland.
Drawing a Voice
Collaborations between poetry and visual art
Jean Atkin | Pamela Grace | Catriona Taylor
28 September to 3 November 2013
Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway
This unusual exhibition displays the collaboration of two different visual artists with a poet, over several different projects.
A piece of visual art, or a poem, requires any viewer, or reader, to interpret it through the use of their own imagination, memories and experiences. The process is two-way, and is in itself creative.
When a poet and an artist work together, they too are seeking new ways to look, and finding new layers in the other’s practice that in turn nurture their own. All these collaborations have created their own absorbing journeys.
June 2013 South by South East 3 or 4
I currently have a solo exhibition at Amber Arts, Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7: http://www.amberarts.co.uk/exhibitions.html running until the 29th of August. This is a painting show and this is what Amber Arts have to say about my work: " Catriona Taylor’s painting is inspired by the Scottish coastline and looking at landscape and coastal scape from google earth.
She builds her painting , using maps, collage materials, text and by pouring paint onto the surface. She uses the words of the Shipping Forecast to suggest the powerful force of the sea and our attempt to try and chart it and make it safer."
August 2012
I have just heard that I have been awarded a Leverhulme Grant to be Artist in Residence at the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University. I start in october and am very excited.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/news-events
This has been a very busy year. I have been working on a project called Fetlock Deep Fetlock Deep - commissioned by the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles. An investigation of equestrian culture in the Scottish Borders which comes to fruition in November with an outdoor installation near Traquair of horse names, memories and drawings on slate. There will also be an exhibition at the Eastgate Theatre in November that will feature the work we have made. See the Eastgate website for more details.
www.eastgatearts.com
Alchemy Film Festival. Sunday October 28th 3pm
I have also been hard at work on a commission for the Alchemy Film Festival in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.
The film Kick Oan tells the story of the Hawick Common Riding through the voices of the Hawick people.
The film embraces a 500 year old tradition of riding the town’s boundaries with all its attendant ritual, tradition, laughter and tears. It shows a community brought together annually, to remember the decimation of Flodden, a battle still etched in the collective consciousness of the Borders.
The real heroes of the film however, are the horses, that so gallantly bear the riders through the nine ride outs. They are revealed in the stunning landscape of Teviotdale and in quieter moments in the stables.
www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk
I was asked to be part of this group show at the BirchTree Gallery in Dundas Street, (23a), Edinburgh.
We were asked to make something in response to this beautiful poem by Antanas Skéma, a Lithuanian poet.
SNOW
It is written that snow is white.
Angels' wings are from non-melting snow.
And the souls of infants in their mothers' wombs,
And other comparisons.
Where is my soulmate, who has turned snow into a Eucharistic wafer,
Into a farewell kiss,
Into permafrost death
and my own elderliness?
Who is my soulmate, who has never been born as he is eternally alive?
Where can I find him?
But that is meaningless.
Would I wish to lose him once I find him?
I would be seeking for snow that has melted
It is on between November 18th - December 21st, 11-4pm Mon-Sat
I have seen some of the work in the show and it is wonderful, so really this is a plug for the exhibition rather than a plug for me.
Jurgita Galbraith , the gallery owner is from Lithuania and the exhibition is a tribute to her father who died last year. She has commissioned a short film about the exhibition, which is also beautiful. Here is a link to it that Simon Mills (@PhotosbySi) created for this exhibition:
https://vimeo.com/769607896
I'm doing an exhibition of my current work that I've done over the last two years throughout the lockdown period.
It's at the Stick Gallery, 69c Mayfield Road, Edinburgh
12-5pm Mondays- Saturdays.
October 29-Jan28th.
August 2020
PENTLAND DAYS
During lockdown I decided to do a drawing project about the local area. I wanted to look at the Pentland Hills, where I have lived for 23 years, and see it afresh. So on my daily walk I found a scene or a vista or a detail that I wanted to do a drawing of. These are the results. All pictures are 21 x 29cm. The originals are available to buy. I've also had high quality Giclee prints made which can be bought for £30 each. Please contact me for more information and to order a print.
MAY 2019
August 2016
Land and Sea
I have a solo exhibition at Chambers Institute, Peebles from July 30th - Sep 3rd. Opening times:
Monday – Friday
10.30am – 12.30pm & 1pm – 4pm
Saturday 9.30 - 12.30pm
The exhibition explores themes suggested by words from the Shipping News to evoke a sense of our coastal landscape.
July/August 2014
This has been a very busy year as my Leverhulme Artist in Residency with the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies came to a conclusion with an exhibition at the the National Museum of Scotland as part of an International Conference on Global Scots Since the 1700s directed by Sir Professor Tom Devine. I also showed the work in august at the Scottish Parliament.
Sep/Oct 2013
I have recently been awarded an Arts and Business residency with Craig&Rose Paint Company, Dunfermline, as part of Creative Scotland's activities for the Year of Creative Scotland.
Drawing a Voice
Collaborations between poetry and visual art
Jean Atkin | Pamela Grace | Catriona Taylor
28 September to 3 November 2013
Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway
This unusual exhibition displays the collaboration of two different visual artists with a poet, over several different projects.
A piece of visual art, or a poem, requires any viewer, or reader, to interpret it through the use of their own imagination, memories and experiences. The process is two-way, and is in itself creative.
When a poet and an artist work together, they too are seeking new ways to look, and finding new layers in the other’s practice that in turn nurture their own. All these collaborations have created their own absorbing journeys.
June 2013 South by South East 3 or 4
I currently have a solo exhibition at Amber Arts, Montrose Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7: http://www.amberarts.co.uk/exhibitions.html running until the 29th of August. This is a painting show and this is what Amber Arts have to say about my work: " Catriona Taylor’s painting is inspired by the Scottish coastline and looking at landscape and coastal scape from google earth.
She builds her painting , using maps, collage materials, text and by pouring paint onto the surface. She uses the words of the Shipping Forecast to suggest the powerful force of the sea and our attempt to try and chart it and make it safer."
August 2012
I have just heard that I have been awarded a Leverhulme Grant to be Artist in Residence at the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University. I start in october and am very excited.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/news-events
This has been a very busy year. I have been working on a project called Fetlock Deep Fetlock Deep - commissioned by the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles. An investigation of equestrian culture in the Scottish Borders which comes to fruition in November with an outdoor installation near Traquair of horse names, memories and drawings on slate. There will also be an exhibition at the Eastgate Theatre in November that will feature the work we have made. See the Eastgate website for more details.
www.eastgatearts.com
Alchemy Film Festival. Sunday October 28th 3pm
I have also been hard at work on a commission for the Alchemy Film Festival in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.
The film Kick Oan tells the story of the Hawick Common Riding through the voices of the Hawick people.
The film embraces a 500 year old tradition of riding the town’s boundaries with all its attendant ritual, tradition, laughter and tears. It shows a community brought together annually, to remember the decimation of Flodden, a battle still etched in the collective consciousness of the Borders.
The real heroes of the film however, are the horses, that so gallantly bear the riders through the nine ride outs. They are revealed in the stunning landscape of Teviotdale and in quieter moments in the stables.
www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk
NEWS: November 2010
I currently have work in 5 different Galleries: Hope you can make it to one of them!
I was delighted to have had work accepted by the RSA Open Exhibition which is on now until the 15th December at the RSA Gallery on the Mound, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Printmakers: Myths and Legends. 13th Nov -23rd Dec. Union Street, Edinburgh
WINTER WARMTH - Park Gallery, Falkirk. From Now until 8th Jan
OFF THE WALL - Gracefiled Arts Centre, Dumfries. From 13th Nov until 24th December.
Off the Shelf Saltburn Artists' Projects, Saltburn on Sea.
26th Nov - Dec 23rd.
January 20th - March 5th SOLO SHOW at Amber Arts, Edinburgh
Drove Road Project
I have recently been awarded a grant to research and ride the Cross Borders Drove Road to make an exhibition of the experience. The grant has been awarded by CABN/Scottish Arts Council Artists Awards
I plan to film the ride and show that as part of the exhibition.
I have ridden some of it already but it probably has been the hardest winter in a long time to attempt to do such a long ride. I have been constantly thwarted but am making work in my studio based on drawings I have already done.
Exhibition dates: August 14th - September 25th at the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
At almost the same time I will be showing a site specific installation about the drove roads in the Pavilions of Traquair House, Innerleithen, 18th August - September 26th September
Exhibitions on at the moment.
I finally have a date to do the four day ride. Myself and two friends plan to start from Hawick on Saturday 22nd May, then ride to Ettrickbridge that day. Stop over at the Cross Keys Pub in Ettrickbridge on the Saturday night, then ride onto Peebles over the long sweep of hills above St Mary's Loch. We will leave the horses at Kailzie Riding Stables, spend the night in the comfort of our own beds on the Sunday night, then ride to West Linton on the Monday via Rommano Bridge and onto Balerno across the wild moor by Baddinsgill on tuesday. I can't wait.
Workshop Programme I will be doing workshops for primary schools in the Borders, schools that are situated near the path of the drove road funded by Scottish Borders Council. to book a workshop contact Susanne Batchelor, Cultural Coordinator at
sbatchelor@scotborders.gov.uk
I currently have work in 5 different Galleries: Hope you can make it to one of them!
I was delighted to have had work accepted by the RSA Open Exhibition which is on now until the 15th December at the RSA Gallery on the Mound, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Printmakers: Myths and Legends. 13th Nov -23rd Dec. Union Street, Edinburgh
WINTER WARMTH - Park Gallery, Falkirk. From Now until 8th Jan
OFF THE WALL - Gracefiled Arts Centre, Dumfries. From 13th Nov until 24th December.
Off the Shelf Saltburn Artists' Projects, Saltburn on Sea.
26th Nov - Dec 23rd.
January 20th - March 5th SOLO SHOW at Amber Arts, Edinburgh
Drove Road Project
I have recently been awarded a grant to research and ride the Cross Borders Drove Road to make an exhibition of the experience. The grant has been awarded by CABN/Scottish Arts Council Artists Awards
I plan to film the ride and show that as part of the exhibition.
I have ridden some of it already but it probably has been the hardest winter in a long time to attempt to do such a long ride. I have been constantly thwarted but am making work in my studio based on drawings I have already done.
Exhibition dates: August 14th - September 25th at the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
At almost the same time I will be showing a site specific installation about the drove roads in the Pavilions of Traquair House, Innerleithen, 18th August - September 26th September
Exhibitions on at the moment.
I finally have a date to do the four day ride. Myself and two friends plan to start from Hawick on Saturday 22nd May, then ride to Ettrickbridge that day. Stop over at the Cross Keys Pub in Ettrickbridge on the Saturday night, then ride onto Peebles over the long sweep of hills above St Mary's Loch. We will leave the horses at Kailzie Riding Stables, spend the night in the comfort of our own beds on the Sunday night, then ride to West Linton on the Monday via Rommano Bridge and onto Balerno across the wild moor by Baddinsgill on tuesday. I can't wait.
Workshop Programme I will be doing workshops for primary schools in the Borders, schools that are situated near the path of the drove road funded by Scottish Borders Council. to book a workshop contact Susanne Batchelor, Cultural Coordinator at
sbatchelor@scotborders.gov.uk