Information about forthcoming Friends Events coming soon. Please note that you must be a Friends Member to attend these events and booking is essential.
Visit to Broomhall
• Sat 10 May 2008
• 10.30am – 12.30pm
• Broomhall, Charlestown, Dunfermline
• £20 per ticket Friends only (includes a tea/coffee)
• Booking is essential for this event
• Please note: There is no disabled access as Broomhall is a private home
The Earl of Elgin & Kincardine KT has kindly agreed to allow Friends a rare private visit to his home Broomhall. Built for the 7th Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, in classical Greek style by the architect Thomas Harrison (1740-1829) it hoses a wealth of paintings, silverware, porcelain, books and Greek and Roman antiquities.
Lord Elign, a highly informative and entertaining speaker, will give us a guided tour of the main reception rooms and talk about the history behind the collection in particular that of the 7th Earl, most notably the Elgin Marbles. There will also be a display of memorabilia from James Brice of Kinnaird’s explorations in Abyssinia (1730-94).
Tours of the Print Room: National Gallery of Scotland
• Wed 21 May and Thu 22 May 2008
• Wed – 2.30-3.30pm Thu – 6.00-7.00pm
• The Print Room, National Gallery
• £6 per ticket Friends only
• Booking is essential for this event
• Please meet in the foyer of The Weston Link
The National Gallery of Scotland’s Prints and Drawings Study Room contains 30,000 works on paper dating from the early Renaissance until the beginning of the twentieth century. Highlights of the collection include works by Blake, Durer, Leonardo, Piranesi, Ramsay, Raphael, Rembrandt and Rubens – to name but a few!
Two special visits to the Study Room have been organized for the Friends. Each of these visits will be led by the collections’ curators, Valerie Hunter and Hannah Brocklehurst, who will give a behind the scenes tour of the collections and look at some of its hidden treasures.
Lucy Skaer: The Fruitmarket Gallery
• Tue 27 May 2008
• 6.30 - 8.00pm
• Departing from the back of the Dean Gallery at 9.15am sharp
• £8 per ticket Friends and Guests welcome (includes a glass of wine)
• Booking is essential for this event
Lucy Skaer is one of Scotland’s most exciting young artists. She was short listed for the Beck’s Future prize in 2003, and has participated in the Venice Biennale. She is a founder member of Henry VIII’s Wives, a group of artists based in Scotland and Scandinavia who collaborate on major installations and performances.
She is best known for large works on paper that combine imagery drawn from different sources in intricate, highly-wrought and often disturbingly beautiful drawings. More recently she has begun to make films and sculptures which share her drawings’ sense of coding, decoding and recoding the visual world.
We shall have a guided tour of the exhibition at the Fruitmarket, followed by a glass of wine in the gallery café.
Membership Preview Days
These Membership Preview Days are open to all Friends members at every level. You do not need to book for these events, your membership card will give you entry on the day.
FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
• Fri 6 June 2008
• 5.30 - 8.00pm
• Dean Gallery
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
• Thurs 12 June 2008
• 5.30 - 8.00pm
• Scottish National Portrait Gallery
