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Award-winning Gairloch Museum opens two new exhibitions ahead of the summer season


By Iona M.J. MacDonald

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Fiona Mackenzie's work is being shown at the museum.
Fiona Mackenzie's work is being shown at the museum.

Gairloch Museum is today set to launch summer exhibitions ahead of what it expects to be a busy summer period.

Local artist, Fiona Mackenzie will be exhibiting her artwork in the museum’s upstairs gallery.

Entitled Skyclad, her ethereal artwork reveals the changing light and beauty of the west coast landscape.

Fiona’s exhibition includes detailed drawings and engravings of birds and other wildlife .

Fiona Mackenzie was born in Inverness and spent her childhood in the Highlands, often on holiday in Gairloch.

Now based in Wester Ross for fourteen years, the majority of her artwork is inspired by the raw wilderness of her surroundings. Daily walks, sea swimming and sitting outdoors sketching in paint or pencil, highlight the dramatic, constantly changing backdrop, across sea, sky and mountains.

Fiona Mackenzie, the exhibiting artist at Gairloch museum
Fiona Mackenzie, the exhibiting artist at Gairloch museum

She said:"I hope that the works will speak for themselves. I am chasing the essence of the wild, Highland landscape in which I live and work. I don’t need to go far to find a fascinating rock face, forest, mountain, beach, nor to see all the creatures who live there." Fiona has a Master's degree in History of Art, and published research on Eric Gill's engravings with the Wolseley Gallery, London.

In the downstairs gallery, the museum will be hosting Historic Environment Scotland’s touring exhibition, Erskine Beveridge - Collecting Relics, Ruins & Ways of Life.

This exhibition will share the atmospheric photography of Erskine Beveridge alongside supporting images from other Historic Environment Scotland projects.

Through these, visitors can explore and gain a deeper understanding of the recording and collecting of relics, ruins and gain an insight into ways of life at the turn of the 20th century.

The art exhibitions are free to visit, though staff and volunteers hope that visitors will also pay a visit to the museum to view the permanent collection, revealing the social and natural history of the local area.


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