Upcoming Exhibitions
28 April 2012 - 10 June 2012
The Shetland Open Landscape Awards
Bonhoga Gallery, Shop & Cafe Opening Hours:Tue - Sat: 10.30 - 4.30
Sun: 12:00 - 4.30
The Open welcomes entries from amateur, professional and student artists and craft makers, aged 18 and over, who are linked to Shetland by birth, education or residency. This year’s theme, which can be interpreted in any way possible, will be ‘Landscape’. Category winners will have the opportunity to exhibit in a group show at Bonhoga in 2013.
Lower Gallery: The Shetland Open for Bairns
Craft Cabinet: UK craft
16 June 2012 - 29 July 2012
Susan Leask: Those who left, those who stayed
Public Opening:All welcome
Friday 15 June
5.30pm - 7.30pm
Bonhoga Gallery, Shop & Cafe Opening Hours:
Tue - Sat: 10.30 - 4.30
Sun: 12:00 - 4.30
Susan’s father was one of six surviving children born in the first decade of the 20th century in Shetland, three left and three stayed. Her father left for Glasgow, Susan lives in Liverpool and during a one month residency at the Booth in July 2010 she spoke to Shetlanders to find out where they went, why they stayed, why some returned and how they kept communication with family back home. This exhibition is a direct response to her findings and includes drawings, photography and light works.
The exhibition will extend to the Lower Gallery
Craft Cabinet: selected work from the Shetland Arts and Crafts Association
04 August 2012 - 16 September 2012
Anne Bevan: Particle (II)
Public Opening:All welcome
Friday 3 August
5.30pm - 7.30pm
Bonhoga Gallery, Shop & Cafe Opening Hours:
Tue - Sat: 10.30 - 4.30
Sun: 12:00 - 4.30
An installation of sculpture, print and video exploring the microscopic world of our shores and oceans, from the North Atlantic to the Sea of Japan. The work is developed from residencies in the Scalloway Booth in Shetland, and in the Hebrides, connecting islands and sea, through science, art and creative writing. A publication will accompany with texts by Jen Hadfield, Robert Alan Jamieson, Alan Spence and Janice Galloway. Supported by: RSA residencies for Scotland, Creative Scotland, The Hope Scott Trust, Visual Artist Awards Edinburgh & Edinburgh College of Art.
Lower Gallery: Laura Drever – Bosquoy – drawing & painting
Craft Cabinet: Farlin – work in progress from the Farlin poetry/craft project
22 September 2012 - 04 November 2012
Text-Isles: Swap Box
Saturday 22 September - Sunday 4 November 2012Public Opening:
All welcome
Friday 21 September
5.30pm - 7.30pm
Text-Isles is a collective of contemporary Shetland textile designers who collaborate to promote their own work. For their exhibition each designer-maker received a starter box containing basic materials such as cotton, Shetland wool or fleece to which they added items representing their own interpretation of an aspect of Shetland culture, and some of their making processes or design inspirations. The box was then swapped with that of another designer-maker and used as the inspiration for a new body of work for exhibition.
Lower Gallery: Print exhibition
Craft Cabinet: Textile jewellery from the UK
Bonhoga Gallery, Shop & Cafe Opening Hours:
Tue - Sat: 10.30 - 4.30
Sun: 12:00 - 4.30
