North Ayrshire ~ Isle of Arran
Lochranza
©Mark Phillips 
Links to Arts Workers: Isle of Arran
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Standing Stones at Machrie.
©Mark Phillips
The Isle of Arran Heritage Museum was founded
in 1976 and opened to the public in 1979. Originally
the site of a small school, the present group of buildings were a croft
and smiddy, and include a farmhouse, cottage, bothy, milk house, laundry,
stable, coach house and harness room. The exhibits reflect the social
history, archaeology and geology of the island.
The stable and coach house
contain permanent displays on various aspects of past life on Arran.
Old photographs show village life and farming methods,
the island's long seafaring traditions are remembered from the days
of sail, through steam powered puffers, paddle steamers and warships,
to the latest car ferry, and includes a model replica of a Viking ship
of the kind assembled in Lamlash Bay in 1263 before the Battle of Largs.
Arran's archaeology and geology are key features of the displays which
include a complete and authentic Early Bronze Age grave (over 3,000 years
old) and a pottery food vessel found in it.
Wash House at the museum. ©Isle of Arran Heritage
The smiddy is still as it was when work stopped in the 1960's. The forges, bellows, tools and other equipment are original, and horse-shoeing demonstrations are given several times a year. The farmhouse accommodates a schoolroom, ca 1920, and the museum cafe, which offers a selection of delicious meals and snacks. The Archives Room is the repository for all the paper-based material preserved by the Isle of Arran Heritage Museum.
Opening Hours for 2012
28th March until
late October
10.30AM - 4.30PM
Admission Charges for 2011 were:
Museum, Gardens and Cafe Rosa burn:
Adults - £3.00 Child - £ 1.50 Senior - £2.00 Family( parents and
children up to 16yrs) - £7.00
External Exhibits, Gardens and Cafe Rosa burn:
Adults - 50pence. Children (to 16years old) Free.
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Little
Cumbrae and Arran Hills from Fairlie Moor.
©Mike
Bailey
Arran Ferry leaving Ardrossan. ©Mike
Bailey
P.S. Waverley off Brodick
©Dave Souza
The Arran Art Gallery opened in
June, 2005, in a former D.I.Y. store in Whiting Bay.
Facing the sea, the gallery has 85 metres of exhibition space with a
sculpture garden to the rear.
The main aim 0fthe gallery is to promote the island’s artists to visiting
tourists. In addition to local artists, the gallery exhibits many
of Scotland's established contemporary artists.
At Arran Art Gallery we hold the largest stock of original art to be
found on the island and one of the largest in west Scotland. At present,
approximately 40 Scottish artists are represented at the gallery & online.
Quality ceramics,sculptures, photography and glasswork complement the
gallery.
Arran Art Gallery
Shore Road
Whiting Bay
Tel. 01770 700250
Summer Opening Hours
10.00 to 5.00 closed for lunch 1.00 to 1.30
Winter Hours please check website or call
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Arran Visual Arts (AVA) was founded in December 2001 by an enthusiastic group of amateur and professional artists. As a group, it has flourished and now has a membership of approximately 140 amateur artists.
AVA gained charitable status early on in its life, and its constitution states its main objectives as to develop education and cultural heritage by organising and facilitating events and activities to share knowledge, expertise and experience through demonstration workshops, summer schools and exhibitions ;to provide educational and therapeutic opportunities to island residents in necessitous circumstances and thereby improve their confidence and social contactand to improve and develop the quality of art resources on the island.
The Group runs arts and applied arts workshops throughout the year, inviting a wide range of tutors from the UK and local artists to teach these workshops. Their two art exhibitions are held at Easter in Kilmory Hall and in the summer in Lochranza and Catacol Village Hall.
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Main Fine Art was established in 1975 by the Scottish painter, I. Lesley Main, to promote the work of young, graduate painters and sculptors, primarily Scottish and working in Scotland.
In 1983, Lesley opened part of her studio, which became The Studio Gallery, in the West End of Glasgow as Main Fine Art's first permanent venue, offering a programme of monthly, mainly one-man, shows. Many young painters had first or early exhibitions there, including Philip Braham, John Clark, Gwen Hardie, Peter Howson, Ian Hughes, Sandy Stoddart and Donald Urquhart.
The gallery exhibitions were supplemented by exchange and touring exhibitions in the United Kingdom and overseas, and by art fairs in London, Bath, York, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow and America.
In the late 1990's the Glasgow gallery was closed (although the original studio was retained) and the gallery activities were relocated on the Isle of Arran.
The Main Gallery now operates from the The Douglas Centre in Brodick
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