2023 EXHIBITORS
GALLERIES/The Fine Art Society
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About
Established in 1876, The Fine Art Society's elegant gallery space in Edinburgh handles exceptional works of British art and design. We are leading specialists in Scottish art from the 1700s onwards and London-based artists of the Victorian, Edwardian and interwar periods. We have a highly respected reputation based on market knowledge and the experience of our specialists, and have established relationships with museums and institutions around the world.
Throughout our history we have remained dedicated to academic exhibitions and research, and we continue to enrich, support and expand the market for historical design and fine art. As one of the oldest fine art dealers in the UK, we continue to handle many of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with whom we have historic links.
Our base in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town is an impressive and expansive two-floored gallery space, including our framing and conservation studio. The Fine Art Society has had a longstanding relationship with Scotland having first exhibited there in 1969. We are specialists in Scottish paintings and sculpture from the seventeenth century to the present.
We provide advice to collectors and public institutions, at all levels, on private sales, auction purchasing, framing, conservation and curating a collection.
Exhibition
Ron Sandford: The Everyday, Every Day
Tim Pomeroy: Metamorphosis
Frederick Burrows: Textile Designs
10 November – 22 December
Personal vignettes from a life in Hong Kong, Shetland, and travels in Italy. Ron Sandford's paintings communicate his lived experience of these culturally and geographically distinct environments through commonplace items, often before deftly captured backdrops.
For 30 years, Ron illustrated books and newspapers and undertook large scale architectural commissions such as Bishopsgate, London. He has taught at the Royal College of Art, Central School of Art and Design, St. Martin's School of Art and Brighton School of Art. From his studio on Yell, Shetland, he draws the everyday, every day: still life, landscape and portrait in pencil, pen, ink and watercolour.
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The rhythm and patterns of nature form the core of our new exhibition of sculpture by Arran-based artist Tim Pomeroy. Pomeroy's work heightens the organic geometries of the natural world, picking out and amplifying features. There is also a human element to Pomeroy's sculptures, in which ideas of ceremony and mysticism are explored through vessel forms and precious materials. Marble, slate, granite, clay, wood and gold are metamorphised through the process of carving, smoothing, refining. The works in this exhibition are small in scale; personal, ritual objects.
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In their final year of training, students at the Royal College of Art made their own original designs having previously copied those of others. These designs for textiles and wallpaper by Frederick Burrows, who was an articled pupil of Christory Dresser, include studies of past masters such as William Morris and also his own prize winning original designs from 1902.
