Ullapool Bridge House Art students to open new exhibition celebrating ‘glisk’
ULLAPOOL art students are set to display their works, celebrating the meaning of ‘glisk’, in a new exhibition next month.
Students from internationally-acclaimed Wester Ross art school, Bridge House Art, will be hosting a final exhibition of their artwork from their portfolio course, opening on March 2. The title of the exhibition is the Scots word, glisk, meaning ‘a gleam of sunlight through a cloud’ or ‘a glimpse of the good’.
Eleven female artists from across four continents, including Nicky Beveridge from Dingwall and Paula Shepherd from Coigach, have spent the past winter seeking the glimmer of creative light which comes with working together in the creative environment.
Bridge House Art founder, Eleanor White said: “It has been a delight to see how students have grown in confidence, embracing each new medium the course offers, and how this has fed into the ideas and subjects that are now on show”.
Many of this year’s students are experiencing Highland life for the first time, enthusiastically trying local activities, including cold-water swimming, wild camping on a munro and chilling in a different way at Scotland’s most northerly club night, Baile/Baile.
The course — which is celebrating its 30th birthday this year — has a structure that consists of eight weeks of intense tuition, followed by eight weeks of independent practice.
Senior tutor, Kittie Jones commented: “This is an intensive course, culminating in an exhibition in a professional gallery space. We are so lucky to be able to offer the students this opportunity which proves to be a real jumping-off point for students to go on and develop an independent practice”.
Glisk is on show at the An Talla Solais Gallery on Ullapool’s Market Street from March 2 to 9, 10am to 4pm daily. Entry is free, and many of the works will be for sale. A percentage of sales will be donated to Bridge House Art’s Assisted Places Scheme.
