exhibitions

Visual arts have been an integral part of Celtic Connections from its earliest days. This year we are delighted to have four exhibitions running throughout the festival.

A Month in Collioure

Roger Bilcliffe Gallery, 134 Blythswood Street, Glasgow, G2 4EL
Saturday 10th – Saturday 31st January
Monday- Friday 9.30am – 5.30pm, Saturday 10am-1pm

In the 1920s the Glasgow artist-architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh settled in Port Vendres in south-west France where he painted a series of fifty or so outstanding watercolours. Several of these were of the town of Collioure, where a flourishing Mackintosh Association is now well established. To mark the connections with Mackintosh and Scotland, the Municipality of Collioure, has established a residency in the town for two artists from Scotland to spend a month painting. This exhibition brings together the first four artists to have taken part – James Morrison and Douglas Davies, Glen Scouller and George Devlin.

Season Yuile Henderson

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Island Bar

Glass and light are fascinating mediums to work with. Traditionally both have been used for centuries to create beautifully illuminating, educational religious imagery within ecclesiastical settings. Henderson’s work seeks to release the spiritual possibilities of stained glass from dogma; to capture a sense of power, drama and movement, creating a complementary duality between the rigidity of the stained glass technique and the expressiveness of the imagery.

TMSA Hall of Fame

City Halls: Bazaar Bar

Long time friend of the festival, photographer Louis DeCarlo presents portraits of recent inductees to the TMSA Hall of Fame.

Lieve Boussauw

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall: Island Bar

Photographer in residence at Celtic Connections 2008, Belgian photographer Lieve returns to exhibit some of her favourite work from her time at the Festival.

Celtic Connections 2009

Thursday 15th January - Sunday 1st February

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