Festival Exhibition 2024

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Morningside Gallery's annual Festival Exhibition opens on Saturday 3rd August, featuring new paintings from a number of notable Scottish artists!

About Festival Exhibition 2024

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The Festival Exhibition features new paintings from a number of notable Scottish artists, with Jennifer Irvine RGI RSW as the featured artist.

Alongside Jennifer’s work, the exhibition will include paintings by John Kingsley RSW PAI, Patsy McArthur, Alison Dickson, Nael Hanna, Jenny Martin RSW and Gordon Wilson.

Based at Church Hill in Morningside, the gallery will display over 40 new paintings for this year’s August exhibition, from Jennifer Irvine’s sun-soaked south of France scenes to John Kingsley’s large scale abstracts, still life from Alison Dickson and Gordon Wilson’s much loved ‘Biddy’ paintings. The full exhibition can be viewed online and a virtual exhibition will be available for anyone who can’t make it to Edinburgh this year.

The exhibition will run in the gallery from Saturday 3rd - 31st August, and is open to the public.

A virtual exhibition will be available online at morningsidegallery.co.uk where all of the paintings are available to browse or buy.

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