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Andrew Gerald Redman, who lives in Aberdour, is unveiling a cheering, pop art style exhibition at Dunfermline’s FSC this week. Having moved house once a year for the last twenty years, it seems Redman’s nomadic lifestyle has been the inspiration for the work: ‘Packing and unpacking boxes seems to have become quite a thing,’ says Andrew. As befits a serial mover, Andrew trained at several art colleges including Chesterfield College of Art,
Catherine Lindow, creator of charming and lyrical illustrations such as the one of the new Dunfermline museum below, will be making the most of a nice rhyme and sitting in a window in Inverkeithing this Saturday, drawing. ‘Lindow in the Window’ will take place from 13 until 17 June at Maker. As well as drawing what she can see from her window perch, Catherine is hoping people will come along
The recently revived 2017 National Pilgrimage to Dunfermline in honour of St Margaret of Scotland will take place this year on Sunday 11 June with the procession leaving from the Glen Gates at 2pm. The procession, led by His Grace Archbishop Cushley and the Dunfermline Pipe Band, will process via Bridge Street, High Street and East Port to St Margaret’s RC Church for Mass at 3pm. The Mass will be concelebrated
This evening at the Old Inn in Dunfermline, author Daniel Gray will be reading from his latest book Saturday at 3pm. Edinburgh-based Gray’s books, often football inspired, are hugely popular with this latest offering being described in The Telegraph as a ‘delightfully written little book…a counterpoint to feeling jaded about football in the modern age’ and When Saturday Comes saying, ‘each chapter is a precision tooled delight.’ The evening starts
A great Robert Burns poem this and one that seldom seems to be recited on Burns night. You can listen below to an excellent recording of it by Dunfermline actress Shirley Henderson – she really brings out the emotion of the bored weaving girl whose heart has been taken ‘as wi’ a net.’ My heart was ance as blythe and free As simmer days were lang; But a bonie, westlin
We’d like to wish all our readers a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year when it comes. Also a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to Avocado Sweet this year by sharing posts, signing up to our newsletter, writing articles and making donations – it’s all been hugely appreciated here at AS HQ. We have something exciting planned for 2017 so watch this space when we return
In our second local shopping competition, there’s a juicy £10 voucher to be won for newly opened Maker in Inverkeithing. The shop is a community project which will be exhibiting and retailing unique and original and visual art and contemporary craft from Fife and beyond. Artist Jane Francis, below, says, ‘The workshop at Maker will be a buzzing creative space where people can participate in a broad spectrum of arts-based activities and projects. We will be
Having been unoccupied for twenty years, Bennet House, a small domestic dwelling of historic and vernacular importance in Culross, was in a sorry state. Luckily the Little Houses Improvement Scheme (LHIS), the National Trust Scotland’s in-house building preservation trust, was able to purchase it to safeguard its future: Bennet House is now a study house with regular hard hat tours available to the public. Throughout the conservation process, the public
by Caroline Copeland I’ve had a long relationship with Stirling University. For over thirty years I’ve sampled the delights of films and plays at the MacRobert Arts Centre, I’ve walked children and dogs around Airthrey Loch and admired the stark 1960s architecture that makes up its many buildings: sleek and white against the backdrop of the ever-changing shadows of the Ochil Hills. I’ve always noticed the sculptures interwoven with the
We are delighted that Caroline Copeland will be joining us to contribute occasional features to Avocado Sweet. Caroline describes herself as living many lives in one and has a varied career as a writer, book historian, publisher, and lecturer in publishing education. She has written on subjects as diverse as the publication of early 20th century female novelists to the Peacocks of Pittencrieff Park. Caroline has lived in London, Devon,
