Working in oil with a vigorous, worked surface, Cook is a painter both rooted and restless, committed to the discipline of looking and to landscape as an inexhaustible subject.

Michael McVeigh’s exhibition Dundee Whalers draws on his lifelong connection to Dundee’s maritime and whaling history, shaped by childhood visits to the McManus Gallery and stories of the Tay Whale, as well as Michael’s enduring interest in folklore, history, and storytelling through image.

Bowen’s work has developed with quiet assurance over five decades. Though rooted in the English slipware tradition, in recent years he has spent time in Japan, where his pots have found a strong response, extending a conversation around slip decoration and firing that continues to inform the work shown here.