Tabernacle: Joan Eardley & Margot Sandeman

21 July 2026

Tabernacle: Joan Eardley & Margot Sandeman

A short film on the Tabernacle – Isle of Arran, Scotland, where artists Joan Eardley and Margot Sandeman shared a studio. Voiceover by Scottish broadcaster Kirsty Wark. Film by Simon Sloan for the Arran Arts Heritage Trail.

About Joan Eardley

Joan Eardley

There is an enduring fascination for Joan Eardley far beyond her unconventional life and early death at the age of forty-two. Born in 1921 in Sussex, Joan Eardley’s family moved to Scotland in 1939 and a year later she joined the Glasgow School of Art. She found subjects in the shipyards of Clydebank and the slums of Townhead, at first the run-down tenements and buildings and later the children and streetlife around Rottenrow where the character of the people and the place became the vital subject of her work.

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