Step into our September exhibitions; Ruth Brownlee’s 60° North paintings, Kate Black’s Women of the Parish, a celebration of Malcolm Appleby’s Banchory Bangles and A Natural Selection.
Explore all at The Scottish Gallery from 4 – 27 September 2025.
Ruth Brownlee | 60° North
Working in close rhythm with her environment, Ruth Brownlee paints the Shetland seascape with an instinctive sensitivity to its elemental drama. Her work is shaped by Shetland’s ever-changing skies, tidal moods, and raw light, offering not a literal depiction but an immersive emotional response to the northernmost edge of the British Isles. Brownlee’s practice has become synonymous with the Shetland landscape. With each brushstroke, she communicates the subtle power and magnetism of life at 60° north.
Kate Black | The Women of the Parish
With wit, warmth, and ambiguity, The Women of the Parish invites us into Kate Black’s carefully observed world where art and life are closely intertwined, and where every detail tells part of a larger, untold story. This, her first solo exhibition with The Scottish Gallery, promises to be an immersive installation which will transform our Georgian interior into a fictional world.
A Natural Selection
A Natural Selection presents five exceptional makers, each working in a unique material, yet all expressing a kinship with the natural world.
Artists featured: Anthony Bryant, Vicky Lindo & Bill Brookes, Björk Haraldsdóttir, Michèle Oberdieck and Philip Eglin.
Malcolm Appleby | A Celebration of the Banchory Bangle
For nearly five decades, renowned engraver Malcolm Appleby MBE has crafted an engraved bangle, affectionately known as the Banchory Bangle, raffled annually to support Children First, Scotland. The tradition began in 1976 and since then, each year’s design, richly inspired by the natural world, has become synonymous with the artist. The Banchory Bangle reflects the enduring power of craft to inspire generosity, community and connection to place. The annual raffle has helped fund vital services for children facing adversity.
The Gallery pays tribute to the Banchory Bangle by highlighting a selection of the remarkable designs Appleby has created over the years.
Explore all the Banchory Bangles here.
