Elizabeth Blackadder | A Celebration
To complement Dame Elizabeth Blackadder’s Edinburgh Art Festival exhibition A Celebration, The Scottish Gallery is proud to release a new film produced by the Edinburgh Film Company. In this new film, which draws on rich archive material from The Scottish Gallery and the British Library, the artist offers personal insights into her childhood and studio practice.
John Bellany | A Life in Self-Portraiture
Film by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh
Victoria Crowe at 80 | Decades
A short film by Kenneth Gray to accompany Victoria Crowe at 80 | Decades, August 2025.
Joan Eardley | A Sense of Place by National Galleries Scotland
Catterline is a small coastal village, on the Aberdeenshire coast of the North Sea. During a 1951 exhibition of her work at Aberdeen’s Gaumont Cinema, artist Joan Eardley (1921-1963) contracted the mumps. While she was recovering, a close friend took her on a drive to Catterline, where they discovered a remote two-room building on a cliff top was for sale. This was the Watchie, a simple space that became Eardley’s studio in 1952.
For the rest of her life, Eardley returned to Catterline often, buying a cottage of her own in 1955. She became very attached to the local community, and to the countryside around the village, saying: ‘I do feel the more you know something the more you can get out of it – the more it gives you’.
In this film, local Catterline resident Ron Stephen, and former Curator Fiona Pearson discuss Eardley’s relationship with the village.
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.
Gaudier Brzeska's Sketchbook | TateShots
Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. One of the movement’s stars was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and in this film Chris Stephens, curator of The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, looks through one of the artist’s sketchbooks. He explains how the sketchbook enhances our understanding of some of Gaudier- Brzeska’s most memorable works.
Film by Tate
James Morrison | Eye of the Storm Trailer
Duncan Shanks | The Riverbank - A Landscape of Sorrow and Hope
To complement Duncan Shanks’ Edinburgh Art Festival exhibition The Riverbank – A Landscape of Sorrow and Hope, The Scottish Gallery is releasing two new films produced by the Edinburgh Film Company. In this first film, captured at his home and garden in the Clyde Valley, Duncan Shanks offers personal insights into his artistic practice with an audience for the first time.
