Past and Future Exhibitions by Jan KIlpatrick

Exhibitions

Coming up in 2020

Although I do not have a solo or joint exhibition this year, I was to have taken part in two group exhibitions. The first was called "Trees Meet Sea", and was a mixture of visual art and poetry. Mandy Haggith has recently been Poet in Residence at Inverewe Gardens, Wester Ross and she had invited artists working in a wide range of mediums to respond to one of her many poems on the theme of trees. The work was then to have been exhibited, alongside the poems, at the Sawyer Gallery, Inverewe, starting on Wednesday the 29th of April 2020. This was a natural collaboration for me, since native trees already feature strongly in my work. Unfortunately, this exhibition has now been cancelled becasue of the Covid 19 pandemic.

The second was called "50 at 50" and was to be a celebration of 50 years since the opening of The Ceilidh Place, which is at the centre of Ullapool's culture and cafe scene. 50 artists who have exhibited there in the past were to submit one piece of work, making for a lively and varied show. This was to have opened on Friday 23rd of May 2020, but has been postponed until 2021.

Crossing Borders: Breaking Boundaries

The fine art and craft of five textile artists

10th - 15th September 2019 Nairn Court House

I am delighted to join four other textile artists: Suzie Alexander, Becs Boyd, June Hyndman and Alison King, in presenting an exhibition of contemporary textile art as part of the annual Nairn Book and Arts Festival which, this year, features a lecture by Clare Hunter, who will talk about her celebrated book, 'Threads of Life', on Sunday 15th September. Clare is also facilitating a community textile project in the course of the festival and the results will be on display alongside the exhibition.

The Fabric of the Land 28th August - 4th October 2018

"Fabric of the Land” is a thrilling collection of landscape-inspired work by North West Highland artists Jan Kilpatrick and Mairearad Green.

The raw wilderness of Assynt is a recurring theme in the rich textiles hand-printed and stitched by Jan Kilpatrick. This new work has an increased emphasis on the primitive print marks to be made using indigenous plants and minerals, making for imagery powerfully rooted in her sense of place. Mairearad says: “Jan has created a unique language of the land through her use of experimental textile techniques. I find layer upon layer of meaning in her work, which maps the journey of this land through deep time all the way to the present.”

Mairearad Green is an artist who embraces a range of creative mediums and this collection of paintings marks her emergence as a spirited and accomplished visual artist. Her West Coast heritage calls loud from these energetic, yet sensitive depictions of Coigach, Assynt and beyond. Jan says: “Mairearad’s intimate relationship with this rugged land, its moody seas and the huge windblown skies above makes for work that is full of expression and movement that both quicken and gladden the eye.”

This isn’t the first time that the two have collaborated – some of the songs on Mairearad’s “Summer Isles” album were co-written – and it certainly won’t be the last. 2019 will see them exhibit together again, alongside acclaimed Glasgow mural artist Chelsea Frew, in response to a residency at world-renowned Inverewe Gardens.

“Fabric of the Land” is on show at the Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (café and the Green Room) between the 28^th of August and the 4^th of October 2018.

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