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Jupiter Artland

Sometimes it is good, and very necessary, for artists to get out and about and see new work.

A visit to Pittenweem Arts Festival on the Fife coast proved to be a bit of a disappointment – acres and acres of landscapes- but the following day I visited Jupiter Artland, the new international private sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

These are some of the sculptors:Anish Kapoor, Ian Hamilton Finlay,Antony Gormely, Andy Goldsworthy, Mac Quinn, Cornelia Parker and Charles Jencks.

So you can see the calibre of work!

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Francis Alys

It is always a delight and a surprise to discover an artist for the first time- so it was with Francis Alys’ current exhibition at Tate Modern.

Born in Belgian and now living in Mexico his work resonates with the best of Glasgow School of Art Department of Environmental Art – maybe it is significant that David Harding, who foundered the Department loved Mexico too.

Jessie King, of the the “Glasgow Girls” studio in Kirkcudbright is used today by artists who are founder members of the Kirkcudbright Art and Craft Trail