‘Rising Tide’ is the featured exhibition for the first ever Fife Seaweed Festival, showcasing exquisite seaweed pressings, unique lumen prints, sterling silver jewellery, evocative textiles with an original glass fishing float, complex kelp structures, ceramics, sea pottery mosaics, striking prints and watercolours by artists Julia Barton (Ullapool), Cally Yeatman (Hebrides), Vanessa Langley (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh) and from Fife, Leonie Siri Macmillan, Liz Harvey, Kit Martin, Liz Gaffney, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson and Cally Nurse.
We are pleased to be hosting this special collaborative display by artists from across the country, drawn together by the inspiration they’ve taken from this incredible natural resource. See a full programme for the festival here - www.fifeseaweedfest.com/programme
Daily in our Merchant’s Room Community Art Gallery which is part of the museum's Waves Café. Entry is free, refreshments available for purchase and art works for sale.
Meet the Artist Events In situ
Thus 11 Sept, 12pm Cally Nurse
Fri 12 Sept 3pm & Sat 13 Sept 11am, Shirley Fife
Sun 21 Sept 2pm-3pm Gabi Paterson
Photograph features “Easer-Fhigtte” by Shirley Fife
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