THE artists we represent predominantly live and work in northern Scotland’s emptier quarters. This exhibition at Dovecot in Edinburgh is all about how they perceive the landscape, culture, environment, wildlife and the changing seasons.

It reflects RhueArt’s determination to bring their work to a wider audience, and challenges the common perception of art from the north.

While each artist exhibits independently, Perception offers the first opportunity to assess their new work – painting, film, textiles and sculpture in metal and in stone – collectively.

Perception: Dovecot Studios, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT, 5–16 April, 2011; Tuesday – Saturday 10:30 – 17:30

+44 (0)131 550 3660 www.dovecotstudios.com www.rhueart.co.uk

RhueArt has been associated with sculptor Helen Denerley and landscape painter James Hawkins for more than 20 years. Denerley’s Dreaming Spires – the giraffes fronting Edinburgh’s Omni building – are among the capital’s most popular landmarks, while Hawkins’s landscapes are held by Edinburgh City Council, the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow and other public collections.

Perception highlights Denerley’s skill in giving vitality to inert scrap metal and Hawkins’s most recent, revolutionary, mark making processes – which constantly expand his pictorial language. Neither artist has staged a major exhibition in Edinburgh for some years.

James and Flick Hawkins’s films about Denerley’s Dreaming Spires and Rahoy Stag, and their micro landform videos, will be screened continuously throughout the exhibition.

More recent additions to the RhueArt group include Katy Spong (shortlisted Wildlife Artist of the Year, 2010), James Lumsden (exhibited at RSA New Works, 2010), textile artist Mhairi Killin (SAC Creative Development award, 2007) and sculptor Mary Bourne (numerous public commissions include Carpet of Leaves, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh).

RhueArt promotes predominantly, but by no means exclusively, Highland- based artists. The business, owned and run by Flick and James Hawkins, aims to promote work by its selected artists both nationally and internationally.

RhueArt was first set up in 2003. In 2008/9 it became a Highlands and Islands Enterprise account-managed business and, with that, has increased the number of artists it works with.

RhueArt will open a new gallery space at Rhue this summer. Rona Johnson: rona.j.johnson@btinternet.com Tel 01854 666 383 or mobile 07879 440798 Flick Hawkins:flick@rhueart.co.uk

Tel 01854 612460 RhueArt, Ullapool, Ross-shire IV26 2TJ

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