Window to the West: The Highlands & Islands in Art

A new exhibition exploring an artistic response to the Scottish Highlands has opened in the Lamb Gallery in the Tower Building.

Window to the West: The Highlands and Islands in Art features artworks from the University as well as works from the collections of the Royal Scottish Academy and the University of Edinburgh. It includes works by McIntosh Patrick, Will Maclean, Keith Henderson, D O Hill and John MacWhirter.

The show mixes traditional and modern art and looks at the different ways artists have responded to the Scottish Highlands. It is part of Windows to the West: Towards a redefinition of the Visual within Gaelic Scotland project which is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Visual Research Centre at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (University of the Highlands and Islands), the Gaelic college in the Isle of Skye.

The project is led by Murdo Macdonald, Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, and has been funded over five years (2005-2010) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The exhibition will run until 21 June. The Lamb Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 9.30 am to 8.30pm and from 9.30am to 4.30pm on Saturday's.