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  • 10 October 2025 - 10 January 2026 William Gillies and the Galloway Connection Gracefield Gallery 2 A major touring exhibition...
    Willaim Gillies RSA, Eyemouth Harbour, watercolour, 1955, Gracefield Collection

    10 October 2025 - 10 January 2026

    William Gillies and the Galloway Connection

    Gracefield Gallery 2

     

    A major touring exhibition from the Royal Scottish Academy is on show in Gracefield and Kirkcudbright Galleries, bringing a unique portrait of one of Scotland’s most influential artists to Dumfries and Galloway.

    Here at Gracefield, an exploration of William Gillies RSA’s wider influence as a teacher and thinker, particularly to Galloway friends and colleagues, Archie Sutter Watt and John Maxwell whose work has been drawn from the Gracefield and Stewartry art collections. Over 50 paintings explore their work and life-long association.

     

    In Kirkcudbright, the solo show William Gillies: Modernism and Nation reviews his wider career as an artist from the beginning of the early 1920s to his death in 1973.

     

    Exhibition runs until January 10th, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm.  Please note Gracefield is closed for a week from 3pm on Christmas eve and re-opens on Saturday 3rd January, 10am.
  • Previously 9 May – 20 June 2026 William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light Gracefield Gallery 2 This exhibition of...

    William Littlejohn RSA, Untitled (Still Life With Hammer), 1956, RSA Collections

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    9 May – 20 June 2026

    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light

    Gracefield Gallery 2
     

    This exhibition of over 40 works, selected from the artist's studio bequest to the RSA's Collection, explores the life and work of William Littlejohn RSA (1929-2006). A highly distinguished Scottish artist practicing largely in watercolour and collage-based media, his landscape and still-life pieces reflect his life in the harbour town of Arbroath and Scotland’s east coast, his travels to Japan, and the possibilities of representation and abstraction that evolved over his career.

     

    Free entry and events include: 

     

    Tuesday 26 May, 2pm.   Sandy Wood, RSA Head of Collections, gives a gallery talk on the origins of the RSA and a tour of the William Littlejohn exhibition followed by tea/coffee and Q&A.  Duration approx. 1 hour. Free, but please book a place at arts@dumgal.gov.uk, or online with Ticketsource.

     

    Friday 5 June, 7.30pm . Alfons Bytautas RSA gives a talk on his printmaking work and the influence of the RSA, with an artist’s view tour of the William Littlejohn exhibition. Duration approx. 1hour, with drinks and nibbles and a Q&A, free, but please book a place at arts@dumgal.gov.uk, or online with Ticketsource.

     

    Saturday 20June, 2.30pm. Gracefield curator led-gallery talk and tour with Dawn Henderby. A last chance to see the exhibition and an informal tour followed by soft refreshments and a Q&A. No need to book, just show up.  Exhibition closes 4.45pm. 

     

     

  • William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    William Littlejohn RSA: In a New Light, Gracefield Arts Center, Image Mike Bolam 

  • About Gracefield Arts Centre
    Andy Goldsworthy, Three Cones at Gracefield Arts Centre

    About Gracefield Arts Centre

    Gracefield Arts Centre presents a programme of local, national and international art and craft exhibitions through the year alongside selected shows from our own permanent collection of art. You'll also find a cafe (hours 10-3pm), craft shop and activity room spaces, including a small printmakers' workshop. We regularly run printmaking classes and offer saturday and holiday art and craft activities for children and young people.

     

    Gallery hours are Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, admission to exhibitions is free, with ample free parking and gardens grounds.

     

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