Next exhibition: Mary Lloyd Jones, landscape paintings.

Preview Friday 6th November 2009
6pm – 8.30pm
Artist statement: ‘ As painter, my vocbulary is a collection of marks. These can be memories of hillsides, cloud shadows, leaves in the wind or rock faces. To these have been added graffiti on walls, The Ogham and Bardic alphabets, and the spirals zig-zags and linear inventions of prehistoric carvings which represent values that are in stark contrast to our global technological age. Through my work i try to create links with the past, with the lives of previous generations, with folk memory, myths and legends all of which contribute to the atmosphere of the landscape. I would like to bring about a heightened awareness of the land and the multifaceted nature of our understanding of it.
Archaeology is a fruitful source of visual ideas. Following this interest led to my first visit to the Orkneys, some of the resulting work can be seen in this exhibition.’ MLJ


Aberdeenshire SOUND festival events at Left Bank. Pete Stollery, Ross Whyte, Miriama Young and Lisa O’ Brien.
Friday 13th November. 7.30pm
Fog is an audio-visual installation which explores the theme of communication breakdown. Initially inspired by the aphasia of the composer Maurice Ravel, Fog attempts to place the listener in the role of composer through the use of headphones and video.
Miriama Young, ‘Disappearing lightly, like that’
Saturday 14th November. 7.30pm
This intimate parlour concert features new music for voice. Music which explores the human voice as a vessel for conveying story and song. The voice will be diffused through a multi-channel surround sound system so that the listener is immersed in a tranquil, ambient landscape of song and narrative.
Booking is advised as there are a limited number of tickets for each performance.
Left Bank residency with Lisa O’ Brien
October 9th – 14th November
Lisa O’Brien wil be in residence at the gallery from 9th to the 14th Novemr.
More details and details of extended gallery opening hours during this week to follow.
Pete Stollery, ‘Altered Images’
Friday 30thOctober. 7.30pm
An evening of electroacoustic music consisting of journeys in sound which will take you to familiar and unfamiliar places. The evening will include Serendipities and Synchronicities and Altered Images by Pete Stollery, and will culminate in a performance of Paul Rudy’s Degrees of Separation; Grandchild of Tree for amplified cactus (echinocactus grusonii) and digital sound.
Pete Stollery, ‘Altered images’. October 30th 2009

Pete Stollery played a number of his own compositions and his last ever performance of ‘Degrees of separation: Grandchild of Tree’ by Paul Rudy for amplified cactus and digital sound.

NEOS 2009 at Left Bank, Tarland – paintings by Iorwen James
Left Bank is no 114 in the NEOS catalogueThe current exhibition is of paintings by Iorwen James.
Please note extended opening hours and call 07775606087 on other days to see if the gallery is open.
Saturday 12th 11am – 6pm
Sunday 13th Phone
Mondaay 14th Phone
Tuesday 15th Phone
Wednesday 16th Phone
Thursday 17th 11am – 6pm
Friday 18th 11am – 6pm
Saturday 19th 11am – 6pm
Sunday 20th 11am – 6pm
Monday 21st Phone
Please note that the gallery will be closed all day on Friday 11th September.

Tarland Show day at Left Bank
Exhibition of work by artists inspried by birds and beasts
Paintings and sculpture by James Newton Adams, Mary Archibald, Joyce Gunn Cairns, Jack Crabtree, Mary Crofts, Helen Denerley, Alexe Dilworth, Cathy Miles and Fraser Ritchie.
Also on show, contemporary art from Shetland by Kristi Cumming.
Pork pies by Wark Farm , Cushnie
Cakes, teas and coffee.
10.30am – 5pm
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