Exhibitions

New works by Vibha Pankaj and Sarah Longley ARUA in our very first pop-up exhibition post-lockdown, in the heart of St Andrews in the Gallery Upstairs at Innes. It was a very great pleasure to welcome Sarah back to the Junor Gallery, also to welcome Vibha, an artist new to the gallery, whose works I […]

A full house on site at COP26’s Green Zone as well as viewers online joined Dr Bashabi Fraser CBE for this insight into the wisdom of Rabindranath Tagore. View Professor Fraser’s event by clicking on the YouTube link here. I highly recommend it. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but he was also […]

January 2021’s event was the London Art Fair’s 33rd edition, held online this year in lockdown conditions. I was very glad of this opportunity to showcase a selection of works by four artists whose exhibitions in my St Andrews’ South Street gallery were affected by previous lockdown periods during 2020: Calum Colvin OBE RSA, Sarah […]

It’s an enormous pleasure for the Junor Gallery to present new works by two major figures in Scotland’s cultural life. Alexander Moffat’s landscapes are the most significant development of the artist’s ‘late style’ to be shown in Scotland since his monumental composite portrait Scotland’s Voices. ‘Sooner or later the main genres of western painting… still life, […]

Calum Colvin OBE RSA is one of Europe’s most innovative and renowned photographer artists. ‘There is a magical character to the art of Calum Colvin. . . . Colvin’s work has, historically and consistently, conjured a world that is deceptively attractive, subtly alluring, and filled with spectacular enchantments. The multiple manipulations and the artfulness of […]

Ruth Nicol’s popular solo exhibition East Neuk ended 8 March 2020. The final week of the exhibition coincided with St Andrews’ international poetry festival StAnza and featured in the festival’s Inspire Sessions. The exhibition depicted coastlines and villages in this corner or neuk of Fife’s east coast. Ruth Nicol captures the contrast between the built […]

Yanko Tihov (b. 1977) is a master printmaker. He had a classical training at the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, where a great emphasis was placed on drawing. He told me they drew for 3 hours every day, from life models, plaster casts . . . everything that would be expected in an […]

Sarah Longley is an Irish artist based in Scotland. Sarah graduated with First Class Honours in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art and completed her Masters Degree in Fine Art there in 2001. She lived in Edinburgh for many years before relocating to the north-west Highlands of Scotland six years ago. The natural […]

Born in St Andrews, Scotland and currently based near the town, Marion Smith RSA studied sculpture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. Her practice centres on creating site-specific commissions for the public realm. She has large scale sculptures permanently sited in the United Kingdom from Shetland in the far north to Southampton in the south […]

The gallery was privileged to present the third stage in this touring exhibition of Scotland’s Voices, the most significant composite portrait to be painted in Scotland and Europe since the artist’s Poets’ Pub (1980, National Galleries of Scotland).  Poet’s Pub depicted an imaginary gathering of some of Scotland’s most renowned poets of the twentieth century.  This […]

LAURENT DESSUPOIU Writing is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, enabling our languages, learning and communication to be recorded for future generations and shared across cultures.  Handwriting reveals not only our unique personality, but perhaps also our age, where we’re from, even the onset of some illnesses.  In an increasingly digital age, while the handwritten word […]