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‘Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace’ Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show (Part Two)

  • Post date August 6, 2024

‘Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace’ Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show (Part Two) poster

Exhibiting in Dalkeith

I’m happy to announce that two of my ‘Rivers of Oak’ drawings have been selected for ‘Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace’, the Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Show (Part Two).

This exhibition celebrates 100 years since VAS was established in 1924 and follows the successful 4 star exhibition, Then and Now: 100 Years Of Visual Arts Scotland (Part One) that took place in Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy earlier this year. Now and Then: Dalkeith Palace (Part Two) will showcase artists from Scotland and beyond, exhibiting a breadth of disciplines across the sprawling 17 room exhibition, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, and jewellery. 

‘Rapids’ Charcoal on paper

I am particularly pleased that these works will be shown in Dalkeith Palace, so close to the ancient oaks in the park which inspired them.

I’ve been drawing the Old Oaks of Dalkeith for 15 years and recently volunteered with the Woodland Trust to record them for the Ancient Tree Inventory, helping to highlight their national importance and rare habitat. I know them well as individuals now and am always struck by their visual complexity and a powerful feeling of my being a very short-lived creature amongst ancients.

Tansy drawing in charcoal
Cascade in progress

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’13 Windows’ exhibition

  • Post date June 11, 2024

13 Windows posterI’m delighted to announce that I’ll soon be showing new work in ’13 Windows’, a group exhibition with Elaine Brown, Rachel George, Sheila Masson, Rachael Pollitt, Jyoti Sigouin.

’13 Windows is an exhibition by six diverse artists connected by the drive to create and the impetus to persist.

St Margaret’s House in Edinburgh was the place where we first connected. Since its opening in 2008, studio spaces have been let by the number of windows – 1 window, 2, 3 or more. Over the past 16 years we have had 13 between us. Behind the windows of this eight-storey tower block we have been a set painter, textile artist, sculptor, illustrator, prop maker, fine artist, photographer, photo historian, student, teacher, web designer, community artist, printmaker.

The six of us are at different stages in the cycle of creative life and have been around long enough to trust the process as it continues to turn. The work you will see here is the latest iteration of our individual creative practices.’

charcoal drawings on the wallExhibition details

  • Gallery 1, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE
  • Open Friday 21st – Wednesday 26th June, 10am – 8pm Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm Saturday, 12-4.30pm Sunday
  • Private view 6 – 8pm Thursday 20th June, all welcome
  • Meet the artist – I will be in the gallery Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd
  • Full information here
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‘Ghosts’ on show at Kilmorack Gallery

  • Post date May 21, 2024
a charcoal drawing with a figure or tree
Apparition, charcoal on canvas, 80 x 50cm

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My next exhibition, ‘Ghosts’ opens soon at the Kilmorack Gallery, near Beauly, Inverness-shire. This beautiful gallery in a converted church is the perfect setting for a gathering of eleven new charcoal works.

‘Ghosts’ features dynamic, sculptural drawings inspired by the figure and the tree, reflecting my fascination with the human/arboreal relationship. They capture the way light catches a tree’s trunk to reveal the intricacies of its scarred surface in relief. Subtle layered marks and shifts of tone suggest corporeal forms emerging from the velvety blackness of charcoal.

The exhibition runs from 1st June – 5th July 2024

Full details here

a studio shot including charcoal drawing tools and a drawing in progress by Tansy Lee Moir

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John Muir Trust ‘Creative Freedom’ exhibition

  • Post date March 22, 2024
A charcoal drawing of birch tree branches by Tansy Lee Moir
‘Douny’, charcoal on panel, 30x30cm

I’m pleased to have my drawing ‘Douny’ included in the John Muir Trust’s ‘Creative Freedom’ exhibition. Submissions were invited from artists of all disciplines for their 40 year anniversary celebration of ‘freedom for wild spaces’.

This charcoal drawing captures the unruly growths of Witch’s broom, found on a downy birch in a Scottish ancient woodland. It’s a striking tree which I use to navigate by when I walk there, an impossible tangle of tiny branches against the winter sky. To me it represents this self-willed tree’s ability to respond to its environment and thrive despite its challenges.

 

The John Muir Trust ‘Creative Freedom’ exhibition is on show from the 18th March to the 25th May at their Wild Space Visitor Centre, Pitlochry and online. My drawing is included in the online gallery.

a photograph of witches broom growths on birch trees by Tansy Lee MoirYou can see more of this series of birch inspired drawings in my ‘Landmarks’ gallery.

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What to do when an exhibition ends

  • Post date January 23, 2024

What I do at the end of an exhibition

There’s a flow to mounting an exhibition, a pattern of highs and lows and the bits in between.

From the start to the end of an exhibition, I feel hopefulness and excitement, creative risk, vulnerability and doubt, pleasure from sharing what I make, joy in connecting with people through the work. There’s praise and criticism, intense activity and hours of frustration and occasional, moving glimpses of strangers falling in love with my artwork. That’s a whole pile of emotions there!

So it’s never as simple as just putting things on a wall

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Artists in Calder Wood

  • Post date December 17, 2023

Poster for Artists in Calder Wood Exhibition by Tansy Lee MoirOpening soon

‘Artists in Calder Wood’

Almondell Visitor Centre, Almondell & Calder Wood Country Park, West Lothian

20th December – 4th February 2024

A satellite exhibition looking at the creative processes behind the exhibition ‘Calder Wood: Contemporary views on an ancient woodland’, on show at Linlithgow Burgh Halls until 21st January.

Anne Gilchrist, Kirsty Venters Marks, Tansy Lee Moir, Jennie Tuffs and Cordula Marks Venters have spent the last four seasons discovering some of the stories and secrets of West Lothian’s foremost ancient woodland, Calder Wood.

They have interpreted what they found in the wood from their own individual perspectives, exploring it from their differing cultural and historic viewpoints and considered the perspectives of the non-human world and how these ancient, complex relationships can be read in the landscape.

charcoal drawing of birch branches
‘Birken’ Charcoal on panel 30 x 30cm Tansy Lee Moir

‘These works help us to look beneath the surface of what we see to understand the layers of human and non-human relationships more deeply.’

Catalogues for sale from the Visitor Centre £8.

Supported by Jane Begg, Tree and Woodland Officer and Kirsty Morrison, Country Park Ranger, West Lothian Council.

Calder Wood Artists Walk

Sunday 14th January 2024 10.30-1pm

Join some of the Calder Wood artists and Ranger Kirsty Morrison on this gentle walk around West Lothian’s foremost ancient woodland. Hear about how it inspired their new work, see some of the special places they found there and stop to share poems, stories and memories along the way.

Free to attend but places limited, contact the Visitor Centre on 01506 882254 or almondell&calderwood@westlothian.gov.uk to book.

Details

Meet outside the Fork & Field pub Mid Calder from 10.15am (what3words ///knees.bounding.older)

Outdoor clothing and sturdy footwear recommended. Paths are uneven, steep in parts and may be muddy. Bring a flask if you wish for refreshments. Please note there are no toilet facilities in Calder Wood.

In the case of bad weather, the walk will be rescheduled to Saturday 20th January.

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Calder Wood: Contemporary perspectives on an ancient woodland

  • Post date October 10, 2023

Coming soon to Linlithgow Burgh Halls, West Lothian

19th October 2023 – 21st January 2024

Five artists spanning a variety of approaches and media will present works made over four seasons in response to the life and history of Calder Wood.

Along with Anne Gilchrist, Kirsty Venters Marks, Jennie Tuffs and Cordula Marks Venters, I have spent the last four seasons discovering some of the stories and secrets of West Lothian’s foremost ancient woodland.

For this collection of new work the artists have interpreted what they found in the wood from their own individual perspectives, exploring it from their differing cultural and historic viewpoints. The works here also consider the perspectives of the non-human world and how these ancient, complex relationships can be read in the landscape.

‘These works help us to look beneath the surface of what we see to understand the layers of human and non-human relationships more deeply.’

a charcoal drawing of a birch tree against the sky
‘Birken’ Charcoal on panel

The show encompasses vibrant colour, intricate detail, poetic imagination and dark drama. It aims to reveal some of the tiny marvels and big mysteries to be found amongst these trees.

See the virtual tour here»

Events

There will be an Artist Talk with all artists on Thursday 23rd November, 6.30-8pm. Free, book here»

I will be in the gallery for informal ‘meet the artist’ opportunities on Saturday 11th November 10am-12noon and with Kirsty and Cordula on Sunday 10th December 12-2pm.

We are also planning a woodland walk – join my Studio News for details.

Visitor information

Linlithgow Burgh HallsLinlithgow Burgh Halls are fully accessible and open to the public every day 9am-5pm.

The exhibition is free to visit and the Halls are a 5 minute walk from Linlithgow train station on the Edinburgh-Glasgow line.

Full venue details here»

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‘Conversations with Trees’ now showing

  • Post date September 11, 2023

Kilmorack Gallery virtual tour screenshotThis autumn I have work showing alongside some stunning artists in this unique gallery space. Art is best experienced in person of course but if that’s not possible, take a look around this 360 degree tour created by gallerist Tony Davidson.

‘Conversations with Trees’

Runs from 2nd – 30th September at the Kilmorack Gallery, near Beauly, Inverness-shire

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Conversations with Trees at Kilmorack Gallery

  • Post date September 1, 2023

Kilmorack GalleryImagine driving three hours through the rain to an old limewashed church in a quiet Highland glen, then stopping to find a giant spider guarding the entrance to an art gallery filled with creatures conjured from scrap metal parts. Then, just as you duck under the arachnid and approach the doorway, picture yourself being baptised in a drive-by puddle incident. True story.

This was my first, slightly surreal experience of Kilmorack Gallery near Beauly. It’s a beautiful building with a reputation for excellent art and I’m delighted to be one of its newest artists.

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