Posts by Ellie Forbes
Mountain rescue volunteer wins £10,000 for landslide picture at Rest and Be Thankful
A mountain rescue volunteer has won a £10,000 prize for his incredible image of a landslide at the Rest and Be Thankful. Mick McGraw won the Lapeca Scottish Landscape Awards 2025 for the piece, titled ‘Glen Croe landslide, August 31, 2020’. The winning photograph was taken from the slopes of Ben Donich, looking over the…
Read MoreCampsie High Kirk Church: Historic church to reopen as community arts centre after £1 purchase
The 200-year-old Campsie High Kirk Church which was previously destroyed in a fire is set to begin a new chapter as a community arts centre after it was transferred to the local community. Campsie High Kirk Church lay empty and without an owner for years after a fire in 1984. Friends of Campsie High Kirk…
Read MoreThe Good Books, David Goodman: ‘It’s a shameful thing to admit for an English Literature graduate, but I couldn’t get through Ulysses’
David Goodman on not being able to get through Ulysses, how Iain Banks inspired him, and the books of his childhood. The first book I remember reading: If we’re talking children’s books, it’s probably Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, which I read dozens of times with my parents. But the first…
Read MoreLife With Bunny Christie: ‘My earliest memories of the theatre is being taken to see Peter Pan in Dundee’
Tony and Oliver award winner, Bunny Christie on her incredible set and costume design, growing up in Scotland and receiving an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. I grew up near St Andrews in Fife, in a little village nearby surrounded by fields and woods. We cycled around and bought Highland toffee…
Read MoreProducer’s Corner: Judith Vajk, Caledonian Oyster Company
Judith Vajk has been harvesting Pacific oysters from Loch Creran near Oban for 30 years. Brought up in Pethshire, Judith didn’t think much about food until she moved to Paris aged 21. It was while in France her eyes were opened to the world of food, and she tried her first oyster. Her and her late…
Read MoreScotland Through A Lens: Orcadian Magic with Kendra Towns
Canadian photographer Kendra Towns showcases the ever-changing beauty of the islands she now calls home in this month’s Scotland Through A Lens. How long have you been taking pictures, and how did you fall in love with photography? I’ve been taking photos since I was a child. My dad is also a photographer, so…
Read MoreLife With Lubna Kerr: ‘Comedy was my calling, I loved to make people laugh as a child’
Scottish comedian Lubna Kerr on growing up in Glasgow, her favourite place in Scotland, and what people can expect from her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show this year. I grew up in Pollokshields in Glasgow when Pakistani people were the minority. Now you need a tan to fit in. Now I live in Edinburgh and…
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo drawings in Scotland for first time
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Titian will be among 45 Italian Renaissance drawings going on display in Scotland for the first time. It comes as part of an exhibition featuring more than 80 drawings by 57 artists – the most wide-ranging show of its kind in Scotland in over half a century. The…
Read MoreRare 19th century musical game goes on display for first time
A rare 19th century musical game, one of only three known to still be in existence, is going on display to the public for the first time. Musical Game, designed by Ann Young in 1801 to teach and test children on musical theory, will feature as part of West End Girls at the Georgian House…
Read MoreLargest ever indoor exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy comes to Scotland
The largest ever indoor exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy will take over the National Galleries of Scotland this summer. Featuring more than 200 works, the show will include major installations made in response to the iconic Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) building, as well as drawings, photographs, films, sketchbooks and archival items dating back to the mid-1970s…
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