Posts Tagged ‘Antarctic’
Claire Harkess: ‘Fine Feathers’ at Strathearn Gallery
ONE of the United Kingdom’s most accomplished and renowned wildlife painters, Claire Harkess RSW, opens a new solo exhibition, “Fine Feathers”, at the Strathearn Gallery in Crieff from 22 April. Perthshire-based Claire has previously travelled worldwide, with the Arctic, Antarctic, and Galapagos Islands all providing inspiration for her paintings but, for this new collection of…
Read MoreRower Jamie Douglas-Hamilton prepares for Antarctic trial
SCOTTISH adventurer Jamie Douglas-Hamilton is preparing to row from Antarctica to South Georgia to raise money for the British Heart Foundation and honour Sir Ernest Shackleton’s carpenter. Douglas-Hamilton is undertaking the row just months after undergoing open heart surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to repair a leaking aortic valve. The 950-mile expedition is…
Read MoreNew work celebrating the birth and life of Earth
A new exhibition by contemporary artist Katie Paterson that tells the birth and life of our planet in a single object is to go on display for the first time at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, this spring. Requiem tells the birth and life of our planet in a single object filled with layers of dust from…
Read MoreShackleton challenges adventurers to find hidden whisky
The ship of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the legend who inspired Shackleton Whisky, has been located more than a century after sinking in the Antarctic. Endurance was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton to embark one of the most infamous polar adventures. To commemorate the discovery of one of the world’s most famous…
Read MoreCritically acclaimed polar ice exhibition closing
The five star Among the Polar Ice exhibition at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, is to close on 8 March. Featured as one of the Scotsman’s art critics’ favourite shows of the year, Among the Polar Ice will soon end its run at The McManus. Spanning 200 years, the exhibition brings together paintings, photographs…
Read MoreRecord-breaking rower returns to Glenalmond
A former Glenalmond College pupil, who recently set five world records while rowing across one of the most treacherous stretches of water on the planet, is set to share his incredible story at an open day at his old school next month. Jamie Douglas-Hamilton, who is also founder of ACTIPH Water, is set to inspire…
Read MoreTeenagers who are too cool for school
A new four-part TV series charts the journey of a group of young Scots aged between 13 and 15 as they embark on the school trip of a lifetime – the freezing Arctic wilderness of Greenland. In the first episode of Arctic Academy, we follow 20 youngsters from Bathgate Academy in West Lothian as they…
Read MoreAcceptable in the 80s – new exhibitions launch
A multimedia celebration of Scotland in the 80s is coming to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Back to the future: 1979–1989 – the National Library of Scotland’s multimedia 1980s retrospective – is gearing up for a summer of nostalgia in Scotland’s two largest cities. The National Library at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow will host an ‘80s takeover’ next…
Read More10 Scots who were welcomed to the jungle
Scots get all over the world in the name of science. These heroic explorers risked life and limb to travel around the globe and discover the species of fl ora that make our gardens the beautiful places that they are today 1. Thomas Thomson (1817-1878) When he was only seventeen, Thomson discovered fossil mollusca on…
Read MoreRemembering a forgotten Scots explorer
William Speirs Bruce’s name has been largely forgotten in the realms of polar exploration and research. He was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904), This book examines his life, a determined passion for oceanography and his own personal struggles as someone who appears to have been on the…
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