Significant Stirling Smith Artworks on Display at The Royal Academy
The Stirling Smith is delighted to have two major works by founder Thomas Stuart Smith, represented at the Royal Academy exhibition ‘Entangled Pasts, 1768 – now: Art, Colonialism and Change’. Thomas Stuart Smith was a Scottish artist, abolitionist, visionary who regularly submitted his own paintings to Royal Academy exhibitions from 1865.
Door to Carnock House
The great front door of Carnock House was donated to the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum in 1938 by the Carron Iron Company, prior to the demolition of 1940. It is built of three thicknesses of wood, strengthened with big iron studs. An unusual feature is the loophole near
Bridges between Imagination and Reality An exhibition of paintings by Peter Yates
This exhibition, from Stirling – born artist Peter Yates, is part retrospective and part new work. Some of the works have been inspired by wind farms. Although wind farms are Scotland’s fastest growing renewable energy technology and are prominent on the landscape in many parts of Scotland, few artists have
Hugh Green’s Stirlingshire – a Retrospective
James Wedlake joined the Stirling Smith staff as an Intern, on the Museums Galleries Scotland Adopt an Intern scheme in September. A graduate in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge, James (23), has encountered and tackled many of the issues involved in curatorship, and is now