201 Telephone Box Gallery

New exhibition from yesterday until 4 August 2024

This Sunday at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in Strathkinness - 23 June 2024 at 3 pm - CHIAROSCURO event: meet the artist Louise Schmid and make a drawing or two, if you like.
All welcome!

The event is free and there will be some refreshments and nibbles.

And, who would have thought that 201 Telephone Box Gallery would get on the 'Scotia Challenge' list.
Here is a photo of Allan from the Club and his bike. Allan surprised us when he came by while Louise Schmid was installing her exhibition ECHOLILY.
Thank you Allan for cheering us up!

We hope to see many more ticking the 'number 5' off their list of challenges.

Last Sunday marked the start of a new exhibition - ECHOLILY - an interactive 24/7 drawing project by Swiss born, Glasgow based visual artist Louise Schmid.
The installation will run on the cusp of spring until Equinox - 5 May to 23 June 2024, culminating in a celebratory solstice event on Sunday 23 June 2024, from 3 pm, including conversation and collaborative drawing on the village green next to the gallery.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED & CONTRIBUTE
please feel free to email drawing to [email protected]
or call Louise on 07496 231 333

Molly Kent 'The House on the Hill’
26 March - 28 April 2024
Molly Kent's art practice centres around their experiences with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD); creating narrative scenes that allude to trauma leading to their diagnosis or the emotional response their condition causes. Recently, a motif has appeared several times within Molly's work – a silhouetted house on fire. A symbol of childhood trauma, the motif features in many of their dreams, feeling like an accurate portrayal of their mental state and associated emotions. From the house, smoke and flames rise, as the destructive force of the fire takes hold.

about the artist
Molly Kent is a textile artist who represents mental and physical health notions through mediums such as rug tufting and weaving. They portray contemporary existence regarding social media and internet living and how this affects our perception of self. This stems from their personal experiences of their mental health condition CPTSD but also reflects on broader anxieties and fears that have come to their attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://mollyhkent.com/

Sunday 17 March 2024
Please join us for a very special community event - Strathkinness Community Trust, Bob Bilson, Lada Wilson and Fife based artists Colin Andrews are inviting you to participate in a tree planting event.
Please gather at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery on Sunnyside on Sunday 17 March 2024 at 3 pm. We will take a small oak tree from the gallery to Bonfield park and plant it there. Afterwards, at the village hall, artist Colin Andrews will present his akin project and talk about his work 2230, especiually created for Strathkinness community and the 201 Telephone Box Gallery. Warm drinks and cake will be provided. All welcome!

about 2230
2230 is an audio work which serves as a parallel to the planting of an oak tree, at Bonfield, in the Fife village of Strathkinness, in 2024. This tree, planted by the community of Strathkinness, is oak #114 in the artwork, akin.

akin is a long-term, large scale, participatory, public artwork in which 200 oak trees have been planted across the region of Fife, to create a ‘future forest’ as a symbol of empowerment, sustainability and commitment to our shared future.

2230 is a telephone call to the future. It is a soundscape created as an imagined audio recording from the location of oak #114 in the year 2230. By then, oak #114 will be 216 years old. What will have changed at Bonfield? How might the oak have influenced and shaped the environment and ecosystem around it? What bugs or birdsong might we hear? What music is drifting on the wind? Whose voice is passing by?

The soundscape can be listened to by calling the local telephone number
01334 402230.


Further information about akin can be found here:

https://www.colinandrews.org/project/akin/

Have you seen the new exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery?
There is a feature in The Courier about it
www.thecourier.co.uk/?post_type=fp&p=4917030

Entitled “Ten Yen 'En” is exhibition by Masahiro Kawanaka and Aya Shimamoto, who came from Japan to show their work in the UK. This participatory artwork, made of ready-made objects such as Japanese public telephone set, 10 Yen coins, pencils, paper, etc., explores ideas of communication by inviting you to make an artwork.
By following a set of instructions (inside the phone box) those visiting the 201 Telephone Box Gallery could engage in art-making: using the 10 Yen coins and ‘frottage’ technique (obtaining an impression of the texture of a material on paper by rubbing with a pencil). You can take the artwork home or leave it in the gallery.
Masahiro Kawanaka is an artist and gallery director. Since 2000 he has been presenting his work both in Japan and internationally, mainly focusing on site-specific artworks. In 2011 he started LOCALSHIP PROJECT which brought him to a residency at the Sealoft in Kinghorn, Scotland for the first time. Since 2013 he serves as a director at the Art Spot Korin, a gallery that engages in a number of international projects in Kyoto, Japan.
Aya Shimamoto is an artist who has a degree in Science as well as in Art. This is her first visit to the UK and it has been a busy one. In three exhibitions – in Newcastle, Strathkinness and Dundee, her print works and small sculptural objects are exhibited alongside Masahiro’s work.

Exhibition runs until 10 March 2024.
More information: [email protected]

Today marks the start of a new exhibition - entitled ‘After the Tone’ and made of ready-made objects, this participatory artwork by Awright Projects artists collective, explores ideas of communication.
The Awright Projects’ idea is to connect their own networks with those visiting the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in hope that new connections can be made and exciting conversations can be had.

Awright Projects invited participants to have their phone number be a part of a yellow pages book [Yellae Pages] which is left in the 201 Telephone Box Gallery, alongside a mobile phone and some pens. Visitors are encouraged to use the phone to call a number from the yellow pages and have a conversation or leave a message. It is also possible for the mobile phone to receive calls and those who can’t make it out to the gallery and want to be involved are able to call from their own phone instead. The number to call and leave a message is: 07874 979 931

Awright Projects is a non-hierarchical, not for profit, artist led collective made up of 5 recent University of Dundee / Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design graduates. The Edinburgh/Dundee based group covers a diverse range of interests and media. Initially meeting back in 2018, Awright Projects have been working consistently alongside one another long before officially forming AP in 2023. The collective takes a DIY approach to exhibitions, projects and events with a commitment to its local community and keeping art accessible.

New year starts with a new exhibition!

‘Looking at You, Looking at Me - Blossom’ is an installation by Tom Fairlamb, a sculptural response to how we use our phones and how our phones use us. Tom Fairlamb’s artwork touches on topics to do with: technology, the self, identity, awareness, beauty and the gaze.

Placing this sculpture in 201 Telephone Box Gallery brings us back to the primary use of our phones - communication. The now obsolete phone box has been replaced by a gallery and contains the very technology that made this shift happen. In this setting, the phone box invites you to peer inside to see the sculpture, endlessly applying lipstick. You are placed in the role of the vo**ur.
In a world of uncontrollable postings online and smartphone selfies we are constantly observed and observing, reducing ourselves and others to an appearance, an object.
Tom Fairlamb is University of Dundee (DJCAD) graduate, currently studying on a MFA programme in London.

The exhibition runs until 21 January 2024.

It is beginning to look like Christmas 🎄

“Tree of Life”, 2022
by ‘The Brownlee Brothers’ - Calum and Fraser Brownlee, graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee (DJCAD) and awards winning artists.

Artist's talk - this Sunday 24 September 2023 at 3:45 pm

All welcome!

Rowan Bazley is London born artist who is interested in the different textures that public boards can accumulate over years of use.
This exhibition can be interacted with (from the comfort of your home) by sending an email with any subject to
Untitled [email protected]
---what you will receive is up to you to discover...

Thank you all for coming to Paola McClure Visual Art artist’s talk - it was great to be back in the hall and have a good old Power Point presentation about art, life and all that goes with it.

Photos by Alan Richardson 🙏🏽

New exhibition!
Please join us this Sunday 9 October 2022 - Artist’s talk at 3:45 pm
Meet at the gallery.
All welcome!

&cake

Please join us and meet artist Anton Beaver and hear about his work in this exhibition.
Next Sunday 21 August 2022 at 3:45 pm | at the gallery on Sunnyside| Strathkinness| all welcome

Artist's talk at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in Strathkinness - Sunday 24 April 2022 at 3:45 pm

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From 6 March – 24 April 2022 the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in Strathkinness is showing an art installation by Andrea Geile, a visual artist based in Edinburgh since 1995.

On Sunday, 24 April 2022 at 3:45 pm, Andrea will give a talk about her work in the exhibition entitled 'How to speak Bird'.

Please meet at the gallery, we will then continue to Strathkinness Village Hall for the talk, tea and cake.

For more information contact Lada at - [email protected]

please join us tomorrow

A performative event is planned for Sunday 27 February 2022, at 3:45 pm – please meet at the gallery. For this event artist promises an element of fun and maybe getting a wee bit lost…

For more information, please contact gallery201curator@gmail,com

'I am Lost' - new exhibition by Dundee based, interdisciplinary artist Sarah Gillespie.
Sarah’s process-led practice focuses on print and sculpture working towards text-based objects, installations and performance. Her current body of work explores memory, location and storytelling.
‘I am Lost’ at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery references Sarah’s own experiences of feeling loss and lost, in her life, work and identity post graduation.

Sarah graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, in 2020. She received the 201 Graduate Award - an exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery.

This exhibition is free for everybody to see and open 24/7. It includes an additional artwork, placed on the village lawn, opposite the gallery. These two installations communicate with each other, the site and with the viewer.
A performative event is planned for February 2022, dates tbc.



Poster design, as always, by .art

A new exhibition this Sunday!
Please come along and meet the artist at the gallery at 3:45 pm | We plan to continue conversation about art at the Village Hall | cake & art | & tea | all welcome

We decided to do something different to give you a wee bit of insight into artist's practice...
Here are some questions answered by Heather Taylor, who is currently showing her artworks 201 Telephone Box Gallery
Hope you enjoy reading it. And hope you would manage to see the exhibition - it runs until Sunday 17 October 2021.

Q1 What was your highlight during your days as an art student? Or highlights?
HT: The first and potentially most obvious highlight would be receiving my degree. Graduating in the height of the pandemic was by no means easy and knowing the work I had put in paid off felt very special.

I would also say really beginning to understand my own practice and take ownership of it was a significant moment that I can't necessarily pinpoint. I remember attending an interesting talk from Richard Layzell. Richard noted that he couldn't really give context for what he was doing because he was making it up. He discussed how a project he has worked on had cropped up several years later, that things can take new forms. Richard spoke about his work in a way that was so engaging, blurring a line between talk and performance. His work all seemed to seep into each other, things he had worked on years ago popped up again in more recent work and he was more than comfortable with that. Allowing myself to consider works in a less linear way really opened up what I was writing/making/thinking.

Another highlight would have to be falling flat on my face in the centre of Berlin.

Q2 Have you been exploring the same ideas and concepts since you graduated?
HT: Since graduating, I would say a lot of the same concepts are still explored throughout my work. Family/memory/archiving/arrangements. A lot of the content is generated from my own life, and as that changes the things I am thinking about tend to change too. I recently moved, and have been considering shared spaces. Sharing spaces with new neighbours who are essentially strangers while I simultaneously share a less obvious space with family members.

Q3 What is new in your art practice?
HT: I have spent the past year going back and forth a lot on how my art practice exists now I am no longer a student and I have a big girl job. I've realised it's important to treat myself with patience and allow creativity to come and go as it likes. Meaning that sometimes my practice isn't so obvious in my life and that's fine. Sometimes it looks like paper and glue sticks on my living room floor, but others it looks more like a list of words on my notes app. I think this new softer approach to how my work exists is working for now.

Q4 Can you think of a highlight/lowlight connected to the exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery?
HT: I would say the highlight of my exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery would be installing the work. It had been a long time coming and I am very grateful to Lada for inviting me to do so. After months of life being video calls and emails, putting a work up in real life felt a bit surreal!

Q5 If you are to go on an art residency where would you like to go? Why?
HT: If I were to go on an artist residency, I would love to travel to Italy. I've always wanted to attend the Venice Biennale and soak in as much culture as I can.

Q6 What is your favourite colour?
HT: Right now I'm big on sage green. However, I would say that from my work it is evident my favourite colour in making is beige.

There is still some time left to see the exhibition featuring artwork by Heather Taylor, last year’s recipient of the 201 Telephone Box Gallery Graduate Award.

Heather graduated from Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2020 and is based in Perth.

Heather’s work builds together into an archive informed by observing domestic life, from holding hands to making cups of tea. Balance, rhythm and repetition are explored through a process of observation and accumulation. The writings, photographs and books displayed are given emphasis through their arrangement and have room to “breathe”. Heather’s art focuses on what it means to observe/accumulate/arrange.

more info: [email protected]

Tomorrow!
Please join us!

Summer of Play | Art Workshops
During the month of August the 201 Telephone Box Gallery is offering a number of art workshops for young people aged between 9 and 25.
Hoping to inspire young people to playfully create spontaneous artworks in different settings , gallery curator/artist/lecturer Lada Wilson and artist Sarah Gillespie have planned an array of creative activities.
The 1st workshop on Wednesday 4 August involves a walk to the Strathkinness Community Garden (or even to Magus Muir) and sculpture making.
The 2nd workshop is on Wednesday 11 August is about printmaking and it will take place at Strathkinness Village Hall.
Both sessions start at 11 am - meet at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery (Sunnyside, Strathkinness).
The 3rd session is planned for Wednesday 18 August at 11 am but there may be an additional session in the afternoon, after school (time and venue tbc).
The artworks created during the workshops will be exhibited at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery. Exhibition opening will take place on Sunday 22 August at 4:56 pm
All workshops are free and will last approximately 2.5 hours. Hope to see you!

This project is supported by Creative Scotland and Youth Link Scotland

more information on
[email protected]

Thanks to Dundee Courier journalist Jennifer McLaren and photographer Kim Cessford - the 201 Telephone Box Gallery is in the paper 🥰
What a lovely way to mark the third anniversary.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/entertainment/2293921/fifes-smallest-art-gallery-squeezes-into-an-old-telephone-box-near-st-andrews/

Uncoordinated Movement

the new exhibition at the 201 Telephone Box Gallery in Strathkinness marks a very special occasion - its 3rdanniversary.

Artists Rhona Jack and Calum Wallis have created a makeshift drawing machine. They invite you to engage with their constructed device, to play and to make your own mark, while embracing a high degree of uncertainty!

Please join us in our 3rd anniversary celebration at the Telephone Box Gallery on Sunday 6 June 2021 at 3:45 pm.

Exhibition runs from 6 June – 25 July 2021

Here's to many more years!

More information - [email protected]

Project is supported by the St Andrews Community Trust

Exciting news - the 201 Telephone Box Gallery celebrates its 3rd anniversary!
The three past years were fantastic. Let's forget the less good bits in the last year or so, however, because of its specific position - in the middle of Strathkinness and on a walking route for many - a good number of exciting contemporary art exhibitions and project happened during the time of pandemic.

Here's to many more years of art in this very special wee gallery! 🥂