Fresh Start - Kinetic Landscapes exhibition at Stranraer Museum

It’s great to see such a variety of artists represented in the Kinetic Landscapes exhibition at Stranraer Museum.

Fresh Start project manager Kathleen O’Neill was invited by the organisers, WestFest, to perform the official opening of this enigmatically titled show.

As the list below shows, while many of the more than two dozen participants are locally based, there is also strong representation from Aberdeen.

Kathleen was hugely impressed by the enthusiasm and dynamism behind the exhibition and believes that initiatives of this kind are a superb way to shine a spotlight on everything that the different parts of the region have to offer.

Special congratulations should go to Vivian Delf for such an excellent job as curator.

Afterwards she commented that it fits closely with Fresh Start’s vision that opportunities and access to the arts should be available to all – no matter what their background or where in the region they live.

We hope that in future people like those who organised and exhibited in Kinetic Landscapes will find that they have new ways to make their voices heard and to help shape the region’s arts sector.

In the meantime, why not pop along to the exhibition and see if you fancy anything – prices range from £120 to £7,000 and the artists taking part are:

Pam Carter, James Davis, Leo du Feu, Freida Dyson, Julian Francis, Claire Harkess, James Harrigan, Gail Harvey (Shetland), Jan Holak, Denis Leiper (Aberdeen), Colin Macleod, Suzan Malcolm, Bel McCoig (Aberdeen), Derek McGuire, Sheila Mullen, Paul Murray, Pauline Murray (Aberdeen), John Nimmo, Ronald F. Smith, Val Thomson (Aberdeen), Helen Turner, Felicity Walker, Peter Wareing, Elizabeth Waugh, David Williams.

● The exhibition runs until 22 June. For further details visit http://www.dgartsfestival.org.uk/events/kinetic-landscapes-westfest/