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Summer Exhibition 2011
The Fortingall Art summer exhibition took place from Saturday 30th July to Sunday 7th August, 2011, starting with the now traditional opening reception on Friday 29th July to which all members, patrons, and supporters were invited. The 2011 exhibition welcomed 1,500 visitors and 28 artists displayed their work.
A competition for schoolchildren in various age ranges attracted many characterful entries, which were shown throughout the exhibition. Prizes were awarded during the opening reception on 29th July.
In addition, a new departure, we held a short film competition and invited entries from full-time students or young people from Perthshire with an interest in film-making. The best of the entries was shown at the exhibition and a prize awarded at the opening reception.
More details can be found on the exhibition page.
Summer Exhibition 2010
Fortingall Art had its most successful exhibition ever in 2010, taking over £21,000 in the 10 days it was open. Twenty five out of the 28 exhibitors sold at least one exhibit and all the comments received throughout the exhibition were very complimentary. Over 200 came to the Opening night & heard Howard Pearce speak about his very positive outlook for Contemporary Scottish Art, and a considerable quantity of artwork was sold on that evening. The variety of art on display, including jewellery, sculpture and photographs as well as paintings in many different media, evoked much favourable comment.
Fortingall Art are very grateful to Awards for All for their grant without which the exhibition would not have been able to run and to Highland Safari who so generously provided us with 2 marquees for the Opening night. We are also most grateful to all those who came from far & wide to view the exhibition. We had visitors from Germany, Australia, Canada & Holland and a significant number of pieces were sold to visitors from southern England. The entries for the schools competition were much admired and offers made also for a few of those.
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