John Houston
John Houston is connected closely to the East Neuk, having been
born in Buckhaven and brought up in Windygates. In 1948 he went
to Edinburgh College of Art and then won a postgraduate travel
scholarship to Italy.
In 2005, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art held
a retrospective of his art to celebrate his 75th year.
Takaya Fuji
The work of Takaya Fuji moves along three main trajectories;
discourses, physicality and impermanence. To preserve in salt,
as he has done, objects which once held life, but no longer
live...begs the question of where life has gone and come from.
A creation by Takaya Fuji will be located at each of six
different locations, six being a number of Japanese significance.
Joachim Römer
Born in 1957, in Hagen, West Germany, Joachim Römer had
developed by 1994 the art of strassenmullgesichter, i.e. making
assemblages from rubbish found in the street.
For the Pittenweem Festival in 2006 he created the “Red
Room”, at the Gyles. This installation was so popular
that Joachim has been invited back this year, and he has created
another installation on the old Outer Pier.
Clach Sculpture Group
Clach is a loose association of Scottish sculptors that comes
together, in varying numbers and persons, for different events.
A leading member is Tom Allan, who has been a frequent exhibitor
at the Festival over the years.
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Elizabeth Blackadder
Elizabeth Blackadder left Falkirk High School in 1949 and began
to study art at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University.
In 2001 she was appointed Her Majesty the Queen’s Painter
and Limner in Scotland, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate
by the University of Glasgow.
From the Demarco Archive
The exhibition is curated by Richard Demarco. The totality
is on a gigantic scale; a large part of it, contained originally
in over 900 archive boxes, is part of The Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art Collection in the Dean Gallery. Another
part, of equal size, is located in The Barn Gallery on Skateraw
Farm, which is fifteen miles across the Firth of Forth, within
sight of Pittenweem.
Edge Textile Group
The group was formed in 1999 from the amalgamation of three
Scottish textile groups. Its main aim is to promote a standard
of excellence.
The exhibition ranges from small framed pieces, hangings
and free-standing three-dimensional work to fashion items
such as textile jewellery, scarves, hats, cushions, bags and
greeting cards.
Gavin Smith at Kellie Castle
Gavin Smith came late in his artistic life to wood carving.
Brought up in Peterhead, he first became interested in drawing.
Later as an apprentice engineer he found that he was able
to gain further inside into drawing techniques. He then attended
Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, in the early Seventies.
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