Author: Kathryn Lamont Smith

  • Catherine’s Grand Tour of India – The Asiatic Society of Bengal and a Chennai Drive by……

    So now I make my way to The Asiatic Society of Bengal on Park Street Kolkata just down the road from Mackenzie’s final resting place.  Here I am very excited to see the drawings they hold and hope to find some that relate to the drawings I have been looking at in London. All this… More…

  • Ian Stephen at The Lahore Literary Festival

      We did our bit, towards the close of play at Lahore Literary Festival. The banner of land and seascapes by Mehreen Fatima and Kate Leiper was unrolled for projection for a large and lively audience. The artists moved it under a video camera and zoomed into details as they occurred in the collage of… More…

  • Roos Dijkhuisen: Mapping the Arteries Bus Shelter commission Part 2

    Roos Dijkhuisen: My week on the isles of lewis and harris took a couple days to digest. Went through various scales and methods of visual forms. Approaching the project with such an openness to experience instigating ideas, meant the ideas were manifesting in sound, and moving image right through to ceramics and sculpture. A couple… More…

  • Ian Stephen in Pakistan

    Part 1 Carrots are red but Coco-pops look Much the same brown The east coast illustrator and west coast yarner met on the flight . We came through the red petal welcomes of families re -uniting. Here was our driver, carrying his blue card as arranged. We were on the move into a strangely calm… More…

  • Calcutta Scenes – Catherine’s latest bog from India

  • Catherine’s Grand Tour of India – Part 2

    Gargoyles at the Gates of Archives.   So at the end of the last update I was just about to venture to the Oriental Manuscripts Library at the Madras University, to begin my quest of getting in amongst all the wonderful Mackenzie material. The Mackenzie Collection is the core and makes up the body of… More…

  • Roos Dijkhuisen: Mapping the arteries Bus Shelter commission

    Bealach’s latest art commission in partnership with Time to Shine explores the bus routes across the island entitled ’Mapping the Arteries’. The project is hosting two visual artist residencies; Roos Dijkhuizen and Janie Nicoll who have spent time travelling bus routes around the island, producing a piece of artwork inspired by their experience. The temporary… More…

  • February Cinema at An Lanntair

    This month you are all officially invited to the prom. The second in our series of film screenings and club nights, Party at the Pictures, will be a belter: John Hughes’ 80s classic Pretty in Pink, followed by a live DJ set. In a Guardian piece entitled “Why I’d Like to Be… Molly Ringwald in… More…

  • Catherine’s Grand Tour of India

    An Lanntair’s Project Curator Catherine Maclean sends us her first blog from her research trip to India. This trip is part of Catherine’s work researching the Colin Mackenzie collection. For more info on the project please click here.  India Blog, January 2016 Delhi: First few days in back in Delhi was mostly spent with re… More…

  • Shrapnel

      Mar phàirt de sheachdain de bhùithean-obrach agus tachartasan le Theatre Gu Leòr agus An Lanntair a’ cuimhneachadh air beatha agus obair Thormaid a’ Bhocsair, a’ tighinn gu ceann leis am prìomh thaisbeanadh den dealbh-chluich, Shrapnel. Le Tron Theatre & An Lanntair A’ Taisbeanadh An Ciad Shealladh do Shrapnel Dàn’-thuras Gàidhlig co-aimsireil, stèidhichte sa bhaile… More…