Merchant's Room : Rising Tide

‘Rising Tide’ is the featured exhibition for the first ever Fife Seaweed Festival, featuring exquisite seaweed pressings, unique lumen prints, sterling silver jewellery, evocative textiles with an original glass fishing float, complex kelp structures, ceramics, sea pottery mosaics, striking prints and watercolours by artists Julia Barton (Ullapool), Cally Yeatman (Hebrides), Vanessa Langley (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh) and from Fife, Leonie Siri Macmillan, Liz Harvey, Kit Martin, Liz Gaffney, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson and Cally Nurse.

We are pleased to be hosting this special collaborative display by artists from across the country, drawn together by the inspiration they’ve taken from this incredible natural resource. See a full programme for the festival here - https://www.fifeseaweedfest.com/programme.html

Daily in our Merchant’s Room Community Art Gallery between 1st – 28th September., 10am – 4pm (from 11am on Sundays) Entry is free

Meet the Artist Events

Sun 7 Sept 2pm-3pm & Thus 11 Sept 12pm Cally Nurse

Fri 12 Sept 3pm & Sat 13 Sept 11am Shirley Fife

Sun 21 Sept 2pm-3pm Gabi Paterson

Photograph features “Easer-Fhigtte” by Shirley Fife