Dr Gráinne Rice
@grainnerr.bsky.social
Adult Programme Coordinator, @Natgalleriessco
All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
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All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
linktr.ee/grainnerr
Very pleased to see you're back
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October 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Very pleased to see you're back
Such an interesting talk this afternoon @nationalgalleriesscot 🎨
Art historian Leslie Primo @artfirstprimo speaking about how foreign artists, like John de Critz, invented British art.
Different words belong to different times, in the 16th C they would have been termed 'strangers' not 'foreign'
Art historian Leslie Primo @artfirstprimo speaking about how foreign artists, like John de Critz, invented British art.
Different words belong to different times, in the 16th C they would have been termed 'strangers' not 'foreign'
September 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Such an interesting talk this afternoon @nationalgalleriesscot 🎨
Art historian Leslie Primo @artfirstprimo speaking about how foreign artists, like John de Critz, invented British art.
Different words belong to different times, in the 16th C they would have been termed 'strangers' not 'foreign'
Art historian Leslie Primo @artfirstprimo speaking about how foreign artists, like John de Critz, invented British art.
Different words belong to different times, in the 16th C they would have been termed 'strangers' not 'foreign'
Author and journalist Peter Ross speaking about his research into graveyards and monuments today @nationalgalleriesscot
🪦 A Tomb with a View
The talk responds to Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful installation, Gravestones which is on display @nationalgalleriesscot until 2 November.
🪦 A Tomb with a View
The talk responds to Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful installation, Gravestones which is on display @nationalgalleriesscot until 2 November.
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Author and journalist Peter Ross speaking about his research into graveyards and monuments today @nationalgalleriesscot
🪦 A Tomb with a View
The talk responds to Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful installation, Gravestones which is on display @nationalgalleriesscot until 2 November.
🪦 A Tomb with a View
The talk responds to Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful installation, Gravestones which is on display @nationalgalleriesscot until 2 November.
What a treat! Screening: Paper Portraits @nationalgalleriesscot 🎥Community collab w/ Gerda Stevenson. A poetic tribute to the millworkers. Pencuik paper was a global commodity. It fuelled Edinburgh's publishing industry, Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, Turner used it 📚 @community_arts_penicuik
July 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What a treat! Screening: Paper Portraits @nationalgalleriesscot 🎥Community collab w/ Gerda Stevenson. A poetic tribute to the millworkers. Pencuik paper was a global commodity. It fuelled Edinburgh's publishing industry, Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, Turner used it 📚 @community_arts_penicuik
Beautiful laid back voice, guitar and accordion folk recital @nationalgalleriesscot this evening 🎸🪗🎶
@heathercartwrightmusic & @bigmabbox
Programmed w/ @livemusicnowscotland ❤️🙏
Tiny castle courtesy of Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag 1786
@heathercartwrightmusic & @bigmabbox
Programmed w/ @livemusicnowscotland ❤️🙏
Tiny castle courtesy of Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag 1786
July 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Beautiful laid back voice, guitar and accordion folk recital @nationalgalleriesscot this evening 🎸🪗🎶
@heathercartwrightmusic & @bigmabbox
Programmed w/ @livemusicnowscotland ❤️🙏
Tiny castle courtesy of Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag 1786
@heathercartwrightmusic & @bigmabbox
Programmed w/ @livemusicnowscotland ❤️🙏
Tiny castle courtesy of Benjamin West's Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag 1786
Fascinating conversation about the life and loves of King James VI/ I today @nationalgalleriesscot between authors @steven.veerapen.3 & @_garethrussell
Queering James 👑
#theworldofkingjames
Queering James 👑
#theworldofkingjames
July 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fascinating conversation about the life and loves of King James VI/ I today @nationalgalleriesscot between authors @steven.veerapen.3 & @_garethrussell
Queering James 👑
#theworldofkingjames
Queering James 👑
#theworldofkingjames
Amazing, not often we have an Olympic champion speaking @nationalgalleriesscot🥇‼️
Insightful conversation between Prof @fionaskillen Deputy Director Imogen Gibbon w/ Olympic medal holder Team GB Curler Rhona Howie whose team portrait is part of the National Galleries collection 🥌🥌🥌
Insightful conversation between Prof @fionaskillen Deputy Director Imogen Gibbon w/ Olympic medal holder Team GB Curler Rhona Howie whose team portrait is part of the National Galleries collection 🥌🥌🥌
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Amazing, not often we have an Olympic champion speaking @nationalgalleriesscot🥇‼️
Insightful conversation between Prof @fionaskillen Deputy Director Imogen Gibbon w/ Olympic medal holder Team GB Curler Rhona Howie whose team portrait is part of the National Galleries collection 🥌🥌🥌
Insightful conversation between Prof @fionaskillen Deputy Director Imogen Gibbon w/ Olympic medal holder Team GB Curler Rhona Howie whose team portrait is part of the National Galleries collection 🥌🥌🥌
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Part of a 3D sculpted map of central Glasgow created by Kathleen Chambers in 1990 to help visually impaired people to explore the city. This section shows the buildings around Buchanan Street, which can also be seen in real life just behind it.
#glasgow #sculpture #buchananstreet #architecture
#glasgow #sculpture #buchananstreet #architecture
June 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Part of a 3D sculpted map of central Glasgow created by Kathleen Chambers in 1990 to help visually impaired people to explore the city. This section shows the buildings around Buchanan Street, which can also be seen in real life just behind it.
#glasgow #sculpture #buchananstreet #architecture
#glasgow #sculpture #buchananstreet #architecture
Always brilliant, a passionate argument in favour of resistance by @garyyounge @nationalgalleriesscot The talk marks the opening of the Resistance photography exhibition at Modern Two 📸 Co-curated by artist/filmmaker Steve McQueen, the exhibition documents 100 years of popular protests in Britain.
June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Always brilliant, a passionate argument in favour of resistance by @garyyounge @nationalgalleriesscot The talk marks the opening of the Resistance photography exhibition at Modern Two 📸 Co-curated by artist/filmmaker Steve McQueen, the exhibition documents 100 years of popular protests in Britain.
Brilliant talk today @nationalgalleriesscot by Senior Researcher Lola Conte @forensicarchitecture on their methodology for investigations and popular protests.
Presented as part of @archifringe
Presented as part of @archifringe
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Brilliant talk today @nationalgalleriesscot by Senior Researcher Lola Conte @forensicarchitecture on their methodology for investigations and popular protests.
Presented as part of @archifringe
Presented as part of @archifringe
This feels timely. Lola Conte will speak about @forensicarchi.bsky.social interdisciplinary investigations. Presented as part of this year’s @archifringe.bsky.social
📆 12.45-1.30pm, Tue 17 June
🎟️ Free
📍 At the National and online via YouTube
🎫 What's On listings: www.nationalgalleries.org/whats-on
📆 12.45-1.30pm, Tue 17 June
🎟️ Free
📍 At the National and online via YouTube
🎫 What's On listings: www.nationalgalleries.org/whats-on
Forensic Architecture (in person) | National Galleries of Scotland
Forensic Architecture is an interdisciplinary research agency operating across human rights, journalism, architecture, art and aesthetics, academia, and the law to investigate state and corporate viol...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This feels timely. Lola Conte will speak about @forensicarchi.bsky.social interdisciplinary investigations. Presented as part of this year’s @archifringe.bsky.social
📆 12.45-1.30pm, Tue 17 June
🎟️ Free
📍 At the National and online via YouTube
🎫 What's On listings: www.nationalgalleries.org/whats-on
📆 12.45-1.30pm, Tue 17 June
🎟️ Free
📍 At the National and online via YouTube
🎫 What's On listings: www.nationalgalleries.org/whats-on
An artist, a scientist and an art historian give a talk...
@geologicnotes Dr Claire Cousins and @catrionamcara share their brilliant collaborative work in progress today @nationalgalleriesscot
Finding kinship, geological conglomerates
Watch it back here: www.youtube.com/live/yLqAJEX...
@geologicnotes Dr Claire Cousins and @catrionamcara share their brilliant collaborative work in progress today @nationalgalleriesscot
Finding kinship, geological conglomerates
Watch it back here: www.youtube.com/live/yLqAJEX...
April 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
An artist, a scientist and an art historian give a talk...
@geologicnotes Dr Claire Cousins and @catrionamcara share their brilliant collaborative work in progress today @nationalgalleriesscot
Finding kinship, geological conglomerates
Watch it back here: www.youtube.com/live/yLqAJEX...
@geologicnotes Dr Claire Cousins and @catrionamcara share their brilliant collaborative work in progress today @nationalgalleriesscot
Finding kinship, geological conglomerates
Watch it back here: www.youtube.com/live/yLqAJEX...
📢 Job Opportunity
Part-time mat leave cover opportunity for Youth Engagement professional:
www.weareupland.com/opportunitie...
Come join the brilliant Upland team 💚
Deadline: 30 April
#dumfriesandgalloway
Part-time mat leave cover opportunity for Youth Engagement professional:
www.weareupland.com/opportunitie...
Come join the brilliant Upland team 💚
Deadline: 30 April
#dumfriesandgalloway
Upland
Upland is Dumfries and Galloway's visual art and craft development organisation.
www.weareupland.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
📢 Job Opportunity
Part-time mat leave cover opportunity for Youth Engagement professional:
www.weareupland.com/opportunitie...
Come join the brilliant Upland team 💚
Deadline: 30 April
#dumfriesandgalloway
Part-time mat leave cover opportunity for Youth Engagement professional:
www.weareupland.com/opportunitie...
Come join the brilliant Upland team 💚
Deadline: 30 April
#dumfriesandgalloway
Karen Livingstone, Deputy Director of Fitzwilliam Museum speaking about her beautiful new publication Women Pioneers of the Arts & Crafts Movement (V&A) today @nationalgalleriesscot
A necessary history as 'minimal if any references' can be found for these pioneering women artists 🎨
A necessary history as 'minimal if any references' can be found for these pioneering women artists 🎨
April 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Karen Livingstone, Deputy Director of Fitzwilliam Museum speaking about her beautiful new publication Women Pioneers of the Arts & Crafts Movement (V&A) today @nationalgalleriesscot
A necessary history as 'minimal if any references' can be found for these pioneering women artists 🎨
A necessary history as 'minimal if any references' can be found for these pioneering women artists 🎨
Music is good for the soul 🎶
@thefountaineers brilliant performance celebrating transatlantic roots of bluegrass and old timey music this evening @nationalgalleriesscot
Loved their beautiful version of WB Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree ❤️💚
Detail of Niagara Falls courtesy of Frederick Church, 1867
@thefountaineers brilliant performance celebrating transatlantic roots of bluegrass and old timey music this evening @nationalgalleriesscot
Loved their beautiful version of WB Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree ❤️💚
Detail of Niagara Falls courtesy of Frederick Church, 1867
April 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Music is good for the soul 🎶
@thefountaineers brilliant performance celebrating transatlantic roots of bluegrass and old timey music this evening @nationalgalleriesscot
Loved their beautiful version of WB Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree ❤️💚
Detail of Niagara Falls courtesy of Frederick Church, 1867
@thefountaineers brilliant performance celebrating transatlantic roots of bluegrass and old timey music this evening @nationalgalleriesscot
Loved their beautiful version of WB Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree ❤️💚
Detail of Niagara Falls courtesy of Frederick Church, 1867
Sara Shackleton's residential Margaret Morris Movement course, 11-14 April in beautiful #DumfriesandGalloway
Contact for info.
Contact for info.
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sara Shackleton's residential Margaret Morris Movement course, 11-14 April in beautiful #DumfriesandGalloway
Contact for info.
Contact for info.
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Reminder to submit your proposals for the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2025: The Arts of Integrating! Our theme for next year is May Peace Prevail.
Full details: bit.ly/RIELASpring25
Deadline for applications: 28 January
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
Full details: bit.ly/RIELASpring25
Deadline for applications: 28 January
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Reminder to submit your proposals for the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2025: The Arts of Integrating! Our theme for next year is May Peace Prevail.
Full details: bit.ly/RIELASpring25
Deadline for applications: 28 January
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
Full details: bit.ly/RIELASpring25
Deadline for applications: 28 January
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgpe.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Gráinne Rice
Happy New Year to ye all xx 🐈⬛🖤
January 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy New Year to ye all xx 🐈⬛🖤
The Radical Pend, site of the Battle of Bonnybridge 1820
Invigorating winter walk followed by a pint 🍻
Invigorating winter walk followed by a pint 🍻
December 30, 2024 at 2:51 PM
The Radical Pend, site of the Battle of Bonnybridge 1820
Invigorating winter walk followed by a pint 🍻
Invigorating winter walk followed by a pint 🍻
Reposted by Dr Gráinne Rice
Did you do "Digital Humanities" as part of your undergrad or postgrad in the UK or Ireland? We're trying to see where graduates from DH end up! Please tell us your journey in the 1st ever Career Destination Survey for Students from UK/Ie DH Programmes and Trainings forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
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December 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Did you do "Digital Humanities" as part of your undergrad or postgrad in the UK or Ireland? We're trying to see where graduates from DH end up! Please tell us your journey in the 1st ever Career Destination Survey for Students from UK/Ie DH Programmes and Trainings forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
Engaging lunchtime talk today @natgalleriessco
Curator Tico Siefert telling the story of how this incredible collection of early Netherlandish drawings came to be at Chatsworth House ✍️
Curator Tico Siefert telling the story of how this incredible collection of early Netherlandish drawings came to be at Chatsworth House ✍️
November 27, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Engaging lunchtime talk today @natgalleriessco
Curator Tico Siefert telling the story of how this incredible collection of early Netherlandish drawings came to be at Chatsworth House ✍️
Curator Tico Siefert telling the story of how this incredible collection of early Netherlandish drawings came to be at Chatsworth House ✍️
Lovely conversation this evening @natgalleriessco between writer @sarasheridanwriter and @annielyden about Sara's latest novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square
Picture 1. Annie, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sara
Picture 2. Annie, Sara & Hill & Adamson's studio assistant Jessie Mann (probably) 📸
Picture 1. Annie, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sara
Picture 2. Annie, Sara & Hill & Adamson's studio assistant Jessie Mann (probably) 📸
November 14, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Lovely conversation this evening @natgalleriessco between writer @sarasheridanwriter and @annielyden about Sara's latest novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square
Picture 1. Annie, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sara
Picture 2. Annie, Sara & Hill & Adamson's studio assistant Jessie Mann (probably) 📸
Picture 1. Annie, Robert Louis Stevenson & Sara
Picture 2. Annie, Sara & Hill & Adamson's studio assistant Jessie Mann (probably) 📸
🧵 Join us for 2 great events coming up at
@NatGalleriesSco
next week:
Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond
12.45pm Tue 12 Nov. #Architects Fiona McLachlan
@EdinburghUni
& Will McLean
@UniWestminster
🎟️in-person & online: tinyurl.com/3yhdr69u
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@NatGalleriesSco
next week:
Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond
12.45pm Tue 12 Nov. #Architects Fiona McLachlan
@EdinburghUni
& Will McLean
@UniWestminster
🎟️in-person & online: tinyurl.com/3yhdr69u
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Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond (online) | National Galleries of Scotland
This is the online streamed version of the live event. Join architects Professor Fiona McLachlan (University of Edinburgh) and Dr William McLean (University of Westminster) for a conversation about a...
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November 7, 2024 at 4:00 PM
🧵 Join us for 2 great events coming up at
@NatGalleriesSco
next week:
Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond
12.45pm Tue 12 Nov. #Architects Fiona McLachlan
@EdinburghUni
& Will McLean
@UniWestminster
🎟️in-person & online: tinyurl.com/3yhdr69u
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@NatGalleriesSco
next week:
Bruce McLean | The Argyle Street Project and beyond
12.45pm Tue 12 Nov. #Architects Fiona McLachlan
@EdinburghUni
& Will McLean
@UniWestminster
🎟️in-person & online: tinyurl.com/3yhdr69u
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