This week's object of the week is Reflections Padua by Barbara Balmer, created using oil paint on Finnish birch, c. 1995. Reflections Padua, Barbara Balmer, c.1995 In the 1960s and 70s, Barbara Balmer held a post as a design drawing tutor at Gray's School of Art. The artist came to Aberdeen with her husband, George Mackie, who led the Design Department at Gray's School of Art from the 1950s until 1980.

This week's object of the week is an untitled interactive sculpture by George Gillies. The sculpture is comprised of bicycle parts, an office chair, a stool, a corrugated iron arch and a television, all salvaged parts and materials. To fully experience the artwork, the viewer has to participate by sitting in the office chair and pushing the peddles - this will provide energy that powers the television.

Untitled, Wilma Dunbar, 1992 This weeks object of the week is a collection of paintings by Wilma Dunbar, a Scottish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1946. Untitled, Wilma Dunbar, 1993 Dunbar graduated from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, and the recieved an RSA John Kinross Travel scholarship in 1992 Untitled, Wilma Dunbar, 1992 She has exhibited widely throughout Scotland and eleven of her paintings are held in Scottish public collections - the four pictured here are all part of our collection at RGU Art and Heritage.

This week's object of the week is a collection of X-Ray focus tubes, most of them made by Cuthbert Andrews, who were the sole British maker of x-ray tubes during the 1930's. Unlike later X-ray tubes, this one has no heated filament. Instead, an electrical discharge was started in the gas inside the tube, causing electrons to be emitted. These electrons create an energy reaction the led to the release of X-rays, which then pass through the glass.

This week's object of the week is a pair of semi-abstract watercolour paintings, created c.1980 by Gordon Bryce RSA. They are titled 'Riverbed' and 'Edge of the Wood, Easter Ord'. Riverbed, Gordon Bryce, C. 1980 "Gordon Bryce RSA exhibits regularly across the United Kingdom, his work focusing on still life and landscape subjects, the latter typically of Aberdeenshire and the west coast of Scotland.