Landmarks: Borders Voices Exhibition at Hawick Museum

This new exhibition is a celebration in paintings and poems of three great cultural figures from the Scottish Borders – the poet and writer Hugh MacDiarmid, the composer Francis George Scott and the artist William Johnstone.

All three were associated with the Scottish Renaissance in poetry, music and painting in the early twentieth century.  The Scottish Borders were a deep source of inspiration for them.  Through portraits by the renowned Scottish artist Alexander Moffat, OBE, RSA, landscapes by Ruth Nicol, RSW and poems by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, this exhibition explores their ‘favoured places’ – MacDiarmid’s Langholm and Brownsbank Cottage near Biggar, Scott’s native Hawick and Denholm-born Johnstone’s Selkirkshire farmland.

Paintings from the Scottish Borders Council Permanent Art Collection are also on show – two portraits of Francis George Scott (one by William Johnstone) and another painting by Johnstone titled ‘Ploughed Field’.

This is a wonderful opportunity to see work by three of Scotland’s foremost contemporary artists as they celebrate three important and influential creative figures from the past.

Live Borders have an exciting range of exhibitions and live events in 2025, to find out CLICK HERE. 

 

Landmarks: Border Voices

Scott Gallery, Hawick Museum Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick, TD9 7JL
Saturday 1 March – Monday 23 June 2025

March: Fri-Mon 11:00-15:00 (closed Tue-Thu)
April & May: Wed-Mon 11:00-16:00 (closed Tue)

Tel: 01450 364747     Email: museums@liveborders1.org.uk

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