Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Free entry
The Academicians’ Gallery is pleased to present Landscape Plotted and Pieced, the first posthumous exhibition of sculpture, collages and prints by Frank Pottinger RSA (1932 - 2022).
Interested in themes of nature, landscape, music and poetry, Frank Pottinger was well-known for his large-scale sculptural work but latterly turned his focus to the more manageable scale of printmaking and ceramics. Pottinger described his work as ‘vernacular’ in nature in its relation to landscape, archaeology and spoken language. He often intended to draw out the parallels between these elements through the ‘subtle affinities of form’: undulating lines carved in wood or clay speaking of both the rhythms of poetry and folk song and the peaks and troughs of hills.
Born in Edinburgh in 1932, Francis Vernon Hunter Pottinger began his career as an apprentice with an engineering firm. After his National Service, he took evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art, building up a portfolio in order to apply for the full-time course. He graduated with a Diploma in Sculpture in 1963 and went onto teach in Edinburgh and Fife. In 1973 he took up a position as Lecturer in Art at Aberdeen College of Education, and returned to Edinburgh in 1985 to continue his work as an artist.
