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EDINBURGH’S FREE LOCAL NEWSPAPER...A CAPITAL READ FROM START TO FINISH
May 2026
By PHYLLIS STEPHEN
Framed by
Remfry
ARTIST DAVID REMFRY brings his lyrical artistic vision to Edinburgh, with 30 evocative paintings, including a portrait of his friend, Alan Cumming, and his first-ever tapestry, created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios on Infirmary Street. Remfry is known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers and his drawings of neighbours and friends created while living in New York. He is a Royal Academician who is adept at recording both people and place. He has long been fascinated by textiles, modelling colour and pattern in his paintings through furnishings, and the drapery and folds of fabric on the body. The exhibition at Dovecot features paintings and drawings chosen to convey the sense of dialogue implicit in the work of the tapestry studio and between the artist, subject, and space. The artist is someone who constantly observes the world around him, and connects memory with place before committing his perceptions to paint. From hotel interiors to crowded dance halls and even undefined spaces, he approaches his compositions as something to be carefully considered, framed, or even erased, giving equal weight to what surrounds the subject as to the subject itself.
PHOTO Phil Wilkinson
The works on display until 12 June span five decades of Remfry’s career, from McGilchrist Sisters, begun in 1971, to the new tapestry Chandelirium, completed in 2026.
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