Since 1981, the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) John Kinross Scholarship has afforded 10 students of art and/or architecture the chance to live and create in Florence for 3 months.
A few years later, an Academician’s bright spark saw works created during these Italian sojourns added (mandatorily) to a collection held by the RSA. Said hoard has swelled over the years until achieving national significance – who said you can’t have too much of a good thing?
An eye-catching, thought-provoking, and well-executed piece of street-art has appeared at the Tesco end of the Rodney Street tunnel. For the full effect, see the foot of this page.
The work, by Mark Tremaine Agbi ‘Okata’, was commissioned by Sustrans UK to mark Black History Month. It is one of eight pieces across the country’s National Cycle Network, created to highlight Scotland’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It’s an admirable initiative, which we applaud.
The proposal to repurpose the old Royal High School on Regent Road as a new performance venue and home for St Mary’s Music School has taken a major step forward.<
Police Scotland issued a press release yesterday, which we reproduce below unedited and in full.
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Detectives in Edinburgh are appealing for information following the attempted robbery of a man and woman in the Claremont area of the city.
The incident took place around 10.50pm on Tuesday 28th September, within a property at Claremont Court.
As you read this, advance copies of the October Spurtle are already dispersing across the barony like dropped PPE masks on an easterly breeze.
Page 1 contains a refusal, an appeal, a crisis, and ‘an absolute disgrace’.
Page 2 takes a deep breath and calmly outlines a delay, a declutter, a bit more detail, and a desire for improved fresh air. Plus Enlightenment, a toucan, Walnut Whips, and an occult reference to an unusual body part most human beings don’t like to talk about.
Spurtle has received a report that on Saturday afternoon, a group of moto-cross bikers harassed participants in a peaceful Critical Mass cycle protest in the city centre.
Police Scotland today issued a press release. We publish it below unedited and in full.
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Detectives in Edinburgh are appealing for information following the attempted robbery of a woman in the Broughton Road area of the city.
The incident took place around 8.45pm on Thursday, 23 September, on a walkway commonly referred to as the Warriston Path, near to the opening at Boat Green.
The victim, a 33-year-old woman, was approached and threatened by a man, before she ran to the nearby Tesco. It is believed the man left in the opposite direction.
The sight of workers swinging from the tower of Broughton St Mary’s is enough to make anyone queasy.
Imagine how much worse you’d feel if you were responsible for the cost of repairs and someone told you it would be £80,000 more than you’d originally budgeted for.
That’s the alarming position now facing those responsible for the familiar and much-loved 200-year-old structure at the centre of Spurtleshire.