Scotus Academy

Congratulations to the following Former Pupils who have reached milestone birthdays this month:-

60 Rodney Velzian; Michael Drake; Jacek Holdanowcz; David Doyle; John Edgar; James Anderson; Andrew Stephens;

A wonderful obituary appeared in the middle pages of Tuesday 22nd January Scotsman, extolling the life of John Bartholomew, one of three brothers who ran the acclaimed Edinburgh mapmaking company founded in 1784 by an ancestor, George Bartholomew. John was the Cartographic director, and every one of the F Ps has had to use a map from that Company over the years. All of his five sons, John Eric, Philip, Christopher, Patrick, and Ivon were at Scotus. We offer our condolences, although, on reading his obituary, he seemed to have had a very long, successful and happy life, and we are sure his sons will have been immensely proud of his achievements.

E-mail contacts have been made with Julian Lewis, in France, and David Gardner, in Oundle, East Northamptonshire.

Contact addresses have been obtained for Hugh Ronaldson, in Bo’ness, and James Gardner, in Dewsbury.

Ricky Demarco has received an honorary doctorate from Stirling University. Congratulations to him. His program of events for the current year is as below:-

Key Dates and Events in 2008
Around which the programme of
The Demarco European Art Foundation
Should be arranged

JANUARY
            Meetings with the Skateraw Foundation together with The Demarco Archive Trust
            Meeting with The Royal Scottish Academy
            Meeting with Catherine Maxwell Stuart and Mark Muller of Traquair

Meetings with John and Miriam Galt, and Mary Nasmyth to plan Association of Friends of The Demarco Archive and other fund-raising initiatives: ie. Auctions and website devoted to selling of art works and duplicate archive material and publications.
21st Meeting with Dr. Kenneth Chrystie at The Caledonian Hotel

‘Edinburgh Arts’ expedition to Poland in relation to exhibition by Alexander Hamilton and Richard Ashrowan of ‘Contact Rushes’ in Lodz.

MARCH
            ‘Edinburgh Arts’ expedition to Dusseldorf for
            2nd March – Richard Demarco’s lecture at the Musuem Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf.
            Prof. Kent Schuette, of Purdue University, in Edinburgh and New Lanark 8th
            Voyage with The Majestic Line

MAY
18th Sunday – Fund-raising luncheon in The Barn Gallery, Skateraw
19th Monday – Demarco Digital Archive goes ‘on-line’ – Dundee University

Exhibition of The Demarco Archive – Stirling University
29th Euan McArthur and Richard Demarco speak on the Demarco Digital Archive at The National Gallery of Scotland in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre

‘Edinburgh Arts’ expedition from Downside Abbey to Montecassino – homage to St. Benedict as Patron of Europe

AUGUST
Exhibition of Royal Scottish Academy and Romanian artists at The Royal Scottish Academy
Exhibition of Joanna Przybyla at Traquair

Demarco Archive exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival in relation to the international conference on the cultural identities of small nations within the European Union.

SPETEMBER
‘Edinburgh Arts’ expedition to Romania in relation to Royal Scottish Academy artists (Cocker, Scott, Visocchi and Watson) exhibition at ‘Astra’ Museum, Sibiu and Demarco Archive exhibition at National Museum of Modern Art, Bucharest

OCOTBER
Demarco Archive exhibition in Liverpool (European City of Culture)

NOVEMBER
Gerhard Richter exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

DECEMBER
Auction in support of The Demarco Foundation at Bonhams, Edinburgh

NB In May there is a possibility of a fund-raising exhibition at The Scottish Gallery and The Compass Gallery in Glasgow co-inciding with the Demarco Archive going ‘on-line’