Fri­day 1st June is the big open­ing night for our main exhi­bi­tions at 3 Har­bours — with spe­cial events planned at Cocken­zie House, the Seashore Gallery and the Power Station.

There are details on each on our ‘day by day’ page — but we thought we’d give you a taster by telling you a bit about a fam­ily gath­er­ing we’re play­ing host to…

3 Gen­er­a­tions of Colvins.

This will be the first time that Elma Colvin, Professor Calum Colvin RSA and Danny Colvin Cook have exhib­ited together.

Born in Glas­gow in 1961, Calum Colvin is Pro­fes­sor of Fine Art Pho­tog­ra­phy at Dundee Uni­ver­sity. Colvin’s art­works are inter­na­tion­ally renowned and
widely exhib­ited. His work is held in numer­ous col­lec­tions includ­ing the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Mod­ern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Vic­to­ria and Albert Museum, Lon­don and the Scot­tish National Por­trait Gallery, Edinburgh.

Elma’s pas­sion is tex­tile art and in recent years she has ‘explored a broad range of sub­ject mat­ters and tech­niques includ­ing Pictish/Celtic themes, mytho­log­i­cal illus­tra­tion and ani­mal stud­ies. I have devel­oped a dis­tinc­tive style that includes a blend of dyed and painted silks, machine embroi­dery and appliqué mainly, but not exclu­sively, in large wall hangings.’

Danny is the grand­son of Elma and was one of those selected for the RSA Young Con­tem­po­raries Exhibition.

The open­ing of the power sta­tion also mark’s the start of Damian Callan’s giant char­coal draw­ing and a live per­for­mance by the The Cast­aways. 17:30 — 19:00