{"id":70159,"date":"2025-08-16T01:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70159\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:31:29","slug":"gourock-exhibition-showcases-palestinian-artists-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70159\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourock exhibition showcases Palestinian artists&#8217; work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Gaza Remains The Story features artworks, photographs and information panels, all from the Palestine Museum in Birzeit, West Bank.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The display in Medinelli&#8217;s pop-up shop in Kempock Street was opened on Tuesday night by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/politics\/westminster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Westminster<\/a> MP Dr Philippa Whitford, who has strong links to Gaza and the West Bank through her work as a breast cancer surgeon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: George Munro) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: George Munro) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: George Munro) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: George Munro) <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>(Image: George Munro)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mary McGlashan, from the Group for Gaza, said: &#8220;There&#8217;s been a steady stream of visitors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We have a visitors book and people are coming from all over. People are coming in off the street to have a look, we&#8217;re delighted by the response.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The images were printed locally with a team of volunteers framing and mounting the exhibits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mary said it is the first time the exhibition has been held in Scotland and other areas are keen to follow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a few inquiries from different places to take the exhibition to different parts of the country, we had inquiries from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/local-news\/paisley-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paisley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> and Kirkcudbright.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We hoped that this would happen, that it would go on tour around the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are displaying work from around 30 different artists. It&#8217;s a great platform, especially for artists who are still in the West Bank, it&#8217;s about getting their art out there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are the first place in Scotland to do this, we applied to the Palestinian Museum to ask if this could be done.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It has been a long process, it was printed locally and it was framed then mounted by a team of volunteers on Sunday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As well as artwork there is also a sale of West Bank pottery from Olive Tree Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exhibition runs every day between 10am and 5pm until Sunday (August 17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gaza Remains The Story features artworks, photographs and information panels, all from the Palestine Museum in Birzeit, West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-70159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}