Editing Kirkcudbright (section)

==Art==
Kirkcudbright has for long been a centre for visual artists and is now known as "the Artists' Town".<ref name=artist>[http://www.kirkcudbright.co.uk/ Artists' Town official website]. Kirkcudbright. Retrieved 22 June 2011.</ref> The main routes into the town include brown tourist signs saying "Artists' Town".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/welcome-to-kirkcudbright-please-drive-carefully-artists-town-sign-image406523024.html|title=Welcome to Kirkcudbright, please drive carefully, Artists' Town sign|publisher=Alamy|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>

Kirkcudbright is home to an artists' collective which has a shop in the town centre, The PA, Professional Artists Collective.<ref name="PA">{{cite web |title=The PA Pop-up |url=http://papop-up.co.uk/ |website=PA Pop-up |access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref> [[Wasps Studios]] (Workshop & Artists Studio Provision Scotland) occupy two linked townhouses, Canonwalls and Claverhouse, in the High Street.<ref name="Waspss">{{cite web |title=WASPS Studios |url=https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/ |website=WASPS Studios |access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref> It is also a centre in which many artists open their studios during [[Spring Fling Open Studios]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spring-fling.co.uk/|title=Welcome|publisher=Spring Fling| access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>

The Kirkcudbright Arts & Crafts Trail takes place every summer. This four-day event, finishing on the first Monday in August, allows visitors to see artists' studios and visit places that are normally off-limits to visitors.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artandcraftstrail.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617051606/http://www.artandcraftstrail.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 June 2016|title=Taking part|publisher= Kirkcudbright Arts & Crafts Trail|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>

===Galleries===
Galleries in Kirkcudbright include Kirkcudbright Galleries, in the former Town Hall on St Mary Street,<ref>{{cite web |title=Kirkcudbright Galleries |url=https://www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk |publisher=Kirkcudbright Galleries |access-date=16 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Tora |title=Sixty artists and makers from across Scotland help to launch new gallery in Kirkcudbright |url=https://www.creativeboom.com/news/sixty-artists-and-makers-from-across-scotland-help-to-launch-new-gallery-in-kirkcudbright/ |website=Creative Boom | date=8 June 2018 |access-date=16 April 2025}}</ref> and the Harbour Cottage Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.harbourcottagegallery.org.uk/history/|title=History – Harbour Cottage Gallery|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-28}}</ref>

===Cinema and literature===
[[File:Kirkcudbright Harbour.jpg|thumb|Kirkcudbright Harbour]]
[[File:In Memory Of Loved Ones Lost At Sea - Kirkudbright.jpg|thumb|upright|1994 wooden sculpture ''In Memory of Loved Ones Lost at Sea'' by Charlie Easterfield in Kirkcudbright harbour]]

The 1907 novel Little Esson by [[S. R. Crockett]] is a romantic mystery involving the artistic community of Kirkcudbright.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Donaldson|first=Islay Murray|title=The Life and Work of S. R. Crockett|publisher=Ayton Publishing|year=2016|isbn=9781910601143|pages=299, 344}}</ref> The title character Archibald Esson is a fictionalised version of [[William Stewart MacGeorge]], Crockett's boyhood friend. 
The later [[whodunit]] ''[[Five Red Herrings]]'' by [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] also involves the artistic community of Kirkcudbright.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072502/|title=Five Red Herrings|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> In 1975, the book was made into a BBC TV drama series shot in the town, with [[Ian Carmichael]] playing the lead role of [[Lord Peter Wimsey]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=IMDb|title=Five Red Herrings (TV Mini-Series 1975)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072502/}}</ref>

The town also provided locations for the cult 1973 horror film ''[[The Wicker Man]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Where was 'The Wicker Man' filmed?|url=http://www.british-film-locations.com/The-Wicker-Man-1973|website=British Film Locations|access-date=5 June 2017|archive-date=19 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319225910/http://www.british-film-locations.com/The-Wicker-Man-1973|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Robert Urquhart (actor)|Robert Urquhart]] starred in a 1980 BBC adaptation of [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]]'s ''[[An Enemy of the People]]'', shot on location in Kirkcudbright.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19770428/094/0012|title=The BBC's plans to strengthen drama made in Scotland|newspaper=The Stage|date=28 April 1977|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>

===Music===
[[Matt McGinn (Scottish songwriter)|Matt McGinn]] wrote and recorded "The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede" which has also been covered by other singers including [[Alastair McDonald (musician)|Alistair McDonald]] on disc and on his BBC Scotland show ''Songs of Scotland'', which included a segment filmed on location at the town's Johnston Primary School where McDonald led the children in a dance sequence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/422|title=Scotslanguage.com - The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede|website=www.scotslanguage.com|language=en|access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a6bce62871ab4fe6a4d269e5dccc65f6|title=The Sounds of Scotland|date=1976-08-12|work=The Radio Times|access-date=2019-09-06|issue=2753|pages=14|language=en-GB|issn=0033-8060}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14536296.the-wee-kirkcudbright-centipede-tv-fame-and-andy-stewart-breakfast-with-alastair-mcdonald/|title=The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, TV fame and Andy Stewart: breakfast with Alastair McDonald|website=HeraldScotland|date=4 June 2016 |language=en|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>