Visual Arts Chris Ledger of Belfast’s Arts & Disability Forum outlines some of the recent work by artists with disabilities or deafness, and the facilities ADF provides to ensure an inclusive experience for visitors and viewers to its exhibitions and performances. Find … Chris Ledger : Arts & Disability Forum
Visual Arts Dundee Contemporary Arts celebrates the new season with an exhibition presenting fashion, art, film, photography, sculpture, jewellery and prints from Clare Stephenson, Zoe Williams and legendary Polaroid artist and stylist, Maripol. The work of Maripol has had a huge influence … Graham Domke : Spring/Summer 2015
Festivals Literature Director Nick Barley introduces this year’s festival programme, which features over 700 events for adults and children, and includes writers from over 55 countries. Particular highlights include a selection of authors from Mexico, picked by Mexican visual artist Gabriel Orozco, … Nick Barley : Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015
Visual Arts Mike Ballard’s work situated within the bathroom corridors at Lust and the Apple, seeks to challenge the audience by presenting work in an unusual space. Not really a place, yet not consigned to the ether, Ballard’s work presents the notion … Mike Ballard : The Eternal Broadcast
Festivals Children and Education Programme Director Janet Smyth, picks a selection of highlights from this year’s forthcoming Edinburgh International Book Festival. The programme features a series of interactive events, new launches from well known favourites and a key focus on the … Janet Smyth : Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015
Visual Arts As part of Summerhall’s summer exhibition programme ‘Outside-In’, artist David Faithfull presents his findings from his time spent on Inch Kenneth, a small island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull. Faithfull explored the history of the infamous … David Faithfull : Leviathan
Visual Arts Fin Ross Russell, Songze Wu, Manuel Loeffler, Nuria Boj and Maya Ross Russell introduce LIFE evolved, a travelling roadshow. This interactive experience and multi-gallery art installation promotes happiness, humanity and a world that works for everyone. It combines design, artisanal … LIFE evolved
Visual Arts Artist Elke Finkenauer exhibits two pieces as part of Lust and the Apple’s current exhibition programme, indoor piece The Perfectionist and outdoor piece Pathetic Kinetic. Finkenauer’s work explores and celebrates DIY, make do and mend and problem solving concepts. Her … Elke Finkenauer : Going Spare
Visual Arts Art collective Slavs and Tatars explore Mirrors for Princes – a medieval form of advice literature intended for future rulers, that related to good leadership on subjects such as grooming, speech, education and belief. Situated in the Collective Gallery’s City … Slavs and Tatars : Lektor
Visual Arts “Lorem Ipsum” is a new body of work about ambiguity of information and the limits of language as a tool for communication. The work considers identity and the self, whilst addressing the artist’s personal experience of dyslexia. The work challenges … Paul Moore : Lorem Ipsum
Visual Arts As part of Collective Gallery’s Satellite programme, Edinburgh based artist Thomas Aitchison explores our relationship with images, how we move and store them, and how they can be re-presented. Using himself as a filter, Aitchison trawled the internet for several … Thomas Aitchison : Drag a File Here
Visual Arts Artist Alex Hain talks about the benefit of working in a studio environment, at Selkirk Wasps Artists’ Studio’s Spring Exhibition. After being involved in a car accident, Hain decided not to return to university but to explore art instead. Since … Alex Hain : Selkirk Wasps Studios Spring Exhibition
Events A montage of interviews and clips showcasing some of the festival highlights from Summerhall, in August 2014. Home Summerhall Festival 2014 Showcase
Visual Arts Artist and curator Matthew Walmsley has pulled together a selection of contemporary art pieces to show in the grand space of the Haining. Including a new installation by himself, the work ponders on the theme of outside in, allowing artists … Matthew Walmsley : Outside In
Visual Arts ARTIST ROOMS presents a series of photographic works by influential photographer, Diane Arbus. Known for documenting subjects who were considered marginalised by society, Arbus sought to capture images that showed the subjects as they were, challenging concepts of beauty, identity … ARTIST ROOMS : Diane Arbus
Events A montage of interviews and clips showcasing some of the festival highlights from Summerhall, in August 2013. www.summerhall.co.uk Summerhall Festival 2013 Showcase
Visual Arts Fife Contemporary Art and Craft present the exhibition, Portraits +, which shows a series of works made by participating artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Leah Black, Calum Colvin, Zoe Irvine, David Mach, Lindsay Perth, and Clara Ursitti. The show presents a variety … Diana Sykes : Portraits +
Visual Arts Artist Jesse Jones has been spending time in the Black Church Print Studio creating a large scale print as part of the Prosperity Project, which is a collaboration between a large group of artists. The commission will feature in The … Jesse Jones : Prosperity Project
Visual Arts We(e) Object! is a collection of diverse and small-scale mixed media works created by UK-based contemporary artists and jewellers. Currently exhibiting at St. Margaret’s House, the exhibition features a variety of works made from all kinds of materials, such as … Eleanor Symms : We(e) Object!
Visual Arts Artist Alan Chapman discusses his current exhibition Anomalies, which presents a series of paintings exploring the use of paint and disparate forms coming together and apart. Chapman hasn’t used the classic artist’s materials of canvas or paper but opted for … Alan Chapman : Anomalies
Visual Arts Alex Allan has taken a number of his past works and combined them to create a new site specific monument at Lust and the Apple. Cement blocks sandwiched together, monolithic sculptures and a long, octagonal shaped tube provide a snapshot … Alex Allan : Pound
Visual Arts Artist Mary Morrison introduces WASPS St Mary’s Mill Spring exhibition, a collection of work by 10 of the 13 artists who currently work out of the Selkirk based studios. With a mix of media on show, the spring show is … Mary Morrison : Selkirk WASPS Studios Spring Exhibition
Visual Arts Graphic Studio Gallery, opened in 1988 in Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 and has become an essential cultural feature of the city and is Dublin’s oldest exclusive fine art print gallery. Mary Toal : Graphic Studio Gallery
Visual Arts Something a little bit special for Summerhall TV, artist and friend of Summerhall Jane Frere, talks to London-based Bahrain opposition TV station LuaLua about her art action “Protest Cat”. After the first five minutes in Arabic, the interview continues in … The Other Opinion : Relationship Between Art and Politics
Visual Arts ASCUS Art & Science’s Parallel Perspectives comprises three group shows, created from direct collaboration between artists and scientists. The exhibition explores a diverse range of scientific themes relating to neuroscience and disease, from Huntington’s disease to malaria and dementia. Parallel … Parallel Perspectives
Visual Arts Precious Debris is the result of a collaboration between jeweller and sculptress Joy Bonfield Colombara, and printmaker Hugh Lyndon Barrell, at 1 Royal Terrace. The artists worked closely to create a series of linen prints, paper prints combining mono printed … Joy Bonfield Colombara : Precious Debris
Visual Arts ASCUS Art & Science’s Parallel Perspectives comprises three group shows, created from direct collaboration between artists and scientists. The exhibition explores a diverse range of scientific themes relating to neuroscience and disease, from Huntington’s disease to malaria and dementia. Parallel … Parallel Perspectives
Visual Arts Artist Julie-Ann Simpson draws inspiration from the wintry landscape of the north to create works in her latest exhibition Illuminate, in the Small Gallery of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. These large scale paintings draw on many connotations of the sky and … Julie-Ann Simpson : Illuminate
Visual Arts Alan Robinson draws inspiration from euclidian geometry, fractal progression, natural pattern and archeological relics for his new exhibition Number, Sign and Pattern, at Gallery 17. Fused, cast and painted glass, layered surface textures and sculptures, are the techniques used to … Alan Robinson : Number, Sign and Pattern
Visual Arts Melanie Davies explores the industrial heritage of Scotland, specifically looking at ruins, and examining the contrast between these sites and the surrounding natural environment. When studying the ruins, Davies considers the echoes of human activity left behind, what remnants still … Melanie Davies : Glasgow Print Studio Featured Artist