Summerhall TV

Following on from a recent appearance at Pitlochry’s Winter Words Festival, journalist, broadcaster and author Lesley Riddoch, discusses her new book ‘Blossom: What Scotland Needs To Flourish’, with Nicole Brandon. Through anecdotes and conversations with Scots who have worked without …

Hanna Kerraby introduces Ignaz Cassar’s 444 Archives, a collection of 444 photographs of 444 publicly registered repositories in the Greater London area. Each photograph is stored in one of the 444 archival boxes that make up the work. Each image …

Photographer Catherine Cameron has always been passionate about photography, but it remained a hobby while she focused on her career as a clinical nurse. Taking the plunge in 2007, Cameron decided to focus on her art and exhibited in Paris. …

Produced in 1982 with the War Zone Tour Committee, War Zone was Red Star’s second documentary for CND. It follows two women cyclists linking together the CND groups around Scotland. Each group tells its story of living and campaigning alongside …

Lidia Krzynowek, Director of the Polish Cultural Festival Association, introduces the heritage festival that takes place at Summerhall. Featuring a mix of talks, events and exhibitions, the festival aims to explore the cultural link that has existed, and continues to …

Simon Crofts has been documenting Ukraine for 25 years, and presents a series of 6 picture poems in the corridors of Summerhall. His portraits reflect a number of creative people within Ukraine whose creative uncertainties may now be cast against …

Director Liz Carruthers introduce’s Shakespeare’s classic text about power and obsession, Macbeth. Translated into Gaelic, this two person performance shows the bloody and cruel path to power taken by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Liz Carruthers was born in Edinburgh and …

Matthew Zajac from Dogstar Theatre Company introduces their play Factor 9, which centres around the contamination of NHS blood leading on to thousands of haemophiliacs receiving infected blood, and many developing Hepatitus C and HIV. It is considered to be …

Lidia Krzynowek, Director of the Polish Cultural Festival Association, introduces the heritage festival that takes place at Summerhall. Featuring a mix of talks, events and exhibitions, the festival aims to explore the cultural link that has existed, and continues to …

Belgium artist Wim Delvoye’s video Sybille II is at first deceiving – an ochre, almost abstract, colour field slowly reveals a landscape of unusual features and, eventually, all too human physical processes which both attract and repel at the same …

Founding director of Deveron Arts, Claudia Zeiske, introduces the two hour performative walk, which took place at Summerhall, with artists Tim Knowles and Ania Bas, who have been undertaking both urban and rural walking in the UK and elsewhere. The tour …

Reviewer in residence, Thibaut Clamart explores the work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, as they bring their first British exhibition to Summerhall since 2003. Often uncomfortable and occasionally shocking, the work delves into the idea of the nuclear …

Iain Gale introduces the work of artist Muirhead Bone, who was Britain’s first official war artist, and was posted out to France in 1916, during the battle of the Somme. Through hundreds of exquisite drawings made on the spot and …

Artists Augustin Rebetez and Giona Bierens De Haan introduce us to their own unique world. Heart (Meteorite) brings together strange monotonous beasts, ornate stop-motion videos and rapidly assembled humanoid sculptures, depicting the tragedy and comedy of Rebetez’s bittersweet universe. This is the …

One half of artistic duo, FAILE, Patrick McNeil introduces the FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014, an exhibition featuring specially programmed video games and pinball machines. First seen at Art Basel Miami 2013, this is the first Scottish exhibition for …

Endurance is an exhibition, which helps to highlight the ongoing campaign to keep Glasgow’s Govanhill Baths open. Closed by the council in the early 2000s, the Govanhill Baths Community Trust have been working to open them back up for public …

Curator Andrew Brown introduces artist Caroline McNairn’s exhibition, Dreaming of Heroic Days, which is a body of work primarily created when she spent time living in Russia and Ukraine. Brown has been a friend of the artist since they met …

Italian artist Lavinia Raccanello takes a look at Scotland and the UK’s relationship with nuclear weapons, and discusses her time spent at the longest running peace camp at Faslane. On the closing day of the exhibition, September 7th, an open …

Artists Cat Phillipps and Peter Kennard take Summerhall TV through their installation Demo Talk, which is their response to current events such as the war in Iraq, the conflict in Gaza, and the actions of the British Government on home soil. …

Hanna Karraby introduces the work of young Palestinian photographer Mahmoud “Ezz” al Zanoon, whose exhibition ‘The People of Gaza’ is currently on in Summerhall. Ezz has exhibited in Jerusalem, Doha, London, New York and Durban, and this is his first …

Artist Tamsyn Challenger presents her exhibition Monoculture, which explores habitual performance, viral infiltration, a small farm, feminine identity and the impacts of social media; drawing parallels between historical modes of control and mass cultivation. Many pieces in the exhibition carry the colours of …

One of Iceland’s best-known contemporary artists, Birgir Andrésson’s work uses conceptual strategies to explore aspects of Icelandic culture and national identity. Raised in a home for the blind as the sighted child of blind parents, Andrésson was particularly attuned to …

Artist Gary Baseman introduces his exhibition Mythical Homeland, which delves into the real and imagined histories of generations past, interpreting the Holocaust and its lasting effects on culture and identity. Drawings, paintings, and photographs and a short film documentary entitled Mythical Creatures …

Artist Fiona Robertson introduces The Green Man Project, an ongoing project that features the third grass sculpture she has made, in the Glasgow Necropolis. The original idea was to create a pagan-like head, situated somewhere in the East End of …

Visual Artist Unit C.I.C is an artist led not for profit Community Interest Company supporting emerging artists based in Scotland, and making art more accessible to the wider community. They have just held a two day exhibition of members work, …

Hanna Kerraby introduces Ignaz Cassar’s 444 Archives, a collection of 444 photographs of 444 publicly registered repositories in the Greater London area. Each photograph is stored in one of the 444 archival boxes that make up the work. Each image …

Iain Gale introduces the work of artist Muirhead Bone, who was Britain’s first official war artist, and was posted out to France in 1916, during the battle of the Somme. Through hundreds of exquisite drawings made on the spot and …

Director of La Galerie 1940, Alan Thomson, introduces the Meadows’ newest gallery space, and its current festival exhibition, which features work from up-and-coming artists, as well as established figures such as Robbie Bushe, Giorgio Granozio and Alan McGowan. La Galerie …

Artist Tamsyn Challenger presents her exhibition Monoculture, which explores habitual performance, viral infiltration, a small farm, feminine identity and the impacts of social media; drawing parallels between historical modes of control and mass cultivation. Many pieces in the exhibition carry …

Artist Jacqueline Donachie’s new piece ‘Mary and Elizabeth’ connects history with the present day through an evanescent line of red pigment journeying through the city, and linking two sculptures situated on either side of the railway line which cuts right …