Books Ricky Brown interviews Doug Johnstone about his crime novels, writing process and the importance of setting at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Once a nuclear physicist, Doug Johnstone is now a successful writer and freelance journalist (and blogger) based in Edinburgh. In … Doug Johnstone : The Jump
Literature Visual Arts Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Polish Contemporary Art Organisation present their first annual group exhibition ‘WAVES’, showcasing artists from Poland and of Polish descent at different stages in their practice, working in various mediums – photography, written word, painting, installation, collage and film. Waves is … Polish Contemporary Art Organisation : Waves
Visual Arts Featuring modern and contemporary masterworks from the world’s leading collections by ABRAMOVIĆ, BRANCUSI, DALÍ, DUCHAMP, ERNST, GIACOMETTI, OPPENHEIM, PICASSO, WARHOL, YOKO ONO, and many more. What We Call Love is accompanied by an exciting programme of screenings, talks, events and … Rachael Thomas : What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now
Visual Arts E.gress is a filmic artwork that maps a world of loss and change, exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to changing world. This multi-layered film, a portrait of living moments on life’s edge, invites us … Marie Brett : E.gress
Books Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. … Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men
Books Frances Hider interviews Gavin Francis about his latest book in another video from our Edinburgh International Book Festival author interview series. Edinburgh GP Gavin Francis spent over a year at a remote research station to write the Scottish Book of … Gavin Francis : Adventures in Human Being
Visual Arts This new exhibition of photographs by Eamonn Farrell at the Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar examines the public image of Charles Haughey – the most controversial politician since the foundation of the state. With his Napoleonic manner, driving ambition and … Eamonn Farrell : Charles Haughey: power, politics & public image
Community Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts The Koestler Scotland Exhibition, Selected by artist Ruth Ewan 7 – 29 November, 2015, 11:00 –18:00 183 More Sleeps is an exhibition of artwork from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children’s homes, immigration detention centres and community justice services in Scotland. … Sarah Grainger-Jones: 183 More Sleeps
Visual Arts Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has … Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion
Visual Arts An exhibition of works of art influenced by dreams and the unconscious Encompassing strands of artistic expression ranging from early twentieth century Symbolism, to late twentieth century Photo-Realism, The Language of Dreams explores aspects of Irish art often overlooked in … Crawford Art Gallery : The Language of Dreams
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ekphrasis is commonly recognized as the mechanism for producing a prosaic description of a work of art. The artists, Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond, interpret this as an interchangeable concept, making art from a vividly described written text. Cruickshank and … Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond : Ekphrasis
Ireland’s oldest film festival and Cork’s flagship cultural happening, the Cork Film Festival lights up and delights the Rebel City in November. In 2015 the Festival celebrates its 60th Edition, taking place 6-15 November. Its log line is ‘Films. Music. … James Mullighan : Cork Film Festival
Visual Arts Galway Arts Centre presents DUALITY OF FUNCTION curated by Kate Howard & Rob D’Eath, featuring the work of Piet Stockmans (BEL), Alicja Patanowska (POL/GBR) and Isobel Egan (IRL). DUALITY OF FUNCTION features the work of three artists whose practices explore … Rob D’Eath : Duality of Function
Visual Arts Will the full support of the Talbot Rice curatorial and technical team, as well as the opportunity to explore the resources of the University of Edinburgh, David Haslam has the opportunity to develop his practice into new and innovative areas. … David Haslam : Project Notes
European Local TV Visual Arts Jessica Lloyd-Jones who exhibited at Summerhall during the Science Festival last year now has a new exhibition on at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. But you don’t have to go all the way to Ireland to see it, just tune in to our video. … Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness
Visual Arts Artist Rhona Byrne’s hand-made objects, installations and collaborative, event‐based, projects explore the interactions between people and their habitat. Bolthole invites visitors to construct and reconstruct the installation to make their own environments. The spaces can be individual shelters/dens or a … Rhona Byrne : Bolthole
Visual Arts Artist Oliver Braid presents: The one where we wonder what Friends did – A sculptural installation at Hanson Street project space, Glasgow. Oliver Braid lived in Glasgow between 2008 and 2015. During and since graduating from the Master of Fine … Oliver Braid : The one where we wonder what Friends did
Visual Arts The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona … Rhona Byrne : Huddle tests
The fifth compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art in Ireland TV. ArtsIreland V
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has … Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion
Visual Arts “In the story politicians, intellectuals and artists are standing at a bus stop without realising that it is in fact, the final stop.” – Francis Fukuyama What if, as Fukuyama stated in his 1992 book, The End of History and … Lucy Elvis and Marcel Badia : Alternate Route
Visual Arts The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political … Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR
ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. This feature is a compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art … Culturefox : ArtsIreland IV
ArtsIreland is a new series of short videos made with performers, artists and authors across Ireland for the new Arts Council Ireland Culturefox TV. This feature is a compilation of arts-news clips reporting on current events from culturefox.ie and Art … Culturefox : ArtsIreland III
Books Bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen is issuing a passionate plea to parents, families and children: to look beyond the school gates to see and learn about the world afresh. From understanding politics and religion to enjoying poetry … Michael Rosen : Every Day is a School Day
Visual Arts Jessica Lloyd-Jones is a visual artist based in North Wales, with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art and MFA in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007. Merging art, science and technology, Lloyd-Jones investigates concepts of energy … Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness
Books Ricky Brown talks to Caroline Criado-Perez at the Edinburgh Book Festival about her book ‘Do it Like a Woman: … And Change the World’. Winner of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, Caroline Criado-Perez is well known … Caroline Criado-Perez : Do it Like a Woman
Community Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents This installation by the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz was produced by The Knitting Circle and Beyond Borders Scotland in response to the capture and persecution of Yazidi girls and women by ISIS/Daesh. Inspired by photographs taken by Falah Shakarm of the … Beyond Borders : A Mile in their Shoes
Visual Arts Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 … Glyn Thompson : A Lady’s Not A Gent’s
