Summerhall Exhibitions Retired engineer John Sumpter has spent the last ten years learning about art. This exhibition for just one weekend in the Memorial Library at Summerhall celebrates John’s 70th birthday as well as his first ten years as an artist. John Sumpter : 70th Birthday Retrospective
Summerhall Exhibitions 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
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Till 9 March 2016 11:00-18:0 Venue: Laboratory Gallery, Summerhall Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini and visual artist Richard Taylor work together for the first time, transforming the glass cabinets in Summerhall’s Laboratory Gallery into living archives to explore memory, intimacy and exposure. … Riccardo Buscarini and Richard Taylor : In Parting Glass
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts WHO RUN THE WORLD The candy pink beat that permeates a number of Liz Waterston’s text based video works hypnotically pulse out fluoro lights reminiscent of the flickering neon that underpins midnight strolls through dark places: karaoke evenings where we … Alan Holligan : Liz Waterston, Edinburgh College Residency Artist 2015
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
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
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
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
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
Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sarah Dawson introduced this year’s Africa in Motion season of films showing in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The opening night birthday party is on the 23rd October at Summerhall and the season continues till the end of October with a screening … Sarah Dawson : Africa in Motion, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake
Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents 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
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Introduced by Dorian Branea, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and forming part of Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh Festival 2015. Featuring some of the most internationally recognizable Romanian artists, directors, writers and musicians in tandem with … Dorian Branea : Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh 2015
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Inspired by visits to les Rencontres d’Arles and charged with furthering photography’s role within contemporary artistic practice, The Photographer’s Collective was established in 2011 to promote and nurture the talent of photographers working in Edinburgh and further afield. The Collective’s … Albie Clark : The Photographer’s Collective 13 – 25 October, 2015
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts A unique and powerful multi-media exhibition featuring work by artists, both professional and amateur, with experience of mental health issues. Works include projection, sculpture, painting and photography. Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, this exhibition aims … Scottish Mental Health Festival: Out of Sight/Out of Mind
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts “I want to understand the concept of dionysian in a more up-to-date way, more scientifically, more psychologically. what is the dionysian phenomenon, this instinctual upsurge, this growing importance of intoxicating orgiastic sensual feelings, this onslaught of the unconscious, of unconscious … Hermann Nitsch : Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Long fascinated by Albrecht Durer’s ‘Young Hare’ (1502), a painting unquestionably viewed as an icon of naturalistic painting, Derrick Guild decided to make a series of paintings in the same composition but observed from different angles. He required a subject, … Derrick Guild : After A.D
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
