Visual Arts 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 … Ignaz Cassar : 444 Archives
Visual Arts 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. … Catherine Cameron : A Private Room
Visual Arts 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 … Simon Crofts : In The Land of Endless Expectations
Visual Arts 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 … Lidia Krzynowek : Polish Scottish Heritage Festival
Visual Arts 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 … Wim Delvoye : Sybille II
Visual Arts 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 … Claudia Zeiske : Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl
Visual Arts 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 … Thibaut Clamart : Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge
Visual Arts 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 … Muirhead Bone : Western Front
Visual Arts 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 … Augustin Rebetez and Giona Bierens De Haan : Heart (Meteorite)
Visual Arts 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 … Patrick McNeil : FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014
Visual Arts 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 … Olivia Guertler : Endurance Exhibition
Visual Arts 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 … Andrew Brown : Dreaming of Heroic Days
Visual Arts 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 … Lavinia Raccanello : Not Protest, but Active Resistance
Visual Arts 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. … kennardphillipps : Demo Talk
Visual Arts 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 … Ezz : The People of Gaza
Visual Arts 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 … Tamsyn Challenger : Monoculture
Visual Arts 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 … Birgir Andrésson : The Northernmost North
Visual Arts 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 … Gary Baseman : Mythical Homeland
Visual Arts 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 … Fiona Robertson : The Green Man Project
Visual Arts 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, … David McDiarmid and Emma Rogers : VAU Members Show
Visual Arts 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 … Ignaz Cassar : 444 Archives
Visual Arts 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 … Muirhead Bone : Western Front
Visual Arts 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 … Alan Thomson and Jenny Mason : La Galerie 1940
Visual Arts 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 … Tamsyn Challenger : Monoculture
Visual Arts 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 … Jacqueline Donachie : Mary and Elizabeth
Visual Arts Artist Susan Hiller presents new work at this year’s Visual Arts programme at Summerhall. Hiller’s new video combines sound frequencies and visual patterns translated from radio waves emitted by the Big Bang with a series of eye-witness accounts of extra- … Susan Hiller : Re-Sounding
Visual Arts Creative Director of Kalopsia Collective, Nina Falk, introduces the gallery’s newest exhibition, Contextiles-isation, which aims to challenge the way people perceive textiles, and showcase how diverse the medium can be. Contextiles-isation is on at Kalopsia Gallery, Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh, until … Nina Falk : Contextiles-isation
Visual Arts Richard Ingleby, Director of Ingleby Gallery, introduces the work of Katie Paterson, who is currently exhibiting her work ‘Ideas’. This is Paterson’s first solo exhibition in Scotland, featuring a series of recent and new works which represent her interest and … Richard Ingleby : Katie Paterson – Ideas
Visual Arts To mark the 50th birthday of the Forth Road Bridge, renowned Scottish landscape artist, Kate Downie has been appointed as Artist in Residence by the Forth Estuary Transport Authority. Featuring a mix of large-scale charcoal drawings, chinese ink paintings and … Kate Downie : Zero to Fifty – The Road Bridge Diaries
Visual Arts The Art Shed aims to present new work from emerging artists to a wider audience as part of Edinburgh’s Just Festival. Situated by St John’s Church, at the West End of Princes Street, artists can make work to show in … Carrie Gooch : The Art Shed