Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, Tramway presents a selection of curated screenings of artists’ films and video from Scotland. Isla Leaver Yap has curated Trigger Tonic Compendium, a documentary piece created by Anne-Marie Copestake, which features footage from 1999 to 2004 … Isla Leaver-Yap : Trigger Tonic Compendium
Visual Arts Painter Anne Barclay introduces her exhibition, which is part of the Pittenweem Arts Festival, from her studios which she set up with a friend. Find out more at http://www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk/ Anne Barclay : Pittenweem Arts Festival 2014
Visual Arts Artist Bruce Shaw introduces his work from this year’s Pittenweem Arts Festival. Primarily working in pencil and pen, Shaw creates atmospheric pieces that draw inspiration from literature. Working up in Dundee, Shaw also frequents DCA’s print studio, making use of … Bruce Shaw : Pittenweem Arts Festival 2014
Visual Arts Painter Marian Leven has had a lifelong passion for painting landscapes, and has been hugely influenced by the Scottish coastline. Leven has worked with a variety of materials over the years including oil, acrylic and water colours on canvas. Leven … Marian Leven : Pittenweem Arts Festival 2014
Visual Arts Painter Lynn McGregor exhibits her work at this year’s Pittenweem Arts Festival. McGregor works between Scotland and Ireland, currently living on the otherwise uninhabited island of Islandmore on Strangford Lough, with writer husband Michael Faulkner. Find out more at http://www.pittenweemartsfestival.co.uk/index.php Lynn McGregor : Pittenweem Arts Festival 2014
Visual Arts Carol Campbell presents the work of her late husband, artist Steven Campbell, who was an internationally known painter. He first received international recognition when he was part of a group exhibition of other Scottish artists, in New York, in 1987. … Carol Campbell : Steven Campbell
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 … kennardphillipps : Demo Talk
Visual Arts Artists Alex Pollard, Charlie Hammond and Iain Hetherington present their group exhibition ‘Internet Curtains’, which utilises their dry and black humour to explore the complex contextual issues involved in the production of contemporary art. Part of the Generation programme which … Alex Pollard, Charlie Hammond and Iain Hetherington : Internet Curtains
Visual Arts Funch is back at Summerhall! Illustrator Ryo Tamura’s charming series of drawings detailing the relationship of married couple Ninja wife Koko and polar bear husband Paw Paw will appear in a red lunch box, just outside the Summerhall Cafe. Ryo Tamura – Return of The Legend : Funch Strikes Back
Visual Arts The Pittenweem Arts Festival takes place every year in August, and showcases a mix of established artists, residents and newcomers, who work in a range of media. Jean B Duncan, the Chair of the festival, talks about some of the … Jean B Duncan : Pittenweem Festival 2014
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 … Patrick McNeil : FAILE Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Edinburgh 2014
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 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 Artist James McLardy introduce’s Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s group show, Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken, curated by writer and curator Quinn Latimer. The starting point of the exhibition was a poem by Latimer, which set the tone for the artists to … James McLardy : Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken
Visual Arts Artist Jessica Harrison presents her new exhibition, Broken, which features a selection of ready-made ceramic sculptures, but with a dark twist. Despite their serene expressions, these female figurines hold their intestines, or a broken arm, have no eyes or have … Jessica Harrison : Broken
Visual Arts One of the commissioned artists for Talbot Rice Gallery’s Counterpoint exhibition, Ellie Harrison introduces her installation/event, After the Revolution, Who Will Clean Up The Mess? Set up in the gallery’s grand Georgian gallery space, Harrison presents four large confetti cannons … Ellie Harrison : After The Revolution, Who Will Clean Up The Mess?
Visual Arts Artist Mick Peter has completely transformed Jupiter Artland’s Steading Gallery by creating false walls, doorways and lowering the ceiling. Popcorn Plaza explores Peter’s interest in civic space, the complete transformation of a space and how that can impact on the … Mick Peter : Popcorn Plaza
Visual Arts Artist Calum Colvin introduces his new exhibition, The Magic Box, which is an archaeology of his practice from the last 25 years. The exhibition will feature image transparencies from the early 1980s, new prints created at Edinburgh Printmakers, and an … Calum Colvin : The Magic Box
Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, and the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Tessa Lynch responds to an ancient law that states if you can build a small dwelling on a piece of land and have a fire in the hearth by sundown, … Tessa Lynch : Raising
Visual Arts Thibaut Clamart introduces artist Claude Closky’s exhibition 10, 20, 30 & 40%, which is currently showing at Summerhall. The pieces on display are minimal in form, a series of framed prints of lines, dashes and numbers, and aim to address … Thibaut Clamart : Claude Closky
Visual Arts Programme Manager Laura Simpson introduces Hospitalfield Arts, a house that is dedicated to fostering creative talent and arts education through open days for the public and artist residencies. The house belonged to artist Patrick Allan Fraser, who left it in … Laura Simpson : Hospitalfield Arts Residencies
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 Mexican artist Antonio O’Connell introduces his installation piece that can be seen on the front of the Summerhall building. Like an explosion of colours and pieces, O’Connell’s work brings an element of spontaneity and disorder to an ordered and constructed … Antonio O’Connell : Virus
Visual Arts Curator Deborah Jackson introduces the Talbot Rice Gallery’s newest exhibition, Counterpoint, which brings together new commissions from 8 contemporary artists who question the social role and function of art. The works on display include full-size street lamps, confetti cannons and … Deborah Jackson : Counterpoint
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 Summerhall TV travels to Selkirk in the Scottish Borders to meet Lawrence Robertson, one of the trustees of The Haining. This Palladian Mansion House is a long-term project, which aims to become a centre for art and culture and be … Lawrence Robertson : The Haining
Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, a nationwide celebration of Scottish contemporary art from the past 25 years, artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler is exhibiting his 61 minute film The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott. … Anne Lyden : Luke Fowler
Visual Arts The Lillie Gallery plays host to a “mini retrospective” of artist Lys Hansen’s work, featuring pieces from the 80s to the present day. Hansen aims to explore the human condition and the complex inter-relationships of people, and uses an expressive … Lys Hansen : Love + War + Paint
Visual Arts Sculptor Louise Gibson introduces her new work as part of Summerhall’s group show, Large Things of Different Shapes and Colours. Currently based in Berlin, Gibson mostly works with polyester resins and found objects and materials. The work will be shown … Louise Gibson : Large Things of Different Shapes and Colours
Visual Arts Cabbages in an Orchard; The formers and forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen explores the connections and common ground between both artists’ work. Fagen was asked to research the work of Mackintosh and create new work in response … Cabbages in an Orchard; The formers and forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen
