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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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 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 “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
Visual Arts MART is an arts organisation that provides studios, galleries and event spaces to foster and promote artistic endeavours. MART creates opportunities for artists through local and international exhibitions, creative workspaces and professional development workshops, while promoting the arts through public … Ciara Scanlan : MART
Visual Arts Summerhall TV talks to the artists at DOK Artist Space an exciting new visual arts studio and exhibition space in Edinburgh. DOK Artist Space is an Artist run organisation in Edinburgh that is founded by three Edinburgh College of Art … DOK Artist Space : The Tin Shed
Visual Arts This exhibition at Draiocht presents outcomes from Guinan’s current investigation into materiality. The painted forms are created using pva and various other types of paint, like gloss, metal paint, emulsions, industrial grade paints and oil paint. Layers of paint are … Marc Guinan : What is painting …?
Visual Arts Three contemporary artists talk about their new and recent works shown at the ‘Abstraction from Architecture’ Exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery. Abstraction from Architecture features work by artists who display an interest in architectural structures, surfaces, materials and forms. … Edinburgh Printmakers: Abstraction from Architecture
Visual Arts IRL: In Real Life This exhibition brings together 7 internationally based artists. Through their work, they investigate the transmutation of art which takes the internet as its source, to the materialisation of work in real life. With the proliferation of … Emily O’Flynn : IRL In Real Life
Visual Arts On the approach of the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising and the subsequent establishment of the new Republic, IMMA is pleased to announce the exhibition, El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State. This exhibition reflects on the artistic and cultural … Rachael Gilbourne : El Lissitzky
Artiscience Artiscience, n., 1. the theory and practice of integrating art(s) and science(s), 2. knowledge of relations between the arts and sciences Hence, artiscient, adj., exhibiting or practicing artiscience Explore the Artiscience Library at Summerhall. The library, collated by Colin Sanderson, … Colin Sanderson : Artiscience
Visual Arts In her exhibition at Leitrim Sculpture Centre Anna Macleod uses a variety of methods, strategies and processes to mediate complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical and cultural readings of land use and resources. As a ‘citizen artist’ Anna generates a … Anna Macleod : Staid na Talún – A State of Land
