Visual Arts _ Venue: War Memorial Library, Summerhall Two Scots and an Icelander exhibit together, inspired by the wilderness landscapes of the North. SANDI ANDERSON focuses on the light and momentary glimpses. THORUNN BARA takes the bio-colonisation of the island of Surtsey … Mary Walters – Light, Land, Latitude 2017
Visual Arts 14 April – 6 May 2017 Talbot Rice Gallery Based on a story that a live female puma once roamed Talbot Rice’s Georgian Gallery in 1827, Glasgow-based artist Michael Barr recently undertook his own ‘residency’ in the university’s Old College … Michael Barr : Hostipitalidade
Visual Arts The Solstice Lectures run each Summer in late June in Sanquhar’s Town Hall. Featuring a panel of international scientists with an interest in the scale, origins and nature of the universe, this year’s panel is being coordinated by exhibition curator … Charles Jencks : The 2017 Solstice Lectures, Town Hall, Sanquhar
Visual Arts The architects/artists Charles Jencks and Daniel Libeskind will be exhibiting COSMIC COLLISIONS with the cosmologists Carlos Frenk and Noam Libeskind at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar from June 23rd till September 7th. Carlos Frenk is organising this year’s Solstice Lectures at Sanquhar … Charles Jencks & Daniel Libeskind : Cosmic Collisions at The Ogden Centre, University of Durham
Visual Arts In the last two decades there has been a breakdown of the traditional distinction between a subject and an object, with an increasing focus on the ‘thing’ as a mediator in both human and non-human relationships. In this ambitious exhibition … Kate V Robertson : Object(hood)
Visual Arts New Acquisitions from the University of Edinburgh Art Collection David Batchelor, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ilana Halperin, Jessica Harrison, Fabienne Hess, Daniel Hughes, Daisy Lafarge, Jonathan Owen, Katie Paterson, Isobel Turley, Luc Tuymans, JL Williams Including three tattooed Doulton figurines, a … Stuart Fallon : Between poles and tides
Visual Arts Inverleith House is currently closed to the public. PLEASE ENSURE IT RE-OPENS TO SHOW GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART !!! Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for Sir James Rocheid (1715-1787) as his family home and centre … Paul Nesbitt : 30 years of exhibitions at Inverleith House
Visual Arts As Asylum seekers are increasingly under threat we show this from Art in Ireland TV. Garter Lane Arts Centre is delighted to present Asylum Archive, an exhibition of photography, artefacts and found objects created by visual artist and researcher Vukasin … Vukasin Nedeljković : Asylum Archive
Visual Arts The Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh 3 – 27 December 2016 Visual Arts Scotland held their annual exhibition, FLY, launching on Saturday 3 December in the stunning upper galleries of the The Royal Scottish Academy Building on the … Craft Scotland in partnership with Visual Arts Scotland : Fly 2016
Visual Arts We have created a Reading Room between the season’s exhibitions, as a space to sit and read, think or respond to some of the different ways that we portray and remember war. As well as books, games and material to … Emma Lucy O’Brien : The Reading Room
Visual Arts Tim Hetherington was a photojournalist, filmmaker, human rights advocate and artist, best known for his coverage of conflict in areas including Liberia, Afghanistan and Libya where he was killed in a mortar attack in April 2011. ‘Diary’, made in collaboration … Ann Mulrooney : Diary
Visual Arts Reflecting on events, memories and the traces of evidence left to us from times past, O’Donoghue uses his family history to connect with and understand the wars that have shaped our histories; and reflects on the personal experiences of his … Emma Lucy O’Brien : Red Earth
Visual Arts ‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’ image. The notion of what is beautiful changes with time, and … John Sumpter : Ideas of Beauty
Visual Arts Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall Coup de Théâtre – a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture. It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory experiences. Featuring new work from Hans K Clausen, Clare … Kjersti Sletteland : Coup de Theatre
Visual Arts This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape – an alchemy of colour … Alexander Mackenzie : Invisible
Visual Arts Fine Roots Gallery at the Forest Café present a group show by Edinburgh-based emerging artists. The exhibition shows new work by all eight artists, including painting, sculpture, moving image and performance that form part of the wider practice of the … Matthew Poland : Meaningful Objects
Visual Arts Working in partnership with St. Columba’s Hospice, Edinburgh Printmakers’ member artists will work closely with staff, families and patients at the facility to explore how we find meaning in our own personal experiences, the love of family and friends, freedom … Kate Smith : Time is All Around
Visual Arts Two years in the making, CEIBA – Casa de Todos los Muertos is the result of photographer- artist Ross Fraser McLean’s research trips into Mexican culture, specifically exploring Mexico’s relationship with death and dying. Unlike most other parts of the … Ross Fraser Mclean : Ceiba – Casa de Todos los Muertos
Visual Arts 29 October – 17 December 2016 Talbot Rice, Edinburgh Envisioned as an experiential project, acts of dis play aims to undo many aspects of the way our sensible environment is distributed, unsettling the convention of the ‘explanation’ to foster an … Rob Kennedy : acts of dis play
Visual Arts Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 29 October – 17 December 2016 Parc du Souvenir comprises a new body of work by this Cork based artist that attempts to give form to both an interrelated and seemingly incongruous nebula of ideas and … Stephen Brandes : Parc du Souvenir
Visual Arts For the first time in over a decade, the University of Edinburgh’s founding art collection has been brought back together to be exhibited in the Georgian interior of Gallery 2. The Torrie Collection takes its name from Sir James Erskine, … Neil Lebeter and Genevieve Warwick : Torrie Collection
Visual Arts 4 August – 31st October Lower Church Gallery, Summerhall A profile of the exhibition as realised at Summerhall researched and presented by Devin Karambelas. This APG exhibition was curated by Naomi Hennig and Ulrike Jordan in dialogue with Barbara Steveni. … Devin Karambelas : Context is Half the Work. A Partial History of the APG
Visual Arts Inverleith House was designed in 1773 by David Henderson and built for Sir James Rocheid (1715-1787) as his family home and centre piece of his estate in 1774 at a total cost of £4,109. Around 1820 a part of the … Paul Nesbitt : 30 years of exhibitions at Inverleith House
Visual Arts In 2017 the A-listed City Observatory complex on Calton Hill will open freely to the public for the first time in its history. In partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, Collective will save the site, which is on the … Kate Gray : Collective Gallery Vision
Visual Arts Exhibiting artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel talk about the new work in their exhibition, and the themes that inspire their wider artistic practice. This launch reception celebrates Donovan & Siegel’s ambitious, organic and highly visible new artwork Rust Garden, … Hallie Siegel : The Rust Garden
Visual Arts 29 July – 22 October 2016 Location: Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR, Scotland, UK A UK premiere exhibition of new commissions and existing artwork by Toronto artists Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, that explores the enduring legacy … Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel : History Machines
Visual Arts Founded in 2004, Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art. We bring together the capital’s leading galleries, museums and artist-run spaces, alongside new public art commissions by established and emerging artists and an innovative programme … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Fest 2016
Visual Arts The Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel’s life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late paintings. Emphasising the psychological perception that would allow Neel (1900-1984) to produce some of the … Pat Fisher : Alice Neel, The Subject and Me
Visual Arts Eclectrc Panoptic teases back layers of cognition, reflecting New Zealand born artist Johnson’s interest in science fiction, alternative universes and the slippery nature of perception and reality. Comprised of a suite of drawings, tessellating patterns and virtual reality technology, the … Jess Johnson and Simon Ward : Eclectrc Panoptic
Visual Arts A’ the Airts, the Crawick Multiverse and MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar recently hosted a conversation between Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks as part of the MERZ exhibition ‘Landscape of the Waves’, featuring the work of Alex Rigg and Charles Jencks … Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks : Astrophysicist & Astronaut, Artist & Architect
