Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Sat 20 May 2017 – Fri 14 Jul 2017 Venue: Meadows Gallery, Summerhall -}}}}}} : {{{+}}} is the title of Scottish born artist Anneli Holmstrom’s first UK solo show presented as part of Summerhall’s Curated Programme. The work on show … Anneli Holmstrom : -}}}}}} : {{{+}}}
Visual Arts Jamming from 20th till 25th May in the WhiteSpace Art Centre 76 East Crosscauseway Edinburgh Come along to Alistair Richardson’s exhibition of programmed musicians digitally conducted. A fascinating performance where the computers really are in charge. Alistair has worked as … Alistair Richardson : Welcome To The (Loving) Machine 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 Curated by Jon Blackwood This exhibition of new work by David Blyth, Derrick Guild and Alan Grieve has grown out of a long process of analysis and discussion of contemporary art in Scotland, and how it measures up against visual … Jon Blackwood : Archipelago
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts “For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem. Africa alters one’s perception of a … Alex Flett : Bird
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
Summerhall Exhibitions 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
Summerhall Exhibitions 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
Summerhall Exhibitions 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 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 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 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
Performance All the Things I Lied About Katie Bonna and Paul Jellis in association with Soho Theatre Venue: Roundabout Age Suitability: 12+ Time: 16.40 (60 mins) Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner … Katie Bonna : All the things I lied about
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
Performance With their friendship and complicity spanning almost two decades, Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi meet again to dance together. Summerhall Venue: Demonstration Room Category: Dance & Physical Age Suitability: 14+ Time: 13.30 (55 mins) From 4th to 14th August, Summerhall Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi : Happy Hour
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
Performance Theatre A ludicrous and inventive interpretation of the Brontë myth, taking the real and imaginary worlds of the Yorkshire siblings as inspiration. With only a handful of props, two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness and revenge, but … Publick Transport : We Are Bronte
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
Performance Theatre A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling, Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds. Mairi Campbell : Pulse
Festivals Summerhall’s 2016 festival programme, a feast of theatre, performance, dance, visual art and music for audiences of all ages, is on sale now via the Edinburgh Fringe box office. Verity Leigh : Edinburgh Fringe 2016
