Visual Arts The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Visual Arts Artist Lauren Gault introduces a series of sculptures set within the grounds of Jupiter Artland as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Fusing her sculptural work with her interest in the resonance of ordinary materials, Gault has created a … Lauren Gault : Lipstick-NASA
Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
Visual Arts Artist Phyllida Barlow turns the Fruitmarket Gallery spaces upside down with a new series of large and dominant sculptures in her exhibition, Set, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Responding to the spaces, Barlow’s monumental pieces sit, stacked, … Phyllida Barlow: Set
Visual Arts Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during … Tina Darb and Marc O’Sullivan : Sean Scully
Visual Arts David Bailey’s ‘Stardust’ at the Scottish National Gallery is the first major showing of Bailey’s work in Edinburgh since the Dean Gallery’s ‘Birth of the Cool’ in 2001. The current exhibition illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects that Bailey has … David Bailey : Stardust & Birth of the Cool
Visual Arts The exhibition LUX SHIFTER features local, Edinburgh based artists such as Evan Thomas, Keith Guy, Scarlett Platel and Susanne Ramsenthaller. ACTINIC is also showing work from further afield, presenting an array of international artists, including USA-based Christian Arrecis and Clint … Scarlett Platel : LUX SHIFTER
Visual Arts Generator Projects committee member Alison Scott, presents the gallery’s newest exhibition, Hold, Sway. Featuring the work of Scott Brotherton, Carla Scott Fullerton, Rosemary Hogarth, Hannah Lees and Laura McGlinchey, the exhibition explores the liminal space between sculpture and painting, and … Alison Scott : Hold, Sway
Visual Arts Brittonie Fletcher presents LUX SHIFTER, a new exhibition as part of the ACTINIC alternative photography festival. The ACTINIC Festival is a new series of exhibitions and events featuring Scottish and international artists at the intersection of analogue photographic media and … Brittonie Fletcher : LUX SHIFTER
Too Soon, Too Late features the work of four artists, the first occupants of Mart’s new Project Space. The artists, Jason Dunne, Paul Hallahan, Jennifer Kidd and Sarah Wilson were paired with curator, Jonathan Carroll. The artists were given the … MART : Project Space
Dorine Aguerre, Isobel Lutz-Smith & Marija Nemcenko present Home Away From Home, an exhibition looking at the ‘otherness’ that is often present in quite ordinary spaces. Located in an underground shop, the exhibition aims to peel back the layers of … Home Away From Home
Cold on the outside examines the importance of dialogue among artists surrounding contemporary painting today. It focuses upon the work of five painters that has evolved through such discussions after spending an intense period together in rural Norway. Cold on … Rachael Rebus : Cold on the outside
Artist Lauren McGhee introduces Below, the other things we can talk about, at this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. A small blacked-out basement holds an immersive installation of video and objects choreographed by light. Light projection functions as a … Lauren McGhee : Below, the other things we can talk about
This house has been far out at sea is a group exhibition exploring language and the act of story telling. Artists and writers look at the process of story telling and its participatory values. This house has been far out … Joanna Monks : This house has been far out at sea
Visual Arts Curator Gavin Wade walks-through the opening of the exhibition Display Show. The artists maintain that “Art is not exhibited, art exhibits”. Display Show initiates a set of artworks embedded with, and reliant upon, explicit conditions of display as a combination … Gavin Wade : Display Show
Artists Collette Rayner and Robyn Benson present new work in their exhibition Structural Proposition ≥ Sensible Reasoning, which explores the transition between the proposition, representation and the actual. The work looks at the act of model making, ownership and craftsmanship, … Robyn Benson : Structural Proposition ≥ Sensible Reasoning
Artists Emily Shepherd and Ellie Harrison explore our relationship with money whilst eating food made to look like money. Based on the ethos of Death Cafe, a reproducible event on the subject of death in a cafe environment, MONEY M€AL … Emily Shepherd and Ellie Harrison : MONEY M€AL
Artists Callum Monteith and Alex Rathbone chose their favourite bar as the setting for their exhibition State of Mind/Hot Box, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. State of Mind/Hot Box was part of the Glasgow Open … Callum Monteith : State of Mind/Hot Box
Artists Daniele Sambo and Hannah Brackston introduce their exhibition Yard, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. This exhibition will take the form of a structural installation occupying and re-imagining a front garden of one of the … Daniele Sambo and Hannah Brackston : Yard
July’s twelve minute arts-news compilation for NvTv in Belfast and Cork Community Television. Culturefox : ArtsIreland
Visual Arts Through our work with Irish arts organisations and Culturefox, we have a special arts clip featuring the work of Scottish artist, Karla Black, at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art. Karla Black is regarded as one of the pioneering contemporary … Karen Sweeney : Karla Black at IMMA
Visual Arts The Old Croghan Man is one of a number of 2,000 year old ‘bog bodies’ unearthed from Irish wetlands in recent years. His remains, which comprise only the upper torso and arms, have been extensively analysed through a variety of … Sam Keogh : Four Fold
Visual Arts Birthe Jørgensen’s exhibition Riotous Exuberant Green and the Dutiful Beating of One’s Heart has come out of a recent residency at the Danish Institute in Athens, exploring the work and archive of surrealist Nicolas Calas, who was based in Athens … Birthe Jørgensen
Visual Arts This exhibition borrows its title from Philosopher Walter Benjamin’s comparison of the work of translation to re-assembling fragments of a broken vase – the individual fragments must come together, but need not be like each other. This could also be … Marguerite O’Molloy : Fragments
Visual Arts Emer McGowan introduces the range of locally focused work undertaken at Draiocht in Dublin. The centre has a strong commitment to working with young people in the community. Draiocht is currently showing upon becoming aware of our Self by Sally-Anne … Emer McGowan : Draiocht
Chris Macinnes has transformed his bedroom into a white cube gallery for the exhibition SimStim, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. Working with three other artists, Stephanie Mann, Sam Dransfield and Aymeric Tarrade, the show featured … Chris Macinnes : SimStim
Abigale Neate Wilson and Fionn Duffy introduce their work Bleachfield, based in and drawing inspiration from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The collaborative project (Alex Kuusik, Josie Rae Turnbull, Mikey Cook & Sharif Elsabagh also showing work) draws together research on … Abigale Neate Wilson and Fionn Duffy : Bleachfield
Visual Arts “Boole’s system of logic is but one of many proofs of genius and patience combined. … That the symbolic processes of algebra, invented as tools of numerical calculation, should be competent to express every act of thought, and to furnish … Marie Foley : Aesthetic Logic
Visual Arts Alex Hetherington of Modern Edinburgh Film School presents MOTHS, a project featuring the work of Zoë Fothergill, Anne McGuire, Lucy Skaer, Katrina Vallé, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Anna Lucas, Allison Gibbs, Jenny Brady and Bobby Niven. Each artist contributes to … Alex Hetherington : MOTHS
Visual Arts Karla Black is regarded as one of the pioneering contemporary artists of her generation. A Turner Prize nominee in 2011, she practices a kind of lyrical autonomous sculpture, influenced by psychoanalysis, feminism and its impact on visual art. Black’s work … Karen Sweeney : Karla Black at IMMA
