Visual Arts House for an Art Lover presents ‘Bodies of Work’, a new exhibition by artist Fraser Taylor. Featuring a series of large scale canvas pieces, monochromatic and colourful works, prints and video work, the exhibition explores the evolution of Taylor’s work … Fraser Taylor : Bodies of Work
Visual Arts Curator of Lust and the Apple Paul Robertson, introduces the work of Mexican artist Cisco Jimenez, as part of the gallery’s summer exhibitions programme. You Will Have a Long and Happy Life is Jimenez’s first UK exhibition, and shows a … Cisco Jimenez : You Will Have a Long and Happy Life
Visual Arts Maya Glaspie and Camila Richardson introduce the Basement Art Club, a new space in Leith’s creative district offering opportunities for artists and creative practitioners. Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/artleithwalk?fref=ts The Basement Art Club
Visual Arts Renowned conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, brings a text piece to the dry stone dyke wall of the garden at Lust and the Apple Gallery, in Midlothian. Curator and owner of the gallery Paul Robertson, muses over the message ‘This As … Lawrence Weiner : Untitled 2015
Visual Arts Malcolm and Leel are young emerging artists from Korea who have been based in Scotland for the last few years. Attracted to the intimacy of hidden and inaccessible areas, Malcolm and Leel create small delicate interventions into buildings. Works will … Malcolm and Leel : I Don’t Want to Leave My Chair
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Charles Avery creates an element from his fictionalised island, a project he has been working on for the last ten years. Focusing on the old port town of Onomatopoiea, Avery transports a … Charles Avery : Tree no.5
Visual Arts The Talbot Rice Gallery hosts the first Scottish showing of work by Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009), an artist who has drawn much interest and intrigue in her work over the years. Featuring a series of framed works from Darboven’s … Hanne Darboven : accepting anything among everything
Visual Arts Fabienne Hess draws inspiration for her TRG3 project, Hits and Misses (from the archive), from the University of Edinburgh’s Collections, which have been undergoing extensive digital archiving since 2012. Hess has responded to the collection by creating three elements to … Fabienne Hess : Hits and Misses (from the archive)
Visual Arts Artist Sara Barker unveils her permanent commission for Edinburgh’s Jupiter Artland, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Barker works with a variety of materials and methods to create her sculptures, drawing inspiration from the outside world and organic … Sara Barker : Separation in the Evening
Visual Arts Artist Anne Hardy takes familiar materials, objects and sounds and transplants them into the domestic space of the Common Guild gallery. By doing this, Hardy challenges our perceptions of these objects, and creates an environment that seems at once familiar, … Anne Hardy : TWIN FIELDS
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 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 Inside / Outside Shelter / Play: Shelters in the hospitals’ campus, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Jephson Robb and Peter Richardson of ZM Architecture have designed three … Shelter Project
Visual Arts Director of Edinburgh Art Festival Sorcha Carey, introduces this year’s festival programme at a special launch in the Dovecot Studios. The festival takes place in venues all around the city, showcasing a mix of well known and up-and-coming artists, contemporary … Sorcha Carey : Edinburgh Art Festival 2015
Visual Arts 100 Flowers: Bringing Flowers back into the clinical environment, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The 100 Flowers project is a response to the restriction of real flowers … 100 Flowers Project
Visual Arts Dignified Spaces: Supporting conversations – creating non clinical spaces, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The Dignified Spaces team was led by Alex Hamilton and included Fremi Arts, … Dignified Spaces Project
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 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 Graphics Bank: Involving children and young people in the personalisation of the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Four artists worked with … Graphics Bank Project
Visual Arts Podium Landmarks: Supporting journeys and way-finding through busy corridors in the multi-use parts of the hospitals, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Graphical House, Haa Design and artist … Podium Landmarks Project
Visual Arts Beacon: Bringing the whole landscape of Scotland into the adult wards, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion led a team of artists to … Beacon Project
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 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 We visit Inverleith House in the midst of a transformation courtesy of artist Nicolas Party, who has covered the interior walls in splashes of bright colour and forests of trees. Boys and Pastels is the first major solo exhibition from … Nicolas Party : Boys and Pastel
Visual Arts Dundee Contemporary Arts celebrates the new season with an exhibition presenting fashion, art, film, photography, sculpture, jewellery and prints from Clare Stephenson, Zoe Williams and legendary Polaroid artist and stylist, Maripol. The work of Maripol has had a huge influence … Graham Domke : Spring/Summer 2015
Visual Arts Mike Ballard’s work situated within the bathroom corridors at Lust and the Apple, seeks to challenge the audience by presenting work in an unusual space. Not really a place, yet not consigned to the ether, Ballard’s work presents the notion … Mike Ballard : The Eternal Broadcast
Visual Arts Artist Elke Finkenauer exhibits two pieces as part of Lust and the Apple’s current exhibition programme, indoor piece The Perfectionist and outdoor piece Pathetic Kinetic. Finkenauer’s work explores and celebrates DIY, make do and mend and problem solving concepts. Her … Elke Finkenauer : Going Spare
Visual Arts Art collective Slavs and Tatars explore Mirrors for Princes – a medieval form of advice literature intended for future rulers, that related to good leadership on subjects such as grooming, speech, education and belief. Situated in the Collective Gallery’s City … Slavs and Tatars : Lektor
Visual Arts “Lorem Ipsum” is a new body of work about ambiguity of information and the limits of language as a tool for communication. The work considers identity and the self, whilst addressing the artist’s personal experience of dyslexia. The work challenges … Paul Moore : Lorem Ipsum
Visual Arts As part of Collective Gallery’s Satellite programme, Edinburgh based artist Thomas Aitchison explores our relationship with images, how we move and store them, and how they can be re-presented. Using himself as a filter, Aitchison trawled the internet for several … Thomas Aitchison : Drag a File Here
