Visual Arts To celebrate 15 years of arts-news production for various channels and websites, we’ve looked into our archive and produced this special compilation of the 5th British Art Show in Edinburgh, back in 2000. Introduced and closed by Paul Nesbitt of … 5th British Art Show
Visual Arts Alan Robinson draws inspiration from euclidian geometry, fractal progression, natural pattern and archeological relics for his new exhibition Number, Sign and Pattern, at Gallery 17. Fused, cast and painted glass, layered surface textures and sculptures, are the techniques used to … Alan Robinson : Number, Sign and Pattern
Edinburgh Art 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
Visual Arts Artist and poet Alec Finlay presents his exhibition ‘a-ga : on mountains’, which consists of a selection of poems and a series of wooden blocks, a letter on each, arranged in such a way they spell the name of a … Alec Finlay – a-ga : on mountains
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 Sculpture graduate Alistair Grant introduces The Number Shop, which is a studio and gallery space, located along from Edinburgh’s Pleasance venues. The building was empty for a long time until Grant saw an opportunity to open up affordable and flexible … Alistair Grant : The Number Shop
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 As part of GENERATION, a nationwide celebration of Scottish contemporary art from the past 25 years, artist and filmmaker Luke Fowler is exhibiting his 61 minute film The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott. … Anne Lyden : Luke Fowler
Festivals Visual Arts Anthea Hamilton’s free-standing sculptures, which function as formicaries or ant farms, ants move within intricate Art Nouveau patterns over images drawn from the artist’s previous works: a woman acting as a human clapperboard and a figure clothed in full-dress Kabuki … Anthea Hamilton : BAS8
Visual Arts Urbane Gallery manager Ariadna Battich, presents a collection of artists who have incorporated science and technology into their work. English artists Björn Amanda and Sjöling present Nobody Does It Better, a life size bronze and stainless steel sculpture based on … Ariadna Battich : Art of the Matter
Visual Arts A compilation of stories from Art in Scotland, Andrea Geile’s cortan steel sculpture for Mull, the Open House artists from Glasgow and Ellie Harrison’s before and after ‘take’ on the Scottish Referendum at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. Art in Scotland
Visual Arts The aim of the Art Shed Collective is to enable emerging artists to meet fresh audiences through a curated programme of socially engaged art works, to be presented this year at the Edinburgh Just Festival 2015. Find out more at … Art Shed 2015 : No Stake
Visual Arts In his new film Century Egg (2015) Williams explores the ways in which museums offer a combination of ‘the extraordinary and the completely banal’. Objects and artefacts found in Cambridge museums are the starting point for the artist’s loosely-linked narratives … Bedwyr Williams : Century Egg
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
Edinburgh Art Visual Arts MAKE AS IF Charlotte Duffy – aka Waste of Paint Productions is putting on a show ‘Make As If’. She hopes to restore the den builder in all of us from our childhood days, challenging the way we look and … Charlotte Duffy : Make As If
Visual Arts Christopher Baker introduces the BP Portrait Award 2014, which showcases 55 works of portraiture from artists based all over the world. Selected from over 2000 entries, the pieces on display range from portraits of famous sitters, to friends and family … Christopher Baker : BP Portrait Award 2014
Visual Arts Coming into its final week at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Christopher Orr’s selection of new and recent paintings for his exhibition ‘The Beguiled Eye’. Orr draws inspiration from a range of source material and visual appropriation such as clips from … Christopher Orr : The Beguiled Eye
Visual Arts Designed not to camouflage, but to distort a ship’s appearance when viewed through a telescope, ‘Dazzle’ was developed by the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson to counter the threat posed by German U-Boats. Using strongly contrasting blocks of colour, stripes … Ciara Phillips : Every Woman
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
Building and Landscape Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape on Edinburgh’s Architectural Association awards. Comprising interviews with Douglas Reid and winning architect Stephen Boyd of Lee Boyd the clip introduces a language for reading and evaluating architectural form. The winning building for Adobe … Cityscape : Edinburgh Architectural Awards 2001
Building and Landscape Architect Andrew Mackay and Community Councillor Dave Rushton mull over how Edinburgh might be better connected to Leith for walkers. They draw on inspiration from Barcelona’s Las Ramblas, the tree lined avenue that very successfully links the City to its … Cityscape : Leith to Barcelona?
Building and Landscape This edition from the Cityscape series from 2001 explores the requirements and constraints on extending the Scotland’s National Museum in Chamber Street. Cityscape : National Museum of Scotland
Building and Landscape This episode of Cityscape explores the thinking behind Leith Ports Authority’s Ocean Terminal. Terry Frost outline’s the Authority’s objectives and anticipated market for shoppers and visitors while Councillor Steve Cardownie evaluates the employment opportunities and the complimentary shopping the Terminal … Cityscape : Ocean Terminal
Building and Landscape This programme on Richard Holloway’s ‘OneCity’ report on social exclusion is from Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape series filmed for Edinburgh Television in 2001. Holloway chaired a Lord Provost’s Commission on Social Exclusion, which presented a bold challenge to … Cityscape : OneCity
Building and Landscape Feature from Edinburgh Television’s Cityscape series on the design of The Scotsman building on Holyrood Road. Cityscape : Scotsman Building
Building and Landscape From Edinburgh Television’s Cityscape series, this programme looks at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Cityscape : Scottish Poetry Library
Building and Landscape Ann McLuskey introduces an innovative community arts programme in Edinburgh’s Sighthill in this edition of CityScape from 2000. Cityscape : Sighthill
Building and Landscape This edition of Cityscape from 2001 explores the refurbishment of Edinburgh’s famous concert hall. Cityscape : Usher Hall
Visual Arts Artist duo Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion introduce their exhibition, Tumadh: Immersion, which was on show at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios. It was a two part show, with one part in Edinburgh and the other in An Lanntair, Stornoway, and explored … Dalziel + Scullion : Tumadh: Immersion
Visual Arts Artist Daniel Domig presents his first UK exhibition, The Heart is a Prideful Beast, at Warburton Gallery. Domig has responded to the gallery’s space and created a large wooden structure similar to scaffolding, in which a selection of his paintings … Daniel Domig : The Heart is a Prideful Beast