Visual Arts Project Coordinator Tina Sørensen, talks us through the Fashion Scandinavia exhibition at the Danish Cultural Institute. Danish Cultural Institute : Fashion Scandinavia
Visual Arts Will the full support of the Talbot Rice curatorial and technical team, as well as the opportunity to explore the resources of the University of Edinburgh, David Haslam has the opportunity to develop his practice into new and innovative areas. … David Haslam : Project Notes
Visual Arts One more week of David Lemm’s exhibition Debris and Phenomena, at Edinburgh Printmakers. Lemm completed an artist residency on the Isle of Eigg, which explored the role of maps in society, storytelling through map making and maps being used as … David Lemm : Debris and Phenomena
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 Summerhall TV talks to the artists at DOK Artist Space an exciting new visual arts studio and exhibition space in Edinburgh. DOK Artist Space is an Artist run organisation in Edinburgh that is founded by three Edinburgh College of Art … DOK Artist Space : The Tin Shed
Edinburgh Art Visual Arts Three contemporary artists talk about their new and recent works shown at the ‘Abstraction from Architecture’ Exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery. Abstraction from Architecture features work by artists who display an interest in architectural structures, surfaces, materials and forms. … Edinburgh Printmakers: Abstraction from Architecture
Visual Arts Emma Finn’s darkly humorous videos transport us to uncomfortable liminal places that sit somewhere between reality and invention, spaces where real people have drawn-on faces, and babies are sent in the post. All of Finn’s work is driven by ‘the … Emma Finn : Double Mountain
Visual Arts Rediscovered explores the work of artist Emma Gillies, who created painted and thrown ceramics whilst at the Edinburgh College of Art. Found locked away in a cupboard in ECA, these items had been used for still life displays without anyone … Emma Gilles : Rediscovered
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 It Surrounds Me – Part 2 is a continuation of work first started on a residency in Thailand, by artist jeweller, Fiona Hermse. Her initial focus was to create work that reflected the natural elements of her surroundings on the … Fiona Hermse : It Surrounds Me – Part 2
Visual Arts Grow Wild invited young people aged 12-25 to apply for funding to produce creative works of art to raise awareness about the importance of UK native wild flowers and plants. Visit Summerhall this June to see how successful applicants interpreted … GET CREATIVE TAKEOVER
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 Curator Hannah Brocklehurst introduces the National Galleries exhibition, Allan Ramsay at 300. Featuring a large collection of drawings, this exhibition, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the artist’s birth, displays the commitment Ramsay had to the technique of drawing. This … Hannah Brocklehurst : Allan Ramsay at 300
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 Mother and son, Danish artists Inge Lise Westman and Emil Westman Hertz, present their new exhibition Star Sailor, at the Danish Cultural Institute. Both artists work is greatly influenced by nature. Inge Lise works on large canvases, taking a closer … Inge Lise Westman and Emil Westman Hertz : Star Sailor
Visual Arts Interim is an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, featuring work by first year students from the MFA/MA Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh College of Art. Realised through a dialogue between students and gallery curators, it … James Clegg : Interim
Edinburgh Art Visual Arts James Hugonin’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery celebrates the completion of his Binary Rhythm sequence. Seven of nine large paintings Hugonin has made over the past six years are exhibited. Identically sized each continue the artist’s exploration of the dualities of … James Hugonin : Binary Rhythm at Ingleby Gallery
Visual Arts Danish artist Jesper Christiansen presents FOUND DRAWINGS, an exhibition of drawings which were originally shown as part of a large exhibition back in Denmark, called GO BACK. The works on show were nearly thrown out during a house move, but … Jesper Christiansen : FOUND DRAWINGS
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 Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery hosted a solo exhibition by Scottish artist, Jim Lambie, as part of GENERATION, a series of exhibitions celebrating Scottish contemporary art over the last 25 years, and the Edinburgh Art Festival. Known for his visually striking pieces … Jim Lambie : Fruitmarket Gallery
Visual Arts For British Art Show 8 JL Williams and Catherine Street will be working on site at the three Edinburgh venues to create new texts in response to the works on show. Stay tuned to britishartshow8.com/ for up-to-date news and information! JL Williams and Catherine Street : BAS8 writers-in-residence
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 A different kind of shopping experience can be found at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s Pig Rock Bothy, this week. Artlink’s Barter Swap Shop has a series of handcrafted items made by artists with learning disabilities in collaboration … Kara Christine : Barter Swap Shop
Edinburgh Art Visual Arts The Rose Street Project is a public ‘exhibition’ in a central city location, open to everyone visiting Edinburgh, day and night until early January. The invited artists are from a range of disciplines including illustration, ceramics, textiles and printmaking. The … Karl Finn Graham : Rose Street Artist Christmas Project
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 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 Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous brings together some of the finest Surrealist works of art from four legendary collections, those of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The ways that Surrealist art has been collected … Keith Hartley : Surreal Encounters
Visual Arts Artist Kirstine Roepstorff discusses her solo exhibition “Mother of Time Showing Her Fruits”, which is a continuous engagement of finding forms within the subject of the invisible. Roepstorff’s exhibition explores themes of time, light, tone and density through her collage … Kirstine Roepstorff : Mother of Time Showing Her Fruits
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 Aggregations is the first solo UK exhibition by the internationally renowned Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, and explores the traditions of making and Eastern philosophy with the his painterly interest in American Abstract Expressionism. Chun creates large scale works using … Kwang Young Chun : Aggregations
