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 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
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 Paintings by the great trumpeter and bandleader, alongside work by another great musician, John Lennon. Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. On until Saturday 30th April. Andrew Clarke : Miles Davis
Literature Summerhall Sessions Visual Arts Whitney McVeigh in conversation with Alice Thompson to discuss her exhibition Language of Memory and Alice’s new novel The Book Collector. The artist and writer address issues of motherhood and the parallel processes of writing and making. March 8th, 2016 … Whitney McVeigh and Alice Thompson : In Conversation, International Women’s Day
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
Summerhall Residents Visual Arts Lust in the Apple’s curator Paul Robertson in conversation with David Rushton. Rushton was a founder editor of Coventry-based Analytical Art and was subsequently a key member of Art & Language from 1972 to 1975, working on the various Indexes … David Rushton & Paul Robertson : Analytical Art, Art & Language and Thereafter
Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Dennis & Debbie Club, Fiona Anderson, Lewis Den Hertog and Kieran Curran (aka MC TRUE FACTS) explore the utopian and dystopian possibilities of life on planet earth and beyond in the ground floor galleries with group exhibition The Human’s Planet … Dennis Reinmuller : The Human’s Planet Earth
Summerhall Residents Summerhall Residents Brightside use their skills in Film, 3D & storytelling & harness new technologies to craft creative, interactive environments that help brands build relationships with their consumers. The immersive environments and interactive experience we create drive brand awareness through … Susanna Murphy and Cristina Spiteri : Brightside
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
Summerhall Residents Based at Summerhall, Nourish Scotland is reconnecting producers, growers, retailers, consumers and all who care for local, sustainable food in Scotland. Nourish works to create a stronger food culture to make healthy, local, seasonal, and organic food available everywhere in … Elli Kontorravdis : Nourish
Summerhall Exhibitions Retired engineer John Sumpter has spent the last ten years learning about art. This exhibition for just one weekend in the Memorial Library at Summerhall celebrates John’s 70th birthday as well as his first ten years as an artist. John Sumpter : 70th Birthday Retrospective
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 Roger Malbert introduces British Art Show 8 as it arrives in Edinburgh as part of its nationwide tour. The exhibitions are being held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Inverleith House and the Talbot Rice Gallery until 8th May. Roger Malbert : British Art Show 8
Summerhall Residents Next up in our Summerhall Residents series is Pickering’s Gin. This multi award winning, marvellously mixed gin is hand crafted at Summerhall Distillery – the first exclusive gin distillery to be established in Edinburgh for over 150 years. We spoke … Paul Donegan : Pickering’s Gin
Summerhall Residents Another video in out Summerhall Residents series. This time we came to have a peek in the studio of the Painter and Educator Alexander Mackenzie. mackenzie-inc.com alexandermackenzie.wordpress.com Alexander Mackenzie
Visual Arts Ryan Gander Talbot Rice Gallery 13 February – 8 May Ryan Gander’s shape-shifting practice is grounded in his habit of compulsive collecting: ‘not just physical stuff,’ he explains, ‘but words and pictures and descriptions of situations.’ For British Art Show … Ryan Gander : Fieldwork
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
Summerhall Residents Lorna from Venture English shares the story behind her Language School and why Edinburgh and Summerhall is such an inspiring place for students. Part of the Summerhall Residents series by Summerhall TV. ventureenglish.co.uk Lorna Lythgoe : Venture English
Visual Arts Inverleith House’s exhibition Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012 is on for one more week, culminating in a talk with art historian Professor Steven Jacobs on the 11th April. The show focuses on different elements of De Keyser’s five decade career, … Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012
Visual Arts Swiss/Danish duo PUTPUT present their first Scottish exhibition, Fruitless, at Lust and the Apple. Situated in a greenhouse, in the garden of the gallery space, PUTPUT explore the perceptions of every day items and what context and environment can do … PUTPUT : Fruitless
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
Visual Arts Curator of Edinburgh’s St.Margaret’s House, Sophia Lindsay Burns, introduces The Neverending Glen, a new project featuring a carefully curated selection of contemporary artists and collectives in the grounds of Kelburn Estate. A series of site-specific installations, sculptures, performances & workshops … Sophia Lindsay Burns : The Neverending Glen
Visual Arts Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential painters working today. For his first exhibition in Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, this provocative artist will bring together his work with that of the most significant of … Luc Tuymans : Birds of a Feather
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 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
Summerhall Residents ‘Locked In Edinburgh’ opened at Summerhall for the 2015 Festival, making it the fifth escape game in the city – but this one is unique! It’s the nly one themed and built around a real room. Discover for yourself the … Jackie Jack : Locked in Edinburgh
Visual Arts The Koestler Scotland Exhibition, Selected by artist Ruth Ewan 7 – 29 November, 2015, 11:00 –18:00 183 More Sleeps is an exhibition of artwork from prisons, secure hospitals, secure children’s homes, immigration detention centres and community justice services in Scotland. … Sarah Grainger-Jones: 183 More Sleeps
Books Ricky Brown interviews Doug Johnstone about his crime novels, writing process and the importance of setting at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Once a nuclear physicist, Doug Johnstone is now a successful writer and freelance journalist (and blogger) based in Edinburgh. In … Doug Johnstone : The Jump
