Art in Scotland TV

Arts Development Officer for Literature Donald Anderson, introduces Shetland’s Wordplay Festival, which has been running every year since 2001. Featuring writers, poets and speakers from as far as Canada, the festival offers guests a chance to meet with their favourite authors …

I Want to Be Your Dog could be about dogs, Iggy Pop, or sex. Whatever you may take from it, curator and artist Rachael Corcoran introduces the work, featuring a mixture of installation, painting, sculptures and video created by artists …

DCA Print Studio Director, Annis Fitzhugh talks about the exhibition There Will Be New Rules Next Week which highlights the work from the 60’s and 70’s of artist Sister Corita Kent. Kent, who was strongly committed to her religion heavily …

Tina Sørenson talks about the exhibition currently running at the Danish Cultural Institute, Mind Over Matter in which three Danish artists use the space to explore the relation between the inward and the outward through photography, print and installation pieces. …

Co-curator Annis Fitzhugh talks about Geological Intimacy, a print exhibition which has been running at the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre. The exhibition features work by artist Ilana Halperin whose work investigates the relation between Geological processes and the human body …

Claire Forsyth, Workshop Manager at Glasgow Print Studio, introduces the 4040 exhibition. This show features new work from forty friends and members of the studio including John Byrne, Martin Boyce, Alasdair Gray and Elizabeth Blackadder, just to name a few! …

Director of the Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Malcolm Dickson discusses the current exhibition, Borderlands II, the largest representation of Lithuanian photography shown in the UK to date. As part of a season of Lithuanian photography pulled together by Street Level …

Currently exhibiting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Cut and Paste is a collection of works by three students from the college. Their work highlights the affects of technology and how it is impacting upon …

Summerhall TV talks to Kjersti Sletteland and Despina Nissiriou about their exhibition “Staple Matter” at Patriot Hall Gallery. Their work focusses on the idea of links between buildings, in particular Patriot Hall itself, the body and other objects, linking two …

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a painter and self taught photographer, using the latter to fund his artwork. His work pushed the boundaries of photography, particularly when he pioneered the solarisation technique, a method in which the image is reversed in …

Culture and Broadcasting was one of several debates under the title Enlightening the Constitutional Debate run in partnership with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, at the Scottish Parliament and held in 2013 as part of its Festival …

Based on his film ‘Oculista’, Sven Werner’s installation ‘Tales of Magical Realism’ combines miniature worlds and atmospheric music to take you on a dark and mysterious journey.  

Project Coordinator Tina Sørensen, talks us through the Fashion Scandinavia exhibition at the Danish Cultural Institute.

Featuring film and print work, Rachel Maclean’s new exhibition explores the idea of Scottish National identity. Rachel’s work features an array of weird and wonderful characters, played by herself, clad in costumes with more than a nod to the supposed …

Artist Martin Green talks us through the pieces featured in his first solo exhibition, Scuffed Underside.  Martin takes found objects and uses them as materials in order to create something completely new. From car aerials, to pink emery boards, Martin’s …

The Scottish Parliament building plays host, for the eighth year, to the World Press Photography Exhibition. With over 100,000 entries from all over the world, the exhibition captures the best press images from the previous year. Anne Schaepman introduces the …

Curator Piet De Jong talks to Summerhall TV about Lawrence Weiner’s exhibition that will be on show throughout the festival at Summerhall. One Hundred Multiples by Lawrence Weiner will be on in the Courtyard Gallery and Dissection Room Gallery, from …

Robert Morgan’s film of Lawrence Weiner’s interview at Inverleith House, Edinburgh

Ealan Wingate, Director of the Gagosian Gallery in New York, introduces the Franz West exhibition at Inverleith House. Showing a collection of works, Ealan discusses the collaborative nature of Franz’s work.

Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Joanna Baker, introduces some of the highlights from this year’s festival. Photo credits : ‘The Poet Speaks’ featuring Patti Smith and Philip Glass by Stephanie Berger

Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Nick Barley introduces highlights from this year’s August Festival.

Children and Education Director Janet Smyth, introduces this year’s Children’s Book Festival highlights, forming part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square.

Short feature from 2004 follows Angelika Schnabel painting a Black Thangka while introducing the Karma Gardri tradition of painting at Samye Ling, the Tibetan Buddhist Centre at Eskdalemuir in Dumfries & Galloway.

Third year students of Edinburgh College of Art, Ellen Love and Jenny Salmean, combine their two areas of study, Intermedia art and Painting, to produce the exhibition ‘Medium’. Held as part of the Talbot Rice Gallery’s June programme ‘Make Shift’, …

Morvern Cunningham, event organiser of Leith Late, introduces the multi arts festival held in multiple venues on Leith walk. Featuring music, visual arts, films and spoken word, in the space of three hours, Leith Late took over 17 places this …

Director of the festival, Paul Bruce introduces Paulina Salas Ruiz’s film ‘Tong: Do You Speak It?’, and Andy Gonzalez, who discusses Gregor Fergie’s ‘All Kinds of Twisted’ performed by the Acid Fascists.

Artist Rachel Maclean talks to Summerhall TV about her recent piece ‘Over the Rainbow’, which was created as part of a six month residency run by Creative Scotland, held at the Banff Centre in Canada. The video features Rachel dressed …

Glasgow based artist and Turner Prize nominee Ciara Phillips talks to Summerhall TV about her exhibition ‘And More’,  which is a collection of screen prints on paper and textiles. These works are made in response to the Botanic Garden’s archival …

Sorcha Carey, the director of the Edinburgh Art Festival, talks to Summerhall TV about the festival programme and its plans to celebrate its 10th birthday.  

Mia Nelle Drøschler talks to Summerhall TV about her exhibition ‘DreamEscape’, which looks at the idea of a world without the presence of humans. Mia’s work consists of a series of digital collages of nature, created from photographs that are …