Visual Arts Director of Glasgow International Festival Sarah McCrory, introduces four exhibitions, which are showing at the McLellan Galleries. The space hasn’t been used in some time, and it was the festival’s aim to bring it back into use as gallery spaces … Sarah McCrory: McLellan Galleries
Visual Arts Artist Leigh Chorlton introduces his exhibition ‘Pollster’. The works featured in this exhibition focus on the NHS, the media, the police, politicians and HMRC, posing questions about power, influence and political direction. Although exploring serious issues, Chorlton’s work presents his … Leigh Chorlton : Pollster
Visual Arts David Osbaldeston’s new exhibition ‘The Measure of All Things’, looks at the relevance of objects and ideas in our lives, and asks the question ‘does culture produce language and objects or do language and objects produce culture?’ Director of Collective … Kate Gray : The Measure of All Things
Visual Arts Photographer Johan Nieuwenhuize introduces his exhibition IMG_ at Street Level Photoworks. Nieuwenhuize’s work explores cities in Europe and the USA by using the tools of documentary photography, but creating abstract representations of them. The aim was to force the viewer to think … Johan Nieuwenhuize : IMG_
Visual Arts Artist Alex Frost introduces his new exhibition ‘Reproduction’, which is shown as part of the Glasgow International Festival. Frost’s work explores the idea of reproduction, not just the simple remaking of an image or object, but the idea of human … Alex Frost : Reproduction
Visual Arts Artist Kathryn Elkin showcases new work as part of the Collective Gallery’s Satellite programme, which fosters new Scottish art work. Elkin presents a video piece and installation exploring the abstraction and misdirection within language, object, body and memory. Kathryn Elkin … Kate Gray : Mutatis Mutandis
Visual Arts Speaking from her Orkney based studio, Lorraine Bruce talks about her work and the inspiration she gains from Orkney’s uniques landscape. Lorraine Bruce was born and grew up in Orkney, a group of islands twenty miles north of Scotland. She … Lorraine Bruce : In the Studio
Visual Arts The artist and printmaker Alan Davie has died at the age of 93. From the Art in Scotland archives, this interview between Davie and Patrick Elliot explores the retrospective exhibition of his work that was on at the Scottish National … Art in Scotland : Alan Davie
Visual Arts Artist Navid Nuur introduces his new exhibition RENDERENDER, which is currently on at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Navid Nuur : RENDERENDERNuur has installed a mix of new and existing works in the gallery space, including When doubt turns into destiny (1993 … Navid Nuur : RENDERENDER
Visual Arts Artist Janie Nicoll introduces her working practice from her Glasgow based studio. Nicoll uses a combination of collage and digital image making to create works that are often site specific and explore the re-appropriation of cultural references. Janie Nicoll : In the Studio
Visual Arts Bristol based artist Rebecca Gouldson, introduces her new solo show, Industrial Shift. Gouldson works primarily in metal, and has used etching techniques to create delicate details upon metal wall pieces and sculptures inspired by the history of industry, and her … Rebecca Gouldson : Industrial Shift
Visual Arts Richard Demarco was awarded the Edinburgh Award on the 24th March 2014, for his great contribution to Edinburgh’s art scene over the past 60 years. After receiving The Edinburgh Award Richard Demarco thanked his friend of thirty years, Robert McDowell, … Richard Demarco : Edinburgh Award
Visual Arts Director of Glasgow International Festival Sarah McCrory, introduces some of the art festival’s programme. Featuring a range of exciting contemporary art work, the biennial festival takes place at various locations throughout Glasgow, from the 4th April until the 21st April … Sarah McCrory : Glasgow International Festival
Visual Arts Featuring a mixture of sea and landscapes, artist Ingrid Grieve’s work is about Orkney and capturing the very essence of the island. Ingrid gave up full time work to pursue her art by studying at Orkney college and receiving her … Ingrid Grieve : In the Studio
Festivals Visual Arts Lucilla Sim, StAnza Artist in Residence 2012, discusses her exhibition, which was shown during the 2014 festival. Sim combines found objects and text, and uses a process that utilises potassium permanganate to provide a layered affect on her work. Sim … Lucilla Sim : Found on the Road North
Visual Arts Situated in the disused Market Street Vaults, Hidden Door Festival 2014 is a 9 day multi-platform arts festival, featuring music, art, theatre, cinema and literature. Artists and creatives from all over have gathered to help shape the festival and bring … Hidden Door Festival 2014
Visual Arts Artistic Director Aniela Piasecka introduces Stasis Company’s new performance ‘Où est la —– cachée dans la forêt?’, a site specific piece that will take place at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Stasis is an Edinburgh based performance company, which … Aniela Piasecka : Où est la —– cachée dans la forêt?
Visual Arts A proud ‘Glaswelshian’, printmaker Bryan Evans introduces his exhibition at the Glasgow Print Studio. Born in Wales, but residing in Glasgow for the past 25 years, Evans has taken his inspiration from Glasgow itself to create prints using aquatint and … Bryan Evans : Glasgow Print Studio
Visual Arts Assistant Curator James Clegg, introduces the new A.R. Hopwood exhibition, False Memory Archive. Focusing on the idea of the false memory, something that we think may have happened in our past when really we just created an illusion through a … A.R. Hopwood : False Memory Archive
Visual Arts From the Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th May, Ancrum will host a series of exhibitions by professional artists and makers at various venues. During September of 2012 a group of Artists and Craftspeople held very successful “Crossing Borders” Art Trail … Ian Oliver : Art at Ancrum
Visual Arts LÙB | LOOP is an exhibition by textile artist Deirdre Nelson, which highlights wool, crofting, craft skills and the feet that walk the land. In the summer and autumn of 2013 she visited stock clubs and crofters on the Isle … Rosie Somerville: LÙB | LOOP
Visual Arts Catherine Jarvie introduces the work of the late photographer Colin Jarvie (1962-2012). The exhibition features photographs from two bodies of work, ‘My World, My Wife, My Camera’ and ‘Jaun y…(The Bus Drivers of Acapulco)’. Both of which could be described … Catherine Jarvie : In Praise of Shadows – Works by Colin Jarvie
Visual Arts Richard Demarco is a key and influential figure in the arts in Scotland and beyond. Starting from a young age, Demarco developed a keen interest in the Edinburgh International Festival, and has been passionate about the production of art and … Richard Demarco : Introducing the Demarco European Art Foundation
Visual Arts Artist David Rushton introduces his exhibition Art as Conceit, which features a mixture of political print work and small scale models. First shown in 1979, the model of a car factory canteen is encased in a grey box, with a … David Rushton : Art as Conceit
Visual Arts Artist Ian Hughes introduces his exhibition ‘Unearthed Tongues Set Free’, which is on from Saturday 8th February, at Summerhall. Hughes’ work focuses on the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust, using shocking techniques as a metaphor for this. Much of … Ian Hughes : Unearthed Tongues Set Free
Visual Arts Painter Stuart Gibbs introduces his work from his Wasps’ Dennistoun studio, in Glasgow. Graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1989, Stuart went onto exhibit his work across the UK, Europe, and even as far as Japan. Stuart works mostly … Stuart Gibbs : In the Studio
Visual Arts Edinburgh based artist Jonathan Owen takes existing work and reconstructs it to make it new. In this reconstruction, he manages to alter the original meaning of the piece and present something that questions the ideas that went before it. Richard … Richard Ingleby : Jonathan Owen
Visual Arts Artist Tania Kovats introduces her new exhibition ‘Oceans’, which is showing at the Fruitmarket Gallery. This work explores Kovats’ fascination with the sea, and includes sculptural works, and a global project called ‘All the Sea’, which is a collection of … Tania Kovats : Oceans
Visual Arts Artists Sam Dransfield, Ryan Gibson and Aleksandra Zawada explain the ideas behind their practice and the Stills Gallery exhibition ‘Constructions of Landscape, Work in Progress 3’. Each artist presents a development of their photographic work, utilising various techniques to test the … Stills Gallery : Constructions of Landscapes, Work in Progress 3
Visual Arts Artist Mairi Lafferty introduces her new show KISS THE SHUTTLE, which is currently exhibiting at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s gallery space, TANK. The exhibition explores the industrial process of shuttle kissing, which was carried out in weaving mills in Lancashire, … Mairi Lafferty : KISS THE SHUTTLE
