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 Archivist Kerry Patterson introduces Glasgow Print Studio’s exhibition, Alasdair Gray : A Life in Print and Posters. As part of a special season celebrating the artist’s 80th birthday, and his prolific art career, the studio has a series of prints … Alasdair Gray : A Life in Print and Posters
Visual Arts From the Personal to the Universal, a major retrospective of work by artist Alasdair Gray, is on for one more week at the Kelvingrove Gallery. The exhibition takes the viewer on a journey through the many stages of Gray’s artistic … Alasdair Gray : From the Personal to the Universal
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 Artist and illustrator Alice Dansey-Wright set out to explore the artefacts and pieces of work in the American Museum in Britain, which showcases American decorative art, with the aim of developing new work based on their collections. Dansey-Wright’s core interest … Alice Dansey-Wright : Legitimate Likenesses
Visual Arts Generator Projects presents the annual members show, which offers members a chance to showcase their work to the public. The project puts out an open call for work, with no particular theme, allowing members the freedom to submit a piece … Alison Scott : Generator Projects Members Show 2015
Visual Arts Andy McDougall, Director of Edinburgh Art Fair, introduces the 3 day event, which hosts a huge selection of national and international exhibitors. Showcasing the best in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and much more, the art fair gives audiences the opportunity to … Andy McDougall : Edinburgh Art Fair
Visual Arts Entering its final week, Cotoneaster horizontalis, by artist Anna Oppermann (1940 -1993) presents the highly celebrated 1984 ensemble Cotoneaster horizontalis (Anticommunication design) exhibited for the first time alongside drawings, prints, collages, documentary films and archival material. The exhibition explores two … Anna Oppermann : Cotoneaster horizontalis
Visual Arts Artists Aoife McGarrigle and Iede Reckman present their joint exhibition, Over/Athrá, currently showing in the Briggait, Glasgow. The pair met on Glasgow School of Art’s M.Litt course and found similarities in their work such as an interest in geometric shapes. … Aoife McGarrigle and Iede Reckman : Over/Athrá
Visual Arts The group exhibition, from 03-19 August, showcases some of the most exciting works, selected from the huge volume of artistic activity taking place within the distinctive red brick walls of St Margaret’s House, London Road.The Summer Show, occupying all three … Art’s Complex Summer Show
Edinburgh Art Visual Arts The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdistan’s military forces. Unit 70, based in Sulaimaniyah, has a detachment of female Peshmerga who train to be combat ready and in theory may face ISIS on the frontline. The unit also performs an important political … Beyond Borders : WOMEN AT WAR
Visual Arts Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Christopher Baker, introduces the gallery’s newest commission, an abstract portrait of the famous Scottish actor, Alan Cumming. Painted by artist Christian Hook, the commission came about as a result of the Sky Arts Portrait … Christopher Baker : Alan Cumming Portrait
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 Artist Daniel Djamo explores various endings within his Briggait exhibition, Before the End. Utilising film and photography, Djamo explores someone’s life through their obsessive note-taking of their finances, ending with their funeral costs, the last 12 months of his nannie’s … Daniel Djamo : Before the End
Visual Arts Fife Contemporary Art and Craft present the exhibition, Portraits +, which shows a series of works made by participating artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Leah Black, Calum Colvin, Zoe Irvine, David Mach, Lindsay Perth, and Clara Ursitti. The show presents a variety … Diana Sykes : Portraits +
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
Visual Arts It’s the final week of Fallen, an exhibition of photographer Don McCullin’s works, currently on at Shetland Museum & Archives and Bonhoga Gallery. Fallen is the first showing of McCullin’s work by ARTIST ROOMS, the collection of modern and contemporary art acquired … Don McCullin : Fallen
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 Man + Machine presents a series of Leith-born Eduardo Paolozzi’s maquettes, depicting his obsession with the relationship between mankind and technology. After attending classes at the Edinburgh College of Art he went on to shape a considerable career teaching sculpture … Eduardo Paolozzi : Man + Machine
Visual Arts Artist Fiona Wilson discusses the inspiration and the methods that go into making her prints for her bird-lady series, as part of this month’s Glasgow Print Studio Featured Artist. Working in monochrome, Wilson creates images of woman with birds or … Fiona Wilson : Glasgow Print Studio
Visual Arts Do You See What I see is artist Gerald McGowan’s observations of people, their interactions with each other, and how they’re reflecting society today. McGowan uses photography and sketching to record his ideas and moments of inspiration, which will later … Gerald McGowan : Do You See What I See?
Visual Arts For his latest exhibition, Gapfillers, artist Greig Burgoyne created work in response to the Briggait’s Project Spaces, using post-its and markers to create works exploring time and space. The exhibition started with a 5 day, 40 hour drawing performance, which … Greig Burgoyne : Gapfillers
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 Holly Keasey introduces the work of Sam Burford, Mehreen Murtaza and Deimantas Narkevicius, in the group show ‘To Sail Beyond The Sunset’. Each artist presents their own interpretation of concepts from science fiction, such as time travel. Rather than showing … Holly Keasey : To Sail Beyond The Sunset
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 Artist James McLardy introduce’s Glasgow Sculpture Studio’s group show, Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken, curated by writer and curator Quinn Latimer. The starting point of the exhibition was a poem by Latimer, which set the tone for the artists to … James McLardy : Mood is Made/Temperature is Taken
Visual Arts There’s only one week left to see The Lighthouse’s exhibition, Empowerment, which looks at the progress of Humanitarian architecture organisation Orkidstudio, and the work that it has carried out in the developing world over the last few years. The company aims … James Mitchell : Empowerment
Visual Arts Curator Graham Domke introduces the work of American artist, Jim Campbell. Indirect Imaging is the first ever UK solo exhibition of his work, and he presents a series of light sculptures derived from simple films – birds in flight or … Jim Campbell : Indirect Imaging