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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

Summerhall Residents

Julian Vaughan introduces Tonegarden Studios, one of the many arts facilities located at Summerhall.

Julian Vaughan : Tonegarden Studios

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

Summerhall Residents

Longstanding Summerhall resident Michael Pedersen of Neu Reekie outlines the background and expanding interests of this spoken word/music and publishing phenomena established over four years ago by himself and Kevin Williamson.

Michael Pedersen : Neu Reekie

Summerhall Live

Following their sell-out success in August, The One Ensemble have been invited back to Summerhall to perform ‘Saint Seven’. Performed in the round, the piece is a dramatic hybrid of voices and instruments that seamlessly interweaves elements of experimental, folk …

The One Ensemble : Saint Seven

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

Books Summerhall Residents Visual Arts

Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Fri 4 Dec – Sat 9 Jan An exhibition of artwork from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures. Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper – and Summerhall Resident – exhibits the stunning artwork created for this new book, …

Kate Leiper : SEA MONSTERS, SELKIES AND OTHER MYTHICAL CREATURES

Visual Arts

Reviewer in residence, Thibaut Clamart explores the work of Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, as they bring their first British exhibition to Summerhall since 2003. Often uncomfortable and occasionally shocking, the work delves into the idea of the nuclear …

Thibaut Clamart : Genesis & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge

TV Series

John Byrne is a Scottish playwright and artist. As well as designing Penguin covers and sets for his own plays, Byrne has designed record covers for the likes of the Beatles, Billy Connolly and Gerry Rafferty. Many of Byrne’s paintings …

Face to Face : John Byrne in conversation with Joyce McMillan

Music Performance

This is a recording for Song of the Goat Theatre’s show Return to the Voice, which was performed at St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Festival 2014.

Return to the Voice

Summerhall Live

A full performance of Clout Theatre’s ‘Various Lives of Infinite Nullity’ performed as part of Summerhall’s 2013 Fringe programme. A post-suicide support group meet to reflect upon their lives. Ignoring symptoms of their own deaths, three characters guide us through the …

Clout Theatre : Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 …

Glyn Thompson : A Lady’s Not A Gent’s

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Till 9 March 2016 11:00-18:0 Venue: Laboratory Gallery, Summerhall Choreographer Riccardo Buscarini and visual artist Richard Taylor work together for the first time, transforming the glass cabinets in Summerhall’s Laboratory Gallery into living archives to explore memory, intimacy and exposure. …

Riccardo Buscarini and Richard Taylor : In Parting Glass

Visual Arts

Artist Andrea Geile unveils her permanent artwork, The Chlorophylls, for the newly-restored FANK in Lettermore Forest on Mull. Produced by the Summerhall TV team with additional contributions from Alasdair Satchel, Sarah Darling and Angus Stewart.

Andrea Geile : Chlorophylls

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

WHO RUN THE WORLD The candy pink beat that permeates a number of Liz Waterston’s text based video works hypnotically pulse out fluoro lights reminiscent of the flickering neon that underpins midnight strolls through dark places: karaoke evenings where we …

Alan Holligan : Liz Waterston, Edinburgh College Residency Artist 2015

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

Archives European Local TV Institute of Local Television Local and Community TV

Summerhall TV journalist Anastasia Kharchenko reports on new movements in independent film distribution. Interviewing a film distributor Manuela Buono (‘A Good American’) and filmmaker Paulo Toledo (‘Waiting for B’) at the Copenhagen Documentary Festival, these industry-insiders explain how best to engage …

Summerhall TV at CPH DOX : Copenhagen Documentary Festival

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Polish Contemporary Art Organisation present their first annual group exhibition ‘WAVES’, showcasing artists from Poland and of Polish descent at different stages in their practice, working in various mediums – photography, written word, painting, installation, collage and film. Waves is …

Polish Contemporary Art Organisation : Waves

Community Summerhall Exhibitions 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

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Ekphrasis is commonly recognized as the mechanism for producing a prosaic description of a work of art. The artists, Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond, interpret this as an interchangeable concept, making art from a vividly described written text. Cruickshank and …

Malcolm Cruickshank and Paul Diamond : Ekphrasis

European Local TV Visual Arts

Jessica Lloyd-Jones who exhibited at Summerhall during the Science Festival last year now has a new exhibition on at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre. But you don’t have to go all the way to Ireland to see it, just tune in to our video. …

Jessica Lloyd-Jones : At the Edge of Light and Darkness

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Interview Room 11 Gallery and Summerhall have joined together to present an intervention by durational mark-maker Olmo Blanco. His drawings add to what is already there – walls, floors and common objects. Blanco does not mask but honors what has …

Olmo Blanco : Instalodecoracion

Community Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents

This installation by the artist Siemon Scamell-Katz was produced by The Knitting Circle and Beyond Borders Scotland in response to the capture and persecution of Yazidi girls and women by ISIS/Daesh. Inspired by photographs taken by Falah Shakarm of the …

Beyond Borders : A Mile in their Shoes

Festivals Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Sarah Dawson introduced this year’s Africa in Motion season of films showing in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The opening night birthday party is on the 23rd October at Summerhall and the season continues till the end of October with a screening …

Sarah Dawson : Africa in Motion, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake

Summerhall Exhibitions Summerhall Residents 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

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

Introduced by Dorian Branea, the Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and forming part of Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh Festival 2015. Featuring some of the most internationally recognizable Romanian artists, directors, writers and musicians in tandem with …

Dorian Branea : Romanian Cultural Days in Edinburgh 2015

Summerhall Exhibitions 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

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

A unique and powerful multi-media exhibition featuring work by artists, both professional and amateur, with experience of mental health issues. Works include projection, sculpture, painting and photography. Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, this exhibition aims …

Scottish Mental Health Festival: Out of Sight/Out of Mind

Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts

“I want to understand the concept of dionysian in a more up-to-date way, more scientifically, more psychologically. what is the dionysian phenomenon, this instinctual upsurge, this growing importance of intoxicating orgiastic sensual feelings, this onslaught of the unconscious, of unconscious …

Hermann Nitsch : Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

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