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Jane Frere introduces her exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Exit – 100 Days of Khaos is on till the 27th October. The exhibition also features animation by Georges Eloi Thibault who worked closely with Jane over a period of seven months.

Artist in Residence at MERZ from mid-June till mid July Jason Maracani has been exploring the countryside in Upper Nithsdale with artist and guide Alice de Ville. Jason joined Alice to contribute work on a Bothy on the Southern Upland …

Emerging from the social, geo-political and environmental uncertainty of the ‘Anthropocene’ – Fraɡˈmɛnt (Terra non-firma) brings together two recent recipients of Lateral Lab’s Robert Callender International Residency for Young Artists, Russell Beard and Stephen Kavanagh.   In this joint exhibition, …

Aurélie Fontan is a sustainable fashion designer focused on biodesign and ethical manufacture processes. Her graduate collection Tensegrity demonstrates the positive combination of craft and technology, essentially based on science imagery and disciplines. One of her pieces is entirely grown …

Pithos (one possible story of our lively material) presents existing and new works by artist Louise Mackenzie, following a three-year period of intense research within the laboratories of the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University and ASCUS Labs at Summerhall, …

Andrew Brown, founder of Edinburgh’s 369 Gallery, introduces the artists represented by the gallery in this second Summerhall exhibition featuring the men from 369. Andrew appraises the work of the women and men together in this extended interview.

Shiela Mullen is one of the women artists celebrated in the 369 Remembered exhibition running at Summerhall till the end of 2018. Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January …

Pat Douthwaite, Lil Neilson, Carole Gibbons, Lys Hansen, Sheila Mullen, Rose Frain, Joyce Cairns, Fiona Robertson, Irina Zatulovskya, Caroline McNairn, Fionna Carlisle, Olivia Irvine Sat 03 Nov 2018 – Sun 23 Dec 2018 11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday) The 369 Gallery was founded …

LIFE DURING WARTIME is a survey of paintings exploring themes of military, social and political conflict around the world dating from the artist’s appointment as the Imperial War Museum’s official artist for the Gulf War of 1990-91. On at Summerhall …

Venue: Anatomy / Dissection Room corridor & stairwell, Summerhall CAT (Creative, Aesthetic,Transgression) started life several years ago as a social media project. The CAT mask became an emblem of protest spread via social media in 2014. CAT masks, handmade by …

KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by …

This a conjectural model of Schwitters’ last day at the MERZBarn in Elterwater. Only … it seems the final flourish of plaster across the corner (all that remains in the Barn after the wall’s removal to the Hatton), was added …

SATELLITE Visual Arts Scotland in association with Summerhall are delighted to present the work of eighteen of the hottest emerging talents on the Scottish Art scene. Since its inauguration in 2015 our Graduate Showcase has celebrated the finest emerging artist …

Using Tintoretto’s creative presence and the atmosphere engendered by his great masterworks, studying their subtlety and responding to them with drawings and paintings of his own, Pulsford attempts to re-live Tintoretto’s experience of inventing them. War Memorial Library Gallery, Summerhall 11:00–18:00 (NOT …

Married for 51 years, Dawson and Liz Murray share a great passion for plants and have spent the twenty-one years since they moved to Fife designing a beautiful garden which provides a constantly changing source of inspiration for their work. …

Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect …

Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be …

Synthetica, Summerhall Saturday 31 — Sunday 13 May A selection of works forms a brief retrospective on the incredible career of Marta de Menezes. The concept of identity and a dichotomy between the natural and the artificial are recurrent themes …

David Bainbridge : Paintings David Bainbridge was one of the four founder members of the Conceptual art group Art & Language. He left the group in 1972 and in the 1990s he turned to painting to address scenes from his …

25 January – 10 March 2018 Summerhall Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival offering diverse creative responses to Robert Burns. Featuring over 30 visual artists, an Alternative Burns Night, a Flyting competition, a tailor made programme of music …

Sat 20 Jan 2018 – Sat 17 Feb 2018 Summerhall Venue: Basement Gallery I An Exploration of Line by Garvald Edinburgh Artists A line joins two points- what happens between these two points is where the creativity occurs. Following on …

Sat 18 Nov 2017 – Sun 14 Jan 2018 Summerhall Venue: Corner Gallery Firstly I would like to thank the good people at HUBLOT and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. *Tears in my eyes*. Well, Tony (Schiavone) before I …

Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused …

Burns Unbroke : David Mach Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four …

Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused …

Burns Unbroke is a new contemporary multi-arts festival, offering new interpretations of the work of Robert Burns. The project‘s innovative visual arts programme features over 30 visual artists and includes newly commissioned work by four Scottish based artists. The focused …

Sat 25 Nov 2017 – Sun 07 Jan 2018 09:00–17:00 (Mon-Fri), 10:00–17:00 (Sat), 11:00–16:00 (Sun) (during the café opening hours) _ Venue: The Library Gallery 2016 winner of the RSA Open Exhibition award Summerhall Prize. An exhibition of new and recent work by Edinburgh based …

Dates: 6th October to the 30th November Venue: Sciennes Gallery Curated by Jon Blackwood Captured State brings together six artists from the Republic of Macedonia to exhibit in Scotland for the first time. Whilst contemporary art from Macedonia has not …

Venue: War Memorial Library Curated by Gabriella Daris ‘I decided to use the last ten years at the end of the 20th century to look at my Self. The great Tibetan poet sage Milarepa had said that self was an …

Dates: 3rd of August to the 24th September Venue: Long Corridor Elsa in Philadelphia fills in the gaps in the critical period between Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s disappearance from New York and re-emergence in Philadelphia in the spring of 1917. Beginning …