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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

Events

This Friday, Summerhall will play host to an evening of entertainment featuring music, comedy, aerial acrobatics, performance, magic and more, to raise money for two children’s charities – Hope and Play for the Children of Gaza and Orkidstudio. A live …

Alice Nelson : The Variety of Life

Art in Scotland

This edition of Art in Scotland features an interview with Scottish actor Alan Cumming about his involvement with the refurbishment of the Birks Cinema in Aberfeldy. We also speak to Andrew Goring at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy about the annual …

Art in Scotland : Alan Cumming and RSA Open

Art in Scotland

Curator and poet Philip Davenport introduces ‘The Dark Would’, featuring work from world-leading poets and text artists exploring the maze of living and dying. A variety of works from contributors such as Jenny Holzer, Richard Long, Susan Hiller, Tom Phillips, …

Art in Scotland : Christmas Exhibitions at Summerhall

Art in Scotland

This edition of Art in Scotland looks at ‘A Silvered Light’ and ‘Safe Havens’, two exhibitions currently on at The McManus Gallery in Dundee. Curator Susan Keracher introduces ‘A Silvered Light’, a selection of Scottish art photography drawn from Dundee …

Art in Scotland : McManus Gallery

Art in Scotland

LeithLate presents The Mural Project, in collaboration with the artists’ collective Blameless, involving the installation of a new, contemporary mural for Leith on the corner of Halmyre Street and Gordon Street. The artists involved in The Mural Project are: Fraser …

Art in Scotland : The Leith Aquatic

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

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

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 …

Burns Unbroke

Artiscience

Artiscience, n., 1. the theory and practice of integrating art(s) and science(s), 2. knowledge of relations between the arts and sciences Hence, artiscient, adj., exhibiting or practicing artiscience Explore the Artiscience Library at Summerhall. The library, collated by Colin Sanderson, …

Colin Sanderson : Artiscience

Visual Arts

A profile of portrait sculptor Deirdre Nicholls explaining the background to her bronze of Nelson Mandela, commissioned by Glasgow City Council. The bust was installed in Glasgow City Chambers to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s honorary citizenship, which was granted by the …

Deirdre Nicholls : Citizen Mandela

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

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

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

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

Visual Arts

As part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, a collective of artists have created a series of works in various media for the large exhibition Out of Sight/Out of Mind, in Summerhall’s Meadow Suite Gallery. The exhibition …

Out of Sight/Out of Mind Exhibition

Visual Arts

Paintings as Arguments: Five Decades of Cultural & Political Change in Scotland Peacock Visual Arts presents a conversation between artist Alexander Moffat and author Alan Riach, which took place on the 17th September 2014.

Paintings as Arguments

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

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