Visual Arts Broad Horizons showcases the collaborations between artists and Dovecot Studios, and celebrates the creativity that can be found through combining great ideas and skill. Featuring work by Alasdair Gray, John Byrne, David Poston, and many more, Broad Horizons looks back … Kate Grenyer : Broad Horizons
Visual Arts Director of the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh Natascha Gentz, introduces The Lanterns of Terracotta Warriors. To celebrate Chinese New Year, 90 larger than life lanterns, inspired by the ancient Terracotta Warriors of Xian, will populate … Natascha Gentz : The Lanterns of Terracotta Warriors
Visual Arts Visual artist and former President of the Scottish Society of Artists Louise Ritchie, introduces the Meffan Gallery’s exhibition ‘In a Jiffy’, featuring work created using paper. The title is derived from the phrase used to describe a measurement of time, … Louise Ritchie : In A Jiffy
Visual Arts Glasgow based designer Gabriella Marcella DiTano introduces her exhibition ‘Super Signs’, currently on at The Arches, Glasgow. Featuring 12 pieces printed on large silk scarves, the bright colours and bold prints explore a playful take on the Zodiac. Super Signs … Gabriella Marcella DiTano : Super Signs
Visual Arts Canadian artist Scott Rogers introduces his exhibition ‘Negative Miracle’, currently showing at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Created during his one year Graduate Fellowship at GSS from November 2012 to November 2013, this is Rogers’ first major solo show since graduating from … Scott Rogers : Negative Miracle
Visual Arts Programme Manager at Collective Gallery Siobhan Carroll, introduces artist Bertille Bak’s exhibition ‘Faire le mur’. Featuring 6 tapestries and a 17 minute film, Bak’s work centres around her own observations of community life. Bertille Bak is a French visual artist … Siobhan Carroll : Faire le mur
Visual Arts Chicago based artist Fraser Taylor introduces his exhibition ‘Figure/Ground’, a body of work undertaken in his 1 year sabbatical from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Taylor returned to his home in Scotland to create work focusing on … Fraser Taylor : Figure/Ground
Visual Arts Mike McDonnell lives and works on the island of Yell in the Shetland Islands, where his quirky, irreverent work echoes the Shetland propensity for poking fun at local politicians and each other as evidenced in the annual Up Helly’aa fire … Mike McDonnell
Visual Arts Glasgow based designer Gabriella Marcella DiTano introduces Risotto, a risograph print and design studio. The studio specialises in providing events, venues, labels and individuals with a range of print, design, installations and art direction. Find out more about the studio … Gabriella Marcella DiTano : Risotto Print Studio
Visual Arts Dundee based artist Ben Robinson introduces his project ‘ART101‘, a YouTube channel created by Ben as a response to the government’s discussions to get rid of art education. Ben pitched his idea of an arts channel to the Dundee Visual … Ben Robinson : ART101
Visual Arts Photographer Malcolm J Thomson and printmaker Allan Beveridge introduce their exhibition ‘Seeing the Wood and the Trees’. A combination of the two mediums, this exhibition is a result of a visual exploration of woodland in Fife and Angus,from Harran Hill … Malcolm J Thomson and Allan Beveridge : Seeing the Wood and the Trees
Visual Arts Sophia Hao, Curator of Cooper Art Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, introduces the new exhibition ‘Disrupting the Alignment’, by Pakistani artist Naiza Khan. Featuring three films, watercolours, prints and photographic works, this is Khan’s first … Naiza Khan : Disrupting the Alignment
Visual Arts Bonhoga marks the start of its 20th anniversary celebrations with the opening of the first show of 2014. Dennis Coutts returns with another showcase of captivating images from the 1960s in Shetland. After the huge success of Sixties’ Exposure at … Dennis Coutts : Sixties Revisited
Visual Arts Artist Mary Modeen discusses her work featured in her new exhibition ‘The Absolutely Other’, showing at Edinburgh Printmakers. Featuring prints, books and models, Modeen creates scenes by applying layer upon layer of images to produce a picture that you could … Mary Modeen : The Absolutely Other
Visual Arts Visual artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead introduce their exhibition ‘Maps DNA and Spam’ at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Working in film and print, their work looks at the relationship we have with the Internet, the impact it has had on … Thomson and Craighead : Maps DNA and Spam
Visual Arts Artist Alex Dordoy introduces his first major solo exhibition in a UK public Gallery, persistencebeatsresistance, at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. Utilising different materials such as plaster, silicone and glass, Dordoy’s work explores the role of objects beyond their physical use, representing … Alex Dordoy : persistencebeatsresistance
Visual Arts Art historian Bill Hare, introduces the work of the Boyle Family and their 1969 work Tidal Series, which is on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The Boyle Family consisted of Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, and … Bill Hare : Tidal Series by Boyle Family – How Anything Became Everything
Visual Arts An exploration into the creative potential of a found object, Sally Webber introduces her exhibition ‘An Inexact Science’, at Summerhall. The show features a collection of found objects, some of which were discovered in Webber’s time practicing at Summerhall. The … Sally Webber : An Inexact Science
Visual Arts Photographer Julie Howden introduces her exhibition ‘The Throwbacks – Obsessed About The ’50s’, featuring a collection of photographs studying the sub-culture of 50s style. The Throwbacks – Obsessed About The ’50s is on in the Lower Café Gallery, Summerhall, Edinburgh, … Julie Howden : The Throwbacks – Obsessed About The ’50s
Visual Arts Performance artist Sarah Sanders introduces her piece ‘I Used To’, a live text based work that is part of ‘The Dark Would’ exhibition at Summerhall. Using black paint, Sarah adorns the walls of the Lower Church Gallery corridor with phrases … Sarah Sanders : I Used To
Visual Arts Paul Darling, one half of arts production company ‘Two Little Birds’, introduces their largest ever group exhibition, ‘Boys Keep Swinging’. Featuring the work of artists from New York, London and Manchester, this exhibition explores certain aspects of contemporary society from … Paul Darling : Boys Keep Swinging
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
Festivals Simon Hart, Artistic Director of Puppet Animation Scotland, introduces Manipulate Festival 2014, which showcases and celebrates innovative visual theatre and film. The festival takes place from the 31st January to the 8th February, in locations across Scotland and down in England. Simon Hart : Manipulate Festival 2014
Visual Arts Artist Fiona Watson presents Glasgow Print Studio’s exhibition ‘Living Proof‘, which features a collection of prints from artists such as Elizabeth Blackadder, Alasdair Gray, Kenny Hunter and many more. The exhibition represents an ongoing preoccupation with animals in artists work, … Fiona Watson : Living Proof
Visual Arts Curator Robin Baillie introduces the Scottish Portrait Gallery’s exhibition ‘The Nation // Live | Work, Union, Civil War, Faith, Roots’. The exhibition features work from five community outreach projects, which looked at the meaning of Scottish history to residents of … Robin Baillie : The Nation // Live | Work, Union, Civil War, Faith, Roots
Visual Arts Curator Anna Robertson introduces ‘Re:new’, a selection of contemporary art from Dundee’s Art Galleries and Museums recent art acquisitions. This exhibition is split into two groups. One group looks at the unusual visual depictions of Dundee, from the response to … Anna Robertson : Re:new
Visual Arts The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum presents an exhibition of paintings from the collection of James Guthrie Orchar. This selection explores the way harbours were depicted frequently as a subject matter in 19th Century art. James Guthrie Orchar (1823–1898) … Kirsty MacNab : Safe Havens
Visual Arts Curator Amy Waugh introduces the exhibition JD Fergusson : Picture of a Celt. Fergusson was a prominent figure in the Scottish Colourists school of painting, and was widely considered as an influential figure in modern British painting in the early … Amy Waugh : Picture of a Celt
Visual Arts Campaigner Heidi Pearson highlights recent efforts to save the Edinburgh Meadows Jawbones brought to the city by Shetland knitters in 1886 to form part of their display at the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry. For further information and … Heidi Pearson : Jawbone Walk
Visual Arts Gallery Director Kate Gray introduces Collective’s exhibition ‘Goldin+Senneby: Anti-VWAP’, which forms part of a series of new productions using the infrastructure supporting exhibitions, such as staff, funding, and administrative supports, to develop algorithmic trading models. Anti-VWAP features a commissioned, speculative … Kate Gray : Goldin + Senneby Anti-VWAP
