Visual Arts This twenty four minute programme is compiled from interviews with the artists and organisers of British Arts Show 8 staged in Edinburgh at Talbit Rice, Inverleith House and the Gallery of Modern Art throughout Spring 2016. BAS8 is touring throughout … Art in Scotland : British Art Show 8
Visual Arts MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, is putting on an exhibit of the artwork of Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg, in conjunction with the Summer Solstice Festival at the The Crawick Multiverse, the weekend of June 24-26th. Exhibition open 24 June – 3 … Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg : Landscape of Waves
Visual Arts Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous brings together some of the finest Surrealist works of art from four legendary collections, those of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch. The ways that Surrealist art has been collected … Keith Hartley : Surreal Encounters
Visual Arts Interim is an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, featuring work by first year students from the MFA/MA Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh College of Art. Realised through a dialogue between students and gallery curators, it … James Clegg : Interim
Visual Arts Designed not to camouflage, but to distort a ship’s appearance when viewed through a telescope, ‘Dazzle’ was developed by the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson to counter the threat posed by German U-Boats. Using strongly contrasting blocks of colour, stripes … Ciara Phillips : Every Woman
Festivals Visual Arts Encouraging participation has been central to the British Art Show 8. Here National Community Coordinator Natalie Walton engages groups from Glasgow and Edinburgh in the BAS8 exhibition and activities during the final week of the touring show’s appearance in Edinburgh. BAS8 Outreach : Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens & Inverleith House
Visual Arts Vomit Apocalypse looks to ecological, technological and sci-fi futures, poking a cheeky finger at our role in the throes of the late-capitalist binge. The show brings together new installation and sculptural works by Dougie Laing, Jamie 3000, OMSK Social Club … OMSK Social Club with Silas Parry, Dougie Laing, Jamie Cooper : Vomit Apocalypse
Festivals Visual Arts Anthea Hamilton’s free-standing sculptures, which function as formicaries or ant farms, ants move within intricate Art Nouveau patterns over images drawn from the artist’s previous works: a woman acting as a human clapperboard and a figure clothed in full-dress Kabuki … Anthea Hamilton : BAS8
Visual Arts Date: 08 Apr 2016 – 25 Apr 2016 The Briggait 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ Mooney constructs worlds populated by grotesque characters, strange animals, food, lurid flowers and morphed effigies of historical, mythical and religious figures. He likes to observe … Jock Mooney : Who are you and what do you want?
Visual Arts Date: 08 Apr 2016 – 25 Apr 2016 Hanson Street Project Space, Wasps Studios, 77 Hanson Street Glasgow, G31 2HF This exhibition is an attempt at a thesis for the world after the end of history, and in particular art … Andy Holden : Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (II)
Visual Arts For British Art Show 8 JL Williams and Catherine Street will be working on site at the three Edinburgh venues to create new texts in response to the works on show. Stay tuned to britishartshow8.com/ for up-to-date news and information! JL Williams and Catherine Street : BAS8 writers-in-residence
Visual Arts Glasgow International is a world-renowned biennial festival of contemporary art. Glasgow International showcases the best of local and international art for wide-ranging audiences. The forthcoming seventh edition will happen in the city from 8th – 25th April 2016, again under … Sarah McCrory : Glasgow International
Visual Arts In his new film Century Egg (2015) Williams explores the ways in which museums offer a combination of ‘the extraordinary and the completely banal’. Objects and artefacts found in Cambridge museums are the starting point for the artist’s loosely-linked narratives … Bedwyr Williams : Century Egg
Visual Arts Roger Malbert introduces British Art Show 8 as it arrives in Edinburgh as part of its nationwide tour. The exhibitions are being held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Inverleith House and the Talbot Rice Gallery until 8th May. Roger Malbert : British Art Show 8
Visual Arts Ryan Gander Talbot Rice Gallery 13 February – 8 May Ryan Gander’s shape-shifting practice is grounded in his habit of compulsive collecting: ‘not just physical stuff,’ he explains, ‘but words and pictures and descriptions of situations.’ For British Art Show … Ryan Gander : Fieldwork
Visual Arts MAKE AS IF Charlotte Duffy – aka Waste of Paint Productions is putting on a show ‘Make As If’. She hopes to restore the den builder in all of us from our childhood days, challenging the way we look and … Charlotte Duffy : Make As If
Visual Arts Dennis and Debbie Club are Dennis J. Reinmueller and Debbie Moody- their recent emergence on the Scottish art scene has been a breath of fresh air – merging digital trickery with humour and three dimensional sculpture, For LUST AND THE … Dennis and Debbie Club : OMA
Visual Arts Sven Warner makes intriguing animated mechanisms that are constructed to appear much like film. This interview introduces Sven’s current exhibition at Lust and The Apple on for three months through till April. Sven Werner : Title to be announced
Visual Arts Lust and the Apple’s exhibition of Fiona Beveridge’s ‘Chalkstone Gateau + Goby’ introduced by Paul Robertson. Here is a collection of mixed media tactile forms compromised of found items that together assemble fragmented elements of a factory; a chalk factory … Paul Robertson : Fiona Beveridge
Visual Arts TWO NEW WORKS Lust and the Apple, at Temple annouces the latest in the series of THE ARTIST IS NOT PRESENT exhibitions – the important neo-conceptual artist Jonathan Monk has instructed two new significant large scale outdoor works for January … Paul Robertson : Jonathan Monk
Visual Arts Shona Shirley MacDonald’s exhibition ‘Juniper’ in the Children’s Gallery at the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge. Running from Jan 7th – Feb 16th. Shona Shirley MacDonald : Former animation student, Edinburgh College of Art
Visual Arts ARTS-NEWS VERSION II Till Sunday 14th February. FOUND Collective (Ziggy Campbell and Simon Kirby) have been commissioned by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust to create new work for the exhibition Terra Nova. The project is a response to photographs taken by … Ziggy Campbell and Simon Kirby : Terra Nova
Visual Arts Inverleith House’s exhibition Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012 is on for one more week, culminating in a talk with art historian Professor Steven Jacobs on the 11th April. The show focuses on different elements of De Keyser’s five decade career, … Raoul De Keyser : Paintings 1967 to 2012
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 Swiss/Danish duo PUTPUT present their first Scottish exhibition, Fruitless, at Lust and the Apple. Situated in a greenhouse, in the garden of the gallery space, PUTPUT explore the perceptions of every day items and what context and environment can do … PUTPUT : Fruitless
Visual Arts 72 graduates from Scotland’s art colleges and architecture schools present their work at this year’s New Contemporaries show, held in the Royal Scottish Academy. This show displays a vast selection of work in a variety of disciplines such as painting, … RSA New Contemporaries 2015
Visual Arts Aggregations is the first solo UK exhibition by the internationally renowned Korean artist Kwang Young Chun, and explores the traditions of making and Eastern philosophy with the his painterly interest in American Abstract Expressionism. Chun creates large scale works using … Kwang Young Chun : Aggregations
Visual Arts As part of Talbot Rice Gallery’s sonic art festival, Gap in the Air, Joe Banks presents the sound installation ‘The Analysis of Beauty’, based upon William Hogarth’s thesis of the same name. Hogarth was interested in ‘Serpentine Lines’, featuring them in his … Disinformation : The Analysis of Beauty
Artists Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Dragan Cichosz and Jedrzej Cichosz use their flat as their canvas, painting, printing and collaging onto the walls. The walls in some rooms are covered entirely with printed photocopies in the style of the arts and … Marvin Gaye Chetwynd : Char Nah! Hor
Visual Arts Curator of Edinburgh’s St.Margaret’s House, Sophia Lindsay Burns, introduces The Neverending Glen, a new project featuring a carefully curated selection of contemporary artists and collectives in the grounds of Kelburn Estate. A series of site-specific installations, sculptures, performances & workshops … Sophia Lindsay Burns : The Neverending Glen
