Visual Arts Artist Ailie Rutherford has been exploring the history of Govanhill Baths as part of her residency, which coincided with the centenary of the baths. Rutherford considered the next 100 years, and held discussion groups with the local community to explore … Ailie Rutherford : Future Archive
Visual Arts Artist Andrew Carnie is exhibiting two works as part of this year’s visual arts programme from Summerhall, Edinburgh International Science Festival and ASCUS. Slice is a slide-dissolve work that explores the body as a theatre of action, and Magic Forest, a … Andrew Carnie : Magic Forest and Slice
Visual Arts Exhibition curators Ben Cram and Sarah Rothwell introduce the National Museum of Scotland’s exhibition, Game Masters. The exhibition looks at some of the original arcade games of the 70s and 80s, the development from these games to home gaming, independent … Ben Cram and Sarah Rothwell : Game Masters
Visual Arts Artist Silas Parry presents his new exhibition Possibility of Another Place, at this year’s Science Festival, in Summerhall. His work consists of everyday materials and mechanised parts in order to create objects with some form of life and independence to … Silas Parry : Possibility of Another Place
Visual Arts Artist Daniel Domig presents his first UK exhibition, The Heart is a Prideful Beast, at Warburton Gallery. Domig has responded to the gallery’s space and created a large wooden structure similar to scaffolding, in which a selection of his paintings … Daniel Domig : The Heart is a Prideful Beast
Visual Arts Artists Hans K. Clausen and Kim W. Wilson present a series of site specific works exploring industrial and domestic by-products of human activity, in their joint exhibition What Remains, at Generator Projects. Clausen uses discarded objects from the urban environment … Hans K. Clausen and Kim W. Wilson : What Remains
Visual Arts Artist Tim Sandys presents his exhibition, Damocles, which features a number of helium filled balloons, each with a spike hanging from them. The piece draws from the story of the “sword of Damocles”, which sees court member Damocles offered the … Tim Sandys : Damocles
Visual Arts For his latest exhibition, Gapfillers, artist Greig Burgoyne created work in response to the Briggait’s Project Spaces, using post-its and markers to create works exploring time and space. The exhibition started with a 5 day, 40 hour drawing performance, which … Greig Burgoyne : Gapfillers
Visual Arts Lust and the Apple’s first set of exhibitions come into their final week of display. Paul Robertson introduces The Potter’s Field, a piece by Post-Urban artists Alexander and Susan Maris, containing nine pauper’s graves, one for each of the classical … Paul Robertson : The Potter’s Field
Visual Arts Christopher Baker introduces the BP Portrait Award 2014, which showcases 55 works of portraiture from artists based all over the world. Selected from over 2000 entries, the pieces on display range from portraits of famous sitters, to friends and family … Christopher Baker : BP Portrait Award 2014
Visual Arts Gallery manager Lauren McLaughlin introduces Hide and Seek, the first solo UK show from Argentinian photographer, Romina Ressia. Drawing from four bodies of work, ‘How Would Have Been’, ‘What Do You Hide’, ‘Renaissance Cubism’ and her most recent ‘Not About … Romina Ressia : Hide and Seek
Visual Arts Petter Yxell and Ruth Switalski introduce 1 Royal Terrace’s new exhibition programme, Colloquy, exploring the role of conversation within contemporary art practice. This programme features the work of four artists over three exhibitions, utilising various disciplines such as sculpture, painting, … 1 Royal Terrace : Colloquy
Visual Arts The artists at The Number Shop have teamed up with scientists as part of a collaboration during this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival. With the support of ASCUS Art and Science, each artist has been able to work on a … The Number Shop : Primordial Soup
Visual Arts Artist and curator Rose Strang introduces Eigg Island, a collaborative exhibition of art, music and poetry inspired by the landscape and story of the island. Three of Strang’s large-scale paintings are featured in the exhibition along with works by photographer … Rose Strang : Eigg Island
Visual Arts Edinburgh Printmakers and Castle Mill Works, Fountainbridge present Dark Matters, a 12 month project of temporary installations across the city, exploring dark matter and dark energy. The project features partnerships between artists and scientists, creating a series of installations and … Edinburgh Printmakers : Dark Matters
Visual Arts Rags to Riches and Zero Waste Scotland worked with four Govanhill primary schools – Cuthbertson, St Brides, Holy Cross and Annette Street primary – and Zero Waste Scotland to creatively tackle the litter and fly-tipping that occurs in the community. The … Nadine Gorency : Rags to Riches
Visual Arts Artist Hugo Canoilas presents a series of paintings, photographs, drawings and writing in his first major exhibition in Scotland, Someone a long time ago, now. Hugo Canoilas is a Portuguese artist based in Vienna. Canoilas obtained his MA from Royal … Hugo Canoilas : Someone a long time ago, now
Visual Arts Every year a series of works is selected from the various degree shows at Scotland’s art and architecture institutions, and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy in their New Contemporaries exhibition. This opportunity offers a platform for art graduates to … RSA New Contemporaries 2015 Artists : Part Three
Visual Arts Every year a series of works is selected from the various degree shows at Scotland’s art and architecture institutions, and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy in their New Contemporaries exhibition. This opportunity offers a platform for art graduates to … RSA New Contemporaries 2015 Artists : Part Two
Visual Arts Every year a series of works is selected from the various degree shows at Scotland’s art and architecture institutions, and exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy in their New Contemporaries exhibition. This opportunity offers a platform for art graduates to … RSA New Contemporaries 2015 Artists : Part One
Visual Arts The Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition provides a platform for newly graduated artists to showcase new or recent work. The convenor of this year’s show, Eddie Summerton RSA, had the chance to go round the art schools and colleges … RSA New Contemporaries 2015 : An Introduction
Visual Arts The Royal Glasgow Institute presents a new show of work by artist Robin Leishman. Inspired by a box of toy soldiers he found, which belonged to his late father, Leishman has created a series of paintings, etchings and sculptures, touching … Robin Leishman : Propaganda
Visual Arts A different kind of shopping experience can be found at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s Pig Rock Bothy, this week. Artlink’s Barter Swap Shop has a series of handcrafted items made by artists with learning disabilities in collaboration … Kara Christine : Barter Swap Shop
Visual Arts Gerard Morris has been making work professionally since he first set up his studio in Islington in 1985. He works in oils on canvas, watercolour on paper & drawing with pastels, oil pastels & charcoal on paper. For this exhibition … Gerard Morris : Glasgow Print Studio
Visual Arts Nina Bacos, founder of Talk See Photography, introduces the organisation’s roundtable discussion, which follows up on an event held last year exploring Scotland’s current photography scene and how it’s developing. The round table panel consisted of Malcolm Dickson (Streetlevel/IPS), Ben … Nina Bacos : Talk See Photography March 2015
Visual Arts The Travelling Gallery is a custom-built, mobile, contemporary art space inside a big beautiful bus, which brings high quality contemporary art exhibitions and events to schools and communities throughout Scotland. The Travelling Gallery Spring 2015 exhibition and tour is a … Alison Chisholm : The Travelling Gallery
Visual Arts Just one more week left to see the work of French brothers Michael and Florian Quistreber, as they present a series of abstract video and canvas works in their largest UK exhibition Visions of Void, at Dundee Contemporary Arts. The duo … Graham Domke : Visions of Void
Visual Arts The Romance of Iron and Cortisone is on at Glasgow Print Studios for one more week. Orkney based artist Colin Johnstone discusses his work, which features a combination of text and print works, inspired by his parents lives, in particular his … Colin Johnstone : The Romance of Iron and Cortisone
This programme on Richard Holloway’s ‘OneCity’ report on social exclusion is from Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape series filmed for Edinburgh Television in 2001. Holloway chaired a Lord Provost’s Commission on Social Exclusion, which presented a bold challenge to … Cityscape : OneCity
Architects working in Scotland have in the past complained about the chocolate-box preferences of rural planning departments, favouring a lazy pastiche of one and a half storey stone cottages. Here architect Mark Walker explains his struggle to introduce a different … Rebuilding Scotland : Mark Walker Architect
