Visual Arts Alan Robinson draws inspiration from euclidian geometry, fractal progression, natural pattern and archeological relics for his new exhibition Number, Sign and Pattern, at Gallery 17. Fused, cast and painted glass, layered surface textures and sculptures, are the techniques used to … Alan Robinson : Number, Sign and Pattern
Visual Arts Urbane Gallery manager Ariadna Battich, presents a collection of artists who have incorporated science and technology into their work. English artists Björn Amanda and Sjöling present Nobody Does It Better, a life size bronze and stainless steel sculpture based on … Ariadna Battich : Art of the Matter
Visual Arts The Talbot Rice Gallery is filled with sound and colour as artists Ross Birrell and David Harding present their exhibition, where language ends, which explores stories of exile and conflict. Music is a key component of this exhibition, connecting many … Ross Birrell and David Harding : where language ends
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 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 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 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
Like Leaves in Autumn is a collection of twenty one poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti translated into English, twenty one new poems by contemporary Scottish poets writing in response to Ungaretti, and twenty one black-and-white artworks from the ARTIST ROOMS collection. … Like Leaves in Autumn
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
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
Justin Russell and Francesca Atkinson’s Cityscape on Edinburgh’s Architectural Association awards. Comprising interviews with Douglas Reid and winning architect Stephen Boyd of Lee Boyd the clip introduces a language for reading and evaluating architectural form. The winning building for Adobe … Cityscape : Edinburgh Architectural Awards 2001
Architect Andrew Mackay and Community Councillor Dave Rushton mull over how Edinburgh might be better connected to Leith for walkers. They draw on inspiration from Barcelona’s Las Ramblas, the tree lined avenue that very successfully links the City to its … Cityscape : Leith to Barcelona?
This episode of Cityscape explores the thinking behind Leith Ports Authority’s Ocean Terminal. Terry Frost outline’s the Authority’s objectives and anticipated market for shoppers and visitors while Councillor Steve Cardownie evaluates the employment opportunities and the complimentary shopping the Terminal … Cityscape : Ocean Terminal
Performance In February, Charioteer Theatre developed a play exploring Italian immigration in Scotland, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Focusing on the lives of six women, three Italian and three Scottish, A Bench on the Road is the result of research … A Bench on the Road : Compilation
Visual Arts Possibilities of the Object presents a survey of Brazilian art from the 1950s onwards, by both established and up-and-coming Brazilian artists. Exploring the idea of objects and how they’re used within art, the work on show features a series of … Paulo Venancio Filho : Possibilities of the Object
Visual Arts Sculpture graduate Alistair Grant introduces The Number Shop, which is a studio and gallery space, located along from Edinburgh’s Pleasance venues. The building was empty for a long time until Grant saw an opportunity to open up affordable and flexible … Alistair Grant : The Number Shop
Visual Arts Rediscovered explores the work of artist Emma Gillies, who created painted and thrown ceramics whilst at the Edinburgh College of Art. Found locked away in a cupboard in ECA, these items had been used for still life displays without anyone … Emma Gilles : Rediscovered
Visual Arts One more week of David Lemm’s exhibition Debris and Phenomena, at Edinburgh Printmakers. Lemm completed an artist residency on the Isle of Eigg, which explored the role of maps in society, storytelling through map making and maps being used as … David Lemm : Debris and Phenomena
Visual Arts Artist and musician Tim Vincent-Smith presents a series of works and experiments during his Sound Shape residency, as he explores aspects of shape and sound at St.Margaret’s House. Pieces of work include a piano ‘cube’ constructed from three upright pianos … Tim Vincent-Smith : Sound Shape
Visual Arts It Surrounds Me – Part 2 is a continuation of work first started on a residency in Thailand, by artist jeweller, Fiona Hermse. Her initial focus was to create work that reflected the natural elements of her surroundings on the … Fiona Hermse : It Surrounds Me – Part 2
Visual Arts Michele Ciacciofera, whose current exhibition ‘I Hate the Indifferent’ is currently on at Summerhall, in conversation with Robert McDowell and Richard Demarco. The exhibition runs from December 2014 to April 2015 in Summerhall’s Church Galleries. Michele Ciacciofera : In Conversation
Visual Arts As part of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival, Perception exhibits the work of Iranian and non-Iranian artists inspired by Iran, in a variety of media. The international open call for submissions drew in work from 250 artists, which a panel of … Anna Montazam : Perception
Visual Arts Artist Tom Carlile presents Fractures, an exhibition exploring the ongoing child abuse investigation, Operation Yewtree. Combining sculpture, video work and drawing, Carlile aims to investigate the victims, the presentation of the investigation, and the sense of social desensitisation to the … Tom Carlile : Fractures
Visual Arts Canadian artist Stan Douglas presents a series of photographs and prints taken from his films, including Der Sandman, up to the just-completed The Second Hotel Vancouver, at the Fruitmarket Gallery. This solo exhibition showcases the work Douglas undertakes to explore themes … Stan Douglas
Visual Arts Coming into its final week at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Christopher Orr’s selection of new and recent paintings for his exhibition ‘The Beguiled Eye’. Orr draws inspiration from a range of source material and visual appropriation such as clips from … Christopher Orr : The Beguiled Eye
Summerhall Sessions Drawing inspiration from Summerhall and its current place within the arts in 2013, owner Robert McDowell disentangles arts and cultural policy. Robert McDowell : What is our arts context? Culturally, Economically?
Visual Arts Warburton Gallery presents ‘Edgelands’, a new exhibition of work from artists Paul Martin and Idris Murphy. The exhibition came out of a conversation they had in Australia, where they discovered that they shared similar references and inspirations. Although each painter … Paul Martin : Edgelands
Visual Arts Invented Acoustical Tools 1969 – 2014 is the first UK showing of musical instruments by American artist, filmmaker and musician, Tony Conrad. A pioneer of minimal and drone music, Conrad wanted to expand the boundaries of music that is most … Tony Conrad : Invented Acoustical Tools 1969 – 2014
