Visual Arts Alex Hetherington of Modern Edinburgh Film School presents MOTHS, a project featuring the work of Zoë Fothergill, Anne McGuire, Lucy Skaer, Katrina Vallé, Amy Pickles, Mairi Lafferty, Anna Lucas, Allison Gibbs, Jenny Brady and Bobby Niven. Each artist contributes to … Alex Hetherington : MOTHS
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 Brittonie Fletcher presents LUX SHIFTER, a new exhibition as part of the ACTINIC alternative photography festival. The ACTINIC Festival is a new series of exhibitions and events featuring Scottish and international artists at the intersection of analogue photographic media and … Brittonie Fletcher : LUX SHIFTER
Visual Arts David Bailey’s ‘Stardust’ at the Scottish National Gallery is the first major showing of Bailey’s work in Edinburgh since the Dean Gallery’s ‘Birth of the Cool’ in 2001. The current exhibition illustrates the extraordinary range of subjects that Bailey has … David Bailey : Stardust & Birth of the Cool
Visual Arts As part of Summerhall’s summer exhibition programme ‘Outside-In’, artist David Faithfull presents his findings from his time spent on Inch Kenneth, a small island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull. Faithfull explored the history of the infamous … David Faithfull : Leviathan
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts One Million Years of Laughter is a new series of performances and paintings finding humour in the contradictions that exist within commonplace actions and experiences. Using what is known about the early ‘Homo’ as the basis for this body of … David Sherry : One Million Years Of Laughter
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Long fascinated by Albrecht Durer’s ‘Young Hare’ (1502), a painting unquestionably viewed as an icon of naturalistic painting, Derrick Guild decided to make a series of paintings in the same composition but observed from different angles. He required a subject, … Derrick Guild : After A.D
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Who did the Urinal? Not Duchamp! say Glyn Thompson and Julian Spalding in their Summerhall Festival exhibition titled ‘A Lady’s Not A Gent’s’. Thompson and Spalding claim the submission of the urinal (aka ‘Fountain’) to the Independents exhibition of 1917 … Glyn Thompson : A Lady’s Not A Gent’s
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
Visual Arts Fin Ross Russell, Songze Wu, Manuel Loeffler, Nuria Boj and Maya Ross Russell introduce LIFE evolved, a travelling roadshow. This interactive experience and multi-gallery art installation promotes happiness, humanity and a world that works for everyone. It combines design, artisanal … LIFE evolved
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 ASCUS Art & Science’s Parallel Perspectives comprises three group shows, created from direct collaboration between artists and scientists. The exhibition explores a diverse range of scientific themes relating to neuroscience and disease, from Huntington’s disease to malaria and dementia. Parallel … Parallel Perspectives
Visual Arts The exhibition LUX SHIFTER features local, Edinburgh based artists such as Evan Thomas, Keith Guy, Scarlett Platel and Susanne Ramsenthaller. ACTINIC is also showing work from further afield, presenting an array of international artists, including USA-based Christian Arrecis and Clint … Scarlett Platel : LUX SHIFTER
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 As part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Summerhall presents Sylva Caledonia, an exhibition featuring the works of Tim Collins & Reiko Goto, with Sara Ocklind, Gerry Loose and Morven Gregor, and Chris Fremantle. Each was asked to consider their … Sylva Caledonia
Visual Arts The Thermos Museum is a comedic but also edifying experience; suitcases unfold to reveal numerous astonishing displays. However, the public are not free to reign: visitors are escorted around the museum by the mysterious and disenchanted Tour Guide. Digression seems … The Thermos Museum
Visual Arts William Latham brings Mutator 1+2 to Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. His work blends organic imagery and computer animation, using software modelled upon the processes of evolution to generate three-dimensional creations that resemble fantastical ‘other-worldly’ forms … William Latham : Mutator 1+2
