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The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography

The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic Photography

(4 stars)4 Dec 2009

Bringing together photography from both Scott’s South Pole expedition (1910–1913) and Shackleton’s later attempt to cross Antarctica on foot (1914–16), The Heart of the Great Alone is more than a collection of images – it is a narrative journey and an…

The Dreisburg Wunderhorn

The Dreisburg Wunderhorn

4 Dec 2009

In the Middle Ages, Gunther the Quizzer travelled the Holy Roman Empire, leaving copious notes and drawings of the strange sights he encountered. This extraordinary legacy of baffling, incoherent waffle was recently collected by Edinburgh-based artist…

Keith Farquhar: Nudes in Colour

Keith Farquhar: Nudes in Colour

4 Dec 2009

Brand new venue Hyperground showcases new work by Edinburgh-based artist Farquhar over a single weekend. For each piece in the exhibition, a naked body has been painted, digitally photographed, then sent to a specialist workshop where the torso has been…

Best of a decade: Timeline

Best of a decade: Timeline

2 Dec 2009

1999 July Scottish Parliament opens, with Labour candidate Donald Dewar elected as the first First Minister ahead of SNP rival Alex Salmond. Dewar died suddenly in October 2000, following a fall at his Edinburgh residence. 2000 June Biffy Clyro…

Best of a decade: Respectable in the Noughties

Best of a decade: Respectable in the Noughties

2 Dec 2009

Much of the most powerful art produced in Scotland in the 1980s–1990s developed in angry reaction to the political situation and tapped into our radical, left-wing and egalitarian traditions – it’s no accident that the most popular works of that period…

BP Portrait Award 2009

BP Portrait Award 2009

24 Nov 2009

For some years now, the BP Portrait Award has proved to be one of the most popular exhibitions in the National Galleries’ calendar – people just love it. In terms of the contemporary Scottish visual art scene, however, portraiture is a rarity. So what…

Siobhán Hapaska: The Nose That Lost Its Dog

Siobhán Hapaska: The Nose That Lost Its Dog

(4 stars)24 Nov 2009

Scottish deer skin stretched over stainless steel, fibre glass and slate powder in resin, and an uprooted olive tree suspended in mid air by various steel components are some of the materials that have been used by Siobhán Hapaska to give life to three…

Colin Gray: In Sickness And In Health

Colin Gray: In Sickness And In Health

(4 stars)24 Nov 2009

The Parents is a photographic series featuring Colin Gray’s folks. It officially began in 1980, but Glasgow-based Gray started taking pictures of his mum and dad when he was a mere five-year-old boy. His obsession with documenting family occasions…

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