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Why I love Edinburgh - By Laura Cameron Lewis
31 Aug 2012
The artist, producer and singer walks you through her favourite Edinburgh haunts
Edinburgh is a city of contradictions. An international, cosmopolitan hub, it is also known to its long-time residents as Village Edinburgh. Its vertical architecture reveals the depth of the city’s history and intellectual propriety and yet, on the…
A guide to the galleries and artworks of Edinburgh and Glasgow
30 Aug 2012
Salvador Dali, Picasso, Van Gogh, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ugo Rondinone and more
Rosalie Doubal picks out the best galleries and exhibition spaces, from national institutions to pop-up venues showcasing Scotland’s up-and-coming talent Glasgow is famed for its DIY exhibition culture and you’re as likely to uncover an artistic gem at…
Soviet Grand Designs
30 Aug 2012
Surprising exhibition of art created under suppression
John Barkes, an art dealer and collector based in London, has been buying works by Soviet artists since his 1992 visit to St Petersburg. He has since met more than 400 contemporary artists in the interest of buying their paintings and has assembled…
Ilana Halperin: We Form Geology
30 Aug 2012
Travelling Gallery, various locations around Scotland, Aug-Dec 2012
New York born artist Ilana Halperin collaborates with National Museums Scotland for this travelling show which kicked off on Fri 24 Aug for a three-hour run outside the City Art Centre in Edinurgh, and continues across Scotland throughout the rest of…
Explore Scotland's stunning architectural heritage
30 Aug 2012
Castles and iron homesteads just some of Scotland's architectural gems
From castles to UNESCO World Heritage sites, churches and cathedrals to eco-friendly design, Scotland boasts some prolific architectural credentials. For an in-depth education, Scotland’s Centre for Design and Architecture The Lighthousein Glasgow is…
Eyes in the Water
24 Aug 2012
Enjoyable group show of work from up-and-coming artists
Gael Fisher is a recent finalist on the BBC's Show Me the Monet, but her work is far removed from the somewhat dubious endorsement of reality TV. The quirky little space of the Gladstone Gallery is a wonderful introduction to this Edinburgh-born…
Design exhibition Scotland Can Make It showcases quality Commonwealth souvenirs
22 Aug 2012
The Panel-curated event dispenses with tartan tat in the run up to the 2014 Games
Enter ‘Scottish souvenir’ into your mental Google and what comes up? A crazy straw with a kilted bagpiper at the top? A See You Jimmy bunnet? What about a ceramic jelly mould based on the interior of Glasgow’s Rogano? A picnic blanket inspired by a…
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre
20 Aug 2012
Eduard Bersudsky's home-made theatre is a feast for the eyes and a window onto another world
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre is a bizarre collection of automated hand-carved sculptures made from wood, sewing machines, bike wheels, lawn mowers and whatever else Russian-born artist Eduard Bersudsky could lay his hands on. As the show starts the…
Visual artist and filmmaker Katri Walker discusses her career so far
19 Aug 2012
Walker is a fan of Salla Tykkä, Francis Alÿs and being referred to in the third person
What was the first exhibition you went to see? I don’t remember what the first one was but sprinting through the Hermitage in St Petersburg as a teenager with my brother in a valiant yet futile attempt to see as many of the three million plus artworks…
John Bellany at 70
17 Aug 2012
Showcase of familiar images from the Port Seton artist
John Bellany at 70 precedes the major retrospective of the Scottish painter’s work due to be held by the National Galleries of Scotland later this year, and showcases some of his more vibrant, powerful images and compositions that are now familiar…
Fiona Tan: Disorient
17 Aug 2012
Twin-screened video installation a relaxing environment, but little else
The Gallery of Modern Art presents Disorient, a twin-screened video installation by Fiona Tan. Originally shown as part of the Venice Biennale, Disorient uses a reading from The Travels of Marco Polo to examine discordant perceptions, identity and…
Jock Mcfadyen: the Ability to Cling
17 Aug 2012
Small but revealing exhibition of paintings and sculptures
Small but revealing exhibition of paintings and sculptures ‘The ability to cling fastidiously to an image is a pointer to the mark of a true artist,’ runs the slogan which gives this exhibition its title on one of the Paisley-born McFadyen’s earlier…
Garage
17 Aug 2012
Off-piste, enjoyable compendium of grassroots art
In a residential garage, a portable TV sits on a rug on the floor, a bouquet of flowers laid down before it. On-screen a collage of scenes from a 1980s TV compendium of schlocky horror play out in Rebecca Key and Melodien’s ‘Sevant! Sevant! Vol 1…
Phenotype Genotype (phg)
17 Aug 2012
Treasure trove of avant garde works
There is no more perfect show to illustrate where Summerhall has come from than this vast display of avant-garde detritus culled from the even vaster archive of the Edinburgh-based Heart Fine Art set-up. From John and Yoko to Gilbert and George to Jake…
The Clipperton Project
10 Aug 2012
An uninhabited island becomes an idea at the 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival
Clipperton is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. To a group of modern day expeditionaries this island has also become an idea. In March this year 20 artists and scientists from eight different countries embarked on a…
Interview: Kevin Harman at 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival
10 Aug 2012
Recent work on 24-hour consumer culture by graduate of Edinburgh College of Art
What was the first exhibition you went to see? It was in the national gallery of Scotland on a school trip. I remember a painting with a woman’s boob on a plate. I distinctly remember that painting as it done a sex thing to me. What was your first…
Art & Language
10 Aug 2012
Intriguing but ultimately impenetrable overview of conceptual movement
Intriguing but ultimately impenetrable overview of conceptual movement Doing little to counteract the idea that conceptual art is a tough sell at the best of times, this sample display of pieces from the collective body behind the Art & Language…
We Are All Ufo-nauts
10 Aug 2012
Subtly curated exploration of the uncanny
The uncanny possibilities of everyday life thread through this group show at compact warehouse gallery Rhubaba, the manipulation of the real through artistic technique and judicious editing creating a sense of the playfully otherworldly. As the title…
Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge
10 Aug 2012
Casting light on an Edinburgh landmark
Callum Innes’ first public art commission is easy to miss at certain times of day. Using a simple strip of lights along the length of each pavement under the Regent Bridge, at night Innes’ installation lights up the walls above and casts eerie light and…
Susan Philipsz: Timeline
9 Aug 2012
Other-worldly chorale from Turner Prize winner
It only takes a few seconds, and the lunchtime Calton Hill day-trippers may not even register the three-note female vocal harmony emanating from Nelson’s monument, and which segues into the faint sound of a cannon being fired for the One O’Clock Gun. In…
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - The Black Spot
9 Aug 2012
Energetic and honest response to great works of literature
The works by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. in The Black Spot are every bit as powerful as the story behind them; Rollins, working as a teacher in the Bronx in the 80s, developed a collaborative and responsive strategy for making art with his disadvantaged…
Carolee Schneemann: Remains to be Seen
9 Aug 2012
Fascinating retrospective from the iconic artist
Torn-up black-and-white images of a woman taken almost half a century ago are laid out on the floor in criss-crossing strips, as multiples of the woman’s face stare out. This is Carolee Schneemann, performance artist, avant-provocateur and feminist…
Jannis Kounellis
8 Aug 2012
An eerie, uneasy sculpture show from the Arte Povera figurehead
As part of Tate’s Artist Rooms touring collection, Tramway presents this exhibition of old and new works by Jannis Kounellis. As one of the most influential figures of the 1960s movement, Arte Povera, or poor art, Kounellis uses installations of…
Picasso's Nude Woman is there to stay at Edinburgh airport
8 Aug 2012
Edinburgh Airport reinstates Picasso nude after it was covered due to passenger complaints
Several customers in Edinburgh Airport complained about the poster featuring Nude Woman in a Red Armchair, which was advertising Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – highlight of the on-going…
Picasso & Modern British Art
7 Aug 2012
Feast of a show from the Spanish master and his imitators
Originally seen at Tate Britain earlier this year, this curiously diverse collection benefits from the combining of two major National Galleries’ forces. Whether an exhibition of this kind – examining the personal and influential links between Pablo…
