Afternoon events, Visual art

Collect a bag of art activities from the art station, and you and your family can explore the gallery with its help and make your own art. Ages 4–12.

Artist Graham Flack leads this drawing workshop; learn how others have portrayed the human figure, and then practise drawing from a life model yourself. Materials are supplied: suitable for all levels of experience. Booking is essential.

More than 60 architectural models gathered from around the world, providing an insight into future building projects including a UNESCO World Heritage site museum with a design based on an excavated artefact.

A sculptural installation including performances exploring themes of formlessness, dissolving worldviews, the idiosyncrasies of language and the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

A group show of contemporary glass sculptures capturing light and movement.

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Musician and author Clive Parker-Sharp presents this adaptation from his own book, The Box, which offered an insight into inter-racial mixing in the UK, as recorded by the African Pentacostalist Thomas Brem-Wilson. Parker-Sharp is joined by Marshall Star, for this mixing of music, words and images.

An installation by the artist and curator, exploring the many faces of time.

Powerful sculptural works from Clare Flatley, Pavlos Georgiou and Augustus Veinoglou.

Come and see the best of modern photography. Two hundred images are selected from a worldwide entry of more than 2500 by a panel of distinguished international judges. The exhibition is the oldest continuously running in the world and may be viewed at our great King Street exhibition centre in the heart of…

Art exploring themes associated with mythical 16th century Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean.

A group show featuring works in a range of disciplines, which looks at the tradition of Memento Mori. Works in painting, illustration, sculpture and more, have been created by artists including Adele Moreau, Brendan Hansbro, Conrad Steen and Ziahana Kausar.

Burlesque art class with a relaxed atmosphere, music, drinks and interesting models.

Drawing classes with experienced tutors from the Edinburgh Drawing School.

Photograph exhibition capturing the most exciting moments of cycling.

Celebrate Henderson's 50th birthday with some birthday cake while watching local artist Ben Hymers construct a likeness of Edinburgh Castles out of only vegetables and marvelling at the 100 metre square picnic blanket designed by over 100 Edinburgh school children. Fun!

Figurative paintings, drawings, screen printing, photocollages, photographs and assemblages from the Warminster-based artist, celebrating 50 years of her work which plays with notions of ambiguity and clarity and is heavily inspired by her travels to the East.

Images of Yorkshire coal miners against the backdrop of their working landscape and environment.

Work by students graduating from the Undergraduate and Masters Programmes of Fashion, Performance Costume and Textiles at Edinburgh College of Art. You saw it here first, remember.

The RSA's 187th annual exhibition is on a theme of 'Between the Late and Early', and invited artists include John McLean, Ashley Nieuwenhuizen and Gabriela Fridriksdottir.

A retrospective of the work of Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), the eldest of the artists known as the Scottish Colourists (the others being FCB Cadell, JD Fergusson and GL Hunter). Peploe studied in Edinburgh and two years in Paris introduced him to new developments in French painting. This exhibition consists of nearly…