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Anya Gallaccio: Billboard for Edinburgh
Date Location
Artist Anya Gallaccio's contribution to the Billboard for Edinburgh project is a microscopic photograph of a tiny speck of dirt taken from Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh's very own extinct volcano.
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23 May21 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm
Billboard is viewable at any time.
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Atmosphere: Belief
Date Location
Video documentary or 'cinematic data visualisation' that is the final part in the Flat Earth Trilogy, created by Matthew Jarvis, John Cobban, Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. The installation comprises a montage of video footage sourced from YouTube, coupled with a projection of a map that shows where in the world each clip is from. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
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21 Jun1 Jul Mon–Sun 8.30–9pm Inspace, Edinburgh
Callum Innes: The Regent Bridge
Date Location
Best known as an abstract painter, Callum Innes works for the first time with light in an installation which floods the dark and dirt-encrusted Regent Bridge with coloured light. Created with architect and lighting artist Gavin Fraser and co-commissioned by the EAF and the Ingleby Gallery. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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2 Aug2 Sep Times vary Regent Bridge, Edinburgh
Ding Dong, the Queen is Dead!
Date Location
Video, installation and poem by Inbal Drue examining subjects such as society, rules, battles and strategies. Part of Annuale.
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12 Jun24 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
Gold Sheep
Date Location
Stone lithography prints and watercolours from Czech artist Lucie Hrnickova and woodcut prints and mixed media work from Andy Cumming, both award-winning recent graduates.
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4 Jul9 Jul Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–8pm
3 Jul 6pm
Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Hidden Stories
Date Location
Graduate exhibition from students, exploring the Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design's local and global presence.
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2 Jun7 Jun Mon–Thu, Sat & Sun 10.30am–5.30pm Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
Date Location
Recent work by eight young artists working across different disciplines in Edinburgh.
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31 May 7pm
Opening night.
Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
1 Jun6 Jun Mon–Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
The Joy of Sex
Date Location
Interactive exhibition exploring the lighter, funnier side of sex. Leave that po-face at home, and get well and truly stuck into a naked tea party (socks must be left on), performance exhibits themed around tickling and fetish, and plenty of exhibitions of fruity objects and people. God only knows what's in the petting zoo. Part of the Festival of Erotic Arts.
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18 Jun24 Jun Mon–Sun noon–7pm Sapphire Rooms, Edinburgh
Jupiter Artland
Date Location
The celebrated outdoor sculpture park opens its doors for the third summer season with new works on show by Anya Gallacio, Andy Goldsworthy and Henry Castle, plus existing sculptures by the likes of Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and others.
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31 May16 Sep Thu–Sun 10am–5pm
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston
Katie Paterson
Date Location
New work by artist concerned with astronomical and cosmological themes.
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2 Feb13 Apr Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
The Making of It
Date Location
Artists from Scotland, Turkey, Switzerland, Malta and Greece show work with process and playfulness at its heart.
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16 Jun 6pm
17 Jun27 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm
Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
28 Jun 6pm
Part of LeithLate.
Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Margaret Malcolm: Prigogine's Dream
Date Location
An experiential work, starting at the college gates and moving into the Main Building. Part of Annuale.
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9 Jun 10am Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Mick Peters: Lying and Liars
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Exhibition examining notions of 'lying' in art, with special reference to the remarkable work of the English writer and filmmaker BS Johnson, who became so obsessed with said notions that he found himself arguing that writers shouldn't write about anything except their own personal experiences. This project will include some screenings of his work.
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2 Aug29 Sep Tue–Sat 11am–5pm Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
One Thousand Points of Light: Melvin Moti
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Installation by Dutch artist Melvin Moti, incorporating a film exploring rocks from the Museum's collection that emit ultraviolet light, as well as other objects such as scent bottles made with uranium glass. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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20 Jun31 Oct Mon–Sun 10am–5pm National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Ornithology
Date Location
Strange Bird Zirkus presents work in progress Ornithology, which combines Chinese pole and floor acrobatics and a double-option soundtrack to tell a surrealist story.
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29 Jun 7.30pm
An installation of work by Christine Banks is also on show to accompany the performances.
Brunton Theatre, Edinburgh
A Parliament of Lines
Date Location
Work by fifteen important Scottish artists – or at any rate, artists who've been through the Scottish education system – who use drawing as a central component in their practice. Featured artists are Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flannigan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd and Ainslie Yule and the exhibition is organised around five themes: The Body…
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5 May8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Rachel Mayeri: Primate Cinema – Apes as Family
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Previous works by Rachel Mayeri include Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends, in which a primatologist shot a film of four male baboons competing for the attentions of a female, and the artist then took the film, scripted the behaviour for five actors and had five actors act it out as if were four guys and a girl in a film noir. Apes as Family has a video drama written for chimpanzees and performed by human actors, simultaneously screened along with the reactions of the chimps that watched it.
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2 Aug2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
That Distance Was Between Us
Date Location
Installation by Rachael Cloughton and Joe Constable that seeks to question the notions of distance and apathy that the media often induces in the spectator. Part of Annuale.
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11 Jun14 Jun Mon–Thu 11am–5pm Lecture Theatre 183 at Old College, Edinburgh

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