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13 Young Danes
Date	Location
Danish students at the art schools of Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow exhibit a wide range of current work as part of an artistic exchange programme led by the Danish Cultural Institute. View full details
11 Jun–26 Jul Mon–Thu 10am–4pm	The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh

Alan McGowan: The Language of the Body
Date	Location
Figurative drawings of the human body, exploring ideas of enquiry and doubt. View full details
25 May–3 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–10pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Aleksander Zyw: Paintings and Drawings
Date	Location
Paintings and drawings by Polish-born but subsequently Edinburgh-based artist (1905-1995), focusing on his work of the 1940s and 50s. View full details
12 May–30 May Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm	The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Anne Roberts & Heather Fraser
Date	Location
Paintings and sculpture. View full details
14 May–31 May Mon–Thu 10am–3pm; Sat 10am–2pm	St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh

Arabella Hope: New Works
Date	Location
Painting, photography and sculpture by Fettes College Artist in Residence Hope. View full details
18 May–31 May Fri–Thu 10am–6pm By appointment only.	Fettes College, Edinburgh

Aremy Stewart: Family Matters
Date	Location
Paintings by Minnesota-born artist, inspired by family life and growth. View full details
29 May–31 May Tue–Thu 10am–3pm	Whitespace, Edinburgh

Art & Design Studies Summer School
Date	Location
Intensive week-long summer courses in different art and design disciplines. View full details
16 Jul–10 Aug Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm	Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Art by the Water
Date	Location
Fifteen artists from Coburg House Art Studios exhibit their paintings and crafts. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
9 Jun–16 Jun Mon–Sun 11am–6pm	Coburg House Studios, Edinburgh

Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits
Date	Location
A stroll down the Royal Mile will confirm to even the most philosophically sceptical observer that tartan and highland dress are, as they say, Emblems of Scottish National Identity. This exhibition examines what the tartan meant to six people painted between 1680 and 1780. View full details
17 Feb 2012–31 Dec 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Blue Box Room
Date	Location
A series of exhibitions and drawing events. Space is limited. Booking is essential. View full details
10 Jun–11 Jun Mon & Sun noon–3pm With work by Sarah R. Cameron.	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
15 Jun–16 Jun Fri & Sat noon–3pm With work by Paulina Sandberg.	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh
20 Jun Tue & Wed midnight	Top Floor Flat, 2 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh

Botanical Artists
Date	Location
Botanical watercolours from Fiona Strickland and Anna Knights. View full details
8 Jun–22 Jun Tue–Sat 2–5pm	Art Amatoria, Edinburgh

Botanical Images Scotia
Date	Location
Works by major botanical artists from around the world. View full details
6 Jun–22 Jun Mon–Sun 10.30am–4pm	John Hope Gateway Centre at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Britain Through the Eyes of St Petersburg Artists
Date	Location
Paintings by St Petersburg artists visiting England. View full details
26 May–30 Jun Tue–Fri 10.30am–4.30pm; Sat 1.30–4.30pm	Scotland-Russia Institute, Edinburgh

Callum Innes: Works on Paper
Date	Location
Retrospective of works on paper from 1989 to 2012 by Edinburgh-based abstract artist. View full details
15 May–14 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Campbell Sandlands: Perfect Reflection
Date	Location
Paintings and prints inspired by the artist's interest in Zen Buddhism. View full details
12 May–30 May Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm	The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Charlotte McDonald: Converging Beauty
Date	Location
Recent paintings by the Scottish artist inspired by explorations of a privately owned forest in Scotland. View full details
22 Mar–14 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–6pm	Royal Overseas League, Edinburgh

Craig Jefferson: Drawing Reality
Date	Location
An exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Edinburgh-based artist Craig Jefferson. View full details
4 May–15 Jun Mon–Sat 9am–4.30pm	Leith School of Art, Edinburgh

David Farren
Date	Location
Oil and arylic paintings in an impressionist style of New York and Edinburgh. View full details
2 Jun–30 Jun Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm	Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

The Derek Williams Collection
Date	Location
Derek Williams was a quiet chartered surveyor from Wales, who built up a remarkable collection of modern British art. It now belongs to a trust established in his name, and features important work by major figures such as Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Sean Scully and Howard Hodgkin. View full details
1 Dec 2012–24 Feb 2013 Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Date	Location
Where cabaret meets life drawing - the models are burlesque divas, strapping hunks of manhood and circus freaks. Win alcohol and fancy art supply prizes at this antidote to solemn, lifeless classes. View full details
10 Jun 3pm	The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh

Drawing and Painting the Figure with Damian Callan
Date	Location
A workshop in drawing and painting techniques led by artist and experienced tutor Callan. View full details
18 Apr–20 Jun Wed 9.45am–4pm Daytime course.	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh
18 Apr–20 Jun Wed 7–9.45pm Evening course.	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh

Easel Sketching in the Gallery
Date	Location
If you feel inspired enough by the masterpieces in the gallery to try your hand at a bit of sketching, come along for a session led by artist Damian Callan. There's a different subject each month, and sometimes a live model. View full details
21 Jun–22 Jun Thu & Fri 2–4pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Emerging Talent: Three Illustrators
Date	Location
Three illustrators from Edinburgh College of Art exhibit new work. View full details
19 May–17 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet

Ewan John
Date	Location
Lithographs and other items (including badges, totes, notebooks and cards) by artist/designer who specialises in work that illustrates a narrative. View full details
7 Jun–5 Jul Mon–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–5pm	Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh

Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape
Date	Location
Lusieri (1754–1821) was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most skilful landscape painters of his generation. In the first half of his career he worked in Rome, Naples and Sicily and after 1800 he worked in Greece, where he was involved in Lord Elgin's still-controversial removal to Britain of the marble frieze from the Parthenon in Athens. This exhibition features the best of Lusieri's surviving work. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
30 Jun–28 Oct Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Fluid Potion
Date	Location
A project of 'regurgitation versus representation', realised through drawing, sculpture, painting and video, by Diane Edwards, Sheena Leach, Callum Monteith, Liam Richardson and Alex Allan. Part of Annuale. View full details
17 Jun–24 Jun Fri–Sun noon–5pm	The English Speaking Union, Edinburgh

Frank Boyle: Frank on Football & Boyling Point
Date	Location
Two part exhibition from the Edinburgh Evening News cartoonist: until Thu 10 May there's a display of his football related cartoons, gathered by the Scottish Football Museum and on show in Edinburgh for the first time; then from Fri 11 May the focus shifts to political satire and Boyle's sharp jokes at the expense of politicians in Holyrood, Westminster and beyond. View full details
13 Apr–5 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

From Idea to Exhibition: Creating Treasures from The Queen's Palaces
Date	Location
The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Treasures curator, Deborah Clarke, gives a talk on the process of preparing the latest Queen's Gallery exhibition of treasures. View full details and ticket info
20 Jun 6.30pm	The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

From Sketchbook to Canvas: Drawing On Location and Painting in the Studio
Date	Location
A new course led by experienced tutor and artist Damian Callan, focusing on explorations of the narrative and poetic potential of 'work'. The first sessions are conducted on location, and after considering their sketches at home, students return for days in the studio working them up into painted compositions. View full details
16 Apr–18 Jun Mon 10am–4pm	WASPS Studios, Edinburgh

George Jamesone: Scotland's First Portrait Painter
Date	Location
George Jamesone (c 1690–1644) was the first great native portrait painter in Scotland, master of a rich, colourful and intricate style and so successful that he had two houses, one in his native Aberdeen and one in Edinburgh, so that he could take commissions from people all over the country. View full details
17 Feb 2012–31 Dec 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait 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. View full details
4 Jul–9 Jul Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–8pm 3 Jul 6pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

Harland Miller
Date	Location
Works by artist and writer who has been painting fictitious Penguin book covers. View full details
3 Nov 2012–26 Jan 2013 Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Helen Wilson RGI
Date	Location
Paintings created during the artist's residency with Scottish Opera. View full details
1 Jun–19 Jun Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm	Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Hospital Open Show: People
Date	Location
Artlink exhibition celebrating the talents of staff and patients from hospitals around Edinburgh. This year's theme is 'people', from the familiar to the faraway. View full details
12 May–27 Jun To be confirmed	St John's Hospital, Livingstone

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Date	Location
Work by the late great poet, artist and 'avant-gardener', including the recently rediscovered Carrier Strike, a naval battle enacted with irons, cotton wool and an ironing board. View full details
2 Aug–27 Oct Mon–Sat 10am–6pm	Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

In Edinburgh
Date	Location
Edinburgh-based artist Trina Bohan Tyrie presents a collection of urban and rural paintings in oil describing the surrounding landscape and seasons. View full details
31 May–21 Jul Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 10am–2.30pm	Amber Arts, Edinburgh

It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
Date	Location
Recent work by eight young artists working across different disciplines in Edinburgh. View full details
31 May 7pm Opening night.	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
1 Jun–6 Jun Mon–Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

Jamie King: Friends
Date	Location
Paintings created over a seven-month residency, consisting of friends of the artist who have either mental health conditions or disabilities. View full details
23 Jun–8 Jul Mon–Sun 11am–7pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

Jamie Primrose: Transient Skies
Date	Location
Hazy skyscapes by the highly collectable Edinburgh artist. View full details
15 Jun–23 Jun Mon–Fri 11am–7pm; Sat & Sun 11am–5pm	Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh

Joa Broadley HPAI & Gaye Broadley
Date	Location
Landscapes and cityscapes from Scotland, Venice and other parts of Europe. View full details
16 Jun–7 Jul Mon & Wed–Sat 9am–5.30pm; Sun 10am–5.30pm	Bon Papillon, Edinburgh

Joe O'Brien
Date	Location
Solo exhibition by self-taught painter who was last year invited to exhibit his work at the Scottish Parliament. View full details
15 May–3 Jun Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	Alpha Art Gallery, Edinburgh

John Bellany: A Passion for Life
Date	Location
In celebration of the 70th birthday of John Bellany the Gallery is mounting this major retrospective. It features work from all periods of his career, from the early paintings of fisher-folk through the more expressionist work of the 70s and 80s that reflected the artist's battles with inner demons and physical illness, to his more recent richly coloured allegorical paintings. This is the largest retrospective of Bellany's work for 25 years and is a proud celebration of a major Scottish artist. View full details
17 Nov 2012–27 Jan 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

John Clerk of Eldin (1728–1812)
Date	Location
John Clerk of Eldin was a true product of the Scottish Enlightenment. A successful businessman, he made enough money to devote himself to art and science. He went on geological tours with James Hutton, became an expert on naval tactics (publishing the first major handbook in English on the subject) and was also an accomplished artist. This is an exhibition of his fascinating etchings. View full details
3 Nov 2012–3 Feb 2013 Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

John Slezer: A Survey of Scotland
Date	Location
The military engineer John Slezer (c 1650–1717) came from the continent to Scotland in 1671 and worked for the army surveying fortifications, but in the course of his travels he also drew a series of stunning views of Scotland's landscapes, which were subsequently engraved and which he published in a book called Theatrum Scotiae in 1693. This major exhibition shows some of the earliest images of Scotland ever produced. View full details
17 Feb–31 Dec Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Karen Willis: Paintings
Date	Location
Landscapes and still lifes from the Shetland-born, Northumberland-based painter. View full details
3 Apr–31 May Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm	SF Gallery at Stick Factory, Edinburgh

Kindred Spirit
Date	Location
Photography, paintings, pottery and woodcraft from a family group of artists. View full details
3 Jul–8 Jul Tue–Sun 10am–5pm	Gladstone's Land, Edinburgh

Kindred Spirits
Date	Location
Scottish artists whose works reflect their backgrounds, heritage and loves. View full details
3 Jul–8 Jul Tue–Sun 10am–5pm	Gladstone's Land, Edinburgh

The Ladies Waldegrave by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Date	Location
Art historian Ailsa Turner talks about Joshua Reynolds' memorable portrait of Horace Walpole's nieces, three young woman in unfeasibly large wigs. View full details
8 Jun 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Leon Morrocco RSA RGI
Date	Location
Colourful drawings and paintings inspired by the artist's travels through India, Malta, Morocco, Italy and Cuba. View full details
22 Jun–10 Jul Mon–Fri 10am–6pm	Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

Leslie Hunter: A Life in Colour
Date	Location
A major retrospective of the work of Scottish Colourist George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931), contemporary of Cadell, Ferguson and Peploe, covering everything from his earliest work to that of his final years. View full details
21 Jul–14 Oct Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, Edinburgh

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