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Royal Highland Show 2012

Visual art, Prints and "Edinburgh"

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13 Young Danes
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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.
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11 Jun26 Jul Mon–Thu 10am–4pm The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
2012 Invades Popular Culture: Mayans, Memes, and the End of a World Era
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Apocalyptic culture researcher (one for the list of 'jobs we'd like to have') Kevin Whitesides discusses the 2012 phenomenon and how the end of the world has suddenly become a hot topic for everyone – not just the crazies. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival: Art Late.
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23 Aug 6.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Art & Design Studies Summer School
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Intensive week-long summer courses in different art and design disciplines.
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16 Jul10 Aug Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Campbell Sandlands: Perfect Reflection
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Paintings and prints inspired by the artist's interest in Zen Buddhism.
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12 May30 May Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
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Are we all doomed? A number of artists, including Gordon Cheung, Etienne Clement, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol have engaged with the subject of the end of the world as we know it, and with some claiming the apocalypse is nigh at the end of 2012, Edinburgh Printmakers has pulled together an apocalyptic selection of contemporary prints to ensure that we're all culturally sated as we hurtle towards the infinite black. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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2 Aug8 Sep Tue–Sat 10am–6pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Colour Plate Lithography
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Weekend course at the open access printmaking studios, showing you how to use light sensitive aluminium photo plates to expose and print detailed marks in black and white and colour. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course.
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13 Oct14 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Curator's Talk: Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
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Co-curator Dr Norman Shaw gives a talk about the works in the current exhibition, expanding on the apocalyptic themes they explore. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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4 Aug 2pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Dialogue: A Travelling Printmaking Group Exhibition Engramme
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Work from Quebecois print workshop and artists collective Engramme, exploring the duality of dialogue through 26 separate diptychs.
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2 Jun21 Jul Tue–Sat 10am–6pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Digital Imaging and Photo Lithography
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Learn how to prepare digital images in Photoshop and print out acetates for exposure onto litho plates. Some previous experience of Adobe Photoshop is essential. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course.
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2 Jun3 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
27 Oct28 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection
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(3 stars) It's the face that launched ten thousand angst-ridden diaries by visually-literate teenagers: Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was its creator's iconic image (he did several versions of it over the years) and one of the only prints hand-tinted by Munch himself is coming to Modern Two this summer, along with a generous selection of other prints by the master Expressionist. Expect high security: 'The Scream', in its various media, is one of the most-stolen pictures in art history. Part of Edinburgh…
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29 May23 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh
The End is Nigh! Block Printing Workshop
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Taking the apocalyptic theme of the exhibition Cheer Up! It’s Not the End of the World … * as inspiration, print your own doomsday message using this rough and ready old poster medium. *Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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18 Aug 1.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Ewan John
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Lithographs and other items (including badges, totes, notebooks and cards) by artist/designer who specialises in work that illustrates a narrative.
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7 Jun5 Jul Mon–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11am–5pm Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
Expressive Books
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Beginner course employing simple printmaking and bookbinding techniques to help you create interesting, recycled and home-made books. Price includes materials and is for the full weekend course.
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9 Jun10 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Gold Sheep
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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
Hospital Open Show: People
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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.
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12 May27 Jun To be confirmed St John's Hospital, Livingstone
Introduction to Etching
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Learn from members of Edinburgh Printmakers how to work directly onto metal plates to develop beautiful and experimental etchings.
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29 Sep30 Sep Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Etching
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A six-week course with members of Edinburgh Printmakers, teaching you how to work directly onto metal plates to develop beautiful and experimental etchings.
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23 Oct27 Nov Tue 6–9pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Printmaking 1
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Weekend course for absolute beginners to learn the basics of this fascinating art. The best bit? You don't even need to be that talented to create something pretty special-looking. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course.
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16 Jun17 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
6 Oct7 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Printmaking 2
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A weekend course, suitable for total beginners, providing an introduction to two simple but effective techniques: monoprinting and relief printing. Price includes materials and is for the full weekend course.
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25 Aug26 Aug Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
17 Nov18 Nov Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Printmaking
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Five-week course for absolute beginners to learn the basics of this fascinating art, covering three low-tech types of printmaking: drypoint, collagraph, and relief printing. Price includes materials and is for the full five-week course.
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10 May7 Jun Thu 6–9pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Relief Printing
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Explore the technique of cutting an image into wood or linoleum and using ink to produce bold and dramatic effects. Price includes materials, and is for the full six-week course.
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10 Oct7 Nov Wed 6–9pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Introduction to Water-Based Screenprinting
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Use anything from photocopied images or text to your own drawings to screenprint onto paper. You can also layer up different colours, to gorgeous effect, and use light sensitive stencils to add detail. This is a weekend course, price given is for two days.
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23 Jun24 Jun Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
1 Sep2 Sep Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
13 Oct14 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
17 Nov18 Nov Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore
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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
John Clerk of Eldin (1728–1812)
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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.
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3 Nov 20123 Feb 2013 Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Leslie Hunter: A Life in Colour
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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.
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21 Jul14 Oct Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Locating the Nest
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Words (by poet Tom Pow), images (by printmaker Hugh Bryden) and sculptures (by craft-artist Lizzie Farey) exploring the idea of the nest.
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15 May22 Jul Mon–Sun 10am–6pm John Hope Gateway Centre at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
May Flower Bike Ride
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Works by Levi WJ Bunyan and others, including screenprints, mugs, seed bombs and seed cards.
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8 May31 May Mon–Fri 12.30–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
Moving Colours
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Large abstract works on canvas inspired by a personal sense of movement, created by adults with learning disabilities in the Art Studio at Garvald Edinburgh.
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6 Jun29 Jun Mon–Thu 10am–2pm; Fri noon–3pm; Sat 10am–2pm St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh
A Parliament of Lines
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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
Photo-Etching
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A one-day course suitable for those with some printmaking experience, introducing you to the latest techniques in photo-etching, a process whereby light-sensitive acid allows photographic and digital images to be etched onto the plate.
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20 Oct 10am Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Photopolymer & Solarplate Printing
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Weekend courses offering an introduction to the art and techniques of photo-intaglio printing, an innovative technique that can be used to produce prints with the qualities of a hand-printed etching. Price given is for the weekend (ie Sat and Sun sessions).
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15 Sep16 Sep Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
3 Nov4 Nov Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Picasso, his Contemporaries and Modern British Printmaking
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A survey of prints by the great Spanish artist and his contemporaries, including Braque, Severini, Le Corbusier, Miro, Chagall and others, as well as British artists such as Sutherland, Hockney, Moore, Nicholson and Burra. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
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13 Aug22 Sep Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Plate Lithography Evening Class
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Five-week course in printmaking using light-sensitive aluminium photo plates. Price includes materials, and is for the full six-week course.
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24 Oct28 Nov Wed 6–9pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Record Store
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To mark Record Store Day, 20 artists have created 20 vinyl record sleeves for fictional records by fictional artists, the idea being that the viewer can enjoy the artwork without ever having to be disappointed by the content of the recording. All the 'records' are on the collaborative fictional label Obstacle Soup. Featured artists are Alexander Violette, Amy Marletta, Baldvin Ringsted, Brian Hartley, Chris Biddlecombe, Douglas Morland, Fiona Danskin, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Ian Smith, Jim…
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8 Jun24 Jun Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm
Part of Annuale.
Avalanche, Edinburgh
Rip Off Workshop!
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Inappropriate appropriation is the order of the day in this fun collage workshop. Taking the work of subversive artists The Chapman Brothers (currently on display in the Cheer Up exhibition) and others as inspiration. Places very limited. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. Booking is essential.
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11 Aug 1.30pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Screenprinting Workshop: Dialogue
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Have a go at screenprinting from your own photos or drawings, inspired by the work on show in the gallery's current exhibition, Dialogue. Ages 16+. Places very limited. Booking is essential.
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7 Jul 11am Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Stone Lithography
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Learn how to prepare stones for printing images including crayon, tusche washes and photocopy transfers. Price includes materials, and is for the full weekend course.
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22 Sep23 Sep Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
24 Nov25 Nov Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Terrain
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In 1963, a small collection of art was established with the idea that Edinburgh schoolchildren could have direct access to original works of art within a school environment. The collection has been in storage for some years but has now been cleaned, re-mounted and re-framed and a selection from it is here put on public display for the first time. Featured artists include Elizabeth Blackadder, Barbara Rae and William Littlejohn.
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5 May8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Woodcut Printing inspired by the Work of Edvard Munch
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Artist Campbell Sandlands leads a workshop in woodcut printing inspired by the techniques of Edvard Munch. All materials are supplied. Booking is essential.
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27 Jul 10.30am Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh
X-ray Exhibition: Inr-i
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Exhibition organised by Artlink featuring work made in hospital settings in collaboration with radiographers, including x-rays of everyday objects.
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14 May25 Jun To be confirmed The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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