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Manchester School of Art Degree Show
Work by final year students at the Manchester School of Art.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0161 247 2000
- 10:00 – 16:00
Mary Pym & Shirley Trevena
Colourful semi-abstract landscape paintings from the well known Hampshire based artist, shown alongside the mixed-media paintings and watercolours of Shirley Trevena.
Marine House At Beer, Seaton
Sat 13 Jul
Free / 01297 625257
- 10:00 – 17:30
Sun 14 Jul
Free / 01297 625257
- 10:00 – 17:30
Mon 15 Jul
Free / 01297 625257
- 10:00 – 17:30
Agency 10
Work by ten students from the M.Litt Fine Art Practice degree program at Glasgow School of Art. Featured artists include Sumin Bak, Ruaridh Crighton, Si Ne Lee, Sheena Mayer, Suzanne Taylor, Rongwei Zhang, Mine Kavuncu, Elizabeth Grant and Mitra N Forouhar.
iota, Glasgow
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 338 6052
Part of West End Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0141 338 6052
Part of West End Festival.
- 10:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0141 338 6052
Part of West End Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Amazing Amber
Amber is beautiful as well as fascinating. It consists of fossilised tree resin, and since resin in liquid form is sticky, and amber is transparent, this means that insects, animals and plant material sometimes get trapped in it and are preserved intact, giving us a glimpse of life millions of years ago. The whole process…
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0300 123 6789
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0300 123 6789
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0300 123 6789
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design Degree Show
Degree show showcasing the work of students on the Design for Textiles, Fashion Design, Fashion Technology and Textiles & Fashion Design Management courses.
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0131 550 3660
- 10:30 – 17:30
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0131 550 3660
- 10:30 – 17:30
The House Of Peroni
A stylish month-long celebration of contemporary Italian culture.
The House Of Peroni, London W1B
Wed 3 Jul
Free (workshops £10 per person) / 020 3617 8461
- 12:00
Thu 4 Jul
Free (workshops £10 per person) / 020 3617 8461
- 12:00
Fri 5 Jul
Free (workshops £10 per person) / 020 3617 8461
- 12:00
Just Glass Society: Movement And Light
A group show of contemporary glass sculptures capturing light and movement.
The Stables Gallery, Twickenham
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 8831 6000
- 13:00 – 17:30
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 8831 6000
- 13:00 – 17:30
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 8831 6000
- 13:00 – 17:30
Lovely Pigeon: Pigeon Copper
Art, crafts and jewellery from the Cellardyke-based one-woman design studio Lovely Pigeon.
Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0131 477 3255
- 10:30 – 17:30
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0131 477 3255
- 10:30 – 17:30
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0131 477 3255
- 10:30 – 17:30
See USSR
An exhibition of propaganda from the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the influence of the advertising organisation Intourist, which was responsible for foreign tourism to the Soviet Union, The show also incorporates a reconstructed model by Henry Milner, of the See USSR poster, designed by Nikolay Zhukov in 1930.
GRAD: Gallery For Russian Arts And Design, London W1W
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 7637 7274
- 11:00 – 19:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 7637 7274
- 11:00 – 19:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 7637 7274
- 11:00 – 19:00
Sex, Drugs & Music Hall
- Written by: Clive Parker-Sharp (adapt)
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.
Hove Library
Thu 27 Jun
Free / 01273 296937
- 18:00
Jubilee Library, Brighton
Thu 11 Jul
Free / 01273 709709
- 17:00 – 19:00
Sat 20 Jul
Free / 01273 709709
- 14:00
Thu 8 Aug
Free / 01273 709709
- 17:00 – 19:00
Maidstone Museum And Bentlif Art Gallery
Thu 12 Sep
Booking required free / 01622 602850
- 14:00
Thu 19 Sep
Booking required free / 01622 602850
- 14:00
Fri 27 Sep
Booking required free / 01622 602850
- 14:00
Barry McGlashan: That Howling Infinite
Filmic landscape paintings depicting small towns in the Mid-West of America created by the Scottish artist and 2006 Meyer Oppenheim award-winner. Inspired by the artist's many walking trips to the area, the paintings are intimate and evoke a fondness for rural communities.
John Martin Gallery, London W1S
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 7499 1314
- 10:00 – 18:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 7499 1314
- 10:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 7499 1314
- 10:00 – 18:00
Sat 22 Jun
Free / 020 7499 1314
- 11:00 – 16:00
Blitz: WWII In London
Vintage photographs of London taken during the 1940–41 blitz, in which the Luftwaffe attacked the city 71 times and made more than 1.4 million people homeless.
Daniel Blau, London N1
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 7831 7998
- 11:00 – 18:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 7831 7998
- 11:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 7831 7998
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cathy Haynes: A Storm Is Blowing
An installation by the artist and curator, exploring the many faces of time.
Petrie Museum Of Egyptian Archaeology, London WC1E
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 7679 2884
- 13:00 – 17:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 7679 2884
- 13:00 – 17:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 7679 2884
- 13:00 – 17:00
Chair – A Life Backwards
Collaborative mixed media installation by Dot Young, Gregg Fisher and Pavel Legonkov, charting the history of an English-made oak chair from its production to its roots in a forest.
Free Space Gallery, London NW5
Wed 19 Jun
Free
- 09:00 – 18:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free
- 09:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free
- 09:00 – 18:00
David Peat: A Retrospective
Retrospective of classic street photographs by one of the masters of the genre.
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
Fri 27 Sep
Free / 0131 550 3660
- 10:30 – 17:30
Sat 28 Sep
Free / 0131 550 3660
- 10:30 – 17:30
Mon 30 Sep
Free / 0131 550 3660
- 10:30 – 17:30
Denis Buckley: The Irishman (Nostos: End of Exile)
Irish artist Buckley explores tropes of Irishness, Irish identity and exile with laconic poetry and deadpan wit. This work completes his Irish Trilogy with a combination of video and still images of performance.
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0845 874 3001
- 11:00 – 18:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0845 874 3001
- 11:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0845 874 3001
- 11:00 – 18:00
Eduardo Chillida: Chillida: From Iron To Light
A solo exhibition featuring sculptural works made in alabaster and steel, works on paper and source materials from the archive of the late Spanish artist, marking the first London show of his work in twenty years.
Ordovas, London W1S
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 020 7287 5013
- 10:00 – 18:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 020 7287 5013
- 10:00 – 18:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 020 7287 5013
- 10:00 – 18:00
Going Digital Photography Workshop
A session finding out how to improve the skills needed for landscape and wildlife photography.
National Trust: Fountains Abbey And Studley Royal Water Garden, Ripon
Sun 28 Jul
£75 / 01765 608888
- 10:00 – 16:00
Sat 3 Aug
£75 / 01765 608888
- 10:00 – 16:00
Sun 25 Aug
£75 / 01765 608888
- 10:00 – 16:00
Hour Leeds: Clockworks Celebrity Clock Art Exhibition
An exhibition of clocks decorated by celebrities and local artists, as part of the Hour Leeds Campaign, calling time on poverty. The exhibition includes clocks designed by Alison Moyet, Nicola Adams, Jon Gomm, Neil Warnock, Paul Collingwood and all proceeds go towards the St Vincent Support Centre.
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds
Fri 21 Jun
Phone for prices / 0113 2484126
- 09:00 – 18:00
Sat 22 Jun
Phone for prices / 0113 2484126
- 09:00 – 18:00
Sun 23 Jun
Phone for prices / 0113 2484126
- 09:00 – 18:00
Jamie Primrose: Ethereal Journey
A look back at the last ten years of the best-selling artist's career.
Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0131 558 9363
- 11:00 – 19:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0131 558 9363
- 11:00 – 19:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0131 558 9363
- 11:00 – 19:00
Sat 22 Jun
Free / 0131 558 9363
- 11:00 – 17:00
Jane Charles
Unique bottles and sculptures by glass artist.
Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 332 4027
- 09:30 – 17:30
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0141 332 4027
- 09:30 – 17:30
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0141 332 4027
- 09:30 – 17:30
Mia Nelle Drøschler: DreamEscape
Art imagining a world without the presence of human life.
The Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0131 225 7189
- 10:00 – 16:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0131 225 7189
- 10:00 – 16:00
Mon 24 Jun
Free / 0131 225 7189
- 10:00 – 16:00
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Eric and Jean Cass Gift
The late Niki de Saint Phalle had an unlikely career; born into a privileged French family whose wealth was wiped out in the Depression, she became a teenage fashion model and then eloped to the USA before having a nervous breakdown and reinventing herself as creator of some of the most personal, vivid and engaging public…
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 287 3050
- 10:00 – 17:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free / 0141 287 3050
- 10:00 – 20:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free / 0141 287 3050
- 11:00 – 17:00
Paradiso
Powerful sculptural works from Clare Flatley, Pavlos Georgiou and Augustus Veinoglou.
India Buildings, Edinburgh
Wed 19 Jun
Free
Part of Annuale.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Thu 20 Jun
Free
Part of Annuale.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Fri 21 Jun
Free
Part of Annuale.
- 12:00 – 16:00
Sarah Kenchington: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh
Sarah Kenchington builds her mechanical instruments from discarded materials. Bicycle spokes, typewriters, the inner tubes of tractor tyres are combined to create unique musical machines which emit a discordant array of moans, squeaks and chimes. Kenchington’s work offers a contemporary manifestation of a long history of…
Trinity Apse Church Nave, Edinburgh
Thu 1 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Fri 2 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
Sat 3 Aug
Free
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
- 10:00 – 17:00
