Visual art, free events and "Edinburgh"

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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

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Artist-designed Textiles and Pioneering Modern Art
Date	Location
Lesley Jackson tells the story of the career of Constructivist artist Alastair Morton, highlighting his importance for British art and textiles in the 20th Century. View full details
21 Aug 12.45pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, 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

Alison Kinnaird: Taking Flight
Date	Location
Works in glass combining images of the human form with images of birds and flight. View full details
12 May–30 May Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm	The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Allan Ramsay: Fathers & Sons, Wives & Children
Date	Location
Art historian Dr Patricia Andrew gives a talk on the theme of 'Picturing Power', as part of a series of Portrait Gallery talks. View full details
29 Aug 12.45pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Andrew Miller: The Waiting Place
Date	Location
Andrew Miller's contribution to the Edinburgh Art Festival is the pavilion itself, intended as a tribute to those small buildings (pavilions, bothies, follies, gazebos) that are built for no one particular purpose. It's a playful summerhouse designed to be multi-purpose, good for hosting discussions, talks and tours and simply for being somewhere to hang out while you're waiting to meet people. The title is from Dr Seuss's classic Oh The Place You'll Go. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
2 Aug–2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion, Edinburgh

Anne Eunson: In-between Calgary and Toronto
Date	Location
Photographs and drawings reflecting the time the artist spent in Canada. View full details
23 Jun–8 Jul Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Art's Complex, 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

Annuale
Date	Location
A chance for Edinburgh artist-led projects to show off their talents, supported by The Embassy. A celebration of all things grassroots and artist in Auld Reekie. View full details
8 Jun–24 Jun Times vary	Embassy, Edinburgh

Anthony Schrag: Tourist in Residence
Date	Location
Anthony Schrag's work has a subversive wit; an early video, Stairs, features him walking up the underside of a flight of stars in his block of flats, filmed with an upside-down video camera, so that a person walking down the stairs normally appears to be upside-down. Here he runs a series of participatory tours of Edinburgh which encourage you to interact with the city in different ways. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. Booking is essential. View full details
4 Aug–29 Aug To be confirmed	Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion, Edinburgh

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. View full details
23 May–21 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Billboard is viewable at any time.	Ingleby Gallery, 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 and Conflict: Commissioning War Art
Date	Location
Talk exploring the varied difficulties of commissioning art on contemporary conflict, with particular discussion of Roderick Buchanan’s film and photographic work Legacy in the context of 20th and 21st-century war art. View full details
1 Aug 12.45pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Art and the Garden
Date	Location
Exhibition that explores the relationships between artists and the garden. View full details
5 May–8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm	City Art Centre, 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

Art Cart
Date	Location
Artist-led art activities for all the family, inspired each month by something different from the gallery collections. View full details
3 Jun 2pm 1 Jul 2pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Arts & Crafts Exhibition
Date	Location
An exhibition featuring everything from beadcraft to model railways. Part of Leith Festival. View full details
12 Jun 10am	South Leith Parish Church, 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. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Jun–1 Jul Mon–Sun 8.30–9pm	Inspace, Edinburgh

Atmosphere: Digital Storytelling
Date	Location
Matt Adams from multidisciplinary artists' group Blast Theory delivers a webinar (which you can attend in person or online) on the principles of digital storytelling. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
21 Jun 1.30pm	Inspace, Edinburgh

Bags of Art
Date	Location
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. View full details
17 Jun 2pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

The Battle for Leonardo: Curating and Connoisseurship
Date	Location
Luke Syson gives a talk on the disputed authorship of some of Leonardo's most mysterious paintings, the Madonna Litta, the London Virgin of the Rocks and the Buccleuch Madonna of the Yarnwinder. He explores the scientific evidence and the hazy meaning of 'a Leonardo', both in the artist's own time and today. View full details
28 Aug 6pm	Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Between Thought and Experience: Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd
Date	Location
Dr Kirstie Skinner, independent writer and lecturer, explores the viewer's experience of works within The Sculpture Show exhibition. View full details
11 Jun 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, 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

Books in Focus: Dada
Date	Location
Librarian Kerry Watson gives a talk looking at the history and artists of the Dada movement through their published books and periodicals, and particularly how they subverted expectations of publishing through anarchic artwork, poetry and typesetting. Booking is essential. View full details
2 Aug 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Books in Focus: German Expressionism
Date	Location
Kirstie Meehan, from the Gallery's Archive and Library, discusses artists' books by German expressionists such as Kokoschka, Balach and Grosz (and Kandinsky, who wasn't German but who gave up the chance of a professorship in Law to study art in Germany). Booking is essential. View full details
7 Jun 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Books in Focus: Surrealism
Date	Location
A chance to see rare publications dating from the very beginning of the Surrealist movement, many of them owned by Roland Penrose and Gabrielle Keiller, whose collections contain fine examples of works by artists including Max Ernst, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí. Booking is essential. View full details
6 Sep 11.30am	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, 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: 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. View full details
2 Aug–2 Sep Times vary	Regent Bridge, 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

Carolee Schneemann
Date	Location
Carolee Schneemann for once deserves the word 'iconic'; from being a muse to Joseph Cornell and performing with Robert Morris, she's gone on to create a body of her own work that set a new standard in coupling intellectual integrity with visceral intensity, with unforgettable works such as Meat Joy, Interior Scroll* and Up To and Including Her Limits. Plus, she really, really likes her cats. In her 70s she's as active as ever, and this exhibition includes new and vintage video works as… View full details
2 Aug–27 Sep Mon–Sun 11am–7pm	Summerhall, Edinburgh

Cast Contemporaries
Date	Location
Drawing and copying from casts of famous sculptures has been part of traditional art school education for centuries, although some question its relevance to the development of today's artists, and anyone who's ever been an inside ECA can verify that they have a truly impressive cast collection. This exhibition looks at it through the perspective of contemporary art, films and workshops. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival. View full details
3 Aug–2 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Edinburgh College of Art, 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
30 May–14 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–6pm	Royal Overseas League, Edinburgh

Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
Date	Location
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. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–8 Sep Tue–Sat 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

Chris Saunders
Date	Location
Photographs of contemporary South African street culture, by a photographer and filmmaker with an intimate knowledge of it. View full details
18 May–10 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm	The Institute, Edinburgh

Close Encounters: Thomas Annan's Glasgow
Date	Location
In 1866, Glasgow's City Improvement Trust set about planning large-scale improvements of old Glasgow city, large parts of which were among the worst slums in Britain. They commissioned photographer Thomas Annan to document what was going to be knocked down, and the result was the first photographic record ever made of slum housing and a fascinating and haunting series of photographs in its own right. View full details
17 Feb–31 Dec Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Concert Party and Fencing Scene: Lord Fortrose, later Ist Earl of Seaforth, at home in Naples by Pietro Fabris 1771
Date	Location
Talk examining the visual records that show just how luxurious life was for British people living in 18th-century Italy. View full details
20 Jul 12.45pm	Scottish National Gallery, 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

The Creator
Date	Location
A film created by art filmmakers Al and Al to celebrate the centenary of computing and artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing, taking the form of a surreal dream in the scientist's mind. View full details
24 Jun 9pm Followed by a Q&A with the artists. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.	Inspace, Edinburgh

Curating Lusieri
Date	Location
The National Gallery's chief curator, Aidan Weston-Lewis, talks about curating the exhibition of work by little-known landscape watercolour painter, Giovanni Battista Lusieri. View full details
30 Jun 2pm	Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Curator's Talk: Cheer Up! It's Not the End of the World …
Date	Location
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. View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
4 Aug 2pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, 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

DesignMarket
Date	Location
An arts market encompassing furniture, graphic design, homewares and fashion from the best designers as selected by the Fruitmarket, and taking over all of the gallery's spaces for the weekend. View full details
13 Jul–15 Jul Fri 5–8pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Dialogue: A Travelling Printmaking Group Exhibition Engramme
Date	Location
Work from Quebecois print workshop and artists collective Engramme, exploring the duality of dialogue through 26 separate diptychs. View full details
2 Jun–21 Jul Tue–Sat 10am–6pm	Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh

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