Location: Edinburgh change

Royal Highland Show 2012

Visual art and "Edinburgh"

Sorted by event / date & time / place / most viewed / star rating. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

Smart Craft Giving
Date Location
Cards and reliefs from 12 gallery artists.
View full details
30 May16 Jun Tue–Sat 10.30am–6pm the gallery on the corner, Edinburgh
X-ray Exhibition: Inr-i
Date Location
Exhibition organised by Artlink featuring work made in hospital settings in collaboration with radiographers, including x-rays of everyday objects.
View full details
14 May25 Jun To be confirmed The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Festival of the Erotic Arts
Date Location
A new festival for Scotland, specialising in all things naughty and arty. The programme is set to include performance, visual arts and crafts, film and more.
View full details
22 Jun24 Jun Times vary Edinburgh, 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 Jun6 Jun Mon–Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
Tony Swain: Drowned Dust, Sudden Word
Date Location
(3 stars) New painted collages, incorporating newspaper, from the Irish-born, Glasgow-based artist.
View full details
15 May8 Jul Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Art and the Garden
Date Location
Exhibition that explores the relationships between artists and the garden.
View full details
5 May8 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design: Graduate Fashion Show
Date Location
A catwalk showcase of work by Heriot-Watt students, directed by fashion designer Mark Eley of the duo Eley Kishimoto.
View full details and ticket info
7 Jun 4pm
7 Jun 8pm
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
John Nicholls: Recent Work
Date Location
A photo journal of images from across Scotland, drawing out recurring themes of loss and freedom and an ongoing fascination with the beauty of dereliction.
View full details
2 Apr31 May Mon–Thu 9am–8pm; Fri 9am–6pm Inlingua Edinburgh, Edinburgh
May Flower Bike Ride
Date Location
Works by Levi WJ Bunyan and others, including screenprints, mugs, seed bombs and seed cards.
View full details
8 May31 May Mon–Fri 12.30–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm Red Door Gallery, Edinburgh
Quintessentially French
Date Location
Paintings by Michael G Clark depicting landscapes and still lifes in France.
View full details
28 May23 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh
The Sculpture Show
Date Location
(4 stars) A major new exhibition of sculptural works from the collection, alongside important works on loan. Featured artists include Rodin, Degas, Hepworth, Moore, Giacometti, Duchamp, Hirst, Lucas and others, along with photographic and film documentation. Ron Mueck's enormous A Girl returns to the Gallery from its world tour.
View full details
4 May24 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh
World Press Photo Exhibition 2012
Date Location
The World Press Photo Award highlights the best press photography from around the world. This exhibition displays the short list on display in Edinburgh as part of a global tour.
View full details
5 Jul28 Jul Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm The Scottish Parliament, 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 Jun24 Jun Times vary Embassy, 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 May21 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm
Billboard is viewable at any time.
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Art & Design Studies Summer School
Date Location
Intensive week-long summer courses in different art and design disciplines.
View full details
16 Jul10 Aug Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm Edinburgh College of Art, 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
Craig Jefferson: Drawing Reality
Date Location
An exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Edinburgh-based artist Craig Jefferson.
View full details
4 May15 Jun Mon–Sat 9am–4.30pm Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
One Thousand Points of Light: Melvin Moti
Date Location
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.
View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
20 Jun31 Oct Mon–Sun 10am–5pm National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
RSA 186th Annual Exhibition
Date Location
Works from Scottish and international artists, as well as from the winners of the RSA's Morton and Barns Graham awards, together with a further selection from the RSA's collection.
View full details
28 Apr6 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm Royal Scottish Academy, 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 Aug2 Sep Times vary Regent Bridge, Edinburgh
Hidden Stories
Date Location
Graduate exhibition from students, exploring the Heriot-Watt School of Textiles & Design's local and global presence.
View full details
2 Jun7 Jun Mon–Thu, Sat & Sun 10.30am–5.30pm Dovecot Studios, 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.
View full details
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.
View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
31 May16 Sep Thu–Sun 10am–5pm
Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston
Marton Zsichla: Take Your Time
Date Location
Photographs taken during the photographer's travels in South East Asia.
View full details
17 May31 May Mon–Fri 11–midnight; Sat 11–1am; Sun 11–midnight Joseph Pearce’s, Edinburgh
Norrie Harman
Date Location
Disquieting new paintings in the artist's first ever solo show in his home town.
View full details
7 Jun4 Jul Thu–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm; Mon–Wed 10.30am–6pm Union Gallery, Edinburgh
Performing Sculpture
Date Location
Performances and video work from Calvin Laing, Catrin Jeans, Tessa Lynch, David Sherry and Shelly Nadashi. Booking is essential.
View full details
31 May 7pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh
RBGE Botanical Art Society
Date Location
A class for those who've mastered the basic techniques of beginning botanical painting; students are encouraged to work at their own pace and seek out the advice of the tutors. Tuesday evenings are tutored by Alicia Salazar, Wednesdays by Alicia Salazar, Louise Olley and Sharon Bradley. Price given is for an eleven-week course. Booking is essential.
View full details
15 May26 Jun Tue 6.30–8.30pm
Summer course 1: Tuesday evenings.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
16 May27 Jun Wed 9.30am–12.30pm
Summer course 2: Wednesday mornings.
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Remarkable Trees
Date Location
Photographs of trees by amateur Scottish botanist George Paxton (1850–1904), donated to the Botanic Gardens' archives 20 years ago and shown here in public for the first time.
View full details
12 May8 Jul Tue–Sun 10.30am–5pm Inverleith House, Edinburgh
Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography & the Modern World
Date Location
The opening exhibition of the refurbished National Portrait Gallery consists of some of the greatest photographs in the Gallery's collection and explores questions of national identity.
View full details
17 Feb3 Jun Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
A Sense of Place: New Jewellery from Northern Lands
Date Location
New jewellery from Scotland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
29 May16 Sep Mon–Sun 10am–5pm National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Tim Rollins & KOS: The Black Spot
Date Location
Exhibition of work by art collective founded in 1984 when Tim Rollins, an art teacher at a South Bronx middle school, put on an exhibition with a group of at-risk students who called themselves KOS (Kids of Survival). Since then Rollins & KOS have exhibited all over the world, exploring the role of education in art and the power of art to change lives. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
View full details
8 Aug20 Oct Tue–Sat 10am–5pm Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Treasures from the Queen's Palaces
Date Location
(3 stars) One hundred paintings, drawings, miniatures, watercolours, manuscripts, furniture, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery from the Royal Collection have been brought together in an exhibition reflecting the tastes of different members of the royal family over the centuries, in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Among the artists featured are Rembrandt, Canaletto, Monet, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Holbein and Fabergé. Most of these pieces have never been exhibited in Scotland before. Part…
View full details
30 May4 Nov Mon–Sun 9.30am–6pm The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh
Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880–1910
Date Location
A ground-breaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this exhibition looks at the Symbolists' approach to the tradition of landscape painting. It features major artists such as Gauguin, Munch and Mondrian and less well-known but brilliantly inventive artists from around Europe, alongside British artists working in the same field, such as Crane, Leighton, Watts and Millais. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
View full details (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
14 Jul14 Oct Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
We are extInked
Date Location
Three years, a hundred people each volunteered to be tattooed with an image of one of 100 threatened British species, and then act as an ambassador for the species. Learn about this fascinating crossover of environmentalism and body art, envy the ones who got the White-Tailed Eagle and the Killer Whale, and give applause and sympathy to whoever volunteered for the Great Crested Newt.
View full details
15 May29 Jul Mon–Sun 10am–6pm John Hope Gateway Centre at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
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 Jun26 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 May3 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
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
Callum Innes: Works on Paper
Date Location
(3 stars) Retrospective of works on paper from 1989 to 2012 by Edinburgh-based abstract artist.
View full details
15 May14 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, 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 Aug8 Sep Tue–Sat 10am–6pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Chinese Calligraphy & Brush Painting Class
Date Location
Learn the ancient art of calligraphy and brush painting under course leader Chi Zhang. Suitable for both beginners and improvers. Cost includes all materials.
View full details
15 May26 Jun Tue 6.30–8.30pm The Confucius Institute for Scotland, 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 Jun30 Jun Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm Leith 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 Jun21 Jul Tue–Sat 10am–6pm Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date Location
The big daddy of arts festivals, the Fringe has it all. The facts and figures speak for themselves: nearly 1.9 million tickets sold in 2011 for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues. It's the biggest celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, exhibitions and music in all its forms in the world.
View full details
3 Aug27 Aug Times vary Various venues, Edinburgh
Edvard Munch: a 'Bridge' to the Expressionist Generation
Date Location
Dr Christian Weikop discusses how Munch and his art was adopted as a 'pathfinder' by the artists of Expressionism,with special reference to the Brücke (Bridge) artists who hoped that he would become an active member.
View full details
17 Sep 12.45pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh
Environmental Landscape Photography
Date Location
Exploring concepts of 'boundaries, borders, frames and edges' this course takes you on small expeditions around Edinburgh to develop techniques in landscape photography. Price given is for the full six-week course.
View full details and ticket info
25 May29 Jun Fri 2–5pm Stills, Edinburgh
Erotic: Surreal & Abstract
Date Location
Exhibition of cross-platform surreal and abstract erotic artwork, showcasing Scottish and European artists. Part of Festival of the Erotic Arts.
View full details and ticket info
22 Jun24 Jun
(Over-18s only) Times vary
Whitespace, Edinburgh
Exposed 12
Date Location
Showcase end-of-year photography exhibition from Stevenson College Edinburgh and The University of Abertay Dundee. Students are on hand throughout to discuss their work. Part of the Leith Festival.
View full details
13 Jun22 Jun Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh

Found 297 events.

Sorted by event / date & time / place / most viewed / star rating. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feed