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17: Pre-Degree Show Exhibition
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Pre-degree show by Gray's School of Art honours-year painting students.
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25 Feb4 Mar Mon–Sun 11am–10pm Art's Complex, Edinburgh
Adrian Hope & Linda Lewin
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Linda Lewin makes handmade jewellery using traditional techniques, while master silversmith Adrian Hope makes vessels (cups and vases) in silver.
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11 Jan3 Mar Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Aisha Al-Sadie: Land of the Sun
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Painting exploring the mixed cultural heritage of the Scottish-Iraqi artist. Part of the Middle Eastern Festival of Spirituality and Peace.
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18 Feb3 Mar Not Wed & Sun St John's Church, Edinburgh
Alastair Cook: How the Land Lies
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Analogue photography, film and glass work drawing together work from various recent projects, including a residency at North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster.
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10 Feb24 Feb Mon–Sat 10am–5pm Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh
Alec Finlay
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Alec Finlay is an artist, poet and publisher who uses art and text to create experiential works that reflect on our relationship with nature.
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17 Mar21 Apr Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Alison Turnbull
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Meticulous paintings derived from plans and charts, examining systems of classification.
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10 Mar5 May Tue–Sat 10am–5pm Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Alistair Grant RSW 1925-1997
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Experimental work by the former Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art.
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20 Feb27 Mar Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools
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A photography exhibition documenting the voyage of the MV Global Mariner, a cargo ship that toured the world from 1998 to 2000 carrying in its holds a travelling exhibition of working conditions at sea.
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21 Jan18 Mar Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm Stills, Edinburgh
Andrew Miller
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Andrew Miller works in a variety of media to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function.
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4 Feb10 Mar Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Angela Steel: Knots
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Powerful stained glass panels telling a story inspired by a former mental hospital near the artist's home.
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23 Feb17 Mar Mon–Wed 9.30am–5.30pm; Thu 9.30am–8pm; Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Anna Barriball
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(4 stars) Work from the English artist blurring the boundaries between drawing and sculpture.
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9 Feb1 Apr Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Annuale
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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.
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1 Jun17 Jun Times vary Embassy, Edinburgh
Antigoni Memou: Contesting Globalisation: Allan Sekula's Waiting for Tear Gas
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Antigoni Memou of the Courtauld Institute gives a talk on the work of Allan Sekula, the last in Stills' lecture series Globalisation & Art..
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14 Mar 6pm Stills, Edinburgh
Anu Pennanen: Gaze Value
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Finnish-born, Berlin-based artist gives a talk as part of the ongoing series on Globalisation & Art.
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23 Feb 6pm Stills, Edinburgh
The Art of Sylvia Wishart RSA
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Retrospective of the work of Orkney-based painter.
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6 Jan28 Feb Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Artist's Talk: Anna Barriball
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The artist behind the current exhibition, in conversation with Fiona Bradley, gallery director.
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14 Mar 6.30pm Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Ash Reid/Jack McConville/Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby
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Group show of new work.
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21 Jan19 Feb Tue–Sun 11am–5pm Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Bags of Art
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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.
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19 Feb 2pm Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh
Barry McGlashan
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Paintings and drawings on personal themes by Aberdeen artist.
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20 Feb6 Mar Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Beginners Online Portfolio Course
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A four-week journey to effective and stylish online display of your photographic talents. Computer experience is required. Price is for the full four-week course.
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22 Feb14 Mar Wed 6–9pm Stills, Edinburgh
Beholder
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(4 stars) An innovative exhibition exploring ideas of taste, beauty and subjectivity, curated as part of David Hume's 300th birthday celebrations. Artists include Yoko Ono, Karla Black, Giorgio Morandi, Alan Reid, Hamish Fulton, Anthony Schrag and many others.
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4 Jan18 Feb Tue–Sat 10am–5pm Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Bill Murray Exhibition
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A collection of coloured pencil drawings of Bill Murray served up with some cult classic movies in the projection room with a dash of free Campari or red wine on the opening night.
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1 Mar1 May Times vary Sofi's, Edinburgh
Billboard for Edinburgh: Ruth Ewan
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Ingleby's latest public art project is inspired by the artist's research into the Socialist Sunday School movement.
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3 Feb24 Apr Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Black & White Photography 2 -– Fine Printing and Alternative Processing
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For those with some knowledge of analogue photography, or who have completed the beginners' course, this course offers a chance to extend your developing and printing skills and to learn a bit more of the technical lingo. Some darkroom experience is required. Price given is for the full six-week course.
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5 Mar9 Apr Mon 6–9pm Stills, Edinburgh
Blazing with Crimson: Tartan Portraits
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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.
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2 Feb 201231 Dec 2013 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Body Bags / Simonides
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Simonides was the Greek poet who wrote one of the classical world's most famous epitaphs, for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae. Here some of his epitaphs appear in translations by poet Robert Crawford alongside evocative, square format, black and white photographs by Norman McBeath.
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5 Mar2 Apr Mon–Sun 10am–10pm Byre Theatre, St Andrews
By Leaves We Live
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Ten delicate paper sculptures left anonymously in various Edinburgh cultural and literary institutions over the last year have delighted and intrigued a growing number of fans. This exhibition offers the opportunity of a close encounter with two of them – the bookends for this anonymous artistic project, the first and the last of these enchanting tributes to the book, both gifted to the Scottish Poetry Library just off Edinburgh’s Canongate. Part of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry…
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14 Mar18 Mar Wed–Sun 10am–10pm Byre Theatre, St Andrews
Byzantium: Gateway Between East and West
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Explore 1,000 years of the Byzantine Empire's history, featuring elements of Classical Hellenic and Roman civilisations. Part of The Edinburgh International Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival 2012.
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15 Feb17 Mar Tue–Fri 11am–4pm; Sat 1.30–4pm Scotland-Russia Institute, Edinburgh
Café Art: A table avec les Impressionnistes
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Agnes Ness gives a talk in French about the centrality of meetings over food and drink to the relationships of the Impressionists.
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7 Mar 5.30pm Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh
Café Art: French Paintings in the Major Scottish Galleries
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A talk in French by Agnes Ness on important examples of French painting, particularly from the 19th and 20th centuries, that can be viewed here in Scotland, and how they came to be here.
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22 Feb 5.30pm Institut Français d'Ecosse, Edinburgh
Callum Innes: Works on Paper
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New work by Edinburgh-based abstract painter.
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28 Apr21 Jul Mon–Sat 10am–6pm Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Cathy Campbell
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Still lifes in the first solo exhibition in Edinburgh of the work of Cathy Campbell, a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.
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1 Mar2 Apr Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm Union Gallery, Edinburgh
A Chance Encounter Between an Umbrella and a Sewing Machine
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Exhibition of new work by Sheffield artist James Clarkson, taking as its title the celebrated line from Lautréamont's delirious 1869 proto-surrealist, proto-punk, proto-Goth, proto-conceptual novel Les Chants du Maldoror, 'as beautiful […] as the chance encounter on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.' Clarkson combines disparate objects and images to create art-historical references.
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18 Feb4 Mar Fri–Sun noon–5pm Rhubaba Studio, Edinburgh
A Child of the Ghetto – Sickert's Portrait of Israel Zangwill
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Patricia Allerston presents a talk on the portrait of Jewish novelist and playwright Israel Zangwill by Walter Sickert. Part of The Edinburgh International Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival 2012.
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26 Feb 8pm Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation, Edinburgh
Chris Park: Dualism
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Portraits of Scottish poets, juxtaposed with their poems.
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2 Mar30 Mar Tue–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–5pm Inc Tank Gallery, Edinburgh
Citizens of the World: David Hume and Allan Ramsay
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Chief Curator and Deputy Director Nicola Kalinsky discusses the Citizens of the World: David Hume and Allan Ramsay exhibition.
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15 Feb 12.45pm Portrait Gallery at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Close Encounters: Thomas Annan's Glasgow
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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.
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2 Feb31 Dec Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm; Fri–Sun 10am–5pm Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 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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17 Mar18 Mar Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
13 Oct14 Oct Sat & Sun 10am–5.30pm
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Design & Democracy
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Work by 15 new designers, all recent graduates from Scottish art schools, and all demonstrating how design can alter the ways in which we live, be it in the fields of health, society or environment.
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11 Feb17 Mar Sat 11am–5.30pm
10 Feb23 Mar Mon & Fri 10am–4pm
21 Feb22 Mar Tue–Thu 9am–6.30pm
14 Feb16 Feb Tue–Thu 10am–4pm
The Scottish Parliament, 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
Digital SLR Camera Training
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Weekend workshops in getting the most out of your digital SLR camera, with a blend of technical tuition, demonstration, practical assignments and group discussion. Price given is for the full weekend.
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18 Feb19 Feb Sat & Sun 11am–5pm
31 Mar1 Apr Sat & Sun 11am–5pm
Stills, Edinburgh
Digital SLR Photography
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Learn to get the most out of your DSLR camera as well as some post production instruction in Adobe Photoshop. Price given is for the full six-week course. (Course also available Wed evenings.)
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23 Mar27 Apr Fri 11am–2pm Stills, Edinburgh
Digital SLR Photography
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Learn to get the most out of your DSLR camera as well as some post production instruction in Adobe Photoshop. Price given is for the full six-week evening course. (Course also available Fri mornings.)
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21 Mar25 Apr Wed 6–9pm Stills, Edinburgh
Domenico di Jacopo di Matteo, called 'Becuccio Bicchieraio' by Andrea del Sarto
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Dr Patricia Allerston, Head of Education at the National Galleries, discusses this major painting by Andrea del Sarto.
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17 Feb 12.45pm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School
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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.
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11 Mar 3pm The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh
Drawing and Painting the Figure with Damian Callan
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Damian Callan is leading a drawing and painting workshop. Working from the model, students will learn to develop their own ways of drawing and painting the figure and explore themes including portraiture, anatomy, composition, narrative and colour. The course will guide you gently and patiently towards the amazing process of painting from the model. You will be led by an artist that is actively engaged with his practice. He has taught children and adults at Edinburgh College of Art, Leith…
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11 Jan28 Mar Wed 7–9.30pm WASPS Studios, Edinburgh
Dusting off the Past: Conserving the Decorative Painted Interior at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Lesley Stevenson, Senior Paintings Conservator at the Galleries, talks about the process of restoring William Home's famous mural, frieze and painted ceiling in the Portrait Gallery's main hall.
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21 Feb 12.45pm Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Dylan Bowen
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Dylan Bowen trained in England and America and makes wheel-thrown and hand-built decorated earthenware.
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7 Mar31 Mar Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Easel Sketching in the Gallery
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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.
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16 Feb 2pm
17 Feb 2pm
15 Mar 2pm
16 Mar 2pm
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Easter Artsparks
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Two-day art workshop for kids at the magical outdoor sculpture park located just outside Edinburgh. In keeping with a seasonal theme, kids get the chance to make decoupage eggs and chocolate sculpture. Ages 5–14.
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11 Apr12 Apr Wed & Thu 10am–3.30pm Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston

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