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Warm up this winter with free art in Edinburgh

Warm up this winter with free art in Edinburgh

4 Jan 2012

Now the party season is over and the festivities long gone, you and your wallet could probably do with a little TLC. Luckily the National Galleries of Scotland have a full programme of free exhibitions and events during January, to help nourish the mind…

Alasdair Gray: City Recorder

Alasdair Gray: City Recorder

Fantastic exhibition of drawings chronicling Glasgow's past

(5 stars)19 Dec 2011

For one year in 1977, at a time when many of Glasgow’s famous old industries were closing, Alasdair Gray was commissioned to capture the life of the city in ink, watercolour, acrylic and oil on paper. Glasgow’s local history museum, the People’s Palace…

Alison Watt – Hiding in Full View

Alison Watt – Hiding in Full View

The artist's paintings are good, but suffer in comparison to the photography of Francesca Woodman

(3 stars)19 Dec 2011

‘All rooms will hide you, if you stand just so – ghosts know this, that’s really all they know,’ declares one of the poems by Don Paterson (a credited collaborator in this show), which are printed in fluid lower case type just below eye level on the…

Alasdair Gray: City Recorder

Andrew Kerr – So Ensconced

Over 70 new paintings in this debut solo exhibition from the Glasgow-based artist

(3 stars)19 Dec 2011

Absence makes the heart grow fonder in Andrew Kerr’s first major solo show in Scotland. Almost 70 new paintings discreetly dominate both floors, only interrupted by the odd smattering of drawings or sculptural intervention. Most of the mainly…

The Scottish Colourists series: FCB Cadell

The Scottish Colourists series: FCB Cadell

Retrospective of the early 20th century colourist's work displays a life-long development of talent

(4 stars)15 Nov 2011

To modern eyes this retrospective of the work of early 20th century Edinburgh colourist FCB Cadell might appear a little staid, a procession of chintzy New Town interiors and still life compositions involving china crockery and the distinctive white…

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Stewart Bremner & Kevin Low
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Abstract expressionism from Bremner and figurative paintings from Low that are drawn digitally and printed using archival papers and inks.
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4 Apr–30 Apr Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm Union Gallery, Edinburgh
Alasdair Gray: City Recorder
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(5 stars) Alasdair Gray is one of Scotland's most eminent writers and artists, and in 1977 he was 'artist recorder' for the city of Glasgow, his home town. This major exhibition features work from that period, showing how Gray's art depicted the life of the city at a particular moment.
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16 Dec 2011–10 Jun 2012 Mon–Wed 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Austin Osman Spare with Richard Brown: Objections to an Empty Mind
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Drawings, pastels and paintings by the experimental artist (1886–1956), hailed as influential figure within both the occult community and by the likes of Jimmy Page and Alan Moore.
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17 Feb–17 Mar Thu–Sat noon–5pm The Hidden Noise, 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 Feb–1 Apr Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The Art of Sylvia Wishart RSA
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Retrospective of the work of Orkney-based painter.
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6 Jan–28 Feb Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
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