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Central Station: Anna Gibb

Central Station: Anna Gibb

The architecture student is inspired by old maps and city panoramas

31 May 2012

Anna Gibb has been drawing by hand since her final year at university studying architecture. Her project involved research into Edinburgh’s old town and ignited in her an obsession with city grain and, in particular, cityscape and skyline. Although…

Highlights from 2012 art college degree shows in Scotland

Highlights from 2012 art college degree shows in Scotland

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Napier and Dundee degree shows

25 May 2012

As Scotland's art colleges prepare to open the doors on their annual degree shows The List gets a sneak preview of some of the most eye-catching work on display.

Profile: Rob Kennedy

Artist's exhibition seeks to shift focus from personality and biography

23 May 2012

My exhibition at the CCA is a ‘solo’ exhibition that also includes work by other artists, these are included in part to shift the focus away from the biographical/personality aspects of an artist’s work that often dominate a solo exhibition while also…

Scott Myles: This Production

Scott Myles: This Production

Dundee artist and former skater reclaims DCA building’s interior

23 May 2012

It makes sense that the site of DCA used to be Scott Myles’ playground. Back then he was a skater boy and it was a bricks-and-mortar garage re-imagined as the sort of makeshift skate-park for local heroes and future high-flyers, which, under the…

Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from the Gunderson Collection

Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from the Gunderson Collection

Extended introduction to troubled Norwegian painter

23 May 2012

Perhaps the greatest surprise for casual viewers of this high-profile new exhibition from the Scottish National Galleries is the discovery that Norwegian painter Edvard Munch had a whole catalogue of work besides ‘The Scream’. One of the most famous…

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Gold Sheep
Date	Location
Stone lithography prints and watercolours from Czech artist Lucie Hrnickova and woodcut prints and mixed media work from Andy Cumming, both award-winning recent graduates. View full details
4 Jul–9 Jul Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–8pm 3 Jul 6pm	Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh

West End Festival
Date	Location
One of the widest-ranging multi-arts festivals in the country, the West End Festival seems to swallow the West End's entire cultural output for the three weeks of its duration. The sterling music line-up (which in 2011 featured The Horrors, Alasdair Roberts and the Fence Collective) and the carnivalesque Festival Sunday are especially noteworthy. On the final Saturday, The Hidden Lane Festival opens the door on the city's creative collective, including open studios and exhibitions . View full details
1 Jun–24 Jun Times vary	West End, Glasgow

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

Meeting Point
Date	Location
Group exhibition by four third-year Fine Art students featuring cinematic and atmospheric oil paintings, plus a range of subject matter and styles from abstraction to realism. View full details
26 Aug–28 Aug Mon, Tue & Sun 6pm–midnight	Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

Prints By Peter Rhoades: A Retrospective
Date	Location
Rarely viewed works by the Oxfordshire-based artist and former lecturer at the Ruskin School of Drawing. View full details
27 May–24 Jun From May 27, May, Mon, Wed–Sat 10.30am–1pm, 2pm–4.30pm, Sun 2pm–4.30pm, Jun, Mon, Wed–Sat 10.30am–5pm, Sun 2pm–5pm, ends Jun 24	Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford

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60 Osborne Street, Glasgow, G1 5QH

Independent shop and exhibition space featuring carefully selected lighting, furniture and home accessories, often by local designers, plus the option of a commissioning service.