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Alex Dordoy

Alex Dordoy

Overarching sense of the mutability of physical objects

3 Feb 2012

Alex Dordoy’s new body of work mixes the digital and the analogue, the abstract and the real, in a search for new means of perception. Three bright and eye-catching panoramic canvases – meticulously painted reproductions of digitally abstracted figures…

Roger Ackling - interview

Roger Ackling - interview

The visual artist's current exhibition features burnt images created using magnifying glasses

3 Feb 2012

What was the first exhibition you went to see? Something at the Wallace Collection, London. Maybe Brueghel. What was your first paid job as an artist? Part time teaching at Wimbledon School of Art. What kind of music do you listen to while…

GFF 2012 - 85A presents: Jan Svankmajer

GFF 2012 - 85A presents: Jan Svankmajer

Judd Brucke of 85A discusses the art collective's tribute to the Czech filmmaker

2 Feb 2012

‘One of our comrades was approached by the GFF to do something with the festival,’ says Judd Brucke, a member of the collective of Glasgow-based multi-disciplinary artists that stage weird and wonderful live events under the banner 85A. That something…

The Sculpture Show

The Sculpture Show

Well-managed and educational group sculpture show also contains big impressions

1 Feb 2012

Those who find their attention can escape the orbit of this show’s central spectacle – Ron Mueck’s striking ‘A Girl’, a life-like model of a quite grumpy-looking newborn baby girl rendered as a vast monolith many dozens of times the size of nature…

Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools

Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools

Large-scale images explore shipping industry’s role in exploitation of labour

1 Feb 2012

Now that capitalism is a sinking ship with assorted captains scrambling for the lifeboats, Allan Sekula’s ongoing photographic exploration of globalisation in motion is the perfect metaphor for a world all at sea. This most recent series by the…

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Popular events

RBS Museum Lates: Night of the Mummy
Date	Location
Following an exceedingly popular first event, the National Museum once again opens its doors after dark to give adults a chance to play, with food and drink, live music from Sparrow and the Workshop and Bwani Junction, live comedy from Bright Club, a Silent Disco and even facepainting adding to the fun. Booking is essential. View full details and ticket info
24 Feb (Over-18s only) 7pm Combined tickets for this event and the Fascinating Mummies exhibition also available (£18/£16).	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

17: Pre-Degree Show Exhibition
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Pre-degree show by Gray's School of Art honours-year painting students. View full details
25 Feb–4 Mar Mon–Sun 11am–10pm	Art's Complex, Edinburgh

The Sculpture Show
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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
24 Jan–24 Jun Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh

Red Road Underground
Date	Location
Work by photographer Chris Leslie and illustrator Mitch Miller documenting the final days of the Red Road flats, now under demolition. View full details
1 Feb–2 Mar To be confirmed	New Glasgow Society, Glasgow

The Scottish Colourist Series: FCB Cadell
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The first of a series of retrospectives about the four artists known as the 'Scottish Colourists'. Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937) was born in Edinburgh and is remembered for his interiors, still lifes and landscapes of Scotland and France. View full details
6 Dec 2011–18 Mar 2012 Mon–Sun 10am–5pm	Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

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