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Venue – Hidden Garden,
Scottish Book Trust,
Trunk’s Close, off 55 High Street,
07866 844 902

Exhibition: Scott Laverie
5 Aug – 3 September
Open daily,
admission free

Scottish artist Scott Laverie’s pavilion structure plays host to a four week programme of work by local emerging artists.

www.emerged.net

The Fruitmarket Gallery

45 Market Street,
0131 225 2383

Exhibition: Marijke van Warmerdam – First Drop: what is and what will be,
27 July – 17 September
From 27 July to 27 Aug open 10am – 7pm daily,
Normal hours Mon-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm,
admission free

Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam works in photography, sculpture and film creating art which imbues everyday situations with a sense of something extraordinary and poetic

www.fruitmarket.co.uk

In the fields. Studio for new media art

362/6 Easter Road,
0131 467 1417

Exhibition: open studio – in the fields
Stefan Baumberger & Nicole Heidtke, interactive light objects
3 Aug – 3 Sept
Thurs – Sun 3pm – 9pm, admission free

in the fields (Nicole Heidtke & Stefan Baumberger) create interactive light-objects based on research into the evolutionary aspects of nature, focusing on the growth of plants and the metamorphosis of creatures.

Ingleby Gallery

6 Carlton Terrace,
0131 556 4441

Exhibition: thread
28 July – 9 Sept
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm,
admission free

Group show by artists: Alexander Calder, David Batchelor, Ian Davenport, John McCracken, Cornelia Parker, Richard Wright, Glasgow based duo Smith/Stewart,

www.inglebygallery.com

Inverleith House

Royal Botanic Garden,
20a Inverleith Row,
0131 248 2983

Exhibition: Robert Ryman,
27 July – 1 Oct
Tues – Sun 10am-5.30pm daily during August,
Admission free

First solo exhibition in Scotland by the great American painter Robert Ryman (b. 1930), curated by the artist and collector Urs Raussmüller. The paintings exhibited date from 1963 to the present.

Event: 27 July, 2pm.
Robert Ryman and curator Urs Raussmüller in conversation
Also showing: ‘Two Voices’ – the garden portrayed from blind and sighted perspectives created by Rosita MacKenzie and Rebecca Marr,
27 July to 1 October

www.rbge.org.uk

Open Eye Gallery /i2

34 Abercromby Place,
0131 557 1020/558 9872

Exhibition: David Hockney RA (b.1937) - Two Decades of Printmaking,
12 Aug - 23 Sep
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-4pm,
admission free

An exhibition exploring the contrast in style and technique of David Hockney’s printmaking output between the years of 1961 and 1982.

Also showing:
Alberto Morrocco – Natura Mora and Paesaggio,
12 Aug – 6 Sept,
15 previously unseen works from the artist’s studio.

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 -1669) ‘ The Etchings’
12 Aug – 5 Sept,
An exhibition of the world’s most innovative printmaker celebrating the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

Scottish Contemporaries 12 Aug – 6 Sept,
Including works by John Bellany, Adrian Wiszniewski, Peter Howson, Graeme Wilcox, Philip Reeves and Alan Davie

Anna Noel 12 Aug – 6 Sept, new ceramic sculpture.
Joanne Thompson 12 Aug – 6 Sept, new jewellery.

www.openeyegallery.co.uk

Patriothall Gallery @ WASPS

1d Patriothall,
off Hamilton Place,
Stockbridge,
0131 226 7126
Open Tues- Sun, 11am – 5pm, admission free

Exhibition: CROSSFLOWS - seven international artists interpret Japanese woodblock
Artists: Moya Bligh (Ire), Wayne Crothers (Aus), Paul Furneaux (Scottish), Vimonmarn Khanthachavana (Thai), Ralph Kiggell (Eng), Keiko Nakamura (Jap), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thai).
5-27 Aug

Events: Patriothall Artists Studio Open Day – Sat 5 Aug, 11-5pm, plus workshops in Japanese woodblock printing dates tba.

Seven artists from differing backgrounds, who have studied and experimented over the past two decades with traditional Japanese woodblock techniques both in Japan and outside.

www.patriothallgallery.com

The Queens Gallery

Palace of Holyrood House,
0131 556 5100

Exhibition: Canaletto in Venice, 16 June – 17 Jan,
9.30am-6pm daily (last admission 5pm), £5/£4/£3

Over 70 works on paper and an outstanding series of Venetian views; fourteen luminous paintings of the Grand Canal from 1730-35 will form the centre piece of this exhibition of work by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768).

www.theroyalcollection.org.uk

NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND

Royal Museum
Chambers Street,
0131 247 4422

Exhibition: Beyond the Palace Walls : Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum, 14 July – 5 Nov
Open Daily
10am – 5pm
Admission £6/£5conc/£4
children/under 5 free

A spectacular exhibition of over 170 works of Islamic art dating from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries, all taken from the walls of the winter palace in St Petersburg

Also showing: Expectations - work by 9 of Japan’s leading printmakers and one leading Scottish artist.
until 10 Sept, admission Free

www.nms.ac.uk

Museum of Scotland

Chambers Street,
0131 247 4422

Exhibition: Reflections: A Decade of North Lands Creative Glass
21 July – 7 Jan 2007
Open Daily 10am-5pm, admission free

See over 60 beautiful artworks created during ten years of master classes and residencies at North Lands, and discover why a small Scottish village is now THE centre of excellence for contemporary glass.

www.nms.ac.uk