An in depth look at the whole of the Edinburgh Art Festival Program.
The Edinburgh Art Festival isn sponsored by Lloyds TSB Scotland and supported by the Scottish Arts Council and The City of Edinburgh Council.
26 July to 2 September 2007.
Joanne Brown. This years director of the Edinburgh Art Annuale
Amber Roome Contemporary Art (Gallery Location)
Michael Craik’s work focuses on geometric systems within architecture.
For this exhibition he has developed a new series of oil paintings on aluminium, exploring repeating patterns that have been expanded from architectural details. Craik constructs the surface of each work into a three-dimensional geometric relief, which is then masked off and overlaid with successive layers of paint, leaving selected areas of the painting exposed to the primer below. This represents a significant development in Craik’s carefully structured method of working. Craik has exhibited widely throughout Britain and abroad, including recent solo exhibitions at An Tuireann Arts Centre, Portree and Galería Alonso Vidal, Barcelona.
Also Showing: a collection of work by gallery artists.
ARC Projects (Gallery Location)
Lala Rascic’s work draws upon the aesthetics of old time radio plays where the performative act is the basis of assuming different identities.
The artist often acts out multiple roles while playing with realities and developing fictitious narratives in her projects. Rascic is ARC Projects’ first international artist-in-residence in Edinburgh. Her residency will create artefacts which will be presented as part of Correspondances – a solo exhibition online during the Edinburgh Art Festival. Lala Rascic was born in Sarajevo in 1977. She lives and works in Amsterdam and Zagreb. Recently, Rascic has exhibited at The Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest; The Kitchen, New York; Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles; and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. Forthcoming this year is her solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo. Presented by ARC Projects in partnership with Threshold artspace, Perth. Co-funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Croatian Ministry of Culture.
Online exhibition free to view at http://www.arcprojects.org/
Atticsalt (Gallery Location)
50 Thistle Street North East Lane, 0131 225 2093
Exhibition: Pattern Recognition
Artists: Hideko Inoue and Fride Klykken
25 July - 1 Sep
Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm, admission free
Pattern Recognition is the first collaboration between Japanese artist Hideko Inoue and Norwegian artist Fride Klykken. Exploring the patterns that define and chart family ties through generations, the artists have been able to update the memories of grandparents. Inoue has udpated the memories of Klykken's grandparents by translating old photographic information into painting. Responding to ideas within Inoue's work Klykken has produced a series of video and photographic works loosely based on the memories and traditions she has received from the previous generations of her family. It is hoped that in the viewing and investigation of the work, both artist and audience will be able to develop their own personal relationship with the subject of each of the portraits.
Big Things on the Beach (Artwork location)
Portobello Beach, open daily, 07980 586 876
Until 21 Dec
Exhibition: Wonder
Take a trip to the seaside during the Edinburgh Art Festival........visit Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, where Hill Jephson Robb transforms the landscape with an ambitious temporary sculpture created from 10,000 sandbags.
Hill Jephson Robb was born in Glasgow, Scotland and read Economics at Glasgow University before graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2003. His work brings together art and design to create sculptures and installations which invite physical interaction.
In collaboration with The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, star gazing evenings will be organized. For details see www.darkskyscotland.org.uk Commissioned by Big Things On The Beach
http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/
Bourne Fine Art (Gallery Location)
6 Dundas Street, 0131 557 4050
Exhibition: Voyage - Scottish Artists Abroad
3 Aug - 1 Sep
Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 11am - 4pm, admission free
Scots have long been drawn to foreign lands be it through exploration, trade, military campaigns or as artists. From Cosmo Alexander in the American Colonies in the mid eighteenth century, Sir William Allan in the Caucasus in the early nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys who went as far afi eld as Japan (E A Hornel and George Henry) and North Africa (Joseph Crawhall and Arthur Melville) through to the Colourists painting in France. All of these artists will be on display at Bourne Fine Art throughout the Edinburgh Festival.
Also showing: Alberto Morrocco works on paper, 3 Aug -1 Sep
Gareth Mason - ceramics 3 Aug - 1Sep
http://www.bournefineart.co.uk/
Canvas
ARTSPACE Gallery, 11 Harewood Road, 0131 659 4759
Exhibition: Inspiring Humanity
3 Aug - 26 Aug
Tues - Sun 11am - 5pm, admission free
A visual adventure depicting the diversity of life experience and perceptions of humanity that inspires artists in 21st century Poland. Many of the paintings and sculpture have been exhibited internationally but not previously shown in the UK. The exhibition is the result of co-operation with contemporary artists and leading galleries from five major cities. The artists are all based in Poland except for Edinburgh resident and exhibition co-organiser Arek Kozak who recently featured on the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News after transforming burnt out cars into artworks.
The Maxwell Mural ARTSPACE is located in the former Craigmillar School which, thanks to the foresight and efforts of local people, was protected to preserve the "Children's Games and Amusements" mural painted by Scottish artist John Maxwell in 1935. The mural, which is 30ft x 15ft, both compliments and contrasts with the Inspiring Humanity collection and is open to the public during the exhibition.
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, 0131 529 3993
Exhibition: Hand, Heart and Soul, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland
30 June - 23 Sep
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm, admission £5 (conc£3.50)
Hand, Heart and Soul is the first major exhibition to explore the Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland from 1880 to 1939. It celebrates the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Phoebe Traquair and Robert Lorimer alongside less well known names. The story of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland is one of friendships, families and networks of art workers, architects and designer-craftsmen and women all committed to the restoration of beauty to daily life. More than 300 items are on display - jewellery and metalwork, furniture, ceramics and glass, textiles, architectural designs, much of which has never been shown in public before.
Beyond Appearances: Painting and Picturing in Scottish Modern and Contemporary Art 30 June - 23 Sep, admission free
Beyond Appearances is an open celebration of the best examples of Scottish painting from the late 19th century to the present. It is also an exploratory visual investigation into what might be the distinguishing stylistic qualities and thematic characteristics of Scottish art throughout our modern and post-modern eras. The exhibition presents around forty works and featured artists range from acclaimed figures such as McTaggart, Fergusson, Johnstone, Eardley, Redpath, Davie and Turnbull to the more recent practitioners like Bellany, Rae, Watt, Innes and Boyle Family.
Also Showing: View from the Inside: Interiors in Scottish Art Until 21 Oct, admission free
Collective Gallery
22 - 28 Cockburn Street, 0131 220 1260
Exhibition: The Comic Book Project
27 July - 15 Sep
August: Mon - Sun 11am - 6pm
Sept: Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm, admission free to exhibition
The project launches ‘Our Comic Book', a publication compiling a series of new commissions based loosely on generic comic strip and cartoon formats published by Revolver. The book is the thematic starting point for an exhibition and unique programme of events produced by the Collective in partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Traverse Theatre aimed at exploring the relationship between visual and performative practices, see events for details, or contact gallery. The Comic Book Project is the only project to appear within four of the Edinburgh Festivals.
Artists: Mel Brimfield, Adam Dant, Brian Dewan, John Hegley, Edward Ward; Performance by Doug Fishbone.
Associated events include:
Mon 6 Aug, 8pm, £7 Drill Hall. Live public recording of Brian Dewan's radio comic; The Yellow Jacket. featuring John Hegley, Sir Gideon Vein and Musical Ensemble.
Thurs 23 Aug, 8pm £7 The Filmhouse. Screened selections from Mark Newgarden's eclectic collection of lost footage, found footage; silent animation & toy films, including fresh lobster, Spanuth's trained baby elephant and Chip the Wooden Man in ‘The Magic Wand' - Live accompaniments devised and performed by Suzanne Andrade, Discoteca Flaming Star, Jenny Hogarth, Jason Nelson and Kevin Reid.
Sun 26 Aug, 8pm, £7 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Charlotte Square. Programme of readings and screenings including newly commissioned works by John Hegley, Suzanne Andrade and Simon Munnery.
http://www.collectivegallery.net/
Corn Exchange Gallery
Constitution Street, 0131 561 7300
Exhibition: Internus, Frances Richardson
17 Aug - 4 Oct
Tues - Fri, 11am - 4.30pm, also Sat 18, Sat 25 Aug, and Sat 1 Sep, admission free
Award-winning artist Frances Richardson's latest sculptural work is inspired by elements from a 15th century Italian painting Archangel Raphael saving an attempted suicide by Neri di Bicci. Richardson won the Conran Foundation Award in 2006. Recent solo shows have included the Scene Gallery, New York and the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Also showing: Inside Outside, Chongbin Park until 9 August
Sculpture, photography and performance from this South Korean artist whose work explores the effect that our surrounding culture and environment has on us as individuals.
http://www.cornexchangegallery.com/
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Dean Gallery (Gallery Location
73 Belford Road, 0131 624 6200
Exhibition: Picasso on Paper
14 July - 23 Sep
10am - 5pm, From 4 Aug - 1 Sep 10am - 6pm, £6/£4 (conc)
This major exhibition will be centred on the world-famous collection of the Staatsgalerie Museum in Stuttgart, and will bring together almost 100 of Picasso's works, including 65 prints, 15 drawings and 10 illustrated books. Confirming his reputation as a highly original and experimental printmaker, Picasso on Paper will chart the artist's long career, from the etchings he made in the early 1900s, during his ‘Pink Period', through cubist works of the pre-war years, surrealist works of the 1920s and 1930s, fabulous colour linocuts of the 1950s to the sexually charged work of his late years.
Exhibition sponsored by XXIII Ravelston Terrace http://www.23ravelston.com/
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
doggerfisher
11 Gayfield Square, 0131 558 7110
Exhibition: Nathan Coley
27 July - 15 Sep
Tue - Fri 11am - 6pm, Sat 12pm - 5pm or by appointment (please call 077905 69090), admission free
Turner prize shortlisted artist for 2007 whose work examines how the values of a society are reflected in and determined by its built environment.
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Edinburgh College of Art (Gallery Location)
Lauriston Place, 0131 221 6032
Exhibition: Warhol in Film
4Aug - 9 Sep
Exhibition is open from 10am - 6pm, Mon - Sat, screening times may vary
admission free
Edinburgh College of Art, in partnership with The National Galleries of Scotland and The Andy Warhol Museum, presents Warhol in Film a unique series of screenings exploring Warhol's cinematic work, including documentary footage of his life.
Offering rare glimpses into his art and life, screenings and events will feature underground cinema classics by Warhol such as Empire, Eat and Sleep and the Scottish premier of Ric Burns' epic Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film. Along side work by Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas and Willard Maas sits work from The Embassy gallery and selected work by internationally recognised artist/filmmaker Douglas Gordon.
Also showing: No More Stars, 4 Aug - 9 Sep Polarcap presents seventeen international, established, emerging and new artists exhibiting in the dual venues of Edinburgh College of Art and the newly established out of city venue West Barns Studios.
The Test of Time, 2 - 23 Aug, In collaboration with The Saltire Society and Housing Design Awards, The Test of Time provides an insight into the changing qualities of housing in Scotland over the past seventy years.
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Charlotte Square Gardens, 0131 718 5666
Exhibition: Art in the Garden
Artists: Alice Betts, Fanny Lam Christie
11 - 27 August, open daily
Experience the work of two artists with a focus on the environment. Alice Betts creates an installation of fabric and mixed media which draws on the spaces and structures at the Book Festival. Trained in glass at Edinburgh College of Art, Alice graduated in 1999 and has been a studio holder at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop since 2002. Fanny Lam Christie's work focuses on our relationship with nature, exploring changes in the landscape and related environmental issues. Her monumental bronze sculpture Storm, won the RSA NS MacFarlane Charitable Trust Award in 2006 and is on display at the Book Festival.
Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street, 0131 557 2479
Exhibition: William Kentridge
Published by David Krut, New York
21 July - 8 Sep
Tues - Sat, 10am - 6pm, admission free
Edinburgh Printmakers is proud to present a solo exhibition of prints by globally acclaimed artist William Kentridge, published by David Krut, New York. These prints have not been shown in Scotland before. In addition we will hold limited screenings of a documentary film entitled William Kentridge: Drawing the Passing made by Maria Anna Tappeiner and Reinhard Wulf, a unique record of Kentridge at work in his studio, off ering an exceptional insight into his creative process. William Kentridge is undoubtedly the best known living South African artist, currently in demand by major institutions all over the world. He is internationally renowned in the art world for his films, drawings, prints and theatre productions. This exhibition is supported by Th e National Lottery through The Scottish Arts Council.
Sat 28 July, 3pm David Krut of DK Projects, New York & Johannesburg, will deliver a talk about William Kentridge's prints. Admission is free but ticketed.
http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, 0131 551 4490
Exhibition: MAGAZINE 07
4 - 26 Aug
Mon - Sat, 10am - 5pm, Sun 12 - 5pm, admission free
Artists: Janie Nicoll, Kevin McPhee, Emma Herman-Smith & Andrea Geile, Eilidh McNair, Louisa Preston, John Dummett, DeWitt Godfrey, Anthony Schrag, Ettie Spencer, Duncan Robertson, Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Bill Scott and FOUND.
A multi-media contemporary arts event with new work on show by 15 artists. Includes site-specific work and interactive sculpture in the garden of ESW, a tour of architectural interventions within Newhaven which have been created for the event, a major music and sound installation from FOUND as well as performances and music.
http://www.edinburghsculpture.org/
The Fruitmarket Gallery (Gallery Location)
45 Market Street, 0131 225 2383
Exhibition: Alex Hartley
27 July - 21 Oct
Extended Art Festival opening hours 4-31 August, 10am-7pm daily, normal hours Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm,
admission free
Alex Hartley is a British artist whose work confronts our experience of the built and natural environments. Working primarily with photography, though often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Hartley assumes a shifting set of roles from photographer and architectural historian to builderer, rambler, mountaineer and explorer, offering an original analysis of architecture and its relationship to landscape.
On the façade of the Gallery, Hartley has made a new work that particularly exemplifies his individual approach. He has clad the Gallery in an image of itself, marked with routes he has previously climbed. Inside, the exhibition continues with photographs of Hartley climbing other Scottish buildings, photographic collages, sculptures and two impressive installations.
The Grey Gallery - (NEW for 2007)
10 Old Broughton, off Barony Street, 07910 359086
Exhibition: Pictures of Scotland, Jock McFadyen
10 Aug - 2 Sep, open daily 11am - 6pm, admission free
Jock McFadyen is known for his monumental paintings of urban wastelands. Born in Paisley in 1950, his work is held in over 30 public collections including the Tate, V&A, National Gallery, Imperial War Museum and the British Museum.
This show brings together a selection of his smaller Scottish pictures elegantly installed in a disused warehouse off Barony Street, courtesy of Scotland's oldest and largest auction house, Lyon and Turnbull. The venue for this installation reflects and counterpoints the iconography of these works.
http://www.thegreygallery.com/
Ingleby Gallery
6 Carlton Terrace, 0131 556 4441
Mon - Sat, 10am - 5pm, admission free
Exhibitions:
Rachel Whiteread and Robert Burns' breakfast table 28 July-4 Aug
A sculpture and new works on paper by Rachel Whiteread will be shown with Robert Burns' breakfast table.
David Batchelor and Nikolai Suetin 11-18 Aug
David Batchelor's Found Monochromes (1997-2003) slide projection will be presented alongside a painting by the Russian Suprematist Nikolai Suetin (1897 - 1954)
Francesca Woodman and Richard Serra 25 Aug-1 Sep
A selection of silver gelatin photographs from the Estate of Francesca Woodman and Richard Serra's mesmerising film from 1968, Hand Catching Lead.
http://www.inglebygallery.com/
L'Institut Français d'Ecosse
13 Randolph Crescent, 0131 225 5366
26 July to 2 Sept, (closed on Tues 14 Aug)
First programme 2.30pm, Second programme 4pm
Exhibition: Filming Art
L'Institut Français d'Ecosse will present two programmes of films and videos produced by artists at Le Fresnoy. The first programme will focus on "young creation" allowing us to discover the work of Chinese artist Zhenchen Liu and also the Romanian, Mihai Grecu, while the second will highlight the works of such "stars" from video art as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Valérie Mréjen and Vimukthi Jayasundera.
Artists : Yves Ackermann, David Burrows, Roland Edzard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mihai Grecu, Vimukthi Jayasundera, Mickael Kummer, Zhenchen Liu, Annie Macdonell, Dmitri Makhomet, Laurent Mareschal, Valérie Mréjen, Daan Spruijt, Jérôme Thomas, Takako Yabuki.
Inverleith House (Gallery Location)
Royal Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith Row, 0131 248 2983
Exhibition: William Eggleston Portraits 1974,
28 July - 14 Oct
Tues - Sun, 10am - 5.30pm, daily until 3 Sept, admission free
William Eggleston's reputation is as the pioneer of modern colour photography and he is widely regarded as the leading and most influential colour photographer of the 20th century. This is the first public exhibition of a major group of photographs taken in 1974, recently printed for the first time.
National Gallery Complex (Gallery Location)
The Mound, 0131 225 6671
Exhibition: Bank of Scotland totalArt Andy Warhol
4 Aug - 7 Oct
10am - 5pm, From 4 Aug - 1 Sept 10am - 6pm, £8/£6 (conc)
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important artist of the second half of the twentieth century. This exhibition will be the first major show in Scotland to look at a wide range of Warhol's subjects, themes and media. The show includes c.200 works (paintings, drawings, collages, prints, sculpture, photographs and film). The Andy Warhol Museum has agreed to assist with major loans from its collection and works are also being loaned from other museums and collections, most notably from that of Anthony d'Offay - probably the largest private collection of Warhol work anywhere in the world.
Sponsored by Bank of Scotland totalART
Exhibition: William Blake
4 Aug - 4 Nov
artists. Blake's paintings, prints and poetry evoke a private world of religious, mythic and philosophical themes of searing originality. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth will be widely commemorated in 2007.
This display will feature all of our works associated with Blake, including his outstanding watercolour depicting God Writing upon the Tables of the Covenant (1805) and prints he made for Blair's The Grave (1813) and The Book of Job (1825).
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
National Museum of Scotland (Gallery Location)
Chambers Street, 0131 247 4422
Exhibition: Picasso: Fired with Passion
6 July - 28 Oct
Open daily 10am-5pm, £6/£5 (conc) joint ticket for Picasso on Paper at the Dean Gallery £10
This exhibition, only being shown in Edinburgh, draws upon Picasso's work from 1947-1961 a significant period when he was working at Vallauris in southern France. It offers an insight into Picasso: the man, the artist and the icon. With an introduction to his life and work, and an intimate glimpse of the man, through personal objects and photographs drawn from world-class collections including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Musée Picasso in Antibes and the Tate in London.
Open Eye Gallery / i2
34 Abercromby Place, 0131 557 1020
Exhibition: JOHN BELLANY CBE HRSA RA LLD
A Scottish Odyssey - Paintings, Drawings and Etchings
11 Aug - 5 Sep
Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, admission free
John Bellany is the most influential Scottish painter since the Second World War, re-establishing a native, figurative art at a time when modernism and abstraction seemed invincible. This exhibition brings together works from the 1970's to the present day and includes paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings, spanning the artist's career, highlighting his recent trips to Mexico, Italy and China.
Eye Two Gallery hosts French Connection IV, the latest exhibition in the gallery's bi-annual series highlighting artists who were inspired to work in France, and in particular, Paris, during the early part of the 20th century. This exhibition includes etchings, lithographs and screenprints by Picasso, Braque, Chagall, Miro, Laurencin and Matisse.
Also showing: Seven Sculptures - work by Doug Cocker, Jake Harvey, Kenny Hunter, Keith McCarter, David Mach, Eduardo Paolozzi and Adrian Wiszniewski.
http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/
Patriothall Gallery
1D Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, 0131 226 7126
Exhibition: BONA FIDE
4 - 25 Aug, Open daily 11am- 5pm, admission free
An exhibition of figurative painting from three established Georgian artists, based in Tblisi and three artists working in Scotland. The work will explore cultural differences in approach, and affinities concerning issues of identity.
Artists from Scotland:
Caroline Walker,young Glasgow artist about to begin postgraduate at the Royal College, London, selected for John Moore's 2006. Ian Healy, Irish artist resident in Edinburgh was shortlisted for last year's John Moore's Exhibition. Lynn Ahrens selected for BP National Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery London 2007.
Artists from Georgia:
Mikheil Shengelia previous residency at CCA Glasgow, lives Tblisi. Mikheil Gogrichiani has exhibited in Moscow, Paris, Bratislava, Belgrade, lives Tblisi. Vakho Bugadze has exhibited in Vienna, Drama, Greece, Maalot-Tarshiha Israel lives Tblisi
http://www.patriothallgallery.co.uk/
The Queen's Gallery
Palace of Holyroodhouse, 0131 556 5100
Exhibition: Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
2 March- 16 Sept, Open daily, 9.30am - 6pm (last admission 5pm), £5/£3
This extraordinary exhibition brings together the works of four artists and a collector who have shaped our knowledge of the world around us. Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby are diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature.
Work selected from the collections of the Royal Library in collaboration with the distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/
Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound, 0131 225 6671
Exhibition: Recycled Lives:
Paintings, Prints, Ceramics and Constructions 1997 - 2007,
Artist: Ian McCulloch, RSA
4 Aug - 30 Sept, Open Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm, admission Free
McCulloch returns to his early interest in Dada and the ‘found' objects of Schwitters. ‘Sculptures' made from the detritus of Bute beaches interact with painted ceramics and relief prints cut from boards from urban skips. Paintings incorporate scraps of discarded clothing. These exciting new works use visual paradox to capture an equivocal, fast-changing world.
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/
The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street, 0131 558 1200
Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 5pm, admission free
Exhibition:. John Houston 3 Aug - 5 Sep
Inspired by the Impressionists, Scottish colourists and a love of the countryside, as a painter Houston absorbs himself in the endless pursuit of colour from the natural world.
Also showing: Wendy Ramshaw 3 Aug - 5 Sep
Enamel, Glass and Jewellery
Wendy Ramshaw is one of Britain's best known, most decorated and most versatile craftspeople.
http://www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
75 Belford Road, 0131 624 6200
Exhibition: Richard Long: Walking and Marking
30 June - 21 Oct, 10am - 5pm, From 4 Aug - 1 Sept 10am - 6pm £6/£4 (conc)
A major exhibition of work by one of the great figures of contemporary British art. Richard Long's innovative, beautiful, thought-provoking and popular work, which expresses man's relationship with the landscape, has gained him an international reputation. Based on the walks that the artist has made since the mid-1960s, Long's work takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and sculptures (generally lines or circles constructed from natural materials that Long gathers on his walks). This exhibition, which will span the artist's career, will also feature a number of new works created specially for the show, including a series of wall drawings in mud, and a large sculpture in Devon sandstone, to be sited in the gardens at the rear of the Gallery.
Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Gallery Location)
1 Queen Street, 0131 624 6200
Exhibition: Naked Portrait
6 June - 2 Sep
10am - 5pm, From 4 Aug - 1 Sep 10am - 6pm. £6/£4 (conc)
From Picasso to Lucian Freud, David Hockney to Tracey Emin, artists have made the naked portrait a significant theme in their work for more than a century. This major exhibition, the first to examine the subject in depth, will bring together some 150 examples of the genre, dating from around 1890 to the present day. In contrast to the wider genre of the ‘nude', naked portraiture engages with the specific identity of an individual sitter (often explicitly named in a work's title). But, unlike mainstream portraiture, it strips away the sitter's public persona and social façade, creating a much more intimate, raw and sometimes even shocking likeness.
This exhibition contains images of naked people. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Sponsored by the National Galleries of Scotland Friends Membership and The Dunard Fund
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
Scottish Poetry Library
5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, 0131 557 2876
Exhibition: Wide White Page
27 July - 28 Sep
Open Mon - Fri, 11am - 6pm, Sat 1pm - 5pm
An exhibition by book artist Rachel Hazell; reading and interpreting landscape, translating it on to the blank page and exploring the vast countries of our imagination, using the spareness of poetry in sculptural installation and bookworks. Inspiration comes from both the Scottish Poetry Library's collection and a residency in Antarctica with the Royal Navy. The exhibition commemorates International Polar Year and was made possible by the Captain and crew of HMS Endurance.
Sleeper Gallery
6 Darnaway Street, 0131 225 8444
Exhibition: Martina Klein 13 July - 14 Sep
Mon - Fri, 2pm - 5pm, admission free
Martina Klein is an artist who abstracts colour. Works include large, 3 metre square fields of layered flat, single colour and panels divided by felt pen drawn over ‘house paint' on canvas.
The artist is represented by galleries such as the Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam. Established in 1994, it has a programme focussing on new tendencies in abstract art, mainly painting.
Stills Gallery
23 Cockburn Street, 0131 622 6200
Exhibition: John Stezaker
27 July - 28 Oct, 11am - 6pm daily, admission free
John Stezaker is fascinated by the power of images and questions the authority of pictures found in books, magazines, postcards and encyclopaedias by directly intervening into their ordinary status. Through the handcrafted act of splicing together, inverting, or simply adjusting an image, Stezaker embarks upon 'a process that cuts it off from its disappearance into the everyday world'.
studio~ in the fields
North Edinburgh Arts Centre, 15a Pennywell Court, 0131 315 2151
16-18 Aug, 23-25 Aug, 28-1 Sep
10am to 4pm, admission free
Exhibition: settlement | bay (Siedlung I Bucht)
~ in the fields' exhibition circles around ideas of dwelling and passing. It builds on ephemeral and yet repeating scenes seen from a bay window in Leith, right in front of the artists' workspace. Here you can see the poetry of flying plastic bags and tarmac boredom. Continuously murmuring sound comes from unknown neighbours with their own lives and thoughts, speeches and goings on.
Artists: Stefan Baumberger & Nicole Heidtke (~ in the fields), Benjamin Fallon (onezeroprojects), Jennie Temple & Christopher Walker.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh's Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, South Bridge,
0131 650 2210
Exhibition: David Batchelor
28 July - 29 Sep
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm, admission free
Artist and author David Batchelor presents a new site specific installation made for Talbot Rice Gallery's vast atrium-space. Concerned with ideas of urbanism and consumption, Batchelor has scoured the pound shops of East London and the major cities of Scotland to create a multi-coloured forest of plastic and steel. Each component part an object of little value, the colour and material alludes to low status culture and lives lived by economy and thrift. What could be seen as vulgar detritus to some becomes, in Batchelor's hands, jewel like and magical.
Also showing for the first time is a selection of prints and drawings that inform Batchelor's ideas and a brand new print commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery.
Total Kunst
Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place
0131 220 4538, Open daily 10am - midnight, admission free
TotalKunst is the Forest Gallery. It is a not for profit gallery which aims to support artists by providing an exhibition space with no commission charged.
16 July - 3 August
Philip Ewe: photography Philip will be working in the space, turning old prints into a collage and involving passers-by in the work.
5 - 12 Aug
What They Could Do They Did A showcase of Art; visual, sonic, theatrical, theoretical. Anything and everything. We do not know what they will do, but our building will be theirs!
13 - 17 Aug
Jessie Buchanan: Hansel and Gretel A gingerbread house appears in the gallery.
18 - 19 Aug
Midday to Midnight Duet
A 12 hour continuous contact improvisation duet interacting with drawings by Aaron McClusky.
25 Aug - 16 Sep
Sara Sinclair: Recipes Using a cookery program format, Sara and assistants will create paintings (and mess) with cookery utensils.
Performance: 25 August
Edinburgh Annuale
The Annuale's programme of work by emerging artists is included in this year's Edinburgh Art Festival programme. For more information please visit http://www.annuale.org/
For further information visit http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/