Tag: Art & Art Galleries
Edinburgh College of Art student Molly will be on the billboards!
Molly Soar who is an Edinburgh College of Art student is one of 15 graduates whose art will be displayed on billboards across the country by JCDecaux.
The student was spotted by the outdoor advertising company looking...
At the City Art Centre – William Gillies and John Maxwell
Two of Scotland’s best-loved twentieth century artists will be celebrated with a joint three month exhibition at the City Art Centre this summer.
The exhibition will feature the works of William Gillies and John Maxwell and explore...
Leith School of Art Summer Show 2016*****
How many exhibitions have you been to where a student rushed to make you a cup of tea? How often have you been thanked for coming? One of the many joys of Leith School...
At the Scottish National Gallery – Rubens and Company
The greatest Flemish artist of the seventeenth century, Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), will be at the centre of the exciting new display of master drawings at the Scottish National Gallery this summer. Rubens and...
At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Out of their Heads : Building Portraits...
From this weekend at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) some of Scotland’s most stunning buildings and the achievements of the country’s most distinguished architects will be celebrated.
The innovatively-presented exhibition sets out to explore the key...
Edinburgh Art Festival – Prepare to be dazzled
Down in Leith Dazzle Ship Scotland has arrived. MV Fingal has been preserved by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust. She was built in 1963 in Glasgow and worked as a support ship for the...
Freddy Fabris First Worldwide Exhibition
Burgeoning Edinburgh art gallery Urbane will proudly host the first European exhibition of a new suite of work by internationally renowned photographic artist, Freddy Fabris this month.
The Renaissance Series by Chicago-based photographer Fabris quite...
Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie acquired by Scottish National Portrait Gallery
A hugely significant portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by the greatest Scottish portrait painter of the eighteenth century has been acquired by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery thanks to the AIL (Acceptance in Lieu...
Our Dynamic Earth has ‘Space’ for you this Easter
Lucie Broadfoot, aged 3, from Edinburgh, discovers what it's like being an astronaut at Our Dynamic Earth along with Dynamic Earth's Emma Dawson.
This Easter, space the final frontier is the theme for a whole...
Leith School of Art Easter Exhibition honours ‘silent’ heroes of the air
The Leith School of Art Easter Exhibition highlights the sacrifice and courage of a Norwegian airman who escaped Nazis to fight for freedom during the Second World War.
The exhibition to honour the sacrifice of World...
David Bowie painting sold in Edinburgh
A self-portrait by the late David Bowie was sold today by Lyon & Turnbull for £22,500, which was seven times the original estimate.
The new owner is in films but wished to remain anonymous. He seemed...
Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Schools Arts Award winners announced
Katie Corrie from Linlithgow Academy, West Lothian, collected the "Chairmen's Chalenge" special award at the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy Schools Arts Awards.
Her photograph of a wet cobbled street won the 'pictured by...
Edinburgh University Design Society – Design Without Borders
A pop-up exhibition presented by Edinburgh University Design Society
Exhibiting a body of work inspired by the refugee crisis, and, in the process, showcasing design’s humanitarian power, Edinburgh University‘s Design Society hosted a two...
British Art Show 8 now in Edinburgh
The British Art Show 8 has just arrived in Edinburgh and will open to the public tomorrow 13 February.
It runs until 8 May so you have plenty of time to go and see it...
At the Scottish National Gallery – new sculpture now on view
Lorenzo Bartolini's exceptional, life-sized marble portrait group The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz, is now on show at the Scottish National Gallery, following its acquisition last summer.
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An exceptionally beautiful nineteenth-century sculpture has gone...
At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Bad Entertainment #TheUNTITLED
A fascinating new exhibition at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery has taken a year to create and aims to reveal the creativity unleashed when groups of young people around Scotland are given the chance...
Bellany, Elsie Inglis and The Scottish Women’s Hospitals
From today at Holyrood there is a new exhibition featuring paintings by the late John Bellany in an exhibition about the Scottish Women's Hospitals alongside video and a new poem by Scots Makar Liz...
At the Scottish National Gallery – Landscapes from the Lunde Collection
Five paintings by the celebrated Norwegian artist Peder Balkehave been added to an existing long-term loan from the distinguished private collection of AsbjörnLunde to the Scottish National Gallery.
Balke’s innovative and highly original pictures will complement...
Bellany exhibition at Holyrood opens soon
Some of the final works by renowned Scottish artist John Bellany will go on public display for the first time.
The Scottish Parliament is to host an exhibition exploring the role of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals.
John...
At the Scottish National Gallery from New Year’s Day – Turner in January
In keeping with a long-standing tradition now stretching over a century, New Year’s Day at the Scottish National Gallery will be marked by the opening of Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest, an annual display...
National Galleries of Scotland will have an international flavour in 2016
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS LEAD NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND’S EXHIBITIONS IN 2016
The work of a hugely influential forerunner of the Impressionists, 400 years of artists' self-portraits, and the story of four legendary collections of Surrealist art...
Baby Elephant takes up position at ‘Binns Corner’
Edinburgh’s West End has welcomed an exotic new resident as part of a drive to establish the city’s ‘plinth’ for public art.
Baby Elephant, by Scottish sculptor Ronald Rae, has been installed on the corner...
At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Calum Colvin – Jacobites by name
The 300th anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite Rising will be marked by two fascinating new displays at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this winter. A key player in the rising, John Erskine, 6th Earl...
At the City Art Centre – William Gear 1915-1997
A major retrospective exhibition opens at the City Art Centre this weekend.
Featuring around 120 works spanning his colourful career and coinciding with the centenary of his birth, William Gear 1915-1997: The painter that Britain forgot seeks to...
Artlink – Castaway Heads at Western General Hospital
Come along to the Gallery at the Western General Hospital between 12 and 2pm on Friday 23rd October, to see a new display of work created by two of our visually impaired clients.
Castaway Heads...
Artlink exhibition – A Year Out
Edinburgh-based arts and disability organisation, Artlink, is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Jenny Richardson – A YEAR OUT at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh.
The series of paintings on display was...
Young Scottish artist holds first pop art exhibition this weekend
A young artist will bring her stories of travel and poverty, together with the vibrant culture of Asia, to a pop art exhibition, which opens on Friday 23 October 2015 at Ocean Terminal.
Abi Baikie, 27 years...
At the Talbot Rice Gallery – Luc Tuymans Birds of a Feather
Luc Tuymans
Birds of a Feather
31 October – 19 December 2015
Luc Tuymans is one of the most influential painters working today. For his first exhibition in Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery,...
At the City Art Centre – Forgotten artist
The story of a great British painter who slipped into obscurity will be remembered at a major retrospective exhibition arriving at the City Art Centre on 24 October.
Featuring around 120 works spanning his colourful...
Edinburgh Artist Solo Show at Urbane Art Gallery
In her first ever solo show, Edinburgh artist Rosie Playfair will be exhibiting a range of eclectic paintings and drawings at Urbane Art Gallery, Jeffrey Street from 17 October to 1 November 2015.
Nearly thwarted...
