Tag: Art & Art Galleries
Street Art Gallery launches this week
A new gallery showcasing famous street artists is opening inside a PUB – so you can buy a Banksy with your beer.
The Street bar in Edinburgh is set to sell original works by world-class...
Spring Fling Visual Art Festival comes to Edinburgh
Fine Art Society Edinburgh and Scotland’s premier open studio event teams up to showcase Dumfries and Galloway.
Edinburgh jewellery artist Jo Garner launched an exhibition by some of the best-established and emerging artists and makers...
Earthworks at Patriothall Gallery
MESH artists collective are showing their latest work in “Earthworks” at Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, from 25th April to 3rd May 2015. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a large-scale collaborative installation of seven hangings...
Open Eye Gallery – Susie Leiper The Living Mountain
Susie Leiper's new exhibition The Living Mountain opens on 4 April 2015 and runs till the 22nd. We met up with the artist ahead of the opening to talk about the inspiration behind it.
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Scottish National Gallery – Masterpieces of Landscape Painting
ROCKS AND RIVERS: MASTERPIECES OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING FROM THE LUNDE COLLECTION OPENS TOMORROW 3 APRIL 2015
The Scottish National Gallery is to host an exhibition of masterpieces from one of the world’s finest private collections of 19th-Century Norwegian and...
New York-based Scots artist brings new works to Edinburgh
New York-based Scottish painter Catriona Herd brings her latest work to the Dundas Street Gallery in Edinburgh with a solo exhibition from 22 - 31 May 2015.
The exhibition – ‘European Landscapes’ – will feature...
Edinburgh Art Festival launches today
It is the Festival season. Today it's the time for Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) to announce its 2015 programme which combines ambitious presentations of Scottish and international contemporary art alongside major solo and survey shows...
Julia McNairn White presents Scottish Seascapes at The Sutton Gallery
Edinburgh artist presents East Lothian Seascapes
Edinburgh artist Julia McNairn White presents a new exhibition of East Lothian coastal scenes
A new exhibition of oil paintings and pastels “Scottish Seascapes” by the artist Julia McNairn White...
New Curator of Engagement takes up post at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern...
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is delighted to announce that Mairi Lafferty has been appointed to the role of The Daskalopoulos Curator of Engagement, and took up the post on 4 March...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Roy Lichtenstein
A fascinating new exhibition devoted to the ground-breaking American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is to open at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh this spring. Part of the pop art collection and touring...
At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Reflections
Opening on Saturday 14 March there is a new exhibition on Belford Road.
The work of a diverse range of internationally-renowned contemporary and modern artists is to be showcased throughout 2015 in REFLECTIONS, a dynamic...
Art at Summerhall
From this Friday there will be an exhibition of retrospective of paintings by award winning Edinburgh artist Anna Somerville, including recent works painted at her studio in Summerhall.
Somerville’s bold style and dramatic compositions deliver immediate...
Princes Street mural urges support for Chagos
In the late sixties and early seventies, the native inhabitants of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands were forcibly expelled so the US could build a (still extant) military base on what remains...
smART CRAFT from Wester Hailes at The Gallery on the Corner
Whilst all artists would say that they express themselves through their work, for the members of smART CRAFT art is a special way of communicating. smART Craft, which meets at WHALE Arts Agency in Wester...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – 20th Century: Masterpieces of Scottish and...
Following the huge success of GENERATION, the nationwide celebration of 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland which took over the whole of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for much of 2014,...
New public artwork on the canal
If you are walking along the canal at Fountainbridge you may see the new public art which has been unveiled at the student housing complex there. This is a sculpture of a wellington boot fallen...
Edinburgh Old Town’s Latest Fine Art Exhibition
Hoeyyn Arts Gallery in Edinburgh’s Old Town announces its latest exhibition of new works by resident artist Hoeyyn Ngu entitled “How Many Lives”.
How Many Lives consists a series of paintings incorporating western painting techniques,...
Edinburgh Iranian Festival – art exhibition
First Scottish show for renowned Iranian artist
Iranian artist Hassan Meshkinfam is set to have his first exhibition in Scotland next month as part of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival. Opening at The Sutton Gallery on...
Urbane Gallery – art and science in harmony
The Urbane Gallery, Edinburgh’s dynamic and leading edge art gallery, is taking part in this year’s International Science Festival, featuring the work of artists who have made use of science or technology for the...
The Open Eye Gallery: three new exhibitions
A woman lies face down on a balcony, her slipper cast aside. Next to her, a man reads. This could be anywhere, but the artist's use of shade and light in this beautiful ink...
Dream Walking with Hares
House moves give us ideas; we think we'll do all sorts of new things, even if we've only gone a few miles down the road. Sally Bruce Richards and her family went a bit...
Art4X exhibition opens next week at Edinburgh College of Art
The Scottish Society of Architect Artists (SSAA) will hold ART4X, its most ambitious exhibition to date, at The Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, from 21 to 24 January.
The exhibition features over 100 unique and...
Shinty painting on show for the first time in fifty years
REDISCOVERED SHINTY PAINTING EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FIFTY YEARS AT THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The painting A Highland Landscape with a Game of Shinty is the most famous depiction of the world-celebrated...
Portrait of Alan Cumming unveiled at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
If you are a fan of The Good Wife then you will know him as Eli Gold who has all the answers for every situation, and on Broadway right now he is starring with Emma...
BP Portrait Award entries at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
All the works submitted for the popular BP Portrait Award are on show in Edinburgh this winter.
The works at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery comprise the entries in a competition organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London. The award...
Talbot Rice gearing up for 40th birthday year
In 2015 the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery will celebrate its 40th birthday.
This landmark will mean a series of celebrations and events take place there throughout the year, accompanying a dynamic programme of exhibitions by...
Writing Opportunity with Talbot Rice Gallery
Here is an opportunity for you if you are interested in writing fiction or poetry in response to the current exhibition Until Only the Mountain Remains at Talbot Rice Gallery.
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Peploe take two
Iconic Peploe painting of Iona has a second painting of his children on the back
Auctioneers at Lyon & Turnbull have a painting by Samuel John Peploe of Iona on the front, whilst on the...
Sir Harry Lauder sketch on sale today in Edinburgh
A sketch of Sir Harry Lauder by the Scottish Colourist Francis Cadell is to be sold at Bonhams Scottish Art sale in Edinburgh later today which is estimated at £15,000-20,000.
The sketch, The Star, and Beauty...
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery gets a new Raeburn
In an important announcement The Scottish National Portrait Gallery announced today that a near life-size portrait is being added to the collection.
The new acquisition is Portrait of Lady Montgomery by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823). This elegant...