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£8700 for Kelly Holmes torso
In its summer show from 23 July 2014, the Urbane Art Gallery on Edinburgh’s Jeffrey Street will be exhibiting the real body cast of athlete Dame Kelly Holmes, among other sculptures by world leading...
LIGHTS OUT project to be part of Edinburgh Art Festival
Another exciting new installation to look forward to at one of the many festivals just about to start in Edinburgh.
In collaboration with Edinburgh Art Festival, 14-18NOW presents a major outdoor re-working of Indian artist...
National Museum of Scotland hosts a heat of Sky HD Portrait Artist of the...
This week the Scottish regional heat of Sky Arts HD Portrait Artist of the Year competition took place at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The event was staged in the centre...
Journey: a new exhibition at The Gallery on the Corner
The Journey of Recovery by Su-Jou Yang, a mixed media collage showing a bright yellow sky above a deep dark underworld, is one of the many striking pieces in a new exhibition, Journey, at...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery – John Ruskin exhibition open now
An exhibition of the art created by a 19th century writer and thinker is the subject of a new exhibition just open at the Portrait Gallery. This is the only UK opportunity to have...
The Edinburgh Reporter talks to artist John Byrne
John Byrne is a prolific artist and he has a new exhibition at the Bourne Gallery which opens tomorrow morning. Dead End is
Earlier today The Edinburgh Reporter had a lot of fun with Byrne...
John Byrne selling ‘cheap’ at Bourne Fine Art
John Byrne is everywhere. Go to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and you will see the exhibition of his work featuring portraits of his children and self-portraits too.
An exhibition of new works by Byrne...
Exhibition – India Street in Gayfield Square
As the Commonwealth baton passed from India to Scotland, a new exhibition brings together designers from both countries for an international collaboration which explores the legacy of Scotland’s Turkey red dye industry. India Street...
John Byrne at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
A stunning new exhibition of portraits by one of the UK’s most versatile and accomplished artists has opened the summer season at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Born in Paisley in 1940, John Byrne has...
GENERATION – 25 years of contemporary art in Scotland
It's been more than three years in the making, and this week all the work and wild imaginings have paid off: GENERATION, the National Galleries of Scotland's largest ever exhibition, opens to the public...
Art Gallery launches new initiative
Gallery uses new technology to show paintings in room settings
Urbane Art Gallery, on Edinburgh’s Jeffrey Street, has installed a new programme on its website which enables visitors to view their potential purchase in a...
Scottish National Gallery – The Art of Golf
The Scottish National Gallery is doing its bit to take part in the sporting celebrations taking place in Scotland this summer with The Art of Golf: The Story of Scotland’s National Sport.
The exhibition will overlap...
Egyptian artist’s new show at Edinburgh gallery
It was not all plain sailing for Edinburgh’s Urbane Art Gallery when they decided to showcase international artist Hossam Dirar’s paintings in his first ever UK exhibition.
First of all his paintings were held up...
Tale of Two Cities attracts a million visitors
The former capital of China is hosting a major exhibition celebrating the cultural development of Nanjing and Edinburgh. The display has had to be extended after over a million Chinese flocked to see artifacts...
Edinburgh College of Art students create new public art for Tollcross
Kirralee Fisher, a 3rd year student from Edinburgh College of Art, stands with her artwork which was created as part of a public art display at the new Canal Point Development, West Tollcross, Edinburgh.
Sky...
Gayfield Creative Spaces: a new design centre opens in Broughton
There are many art and design galleries in Edinburgh, but I doubt if there are many like Gayfield Creative Spaces. This new venture at the top of Leith Walk is the brainchild of Dr...
Fergusson sculpture kept under his bed to be sold at auction
“Eastre, Hymn to the Sun”, a sculpture valued at £12,000-18,000, by Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson, which lay under his bed for three years before he could afford to have it cast, will be...
Louise Bourgeois’ Sunday Salons: a talk by Julie Roberts at Modern Art One
September 2001, New York City. For most of us, the date brings to mind one thing: the attacks on the World Trade Centre. The day the world changed. For artist Julie Roberts, however, life...
Edinburgh is first UK show for popular German artist
Successful German artist in her first UK show
German artist Corinna Wagner, who exhibits at galleries all over Eurpope, is to have her first UK show at Edinburgh’s Urbane Art Gallery from Friday 17 May...
Talbot Rice Gallery – Jason Dee exhibition
The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery is to be filled with shadows, echoes and reflections for the largest exhibition to date of Kent-based artist Jason Dee which opens on 31 May 2014. Pursuit...
Historic mill inspires new artists’ collective
The site of a former paper mill in Edinburgh has inspired a group of six up-and-coming artists who all work with the material to stage their first joint exhibition.
The group of women – who...
Edinburgh Favourite Alfons Bytautas returns for new exhibition
Royal Scottish Academician Alfons Bytautas will be familiar to many in Edinburgh’s art scene as the head technician at Edinburgh Printmakers from 1979 to 2009. Now based south of the border in Newcastle, he...
Edinburgh art gallery to display Kelly Holmes torso
Embracing the spirit of the Commonwealth Games, the Urbane Art Gallery in Edinburgh will be exhibiting the real body casts of athletes Dame Kelly Holmes and Kriss Akabusi MBE, among other sculptures by world...
Leith School of Art Alumni Show
'An attempt to communicate something of the deeper nature of reality' - that's how painter Craig Jefferson describes his art. Jefferson's bold and colourful canvases form part of Leith School of Art's Alumni Exhibition, which...
The Kelpies
We went to visit the Kelpies at Helix Park in Falkirk at the weekend. They are fabulous and worth a visit. Very photogenic even in some flat grey light...
Edinburgh features at the City Art Centre this weekend
The capital’s history and changing cityscape will be revealed with an exhibition set to open in Edinburgh this weekend at The City Art Centre.
A Capital View – The Art of Edinburgh, which will run...
Scottish National Gallery to stage golfing exhibition this summer
The Scottish National Gallery will stage an exhibition of golf paintings this summer including the John Lavery illustrated. Charles Lees’s The Golfers, said to be the greatest golfing painting in the world which was painted in 1847...
Leith Mural – faded glory?
The Edinburgh Reporter was alerted to the condition of The Leith Mural by one of our readers, Graeme Allan who sent in these photos to our Flickr Pool.
Graeme's view is that the mural on...
Scottish National Gallery planning a makeover
The same architects who designed the redevelopment of the National Museum of Scotland a couple of years ago are to be appointed to oversee the huge project of reorganising the Scottish National Gallery.
In a...
Louise Bourgeois: a talk at Modern Art One
A Woman Without Secrets, the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art's Louise Bourgeois exhibition, will end next month. It's a show that inspires strong feelings; I've seen it three times and I'm still discovering new...
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