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New artworks unveiled at Pennywell All Care Centre
Art at the Heart of Muirhouse
Artists Hans K Clausen and Lindsay Perth present two new public artworks created in collaboration with North Edinburgh residents and NHS staff commissioned as part of a public art...
Edinburgh Welcomes Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools Roadshow
Last week, Stenhouse Primary School enjoyed a fun-filled day of art as the Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools arrived in Edinburgh.
Primary six students at the Edinburgh school got involved in the creative sessions...
End of Artist in Residency Programme Marked by Special Event
Unique ‘energy’ of Scottish community foundation captured by art installation
A new art installation was unveiled on Tuesday (29th November) at a special event in Edinburgh marking the culmination of an ‘artist in residency’ programme...
Exhibition FRESH at Whitespace
The exhibition 'FRESH' is the debut show for the Edinburgh art collective bearing the same name.
This is an exciting new art group, showcasing a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, performance, installation and sculpture.
Contemporary...
‘Hidden Door’ Launch Crowd-funding Campaign to Restore Leith Theatre
£20,000 Target set to aid restoration of the derelict Art Deco Theatre
(Photo credit - Eoin Carey)
A local non-profit arts festival is setting its sights on raising £20,000 to help restore the old Leith Theatre - unused...
Scots Shortlisted for 2017 Sony World Photography Awards
Words : Nigel Duncan
Photo Editor : John Preece
Three Scottish photographers have been short-listed in the world’s largest photography competition.
Over 227,000 images were received from 183 countries and the winners in the 2017 Sony World...
RSA New Contemporaries
A man lies face down on the sand; a woman in a sun hat sits on his back whilst another man manipulates his legs. A third man, in a deckchair, looks decidedly puzzled. What...
Winter Exhibitions at the City Art Centre*****
Chloe Brown's screenprint portrait of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson is at first sight a simple line drawing of a man in profile. Look again and you will see that inside the man there are all...
Edinburgh artist unveils mural inspired by community projects
Alan Faulds of Edinburgh-based arts and disability organisation Artlink has visited the India Quay development site in Fountainbridge to showcase the mural he designed in celebration of the success of the site’s partnership with...
At the Scottish National Gallery : Drawing Attention – Rare Works on Paper
Some rarely seen drawings will go on display at the National Galleries of Scotland from this Saturday 24 September 2016.
Spanning five centuries, Drawing Attention will demonstrate the extraordinary range and depth of the collection by highlighting...
Colony of Artists – don’t miss it!
The Colony of Artists are holding their exhibitions and talks this weekend (and there is cake!).
This group of artists and creatives are centred around the Abbeyhill Colonies in Edinburgh. This year’s event features over 40...
Artist holding exhibition at Edinburgh Gallery to benefit local charity
This month Edinburgh-based artist Gabriel Böhmer will contribute to a group exhibition at The Edinburgh Gallery.
Gabriel’s work features both text and illustration, and is inspired by fleeting thoughts.
He explained: “Since moving to Scotland in 2013...
At the Open Eye Gallery – Barbara Rae CBE RA : Return Journey
"Some artists start off as students and then follow a kind of sequential development; I know a lot of artists who have changed in that way. But I have developed my own style which...
New exhibition at the Travelling Gallery
As part of Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) a new exhibition is being unveiled at the Travelling Gallery. This is being staged in partnership with New Media Scotland for both the Festival of Architecture and EAF.
Supported...
Baldwin & Guggisberg: The Cathedral Collection
‘We are migratory creatures; the history of our species is about journeys, departures, leaving and arriving, starting over. And none more so than ourselves.’ (Baldwin and Guggisberg, The Arch of Glass, in La Revue...
At The Sutton Gallery – Julia McNairn White celebrates the beauty of the Botanics
Edinburgh artist Julia McNairn White returns to The Sutton Gallery on Dundas Street for a new exhibition featuring over 20 new oils depicting Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens. The exhibition, which opened just yesterday 29...
At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – Joseph Beuys
A major new ARTIST ROOMS exhibition devoted to the drawings of the German artist Joseph Beuys will be a highlight of the summer programme at the National Galleries of Scotland this year. It opens...
At the Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Facing the World :Self Portraits from Rembrandt...
Opening on Saturday 16 July 2016 at the Portrait Gallery is a fascinating collection of self-portraits collected from across three collections in Europe.
From Rembrandt’s famously unflinching treatment of his ageing reflection to Ai Weiwei’s...
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...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week – 20 Art events
Inside Out: Alexander Nasmyth's Princes Street in Context Walking Tour. Starting inside the Scottish National Gallery, historian Alastair Learmont will take a closer look at Alexander Nasmyth's Princes Street with the Commencement of the Building of...
What’s On in the Edinburgh Art World This Week
Bring Your Own Baby - Bridget Riley: come along to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for a fun, relaxed morning planned especially with parents and carers of young children (0-12 months) in mind....
Where to drink coffee in Edinburgh – Grounds and Grams
Stockbridge is known as a haven for the foodies amongst its inhabitants and I count myself very lucky to be one of them. With the bustling Sunday market and a plethora of indie shops...
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...
Alba wins John Byrne National Drawing competition
Alba Cooke Ribes who is a P5 pupil at Hermitage Park Primary School has won the John Byrne National Drawing Competition beating thousands of others who entered.
She attended the award ceremony at Paisley Museum...
Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer
Dogs, card games, open birdcages, empty cupboards. Lutes, ravens, owls and skulls.... all 'everyday things' indeed (well maybe not the skulls...) but in 17th century Dutch painting they are much more than that. In...
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...
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 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...
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