Tag: City Art Centre
Edinburgh Art Festival 2024: 20th Birthday!
The 20th Edinburgh Art Festival opened on Friday, and it’s taking as its theme ‘persistence.’
Launching the Festival at the City Art Centre, which will be the festival’s hub for the coming weeks, director Kim...
Poetry competition – results announced
The collections project Auld Reekie Retold ends this Sunday and to mark the event the winners of a poetry competition have been announced.
The competition was hosted with the Scottish Poetry Library and Hannah...
‘Glean’ – Early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers in Scotland
Currently open at the City Art Centre, Glean, features 125 photographs, eight films and 35 related artefacts by 14 women who worked in Scotland in the early 20th century.
The work is drawn from 17...
‘Edinburgh: A Lost World’ – Photography exhibition on at the City Art Centre
This winter the City Art Centre is presenting a one floor exhibition featuring black & white and colour photographs of unseen and forgotten Edinburgh interiors by contemporary Scottish artist Ron O’Donnell. The images depict...
New exhibition at the City Art Centre – ‘Auld Reekie Retold’
The City Art Centre's latest exhibition opens tomorrow (Sat 3rd Dec), marking the culmination of 'Auld Reekie Retold', the largest collections inventory project ever undertaken in the Council’s history.
Over the past three years, this...
Photography exhibition ‘Paul Duke: No Ruined Stone’ opens at City Art Centre
A new exhibition of street photography by the artist Paul Duke (b.1965) this November, depicting contemporary life in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh, opens at the capital's City Art Centre.
'Paul Duke: No Ruined Stone'...
‘Dig up a Dinosaur’ with ESF at City Art Centre this Easter holiday
Edinburgh Science Festival - on from now until 24 April - has sci-curious minds of all ages covered this Easter holidays!
Valentina Maia (archaeologist), 7 and Kylie Hung (dinosaur), 7 have a closer look at what...
Edinburgh Science Festival 2022 looks forward to City Art Centre return
Celebrating the upcoming launch of Edinburgh Science Festival 2022 on Saturday 9 April, as well as City Art Centre’s long-awaited return as the Festival’s flagship family venue, were 5 lucky children when they got...
Opening at CAC – ‘Reflections: The light and life of John Henry Lorimer’
Opening at the City Art Centre in Edinburgh on Saturday 6 November will be the first exhibition dedicated to the Scottish artist John Henry Lorimer (1856-1936).
'Reflections: The light and life of John Henry Lorimer'...
First major exhibition of artist Donald Smith presented by CAC
The City Art Centre and Ann Lanntair, Stornoway will, this summer,present, Eileanach: Na dealbhan aig Dòmhnall Mac a’ Ghobhainn / Islander: The Paintings of Donald Smith. Running from 29 May to 26 September 2021,...
City Art Centre presents ‘Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay’
Market Street's City Art Centre presents Marine, a two-floor exhibition of artworks by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). Finlay was an internationally renowned Scottish artist and Britain’s most significant concrete poet of the 20th century....
Groundbreaking Charles H. Mackie retrospective to reopen City Art Centre
With a full range of safety measures in place to ensure the safety of visitors and staff, Edinburgh’s City Art Centre will re-open its doors to the public on Saturday 15th May 2021 ....
Gallery staff curated digital exhibition presents unique perspectives of Edinburgh through the ages
As galleries in Edinburgh and across the UK remain dark due to the ongoing pandemic, a new digital exhibition has opened providing a welcome cultural illumination. Presented by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, 'Edinburgh: Our...
CAC furniture exhibition due to open in March goes digital
'Adjust/Adapt', a major new group exhibition showcasing and celebrating the transformative power of creativity and craft to transcend challenging times and presented by a partnership of The Scottish Furniture Makers Association (SFMA) and Visual...
Changing role of the home explored in a new exhibition at CAC
In an exploration of the changed role of the home as a result of Covid-19 and the climate emergency, The Scottish Furniture Makers Association (SFMA) and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS), in partnership, present 'Adjust/Adapt',...
2021 Exhibition Highlights revealed by City Art Centre
Edinburgh’s own public venue dedicated to championing historic and contemporary Scottish visual arts and crafts, The City Art Centre, announced exhibition highlights for 2021. All exhibitions are free to attend, but timed slots must...
‘Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures’ opening at City Art Centre
Proudly presented by the City Art Centre, 'Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures' is a two-floor exhibition of works by contemporary artist Jock McFadyen RA, whose impressive career has spanned over four decades. Timed...
‘E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas’ opens at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre
The City Art Centre and the National Trust for Scotland present, 'E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas'. Running from 7 November 2020 – 14 March 2021 at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre, it is...
‘Platform:2020 to open at City Art Centre
Edinburgh Art Festival present this year’s Platform exhibition, the festival’s annual showcase supporting artists in the early stages of their careers to make and present new work.
Selected from an open call by artist Ruth...
Dovecot Studios to show ‘Alan Davie: Beginning of a far-off World’
Early in the New Year, Dovecot Studios will present 'Alan Davie: Beginning of a far-off World', a centenary exhibition celebrating the work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014). Featuring rarely seen works from each...
‘Platform: 2020’ exhibition announced by Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival announced full details earlier today (Thu. 8th Oct.) of this year’s Platform exhibition, the festival’s annual showcase supporting artists in the early stages of their careers to make and present new...
‘E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas’ coming to City Art Centre in November
Running from 7 November 2020 – 14 March 2021 the City Art Centre and the National Trust for Scotland will present, E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas. This will be is the first...
New Jock McFadyen exhibition to open at City Art Centre
The City Art Centre is proud to present 'Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures' a two-floor exhibition of works by contemporary artist Jock McFadyen RA, whose impressive career has spanned over four decades. Timed...
City Art Centre marks 40th Anniversary as it re-opens with two new exhibitions
With a full range of new safety measures in place to ensure the safety of visitors and staff, Edinburgh’s City Art Centre is to re-open its doors to the public on Saturday 12th September...
‘Classical Edinburgh’ Photography Competition
A fascinating new exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Centre connects the work of architectural photographers Edwin Smith and Colin McLean whose images, created 50 years apart, celebrate Edinburgh’s world-famous architecture.
An exciting competition,...
At the City Art Centre: Beneath the Surface
In a recent interview, Fife-based painter Michael Craik talked about seeing the works of abstract artists James Turrell and Ellsworth Kelly for the first time. They gave him, he says;
‘an early jolt that made...
At the City Art Centre – Classical Edinburgh
Today a one bedroom flat in Edinburgh’s New Town might easily cost you half a million pounds. It’s hard to imagine, as you walk through those leafy squares and quiet crescents, that there was...
At the City Art Centre – Classical Edinburgh
The photography exhibition which opens this month is a celebration of Edinburgh’s neo-classical architecture, as seen through the eyes of two architectural photographers, working half a century apart.
Edwin Smith (1912-72), once described as...
Victoria Crowe – 50 Years in Painting now over
The City Art Centre has just closed one of its most popular exhibitions in recent times with the painter's work from five decades on display all summer long.
Over 40,000 visitors attended the retrospective...
The Italian Connection – A New Exhibition opens on Saturday at the City Art...
Edinburgh's City Art Centre has a new exhibition opening tomorrow 7 September 2019, exploring the creative links between Scotland and Italy, which have remained strong for hundreds of years.
'The Italian Connection' celebrates the enduring...
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