Art
| 03 August 2009
Bourne Fine Art, 6 Dundas Street
31 July - 5 September
Mon – Fri: 10am - 6pm, Sat: 11am - 4pm, Free
From the 17th century Scottish artist William Gouw Ferguson and Sir Henry Raeburn, Scotland's national portraitist to the first Scot with an international reputation, Sir David Wilkie. Examples from Scottish Impressionism with William McTaggart and the Kirkcudbright School artist Charles Oppenheimer. Colourists Hunter and Cadell and the Edinburgh School artist Anne Redpath take us into the 20th century and Callum Innes and the Boyle Family lead to the Scottish art of today.
| 03 August 2009
Corn Exchange Gallery, Constitution Street
http://www.cornexchangegallery.com
31 July - 10 September
Tues - Sat :11am - 4.30pm, Free
Showing for the first time in Scotland, Andrew’s work is a mix of large-scale sculpture crafted from reclaimed timber, prints and film. New work has also been commissioned and Andrew’s latest piece will be in Gayfield Square Gardens for the duration of the Festival. Andrew’s installations, sculptures and films explore ideas related to site-specificity as well as the viewers' interaction with the work.
| 03 August 2009
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,75 Belford Road
http://www.nationalgalleries.org
Until 8 November 2009
Open daily 10am-5pm
(extended to 6pm in August), Free
The main displays at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art are drawn from the ARTIST ROOMS collection of over 700 works, recently acquired jointly by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, through the very generous donation of Anthony d’Offay.At the heart of the collection is the concept of individual rooms devoted to particular artists, so that their work can be seen in depth. Highlights in the opening displays include Vija Celmins’ delicate images of seas, deserts and the nights sky, Francesca Woodman’s intimate and moving surrealist influenced photographs, and an extensive display of work by Damien Hirst, including the iconic Away from the Flock.
| 03 August 2009
National Museum of Scotland, Level 3, Chambers Street
5 August - 8 November
Daily: 10am – 5pm, Free
John Edgar’s stone sculptures explore the experience of the emigrant: leaving the homeland, the voyage through unknown seas and the arrival in a new land. Ballast kept them afloat on the journey and brought them safely to a new shore half a world away. Using stone that he collected in 2005 from various historic quarries in Scotland, the New Zealand artist has made sculptures based on the land and the flag, the compass, trig stations and survey markers, mapping voyages and journeys, arrivals and departures. In this Year of Homecoming, John Edgar’s ballast finds its way back home. The exhibition celebrates in stone the strong culture that is common to Scotland and New Zealand.
| 03 August 2009
Studio 11, 17 William Street
http://www.alexanderhamilton.co.uk
8-22 August
Open daily 11am - 4pm, Free
The Blue Flora Celtica exhibition was first shown at the renowned Foksal Gallery, Poland, in July 2008.
The work is inspired by Alexander Hamilton’s reflections on his relationship to artist Joseph Beuys, developed during Beuys’s visit to Edinburgh in 1970, and his own 40- year career in the visual arts.
| 03 August 2009
The Grey Gallery, Hawke & Hunter, 12 Picardy Place
6 August - 5 September
Daily: 11am – 6pm, Free
This Artist is Deeply Dangerous is an 11-metre painting that breaks down into nine panels and is one of Bob and Roberta Smith’s largest works to date. Last year The Guardian asked its arts and sports writers to swap places for a day, resulting in a review of a Louise Bourgeois exhibition by tennis correspondent Steve Bierley. The title and text of the painting are taken from this review. Bierley’s article caught the imagination of Bob and Roberta Smith because of its incisive clarity and enthusiasm. The Grey Gallery is nomadic and works with artists on a project-byproject basis. Last year’s Festival found it in a derelict warehouse; this year it takes up residence in the opulent surroundings of Hawke & Hunter.
| 03 August 2009
Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road
5 August - 26 September
Times vary, free
Over the past 20 years Edinburgh-born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work that stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix, which has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries.
| 03 August 2009
Nekojuice, art's complex
7 August - 5 September
Daily: 11am – 5pm, £1 for Charity
‘Change’ seems to be the word for 2009, thrown into public awareness by the clever advertisers working for President Obama’s campaign, promising a new, not really graspable but certainly very different future. Combining drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, mixed media, installation, illustration, animation and textile design the show reflects a broad spectrum of contemporary art practice.
| 03 August 2009
The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyrood House
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk
until 20 September
Daily 9.30am - 6pm (last admission 5pm) Adult £5.50, Over 60/Student £5.00, Under 17 £3.00 and Under 5 free.
This exhibition offers a fascinating insight into high-society style and manners, from the time of Charles I to the reign of Queen Victoria. The Conversation Piece depicts a sitter’s way of life, showing a family group or a gathering of friends in strikingly informal situations.
| 03 August 2009
Dovecot, 10 Infirmary Street
5 August - 26 September
Times vary, from £2
The Creative World of Alan Davie celebrates the remarkable breadth of work from one of Scotland’s most respected and influential artists. As Davie approaches 90, this major exhibition will include specially selected examples of his work in sculpture, painting, tapestry and rug making, jewellery design, printmaking, drawing, photography, poetry and experimental jazz.
| 03 August 2009
National Gallery Complex, The Mound
http://www.nationalgalleries.org
18 July – 11 October 2009
Times vary, From £6
This summer’s major exhibition at the National Gallery Complex is The Discovery of Spain – an extensive show that fills the entire upper level of the Royal Scottish Academy building with masterpieces by Spanish painters such as El Greco, Goya and Picasso. It also explores the work of notable British artists, such as Sir David Wilkie and Arthur Melville, who were captivated andinspired by Spain.
| 03 August 2009
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street
5 August - 25 October
Times vary, Free
This exhibition is a rare chance to see the work of German-born, American artist Eva Hesse (1936– 70), a major figure in post-war art. The exhibition is the result of new research by renowned Hesse scholar Briony Fer, and focuses on the small, experimental works Hesse produced throughout her career, alongside her large-scale sculpture. It brings together around 50 sculptures drawn from major public and private collections around the world. Hesse's sculptures are extremely fragile, and rarely travel. Many of these works have never left the collections to which they belong, and several have never been exhibited before.
| 03 August 2009
Collective, 22 - 28 Cockburn Street
http://www.collectivegallery.net
5 August – 27 September
Tues – Sun: 11am – 6pm Free
The How Not To Cookbook: Lessons learned the hard way is a limited edition book and art project by Aleksandra Mir, commissioned and produced by Collective. While the typical cookbook gives you a recipe for success, this project has invited 1000 people from around the world to contribute their stories of how NOT to cook.
| 03 August 2009
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org
6 August - 13 September
Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm Sun 12noon – 5pm, Free
A presentation of contemporary Polish fine-art film, curated by Lokal_30, Warsaw, featuring the artists Jozef Robakowski, Tomasz Kozak, Norman Leto, Anna Baumgart, Zuzanna Janin, Karol Radziszewski, Jasmina Wojcik and Elodie Pong.
| 03 August 2009
Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh
7 August - 26 September
Times vary, admission free
Talbot Rice Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of film and photography by Jane and Louise Wilson. This will be their first solo exhibition in Edinburgh. It will include a new film and recent photographs alongside a new sculptural commission.
| 03 August 2009
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
http://www.rbge.org.uk/inverleith-house
6 August - 11 October
Tues – Sun: (Daily during the Art Festival) 10am - 5.30pm
Admission Free
This is the first museum exhibition in the UK by John McCracken, one of the great living American artists whose use of colour and form continues to influence artists across generations, in a career spanning 45 years.
| 03 August 2009
gallerA1 @ The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, 20-22 West Harbour Road
http://www.artinarchitecture.co.uk/site_2/gallerA1.html
8 August - 5 September
Daily: 10am – 4pm Free
JUMP 2 DE-Light, by artist Shaeron Averbuch, is based on proactive research and analysis. JUMP, the acronym for Joined Up Master Planning, sets the exhibition theme – a contextual response to the Edinburgh waterfront regeneration. A flea with ‘catalytic’ strengths is set to fight the ‘Plague on Architecture’ and empower the communities that survive the effects of developer-led regeneration. The show includes temporary exhibitions around the Granton building
| 03 August 2009
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 25 Hawthornvale
http://www.edinburghsculpture.org
15 - 30 August
Times vary, Free
This year’s MAGAZINE exhibition is the first of a two-part project. This first stage will examine notions of creative space as being formed by the relationships between individuals, objects and activities, an active participant rather than a passive container.
| 03 August 2009
Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place
1 - 30 August
Tues – Sun: 10am - 4pm, Free
Milestone is a unique arts event for the Festival. Ten international sculptors will each carve a new sculpture in a 1 to 2 tonne block of stone of their choosing in the ArtCollege quadrangle. This event offers the public a rare opportunity to watch stone sculptors in the process of creating their work.
| 03 August 2009
Doggerfisher, 11 Gayfield Square
1 Aug - 26 September
Times vary, Free
Rosalind Nashashibi and Turner Prize-nominee Lucy Skaer have been collaborating since 2005. For their first solo exhibition in Scotland they will exhibit a new 16mm film, specially commissioned by doggerfisher. The film takes as its starting point the paintings of the early 20th century British artist Paul Nash and in particular his 1944 landscape painting, Flight of the Magnolia.
