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Kirsty Wither: New Paintings »

Foot of the Castle by Kirtsy Wither.

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A combination of oil paintings lines the walls of the Open Eye Gallery. At first glance the work seems like any other collection of still life and landscape, yet on closer observation the unique application of paint reveals itself to the viewer. One c...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Harry Dougall | Read more »

Rob Fairley: Retrospective with New Works »

Kindertotenlieder by Rob Fairley

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The Open Eye Gallery, a bright and contemporary space in Edinburgh’s New Town, have been exhibiting the work of Rob Fairley since the early eighties. Fairley studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before returning to Mallaig, in the Highlands o...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Pippa Atkins | Read more »

Poetic Licence »

Shakespeare's Sonnet, by Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE

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Mark-making is a game of construction: the gestural language of creation. In poetry and in painting, mark-makers build on two very distinct vocabularies in order to achieve diverse results. The processes, however, are not so dissimilar. At the Union G...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »

Anna Barriball »

Untitled by Anna Barriball. 2011

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Whilst the premise of this exhibition sounds unique and exciting, the overall effect may leave some with a lot to be desired. Anna Barriball produces work that falls neither in the category of drawing or sculpture but is a hybrid of both concepts, push...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

Hot Scots »

Karen Gillan by Suki Dhanda. 2010

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‘Connecting the past with the present’ – one of the main aims of the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but an endeavour that is unfortunately lost in the Hot Scots exhibition on show in the Contemporary Gallery. T...

Sun 05 Feb 2012 by Emily Burke | Read more »

New Work Scotland Programme: Ash Reid, Jack McConville, Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby »

The Cooling Room by Jack McConville. 2011

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The Collective Gallery continues its endorsement of recent Scottish graduates through the New Work Scotland Programme 2011. Glasgow-based artists Amelia Bywater and Christian Newby collaborate to present the 34-minute video Historic Play Dissolving So...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »

Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland »

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson by Jessie Bertram, Jeanie Wilson and Annie Liston

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Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery offers a small but comprehensive representation of remarkable women from the 1800s. The show focuses on women who broke the mould and fought against conf...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Pippa Atkins | Read more »

Kirsty Whiten: Breeder Badlands »

Feral Family (blind) by Kirsten Whiten. 2011

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Feminist ferocity and a polished aesthetic: that was my summary of Kirsty Whiten’s work back in 2010, in Axolotl’s inaugural show Life, Death and Sex. With Breeder Badlands, however, Whiten looks beyond the dominant, independent female to t...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Jen Owen | Read more »

War at Sea »

The Forth Bridge by Sir John Lavery. 1914

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As we approach nearly 100 years since the end of the First World War, the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery has undertaken an exhibition of John Lavery’s work as a naval war artist. Unfortunately these seem like the paintings o...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

The Modern Scot »

Poet's Pub by Alexander (Sandy) Moffat. 1990

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The Modern Scot deals with the period of adjustment following the First World War, with an intention to take "a closer look at the creative men and women who championed a progressive national culture and made Scotland’s distinctive voice heard". ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Carly Shearer | Read more »

The Chosen Few »

Newburgh by Roland Fraser

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The Chosen Few is an exhibition that brings together some of the most recent and original Scottish artists handpicked by thirty professionals and patrons of the Open Eye Gallery. The work itself is varied; a combination of sculpture, painting, prints, ...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Harry Dougall | Read more »

Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools »

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American artist Allan Sekula provides the second instalment of the Social Documents programme at the Stills. Continuing to challenge the ethics of society, this time it is the societies created through the sea whose exploitation is under question. Shi...

Tue 31 Jan 2012 by Laura Stocks | Read more »

Photography: A Lost Art? »

Photography: A Lost Art?

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Fri 27 Jan 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

Jerwood Makers »

Heike Brachlow

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The Jerwood Makers Open exhibition is currently on show at the Dovecot, the final destination of its tour. To encourage and support crafts and the applied arts, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation organised the Jerwood Makers Open. Allowing open submissi...

Wed 25 Jan 2012 by Carly Shearer | Read more »

Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography and the Modern World »

Landscape, 7/004 by Michael Reisch. 2007

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The recently reopened National Portrait Gallery is undoubtedly a stunning space. It still retains a strong sense of its deep-rooted history but now it's married with quaint and chic modern touches. Once you have taken in the grandeur of the architectur...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

The Sculpture Show »

A Girl by Ron Mueck

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The Sculpture Show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art [SNGMA] attempts to offer a definition of sculpture. With its extensive loans and commissions, the gallery provides a summary of sculpture's varying definitions over the past century. S...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Jemma Craig | Read more »

RSA Open 2011 »

Two Planes by Jake Harvey

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Just in time for Christmas and opposite the premier shopping hub of Princes Street, this RSA exhibition makes its yearly concession to the commercial end of the contemporary art spectrum. The RSA Open turns the lower galleries of the Academy into somet...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Isaac Nugent | Read more »

Andrew Kerr/Maya Deren »

Film stills by Maya Deren

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Inverleith House likes to centre its shows around the work of one artist and to let the art speak for itself. The generous windows in every room generate an experience of viewing art in glorious and abundant natural daylight that is surprisingly a...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Carly Shearer | Read more »

Mining the Horizon - New Work Scotland Programme 2011 from Florrie James, Joey Villemont and Oliver Braid »

Hard Times by Joey Villemont, 2011

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The New Work Scotland Programme is a condensed showcase of Scotland's emerging talent, combining a collection of recently graduated artists from Scotland’s top art institutions and bringing them into Edinburgh’s prestigious mise-en-scene. ...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Joe Etchell | Read more »

Beholder »

Return to Nature by Jo Spence, 1991-1992

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Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, so prepare your eyes to be bedazzled by the vision of artefacts currently on display at the Talbot Rice Gallery. Inspired by the ideas on aesthetics of Edinburgh University’s very own David Hume, Pat F...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Delphine Tomes | Read more »

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