ART listings
EDINBURGH GALLERIES continued
THE NEW STREET EXHIBITION SPACE 14 New Street, 558 7604. Mon—Sat 11am—6.30pm. Until late on Bongo Club nights.
Into The Blue Until Sat 23 Sep. Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Simon Fildes creates an interactive installation for the gallery space. Using sound and light, his video projection responds to your movement.
Emma Bowen and Will Andrews Sun 24 Sep—Sun 8 Oct. New work by recent Edinburgh graduates Emma Bowen and Will Andrews.
NEXUS GALLERIES
55 and 61 Bread Street, 477 4524. Mon—Sat 10am—6pm.
Mixed Exhibitions Until Sat 30 Sep (Gallery 'T\vo and Three). Paintings by David Ralph Simpson, Alex Knubley and Lynne Roberts; jewellery by Eleanor Barron and Diana Porter; ceramics by Joan Brown and Emma Grove; textiles by Annette Naudin and Sarah Michael.
OPEN EYE GALLERY
75—79 Cumberland Street,
557 1020. Mon—Fri lOam—6pm; Sat lOam—4pm.
Molly Bullick Until 21 Sep. Jewellery. Night Life - Matthew Draper Until Thu 21 Sep. New landscape paintings.
Walter Awlson Until Thu 21 Sep. Ceramic sculpture.
Jonathon Brown - Recent Series: Les Fleurs Du Bien, Road Movies, Square Heads Until Thu 21 Sep. Recent paintings.
Gordon Mitchell ARSA RSW Sat 23 Se Thu 12 Oct. Paintings.
Jo n Kay Sat 23 Sep—Thu 12 Oct. Prints.
Susan Nuttgens Sat 23 Sep—Thu 12 Oct. Ceramics.
Claire Underwood Sat 23 Sep—Thu 2 Nov. Jewellery.
OUTRAGEOUS ART
17—19 Barclay Place, 477 2933. Tue—Sun 10am—7pm.
Mixed Exhibition Edinburgh’s newest gallery features a changing selection of paintings including reproduction art — Van Gogh, Dali, Monet, Miro — originals and work by up-and-coming local artists.
PATRIOTHALL GALLERY
(WASPS) Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 225 1289. Mon—Fri noon—5pm; Sat & Sun lOam—5pm. WASPS Life Drawing Group 4th Annual Exhibition Sat 23 Sep—Wed 4 Oct. Annual exhibition of life drawings by a selection of artists.
THE QUEEN'S HALL
Clerk Street, 667 7776. Mon—Sat 10am—5.30pm.
Marlena Sielewicz - Stanhope Until Mon 2 Oct (Hope Scott Room). New works in mixed media by Polish-born artist Marlena Sielewicz.
Marlena Nizio Until Mon 2 Oct (Lothian Room). New paintings by Marlena Nizio, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Art in Krakow, Poland.
THE REYNOLDS GALLERY
63 Dublin Street, 557 0480. Tue—Sat 11am—5 m; Sun 2—4pm.
Rebeka Bowman — Travel Documents Until Sat 23 Sep. A collection of photographs by Napier University graduate Rebekah Bowman taken while working for an American based NGO and a Scottish charity as well as rints for personal projects. Mixed hibition Until Sat 14 Oct. A mix of ceramics and sculpture by various artists.
Jonathon Chapman - Collections Thu 28 Sep—Sat 14 Oct. Recent still life watercolours and oil paintings by Jonathon Chapman.
80 THE LIST 21 Sep—S Oct 2000
RIAS GALLERY
15 Rutland Square, 229 7545. Mon—Fri 9am-5 m.
Copen agen's New Town Until Fri 22 Se . See Danish Cultural Institute. Edinburgh On The Rack Mon 25 Sep—Fri 6 Oct. A re-run of the gallery’s popular Festival exhibition which puts Edinburgh’s architecture and urban design of the 905 under the spotlight. The exhibition is designed and curated by Adrian Welch, Richard Murphy Architects with commentary by the filmmaker, Murray Grigor.
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
Inverleith House, Inverleith Row, 552 7171. Wed—Sun 11am—5pm. Free. Lawrence Weiner TIME + PLACE Until Sun 29 Oct. Inverleith House’s Festival exhibition showcases the work of conceptual artist from New York, Lawrence Weiner. Dealing with the philosophy of language, Weiner creates a site-specific work for the gallery comprising a series of huge text pieces applied to the walls in charcoal. See review.
THE ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL The Link Gallery, 23 Tipperlinn Road. For further information call Artlink on 229 3555.
Anne Elliot, Kate Gray and Diana Hendry Until Sun 24 Sep. New work by contemporary visual artists Kate Gray and Anne Elliot, shown alongside poetry by writer Diana Hendry.
Address Thu- 5 Oct—Mon 22 Jan. An Artlink exhibition of photography, writing, digital imaging, painting and drawing by artists and patients at St John’s hospital.
THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH
The Pelican Gallery, 1 Lauriston Place. For further information call Artlink on 229 3555.
Family Tree Until Mon 25 Sep. Paintings, prints, textiles and photography inspired by landscape and nature, created by a family of artists Alex, Midge, Kim and Steve Gourlay and Alex Gunn.
Hidden Talent In The National Health Service Thu 5 Oct—Mon 22 Jan. An exhibition of work by staff of Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust featuring photographs, embroidery and painting.
ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE
Howard Bar Gallery, Grindlay Street, 248 4848.
Nicholas Newton Until Mon 9 Oct. Contemporary works on paper by Nicholas Newton.
SCOTTISH GALLERY
16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon-Fri 10am—6 m; Sat 10am—4pm.
Young ontemporaries Until Wed 4 Oct. New paintings by five figurative painters; Damian Callan, Cherylene Dyer, Benni Esposito, Denise Findlay and.Paul Reid.
James Campbell Until Wed 4 Oct. Painted earthenware ceramics.
Spoons Until Wed 4 Oct. New designs of the humble domestic tool by a selection of artists including Malcolm Appleby, John Creed, Diana Greenwood, Annabet Wyndham and Sue Vernon.
SHIRAK
5 Barony Street, 478 7440. Tue—Sat 10am—6pm.
Contemporary Scottish Art And Design A gallery and shop featuring a selection of hand-woven and embroidered rugs and textiles by Turkoman, Uzbek, Beluchi and Aimay tribes, plus a changing programme of contemporary Scottish art and design.
THE SOUTHSIDE GALLERY
58 Ratcliffe Terrace, 667 1966. Mon 9am-5pm; Tue—Fri 9am—6pm; Sat 10am- m.
Mixed Show Until Fri 29 Sep. Two well-known, contemporary artists from India show work in Edinburgh for the first time, featuring oils by Viswan and mixed media by Subramanian.
STILLS
23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Tue—Sat 10am—5pm.
Alan Currall - Encyclopaedia And Other Works Until Sat 23 Sep. The first major solo exhibition of work by Glasgow-based artist Alan Currall. Best known for his monologue video works, Encyclopaedia is a new CD-ROM work which parodies the reference works of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.
Steven McKenzie Until Sat 23 Sep (Cafe Odile at Stills). Photorealistic paintings of friends and family by Steven McKenzie.
Breda Beban — Still Tue 26 Sep—Sat 18 Nov. Photographic works and three newly- commissioned video pieces by artist Breda Beban who was born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia. See preview.
TALBOT RICE GALLERY
University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2211. Tue—Sat 10am—5pm.
Philip Braham Thu 28 Sep—Sat 4 Nov. The Edinburgh-based, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art graduate Philip Braham shows new paintings. Specialising in landscapes, Braham has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad.
ROYAL OVER-SEAS HOUSE
Landings Gallery, 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. Daily 10am—6pm.
The Competition Until Fri 22 Sep. Specially commissioned photographs of the 1999 ROSL Annual Music Competition by photo-journalist Richard Smith.
ROSL Arts Scholars Exhibition 2000 Wed 27 Sep—Thu 30 Nov. The annual ROSL Scholars exhibition features paintings by Todd Narbey (New Zealand) and Pindaro Cabrera (Canada) and video works by Ming Wong (Singapore).
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY
The Mound, 225 6671. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm; Sun 2—5pm. Free. Connections 2000 Until Sun 24 Sep. RSA members and their guests show work in a range of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking and architecture. Honorary members Craigie Aitchison, John Bellany and Wilhelmina Bams-Graham will also be exhibiting.
TORRANCE GALLERY
36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon—Fri 11am—6pm; Sat 10.30am—4pm.
Jinty Russell DA Until Sat 23 Sep. Recent paintings.
John Mitchell RSW Until Sat 23 Sep. Watercolour paintings by John Mitchell RSW.
Davy Brown Sat 30 Sep—Sat 14 Oct. Recent works.
TRAVELLING GALLERY
For a detailed itinerary call 0131 529 3930. Opening times vary.
East Of Eden Until Sat 25 Nov. Scotland’s only mobile art gallery goes on tour with a new exhibition of work by Paul Carter and Kate Gray. Exploring notions of the search for identity and meaning, Gray creates large photographs displayed in light boxes and kinetic video sculptures, and Carter constructs an installation including an extraterrestrial radio-scanner and a camera surveillance of the sky.
THE SABLE GALLERY
29b Dundas Street, 467 3937. Tue—Fri 11am—7pm; Sat 11am—2pm.
Unchain My Art Until Sat 30 Sep. Paintings by London artist Katherine Lubar plus works created by guests of Her Majesty’s pleasure.
TRAVERSE BAR CAFE
Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, 228 5383. Mon—Wed 10.30am—midnight; Thu—Sat 10.30am—1am; Sun 4pm—midnight. Keith Grieve and Shahnaz Hussain Until Mon 16 Oct. Photographs by
Keith Grieve and Shahnaz Hussain documenting their travels to Indonesia. With a theme of ‘rice and fish’, the exhibition also features a sound station complete with a local beggar woman’s laments.
EDINBURGH MUSEUMS
This section lists museums currently showing temporary exhibitions.
HUNTLY HOUSE
142 Canongate, 529 4143. MonnSat 10am—5pm. Free.
From Castlehill To Holyrood: Artists And The Royal Mile Until Sun 31 Dec. Drawn from the city’s collection, this exhibition of paintings compares and contrasts how artists from different periods viewed Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
NEWHAVEN HERITAGE MUSEUM Newhaven Harbour, 551 4165. Daily noon—5pm. Free.
I Saw A Ship A Sailing Until Mon 20 Nov. Artworks on a maritime theme produced by children from the Creative Kids Club.
PALACE OE HOLYROODHOUSE Royal Mile, 556 1096. Daily 9.30am—4.30pm. £5.50 (£2.70—£4); family ticket £13.50.
Views Of Germany: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Sun 1 Oct—Sat 31 Mar. Sixty watercolours selected from the collection at Windsor Castle, illustrating the royal visits to Germany from 1845—1860.
QUEENSEERRY MUSEUM
53 High Street, Queensferry, 331 5545. Mon, Thu, Fri & Sat lOam—lpm & 2.15—5pm; Sun noon—5pm. Free.
Food For Thought A look at children’s diet and eating habits over the past 150 years.
ROYAL MUSEUM
2 Chambers Street, 247 4219. Mon—Sat 10am—5pm (Tue 8pm); Sun noon—5pm. £3 (£1.50); under 185 free. A 19th century museum housing international collections of natural history, geology, science, technology and the decorative arts, plus two permanent exhibitions: Art & Industry and The Ivy Wu Gallery. Millennium Clock A chance to view Russian mechanical sculptor Eduard Bersudsky’s millennium clock, a kinetic sculpture, measuring nine metres high. Breaking The Surface Until Sun 31 Dec. Over thirteen ceramics artists from Korea present an exhibition of new work, highlighting the use of both traditional and contemporary techniques. Featured are elegant white jars and dishes by Ik-young Kim and robust vessels by Lee Kan -Hyo. Heaven And Hell And 0t er Worlds Of The Dead Until Sun 11 Feb. Discover beliefs and customs from around the world in an exhibition of the afterlife. Exhibits include a Mercedes- Benz coffin, shamans’ masks, Egyptian grave goods, Mexican festive skeletons and much more.
Celebrating Scotland's Crafts Until Sun 22 Oct. A display of photographs which focuses on Scotland’s indigenous crafts, featuring historical photographs from Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies alongside Shannon Tofts’ images of contemporary makers and their work.
Today For Tomorrow: Recent Additions To The National Collections Until Sun 22 Oct. A selection of recent additions to the permanent collection of contemporary crafts including a papier maché armlet by Marjorie Schick, a quilted wall hanging by Pauline Burbidge, a ceramic vessel by Jennifer Lee and baskets by Anna Kin and Lizzie Farey.
Black And White — Ageing In Cultural Diversity Until mid Feb. Age Concern Scotland’s photography project was developed to recognise that images of older people in Scotland must reflect the cultural diversity of our