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I STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS
48 King Street. 552 2151. Wed-Sat noon—95pm.
FREE Jerwood Photography Awards 2008 Until Sat 18 ()ct. Five winning graduates display photos about pressing issues of the day.
I TRAMWAY
25 Albert Drive. 0845 330 3501. Tuee-Fri 10am—~5pm; Sat & Sun noon~5pm. FREE The Pattern of a Bird Fri 3—-Sun 12 ()ct. An exhibition responding to the themes of Arts in Palliative (‘um
I TRANSMISSION GALLERY
45 King Street. 552 4813. Tue-Sat
1 1am-5pm.
Group Show Until Sat 25 ()ct. Work by (ilasgow‘s Michael Kent. Kendall Koppe. Ariki Porteous. Darren Rhymes and Michael Roy.
I TRON THEATRE
63 Trongate. 552 4267.
FREE HOME Exhibition Until Sun 19 Oct. The result of a furniture design. restoration and recycling project in the (iorbals. Part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & I’ilm I'i'stivul.
Edinburgh
I CITY ART CENTRE
2 Market Street. 529 3993. Mon Sat 10am --5pm.
FREE Recognised: Highlights from the Collection Until Wed 31 Dec. Work by Redpath. Paoloni. Blackadder and Bellany.
I COLLECTIVE GALLERY
22—28 (Jockbum Street. 220 1260. Tue—Sat noon 5pm.
FREE The Guest Room Until Sat 25 ()ct. Standby presents the first exhibition in a series of artist-run projects.
FREE New Work Scotland 2008 Until Sat 25 ()ct. Sculpture and video by Lila de Magalhaes.
I CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY (‘onstitution Street. 561 7300. Wed—Sat l 1am- 4.30pm.
FREE Immersive/Reality: Samuel Douglas Until Thu 16 Oct. Oil paintings of Somerset landmarks.
I DEAN GALLERY
73 Belford Road. 624 6200. 10am-5pm. FREE Exhibiting Surrealism: The International Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936 Until Mon 1 Dec. Material recalling the landmark exhibition.
I DOGGERFISHER
l I (iaylield Square. 558 71 10. Tue-~Fri 10am-6pm; Sat noon -5pm.
FREE Film and Video Until Sat 25 Get. Videos from the 70s and 80s.
I DUNDAS STREET GALLERY 6a Dundas Street. 558 9363. 10am 6pm. Bill Pryde: Works on Paper Until Sat 4 ()ct. Prints inspired by India and the Hamptons.
I EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART SCULPTURE COURT
74 Lauriston Place. 221 6000. Mon-~Thu 10am—8pm; Fri 10am-4pm; Sat
10am- 2pm.
FREE Peter Pretseil: The Beautiful the Absurd the Outlandish the Contradictory Until Sat 25 ()ct. (‘ollection of the late artist‘s work.
I EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART
74 I.auriston Place. 221 6000. Mon—Thu 10am-8pm; Fri 10am—4pm; Sat 10am-2pm.
FREE Rhizoma Until Fri 3 ()ct. Works considering evolution.
FREE Open Here Sat 4-—Sun 12 Oct. A display of staff and student work as
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part of the 500 Years of Printing in Scotland celebrations.
I EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street. 557 2479. Tue—Sat 10am—6pm.
FREE Helen Snell: Strange Harvest Until Sat 25 ()ct. Entertaining 3|) constructions based on subversions of commercial packaging nets and pop up transgenic creatures. hybrids and clones.
FREE Peter Pretseii: A Life in Print COO Until Sat 25 Get. A celebration of the works of the late painter and printmaker.
I INGLEBY GALLERY
15 Calton Road. 556 4441. 10am-5pm. FREE Billboard for Edinburgh: Mark Wailinger eee Until Fri 31 Oct. The punchy sentence ‘MARK WAI.I.IN(iIiR 1S INN()(‘IENT'. shouted out from the lngleby Billboard.
FREE Richard Forster Sat 4
Oct "Sat 22 Nov. Detailed drawings of the sea and a highly realistic installation.
FREE Ruth Ciaxton Sat 4 Oct» ‘Wed 19 Nov. Nine altered postcards.
I INSTITUT FRANCAIS D’ECOSSE
13 Randolph (Trescent. 225 5366. Mon-«Wed & Fri 9.30am—5.30pm; Thu noon- 5.30pm; Sat 9.30am- 2pm. FREE Norman McBeath: City Stories Until Fri 3| ()ct. Black and white reportage photographs taken in various locations.
I LEITH GALLERY
65 The Shore. I.eith. 553 5255. Mon-Fri 1 1am- 5pm; Sat 1 1am- 4pm. FREE New Work by Ian Mchhinnie Fri 3-«Fri 24 ()ct. l~4pm. Painting by Ian McWhinnie. ceramics by Nicholas Marsh and jewellery by Jill Paton.
FREE Still Life Exhibition Sat 4—Sat 25 ()ct. Paintings from Scott Waugh and Paul Telford together with a small solo show by Sophie Mackay Knight.
I LEITH SCHOOL OF ART
25 North Junction Street.
FREE Back on Dry Ground Until Sat 18 ()ct. 9.30am—4.30pm. Drawings and paintings by (‘raig Jefferson.
I MORNINGSIDE GALLERY
94 Morningside Road. Mon & Wed-Sat 10am— 6pm; Sun 1 1.30am 75pm.
FREE Marion Drummond and Walter Awison Until Fri 31 ()ct. Drummond shows her oil paintings and Awlson displays oil and pastel paintings.
I NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND
The Mound. 624 6200. Mon—Wed & Fri~Sun 10am—5pm; Thu 10am—7pm. Impressionism and Scotland Until Sun 12 ()ct. £8 (£6). Whistler. Corot. McTaggart and the (ilasgow Boys. as well as Monet. Manet. Degas. Van (iogh and the Scottish (Tolourists.
FREE Footiights Until Sun 16 Nov. (iet closer to the smell of the grease paint with a collection of artists who have recorded performances.
FREE New Acquisition Until Sun 30 Nov. Work by lnverness-born sculptor Alexander Munro.
I NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND
Chambers Street. 247 4422. 10am—5pm. FREE Print on Film: From this Place Words Fly Until Sun 7 Dec. Kenny Munro and Iidward ()‘Donnelly explore Scotland‘s printing industry.
I NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS CENTRE
15a Pennywell (Tourt. 315 2151. Mon-Sat 10am—4pm.
FREE Audrey Coultar: Road to Marrakesh Until Fri 10 ()ct. Photography.
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I OPEN EYE GALLERY
34 Abercromby Place. 557 1020. Mon—Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am—4pm.
FREE Alexander Mofiat OBE RSA: Images from Three Decades Until Wed 15 ()ct. Retrospective.
FREE Ian Howard Until Wed 15 ()ct. Works including ‘Tabula Rasa'.
FREE Jake Harvey RSA Until Wed 15
2 ()ct. Sculpture.
FREE Robert Colquhoun, 1914- 1962 Until Tue 14 ()ct. Works on paper including those by Duncan (irant. Julian Trevelyan. Robert McBryde. Humphrey Spender and Stanley Willian I-Iayter. FREE Natalie Vardey: Jewellery,
l Confluence Thu 2—Wed 15 Get. A
collection of brooches.
I OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL
HALL
30—36 Dalmeny Street. Leith. 555 7101. FREE Edge: Out of the Blue Sun 12~Sat 25 ()ct. 10am—8pm. Contemporary textiles and traditional embroidery.
I PATRIOTHALL GALLERY
WASPS Patriothall Studios. off 48 ? Ilamilton Place. 226 7126. FREE Patriothall Studios Until Wed 8
()ct. noon-6pm. Artists at the Patriothall
studios exhibit their work.
FREE Anne McCiuskey: New Work Sat 1 1»-Wed 22 ()ct. Landscape and the influence of technology.
I THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of llolyroodhouse. 556 5100. The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Renaissance COCO Until Sun 26 ()ct. 9.30am—6pm (last admission 5pm). £5 (£3—£4.5(); under 5s free; family £13). Paintings and drawings from the Italian Renaissance.
I RED DOOR GALLERY
42 Victoria Street. 477 3255. Mon-~Sat 12.30-«5.30pm; Sun noon—5pm.
FREE Alison Hardcastle: So Far So
f Good Until Sun 19 ()ct. Screenprints and L collages.
I ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Inverleith Row. 552 7171. 10am-3.30pm. FREE Close Until Sun 11 Jan.
10am —5pm. Photographs of Scottish
heritage by Allan Pollok-Morris.
I ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
3 (INVERLEITH HOUSE) lnverleith Row. 248 2983. Tue—Sun
10am-5.30pm.
FREE Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures COO Until Sun 12 ()ct. Retrospective of work by the great British pop artist.
I THE ROYAL INCORPORATION OF ARCHITECTS IN SCOTLAND 15 Rutland Square. 229 7205. Mon—Fri 9am—5pm.
FREE Vasiie Toch Until Fri 3 ()ct.
’ Paintings. images and sculptures.
FREE ECAN Exhibition Mon (r-Fri 31 ()ct. Pieces by members of the [Edinburgh (‘hartered Architects Network.
' I ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY
The Mound. 225 6671. Mon—Sat 10am-«5pm; Sun noon—5pm.
FREE Frank Pottinger RSA Until Fri 3 ()ct. Prints and small sculptures. FREE New Academicians Until Sun 26 ()ct. Paintings. prints and sculpture from new inductees into the academy. FREE Donald Urquhart Mon 6
Oct Fri 19 Dec. Prints from his ‘Icelandic Suite‘ and etchings inspired by a trip to the (Tairngorms.
I SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St.
FREE Paintings by Olga Yukhtina- Geoghegan Until Fri 24 ()ct. Russian- born artist.
I SCOTLANDART.COM
2 St Stephen Place. 225 6257. Mon—Fri 10.30am—5.30pm; Sat 10am-5.30pm; Sun noon—5pm.
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FREE Shoreline Thu 2 Oct—Sun 2 Nov. New work from Hamish Gilchrist. Heather Lander. Sara Mead. David Smith. Alan Watson and Alison Young. I NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART
75 Belford Road. 624 6200. 10am—5pm. Tracey Emin: 20 Years Until Sun 9 Nov. 10am—6pm. £6 (£4). Work dating from 1993 including embroidered textiles. installations and sculptures.
I NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
1 Queen Street. 624 6200. Mon—Wed & Fri~Sun 10am—5pm; Thu 10am—7pm. FREE Heroes Until Sun 7 Dec. A critical re-examination of what we mean by the term ‘Victorian values’.
FRIZF. John Muir Wood and the
= Origins of Landscape Photography in Scotland Until Sun 26 ()ct. Scotland's first systematic landscape photographer.
I SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE
43—45 High Street. 556 9579. Mon—Sat 10am—4.30pm.
FREE Norsense: Mhari Baxter Sat 4 ()ct—Sat 22 Nov. 10am-6pm. The Scottish artist takes inspiration from Icelandic myths.
I SIERRA METRO
Ground Floor North. 22 West Harbour Road. Fri—Sun noon—6pm.
FREE Neville Rae Sat 11 Oct—Sat 1 Nov. Proposals for public art in an exciting new space.
I STILLS
23 (.‘ockburn Street. 622 6200.
l 1am-6pm.
FREE Martha Rosier Until Sun 9
Nov. Stills Gallery has been transfonned into an open reference library with over 7700 books from the collection of the amst.
I THE SCOTTISH GALLERY
l6 Dundas Street. 558 1200. Mon—Fri 10am—6pm; Sat 10am—4pm.
FREE Bob Crooks - Glass Until Sat 4 ()ct. Blown glasswork.
FREE Stephanie Dees - New Paintings Until Sat 4 Oct. New paintings of urban architecture inspired by recent travels.
FREE Collin O’Dubhghaiii: Metalwork Wed 8 Oct—Sat 1 Nov. Designs including a selection of bowls. FREE James Robertson Wed 8 ()ct—Sat 1 Nov. New paintings.
FREE Nicholas Rena: Ceramics Wed 8 ()ct—Sat 1 Nov. New ceramic works inspired by jug-like forms.
I TRAVERSE THEATRE Cambridge Street. 228 1404. Mon—Sat 10am—midnight; Sun 6pm—midnight. FREE Rosita McKenzie & Camilla Adam: Backstage Until Sat 25 Oct. Photographs taken by the blind artist of the Traverse‘s backstage areas.
I VARIOUS VENUES
FREE WASPS ARTISTS STUDIOS OPEN WEEKEND Sat 4 & Sun 5 Oct. WASPS studios open its doors. allowing the public to see artists at work.
Outside the Cities
I DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY
ARTS
152 Nethergate. 01382 909900. Tue.
Wed. Fri & Sat 10.3()am—5.30pm; Thu
10.30am—8.30pm; Sun noon—5.30pm. FREE Kill Your Timid Notion: Exhibition COCO Until Thu 9
()ct. See review. page 96.
FREE John Field Jewellery and
Linda Styles Ceramics Until Sun 9
Nov. Jewellery and ceramics in the shop.
FREE Sister Corita Power Up Until
Tue 4 Nov. Prints by one of the most
I innovative pop artists of the 1960s.