Visual Art
■ TRADES HALL 85 Glassford Street, 228 8000. Sat 6pm–11.30pm & Sun noon–5.30pm. FREE Guantanamera Record Launch Sat 17 & Sun 18 Apr. Launch of a double A-side vinyl recording of Guantanamera. Part of GI. ■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Tessa Lynch: Alexandrite Until Sun 23 May. New work developed whilst on residency at Edinburgh International Climbing Arena.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501.Fri–Wed 11am–6pm & Thu 11am–8pm.
✽✽ FREE 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. See preview, page 20. Part of GI. FREE Christoph Buchel Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. The Swiss artist presents a fictitious, yet highly believable environment. Part of GI. FREE Four Seasons Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. New film from Israeli-born, German-based video artist Keren Cytter. Part of GI. FREE Photography is Easy and the Voice of Language Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. Diverse events programme of artists’ film and performance. Part of GI.
■ TRANSMISSION GALLERY Trongate 103, 552 4813. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm & Thu 11am–7pm. FREE United Nations – on the Performative Institution Fri 16 Apr–Sat 15 May. The Faculty of Invisibility has created a fictional institution, with references to the UN. Part of GI.
■ WASHINGTON GARCIA 17 Prince Edward Street, Queens Park. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Prologue Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. Corin Sworn’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. Part of GI. ■ WASPS STUDIOS 77 Hanson Street, Dennistoun, 554 8299. Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat & Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Retro Renaissance Fri 16 Apr–Sat 31 Jul. Leigh Chorlton regenerates the old with fresh insight. Part of GI.
■ WELCOME HOME 19 Keith Street. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm & Sun noon–5pm. FREE Sketchbook Sat 17–Sun 25 Apr. Interactive exhibition of sketches and scribbles. ■ WHITE HOUSE 32 Washington Street, 221 2123. Mon–Fri 9am–5pm. FREE Mark Campbell and Craig Peacock Fri 16 Apr–Mon 3 May. An exhibition of work with the theme of ‘light’. Part of GI.
Edinburgh ■ ART’S COMPLEX St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Mon–Sat 10am–4pm, Thu 10am–7pm & Sun 2pm–4pm. FREE Embroiderers’ Guild–Stitched in Edinburgh Until Fri 16 Apr. Traditional and contemporary styles will feature. FREE Oscillations: Giorgas Bouras Until Fri 16 Apr. Three sound installations investigate the concept of space.
■ AXOLOTL 35 Dundas Street, 07812 170279.
✽✽ FREE Spring 2010 Exhibition Until Sat 1 May. See
preview, page 89.
■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm. FREE Lavery and the Glasgow Boys Until Sat 8 May. Travelling exhibition of works. 92 THE LIST 15–29 Apr 2010
■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Tue–Sat 10.30–5.30pm. FREE Kurt Jackson Until Sat 24 Apr. An exhibition of recent landscape paintings. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Endless Sky Until Tue 27 Apr. A series of prints by Zixiao Chang. FREE Reveal ●●●●● Until Sat 8 May. Featuring submissions of prints from recent graduates of Scottish universities.
■ EMBASSY The Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, Thu–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Morag Keil: Out of Your Head Until Sun 25 Apr. Solo exhibition of new work by Glasgow artist Morag Keil.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Air Iomlaid Until Sun 9 May. The culmination of the Gallery’s 18- month education project. ■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 226 5856. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 2–5pm. £3.50 (£2.60; family ticket £9.50). Sylvia von Hartmann Until Sun 18 Apr. Retrospective of the work of this Edinburgh-based printmaker.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm.
■ CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY Constitution Street, 561 7300. Wed–Sat 11am–4.30pm. FREE Richard Moat and Arthur Steward ●●●●● Until Thu 13 May. Joint exhibition of stark text paintings, fragile objects and pared-down structures. ■ DEAN GALLERY 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. Home to a world-famous selection of works from the Dada and surrealist movements and a large collection of works by Edinburgh-born sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. FREE Nathan Coley: There Will Be No Miracles Here Until Fri 31 Dec. Illuminated text by Turner-nominated Scottish artist. FREE The Gallery of Modern Art: A History Until Wed 14 Apr. Display charting the development of the Gallery from its beginnings in 1908. FREE Strange Encounters Until Sun 27 Jun. A display of surreal and surprising works by John Davies, Douglas Gordon, Martin Boyce and Robert Colquhoun. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Diane Arbus ●●●●● Until Sun 13 Jun. Compelling collection of black and white prints by the photographer who was repeatedly drawn to the fringes of society.
Kurt Jackson Cornwall meets the west coast of Scotland in a new exhibition currently running at the capital’s Dovecot Studios. The show, which is being curated by Louise Jones of Truro’s Lemon Street Gallery, features more than 70 works by the celebrated Cornish artist Kurt Jackson and explores the ongoing destruction of our landscape through sculptures and small and large- scale paintings – one of which stretches to 30ft in length. Jackson, a former botanist, created much of the work for the show following a spell in Ardnamurchan on the west coast of Scotland and one of the most remote parts of the country, and the exhibition is accompanied by a film detailing his experiences on the peninsula. ■ Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, until Sat 24 Apr.
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✽✽ FREE Victoria Morton ●●●●● Until Sun 2 May.
Fascinating celebration and critique of the everyday mess we live, work and play in.
■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Spring 2010 Until Sat 17 Apr. Exhibition of paintings featuring works by Jacqueline Marr, Charlotte Brayley and Ian Brown.
■ NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND The Mound, 624 6200. Mon–Wed & Fri–Sun 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm. The place to see a major part of the nation’s collection of fine art. FREE The Printmaker’s Art ●●●●● Until Sun 23 May. The oft misunderstood art of printmaking is represented here by masters of the craft, both Scottish and international.
✽✽ FREE Confrontation Fri 16 Apr–Sun 18 Jul. See preview, page
88.
■ PATRIOTHALL GALLERY WASPS Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 226 7126. Daily noon–6pm. FREE Dialogues: Hatchings – Karen Lyons and Rachel Maclean Until Tue 20 Apr. Joint exhibition of sculpture, installation and video work.
■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Daily 10am–5pm. An independent institution led by eminent artists and architects. RSA New Contemporaries Sat 3–Wed 21 Apr. (£tbc) A selection of the finest up-and-coming artists and architects in Scotland. ■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Mon–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Spring Exhibition Until Wed 28 Apr. New works by Lesley McLaren, Alan King and Jonathan Hood.
■ SHEILA FLEET GALLERY 18 St Stephen Street. Mon–Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE Leila & Johan Thomson Exhibition – A Sense of Place Until Sat 17 Apr. Tapestries from the Orkney Islands. ■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Daily 11am–6pm. FREE The City and the Stars Until Sun 18 Jul. Featuring work by Emma Kay, Rut Blees Luxemburg and Craig Mulholland.
■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE ARTIST ROOMS: Jenny Holzer – The Purple Tilt ●●●●● Until Sat 15 May. See review, page 89.
■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Alison McGill: New Paintings Until Sat 1 May. Collection of new works with pigment and wax. FREE Clive Bowen Until Sat 1 May. Wood-fired earthenware with strong simple forms and bold slip decoration. FREE The Edinburgh School Until Sat 1 May. Works on paper by 20th Century Edinburgh artists. ■ TOTAL KUNST @ FOREST 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538. Daily 10am–midnight. FREE Brian Cheeswright: Please Assume the Crash Position Mon 19 Apr–Sun 2 May. Expressionist and figurative paintings in oil and acrylic.