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FREE Richard Whincop Until Sun 31 Jul. Second solo show for painter interested in exploring the role of the picture frame as a gateway.
■ ART’S COMPLEX St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. FREE Berglind: Who’s Afraid of a Russian Doll? Until Sun 24 Jul, 11am–6pm. Exhibition by Edinburgh- based Russian artist Berglind. FREE Drawings Until Sun 24 Jul, 11am–6pm. Group show investigating the nature of drawing. FREE Qualia Until Sun 24 Jul, Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–4pm. Work exploring the capacity of photography to record personal experience. ■ ATTICSALT 50 Thistle Street, North East Lane, 225 2093. FREE Susan Bittker: This Moment Will Never Come Again Until Sat 30 Jul. Thu & Fri 2.30–4.30pm; Sat 30 Jul only 10.30am–4.30pm. A photograph taken by the artist on each day of 2010.
■ AXOLOTL 35 Dundas Street, 557 1460. Tue–Thu 11am–4pm; Fri & Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Sarah Green & Gregor Laird: Carrion Until Mon 1 Aug. New work from two artists with a shared interest in celebrity culture. ■ BON PAPILLON 15 Howe Street, 538 2505. Mon & Wed–Sat 9am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Bon’s Debut Until Sun 31 Jul. Inaugural group show in a new café/gallery.
■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm. FREE Scottish Pictures June-July Until Sat 23 Jul. Oils and watercolours from the 18th to the late 20th century. FREE Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture Sat 30 Jul–Mon 5 Sep. Examples of the Scottish portrait from the 17th to the 20th century, by artists including de Colone, Ramsay and Gallies. Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
■ CANONGATE VENTURE 5 New Street, 226 0000. Tue–Sun 11am–7pm.
✽✽ FREE 400 Women Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. A conceptual installation by Tamsyn Challenger created as a response to gender violence around the world. Part of EAF/Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
■ CENTRAL LIBRARY George IV Bridge, 242 8000. Mon–Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm. FREE This Is Not An Exhibition Until Wed 31 Aug. ECA students have mounted a not-an-exhibition in the Central Library which is designed to be deliberately inconspicuous: some pictures are only visible from the street, others are projected onto the walls of a nearby building. FREE Costume and Custom in Japanese Art Thu 4–Wed 31 Aug. Art from the 18th- and 19th-century Japan with a focus on daily rituals. EAF.
■ CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, 529 3993. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm.
✽✽ David Mach: Precious Light Sat 30 Jul–Sun 16 Oct. £5 (£3.50). Daring exhibition of large-scale collage and sculpture works. EAF.
■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Jesse Jones: Against the Realm of the Absolute Until Fri 22 Jul. A film project set in a future dystopia, exploring political themes.
Paul Mowat
VisualArt
✽✽ FREE Ingrid Calame Thu 4 Aug–Sun 9 Oct. Work by American
artist Calame, who transforms real- world marks and tracings (such as tyremarks and stains on buildings) into intricate and colourful paintings. EAF.
■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 226 5856. FREE Light BE Until Sun 24 Jul, 10am–7pm. A solo exhibition featuring the work of MR Slater. FREE George Harris Tue 26–Sun 31 Jul, 10am–7pm. Solo exhibition of paintings of Edinburgh and surrounding seascapes. FREE No-One’s Land Mon 1–Sun 7 Aug, 10am–5pm. Work by Spanish and Scottish artists.
■ THE HENDERSON GALLERY 4 Thistle Street Lane NW, 225 7464. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Jeff Diamond: Golf Sculpture Until Sun 24 Jul. Florida- based artist makes discarded golfing equipment into new objects.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (also Sun noon–5pm during August).
✽✽ FREE Gravity’s Rainbow ●●●●● Until Sun 31 Jul. Colour-
Paul Mowat is predominantly a figurative painter, his concern being with the human condition and how we live. He initially studied graphic design and printmaking, and after a brief spell in London as what he describes as ‘a very bad graphic designer’ he completed a degree in painting at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1990s and has since divided his time between painting and lecturing at ECA. Paul says of his practice and inspirations. ‘People can be
wonderful, difficult, instinctive and unpredictable, much like the creative process, and it is in this ever-changing environment that work can develop and evolve. My current obsession is how we move around in the urban environment. Art as a career option is tough (any artist can tell you that) but it’s the need to scratch the itch that is keeps you motivated and at times it is extremely rewarding.’ ■ www.paulmowat.com www.thisiscentralstation.com
■ CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY Constitution Street, 561 7300. Tue–Fri 11am–4.30pm. FREE Hayashi Takeshi: Haku-u Thu 28 Jul–Thu 22 Sep. Stone sculptures from the Japanese artist. EAF. ■ COWGATE Old Town. edinburghartfestival.com FREE Body of Evidence Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. Daily, all day. Installation by Chris Moore: a polished trace line designed to evoke the press of cattle bodies through the bottleneck created by the archway that supports South Bridge over the Cowgate. EAF.
■ CRAIGMILLAR COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE 58 Newcraighall Road, 669 8432. Mon–Fri noon–4pm. FREE Artistic Creations Tue 2–Fri 26 Aug. The Craigmillar Community Arts annual show, showcasing talent from all backgrounds and specialisations. ■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660.Daily 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Chris Drury: Land, Water and Language Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. Mixed media work based on a canoe trip around North Uist. EAF. FREE Heirlooms Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. An exhibition in two parts, juxtaposing a historical display of brightly coloured Indian and Javanese cloths, silks and batiks (curated by Jonathan Hope and Ben Divall) with three contemporary pieces chosen by Elizabeth Guest to represent the influence of Indian textiles on Scottish textile artists and crafters. Part of Edinburgh International Festival.
■ EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART 74 Lauriston Place, 221 6000. FREE Somewhere in Time: Postliminal Thu 4–Fri 26 Aug, daily 10am–5pm. A group exhibition engaging with the idea of satellite and the broader connotations of the term, presented by Somewhere in Time. EAF.
■ EDINBURGH GALLERY 20a Dundas Street, 557 5002. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Joan Renton Thu 28 Jul–Sat 13 Aug. Paintings by the much- garlanded watercolourist.
■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Paul Furneaux: Mokuhanga Until Sat 23 Jul. Furneaux explores the theme of landscape through a Japanese woodblock printing technique. FREE Lineage Thu 4 Aug–Sat 3 Sep. An exhibition of prints by London-based artists Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie, all of whom explore the use of the line in their work. EAF. ■ FRAMED GALLERY 11b Gayfield Square, 07809 758670. Mon-Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Mark Tough Sun 24 Jul–Fri 19 Aug. Framed presents Tough’s latest collection, featuring lacquered paintings, industrially inspired steel sculpture and furniture.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Festival opening hours: daily 10am–7pm until Tue 30 Aug.
themed work by David Batchelor, Jonathan Callan, John Chamberlain, Ian Davenport, Yves Klein, Peter Liversidge, Kay Rosen and Ed Ruscha. See review, page 89. FREE Mystics or Rationalists? Thu 4 Aug–Mon 24 Oct. Works that go beyond the slightly arid scientism that’s sometimes associated with conceptual art; these are objects of mystery and intrigue in their own right, as well as being generated by an idea. Featured artists include Susan Collis, Iran do Espirito Santo, Ceal Floyer, Susan Hiller, Jeremy Millar, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Simon Starling and Cerith Wyn Evans. EAF. ■ INSPACE 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. Wed–Sun noon–8pm. FREE Left to my Own Devices Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. A playful, accessible array of device art from artists practising in China, Japan and Scotland. EAF.
■ INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Mon–Fri 9.30am–6.30pm; Sat 9.30am–1.30pm. FREE Exhibition: Bulles Jazz Blues, Quand la BD swingue! Fri 22–Sat 30 Jul. An overview of the presence of jazz in the comics of Belgian graphic novel artists. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm
✽✽ FREE Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville Wed 27
Jul–Sun 2 Oct. The first large-scale UK solo show of Rauschenburg’s work for 30 years displays art mostly dating from the 1980s and 1990s. EAF. ■ JOHN HOPE GATEWAY CENTRE Royal Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith Row, 552 7171. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Gold, Glass, Rubber and Recycling Until Sun 11 Sep. Work by six Danish designers who are concerned about resources.
■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Leith Gallery Birthday Show Until Sat 23 Jul. The gallery celebrates its sixteenth birthday by inviting sixteen of its artists to show some work.
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