VisualArt FREE Festival Exhibition Sat 30 Jul–Sat 1 Oct. Landscapes, figurative painting and still lifes from a roster of artists including Ricky Wiatrek, Jennifer Irvine, Marie Louise Wrightson, Elaine Cunningham and Jane Gray, all available to purchase.
■ NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm).
✽✽ FREE Dürer’s Fame ●●●●● Until Tue 11 Oct. See review, page
89. Elizabeth Blackadder Until Mon 2 Jan. £8 (£6). Major retrospective of the work of Falkirk-born Edinburgh University and ECA alumnus. EAF. FREE Portrait of the Nation ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. A taster of the soon-to-reopen Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The Queen: Art & Image Until Sun 18 Sep. £7 (£5). Exploration of the way images of our monarch have changed over nearly 60 years of her reign. EAF.
■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND 33 Salisbury Place, Causewayside, 623 3918. Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri 9.30am–5pm; Sat 9.30am–1pm; Wed 10am–5pm. FREE Housing Paper Worlds Until Fri 26 Aug. Architecture students’ designs for a new Cartographic Institute.
■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Passion for Glass Until Sun 11 Sep. A dazzling collection of modern British and Irish glassworks recently gifted to the museum. EAF.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Inside Outside Until Sat 6 Aug. Thematic summer show comprising a mix of still life, interiors and landscape painting by invited artists. FREE Le Corbusier: Entre-Deux Until Sat 6 Aug. Lithographs by the prominent architect. FREE Margaret L Smyth Until Sat 6 Aug. Paintings evoking a magical parallel world of theatre and romance. FREE Nicola Becci Until Sat 6 Aug. New jewellery pieces with calligraphic designs. FREE Vivien Moir Until Sat 6 Aug. Painted ceramic sculpture featuring messages and mantras. ■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Daily 9am–6pm. Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein Until Sun 15 Jan. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free; family ticket £15.50). Collection of works by Northern European artists of the turbulent 15th and 16th centuries. EAF.
■ RHUBABA STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.wordpress.com Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE There is no there there Sat 23 Jul–Sun 7 Aug. Fri-Sun 12–5pm. See David Dale Gallery and Studios, Glasgow.
■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Found in the Fields Mon 1 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. Lithographs and linocuts by artist Carry Ackroyd accompany poems by the great 19th-century poet John Clare. Fringe. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am- 5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions open Mon only. FREE 3x3: 3 Architects, 3 Projects, 3 Ideas Until Sun 24 Jul. An exhibition of recent work by the three
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Edinburgh architects and recent appointees to the Academy. FREE Heather Ross Until Tue 26 Jul. Art on Japanese themes by the winner of the 2011 Salvesen Art Scholarship. FREE Muse: Paintings from the RSA Collections Until Mon 9 Jan. Only Mon 10am–5pm. Pictures of women by male painters from the Academy’s collections. FREE In Japan: Highlights of Academicians Projects in Contemporary Japan Sat 30 Jul–Sun 18 Sep. A group show investigating elements of collaboration and practice in the work of RSA members whose work has been directly influenced by Japan and Japanese artists. EAF. ■ SCHOP 36 St Mary’s Street, schop.org.uk Mon–Fri 9am–5.30pm. FREE Tim Taylor: Wassertürme Until Fri 29 Jul. Edinburgh-based artist pays homage, in matchstick form, to Hilla and Bernd Becher’s classic series of photographs of industrial landscapes. FREE Nick Sargent: A Scottish Land Thu 4 Aug–Fri 7 Oct. Mon-Fri 9am–5.30pm. A site-specific work comprising two large, painted and embroidered canvases which investigate the nature of the picturesque. EAF.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Capital City Until Sun 24 Jul. Paintings exploring Edinburgh. FREE Cosmopolitan Thu 28 Jul–Sat 10 Sep. Paintings taking in the bright lights of the city and the quiet idylls of the Scottish countryside. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Summer Exhibitions Until Sat 30 Jul. The centrepiece is ‘Post War
Scottish Masters’, including paintings by Peploe, Blackadder and Eardley, and also on show are etchings, a centenary exhibition of work by Katie Horsman, ceramics by Bodil Manz, paper jewellery by Nel Linssen, a display celebrating British Silver Month and outdoor sculpture by Merete Rasmussen. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am- 5pm (until 6pm during August). Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings Sat 30 Jul–Sun 6 Nov. £7 (£5). This retrospective of the work of British sculptor Tony Cragg could serve to bolster the UK profile of the artist, whose German base has led to his work not receiving the attention lavished on contemporaries like Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley. EAF. Hiroshi Sugimoto Thu 4 Aug–Sun 18 Sep. £7 (£5). Work from two of Japanese photographer Sugimoto’s most poetic and abstract series’, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings. The exhibition is complemented by Toward the Light, a display of British and Japanese colour woodcuts from the National Galleries of Scotland’s collections. EIF.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm (also Sun noon–6pm during August). FREE Two Old Town Artists Until Tue 26 Jul. Diverse works of art from Kenny Skeel and Nell Dunn. FREE Joyce Gunn Cairns Fri 29 Jul–Tue 6 Sep. Artist and frustrated writer Cairns shows a collection of portraits she has painted of writers, actors, storytellers and musicians, including her own son, playwright Michael Shand, and Alasdair Gray. ■ SLEEPER Reiach and Hall Architects, 6 Darnaway
Rebecca Barnett: Heart & Sole
Street, 225 8444. Mon–Fri 2–5pm. FREE David Connearn Until Mon 8 Aug. Work inspired by a quote from Greek poet Heraclitus and dedicated to the recently deceased Cy Twombly. ■ ST ANDREW SQUARE edinburghartfestival.com FREE Karen Forbes: Solar Pavilion Thu 4 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. Daily 10am–5pm. A new installation created specially for the Art Festival by Edinburgh College of Art professor Karen Forbes. EAF.
■ SUCH AND SUCH 105 Brunswick Street, 07851 283718. FREE Eight Tales of Textiles Sat 23 & Sun 24 Jul, 10am–6pm. Fashion and textiles by Heriot Watt Masters students. ■ TORRANCE GALLERY 36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10.30am–4pm. FREE Jennifer Mackenzie & Kathleen Conboy Until Sat 23 Jul. Still lifes and landscapes in oil.
■ TOTAL KUNST @ FOREST 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538. Daily 10am–10pm. FREE Malcy Duff: Diluting Orange Until Sun 24 Jul. Work from the Edinburgh cartoonist. FREE Stephen Goodall: Edible Forms Mon 25 Jul–Sun 7 Aug. New work from an Edinburgh artist drawing upon notions of the uncanny and depictions of foodstuffs.
■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Head to Head Until Mon 1 Aug. Studies of heads by David Hosie, Joyce Gunn Cairns, Sophie McKay Knight and Norrie Harman. ■ VARIOUS VENUES edinburghartfestival.com FREE WASP Factories Mon 1–Sat 13 Aug. Daily, times vary. An ‘open sculpture’ made by British and Finnish artists, touring around different outdoor sites in Edinburgh during the Art Festival. EAF.
■ WHITESPACE 11 Gayfield Square, 07814 514771. FREE Sebastien Marciak: [E]MOTION Until Fri 22 Jul, noon–6pm. Marciak revisits the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Etiennes-Jules Marey as a route into exploring people’s normality and abnormality. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm (Thu until 8.30pm); Sun noon–5.30pm. FREE DCA Editions – Martin Boyce Until Wed 30 Nov. The Print Space above the shop plays host to displays of prints created at DCA.
✽✽ FREE Cara Tolmie & Nina Rhode ●●●●● Until Sun 31 Jul. Cara Tolmie’s Read Thou Art And Read Thou Shalt Remain is an installation partly inspired by the artist’s research into medieval history. Nina Rhode is a German artist whose Friendly Fire features dynamic sculptures often made from everyday materials.
■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm. Jupiter Artland Until Sun 18 Sep. £8.50 (children/students £4.50; seniors £6.50; family ticket £23.50). The celebrated outdoor sculpture park offers works by Laura Ford, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Marc Quinn. EAF.
The first solo exhibition by Duncan of Jordanstone-trained artist Rebecca Barnett features over 20 woodcut prints exploring the romance of the sea. Barnett, who has previously exhibited in group shows throughout Scotland, was inspired by the sea view from her home and daily walks on the beach to create works such as ‘That’s Amore’, which features a Moray Eel, and ‘Fish Cake’, a cake on a cake-stand overflowing with blue fish, as well as the title work. She creates her woodcuts by soaking paper in a paddling pool before pressing it on an inked hand-carved plate and rolling it through a giant mangle. ■ RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, Tue 26 Jul–Sat 6 Aug.