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investigate the nature of the picturesque. EAF. ■ SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St, 668 3635. Tue–Fri 11am–4pm; Sat 1.30–4pm. FREE Alexander Voitsekhovsky: My Never-Ending Friend Sat 6 Aug–Sat 3 Sep. Works by contemporary Russian graphic artist Voitsekhovsky. EAF.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Cosmopolitan Until Sun 28 Aug. Paintings by Lesley Anne Derks, Lesley Mclaren and Pam Carter 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 Elizabeth Blackadder, Jacqueline Mina and Colin Reid Fri 5 Aug–Sat 3 Sep. To coincide her National Gallery show this summer, the Scottish Gallery hosts a show of Blackadder’s most recent paintings. Also on show are works in gold and glass by Mina and Reid respectively. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (until 6pm during Aug only; also every Thu until 7pm). Internationally significant collection of classical art from the early Renaissance to the end of the 19th century, including pieces by Raphael, El Greco, Velázquez, Rubens, Van Gogh, Monet, Cézanne, Degas and Gauguin, plus comprehensive overview of pre-20th century Scottish painting with pieces by Ramsay, Raeburn, Wilkie and McTaggart. FREE Dürer’s Fame ●●●●● Until Tue 11 Oct. Prints by this master of the Northern Renaissance, plus paintings and drawings by Dürer himself and artists inspired by him.
✽✽ Elizabeth Blackadder ●●●●● Until Mon 2 Jan 2012. £8 (£6).
Major retrospective of the work of the Falkirk-born Edinburgh University and ECA alumnus in her 80th year. See review, page 80. EAF. FREE Portrait of the Nation ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. A taster of the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery before it reopens in the autumn. The Queen: Art & Image Until Sun 18 Sep. £7 (£5). Charting the changes in royal portraiture over Queen Elizabeth II’s 60-year reign. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (until 6pm during Aug only). Outstanding collection of international postwar art and the country’s most significant collection of modern Scottish art, featuring works by Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud alongside more contemporary pieces by artists including Antony Gormley, Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
✽✽ Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings ●●●●● Until Sun 6
Nov. £7 (£5). Retrospective of work from the last ten years but including some earlier pieces by the British sculptor. See review, page 80. EAF.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (until 6pm during Aug only). Home to a world-famous selection of works from the Dada and Surrealist movements by artists such as Dalí, Miró, Ernst, Magritte and Picasso, a large collection of works by Edinburgh-born sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. Formerly
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Having won acclaim for STHLM: Go Away to Come Home, which explored intimate aspects of her family and friends, Swedish photographer Jannica Honey turns her lens on the use of the female body in the sex industry for her latest exhibition. In preparation for the three-month project Honey spent time in the working environment of the Sapphire Lounge, one of Edinburgh’s most popular fantasy strip clubs, getting to know the women and documenting both the private and public aspects of their working lives. ‘I’m not interested in “happy” or “sad” stereotypes,’ she says. ‘For me, the women in my photographs, all of whom work at the Sapphire Rooms, are just a diverse, compelling group of women I got to know.’ ■ The Sapphire Rooms, 229 6391, until 31 Aug (not Fri/Sat), free.
known as the Dean Gallery, the space also houses The Stairwell Project, an ambitious large-scale permanent piece commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival from 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright. Hiroshi Sugimoto Until Sun 18 Sep. £7 (£5). Work from two of the Japanese photographer’s most poetic and abstract series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings. Many of these vast and detailed images were created by using a Van der Graaff generator to induce an electrical charge straight onto photographic film, a technique that produces endlessly fascinating and in some cases surprisingly organic-looking forms. EIF.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Joyce Gunn Cairns Until Tue 6 Sep. Portraits of writers, actors, storytellers and musicians, including the artist’s own son, playwright Michael Shand, and Alasdair Gray.
■ SIERRA METRO Ground Floor North, 22 West Harbour Road, sierrametro.com Thu–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Peles Empire: Carmen Sylva Sun 7 Aug–Sun 11 Sep. New sculptural works created by Peles Empire, an international project founded by London-based artists Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stoever. Musician Aidan Moffat makes an appearance as part of arts collective Trigger’s series of cross- artform ‘Detours’ at 5pm on Sun 7 Aug. EAF. ■ SLEEPER Reiach and Hall Architects, 6 Darnaway 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 Until Sun 4 Sep, 10am–5pm. A new installation created specially for the Art Festival by Edinburgh College of Art professor Karen Forbes. ■ ST JOHN’S CHURCH Princes Street, 221 2273. Daily 11am–6pm. FREE Life After Iraq Sat 6–Mon 29 Aug. Photographs and writing documenting the lives of Iraqis exiled in Syria. Festival of Spirituality & Peace.
■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm FREE Stephen Sutcliffe: Runaway, Success Fri 5 Aug–Sun 30 Oct. A tender trawl through the archives of cultural history in ten years of Sutcliffe’s video work plus newer drawings and photographs. ■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm (also Sun & Mon 10am–5pm during Aug) FREE Anton Henning Fri 5 Aug–Sat 22 Oct. Anton Henning combines different media into colourful and exuberant Gesamtkunstwerke that aim to surround and surprise the viewer. EAF. FREE Ragamala: Indian Miniature Paintings Fri 5 Aug–Sat 22 Oct. Unique miniature paintings from the University of Edinburgh’s collection, their colourful narrative depictions enhanced by scholarly commentary. EAF.
■ TOTAL KUNST @ FOREST 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538. Daily 10am–10pm FREE Stephen Goodall: Edible Forms Until 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 Philip Braham: Still Fri 5 Aug–Mon 5 Sep. Solo show by Edinburgh-based artist, featuring woodland interiors.
■ VARIOUS VENUES edinburghartfestival.com / waspfactories.blogspot.com FREE WASP Factories Until Sat 13 Aug. Times vary. An ‘open sculpture’ made by British and Finnish artists, touring around different outdoor sites in Edinburgh during the Art Festival. EAF.
■ VERMILLION STUDIOS 76-78 East Crosscauseway. FREE Vermillion Studios Open Exhibition Until Wed 31 Aug, 10am–5pm. Work in various media from studio artists Ashley More, Anna Geissler, Laura Delahunt and Darren Duddy. OUTSIDE THE CITIES ■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm. £8.50 (seniors £6.50; children/students £4.50; family ticket £23.50). Jupiter Artland Until Sun 18 Sep. Outdoor sculpture park featuring works by Laura Ford, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker, Marc Quinn and others. EAF.
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