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edinburghartfestival.com FREE Martin Creed: Work No 1059 Ongoing, daily 5am–midnight. Beautiful public art installation (and functioning set of steps to boot) created by Martin Creed in response to a commission from the nearby Fruitmarket Gallery. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Elizabeth Blackadder, Jacqueline Mina and Colin Reid Until Sat 3 Sep. Down the road from her National Gallery retrospective (see below) are some 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 (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. The collection also features a comprehensive overview of pre-20th century Scottish painting with pieces by Ramsay, Raeburn, Wilkie and McTaggart. FREE Portrait of the Nation ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. A taster of the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery before it reopens in the autumn. FREE Dürer’s Fame ●●●●● Until Tue 11 Oct. Prints, paintings and drawings by this master of the Northern Renaissance and artists inspired by him. Elizabeth Blackadder ●●●●● Until Jan 2012. £8 (£6). Major retrospective of the work of the Falkirk-born Edinburgh University and ECA alumnus in her 80th year. EAF. 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–6pm (festival opening hours, until Wed 31 Aug). 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. The collection also includes early 20th century French and Russian art, Cubist paintings and important examples of Expressionist pieces, including works by Picasso and Matisse. Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings ●●●●● Until Sun 6 Nov. £7 (£5). Focusing mainly on work from the last ten years but including some earlier pieces too, a retrospective of the work of the British sculptor. EAF & Fringe. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–6pm (festival opening hours, until Wed 31 Aug). Formerly known as the Dean Gallery, the second of Scotland’s modern art galleries is home to a world- famous selection of works from the Dada and Surrealist movements by artists such as Dalí, Miró, Ernst, Magritte and Picasso, and houses a large collection of works by Edinburgh-born sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. The gallery also houses The Stairwell Project, an ambitious large-scale permanent piece commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival from 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright and comprising several
Left to My Own Devices
There are numerous shows at this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival exploring ideas in traditional Western art, but what about an exhibition looking at the practical use of art objects? Left to My Own Devices considers the phenomenon of hardware as content in the ‘device art’ genre through an exchange of ideas between artists and technologists from Scotland, China and Japan. ■ New Media Scotland, Inspace, 650 2750, until 4 Sep (not Mon/Tue), free.
thousand individually hand-painted forms. Hiroshi Sugimoto Until Sun 25 Sep. £7 (£5). Work from two of the Japanese photographer’s most poetic and abstract series, Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings. 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 Alasdair Gray.
■ SIERRA METRO Ground Floor North, 22 West Harbour Road, sierrametro.com FREE Peles Empire: Carmen Sylva Until Sun 11 Sep, Thu–Sun noon–6pm. New sculptural works created by international project Peles Empire. EAF. ■ ST ANDREW SQUARE New Town, edinburghartfestival.com FREE Karen Forbes: Solar Pavilion Until Sun 4 Sep, daily 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. FREE Life After Iraq Until Mon 29 Aug, daily, times vary. Photos and written works depicting life in Syria for
Iraqi refugees. Festival of Spirituality and Peace. ■ ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. Mon–Sat 9am–1pm & 2–5pm (closed Wed 17 Aug in the afternoon); Sun noon–3pm. FREE The Battle of Prestonpans Tapestry Until Mon 29 Aug. Vivid tapestry with 104 panels designed by Andrew Crummy. Fringe.
■ ST MARY’S METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL Broughton Street, 556 1798. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE A View From Two Volcanoes – Arthur’s Seat and Mount Kilimanjaro Sat 13–Sun 21 Aug. Artworks from both emerging and established artists. Fringe. ■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–7pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm. FREE Stephen Sutcliffe: Runaway, Success Until 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. EAF.
■ SUCH AND SUCH 105 Brunswick Street, 07851 283718. Daily 11am–6pm. FREE Such and Such: Residents Sat 13 Aug–Sun 11 Sep. Work in silver, mixed media and printmaking by the studio’s resident artists.
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■ SWEET GRASSMARKET Apex City Hotel, 61 The Grassmarket, 0870 241 0136. Spelling the Myth Fri 12–Sun 14 Aug 4.15–5.35pm; Mon 15–Sun 28 Aug 12.20–1.20pm. £4. A daily, one-hour ‘fringe show’ of recent video art works by four Irish artists, curated and selected by video art channel The Agent Ria: registered in art. EAF. ■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Daily 10am–5pm (festival opening hours, until Mon 5 Sep). FREE Anton Henning Until Sat 22 Oct. Anton Henning combines different media into colourful and exuberant Gesamtkunstwerke that aim to surround and surprise the viewer. See review, page 88. EAF. FREE Ragamala: Indian Miniature Paintings Until Sat 22 Oct. Unique miniatures from the University collections, their colourful narrative depictions enhanced by scholarly commentary. EAF.
■ TORRANCE GALLERY 36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10.30am–4pm. FREE Mapped in Metal Until Sun 28 Aug. Jewellery by Sheana M Stephen.
■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Philip Braham: Still Until Mon 5 Sep. Studies that explore moments in the artist’s life, with immersive woodland interiors as their backdrop. ■ MAIN LIBRARY University of Edinburgh, 30 George Square, 650 3384. FREE Singing the Reformation Until Fri 2 Sep, Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. Enter a Reformation Scotland soundscape with the help of contemporary books, manuscripts, paintings, needlework and maps. Fringe.
■ VARIOUS VENUES see edinburghartfestival.com / waspfactories.blogspot.com for details. 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. EAF. ■ VERMILLION STUDIOS 76-78 East Crosscauseway. FREE Vermillion Studios Open Exhibition Until Wed 31 Aug, daily 10am–5pm. A range of work from artists Ashley More, Anna Geissler, Laura Delahunt and Darren Duddy.
■ WHITESPACE 11 Gayfield Square, 07814 514771. Wed–Mon 11am–5.30pm. FREE Memories of You Until Fri 19 Aug. Constantly evolving sound installation by John Hails. Fringe. OUT OF TOWN ■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm. Jupiter Artland Until Sun 18 Sep. £8.50 (seniors £6.50; children & students £4.50; family ticket £23.50). Celebrated outdoor sculpture park with works on show by Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn and others. EAF.
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