{VISUAL ART} Listings
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EDINBURGH
■ 9/1 LEARMONTH PARK Stockbridge. FREE Spring Has Sprung But The Stance Still Stand Until Sun 21 Aug, noon–5pm. Hilary Donald and Joe Sloan explore the idea of the removal of a façade through an exhibition doubling as an interactive experiment. ■ ACANTHUS 201–203 Bruntsfield Place. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm (Fri until 7pm). FREE Celebrating Chinoiserie Until Sun 4 Sep. Laquer work, embroidered silks, ceramics and more in the chinoiserie style. Fringe.
■ THE ADAM POTTERY 76 Henderson Row, 557 3978. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Clay 2011 Until Sat 3 Sep. Selling exhibition by six resident potters. Fringe. ■ ART’S COMPLEX St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for details. FREE Haleh Jamali: Pose Until Sun 4 Sep, daily 11am–6pm. Portraiture aiming to address the social aspects of representation. FREE Recrea(c)tion: Versatile Beings Until Tue 30 Aug, daily 11am–6pm. Ongoing research into cross-artform work in dance and visual art conducted by Adeline Bourret. FREE Ragged Arts Until Sun 28 Aug, Mon–Thu 5–10pm; Fri 2–10pm; Sat & Sun 10am–10pm. Works from resident artists. Leith on the Fringe.
■ ASIMI JEWELLERY 40 George Street, 220 5070. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Asimi – New Designers Jewellery Show Until Mon 29 Aug. Handmade crafts and jewellery. Fringe.
■ ASSEMBLY GEORGE SQUARE George Square, 623 3030. Sun–Thu 10am–10pm; Fri & Sat 10am–midnight. FREE Dazzle Jewellery Exhibition Until Mon 29 Aug. Jewellery by 50 contemporary designers. Fringe.
■ ATTICSALT 50 Thistle Street, North East Lane, 225 2093. Wed & Fri 2.30–4.30pm; Thu & Sat 10.30am–4.30pm. FREE Boris Bittker: Passing Through Zero Until Sat 27 Aug. Photographs offering a personal take on the history of the late 20th century. EAF. ■ AXOLOTL 35 Dundas Street, 557 1460. Tue–Thu 11am–4pm; Fri & Sat 11am–6pm. FREE Richard DeMarco & Joseph Beuys Until Mon 5 Sep. Works by the two collaborating artists, including those inspired by Beuys’ many visits to Scotland. EAF.
■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture Until Mon 5 Sep. Examples of the Scottish portrait by artists including Ramsay, Raeburn and Gillies. EAF. ■ C Chambers Street, 0845 260 1234. Daily 10am–2am. FREE Roads by Night, Lanes by
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Light Until Mon 29 Aug. Photography by Gary Cockburn shot in inner-city Australian and the Lake District. Fringe.
■ CANONGATE VENTURE 5 New Street, 226 0000. Tue–Sun 11am–7pm.
✽✽ FREE 400 Women ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. A conceptual
installation by Tamsyn Challenger created as a response to gender violence around the world. EAF & Fringe.
■ CARAVAN 28 Lady Lawson Street, wearecaravan.tumblr.com FREE We Are Caravan Until Mon 5 Sep, daily 10am–5pm. New painting, drawing and illustration from recent Scottish graduates. ■ CENTRAL LIBRARY George IV Bridge, 242 8000. Mon–Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm. FREE Costume and Custom in Japanese Art Until Wed 31 Aug. Art from the 18th- and 19th-century Japan with a particular focus on dress and daily rituals. EAF. FREE This Is Not An Exhibition Until Wed 31 Aug. A non-exhibition by ECA students, designed to be deliberately inconspicuous.
■ CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, 529 3993. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm
✽✽ David Mach: Precious Light ●●●●● Until Sun 16 Oct. £5
(£3.50). Daring exhibition of large-scale collage and sculpture works confronting the narratives of the King James Bible. Fringe & EAF.
■ COBURG HOUSE STUDIOS 15 Coburg Street, 554 6888. FREE Inspired Thu 18 Aug–Thu 1 Sep, 10am–6pm. An off-site exhibition of new work created by members at Edinburgh Printmakers. EAF.
■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Daily 10am–6pm (festival opening hours, until Sun 4 Sep). FREE Hans Schabus: Remains of the Day Until Sun 2 Oct. An installation commissioned by Collective, consisting of the rubbish accumulated by the artist and his family during one calendar year. EAF. ■ CORN EXCHANGE GALLERY Constitution Street, 561 7300. Tue–Fri 11am–4.30pm. FREE Hayashi Takeshi: Haku-u ●●●●● Until Thu 22 Sep. Serene stone sculptures from the Japanese artist. EAF. FREE Martin Finnin: The Forgotten Art of Floating Until Thu 22 Sep. Richly coloured paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour by one of Ireland’s most interesting artists.
■ COWGATE Old Town, edinburghartfestival.com FREE Body of Evidence Until Sun 4 Sep. Site-specific 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 Until Fri 26 Aug. Craigmillar Community Arts’ annual show.
■ DESIGNSHOP UK 116 Causewayside, 667 7078. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–4pm. FREE . . . And the World Went Crazy for the Beatles! Until Sun 4 Sep. Vast range of Beatles memorabilia,
in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four’s first concert. Fringe. ■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Daily 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Chris Drury: Land, Water and Language ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. See review, page 79. EAF. FREE Heirlooms Until Sun 4 Sep. Historical display of brightly coloured Indian and Javanese cloths, silks and batiks, juxtaposed with three contemporary pieces chosen to represent the influence of Indian textile traditions on contemporary Scottish textile artists. EIF.
■ EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART 74 Lauriston Place, 221 6000. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Body Bags / Simonides ●●●●● Until Fri 9 Sep. See review, page 77. EAF. FREE Somewhere in Time: Postliminal Until Fri 26 Aug. A group exhibition engaging with the notion of a ‘satellite’, presented by Somewhere in Time. EAF. FREE Anish Kapoor: Flashback Until Sun 9 Oct. Two major works – ‘White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers’ (1982) and ‘Untitled’ (2010) – by the celebrated sculptor, on show in the sculpture court. EAF. FREE Postgraduate Degree Show Sat 20–Sun 28 Aug. The annual show of work by the ECA’s postgraduate students in art, design and architecture disciplines.
■ THE EDINBURGH GALLERY 20a Dundas Street, 557 5002. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–3pm. FREE A Variety of Paintings from our Gallery Artists Until Sun 18 Sep. Group show.
■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Lineage ●●●●● Until Sat 3 Sep. Prints by Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie. EAF & Fringe. ■ ERIC LIDDELL CENTRE 15 Morningside Road, 447 4520. Mon–Fri 9am–9.30pm; Sat 9am–4.30pm (please call to check). FREE One Until Tue 23 Aug. New paintings and prints from Edinburgh College of Art students Rhona Taylor and Morag Donkin.
■ FETTES COLLEGE East Fettes Avenue, 332 2281. FREE The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value Until Sun 28 Aug, daily 11am–5pm. Installation by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, commissioned by the Collective Gallery. Fringe & EAF. ■ FILMHOUSE 88 Lothian Road, 228 2688. Mon–Sat 10am–midnight; Sun noon–midnight. FREE Benghazi Speaks: Revolutionary Images from the Libyan Uprising Until Sun 4 Sep. Photographs of revolutionary graffiti and cartoons.
■ FRAMED GALLERY 11b Gayfield Square, 07809 758670. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Mark Tough Until Fri 19 Aug. Lacquered paintings, industrially inspired steel sculpture and furniture.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Daily 10am–7pm (festival opening hours, until Tue 30 Aug).
✽✽ FREE Ingrid Calame ●●●●● Until Sun 9 Oct. Real-world marks
and tracings (such as tyremarks and stains on buildings) transformed into
intricate and colourful paintings. EAF. ■ GALERIE MIRAGES 46a Raeburn Place, 315 2603. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Jewellery of the World Until Sun 4 Sep. Original in-house designs, antique beads and tribal jewellery. Fringe.
■ GARAGE 51a Northumberland Street, 07917 668044. FREE Garage: Micro- residencies Until Sun 28 Aug, Sat & Sun noon–4pm. Site-specific work developed during a series of ‘micro- residencies’ by UK-based artists. EAF.
■ GEORGIAN ANTIQUES 10 Pattison Street, Leith, 553 7286. Mon–Fri 8.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–2pm. FREE Leith Rules Golf Until Mon 29 Aug. Over 300 golfing items from between 1790 and 1930. Fringe. FREE Made in Scotland Until Mon 29 Aug. Antiques dating from the Georgian period through to the 20th century. Fringe.
■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 226 5856. Tue–Sun 10am–7pm. FREE 4Art Until Sun 21 Aug. Group show from Contemporary Arts Dunfermline. FREE In Two Minds Tue 23–Sun 28 Aug. A mixed media exhibition by Andrea Elles and Sarah Dawnay at Gladstone’s Land. ■ HENDERSON’S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. Mon–Sat 8am–10pm; Sun 11am–4pm. FREE Four Artists, One City: An Edinburgh Story Until Fri 30 Sep. Work by four young Scottish artists looking at the Edinburgh cityscape: Zanna Wilson, Caroline Hepburn- Scott, Cat Outram and Annabel Illingworth.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Mystics or Rationalists? Until Mon 24 Oct. Conceptual art by the likes of Susan Collis, Iran do Espirito Santo, Jeremy Millar and Cerith Wyn Evans. EAF. ■ INHOUSE 28 Howe Street, 225 2888. Tue–Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. FREE For You From Me Until Sat 3 Sep. Retrospective of design work by architect and founder of Inhouse Bill Potter. Fringe.
■ INSPACE 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. Wed–Sun noon–8pm. FREE Left to my Own Devices Until Sun 4 Sep. A playful, accessible array of device art from artists practising in China, Japan and Scotland. EAF.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm.
✽✽ FREE Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville ●●●●●
Until Sun 2 Oct. The first large-scale solo show of Rauschenberg’s work to be presented in the UK for 30 years, consisting mainly of pieces dating from the 1980s and 90s. EAF. ■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Festival Exhibition Until Sat 1 Oct. An ever-changing selection of landscapes, figurative painting and still lifes.