{VISUAL ART} Listings
■ 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 British sculptor. EAF & Fringe.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily
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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 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. See Artbeat, page 76. 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 Carmen Sylva: Peles Empire ●●●●● Until Sun 11 Sep, Thu–Sun noon–6pm. See review, page 77. 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 Until 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. See review, page 77. EAF.
■ SUCH AND SUCH 105 Brunswick Street, 07851 283718. Daily 11am–6pm. FREE Such and Such: Residents Until Sun 11 Sep. Work in silver, mixed media and printmaking by the studio’s resident artists.
■ SUPERCLUB 11a Gayfield Square, info@superclubstudios.com FREE Boondocks Fri 19–Mon 22 Aug, noon–6pm. ‘An exercise in implicit unsophistication, imagery and objects from the woop woop’ courtesy of Clusterbomb (young Edinburgh artists Alex Gibbs, Matt Swan, Bobby Nixon, Jamie Kinroy and John Brown) and their special guests Hannah Harkes and Sophie Alda.
■ SWEET GRASSMARKET Apex City Hotel, 61 The Grassmarket, 0870 241 0136. Spelling the Myth Until 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. 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. ■ TRAVELLING GALLERY Various locations around Edinburgh, 529 3930. FREE Waste Management Thu 25–Wed 31 Aug. The unique, bus-based Travelling Gallery showcases paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture by contemporary artists Jonathan Owen and Charlie Hammond. The gallery is parking up the following venues: City
Art Centre (Thu 25 Aug, noon–5pm), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two (Fri 26 Aug, 10am–6pm), Portobello High Street (Sat 27 Aug, 11am–6pm), Hawes Promenade, South Queensferry (Mon 29 Aug, 11am–5pm), Lochside Place (Tue 30 Aug, 11am–6pm) and Craigmillar Arts Centre (Wed 31 Aug, 10.30am–3.30pm).
■ 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 GALLERIES edinburghartfestival.com FREE Art Late Thu 25 Aug, from 5.30pm. A regular and extremely popular feature of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Art Late is a specially programmed night of late openings at galleries across the city. An unique opportunity to experience live music, performances and impromptu events in a selection of visual art venues across the city. The programme is revealed shortly before the event to those who have booked a place. ■ 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 such international artistic luminaries as Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn and others. Catch it while it’s open in the summer months. EAF.
L A V I T S E F 80 THE LIST 18–25 Aug 2011