VisualArt
FREE The Sculpture Show Sat 17 Dec–Sun 24 Jun. A major new exhibition of sculptural works from the collection, alongside important works on loan. Featured artists include Rodin, Degas, Hepworth, Moore, Giacometti, Duchamp, Hirst, Lucas and others, along with photographic and film documentation. Ron Mueck’s enormous A Girl will return to the Gallery from its world tour. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. Closed Sun 25–Mon 26 Dec; late opening Sun 1 Jan at noon. Modern Two, formerly known as the Dean Gallery, 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. FREE Scottish Painting Between the Wars Until Sun 18 Mar. An exhibition of an alternative tradition in Scottish painting to the one represented by the Scottish Colourists. Artists like Edward Baird, James Cowie, William Crosbie and William Crozier drew inspiration from the cubist and vorticist movements. The Scottish Colourist Series: FCB Cadell ●●●●● Until Sun 18 Mar. £7 (£5). The first of a series of retrospectives about the four artists
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known as the ‘Scottish Colourists’. Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937) was born in Edinburgh and is remembered for his interiors, still lifes and landscapes of Scotland and France. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). Closed Sun 25–Mon 26 Dec; late opening Sun 1 Jan at noon. A host of new long-term displays exploring different aspects of Scottish Portraiture. On show are: a set of portraits of people painted wearing their tartan in the 18th century; a display looking at the relationship between philosopher David Hume and painter Allan Ramsay; Thomas Annan’s haunting photographs of a condemned Victorian Glasgow slum; a corner devoted to George Jamesone, widely accepted as Scotland’s first great portrait painter; an investigation into the Jacobites’ self-presentation through portraiture; military engineer John Slezer’s landscape engravings from the late 17th and early 18th centuries; a survey of how and why women had their portraits painted in the 19th century; an exhibition of work showing how sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes in the last two centuries; a section focusing on the Reformation; and finally a group of portraits of the heroes of Scotland’s great industrial and cultural transformation of 1750–1850. FREE Graham Fagen: Missing Until Sat 31 Mar. A specially commissioned new video work based on the theme of missing people. FREE Migration Stories: Pakistan Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition in three parts: photos of prominent Scots with a
Pakistani heritage; a film by Pakistani- born filmmaker Sana Bilgrami; and a look at the life of a Scottish teacher in Lahore. FREE Pioneers of Science Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition of portraits of the men, women and in at least one case the sheep whose adventures in science have shaped the modern world. FREE Romantic Camera: Scottish Photography & the Modern World Until Sat 30 Jun. Exhibition exploring the powerful influence of Romanticism on early Scottish photography. FREE The Modern Scot Until Wed 31 Oct. An exhibition exploring how Scottish writers and artists developed a uniquely modern sensibility in the aftermath of World War I, featuring such pivotal figures as Hugh MacDiarmid and JD Fergusson. FREE War at Sea Until Wed 31 Oct 2012. The work of Sir John Lavery, who recorded the lives of airmen, sailors and munitions workers in World War I. ■ THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Horse Wynd, Holyrood, 0800 092 7500. Opening hours vary depending on parliament activities, please telephone for info. Closed Fri 23 Dec–Tue 3 Jan. FREE Design & Democracy Until Fri 23 Mar. Work by 16 new designers, all recent graduates from Scottish art schools, and all demonstrating ways in which design can alter the ways in which we live, be it in the fields of health, society or environment.
■ SIERRA METRO Ground Floor North, 22 West Harbour Road, sierrametro.com Sat & Sun noon–6pm. FREE Lauren Gault & Perri MacKenzie: Wetodry Until Sun 18 Dec. New work from Belfast-born artist
Gault and Glasgow-based artist and theorist MacKenzie.
■ SLEEPER Reiach and Hall Architects, 6 Darnaway Street, 225 8444. Mon–Fri 2–5pm. FREE Marianne Eigenheer Until Wed 21 Dec. New work from Swiss-born but Edinburgh-based artist. ■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm. Closed Mon 19 Dec–Sun 8 Jan. FREE Richard Williams: United States Until Sun 18 Mar. Richard Williams’ exhibition of photos and artefacts is an examination of the history and future of the great Atlantic ocean liner SS United States.
■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. Closed Sat 17 Dec–Tue 3 Jan.
✽✽ FREE Beholder ●●●●● Until Sat 18 Feb. An innovative
exhibition exploring ideas of taste, beauty and subjectivity, curated as part of David Hume’s 300th birthday celebrations. Artists include Yoko Ono, Karla Black, Giorgio Morandi, Alan Reid, Hamish Fulton, Anthony Schrag and many others. See review, page 120.
■ TORRANCE GALLERY 36 Dundas Street, 556 6366. Mon–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat 10.30am–4pm. Closed Sun 25–Tue 27 Dec and Sat 31 Dec–Mon 2 Jan. FREE Sheana Stephen DA Until Sat 14 Jan. Handmade jewellery. ■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. Closed Sat 24 Dec–Sun 8 Jan. FREE Winter Wonderland Until Tue 24 Jan. Works by gallery artists, including Audrey Grant, Colin Brown, Stewart Bremner, Trevor Jones, Megan Chapman and others.
■ WHITESPACE 11 Gayfield Square, 07814 514771. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE First Press Until Thu 15 Dec. The inaugural exhibition of the speKtrum print collective.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES ■ THE CHANGING ROOM Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, 01786 274005. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Belinda Gilbert Scott/Su Grierson Until Wed 21 Dec. Work from two artists who live in rural Scotland: Belinda Gilbert Scott projects films onto painted backcloths while Su Grierson digitally manipulates photographs.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm. Closed Sun 25–Mon 26 Dec and Sun 1–Mon 2 Jan.
✽✽ FREE Torsten Lauschmann: Startle Reaction ●●●●● Until
If you fancy straying off the beaten track this month, take a trip to the Grade-A-listed Linlithgow Burgh Halls, which has been lovingly restored by Edinburgh architect Malcolm Fraser and now features an art gallery, function rooms, rooftop terrace, tourist information centre and Glasshouse Café. The inaugural exhibition is a selection of photographic works by renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, which features images of materials such as ice, snow, leave, twigs, stone and wood in their natural environment, all in glorious colour. ■ Linlithgow Burgh Halls, until Sun 8 Jan. 124 THE LIST 15 Dec 2011–5 Jan 2012
Sun 8 Jan. Glasgow-based artist Lauschmann employs everything from zoetropes and cutting edge 3D film technology in a playful exploration of technological entertainment and our reactions to it, be they sceptical or optimistic. See review, page 120. ■ THE PARK GALLERY Callendar Park, Falkirk, 01324 503789. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. Closed Sun 25–Tue 27 Dec and Sun 1–Tue 3 Jan. FREE Elizabeth Blackadder: Journeys from Home Until Sat 25 Feb. An exhibition charting the development of Elizabeth Blackadder through the artist’s own paintings, from her beginnings in Falkirk via her travels with her late husband, to the present.