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■ ART’S COMPLEX St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for details. FREE Sarah Roberts: Dark Matter Sat 4–Mon 13 Feb, daily 10am–6pm. For some time, artist Sarah Roberts has been using the slime mould Physarum polycephalum as a collaborator in her work; slime moulds are multicellular organisms that behave in complex and interesting ways, the different cells reacting with each other in ways that simulate the ways brain cells operate. Roberts uses the slime moulds to generate visual patterns in her work. FREE Valentine’s Jewellery Sat 4–Sun 12 Feb, Sat 10am–5pm, Mon–Fri 11am–6pm. Art’s Complex’s biggest seasonal jewellery show yet features works by Christopher Borkowski, Nicola Turnbull, Jaimie Macdonald, Pauline Edie, Jen Cunningham, Helen Chalmers, Megan Adair, Rebecca Little and Joanne Garner. FREE The Palette of Being Sat 4–Sun 19 Feb, daily 11am–7pm. Five artists explore the diverse aspects of existence. FREE Rachel Sharp: Paintings of Friends Sat 18–Sun 26 Feb, daily 10am–5pm. Portrait paintings in acrylic and watercolour, done not from life but from Facebook profile pictures. FREE 17: Pre-Degree Show Exhibition Sat 25 Feb–Sun 4 Mar, daily 11am–10pm. Pre-degree show by Gray’s School of Art honours-year painting students. ■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm. FREE Scottish Pictures Until Wed 29 Feb. Scottish pictures from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
■ CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, 529 3993. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Recent Acquisitions Until Sun 4 Mar. A selection of recently acquired artworks in the Centre’s collection. FREE Reflection: Contemporary Visual Arts and Crafts in Edinburgh Until Sun 12 Feb. A group show of 22 artists and makers in a wide variety of media, including ceramics, glass, printmaking, textiles, photography, jewellery, painting and new media; the work was selected from an open call for entries.
■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Ash Reid/Jack McConville/Amelia Bywater & Christian Newby Until Sun 19 Feb. Group show of new work.
■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Jerwood Makers Until Sat 25 Feb. New pieces by jeweller Farah Bandookwala, ceramic artist Emmanuel Boos, glass maker Heike Brachlow and installation artist Keith Harrison, selected from over 200 entries. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Kirsty Whiten: Breeder Badlands Until Sat 10 Mar. Works on canvas and lithographs dealing with the complexities of the family unit.
■ EMBASSY 10b Broughton Street Lane, embassygallery.org Thu–Sun noon–6pm. FREE Salon Neu: Embassy Members Show Until Sun 5 Feb. Group show by young artists. ■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm.
drawing together work from various recent projects, including a residency at North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster. ■ RED DOOR GALLERY 42 Victoria Street, 477 3255. Mon–Fri 12.30–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Nothing but a Pack of Cards Until Tue 21 Feb. An exhibition of St Valentine’s Day cards, featuring a variety of different cards for different purposes. Also work by Edinburgh illustrator Robbie Porter (we liked his zine Catfight!, which proposed an exchange scheme that would bring big cats from the African plains into the workplace, and place fat cats from the financial services in the Serengeti). FREE The March Hare Heir Tue 21 Feb–Sun 25 Mar. Animal-themed arts and crafts from the Edinburgh gallery most likely to offer you a great big hug, including kiln-fired leverets from Rachel Elliot and a screen-printed hare from Emily Hogarth.
■ RHUBABA STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.wordpress.com Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE A Chance Encounter Between an Umbrella and a Sewing Machine Sat 18 Feb–Sun 4 Mar. Exhibition of new work by Sheffield artist James Clarkson, taking as its title the celebrated line from Lautréamont’s delirious 1869 proto- surrealist, proto-punk, proto-Goth, proto- conceptual novel Les Chants du Maldoror, ‘as beautiful [...] as the chance encounter on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.’ Clarkson combines disparate objects and images to create art-historical references.
■ THE ROSELEAF 23–24 Sandport Place, 476 5268. Sun–Thu 10am–midnight; Fri/Sat
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10am–1am. FREE Catherine Talbot Until Sat 4 Feb. Paintings of local subjects with a focus on architectural detail and pattern. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. FREE The Art of Sylvia Wishart RSA Until Tue 28 Feb. Retrospective of the work of Orkney-based painter. FREE Visual Arts Scotland Annual Open Exhibition Sat 4 Feb–Thu 1 Mar. Exhibition composed of open submissions from artists in all disciplines, with a strong programme of sculpture from invited artists Jessica Harrison and Andrea Geile.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Wed–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE The Big Postcard Show Until Sun 12 Feb. Affordable postcard-sized artwork from gallery artists. FREE Jack Frame Fri 24 Feb–Sun 1 Apr. Paintings and drawings by the immensely popular Chatham-born but Glasgow-schooled artist. ■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Adrian Hope & Linda Lewin Until Sat 3 Mar. Linda Lewin makes handmade jewellery using traditional techniques, while master silversmith Adrian Hope makes vessels (cups and vases) in silver. FREE Matthew Blakely: Woodfired Pots Until Sat 3 Mar. Matthew Blakely makes stoneware pots and wood-fires them, aiming to capture the characteristics of plasticity in a hard and durable form.
✽✽ FREE Anna Barriball ●●●●● Until Sun 1 Apr. Work from the English artist blurring the boundaries between drawing and sculpture. See review, page 120.
■ HENDERSON’S @ ST JOHN’S St John’s Terrace, 3 Lothian Road, 229 0212. Daily 10am–4.30pm. FREE Hannah Carpenter: In The Movies Until Fri 2 Mar. Illustration inspired by iconic costume from the worlds of film and celebrity.
■ HENDERSON’S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. Mon–Sat 8am–10pm. FREE The Unspoken Passage of a Spruce Tree Mon 6 Feb–Tue 10 Apr. The results of the Growth project, which saw discarded spruce trees collected from the streets of Edinburgh and catalogue. ■ THE HOT FURNITURE CO 25 Jeffrey Street, 558 3344. Tue–Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Fire and Ice Until Sat 31 Mar. Photography by John Reiach, taken over the past 20 years and reflecting his interests in landscape, architecture and people.
■ INC TANK GALLERY 11b Gayfield Square, 556 8511. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat & Sun 11am–4pm. FREE A Series of Questions Sat 18–Mon 27 Feb. Photography exhibition exploring transphobia and gender- baiting. Part of LGBT History Month.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Andrew Miller Sat 4 Feb–Sat 10 Mar. Andrew Miller works in a variety of media to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function.
✽✽ FREE Roger Ackling Sat 4 Feb–Sat 21 Apr. Roger Ackling
makes objects by focusing the sun’s rays through a magnifying glass and burning patterns of dots onto found objects, in this case items from his garden shed. See Artbeat, page 119. ■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm. FREE Luke Fowler Sun 12 Feb–Sun 29 Apr. New work by Glasgow artist who won the 2008 Derek Jarman Award for his innovative video pieces.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Clementina van der Walt Until Tue 14 Feb. Functional ceramics with designs inspired by the landscape of Africa. FREE Kirsty Wither Until Tue 14 Feb. Colourful oils from Hove-based artist. FREE Rob Fairley Until Tue 14 Feb. Drawings and watercolours inspired by the artist’s travels in the far east. FREE Alistair Grant RSW 1925- 1997 Mon 20 Feb–Tue 27 Mar. Experimental work by the former Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. FREE Barry McGlashan Mon 20 Feb–Tue 6 Mar. Paintings and drawings on personal themes by Aberdeen artist. FREE Primavera Mon 20 Feb–Tue 6 Mar. Spring-themed jewellery by artists including Sue Gregor, Caroline Temple and Sarah Packington. ■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7100. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Alastair Cook: How the Land Lies Fri 10–Fri 24 Feb. Analogue photography, film and glass work
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