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FREE John Houston: The Forth Until Wed 2 May. Paintings of the Forth. FREE Spring Collection 2012 Until Wed 2 May. Paintings and drawings by gallery artists. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). FREE Red Chalk: Raphael to Ramsay Until Sun 10 Jun. Featuring works by Peter Paul Rubens, Salvator Rosa, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher and David Allan. FREE Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: the Bute Collection Sat 19 May–Sun 2 Dec. A selection of Old Master paintings from the famous collection held on the Isle of Bute.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1136, 2004 Until Sun 6 May. A huge and colourful abstract painting painted directly onto the gallery wall and painted over again when the exhibition is over. FREE The Sculpture Show ●●●●● Until Sun 24 Jun. Sculptural works from the collection, alongside important works on loan.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART TWO 73 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection Until Sun 23 Sep. £7 (£5). A print of Munch’s iconic ‘The Scream’, along with a generous selection of other prints by the master Expressionist. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). FREE Farmscapes: Stuart Franklin, Magnum Photos Until Sun 3 Jun. Photography displaying the diversity of Scottish agriculture. FREE Migration Stories: Pakistan Until Wed 31 Oct. Exhibition exploring Scotland’s links with Pakistan. FREE Pioneers of Science Until Wed 31 Oct. 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 Sun 3 Jun. Questions of national identity are explored through some of the greatest photographs in the Gallery’s collection. 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. FREE War at Sea Until Wed 31 Oct. Numerous paintings by Sir John Lavery on loan from London’s Imperial War Museum.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Frank Boyle: Frank on Football & Boyling Point Until Tue 5 Jun. Two part exhibition from the Edinburgh Evening News cartoonist: until Thu 10 May there’s a display of his football-related cartoons; from Fri 11 May the focus shifts to political satire. ■ SOFI’S 65 Henderson Street, 555 7019. Mon–Fri 2pm–1am; Sat noon–1am; Sun 1pm–midnight. FREE Bill Murray Exhibition Until Tue 1 May. Coloured pencil drawings of Bill Murray.
REVIEW PRINTMAKING NEW PRINT GENERATION Edinburgh Printmakers, until Sat 19 May ●●●●●
Just in time for Degree Show season, Edinburgh Printmakers has chosen to hold its own mini student exhibition – a selection of emerging graduates from the four major colleges who use printmaking techniques as the basis for their work.
As with every degree show, it’s a blend which shows great promise and baffling, sometimes unconvincing results, often from the same artist. The most striking and divisive selection on display has been created by Rachel Maclean, whose triptych ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ appears to be a grotesque commentary on celebrity culture and body fascism. Against a fairytale backdrop of pink castles and rainbows, hideous, acne-ridden female figures cavort in their skimpy clothes, one having apparently shed her fat former flesh. Maclean references Hieronymus Bosch in the text, but these seem more like pieces of garish and unsubtle satire than high art.
Elsewhere, Patrizio Belcampo shows four portrait pieces featuring
well-known female British monarchs, which seem to aim at using their features and silhouettes almost as a form of stylised branding, an interesting but not entirely meaty concept. Similarly Lyndsay Gauld’s etchings are more aesthetically striking than conceptually robust, while Francesca Miller and Elizabeth Hardman’s pieces are actually appendices to event-based art happenings (in the latter case a bug- eating party, which sounds like an intriguing project as a whole). In Sarah Diver’s collage images, finally, there are layers of implied meaning and open interpretations from pleasing assemblages of vintage cuttings and retro iconography called things like ‘Fings Ain’t Wot’ and ‘Pure Dying On Fanta’. (David Pollock)
■ SF GALLERY AT STICK FACTORY 69c Mayfield Rd, 629 5171. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE Karen Willis: Paintings Until Thu 31 May. Landscapes and still lifes. ■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm. FREE Terra Nostra Until Sun 22 Jul. Italian photography and video.
■ SUPERCLUB GALLERY AND STUDIOS 11a Gayfield Square, superclubstudios.com Thu–Sun 1–6pm. FREE Alex Tobin: Sky People Until Sun 29 Apr. New work by Edinburgh- based artist and designer. ■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Alison Turnbull ●●●●● Until Sat 5 May. Meticulous paintings derived from plans and charts, examining systems of classification. FREE James Cumming RSA, RSW Until Sat 5 May. A celebration of the
hard-edged, modernist work of RSA member and ECA tutor Cumming. FREE Academic Collaborations Fri 11–Sat 19 May. Work by postgraduate students of Edinburgh College of Art.
Damian Henry Open from now, till June 1st.
Fresh, graphic, primitive and yet surprisingly sophisticated, DAMIAN HENRY’s prints imbue simple subjects with a sense of just-off-centre narrative power.
SIX FOOT GALLERY, The PENTAGON CENTRE, 36 Washington St, Glasgow. www.damianhenry.com Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Free
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■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Worlds Apart: Stewart Bremner & Kevin Low Until Mon 30 Apr. Abstract expressionism from Bremner and figurative paintings from Low. FREE Jenny Matthews & Janet Melrose RSW Fri 4 May–Mon 4 Jun. Floral and landscape paintings.
■ VARIOUS VENUES St John’s Church & Henderson’s @ St John’s, Princes Street, and Old St Paul’s Church, Jeffrey Street. FREE David Grossart: Journey, Dream and Transformation Until Sun 6 May, times vary. An exhibition in three parts, taking the viewer on journeys both literal and metaphorical through paintings, prose and found materials. ■ THE VILLAGE 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. Mon–Sat 11am–11.45pm; Sun 12.30–11.45pm. FREE Marc Marnie: Solid Air Until Sat 28 Apr. Photographs of musicians from Michael Stipe to Ringo Starr via Camille O’Sullivan and Amanda Palmer, taken over the course of a 30-year career.
■ WHITESPACE 11 Gayfield Square, 07814 514771. FREE Stephen Thorpe: The Poetics of Space Sat 28 Apr–Sat 5 May, times tbc. Tactile works in oil, canvas and expanding foam from an artist who won The Skinny Award from last year’s RSA New Contemporaries selection. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ THE CHANGING ROOM Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, 01786 274005. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE The Writing on your Wall ●●●●● Sat 28 Apr–Sat 26 May. An exhibition, on tour from Edinburgh Printmakers, looking at printmaking as a socially-engaged artform that can be a platform for radical ideas.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Scott Myles: This Production Until Sun 10 Jun.
Sculptures and a large-scale installation, Displaced Façade, inspired by memories of skateboarding and made from bricks. FREE Boris Gerrets Until Sun 20 May. NB this exhibition takes place in Centrespace and is open daily noon–4.30pm. An exhibition of Gerrets’ celebrated experimental documentary People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am, along with other short films and videos. 26 Apr–24 May 2012 THE LIST 125