VisualArt
EDINBURGH
■ THE ACORN CENTRE Junction Place, Leith, 553 7877. FREE Two Cities Photography Exhibition Mon 11–Thu 14 Jun. Mon & Tue 11am–2pm; Thu 7–9pm. Contrasting images of Leith and Edinburgh from local photographers. Part of Leith Festival. ■ ST BRIDE’S CENTRE 10 Orwell Terrace, 346 8237. FREE Anne Roberts & Heather Fraser Until Fri 1 Jun. Mon-Thu 10am–3pm; Sat 10am–2pm. Paintings and sculpture.
■ AMBER ARTS 78 Montrose Terrace, Abbeyhill, 661 1167. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 10am–2.30pm. FREE In Edinburgh Until Sat 21 Jul. Urban and rural paintings in oil. ■ ART AMATORIA 11 Heriot Row, 07768 960578. FREE Botanical Artists Fri 8–Fri 22 Jun, Tue–Sat 2–5pm. Botanical watercolours from Fiona Strickland and Anna Knights.
■ ART’S COMPLEX St Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, 661 1924. Opening times vary, see individual exhibition listings for details. FREE Alan McGowan: The Language of the Body Fri 25 May–Sun 3 Jun, daily 10am–10pm. Figurative drawings of the human body, exploring ideas of enquiry and doubt. FREE Trina Bohan-Tyrie: A Space in Time Fri 25 May–Fri 1 Jun, daily 11am–7pm. Skyscapes on canvas, inspired by a visit to the Highlands. FREE PixelAge Sat 9–Sun 17 Jun, daily 11am–7pm. Showcase for digital videos, images and short films by Stevenson College HND2 Computer Art & Design students. FREE Ross Flemington: Complex Meat Sat 9–Sun 17 Jun, daily 11am–7pm. New work based on ideas of complexity deriving from simple beginnings.
■ BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm. FREE Summer 2012 Until Sun 10 Jun. Dynamic Scottish paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries, by artists such as Walter Hugh Paton, David Young Cameron, JM Milne, Anne Redpath, John Houston and others. FREE Scottish Pictures 1750–1950 Fri 15 Jun–Sat 21 Jul. Pictures by major Scottish artists such as Sir Henry Raeburn, Allan Ramsay, Sam Bough, William McTaggart, FCB Cadell and Anne Redpath.
■ CENTRAL LIBRARY 7-9 George IV Bridge, 242 8100. Mon–Thu 10am–8pm; Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm. FREE High Rise Mon 11–Sat 23 Jun. Dramatic monochrome photographs by Lindsay Docherty documenting the lives of residents in Glasgow’s high rise blocks. Part of Refugee Week. ■ CITY ART CENTRE 2 Market Street, 529 3993. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE A Parliament of Lines Until Sun 8 Jul. Drawings and related work organised around five themes: The Body, Architecture/Landscape, Minimal Abstraction, Reproduction/Photography, and Sculptural Investigation. FREE Art and the Garden Until Sun 8 Jul. Exhibition that explores the relationships between artists and the garden. FREE Terrain Until Sun 8 Jul. The first public display of a collection started in 1963 with the aim of giving schoolchildren access to original works of art within a school environment.
140 THE LIST 24 May–21 Jun 2012
■ COBURG HOUSE STUDIOS 15 Coburg Street, 554 6888. FREE Art by the Water Sat 9–Sat 16 Jun, daily 11am–6pm. Artists from Coburg House Art Studios exhibit their work. Part of Leith Festival. ■ COLLECTIVE GALLERY 22–28 Cockburn Street, 220 1260. Tue–Sun 11am–5pm FREE Adaptation Until Sun 27 May. New work in a variety of different media
considering the effect that changing circumstances can have on forms. FREE Grace Schwindt: Tenant Until Sun 27 May. German artist presents a film installation, Tenant, inspired by a story told to her by her grandparents. FREE Simon Martin: Louis Ghost Chair Sat 9 Jun–Sun 22 Jul. Short film focusing on the Louis XV armchair and its continuing afterlife as Philippe Starck’s Louis Ghost Chair.
■ DOUBTFIRE GALLERY 3 South East Circus Place, 225 6540. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Quintessentially French Sun 27 May–Sat 23 Jun. Paintings by Michael G Clark depicting landscapes and still lifes in France. ■ DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm. FREE Ptolemy Mann: The Architecture of Cloth, Colour & Space Until Sat 26 May. Contemporary weavings, hand-dyed fabrics, furniture and drawings. FREE Hidden Stories Sat 2–Thu 7 Jun. Graduate exhibition, curated by Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto, from Heriot-Watt’s School of Textiles and Design (which counts William Chambers and Judy Clark among its alumni).
■ DUNDAS STREET GALLERY 6a Dundas Street, 558 9363. Mon--Fri 11am--7pm; Sat & Sun 11am--5pm. FREE Jamie Primrose: Transient Skies Hazy skyscape in oils by this highly collectable and inventive Edinburgh artist. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Dialogue: A Travelling Printmaking Group Exhibition Engramme Sat 2 Jun–Sat 21 Jul. Work from Quebecois print workshop and artists collective Engramme, exploring the duality of dialogue through 26 separate diptychs.
■ EMBASSY 10b Broughton Street Lane, embassygallery.org
✽✽ FREE Annuale Fri 8–Sun 24 Jun, times vary. Multi-venue festival
giving space to Edinburgh’s grassroots artist-led projects.
■ FETTES COLLEGE East Fettes Avenue, 332 2281. FREE Arabella Hope: New Works Until Thu 31 May, daily 10am–6pm by appointment only. Painting, photography and sculpture by Fettes College Artist in Residence. ■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Tony Swain: Drowned Dust, Sudden Word ●●●●● Until Sun 8 Jul. See review, page 135.
■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 0844 493 2120. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Inexterior Until Sun 27 May. Six second-year students at Edinburgh College of Art showcase their work.
■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Callum Innes: Works on Paper ●●●●● Until Sat 14 Jul. See review, page 135.
■ INLINGUA EDINBURGH 40 Shandwick Place, 220 5119. Mon–Thu 9am–8pm; Fri 9am–6pm. FREE John Nicholls: Recent Work Until Thu 31 May. A photo journal of images from across Scotland, drawing out recurring themes of loss and freedom and an ongoing fascination with the beauty of dereliction. FREE Linda Jackson: Be Here Now Mon 11 Jun–Fri 27 Jul. An exhibition on the theme of mindfulness. ■ INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Mon–Wed & Fri 9.30am–6.30pm (Thu until 8.30pm); Sat 10am–1pm. FREE STAR*: Vive La Tapisserie 3 Until Sat 2 Jun. Miniature tapestries. FREE Sites célèbres et billets
REVIEW DRAWING EDVARD MUNCH: GRAPHIC WORKS FROM THE GUNDERSON COLLECTION Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh, until Sun 23 Sep ●●●●●
Perhaps the greatest surprise for casual viewers of this high-profile new exhibition from the Scottish National Galleries is the discovery that Norwegian painter Edvard Munch had a whole catalogue of work besides ‘The Scream’. One of the most famous works of art ever is represented here, most will be pleased to know, with a lithograph (one of only two hand-coloured by the artist) which gives some impression of how the painting itself may look in person. In truth, though, the often mimicked and parodied form of ‘The
Scream’ – and the ghastly burnt-sky colouring and terror-stricken pinprick eyes are not as accentuated here – isn’t the most striking element of the show. Instead, it reflects upon the most discomforting aspects of Munch’s biography (childhood illness, premature death and madness amongst his siblings, fraught love affairs) to give context to the perfect sense of sinister melancholy infusing his works. In the bleak cynicism of ‘Vampire’, its title juxtaposed with what might be a comforting embrace from one lover to another, the sense of morbid disconnection in ‘Two Human Beings. The Lonely Ones’ and the pall of real mortal dread over ‘The Sick Child’ and ‘By the Death Bed’. By its very nature this exhibition serves as an extended introduction
to rather than a comprehensive overview of Munch’s work, what a furore on the Scotsman letters page referred to as an example of ‘extreme modernism’ following his 1931 debut UK solo show in Edinburgh, but the creased eyes or absent features of many of his characters still demonstrate a subtle hold over the most dramatic emotions. (David Pollock)