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doux Mon 18–Fri 29 Jun. Work by second year pupils from Perth Academy created as part of a project focusing on interdisciplinary learning.
■ THE INSTITUTE 14 Roseneath Street, 229 1338. Mon–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Chris Saunders Until Sun 10 Jun. Photographs of contemporary South African street culture. ■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm. FREE William McKeown Until Sun 8 Jul. The first posthumous exhibition by the late Northern Ireland-born painter. FREE Remarkable Trees Until Sun 8 Jul. Photographs of trees by amateur Scottish botanist George Paxton (1850–1904), donated to the Botanic. FREE Craig Jefferson: Drawing Reality Until Fri 15 Jun. Drawings and paintings by Edinburgh-based artist.
■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Sense of Place: New Jewellery from Northern Lands Until Sun 16 Sep. New jewellery from Scotland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. FREE One Thousand Points of Light: Melvin Moti Wed 20 Jun–Wed 31 Oct. Installation by Dutch artist Melvin Moti, incorporating a film and various objects selected by him from the Museum’s collections.
■ OCEAN TERMINAL Ocean Drive, Leith, 555 8888. Mon–Fri 10am–8pm; Sat 10am–7pm; Sun 11am–6pm. FREE Primary Pot Pourri Fri 8–Fri 22 Jun. Art by local school children. Part of Leith Festival. ■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Street, 558 5400. Opening hours vary, see individual exhibition listings for details. FREE It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore Fri 1–Wed 6 Jun. Mon-Wed, Fri & Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. Recent work by eight young artists working across different disciplines.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Matthew Draper Until Tue 29 May. Pastels of the city and seascapes around Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Firth of Forth. FREE Roland Fraser Until Tue 29 May. Pieces made in found wood by Dalkeith-based artist moving from decorative to fine art. FREE Helen Wilson RGI Fri 1–Tue 19 Jun. Paintings created during the artist’s residency with Scottish Opera. FREE Lorna McIntosh Fri 1–Tue 19 Jun. Works on paper, canvas and linen inspired by observational drawing.
■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7101. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Rock and Mineral Until Fri 25 May. Various artists use fabrics and fibre to explore the concept of caves. FREE Exposed12 Tue 12–Fri 22 Jun. Showcase end-of-year photography exhibition from Stevenson College Edinburgh and The University of Abertay Dundee. Students are on hand throughout to discuss their work. Part of Leith Festival. ■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Daily 9.30am–6pm. Treasures from the Queen’s Palaces ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Nov. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free;
family £15.50). One hundred paintings, drawings, miniatures, watercolours, manuscripts, furniture, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery from the Royal Collection.
■ RED DOOR GALLERY 42 Victoria Street, 477 3255. Mon–Fri 12.30–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE May Flower Bike Ride Until Thu 31 May. Works by Levi WJ Bunyan and others, including screenprints, mugs, seed bombs and seed cards. FREE Ewan John Thu 7 Jun–Thu 5 Jul. Lithographs and other items (including badges, totes, notebooks and cards) by artist/designer who specialises in work that illustrates a narrative. ■ RHUBABA STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.wordpress.com FREE It’s Hard To Find A Good Lamp Sat 16 Jun–Sun 1 Jul, Fri–Sun noon–5pm. Group show investigating the boundaries between art, furniture and interior design.
■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Locating the Nest Until Sun 22 Jul. Words (by poet Tom Pow), images (by printmaker Hugh Bryden) and sculptures (by craft-artist Lizzie Farey) exploring the idea of the nest. FREE Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show Until Thu 21 Jun. Outdoor sculptures, mostly in bronze.
■ THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH Little France Crescent, Old Dalkeith Road, 536 1000. FREE X-ray Exhibition: Inr-i Until Mon 25 Jun times tbc. Exhibition organised by Artlink featuring work made in hospital settings in collaboration with radiographers, including x-rays of everyday objects. ■ ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE 100 Princes Street, 225 1501. FREE Charlotte McDonald: Converging Beauty Until Thu 14 Jun, daily 10am–6pm. Recent paintings inspired by explorations of a privately owned forest in Scotland.
■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. RSA 186th Annual Exhibition Until Wed 6 Jun. £6 (£2). Works from Scottish and international artists, as well as the winners of the RSA’s Morton and Barns Graham awards, together with a further selection from the RSA’s collection. FREE A Royal Taste: Landscape Paintings from the RSA Collections Until Mon 17 Sep. Mon only, 10am–5pm. The first of two RSA exhibitions for 2012 celebrating the Diamond Jubilee.
■ SCOTLAND-RUSSIA INSTITUTE 9 South College St, 668 3635. Tue–Fri 10.30am–4.30pm; Sat 1.30–4.30pm. FREE Britain Through the Eyes of St Petersburg Artists Sat 26 May–Sat 30 Jun. Paintings by St Petersburg artists visiting England.
■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Aleksander Zyw: Paintings and Drawings Until Wed 30 May. Paintings and drawings by Polish-born but subsequently Edinburgh-based artist (1905–1995), focusing on his work of the 1940s and 50s. FREE Alison Kinnaird: Taking Flight Until Wed 30 May. Works in glass combining images of the human form with images of birds and flight.
FREE Campbell Sandlands: Perfect Reflection Until Wed 30 May. Paintings and prints inspired by the artist’s interest in Zen Buddhism. FREE Sir Robin Philipson Until Wed 30 May. A major retrospective of work by the painter and educator who died 20 years ago this year. FREE Terry Brodie-Smith Silver Collection Until Wed 30 May. Collection of contemporary silverware, reflecting the renaissance in Scottish silversmithing that has taken place over the last three decades. FREE Hans Vangsø Mon 4–Sat 30 Jun. Stoneware items from Danish artist. FREE Sian Matthews: Contemporary Silver Mon 4–Sat 30 Jun. New functional silverware with clean modern designs.
■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). FREE Masterpieces from Mount Stuart: the Bute Collection Until Sun 2 Dec. A selection of Old Master paintings from the famous Bute Collection held at Mount Stuart, featuring works by Dutch, Flemish and French painters such as Aelbert Cuyp, Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriel Metsu, David Teniers, Joos van Cleve, Jacob Jordaens, and Antoine Le Nain. FREE Red Chalk: Raphael to Ramsay Until Sun 10 Jun. An exhibition exploring the versatile and striking medium of red chalk, featuring works by Peter Paul Rubens, Salvator Rosa, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher and David Allan, among others. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART ONE 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE The Sculpture Show ●●●●● Until Sun 24 Jun. Sculptural works from the collection, and on loan, including work by Rodin, Degas, Hepworth, Moore, Giacometti, Duchamp and Hirst.
■ 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). It’s One of the only prints of ‘The Scream’ hand-tinted by Munch himself, 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. Paintings by Sir John Lavery on loan from London’s Imperial War Museum.
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■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Frank Boyle: Boyling Point Until Tue 5 Jun. Political satire from the Edinburgh Evening News cartoonist. FREE St Philibert and the Devil Fri 8 Jun–Fri 13 Jul. Paintings by Dorothy Smyth, inspired by the words of storyteller and poet Patsy Dyer.
■ SOUTH LEITH PARISH CHURCH 6 Henderson Street, Leith. FREE Arts & Crafts Exhibition Tue 12 Jun, 10am–4pm. An exhibition featuring everything from beadcraft to model railways. Part of Leith Festival. ■ STICK FACTORY 69c Mayfield Rd, 629 5171. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm. FREE Karen Willis: Paintings Until Thu 31 May. Landscapes and still lifes from the Shetland-born, Northumberland-based painter.
■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm. FREE La Nostra Terra Until Sun 22 Jul. Italian photography and video from the 1970s to today. ■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. FREE Jenny Matthews & Janet Melrose RSW Until Mon 4 Jun. Works by two artists who were contemporaries at ECA: Matthews studied under Elizabeth Blackadder and does acclaimed flower painting, while Melrose’s canvases are landscapes tend towards abstraction.
■ WALLACE’S ARTHOUSE SCOTLAND 41/4 Constitution Street, 538 3320. FREE Gianluca Maver Thu 24 & Fri 25 May, 2–5.30pm. Photography focussing on light, fragility and microcosms. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ THE CHANGING ROOM Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, 01786 274005. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE The Writing on your Wall ●●●●● Until Sat 26 May. Exhibition looking at printmaking as a socially- engaged and potentially radical artform: featuring recent work by Jeremy Deller, Ruth Ewan and Alasdair Gray as well as historical prints. FREE Across the Valley Wed 6 Jun–Sat 28 Jul. A collection of works from this year’s Forth Valley Open Studios event.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm. FREE DCA Editions Until Wed 20 Jun. Prints created at DCA, including newly released work by Jonathan Horowitz, Kevin Hutcheson, Manfred Pernice and Nina Rhode.
✽✽ FREE Scott Myles: This Production ●●●●● Until Sun 10
Jun. See review, page 135.
■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm. Also bank holiday Mon 4 Jun, 10am–5pm.
✽✽ Jupiter Artland Until Sun 16 Sep. £8.50 (seniors £5 on Thu & Fri only; students & under 17s £4.50; under 6s & disabled badge holders free; family £23.50–£31.50). The celebrated outdoor sculpture park opens its doors for its third summer season, unveiling several new public art works.
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