Highlights | VISUAL ART
BRITISH ART SHOW 8 THE SCOTTISH
Various venues, Edinburgh, until Sun 8 May, britishartshow8. com Works by 42 artists in the nationally touring show curated by Lydia Yee and Anna Collin, exploring the increasing convergence between the real and virtual spheres. See feature at list.co.uk
ENDARKENMENT: ART AND UNREASON 1945
TO PRESENT Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Until Thu 30 Jun, dovecotstudios. com See preview, page 99.
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF
VISUAL ART Various
venues, Glasgow, Fri 8 Apr–Mon 25 Apr, glasgowinternational. org Two-yearly festival of contemporary art commissioned from artists around the globe and including exhibitions in traditional gallery spaces, plus unique site-specific installations and live performance art. See feature, page 32.
BRIDGET RILEY: PAINTINGS 1963-2015
Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art One, Fri 15 Apr 2016-Sun 16 Apr 2017, nationalgalleries.org See preview, page 100.
MAKING IT: SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN 1977–1986
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Sat 7
May–Sun 3 Jul, edinburghmuseums. org.uk/venues/ city-art-centre An exhibition showing how conceptual art brought new dimensions to sculptural practice in Britain, featuring work by 40 artists including Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and Alison Wilding, among others.
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VISUAL ART HIGHLIGHTS
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GLASGOW
RIPPLES ON THE POND Gallery of Modern Art, until Sun 24 Apr, glasgowlife.org.uk/ museums/GoMA/Pages/default. aspx. This exhibition designed to be a conversation between works on paper by women and the moving image features a screening of a film by Rosalind Nashashibi on Thu 21 Apr.
WILLIAM HUNTER TO DAMIEN HIRST: THE DEAD TEACH THE
LIVING
Hunterian Art Gallery & Museum, until Sun 5 Mar 2017, gla.ac.uk/ hunterian Objects and artworks exploring the connections between art and science, including Damien Hirst’s Necromancer. Featuring rarely seen items from the collection of the Hunterian’s founder, Dr William Hunter.
HEATHER LANDER: MATERIALS
AND DURATION 1.2 CCA, Thu 14-Sun 17 Apr, cca- glasgow.com Work developed from the artist’s work in her 2015 MFA degree show. See preview, page 101.
EDINBURGH
CALUM MCCLURE: NOCTURNES & BOTANICS
Scottish Gallery, until Sat 30 Apr, scottish-gallery.co.uk Landscape and nature paintings from the artist.
THE HUMAN’S PLANET EARTH Summerhall, until Fri 13 May, summerhall.co.uk Installation on the theme of trans-cosmological exploration.
KEVIN HARMAN: NO MAN’S LAND Ingleby Gallery, until Sat 21 May, inglebygallery.com Work consisting of large-scale double-glazing units, in the cavity of which the artist has dripped paint.
SARA BARKER: CHANGE-THE-
SPEAKING VOLUMES SETTING
Glasgow Women’s Library, Fri 8 Apr-Mon 25 Apr, womenslibrary. org.uk Event exploring women that have influenced contemporary artists, curators and critics. Fruitmarket Gallery, until Sun 5 Jun, fruitmarket.co.uk New sculptures made with the gallery space specifically in mind. The exhibition is supported by a book presenting an overview of the artist’s work from 2008 to 2016.
Duncan Marquiss: Copying Errors
traditional paintings of water. the Current exhibition.
EVENT EXPLORING WOMEN
HIDDEN DOOR FESTIVAL DUNCAN MARQUISS: COPYING
THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ROBERT POWELL: SPECIES OF
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, SPACE
CURATORS AND CRITICS. Street Level Photoworks, Fri 8 Apr-Sun 29 May, streetlevelphotoworks.org.com Images on the theme of ‘women in philosophy’.
WEAVING DNA The Lighthouse, Fri 8 Apr- Sun 22 May, thelighthouse. co.uk A collaboration between Icelandic product designer Hanna Dís Whitehead and Scottish textile designer Claire Anderson, re- appropriating traditional Nordic and Scottish textiles.
Edinburgh Printmakers, until Sat 16 Jul, edinburghprintmakers. co.uk Work by Edinburgh-based artist interested in urban spaces.
WOLFGANG TILLMANS: PICTURES
FROM NEW WORLD Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, until Sun 7 Aug, glasgowlife.org. uk/museums/GoMA Images collected from years of the artist’s travels around the world. See preview, page 100.
DAVID CASS: SURFACE Gayfield Creative Spaces, Mon 25 Apr-Tue 3 May, gayfield.co.uk Non-
King’s Stables Road, Fri 27 May-Sat 4 Jun, hiddendoorblog.org Artists of all stripes congregate for the Hidden Door interdisciplinary arts festival, which features dozens of cool musicians, bands, artists, poets and filmmakers, often working in new and exciting combinations. See preview, page 23. DUNDEE
ERRORS Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sat 14 May-Sun 3 Jul, dca.org.uk Artist Duncan Marquiss, who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) and was the recipient of the 2015 Margaret Tait award, presents a selection of his paintings, drawings and video works.
ARBROATH
POSTER CLUB: NEW WHEAT, NEW
MUD, NEW MACHINE GRAHAM FAGEN
Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, until Sat 23 Apr, dundee. ac.uk/djcad/ Works from the Glasgow- based artists’ group, developed from Hospitalfield House, until Sat 16 Apr, hospitalfield.org.uk The artist’s exhibition created for the 2015 Venice Biennale is presented anew for the gallery.
7 Apr–2 Jun 2016 THE LIST 101