ROOST Exhibition opens tomorrow
Friday 17 June 1.30 – 6.30pm
Tag: art
EPIC Chalk Day at Inverleith Park
SUNDAY 26 JUNE
Inverleith Park 12 – 3pm
A day of chalking up the park.
Chalk and Art materials provided.
Music, tea and coffee also provided.
ALL FREE
Donations very welcome.
Exhibition: Displacement – Celebrating solidarity with refugees
Gallery One St Margaret’s House Studios
London Road Edinburgh EH7 6AE
DISPLACEMENT exhibition
4 – 19 June – FREE
Celebrating solidarity with refugees
Artist Jamie King has been a studio holder for over five years at St Margaret’s and has had several exhibitions there. He has also exhibited at Summerhall Edinburgh and in Glasgow.
In this exhibition King has engaged with conceptual art through the use of language as well as oil painting. Fellow artist Nicky Beckett works with mixed media and has exhibited in London and France.
These two artists have collaborated to produce a series of visual and conceptual art works as a response to the current refugee crisis affecting Europe.
How to attend:
This exhibition is free. Fifty per cent of any artwork sales will be donated to Scottish Refugee Council.
Substance: Alan Lennon exhibition at Gayfield Creative Spaces
Alan Lennon’s latest exhibition opens tomorrow
Date for your diary: ‘Substance’ – my new exhibition opens May 27-31 in Edinburgh. Info:http://bit.ly/1T6zy2T All welcome, really hope to see you there!
Alan Lennon
Be DAZZLED in Leith
After wowing visitors in London and Liverpool, the extraordinary Dazzle Ship project has moved to Scotland, with a brand new commission by Turner Prize-nominated artist Ciara Phillips lighting up Leith as part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2016. Continue reading Be DAZZLED in Leith
New York arts scholarship now open for applications
The search is on for an aspiring Scottish artist to spend a fully funded three month residency in New York. Continue reading New York arts scholarship now open for applications
New exhibitions open at City Art Centre
Two exciting new exhibitions Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977 -1986 and Don’t be afraid of Pink: Paintings by Stephen Collingbourne opened at the City Art Centre at the weekend. Continue reading New exhibitions open at City Art Centre
Einstein comes to Muirhouse!
Billboard art at Muirhouse Library
Muirhouse Library welcomed a distinguished guest yesterday when artist Hans Clausen unveiled a billboard poster of Albert Einstein, with his quote: ‘The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library’. The public art is the first in a series to be created by the Arcadeum project team. Continue reading Einstein comes to Muirhouse!
Hut’s the way to do it!
THE IDEAL HUT SHOW
Botanics until Mon 30 May, 10am – 5.45 pm. Free.
An open-air installation consisting of twenty off-the-shelf garden sheds reinvented by architects and designers from home and abroad.
In partnership with the Festival of Architecture (part of Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design)
Let’s Glow!
College creative festival gets underway
Edinburgh College’s annual Glow student creative festival launched on Friday, beginning two months of end-of-year shows covering the college’s creative curriculum, including music, theatre, dance, photography, art and design, sculpture, make-up artistry and computing. Continue reading Let’s Glow!