ZOO ARTS EXHIBITION
Opens WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 4 – 6pm
in North Edinburgh Arts Centre
Roost is part of an artists residency, Arcadeum, linked to the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre. This £12 million Centre, being built in Muirhouse, is a joint development between NHS Lothian and the City of Edinburgh Council, bringing increased health and social care services for the local community, including new GP accommodation and additional physiotherapy, podiatry, dentistry and child health services.
Arcadeum is based in the ‘satellite’ space in the shopping mall next to NEA. Artists Lindsay Perth and Hans Clausen have been leading the Arcadeum programme over the last 12 months.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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)