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Dear omss,
Edinburgh's galleries are waving goodbye to winter by holding a host of events around the city. From film screenings at Collective and Stills to the highly anticipated Artist's Bookmarket at The Fruitmarket Gallery, there's plenty to get you out and about this Spring. |
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Edinburgh Printmakers Prints from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, New Mexico
Saturday 26 March to Saturday 21 May
This world-class exhibition of works by leading and international artists Jim Dine, Kiki Smith and Lesley Dill, celebrates the diversity of the medium of lithography and the accomplishments of the renowned Tamarind Institute of New Mexico.
Tamarind Institute is a non-profit centre for lithography that trains master-printers and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Founded in 1960 in Los Angeles, Tamarind played a significant role in reviving the art of lithography in the United States and continues to provide professional training and creative opportunities for artists.
www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR |
 Scottish Art 1650-2010: Work from the city's collection
City Art Centre Opening Saturday 14 May The City Art Centre has one of the best collections of Scottish art, including paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture and installation art, dating from the 17th century to the present day. A selection will be shown throughout the entire gallery, giving a rare and comprehensive overview of Scottish art. On display will be key works by Ramsay, Raeburn, Nasmyth, McTaggart, the Glasgow Boys, the Colourists, Eardley, Gillies and the Edinburgh School, postwar artists including Blackadder and Bellany, and contemporaries including Callum Innes and Toby Paterson. A great opportunity to revisit old favourites and discover hidden treasures.
Opening Times
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm
0131 529 3993
www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
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Social Documents: The Ethics of the Encounter Part 2
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Stills Gallery
The Atlas Group, François Bucher, Dani Marti and Artur Zmijewski
Stills Focus Space: Daniel Rutter
Until Sunday 6 March
When artists root their work in the social encounter, the documentary mode plays a central role in mediating events and experiences. Though the resulting material often bears a close resemblance to ethnographic mapping, investigative journalism or even community work, many of today's artists operate in somewhat murkier waters. Working outside - or even deliberately corrupting - accepted conventions and frameworks, the artists participating in this two-part exhibition find alternative means to engage with social realities in situations of war, sex and political urgency.
www.stills.org
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
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Uinneag Dhan Àird an Iar: Ath-lorg Ealain na Gàidhlealtach  | | Royal Scottish Academy (Diploma Collection) © The artist's estate |
City Art Centre Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art
Until Sunday 6 March
Drawing on both historical and contemporary art, this major exhibition asks questions about art and the Highlands with particular reference to the Gaelic language.How does art relate to Gaelic language and culture? How are memory and history represented? How do artists respond to geography and cultural change?
Ian Hamilton Finlay
City Art Centre  | | Ian Hamilton Finlay with Annet Stirling 'Two Temples: To Apollo His Music - His Missiles - His Muses' 1996 |
Until Sunday 6 March
Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of the major figures of 20th century Scottish art. Poet, publisher, sculptor and gardener, he is best known for Little Sparta, his stunning garden at Stonypath in Lanarkshire. On show are two recently acquired stone sculptures, displayed alongside prints by the artist already in the collection, a group of photographs of Little Sparta taken by Martyn Greenhalgh in 1988 and works from the city's collection by artists who explore similar themes to Finlay.
Opening Times
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm
0131 529 3993
www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
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| John Goto: Mosaic Edinburgh Printmakers Until Saturday 19 March
Prompted by the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defense Force (27 December 2008 - 21 January 2009), John Goto has made a new series of apparently abstract images entitled "Mosaic".
If you require assistance with physical access or interpretation please contact us prior to your visit, on 0131 557 2479 or email gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk. Gallery Opening Times
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR
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 White Knight Collective Gallery Alex Gross and Anna Mields | Emily Wardill Until Sunday 3 April
A group show investigating architecture as a frame with new work Farbenlehre by collaborating artists Anna Mields and Alex Gross presented in the main galleries and Emily Wardill's Full Firearms in the Guest Room.
www.collectivegallery.net
Collective, 22-28 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NY |
 Jean-Marc Bustamante
The Fruitmarket Gallery Until Thursday 3 April
This exhibition is the first showing of this major international artist in Scotland. It includes new and recent work, shown in the context of a selection of work from across Bustamante's career. With large-scale photographs, paintings on perspex and sculptures which set a stage for both painting and photography, the exhibition offers the opportunity to track the development of Bustamante's ideas and artistic language. www.fruitmarket.co.uk
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF |
 Claude Cahun | Sue Tompkins
Inverleith House
Until Sunday 17 April
Inverleith House is delighted to present two exhibitions; one featuring new work by Sue Tompkins and a retrospective on Claude Cahun (1884- 1954). Sue Tompkins is a sound and visual artist whose work for Inverleith House takes the form of live performance, typewritten text pieces and fabric works. Each element of her work is linked by the repetitive, performative actions that are utilised in their production.
On the first floor is the first UK museum survey of photographs by Claude Cahun (1894-1954). A writer, photographer, actress and political activist, Claude Cahun's remarkable legacy is a photographic archive which provides a compelling and vivid document of a most unusual life, one that despite its distance from that of a modern day viewer seems to uncannily and unflinchingly echo today's concerns.
www.inverleithhouse.org.uk
Inverleith House, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
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 Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer
The Queen's Gallery Until Sunday 5 June
Over 100 photographs are brought together in an exhibition to celebrate the work of Marcus Adams (1875-1959), who devoted 50 years to photographing royal children. Adams overturned the long tradition of formal royal portraiture and between 1926 and 1956 created a unique record of two generations of royal children, presenting a new, relaxed image of royalty. Vintage prints from almost all the royal sittings are included, many formerly part of the personal collection of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.
Tickets: £6 (£5.50 concession/Under 17 £3)
To purchase tickets, please call 020 7766 7321 or visit www.royalcollection.org.uk.
www.royalcollection.org.uk.
The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Canongate, The Royal Mile, EH8 8DX |
| Events at The Fruitmarket Gallery |
|  Jean-Marc Bustamante: A Place and a View of a Place
Wednesday 2 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Curator Martin Caiger-Smith (Courtauld Institute) talks about Bustamante's practice over the course of his career.
Jean-Marc Bustamante: Artist's Talk Wednesday 9 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Jean-Marc Bustamante in conversation with Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain about his practice and the work in the exhibition.
Photography/Sculpture/Document Wednesday 16 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Artist Neil Clements talks about the relationship between sculpture and photography, taking into consideration the increasingly active role documentation came to play in the art of the 20th century, as well as in his own practice.
Booking is recommended for all talks at The Fruitmarket Gallery. To book your place call 0131 226 8181 or email bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk.
Artists' Bookmarket: The Fruitmarket Gallery's book art and art book fair. Tuesday 29 March, 4pm - 9pm
Free
The Fruitmarket Gallery are teasing out a particularly beautiful strand from December's Bookmarket and weaving it once more through the Gallery for you to admire. Artists' books and books about art will be presented for sale in the gallery space and for this special occasion we will dress up The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop in its finest bookworks, with FMG titles offered at warehouse sale prices. The gallery will sequin the night with talks and presentations while refreshments will be on hand to allow you to make an evening of it. Beautiful books to browse and buy.
Confirmed participants include: Jane Hyslop, David Faithfull and The Book Tree Press.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk
The Fruitmarket Gallery,45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF |
|  Film Screening: The Space Between
Sunday 13 March 2011, 6.30pm
Scottish filmmakers Lyre Productions present their new feature film at Stills.
The Space Between, an Edinburgh love story following two strangers brought together by a city and given the chance to redeem their lives. www.stills.org
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP |
|  White Knight | Sunday Screen
Dark Days by Marc Singer Sunday 13 March, 5pm
Novice filmmaker Marc Singer lived in the bowels of a midtown Manhattan railway station for two years to shoot this harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless. Dark Days has been selected in relation to White Knight.
 Soapbox
Thursday 24 March, 6pm Join Collective for our White Knight Soapbox with invited guests from across creative worlds who'll share their ideas in a quickfire presentation. Speakers include Fiona Jardine and Ewan Imrie. 6 speakers * 6.5 minutes each * Anything goes.  Sunday Screen
Sunday 27 March
Times: To be confirmed. Check www.collectivegallery.net
Join us for a film screening selected in relation to Collective's current exhibition White Knight.
The Girl Chewing Gum by John Smith (1976)
Edinburgh's Big Screen, Festival Square
www.collectivegallery.net
Collective, 22-28 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NY |
| Events at Edinburgh Printmakers |
| Free Lithography Demonstration Saturday 26 March, 3.30pm
Accompanying the exhibition of Prints from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, New Mexico, Lithography Master-printer Alastair Clark will give a demonstration of Stone Lithography in the studio. Admission to this event is free but places are limited so please call 0131 5572479 or email gallery@edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk to book.
www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Edinburgh Printmakers, 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LR |
Opportunities for Artists
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| Creative Initiative Awards Closing Date: Friday 4 March
The Creative Initiative Awards have been created to provide funding and assistance to artists wishing to develop innovative artistic projects and benefit from access to ESW's specialist facilities. The award offers a fee of £2,400 and a studio space at ESW for up to 6 months. Specialist support will be provided by ESW to enable artists to create new work or realise a specific project. For more information, click here.
www.edinburghsculpture.org Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT |
| Call for Submissions
Edinburgh Visual Arts and Crafts Exhibition Closing date: Monday 14 March In 2000, the City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council (now Creative Scotland) launched a scheme of funding to support individual artists and makers based in the city. Formerly known as the Edinburgh Visual Arts and Crafts Award Scheme (EVAAC), the Visual Arts Awards: Edinburgh (VAA) and Craft Maker Awards: Edinburgh (CMA) schemes have supported over 200 proposals to develop new work and creative practice.
To celebrate the ongoing success of these schemes, the City of Edinburgh Council's Culture and Sport Division will present an exhibition highlighting some of the supported individuals and their work at the City Art Centre from November 2011 to February 2012.
To qualify for selection, artists and makers must have received funding between the financial years 2000/01 and 2009/10 from at least one of the following schemes - Edinburgh Visual Arts and Crafts Award (EVAAC), Visual Arts Awards: Edinburgh (VAA) and/or Craft Maker Awards: Edinburgh (CMA). Funded projects must have concluded and a final report submitted to and approved by the scheme administrator.
To request an application package, or to discuss the opportunity further, please contact Tracy Scodellaro, Arts Officer, on 0131 529 6720 or at tracy.scodellaro@edinburgh.gov.uk.
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