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Naheed Raza: Micro Residency Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop April - May 2011
Naheed Raza's background is in both Art and Science, having studied Medicine at Oxford University and Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and the Slade. Much of her work explores the limits of knowledge and ideas relating to haptic and tacit awareness. For her micro-residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Naheed will begin working on a new research project Bread, Bonsai and Bronze. The purpose of this project is to foreground the notion of modulation, malleability and plasticity and hint at the way in which sculptural 'gestures' might permeate culture, mediating many aspects of our physical experience.
www.edinburghsculpture.org
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 25 Hawthornvale, Newhaven, Edinburgh, EH6 4JT |
 Science Festival at the City Art Centre
Saturday 9 - Friday 22 April (not 10 or 17 April), 9.30am - 4.30pm
2011 is the International Year of Chemistry and we're celebrating with some out-of-this-world events and incredible experiments across the city. As always, the City Art Centre brings you seven jam-packed floors of family activities. Whatever the age group, you'll find events to suit - from our youngest explorers in Wee Wonder World to the computer programs of the future in our Robosports Arena. Look inside the human body, discover new technologies and marvel at the wonders of the natural world, without even leaving the building!
On Thursday 14 April, we'll also be holding City Art Centre Without the Kids - a chance for adventurous adults to try out the events over a glass of wine between 7.30pm and 9.30pm.
Box Office 0131 553 0322
Visit www.sciencefestival.co.uk for full programme information.
www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
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Ruth Maclennan: Anarcadia
Stills Gallery
Saturday 9 April - Sunday 17 July
Anarcadia is a new film and series of photographs made among the desert expanses of Kazakhstan. Originally from Scotland, Ruth Maclennan lives and works in London. Ruth devises curatorial and collaborative art projects to enable new contexts for making, experiencing and questioning art and its relation to other areas of life.
Co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, in association with Stills, Edinburgh, Ffotogallery, Cardiff and Castefield, Manchester. Funded by Arts Council England, and with the generous support of the British Council. Additional support from the Henry Moore Foundation.
www.stills.org
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
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How to Turn the World by Hand Collective Gallery Arrow Factory, Beijing | PiST///, Istanbul Saturday 16 April - Sunday 29 May
How to Turn the World by Hand via Beijing, Edinburgh, Istanbul is an international research project between Arrow Factory, Beijing, PiST///, Istanbul and Collective involving a three phase project and discussion programme investigating trade.
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Fountain V: Rania Ho Scottish Book Trust Garden Preview Date: Friday 15 April, 7-9pm
Saturday 16 April - Sunday 29 May
As part of How to Turn the World by Hand, visiting artist Rania Ho will build the fifth incarnation of her DIY fountain, to be sited in the Scottish Book Trust Garden. The preview is on Friday 15 April from 7-9pm, there will be live accompanying music. Join us for a drink in the garden. Free, all welcome.
Admission Free
Gallery Opening Times: Tuesday - Sunday, 11-5pm
www.collectivegallery.net
Collective, 22-28 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NY Scottish Book Trust Garden, 55 High St, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR |
 Narcissus Reflected
The Fruitmarket Gallery Friday 22 April - Sunday 26 June
Curated by David Lomas and Dawn Ades
Cecil Beaton | Bill Brandt | Claude Cahun | Salvador Dali | Charles Henri Ford | Florence Henri Jess | Yayoi Kusama | Willard Maas | Pierre Molinier | Paul Nash | George Platt Lynes | Pipilotti Rist
The myth of Narcissus, as told by Ovid, of a beautiful youth infatuated by his reflection in a stream, who pines away and is metamorphosed into a flower, is open to many interpretations and has captivated a, perhaps surprising, number of modern and contemporary artists. This group exhibition examines the potency of the Narcissus myth in art, photography, installation, film and video.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF |
 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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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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|  An Informed Energy: Lithography and Tamarind
Edinburgh Printmakers Prints from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, New Mexico
Until 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 |
 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.
1 YEAR PASS! Enjoy free re-admission for a year if you buy your tickets directly from us. Simply ask us to stamp your ticket on your first visit.
www.royalcollection.org.uk.
The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Canongate, The Royal Mile, EH8 8DX |
|  Exhibition Opening: Ruth MacLennan: Anarcadia
Stills Friday 8 April, 6 - 8pm
Artist's Talk: Ruth MacLennan Stills Saturday 9 April, 2pm, Free Film Screening: Perestroika Stills
Thursday 28 April 6.30pm, Free
A special Film Lounge screening presents Sarah Turner's experimental film, Perestroika, shot on the Tran-Siberian railway, combining landscape elegy and railway reverie with an exploration of personal and political loss and transfiguration. www.stills.org
Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP |
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