2 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Jock McFadyen in conversation with Bill Hare
4.30–5.30pm
Jock McFadyen and Bill Hare discuss Jock’s work, in light of his retrospective exhibition at Bourne Fine Art.
This event is free to attend, no booking required.
6 Dundas Street, EH3 6HZ
0131 557 4050
3 August 2012
Artist's Talk: James Casebere
12–1pm
James Casebere and Stills' Curator David Grinly discuss Construction and Postmodernism in photography in relation to Casebere's latest series of works. Free to attend, booking required.
Stills
23 Cockburn Street, EH1 1BP
0131 622 6200
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3 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Susan Philipsz at St. Cecilia's Hall
2–3pm
A rare opportunity to hear Susan Philipsz discuss her work in the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall, the oldest concert hall in Scotland. The Turner Prize winner will discuss the ideas that have informed Timeline, her commissioned work for the festival and the artist's first ever work in Edinburgh, and its relationship to other recent works.
Free to attend, booking required.
St. Cecilia's Concert Hall, Cowgate, EH1 1NQ
(St Cecilia’s Hall is located in the Cowgate, just off Niddry Street)
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4 August 2012
Melvin Moti in Conversation
4pm—5pm
Melvin Moti discusses his exhibition, One Thousand Points of Light, with Tamara Trodd, lecturer in twentieth-century and contemporary art.
Moti was invited by National Museums Scotland to create a new artwork and exhibition in response to the museum’s collections. Working behind the scenes, Moti was immediately drawn to the mineralogy department and the collection of fluorescent minerals.
He has created a new film Eigenlicht, meaning ‘intrinsic light’ that captures the spectrum of vibrant colours the minerals emit under UV light. The film is shown alongside a selection of specimens and artefacts chosen from across the collection by Moti.
Free to attend, booking required.
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, EH1 1JF
0300 123 6789
4 August 2012
Artists' Talk: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. in conversation
1—2pm
A rare opportunity for a UK audience to hear the US artist Tim Rollins and members of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) talk about their work and working methods. Having developed a collaborative working process with high school students who were considered ‘at risk’, Rollins describes ways in which artistic practise can transform lives and engage young people in education.
Free to attend, booking required.
Talbot Rice Gallery
The University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL
0131 650 2210
4 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Emily Speed
2—3pm
Artist Emily Speed talks about the ideas informing Human Castle, her work for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, in relation to her wider practise. In conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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4 August 2012
Performance: Carolee Schneemann, Mysteries of the Iconographies
3–4pm
A rare opportunity for a UK audience to hear from artist Carolee Schneemann as she gives a performative lecture entitled Mysteries of the Iconographies, as part of her exhibition Remains to be Seen at Summerhall.
Free to attend but booking is required. Please call the box office on 0845 874 3001 to secure your ticket.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
5 August 2012
Artists' Talk: Rosita McKenzie and Andrew Follows
2—4pm
Rosita McKenzie and Andrew Follows in conversation with Kate Martin, curator of Through the Looking Glass, Dimlyabout their work, international collaboration and the influence of international travel on their practice.
Free to attend, e-mail [email protected] to reserve a seat.
25 Hawthornvale, EH6 4JT
0131 551 4490
9 August 2012
Orchard: Gerry Loose & Donald Urquhart in conversation
5.30—7.00pm
Poet Gerry Loose and artist Donald Urquhart discuss their exhibition Orchard, created for the Scottish Poetry Library, and explore their collaborative process.
Free to attend, Email [email protected] or phone 0131 557 2876 to reserve a place.
5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DT
0131 557 2876
9 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Calvin Laing
2–3pm
Artist Calvin Laing discusses his practise in the informal setting of The Waiting Place, Edinburgh Art Festival's pavilion in St Andrew Square.
Through his highly intriguing works, Laing explores the potential of objects and situations by making interventions into a given environment. Whilst engaged with performance art as a way to preserve the liveliness and immediacy of his ideas, Laing’s films challenge our perceptions of how live performances are altered and re-performed through the act of being filmed. Laing graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 and has exhibited in Estonia, Iceland, and Florence.
Free to attend.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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9 – 10 August 2012
Inspired by Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe - A Two-Day Practical Course
10:30—4pm
Led by artist Campbell Sandilands. Inspired by the exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910, learn how to combine woodblock, painting and collage to make your own creative landscapes and colourful compositions.
£60 (£55), buy or collect tickets in advance from Information Desk in the Gardens Entrance of the Scottish National Gallery, or call 0131 624 6560, between 9.30—4.30pm with debit/credit card details.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
10 August 2012
Denis Buckley: Film screening and performance
10pm till late
In his film Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of My Race, the artist Denis Buckley engages with ideas of identity, loss and home.
Adopting the persona and visual motifs of ‘The Irishman’ from Philip Donnelan’s 1966 documentary of the same name, Buckley’s character is seen returning to Ireland for the last time before his death. Wearing the black suit and white shirt of a labourer, The Irishman drags his steel suit case and a long handled shovel from London to the west coast of Ireland. Once there, he burns his shovel on the beach, signalling the completion of his Nostos or homecoming.
Projected on the courtyard wall at Summerhall for this one-off screening, the film will be accompanied by the artist formally “decommissioning” his shovel, setting the handle ablaze before he departs.
Free to attend, booking required.
1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH
0131 560 1590
10 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Katri Walker
11am–12pm
Katri Walker’s practise explores the space between contemporary art and documentary filmmaking. As part of Speed of Light ‘s investigation of the culture of endurance running, Katri has been jointly commissioned by NVA and Edinburgh Art Festival to make a new work that will create a document or portrait relating to the community of runners. Part of this summer’s Edinburgh International Festival, Speed of Light is a fusion of innovative public art and sporting endeavor, a unique mass choreographed performance of walking and running, in which participants will illuminate Arthur’s Seat each night.
This event will be an opportunity to hear Katri Walker talk about her practice and her approach to this major new commission. Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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10 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Kevin Harman
2—3pm
Artist Kevin Harman talks about his practise and his commission 24/7 for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival, in conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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13 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Neville Gabie
2—3pm
Neville Gabie's practice challenges notions of public art and what it can achieve. He has worked with vulnerable communities in rural Australia and refugee camps in Pakistan as well as undertaking residencies in diverse contexts including Antarctica, The Olympic Park and Cabot Circus, a large complex building site in Bristol.
Gabie is currently working in Achiltibuie on the west coast of the Highlands on a project with IOTA supported by Highland Culture Strategic Board. For more information on Gabie's practice, please visit his site or visit IOTA.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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14 August 2012
Spaces to Dream: From Picasso's Ladies to Rooms of Dreams - The Jewellery of Wendy Ramshaw
12.45—1.30pm
Wendy Ramshaw is an internationally acclaimed designer of jewellery and architectural metalwork. In 1989, her collection of ten jewellery works inspired by portraits of women by Picasso, was unveiled at the Scottish Gallery. Ten years later, a collection of 66 works on the same theme was unveiled at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Amanda Game, freelance curator and writer, introduces the artist, the collection, its inspiration and impact in the context of the Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition.
Free to attend, no booking required.
Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
14 August 2012
Danny MacAskill in conversation
11am–12pm
This is a rare opportunity to hear stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill talk about his career and how he got started, in conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Danny MacAskill is also giving two demonstration performances on 13th and 14th August as part of Edinburgh Art Festival and some of his films are available to view as part of the Rose Street Film Programme.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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16 August 2012
John Bellany, Life and Work
6.30pm
To celebrate Open Eye Gallery’s retrospective of John Bellany’s paintings, Alexander Moffat OBE RSA will discuss the artist’s life, career and major works.
Free to attend, booking required.
34 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE
0131 557 1020 / 0131 558 9872
16 August 2012
Artist's Talk/Performance: Alexis Milne
2–3pm
Artist Alexis Milne presents his practise in the informal setting of The Waiting Place, Edinburgh Art Festival's pavilion in St Andrew Square.
Milne is a London based artist concerned with issues surrounding contemporary political protest and the recuperation of counter culture. His work traverses video and interventionist performance, utilizing alter egos, the grotesque, and cartoonist parody as tools to comment on the erosion of the authentic and in particular, riot as spectacle. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Necrospective at Danielle Arnaud and Selected part 2 at the Whitechapel Gallery.
During Edinburgh Art Festival, Alexis Milne is also curating an edition of the Rose Street Film Club.
Free to attend.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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17 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm.
To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
18 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Anthony Schrag
4—5pm
Artist Anthony Schrag talks about his practise and his commission as the Edinburgh Art Festival's Tourist in Residence. In conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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19 August 2012
Artist's Talk: ~ in the fields
2—3pm
~ in the fields is an Edinburgh based artistic partnership between Nicole Heidtke and Stefan Baumberger, who have a show at New Media Scotland and a networked installation in St Andrew Square as part of Edinburgh Art Festival.
~ in the fields’ work emphasises natural phenomena and condenses poetic moments into inventions of autonomous, cocooned systems. Their visual art practice draws on archival material, environmental topics and ephemeral artefacts, such as lost forms of cinema.
They found the starting point for their exhibition on the Shetland Islands where their research into oceanic plastic pollution led them to investigate the very elements and definition of Scottish landscape and seascape more closely.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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21 August 2012
In Conversation: Andrew Miller and Tim Hetherington
2–3pm
Artist Andrew Miller and Tim Hetherington, Director of Applied Engineering Design Ltd, discuss the challenges in creating a large, public artwork that also serves as a publicly accessible structure.
Applied Engineering Design are the design engineers working with Andrew Miller to realise his ideas for The Waiting Place, a major commission for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival which acts as the pavilion for festival.
Free to attend, booking required.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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24 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm. To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com.
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
25 August 2012
Artist's Talk: Andrew Miller
2—3pm
Artist Andrew Miller talks about his practise and The Waiting Place, his work for this year's Edinburgh Art Festival in conversation with Sorcha Carey, Director of EAF. Miller's practise generates an ambiguity between form and function, often inviting us to reconsider discarded materials and objects. His work takes many forms including sculpture, photography, drawing and site specific installations.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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29 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Ruth Ewan
11am
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Ruth Ewan was born in Scotland, and now lives and works in London. Ewan's work takes many forms including performance, installation and printed matter. Her practice explores overlooked area of political and social history, reviving forgotten thought and ideas and highlighting their continued relevance today. Often celebrating activists and radical thinkers, Ewan's work encourages collaboration and participation - in the past she has worked with historians, traditional craftsmen, musicians and school children.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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30 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Alison Watt
12 noon
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Alison Watt was born in Greenock in 1965 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1983-88. Her exquisitely painted canvases depicting swathes of fabric edge towards the abstract whilst retaining a strange, almost sensual quality suggestive of a human presence.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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30 August 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Kevin Harman
4pm
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Kevin Harman was born in Edinburgh in 1982. Exploring the everyday to find the extraordinary, harman works across media, often using the very objects in which he finds his inspiration as the principle component of his artworks. Harman's sculptures, prints, films and drawings serve as trophies of the creative process, giving us cause to consider the act of making as equally as important as the end product.
24/7 was Kevin Harman's commission for Edinburgh Art Festival 2012, for which he spent 24 hours in ASDA to source the materials for his installation.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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31 August 2012
Bus tour to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta
1pm
The Little Sparta Trust will run bus tours from the Ingleby Gallery to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hilltop home in the Pentland Hills, site of Little Sparta – the garden that cradles so many of his artistic ideas and which is in itself amongst the very greatest of twentieth century Scottish artworks.
There will be a short introduction to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery before the bus departs at 1.30pm.
To book your place go to http://littlesparta.eventbrite.com
Tickets £30.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
31 August 2012
The Ellie & Oliver Show
12—12.30pm
The last broadcast of the Ellie & Oliver Show during the festival promises to be as honest, engaging and as fun as the ones which have come before it. Listen in at: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
And after the show, join Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid as they host Ellie & Oliver's Afternoon Special, a live event at the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion, St. Andrew Square.
To find out more about the Ellie & Oliver Show, visit: www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
31 August 2012
Ellie & Oliver's Afternoon Special
1—4pm
After their final broadcast from the festival, artists Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid will be hosting a daytime disco at the Edinburgh Art Festival pavilion, and you are invited.
Come and show your best moves in broad daylight, accompanied by an eclectic mix of upbeat Ellie & Oliver Show-style tunes, and enjoy soft drinks and falafel from the winner of the 'Falafel Friday Lunchclub Award'.
Free to attend, but please book your place so we know how much falafel to bring.
To listen to the Ellie & Oliver Show, go to www.ellieandoliver.co.uk/listenlive.
Edinburgh Art Festival Pavilion
St. Andrew Square Gardens, EH2 2AD
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1 September 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Claire Barclay
12 noon
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Claire Barclay is a Scottish artist known for large-scale installations consisting of collections of sculptural objects brought together into precisely plotted relationships. Combining craft and machine-finished processes, and both everyday and precious materials, Barclay's art is precariously balanced between function and dysfunction, understanding and bafflement.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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1 September 2012
The ESSAY, BBC Radio 3: Andrew Miller
4pm
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival you are invited to be a part of the audience at the recording of five programmes for the acclaimed BBC Radio 3 series THE ESSAY. In these, five artists, either based or born in Scotland, will write and deliver a fifteen minute essay about what inspires them in making the work they do.
Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist working across a variety of media - drawing, sculpture, photography and site-specific installation. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making Miller seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function. He works with the worn and the discarded, and in salvaging, reassembling and re-presenting familiar objects he attmpts to ask questions about the way things are placed, valued and used.
Andrew Miller was commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival to design the The Waiting Place, the pavilion for this year's festival.
These essays, recorded at Ingleby Gallery during the Edinburgh Art Festival and broadcast in early October this year, look to demonstrate how we are continually challenged and delighted by artists working today. It will give the audience at Ingleby Gallery, and Radio 3 listeners, an insight into what lies at the heart of contemporary artistic practice, revealing some of the elements that inspire five artists working today.
The recordings are free but numbers are strictly limited. Booking required.
Produced by Marilyn Imrie and Ingleby Gallery with the Scots Independent production company Bona Broadcasting.
15 Calton Road, EH8 8DL
0131 556 4441
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