Katie Paterson, Fossil Necklace, 2013, 170 Carved, rounded fossils, spanning geological time. Photo © MJC. Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
Katie Paterson’s artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary and conceptually driven, with an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology.
Paterson will talk about her exhibition Ideas, including her works Fossil Necklace (2013), which captures the history of our planet in a single string of beads, and Second Moon, a year long project in which a fragment of the moon circles the earth via airfreight courier, and which will continue its man-made orbit throughout 2014.
2 August 2014
Spotlight Tour
11am
Free, no booking necessary.
Yvonne Todd, Ethical Minorities (Vegans), 2013
Explore the exhibitions at City Art Centre with the help of our Visitor Assistants. Each day there will be a different tour relating to our varied exhibitions. There's no need to book: please meet at reception.
A portable loop system is available to amplify the speaker. The fm loop system is compatible with hearing aids with a T-switch and can be used with headphones.
2 August 2014
GENERATION Tours at Modern One
11am, 1pm
Free, no booking required
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Free discussion-led tours of the GENERATION exhibition focusing on key themes and artists.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two)
75 Belford Road, EH4 3DR
0131 624 6200
2 August 2014
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman: Stop Thief!
12noon
Free, no booking necessary.
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman, Flaghall, 2005, mixed media, installation detail
Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’s Flaghall, one of the works in Where do I end and you begin, ,is a space of potential multiple uses – a community hall, exhibition space or meeting place. For this exhibition the artists reimagine Flaghall as a reading room where texts, talks and performances are brought together under the title Stop Thief!
As part of Stop Thief!, visitors to the exhibition at these times will experience live interventions in the gallery.
2 August 2014
Current Exchanges: David Weir and Antonia Syme in Conversation
12.30pm for 12.45pm
Tickets £5 (£4). Book tickets.
Brent Harris, Rome, 2012, woven by Sue Batten. Photograph Jeremy Weihrauch
The directors of two contemporary tapestry studios with a longstanding alliance come together to discuss the history and cultural exchanges between Dovecot Studios and Australian Tapestry Workshop. Celebrating the continuing connections between the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, and Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, this exhibition brings together recent work from both institutions.
2 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Tour: Art and Commonwealth
1pm
Free, no booking necessary
Steve Carr, Burn Out, 2009, 16 mm film transferred to video, video still
Join us at the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk every lunchtime during the festival for a free guided tour of parts of our programme. Led by our volunteers, our tours are a great way to find your way through the city and the festival. All tour routes are flexible and can be altered depending on your interests; if there’s an exhibition you really want to see just ask and we’ll try to fit it in.
As the Commonwealth Games conclude in Glasgow, we’ll lead this tour to exhibitions that explore work by artists from Commonwealth countries, and that investigate what we hold in common across countries and continents.
Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk
Located on the corner of George Street and Frederick Street, EH2 3EY
Danie Mellor, Panel from Bayi dambun bala mila, 2014. Mixed media on paper
Join acclaimed Australian artist Danie Mellor and Dr Alison Bracker from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, as they discuss his new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral presents sculpture and work on paper that explores Mellor’s own indigenous and European heritage; drawing inspiration from objects in the museum’s World Cultures collections.The historical and colonial obsessions of Mellor’s work respond to an array of wonders from the worlds of science, technology and nature, suggesting ways of appreciating the complex intertwined narratives of Scotland and Australia.The winner of the 2010 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, and the 2009 Indigenous Ceramics Award, and National Works on Paper Prize in 2008, Mellor has forged a significant place in Australian and international contemporary art.
2 August 2014
Portrait Gallery Thematic Tours - Fabric of Scotland: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Tartan Portraits
2pm, 3pm
Free, no booking required.
Monthly thematic tours of the Portrait Gallery's collection. This month, Susanna Kerr, former senior curator, Portrait Gallery, explores the background to the significance of tartan in portraiture.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
2 August 2014
GARAGE: Frank Mosley
2-4pm
Free, no booking necessary
Writer and Director Frank Mosley, whose work Two Story will be showing in the house, will be around for a chat between two and four. Just ring the doorbell.
GARAGE
Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ
07917 668 044
An experimental adaptation of Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon: Or, Over the Range, Gavin Hipkins' film charts the narrator's journey from a Canterbury high country sheep farm to a fictional society where vegetarianism is law, and machines are banished for fear of their becoming conscious. This special screening will be introduced by the director, and will be followed by a short Q&A session.
New Zealand, Australia, India (2014) 92mins.
31 July – 17 August 2014
The GENERATOR (Ages 4+)
2-4.30pm
Free, drop in.
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Drop in to the National Gallery art lab and have fun imagining the art of the future. Using the artworks in the GENERATION exhibition as inspiration to experiment, explore and create your own masterpiece! Travel the boundaries between art and music, invent your personal sculptural technique and find out how to 'un-paint' a picture.
31 July – 31 August 2014
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers 2014, photograph by David Anderson
Designed for children and families, Explorers is a special activity trail through the art festival. Pick up your free activity booklet and map from participating galleries and try a series of fun, creative activities.
Participating galleries:
City Art Centre: Mon–Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 12–5pm
Collective: Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Dovecot Studios: Mon–Sun, 10.30am–6.30pm
All participating exhibitions are free to attend.
EAF Explorers has been developed by Alchemy Arts.
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, EH1 1DE
0131 529 3993
Collective
City Observatory & Dome, 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
0131 556 1264
Dovecot Gallery
10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT
0131 550 3660
31 July – 31 August 2014
Art Space
Come and explore the City Art Centre ArtSpace in the Collection Gallery. Have fun experimenting with our inspiring art materials and create landscapes, still lives and portraits. This space is open during normal gallery opening times.
31 July – 31 August 2014
100 Billion Suns
Various dates between 31 July - 31 August
1pm
Contact Ingleby Gallery on 0131 556 4441 or at [email protected] for more details.
Katie Paterson100 Billion SunsConfetti cannon, 3216 pieces of paperInstallation view Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk, Edinburgh, 2014Image courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Ingleby Gallery will stage 10 performances of Katie Paterson’s 100 Billion Suns, timed to mark key events during the Edinburgh Art Festival programme. A hand-held cannon will fire 3,216 pieces of confetti, matching the colour and quantity of all the gamma ray bursts known to have occurred in the universe.
Please contact Ingleby Gallery for further details.
1 – 31 August 2014
Old Royal High School guided walk
Tours leave at 4pm from the City Art Centre reception desk
Every day from the exhibition opening until 31 August we’ll lead a tour from City Art Centre to our second exhibition site at the Old Royal High School on Regent Road, where you’ll discover works by Amar Kanwar and Shilpa Gupta.
1 – 31 August 2014
The House of Adelaida Ivanova
Thu-Sat, 7pm
Free, book your tickets by emailing [email protected].
Villa Design Group present The House of Adelaida Ivanovna, an exhibition of sculptural and scenographic objects providing the set for nightly performances of a new version of Gogol’s drama The Gamblers. The exhibition and performances will form the third part of a year-long project entitled The Inauguration of the Russian Season, dedicated to Villa Design Group’s ongoing research into the lost texts of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and the larger cultural and aesthetic regimes of Tsarist Russia. This line of inquiry continues the group's interest in queer histories, the relationship between objects and subjectivity, the aesthetics of cultural value and the mining of conservative political regimes for new radical potential. Throughout the project, Villa Design Group narrate the process of an architectural competition of proposals for a new library designed to house Gogol’s lost texts.
In this, the third part of the project, Villa Design Group will re-imagine Gogol’s drama and its themes of criminality, homosociality, facades, games, and neurosis as a conference of interior designers discuss the new library. The interior designers present themselves as a cabal of criminals committed to overturning the functional and rhetorical requirements of architecture, whilst trying to find a traitor in their midst; all set within Yves Saint Laurent’s faux Russian dacha, where they play cards.