Open Eye Gallery
Scottish Masters: Painting and Printmaking
11 August – 6 September 2014
Scottish Masters features paintings by some of Scotland’s greatest post-war artists including Robin Philipson, John Bellany, Steven Campbell, Elizabeth Blackadder, Adrian Wiszniewski and Alan Davie.
Housed in the Print Room at Open Eye Gallery, the exhibition features a selection of significant works including an early John Bellany etching from 1965 and a Pat Douthwaite lithograph titled Screaming Woman in a Landscape from 1974. Prints by Ken Currie, Barbara Rae, John Byrne, Philip Reeves, Craigie Aitchison and Ian Hamilton Finlay will also feature.
Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm
Sat, 10am–4pm
Free admission
Open Eye Gallery
34 Abercromby Place, EH3 6QE
0131 557 1020/558 9872
Scottish National Gallery
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
28 June – 2 November 2014
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
This extensive exhibition, presented across three venues, celebrates the richness and diversity of contemporary art that has developed in Scotland over the last 25 years. Artists working in Scotland have achieved international acclaim and the vibrant art scene in this country continues to flourish. Over 30 artists will be represented, with significant works made at key moments in the last quarter-century shown alongside new pieces and installations.At the National Gallery, Steven Campbell's On Form and Fiction and Martin Boyce's Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours will be restaged. Also on show will be a room of canvases by Callum Innes, video works by Rosalind Nashashibi, an installation by Christine Borland, and sculptures and woodcuts by David Shrigley, while Karla Black will create a new sculptural piece.At the Gallery of Modern Art there will be new installations by Claire Barclay, Ciara Phillips and Alex Dordoy as well as immersive large-scale works by Ross Sinclair, Graham Fagen, Torsten Lauschmann and Simon Starling. The continued vitality of painting and drawing will be seen in the work of Victoria Morton, Lucy McKenzie and Charles Avery. Douglas Gordon's celebrated 24 Hour Psycho will be among the video installations on show, as well as Smith/Stewart's Breathing Space and Roddy Buchanan's Sodastream.At the Portrait Gallery, Luke Fowler's 2012 film The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott will be shown in Scotland for the first time.
Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Outside August: Mon-Sun, 10am-5pm
Free admission
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
28 June – 2 November 2014
Ross Sinclair, Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996, installation view, CCA Glasgow. Courtesy of the artist.
Mon-Sun, 10am-6pm
Outside August: Mon-Sun, 10am-5pm
Free admission
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200