Overview
The Scottish Endarkenment engages with a varied range of demanding topics from ever-escalating communal and international conflicts, social inequalities and consumer materialism to threatened gender identities, filial tension and sexual prejudices. These issues are also related to the dialectical tensions which seethe within the Scottish psyche — moral struggles between good and evil, Self and the Other, Jekyll and Hyde. These different, but interrelated themes are imaginatively treated within a wide range of interpretative approaches and experimental practices — through painting to performance; from the overtly horrific to the darkly satirical.
Amongst the forty plus exhibits are some rarely seen works by major Scottish artists such as Alan Davie, Joan Eardley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Boyle Family, Steven Campbell, Alison Watt, Douglas Gordon, Christine Borland, Kenny Hunter and David Shrigley. Along with these established figures there are also notable contributions by younger and emerging artists including Katie Paterson, Kevin Harman, Georgia Horgan and Jonathan Owen; and specially commissioned new works by Shona Macnaughton and the artistic duo Beagles & Ramsay also feature.
To coincide with The Scottish Endarkenment there is a programme of related films screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse every Monday evening throughout July and August:
11 July: The Body Snatcher (1945)
18 July: The Brothers (1947)
25 July: Madeline (1950)
1 August: Death Watch (1980)
8 August: Under the Skin (2013)
15 August: Macbeth (2015)
Supported by by Creative Scotland, Dovecot Foundation and The University of Edinburgh.
When
Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Outside August:
Mon – Sat, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Where
Dovecot Gallery
10 Infirmary Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1LT
