VisualArt
■ DUNDAS STREET GALLERY 6a Dundas Street, 558 9363. FREE Jamie Primrose: Evolving Moods Until Sat 25 Jun, 10am–6pm. Ethereal new oil paintings of Edinburgh with autumnal and wintry hues. ■ MORNINGSIDE GALLERY 94 Morningside Road, morningsidegallery.co.uk Mon & Wed- Sat 10am–6pm; Sun 11.30am–5pm. FREE Nancy Turnbull Until Thu 30 Jun. Oil landscapes.
■ EDINBURGH GALLERY 20a Dundas Street, 557 5002. Mon–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 10am–1pm. FREE Summer Exhibition Until Tue 19 Jul. New paintings by Andrew Fitzpatrick, Hazel Cashmore, Peter Nardini, Davie Smith and Kathleen Conboy. ■ EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Paul Furneaux: Mokuhanga Until Sat 23 Jul. Japanese woodblock printing.
■ FILMHOUSE 88 Lothian Road, 228 2688. FREE Stephen Hurrel: Beneath and Beyond Sat 9 Jul, 10.30am–12.30pm. A special chance to view this self-generating, real-time sound installation produced by shifts and creaks within the Earth itself, picked up by 100 seismic monitoring stations around the world.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Narcissus Reflected ●●●●● Until Sun 26 Jun. A show
based on the subject of Narcissus featuring work by Yayoi Kusama, Cecil Beaton, Salvador Dali, Bill Brandt, George Platt Lynes, Paul Nash and Claude Cahun. ■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Gravity’s Rainbow Until Sun 31 Jul. This show takes its cue from Thomas Pynchon’s imaginative use of colour in his novel of the same name, and features colour-themed work by David Batchelor, Jonathan Callan, John Chamberlain, Ian Davenport, Yves Klein, Peter Liversidge, Kay Rosen and Ed Ruscha.
■ INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Mon–Fri 9.30am–6.30pm (Thu until 8.30pm); Sat 9.30am–1pm. FREE Patrice Poch: Rennes 1981 Until Sat 16 Jul. Artist Patrice Poch commemorates the thriving early 1980s Rennes punk rock scene.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm.
✽✽ FREE Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show
●●●●● Until Sun 3 Jul. Los Angeles- based sculptor whose work references cubism and futurism while maintaining a deliberately clumsy and unassuming integrity of its own. See review, page 113. ■ JOSEPH PEARCE’S 23 Elm Row, 556 4140. Daily 11am–midnight. FREE Aftermath . . . Still Life Until Mon 27 Jun. Photographs exploring the passage of time by Neil Macmillan.
■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. Kelly-Anne Cairns & Lindsay Turk Until Sun 26 Jun. New figurative paintings. FREE Leith Gallery Birthday Show Sat 2–Sat 23 Jul. The gallery celebrates its sixteenth birthday by inviting sixteen of its artists to show some work. 116 THE LIST 23 Jun–21 Jul 2011
■ NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND The Mound, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm (Thu until 7pm). FREE Dürer’s Fame Until Tue 11 Oct. Paintings, prints and drawings by the leading light of the Northern Renaissance. FREE Portrait of the Nation ●●●●● Until Sun 4 Sep. Get a taster of the soon-to-reopen Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The Queen: Art & Image Sat 25 Jun–Sun 18 Sep. £7 (£5). In the lead-up to Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee next year, this exhibition reveals the way images of the monarch have changed over almost 60 years, from more formal, traditional royal portraiture to the informal approach of today’s media. Elizabeth Blackadder Sat 2 Jul–Mon 2 Jan 2012. £8 (£6). Major retrospective of the work of ECA alumnus Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, who turns 80 this year. ■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND 33 Salisbury Place, Causewayside, 623 3918. FREE Housing Paper Worlds Until Fri 26 Aug. Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri 9.30am–5pm; Wed 10am–5pm; Sat 9.30am–1pm. Maps and designs for a new Cartographic Institute by fourth year architecture students at the University of Dundee.
■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Passion for Glass Until Sun 11 Sep. Modern British and Irish glassworks recently gifted to the museum.
■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Depot. FREE Emergence SEE Sun 26–Tue 28 Jun, 10am–6pm. Group exhibition of work by MSc Art Psychotherapy students from Queen Margaret University.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Alan Davie CBE HRSA Fri 24 Jun–Tue 12 Jul. An exhibition of paintings, prints and brush drawings. FREE Le Corbusier: Entre-Deux Fri 24 Jun–Sat 6 Aug. The complete collection of Entre-Deux lithographs created by the architect. FREE Nicol, McDonald, Speirs and Doerr Fri 24 Jun–Tue 12 Jul. New paintings by four Scottish artists: Ruth Nicol, Charlotte McDonald, Elaine Speirs and Joan Doerr FREE Nicola Becci Fri 24 Jun–Sat 6 Aug. New pieces with calligraphic designs from a popular jeweller. ■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7100. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Exposed ‘11 Until Thu 30 Jun. Showcase exhibition for final year students from Stevenson College’s highly-rated Photography Department.
■ PATRIOTHALL GALLERY WASPS Patriothall Studios, off 48 Hamilton Place, 226 7126. Tue–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Interspaces Until Tue 5 Jul. A group show curated by SunBear Gallery, with contemporary paintings and drawings by artists from Edinburgh, London and Finland.
■ THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100. Daily 9.30am–6pm. Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein Until Sun 15 Jan. £6 (£5.50; under 17s £3; under 5s free; family ticket £15.50). An impressive collection of works by Northern European artists of the turbulent 15th and 16th centuries.
■ THE ROSELEAF 23–24 Sandport Place, 476 5268. Daily 10am–10pm. FREE Fly Pigeon Fly Until Thu 30 Jun. Prints by Leith-based illustrator Liza Burgess. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am- 5pm; Sun noon–5pm; some exhibitions Mon only. FREE 3x3: 3 Architects, 3 Projects, 3 Ideas Until Sun 24 Jul. An exhibition of recent work by the practices of three architects recently appointed to the Academy: Reiach and Hall Architects, Gareth Hoskins Architects and Sutherland Hussey Architects. FREE Heather Ross Wed 29 Jun–Tue 26 Jul. Art on Japanese-based themes by the winner of the 2011 Salvesen Art Scholarship. FREE Muse: Paintings from the RSA Collections Mon 4 Jul–Mon 9 Jan. Mon only 10am–5pm or by appointment. Pictures of women by male painters from the Academy’s collections.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 2 St Stephen Place, 225 6257. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Capital City Fri 24 Jun–Sun 24 Jul. Paintings exploring Edinburgh by Mairi Aitken, Karen Cairns, Alison Dick and many more.
■ THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm. Ed Kluz: Paintings & Prints Until Wed 29 Jun. Collages, drawings and prints that examine the role of our cultural heritage and contemporary views of landscape and architecture. FREE Stacey Bentley: Enamel Jewellery Until Wed 29 Jun. Contemporary jewellery inspired by the industrial city. FREE Thinking Horizontally/Thinking out the Box Until Wed 29 Jun. Contemporary plates and boxes by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi and Frances Priest. FREE Earl Haig: Memorial Exhibition Until Wed 29 Jun. Paintings by the son of the notorious WW1 general. ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am- 5pm FREE Artist Rooms: Jeff Koons ●●●●● Until Sun 3 Jul. A major grouping of Koons’ most significant pieces.
■ SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, 557 2876. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm (Thu until 8pm); Sat 10am–4pm. FREE Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text, and Cognition Until Fri 15 Jul. A display showcasing the results of a two- year research project into our reactions to visual-poetic works of art.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Two Old Town Artists Until Tue 26 Jul. Diverse works of art from local couple Kenny Skeel and Nell Dunn. ■ SLEEPER Reiach and Hall Architects, 6 Darnaway Street, 225 8444. Mon–Fri 2–5pm. FREE Masahiro Kawanaka: the music of the sound and the
afterglow Until Thu 7 Jul. Japanese minimalism.
■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm; Fri–Sun 11am–6pm. FREE Ruth Maclennan: Anarcadia Until Sun 17 Jul. A film installation and series of large-scale photographs depicting the desert wastes and abandoned shelters of Kazakhstan.
■ STUDIO 128 128 Pitt Street, studio128.co.uk FREE #GR5-RMX Sat 2 Jul, 10am–8pm. Ten Scotland-based artists have been invited by artists’ collective go reborn to visually ‘remix’ landscape paintings by Perthshire artist Claudia Massie. ■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Eleven: Printworks Until Sat 25 Jun. MFA students from Edinburgh College of Art display prints created in the Department of Fine Art. FREE Microstoria Until Sat 25 Jun. The writing and curating collective – [Relay]- presents a group exhibition concerned with questioning the stories, myths and micro-histories that make up our cultural presumptions. FREE Objects of Education Until Sat 25 Jun. An exhibition of three-dimensional objects from Edinburgh University archives which have been used for teaching purposes, whether in 19th century anatomy classes or modern courses in robotics.
■ TOTAL KUNST @ FOREST 3 Bristo Place, 220 4538. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE Rosie Lesso: Black Matter Until Sun 26 Jun. Monochrome drawings and paintings with an apocalyptic feel. FREE Diluting Orange Mon 27 Jun–Sat 23 Jul. Exhibiton of drawings by Edinburgh-based comic artist Malcy Duff, as part of The Edinburgh Annuale.
■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun 10.30am–4pm. FREE Now We Are Two Until Mon 4 Jul. An exhibition of work by artists who have supported Union Gallery during its first two years, including Stewart Bremner, Drummond May and Colin Brown. FREE Head to Head Thu 7 Jul–Mon 1 Aug. Studies of heads by David Hosie, Joyce Gunn Cairns, Sophie McKay Knight and Norrie Harman. OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm (Thu until 8pm); Sun noon–6pm.
✽✽ FREE Cara Tolmie & Nina Rhode ●●●●● Until Sun 31 Jul.
Installation and sculpture. See review, page 113. FREE DCA Editions Until Tue 23 Aug. Prints created at DCA including newly released work by Chicks on Speed, Katy Dove and Alex Frost. ■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm. Jupiter Artland Until Sun 18 Sep. £8.50 (children £4.50; family £23.50; seniors £6.50; students £4.50). The celebrated outdoor sculpture park continues its 2011 season with works on show by Laura Ford, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker, Marc Quinn and others.
■ THE PARK GALLERY Callendar Park, Falkirk, 01324 503789. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Breath Taking Until Sun 3 Jul. Glasswork by 22 makers from throughout Britain.