{VISUAL ART} Listings
■ ERIC LIDDELL CENTRE 15 Morningside Road, 447 4520. Mon- Fri 9am–9.30pm; Sat 9am–4.30pm (please call to confirm). FREE One Fri 5–Tue 23 Aug. New paintings and prints from Edinburgh College of Art students Rhona Taylor and Morag Donkin.
■ FETTES COLLEGE East Fettes Avenue, 332 2281. FREE The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value Sun 7–Sun 28 Aug, 11am–5pm. New public art, housed in the splendour of Fettes College, commissioned by the Collective Gallery from artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan. Booking essential. See preview, page 79. EAF. ■ FRAMED GALLERY 11b Gayfield Square, 07809 758670. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 10am–4pm. FREE Mark Tough Until Fri 19 Aug. Lacquered paintings, industrially inspired steel sculpture and furniture.
■ FRUITMARKET GALLERY 45 Market Street, 225 2383. Daily 10am–7pm (festival opening hours until Mon 29 Aug).
✽✽ FREE Ingrid Calame Until Sun 9 Oct. Real-world marks and
tracings (such as tyremarks and stains on buildings) transformed into intricate and colourful paintings. See feature, page 78. EAF. ■ GLADSTONE’S LAND 477b Lawnmarket, 226 5856. Exhibition opening times vary, see individual listings. FREE No-One’s Land Until Sun 7 Aug, 10am–5pm. Exhibition of work by Spanish and Scottish artists. FREE Photographic Exhibition: Edinburgh and Beyond Tue 9–Sun 14 Aug, 10am–7pm.
■ HENDERSON’S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. Mon–Sat 8am–10pm; Sun 11am–4pm. FREE Four Artists, One City: An Edinburgh Story Until Fri 30 Sep. Specially-commissioned work in various media by four young Scottish artists looking at the Edinburgh cityscape: Zanna Wilson, Caroline Hepburn-Scott, Cat Outram and Annabel Illingworth. ■ INGLEBY GALLERY 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. Mon–Sat 10am–6pm; also Sun noon–5pm during Aug. FREE Mystics or Rationalists? Until Mon 24 Oct. Conceptual art from Susan Collis, Iran do Espirito Santo, Ceal Floyer, Susan Hiller, Jeremy Millar, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Simon Starling and Cerith Wyn Evans. EAF.
■ INSPACE 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. Wed–Sun noon–8pm. FREE Left to my Own Devices Until Sun 4 Sep. A playful, accessible array of device art from artists practising in China, Japan and Scotland.
■ INVERLEITH HOUSE Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place/Inverleith Row, 248 2971. Tue–Sun 10am–5.30pm ✽✽ FREE Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville ●●●●●
Until Sun 2 Oct. The first large-scale UK solo show of Rauschenberg’s work to be presented in the UK for 30 years. consists mostly of art dating from the 1980s and 1990s. See review, page 80. EAF. FREE Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show Until Jun 2012. Outdoor sculptures, mostly in bronze and many on display for the first time. EAF & Fringe.
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■ JOHN HOPE GATEWAY CENTRE Royal Botanic Garden, 20a Inverleith Row, 552 7171. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Gold Glass Rubber and Recycling Until Sun 11 Sep. Work by six Danish designers who are concerned about resources. ■ LEITH GALLERY 65 The Shore, Leith, 553 5255. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Festival Exhibition Until Sat 1 Oct. An ever changing selection of landscapes, figurative painting and still lifes from a roster of artists including Ricky Wiatrek, Jennifer Irvine, Marie Louise Wrightson, Elaine Cunningham and Jane Gray, all available to purchase.
■ MANSFIELD TRAQUAIR 15 Mansfield Place, 555 8475. Mon–Fri & Sun 11am–1pm. FREE Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals Mon 8–Mon 29 Aug. A rare chance to see the restored arts and crafts murals in ‘Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel’.
■ MARCHMONT GALLERY 56 Warrender Park Rd, 228 8228. Tue–Sat 10am–6pm. FREE Cat Outram & Kelly Stewart Fri 5–Sat 27 Aug. Prints and etchings of local scenes and animals.
■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND 33 Salisbury Place, Causewayside, 623 3918. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5pm (Wed from 10am); Sat 9.30am–1pm. FREE Housing Paper Worlds Until Fri 26 Aug. Architecture students from the University of Dundee present designs for a new Cartographic Institute. ■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Daily 10am–5pm. FREE A Passion for Glass Until Sun 11 Sep. British and Irish glassworks recently gifted to the museum by Alan Poole and Dan Klein.
■ OLD AMBULANCE DEPOT 77 Brunswick Depot. Tue–Sat noon–6pm. ✽✽ FREE Katri Walker: North West Tue 9 Aug–Sun 4 Sep. Installation curated by Aberdeen’s Peacock Visual Arts, comprising video art from Walker exploring Scotland’s ties with Wild West culture. EAF.
■ OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm FREE Various Exhibitions Until Sat 6 Aug. Displays including a thematic show comprising of interiors and exteriors, lithographs by Le Corbusier, paintings from Margaret L Smyth, jewellery from Nicola Becci and painted ceramics from Vivien Moir. ■ 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). Prints, oil paintings and even some preparatory drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger. See review, right. EAF.
■ RHUBABA STUDIO 25 Arthur Street, rhubaba.wordpress.com Fri–Sun noon–5pm. FREE There is no there there Until Sun 7 Aug. The product of a curatorial exchange between Glasgow’s David Dale Gallery and Rhubaba. The idea of spatiality in contemporary art practice is explored through the work of Desmond Church and Lyndsey Wardrop.
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE: DÜRER TO HOLBEIN Compendium of works inspired by the Renaissance innovator ●●●●●
There’s something of an inky-fingered Dürer overload in the ’burgh just now. Following on from Dürer’s Fame over at the National Galleries, this 16th century compendium of more than 100 works uses his output as a springboard for the burgeoning of religious reform and free artistic expression across the continent, tellingly illustrated on the map from 1500 at the top of the stairs with the British Isles dominating.
Not that there’s anything from dear old Blighty in evidence across the three sections of the show, which begins with Dürer, moves on to peers such as Lucas Cranach and co, finishing with portraiture by Holbein that could be storyboarding TV show The Tudors.
Dürer’s output remains the most compelling work on show, from his religious iconography that is the equivalent of pop star pin-ups, with Saints Jerome, Anthony and Eustace a kind of ecclesiastical Take That, to his pen-and-ink studies of greyhounds and a gloriously puffed-up rhinoceros, to the damsel in distress in ‘The Sea Monster’, a clear template for sword’n’sorcery comic-book geekery. Best of all are the furiously busy images from ‘The Apocalypse’, which show where Alasdair Gray copped his moves for his frontispieces to Lanark.
Elsewhere, Cranach’s mythological idylls gets us back to the garden, while Holbein’s studies of Henry VIII’s court show off a series of conspiratorial-looking men and doe-eyed Liv Tyler-alikes awaiting their own reformation. Maybe that out-of-scale map on the stairs is even more telling. (Neil Cooper) ■ Queen’s Gallery, 556 5100, until 15 Jan, £6 (£5.50).
■ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Daily 10am–6pm. FREE Found in the Fields Until Sun 4 Sep. Lithographs and linocuts by artist Carry Ackroyd accompany poems by the great 19th-century poet John Clare. ■ ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only. FREE In Japan: Highlights of Academicians Projects in Contemporary Japan Until Sun 18 Sep. A group show investigating
elements of collaboration and practice in the work of RSA members whose work has been directly influenced by Japan and Japanese artists. EAF. FREE Muse: Paintings from the RSA Collections Until Mon 9 Jan. Mon only. Pictures of women by male painters from the Academy’s collections, from the late 18th century to the early 21st century. ■ SCHOP 36 St Mary’s Street, schop.org.uk Mon–Fri 9am–5.30pm. FREE Nick Sargent: A Scottish Land Until Fri 7 Oct. Two large, painted and embroidered canvases designed to