VISUAL ART ■ SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Mon–Wed & Fri–Sun 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm. Citizens of the World: David Hume & Allan Ramsay Until Thu 31 Dec 2015. Images of Hume, Ramsay and other luminaries of the Scottish Enlightenment. Imagining Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause Until Thu 31 Dec 2015. Portraits of the Jacobites.
✽ NEW John Byrne: Sitting Ducks Sat 14 Jun–Thu 31 Jul. A
long-overdue, full-scale overview of the much-loved artist’s long career, focusing on portraits. See preview, page 98. NEW John Ruskin: Artist and Observer Fri 4 Jul–Thu 31 Jul. £8 (£6). Drawings and paintings by awesomely prolific Victorian writer who was also an outstanding draughtsman and watercolourist. Making History Until Sun 28 Sep. Neo-classical sculpture. Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport Until Wed 31 Dec. Images of the transformation of sport throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Reformation to Revolution Until Dec 2016. Portraits of Scottish people from the turbulent 17th century. The Age of Improvement Until Dec 2015. Portraits from Scotland’s great transformation, 1750–1850.
■ SETTLEMENT PROJECTS 34A Haddington Place, 07805 274004. LAST CHANCE Andrew Gilbert Sat 21 Jun 5–10pm. Sun 22 Jun noon– 5pm. Old and new work by Edinburgh- born, Berlin-based artist. LeithLate.
■ ST MARGARET’S HOUSE 151 London Road, 661 1924. Centre open daily 10am–10pm but individual exhibition times may vary. LAST CHANCE Pixel Age: Digital Art Until Sun 15 Jun. A showcase of work by HND2 Computer Arts & Design students of Edinburgh College. Use intercom for access. Exhibition is in galleries 1, 2 and 3. NEW Jamie King: Mind Matters Fri 20 Jun–Sun 6 Jul. Daily 10am– 6pm. Pictures of public figures from past and present who have struggled in private with their mental health. NEW Sheila Masson: Milk and Honey Fri 20 Jun–Sun 6 Jul. Daily 10am–9pm. Images of the USA by Edinburgh-based photographer. NEW Rosemary Taylor: Nothing Is Ever Black and White Sat 21 Jun–Sun 6 Jul. Daily 10am–6pm. Monochromatic explorations of landscapes and man-made objects from the Edinburgh-based artist. ■ STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Daily 11am–6pm. A Thousand of Him, Scattered: Relative Newcomers to Diaspora Until Sun 20 Jul. A photographic look at diaspora and how individuals respond to it.
■ SUMMERHALL 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Daily 11am–6pm but individual events may vary. High Vis. Until Fri 18 Jul. Daily 10am– 6pm. Work by students from Edinburgh College’s Creative Arts courses. Booking essential. Andrew Gilbert: The Glorious Return of Emperor Andrew Until Fri 11 Jul. Paintings inspired – negatively, at any rate – by the legacy of European colonialism. Georgia Rose Murray: Snake- Wise + Until Fri 11 Jul. Paintings created through an intuitive process. LAST CHANCE Howard Guest: Manifesto 24 Until Tue 1 Jul. Photographic essays on a series of themes, in this case close-ups of tree bark. 102 THE LIST 12 Jun–10 Jul 2014
LAST CHANCE Corinna Wagner: Urbane Angels Until Wed 18 Jun. New paintings from the German artist. ■ VARIOUS VENUES NEW Annuale Fri 20 Jun–Sun 6 Jul. Times vary. Annuale is a festival celebrating independent grass roots creative projects in Edinburgh, curated by the Embassy Gallery. Various venues, Edinburgh. See preview, page 99. NEW LeithLate Sat 21 Jun 5–10pm & Sun 22 Jun noon–5pm. LeithLate is one huge art opening, with multiple free events – from music, to film, to poetry – taking place simultaneously over a number of art spaces and local businesses on and around Leith Walk, all within the space of just a few hours on the same evening. An afterparty runs from 10pm on Sat 21 June. See preview, page 38.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN University of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, 01382 345330. Opening times vary, see individual exhibitions for details. NEW Studio Jamming: Artists’ Collaborations in Scotland Fri 30 Jun–Sat 2 Aug. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–4.30pm. Work created as part of artistic collaborations, featuring pieces by Graham Eatough & Graham Fagen, Full Eye, Ganghut and Henry VIII’s Wives. Generation.
■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. Mon–Wed & Fri–Sun 11am–6pm; Thu 11am–8pm. LAST CHANCE DCA Editions Until Sun 15 Jun. Prints created at DCA as part of the Editions series. Including work by Ilana Halperin, Jutta Koether, Nikolaj Larsen, Ciara Phillips, Thomson & Craighead, Lucy Skaer and Hiraki Sawa. LAST CHANCE Navid Nuur: Renderender Until Sun 15 Jun. New mixed media installation along with older work by the Iranian-born, Netherlands-based artist known for witty online works. NEW Rob Churm, Raydale Dower and Tony Swain: Continue without Losing Consciousness Sat 28 Jun–Sun 24 Aug. A temporary artists café with events, concerts and interventions reflecting the artists’ joint approach to art and music. Generation.
■ JUPITER ARTLAND Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. Thu–Sun 10am–5pm; closed Mon–Wed. Jupiter Artland Until Sun 28 Sep. Entry included in park admission. The celebrated outdoor sculpture park opens its doors for the fifth summer season with works on show by Anya Gallacio, Andy Goldsworthy, Henry Castle, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Charles Jencks, Anish Kapoor, Cornelia Parker and others. ■ MOUNT STUART HOUSE AND GARDENS Rothesay, Isle of Bute, 01700 503877. Opening times vary, see individual exhibitions for details. Mount Stuart Visual Arts Programme Until Sun 31 Aug. Daily 10am–6pm. Entry included in house admission. Annual programme aiming to promote public interest in the contemporary visual arts by bringing exhibitions of an international standard to Bute and Argyll. NEW Lorna Macintyre Sat 21 Jun– Sun 31 Aug. Daily 11.30am–3.30pm. Included in admission. Sculptural works inspired by the architecture and decor of Mount Stuart. Generation.
DEGREE SHOW EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART DEGREE SHOW 2014 Finished Sun 1 Jun ●●●●●
The Glasgow School of Art fire has cast a plume of black smoke over this year’s degree show season. But even as the Mack burned, at the other end of the M8, Edinburgh College of Art was unveiling the work of more than 500 students in disciplines from painting to landscape architecture. Interestingly, many of the standout students in fine art this year are working in traditional disciplines, finding new ways to make them surprising. Charlotte Nash pumps foam into lacy tights and lets it harden to form structures which resemble coral reefs. Theo Shields has a sculptor’s feel for materials and pulls off some impressively fragile work with glass, and Sophie Hopkinson paints on the edges of wallpaper to create three-dimensional patterns. India Bunce makes big scenes small with her tiny but evocative oil paintings of city life, while Anna Coburn takes details from a derelict linen mill and explores them on a large scale. Tiina Lilja’s larger-than- life studies of cigarette packets and plastic dolls are so vibrant they almost jump off the wall, while Catriona Mackenzie’s photo-etchings inspired by religious art are quietly beautiful.
Sarah Sheard has a clever pop at the art market with ‘Donald Judd’s Cuboid Hotdogs’ and ‘Matisse’s Ready-Squeezed Sauces’. Sam Caldwell obsessively archives the traces of lost industry on a fictional archipelago. Jack Wrigley’s life-size puppets leer at us in the entrance hall, slump drunkenly on the balcony and canoodle in the back corridor.
Conceptual work dominates in the MFA show, but Eoin McCormack’s paintings are deceptively complex and thoughtful. Suzanne van der Lingen weaves together clips from 1950s Hollywood movies revealing some shockingly outdated attitudes, and I was sorry (I think) to miss Brian O’Shea’s performance of the intriguingly named ‘Edinburgh Nude Historical Re-enactment Society’. (Susan Mansfield)
Michele Marcoux: Hag-ridden Until Fri 11 Jul. Explorations of personal identity in a variety of media, referencing horror film iconography, literature and memory. Sally Hackett: Fun just wants to have girls Until Fri 11 Jul. Ceramic figures representing youth culture. Sebastian Errazuriz: 12 Shoes for 12 Lovers Until Fri 11 Jul. The artist has made 12 3D printed shoes inspired by former lovers (why not 24 shoes, one for each foot?). NEW Polish-Scottish Heritage Festival Exhibition Sat 21 & Sun 22 Jun 10am–5pm. Podcasts, film, photography and text celebrating the links between Poland and Scotland. Part of Polish Scottish Heritage Festival. ■ SUTTON GALLERY 18a Dundas Street, 07854 972930. Tue– Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm; closed Mon & Sun. LAST CHANCE Martin Hill Until Sat 28 Jun. Landscape paintings by the young artist.
LAST CHANCE Jason Dee: Pursuit of a Shadow Until Sat 5 Jul. Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat noon–5pm. A comprehensive show of work by the Glasgow-based video artist, manipulating scenes from cinema history. LAST CHANCE Norman McLaren: Hand-Made Cinema Until Sat 5 Jul. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. The main exhibition of McLaren 2014 celebrates filmmaker Norman McLaren’s creative process, with screenings alongside the physical materials that made them possible. Part of McLaren 2014. ■ UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon–Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. LAST CHANCE Linda Downie & Jim McCutcheon: Really Until Tue 1 Jul. First joint exhibition by husband and wife artists. NEW Now We Are Five Fri 4–Tue 29 Jul. A group show celebrating five years of the gallery being in its Broughton Street location, featuring work from Dylan Lisle and Norrie Harman.
■ TALBOT RICE GALLERY University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, 650 2210. Opening times vary, see individual events for details. ■ URBANE ART GALLERY 25–27 Jeffrey Street, 556 8379. Tue–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon.