News Category: Events & Exhibitions
Vinella & Krupa are hosting a one-off auction of pieces from their collection of bespoke furniture pieces and sculptures. It will be held in Studio 6.17, this Friday 20 February from 6pm sharp.Exhibition opening | Friday night
Tim Vincent Smith & Fiona Hermse
Friday 20 February | 7pm – 9pm
We are delighted to be hosting Fiona Hermse‘s It Surrounds Me, Part II in our Galleries. We warmly welcome you all to its official opening this Friday evening. An exhibition of site-specific sculptures, mixed media pieces and suspended forms, the first part of the project came about during Fiona’s time at ComPeung, an artist residency in Thailand and the idyllic surroundings she experienced there.
Local event | Leith Creative Brucheon
Saturday 14 February 2015
11.30am – 3pm, free entry
A very special Bruncheon coming up in February, brought to you in conjunction with a new cultural organisation in Leith: Leith Creative.
Leith Creative is a cultural mapping research project currently being co-delivered by LeithLate and Citizen Curator, looking at Cultural Resources and Creative Industries within the Leith area. We’re keen that local Leith Creatives either living or working in Leith also feed into our research by submitting information about themselves via the following survey.
Resident exhibition| Soosan Danesh: Rhythms
Patriothall Gallery | 7 – 15 March 2015
Rhythms is an exhibition of visual art exploring the cycles and patterns to be found in the natural and urban environments.
Outdoor workshop | Willow basketry with Anna
Willow Coppicing
Anna Liebmann Coldham will be holding her annual willow harvesting working-workshop, on Saturday the 14th February, at Talamh Housing Co-op in South Lanarkshire.
Sale treatments | Fleein’Edder Therapies
Fiona has just let us know that a FleeinEdder Therapies 1/2 price sale starts on 29 January for 3 days only.
Event | L’Age d’Or – Live Sink Performance
Ahead of his gallery residency here next month, Tim Vincent-Smith and his band Sink will be providing live accompaniment to the surrealist masterpiece L’Age d’Or, in a one-off showing in the Filmhouse this Friday night. The film caused a wee bit of a stir (and more than a few riots) when it was first released – it is expected Sink and the Noize Choir will recapture that with this performance..and then some.
Lecture & Workshop: Icon Painting
Artist and art-historian Andrew Paterson will show slides of examples of Christian icons by contemporary practitioners, as well as by perhaps the greatest icon-painter of the 20th century, Fr. Gregory Krug.
Opportunity | Volunteers for mixed-media exhibition
Resident jeweller and sculptor Fiona Hermse requires voluntary assistance for her upcoming exhibition It Surrounds Me – Part 2. It will feature a series of cross-disciplinary, interactive installations exhibited publicly and is a continuation of a project Fiona began during ComPeung, an artist residency she undertook in late 2013 in a rural part of northern Thailand.
Free lecture in St Margaret’s | Dave Cohen on Design
On Saturday 17 January 2015, Dave Cohen will give a talk, entitled Basic Elements of Design. These elements serve as his visual vocabulary used in the development of his work.