Edinburgh Palette Bursary Show | GUBBINS RAN
Opening Night Saturday 4th Jun 7 - 930pm Closing Party Sunday 19th June, 5 - 10pm St Margaret's house is delighted to present to the work of bursary recipients Aled Haywood and Ned Armstrong. In 16 th Century Dartmoor a clan-like family group lived and robbed from those travelling between Exeter and Plymouth, the name Gubbins attributed to them, then meaning ‘worthless sharings of fish.’ They were said to never be subdued by Caesar, “their wealth consists of other men’s goods…living in ignorance of luxury, the…
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Displacement
Opening Night Saturday 4th June 7:00 - 9.30pm, featuring live music by Tim Vincent-Smith and "The Reverse Engineer". A challenging, thought provoking exhibition by two resident artists, Jamie King and Nicky Beckett. The exhibition is a response to the current refugee crisis, which is a contemporary controversial subject.
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Outskirts
Private View: Friday 13th May 6.30 – 9pm with live music by Lou Ray 2 and friends Group exhibition of abstract painting- an exploration of the peripheral Outskirts is a collective show featuring the work of Joy Arden, Alan Chapman, Jacqui Higgs, Steven Hood and Mary Walters. The title refers to a state of the peripheral, the margins of space we tread infrequently.
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No Woman is an Island
Preview Friday 13 May, 6:30pm 'No Woman Is An Island' is an annual exhibition which is now in its fourth year, featuring work by Rona MacLean, Aileen Grant and other female artists and makers. The artists are in an informal Edinburgh-based network of women artists and makers who meet regularly to go sketching and discuss the development of their work.
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Bridging Between...
Preview Friday 13 May, 6:30pm This exhibition is about ‘bridges’ - between places and people. Not everything in this exhibition falls neatly under the theme inherent in the title. There are other works and pieces that have been included.
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Edinburgh College of Art | Third Try-mester
Private view | Friday 22 April, from 7:00 pm St Margaret’s House is pleased to welcome back students from the Edinburgh College of Art who will exhibit in all three galleries for their third year show. Expect to see a broad range of upcoming talent, cutting-edge methods and contemporary takes on traditional practice.
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Studio Work
Work by Matthew Peacock Preview Saturday 2 April, 7pm Featuring a personal selection of interesting prints, paper works and sculptures by a local artist with autism. Edinburgh Palette is delighted to be presenting this show with kind support from artlink.
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If Walls Could Talk
A Victorian Factory – The Final Chapter Work by Jim Mackintosh Preview Saturday 2 April, 7pm After a working life of 120 years the end is in sight for this Victorian Factory in Falkland, Fife as the demolition teams prepare to move in. Originally built to manufacture Linen it later produced Linoleum before being taken over by Smith Anderson to produce paper bags for the food industry.
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Creep Me Oot
Group show curated by Naked Aye Art Collective Opening night Saturday 2 April, from 7:00 pm Naked Aye Art returns this April for a special showcase of artworks by around 20 artists who unsettle us in delicious ways. Be warmly invited to our exhibition and opening night featuring goosebump-inducing live and visual art, theatre, dance & live music. Cheap drinks + after party with DJ set by The Mojotronic Funk Machine to get your bones shaking, at Woodland Creatures 10pm-1am.
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Anima
Public opening Friday 4 March 2016, 6:00 pm Preview Saturday 5 March 2016, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm The project "Anima’’ features work of two artists who practise different techniques and use different materials but both find common places in each practice. Icon with it’s aesthetics and spirituality was a starting point of the project. It has a different meaning to both artists but it also brings them together.
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Gray's Interim Show
Preview Saturday 5 March This is the sixth year in succession that Gray’s 4th year Painters have had their Interim Exhibition at Edinburgh Palette and once again they have produced a body of work that showcases both the breadth and depth of Painting practice that takes place within the department at Gray’s. The Painting course at Gray’s School of Art is currently ranked number one in Scotland, scoring 100% student satisfaction in this year's National Student Survey.
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Thematic
Opening Friday 19 February, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm 'Thematic' is the first exhibition by Blueroom Collective, an experimental design collective focused on working beyond the confines of commercial graphic design across a range of traditional and emerging media. The exhibition features experimental typographic works, primarly in print, commenting on current themes and issues in the modern world - political, ethical, creative and social.
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Sweet F. A.
Featuring Colin Wilson & Neil Ogg Preview Friday 12 January Sweet F. A. showcases paintings by Edinburgh based artists Neil Ogg and Colin Wilson. Having met while studying at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, the two artists now share a studio at St Margaret’s House. This exhibition presents two separate bodies of work created in a space of shared influences over the last year and a half.
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Cake icing with The Thrive Archive
Part of Giving & Learning Week The Thrive Archive will be donating Kusse – German kisses intercepted from the Christmas Market, to lovers and lonely hearts at the Galley opening at St Margaret’s House. Make up and make over with a kiss! Come and tell someone that you love them and decorate a sweet treat!
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Giving & Learning Week
A week worth of collaborative events and learning activities, led by resident artists, makers and instructors. All of the workshops are themed around bigger ideas of giving, sharing and learning. All proceeds from the diverse programme of participatory events will go towards Re-Act Edinburgh and their good work with displaced refugees across Europe.
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