Art Auction with a Difference | Leah Merete Robb
Bidding starts 4:00 pm Leah Robb has a very diverse approach to art-making ranging from figure drawings to psychological portraiture, from filmmaking to political street art. The auction revisits her journey there, with works up for purchase going as far back as 1992.
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Edinburgh Palette & UPMO Postcard Art Auction
Upward Mobility and Edinburgh Palette are hosting the first Postcard Art Auction. Artists on every floor of the Edinburgh Palette building, including UPMO, are invited to collect a free postcard sized piece of MDF and to cover it in art of their choosing.
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Rose Street Project
Several visual artists holding studios in St Margaret's House have created installations and displays in shopfronts along Rose Street for Christmas. The project was curated by Karl Finn Graham, and has been made possible through partnership funding from Essential Edinburgh.
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Re:See It 3
Private view Friday 23 October Artists respond to the concepts of environmental sustainability in this special group exhibition, which encourages a Scotland-wide artistic response to global climate change. This third Re:See It exhibition at St Margaret's House extends its reach this year, calling on the creative communities engaged with Creative Carbon Scotland Edinburgh and the Green Tease Network in addition to tenants of St Margaret's House.
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Medley 3 | MIX & Invited artists
Private view Friday 23 October Third incarnation of the interdisciplinary and varied group show, featuring media by invited artists, makers and designers.
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A Bird Does Not Sing Because It Has an Answer, It Sings Because It Has a Song
Private view Friday 9 October, 6:00 pm This beautiful exhibition is the culmination of a series of craft workshops by the Link Up Women’s Support Centre community, in collaboration with artist and jeweller Fiona Hermse. The work explores themes of support, connection, nature, transience and expression.
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Link Up Women’s Support Centre | AGM
This is Link Up Women’s Support Centre's first AGM taking place in their new home, St Margaret's House. The event is free to attend and everyone is welcome. Please RSVP via email.
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Shapes that Shift Desire | Naked Aye Art
Saturday 3 October from 7:00 pm Opening event Featuring live performances and installation in St Margaret's House Followed by after-party in Safari Lounge Naked Aye multi-arts exhibition, with visual arts at its centre, is a group show with works by Scotland-based artists, engaging and playing with the creative and subversive energies of desire connected to the human figure.
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Open Studios Weekend
The artists, designers and charities based in St Margaret’s House will welcome the public in a special weekend event. Located on Edinburgh’s London Road, it opens its doors to the public on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September. Open Studios was started to reveal the breadth of the art, projects and enterprises going on within the brown brick building. Edinburgh Palette has been steadily transforming the space into a vibrant art centre since 2008.
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A Potter, a Painter and a Poet
Open Preview evening | Thursday 30 July from 6:00 pm Crystal-glazed stoneware, porcelain and multi-textured golded pots; paintings, drawings and installations growing from a deep relationship with pottery and an ancient Perthshire landscape; poetry exhibited and read around the galleries – three artists explore the natural world and make connections between their work in an unusual collaborative exhibition.
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From a Horizontal Line | Robyn Benson
Preview evening | Friday 26 June St Margaret's House is excited to present new works by Robyn Benson that explore structural capabilities of the curve. Employing a purposeful rudimentary approach to construction, Benson’s work aims to acknowledge and ascertain founding rules of structural support resulting in temporal, self-sufficient structures that only exist at a single point of balance.
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24 | Dominic McIvor
Preview evening | Friday 26 June St Margaret's House is delighted to announce 24, by recent Gray's School graduate Dominic McIvor. Dominic's large-scale works are created by repeating a colour sequence (of 24 small squares, hence the title) hundreds of times over, before peeling the canvas to see what remains.
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14.15
Preview evening | Friday 26 June We're going on a mystic quest. We're a gang of rebels and we don't give a damn what you think about us. It's different. Better? No, just different.
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Awesome Folk Summer Exhibition
Come along to our Awesome Folk Summer Exhibition, especially for our Primary Classes. It opens on Friday 19 June, 5 - 7pm in the Ground floor Lobby of St Margaret's House. Don't worry if you miss the preview, as it'll be up over the weekend too.
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The Curves on a Straight Line | Amanda Atkinson
Private View Friday 29 May, from 6.30pm An exhibition of drawings and life studies by local artist Amanda Atkinson. This solo show is her way of informing people of the part of her life that creates images.
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