Given Half A Chance
Preview: Friday, June 22 at 7 PM - 9 PM Music and performance evening: Friday, July 6 at 6:30 PM - 9 PM Given half a chance showcases the work of a mix of artists, brought together by their ability to react and respond to the unpredictability and precarity of artistic opportunities. Their works reflect and respond to this fleeting sense of presence and encounter through varying mediums. On the one hand their fragmented works create haunting moments of poignant reflection and unnerving irreverence. Whilst, on the other, they embrace the space before them as an opportunity to collaborate, display…
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Boundaries
Private View: Friday 22 June, 7 - 9 pm A continuing exploration of diverse forms coming together and drifting apart. New work by painter and printmaker, Alan Chapman; experimental works in acrylic. Alan Chapman is an Edinburgh-based painter and printmaker, who trained at Teesside College of Art and Sunderland College of Art, graduating with BA (Hons) Fine Art in 1980. His current work combines painting, collage and printmaking techniques to produce sheets of pure colour. www.alanchapmanartist.co.uk
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Play : Create : Relate
Garvald Edinburgh presents a multi-media exhibition exploring interpretations of PLAY. Preview: Friday 8 June, 6pm - 8pm Play is a source of learning, a path to creativity and a key to connectivity. Play uncovers basic truths and reveals new possibilities. Exploring interpretations of PLAY through a variety of artistic and creative media, this innovative show will challenge pre-conceptions in an exciting and inspirational way. Play and playfulness are evident in our artistic and cultural legacy from the earliest times: from…
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INCAPSULATE
Preview: Friday 8 th June 2018: 7pm – 9pm INCAPSULATE is an end of year show by HNC Contemporary Art Practice students studying at West Lothian College. The works are a culmination of 2D, 3D and digital practices that highlight a broad ranging exploration of personal investigations and insights. You can also find details of the opening event on Facebook.
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Thistle Quilters | Transitions Exhibition 1718 - 2018
A celebration of quilting by one of Scotland’s longest established quilt groups. Edinburgh based Thistle Quilters is celebrating over 38 years as a thriving quilt group, as well as the 300th anniversary of the 1718 Silk Patchwork Coverlet, one of the earliest known dated patchworks in Britain. “It’s the past, present and future of quilting in one event”, said Brenda McDonnell, Chair, Thistle Quilters.
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Third Year Exhibition
‘Third Year Exhibition’ showcases a variety of works by painting, inter-media, sculpture and photography students currently studying at Edinburgh College of Art. This inter-disciplinary exhibition collates a wide variety of artistic styles to produce a bold, energetic collection of work, which highlights the talents of the up-and-coming artists and creates an exciting visual experience for the audience.
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Journeys
A Life Journey through Creativity By Sylvie Stainton My inspiration as a painter and sculptor comes from what I observe and feel as it echoes from the world we live in. My work is guided by a deep connection to Nature and its Soul: the outer and inner landscapes, the visible and invisible. Increasingly what happens in the world emerges through forms, shapes, lines, colours and movement as it expresses itself from the raw materials of the canvases, wood and/or stone.
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Hidden
Hidden is a collection of photographic work created by individuals who have caring responsibilities. The work demonstrates the uniqueness of photography, its ubiquitous nature offering the time-starved an opportunity to create and be included. Treasured family photographs evoke memories and instigate discussion around those we care for. Everyday objects are placed under studio lights, elevating it’s status to more accurately demonstrate its vital role in the successful play of a day. Pinhole cameras facilitate image making from household waste with long exposure…
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Architexture
An exploration of the infinite possibilities presented by the ultimate building material, clay. 16 ceramic designer makers from the Bridge Pottery Collective celebrate their different approaches and the tactile nature of ceramics through the exhibition Architexture. Exploring contrast through form, function and surface texture including mark making, patination and glaze chemistry.
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IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER - Art Exhibiton
DEEZIGN EVENTS PRESENTS: In the Eye of the Beholder! We welcome you to join us at St. Margaret’s house in the Drawing Room on March 19th for our charity art exhibition, with featured art from QMU students as well as local artists with many pieces available for purchase in a silent auction throughout the night. Displays range from paintings to short films, drawing from many different themes showcasing the talent of young adults in Edinburgh. Our event will give everyone…
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Visual Audio Hub
Closing event: Friday 30th March A 3 week, Visual Audio Hub within the 3 galleries at St Margaret’s House - a residency between 3 AV artists to explore experiment and dive into the realms of lights visuals and sounds to develop immersive experience art forms. The start of a collaboration to give space and time to three AV artists who normally meet and work on events in the music industry. The short timescale of Festivals and music events makes it…
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Ray Interactive in residence
Ray interactive creates interactive installations. At St Margaret's House, they will be working towards building a multi sensory interactive space for you to come and play in. You will be experimenting with interactive synthesised sound, light and visuals, triggered by objects, midi interfaces and motion detection.
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Gray's School of Art | 4th Year Painting Exhibition
Private view: Saturday 24th February 6pm – 9pm This exhibition brings the 4th year painters at Gray’s School of Art out of their studios and into a gallery space together for the first time. The students are all painting undergraduates, but this is a diverse group with a range of media on show including video, sculpture, drawing and painting. They have been wholly responsible for organising and presenting this exhibition which has required collaboration, cooperation and a degree of compromise…
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The Doors that Open
Special Event: 17th February At "The Doors that Open" Creative Residency I will go deeper into the exploration and expression of creativity and I would like you to join me! If you have always wondered what a Creative Process looks like and how it feels, then I invite you to come along in this experience and explore further that curiosity which you have deep inside. Let me hold the space for you.
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Residency | Projection Space
Meet The Artists events: Monday 15/01 (4pm - 7pm) and Sunday 28/01 (12pm - 3pm) A small group of enthusiasts led by Mary Walters (past director of Edinburgh’s unique Slide Workshop: 1980 – 2000) are to be based at St Margaret’s House in the galleries to explore relationships between a variety of analogue and digital projection methods – and also to investigate the potential of the spaces created by the projected images. One of the core interests of the group is…
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