Figured
Title : “Figured” Preview: Friday 15th March between 6pm and 8.30 pm Exhibition Open daily from Saturday 16th March until Sunday 31st March: 11am and 6pm. Gallery 2 Edinburgh Palette St Margaret's House 151 London Road Edinburgh EH7 6AE In this new body of work, of paintings and drawings, Lynn Ahrens focuses on the malleable form of the human figure to produce images which reveal a vision of ourselves in the world which both replenishes, and challenges the anatomy of…
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Interim Exhibition
Gray's School of Art will be displaying the work of their 4th year students as part of their Interim Exhibition. Opening night is Saturday the 16th of February betwen 6pm and 9pm.
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Works on Paper
This is a joint exhibition of work produced by Jacqui Higgs and Aileen Paton. The opening of this exhibition is on the 9th of November between 7pm and 9pm, we hope to see you there. Jacqui Higgs SSA: is an Edinburgh based, Dublin born artist. Many of the drawings and paintings I am showing have been developed from recent visits to Kirkudbright and the nearby location of the remote Greensands. Salvaged materials, structured surfaces and storm damage debris occasionally enter…
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re-member-ing
A great artist, Robert Calquhoun once said in relation to painting ‘Keep it simple and do it with love’. I strive, often unsuccessfully to keep it simple and do it with love but my painting is all about the inner life in preference to the external. In one sense, of course all art is inner if it works at all. It is all a searching, as it occurs to the painter, an expression of truth to the subject. I value…
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Medley6
A bright show of original art and design with paintings, paper textiles , pottery and sculpture.
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Habitando un Cuerpo
The exhibited works are a result of a search for connections and between the human body and nature. It’s also a tribute to the human body, its beauty, complexity and variety.
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Trains of Thought
An informative and interactive exhibition and series of Innovation Stations centered around People Know How to celebrate their 5 year anniversary. Come and learn about their methods, research and projects, and see how you can take part. See below for more details of individual events. Innovation Stations bring together stakeholders connected to our projects. We will share our learning and involve them in the next steps. Register here: trains-of-thought.eventbrite.co.uk
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Live: An Exhibition of (Un)Natural Selection
Live: An Exhibition of (Un)Natural Selection is a collection of works exploring our society’s severed connections from the natural world. Collating various works from sculpture, projection installation, vertical hydroponics to biomimetic design, Live showcases the life-enhancing potential of reintegrating nature into our everyday spaces.
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Our Yoniverse 2.0
Art Residency Participation Dear precious woman, after the successful completion of the first Yoniverse and overwhelming positive feedback from participating women and exhibition visitors I like to invite you to become visible and discover your own power in this process. If you identify as female I would like to invite you to participate in this unique and powerful piece of work in the time between 4th - 24th September 2018. In this time I will provide slots of individual sessions…
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Obscura
Opening Event: Friday, 13th July from 7-9 pm An exhibition of selected work by recent graduate of Gray's School of Art, Wouda Thompson. The work explores visual perception as a conscious experience and our expression of this experience. Through observational painting and drawings of carefully constructed still lives of abstract sculptures the show aims to question the line drawn between perception and interpretation
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ibas-ibaw 8102
Preview: Friday 13 July 7pm - 9pm The current show gently references Eastern thought systems and life experiences. These experiences and thought systems create a fine, almost invisible, but essential thread throughout the show. About the artist “What are you studying?” She says leaning forward towards the glass box peering through the wee hole. “Painting” I say crouching down to the tellers level “Oh, how fabulous, I would love to able to paint, what do you paint?” Still, to this…
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Create to Move: Residency
(visitors welcome when Gallery 2 doors are open) Artist collective Create to Move will use Gallery 2 for a research and development residency. The root of our research stems from three fundamental topics: AI and Technology Essence of Human Nature The Natural Environment. We’re interested in where these topics intersect. Physicality of touch, making and movement vs AI & technology. In an increasingly computerised, urbanised and mechanised world, seemingly on the brink of an AI revolution, what are the values…
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Our Yoniverse
Art Residency Participation Dear precious woman, If you identify as female I would like to invite you to participate in this unique and powerful piece of work in the time between 23rd June - 3th July 2018. In this time I will provide slots of individual sessions lasting 2-3 hours with the participating woman to paint their yoni/vulva in the medium of watercolour. The word yoni stems from Sanskrit meaning "source" and describes the vulva as a stylised representation of…
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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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