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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Michael Wight | XLA
Private view Friday 22 January 2016 XLA is an art project that has spanned the past three years. However it has been 23 years in the making. The term XLA originates from the medical term for X-linked Agammaglobulinemia, a rare immune condition that I was born with. The work is themed around life living with a medical condition that has both hindered and helped my growth as a person.
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Jenny Campbell | Broken Lines
Private view Friday 22 January 2016 In this exhibition I will show paintings and drawings and some monoprints. Making different kinds of marks is partly an expression of how I am feeling and partly it’s a response to what I am seeing. Sometimes I'm more concerned with the making of marks and abstracting from the figure than I am with the figure itself. In fact representation has become the least of my worries.
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Cordula Marks Venters | The Third Kingdom
Private view Friday 22 January 2016 This exhibition is a collection of mixed media representations of the characters and landscapes of a parallel world: the mythical Shendag Bertec. The drawings are illustrations and companion pieces to the story of Isa Raichenhall and her journey from a mid-20th century Europe torn apart by war to this strange land of strange people, in search of her missing friend.
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place + platform | BYOB Event
place + platform, and Edinburgh Palette, present a one-night event showcasing artist film, moving image and performance, featuring brand new work by supported artists ANNELI HOLMSTROM/ MICHAEL KAY / SAM WOOD with live music by EYES OF OTHERS and KING WINE, and yummy home brew sponsored by Brew Store.
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The TMFC Mini Gallery Residency
Featuring Sketch The Rhyme and Character Jam Edinburgh Mural and Illustration collective The Too Much Fun Club are doing a brief session in Gallery 1, between the 4th and the 17th January, they will be creating a large mural in the space and as a finale they will performing their festival show Sketch The Rhyme to a small audience on the 15th.
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