Listings: Art Festival

Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast

Condé Nast Publications produce some of the most famous titles in the magazine world, including Vogue, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. It should come as no surprise that they also pioneered fashion photography, employing such legendary photographers as Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, Corinne…

21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's Library

Prints inspired by the collection of the Glasgow Women's Library.

Alberto Morrocco: Drawing on Life

This exhibition of works by Alberto Morrocco OBE (1917 – 1998) spans the artist’s entire career, from early student drawings and sculptures to paintings and graphics produced in his final years. Many of the works included are being shown for the first time in public and the sheer range of pieces – from classical…

Amazing Amber

Amber is beautiful as well as fascinating. It consists of fossilised tree resin, and since resin in liquid form is sticky, and amber is transparent, this means that insects, animals and plant material sometimes get trapped in it and are preserved intact, giving us a glimpse of life millions of years ago. The whole process…

Ana Maria Pacheco: Memória Roubada

Translated literally, Ana Maria Pacheco's title Memória Roubada means 'stolen memories'. At the heart of this exhibition are two sculptural works characteristic of both Pacheco's practice and her personal and political concerns about the exercise of power. Displayed facing one another, each work is a wooden cupboard…

Ângela Ferreira: Political Cameras

For her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, Ângela Ferreira presents her renowned project Political Cameras (For Mozambique series) from 2011 alongside a new commission which will reference the legacy of David Livingstone's life and work, and the relationship between Africa and Europe from colonial days…

Artist guided walk: Lines Lost

Join artist Stuart McAdam for a guided walk along the Innocent Railway Path, the route of the capital’s first railway line which was closed in 1968, and learn about his nomadic journeys and walking as a methodology for art production. His latest project, part of a residency at Deveron Arts, is based around the infamous…

Bobby Niven: Palm of the Hand

This exhibition of new work by Bobby Niven brings together anthropomorphic sculptures with more solemn, abstract structures, finding humour in the tension between animate and inert forms. Made from mud, sprayed concrete and carved wood, Niven’s sculptures act as plinths for found objects and artifacts which they…

Collectors' Choice

Exhibition exploring the role of collectors of art, and the extent to which their tastes determine the state of the art market.

Dressed to Kill: Fashion, Costume and Dress in Scottish Art

A look at how Scottish artists have represented fashion and costume over the centuries.

Elizabeth Blackadder: Works on Paper

Displaying new works on paper, this is the first exhibition of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder’s work since the retrospective at The National Galleries of Scotland in 2010, and includes delicate studies of leaves, fruit and other organic objects.

Follow the Thread – Artist Rugs: Dovecot's Contemporary Rug Collection

Hand-tufted rugs by contemporary artists.

Follow the Thread – Dazzle@Dovecot

Work by jewellery designers who incorporate textiles, yarns and fabrics into their work.

Follow the Thread – Fleece to Fibre: The Making of the Large Tree Group Tapestry

Exhibition tracing the transposition of Victoria Crowe's 1975 painting Large Tree Group into a major new tapestry.

From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection

From Death to Death and Other Small Tales brings together works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary art, with major works from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. This innovative exhibition comprises approximately 130 works and creates a…

Gabriel Orozco

Major exhibition of work by the Mexican artist, taking his painting The Eye of Go as a starting point, and featuring a series of large works on acetate which have never before been exhibited. Orozco is concerned not so much with what art should be but why it exists at all, and his practice never stands still – he'll cite…

Game Changer

Bringing together works by Rachel Adams, Jacob Dahlgren, Nilbar Güres and Haroon Mirza, this exhibition considers materials, space, physicality and body image within the context of the sporting arena. The show is situated in Meadowbank Sports Centre, the main athletics venue for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in…

GARAGE

GARAGE presents new works and collaborations by artists created during a series of micro-residencies in this unique project space which comprises three garages and a garden. The artists exhibiting include Ailie Rutherford, Ary D Cahyono, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Bob Moyler, Christine Hilditch, David MacDiarmid, Emma…

I HEART SCOTLAND: Costume Workshop

Learn about Scottish history with a little help from artist Rachel Maclean and a dress-up workshop full of arts and crafts activities. Booking is essential.