Edinburgh Festival Guide

Listings: Before 9pm, Visual art

Sorted by popularity / rating / date.

Rachel Maclean: I HEART SCOTLAND

Rachel MacLean keeps up her dizzying output of recent work with I HEART SCOTLAND, a characteristically absurdist take on Scottish identity and national pride, featuring fried breakfasts, lots of tartan, robots in kilts and the protean artist herself playing every character in a short film, The Lion and the Unicorn.

Edinburgh Printmakers

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 557 2479

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 557 2479

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sun 4 Aug

Free / 0131 557 2479

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 29 more dates

Richard Murphy Architects

In 2001, Richard Murphy Architects held a 10th Anniversary exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, a building which the practice remodelled in the early 1990's. Encompassing the full 21 years of their practice, this new exhibition for the RSA will present a range of major projects including work on the British High…

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Sat 13 Jul

Free / 0131 225 6671

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 14 Jul

Free / 0131 225 6671

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 12:00 – 17:00

Mon 15 Jul

Free / 0131 225 6671

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 40 more dates

Sarah Kenchington: Wind Pipes for Edinburgh

Sarah Kenchington builds her mechanical instruments from discarded materials. Bicycle spokes, typewriters, the inner tubes of tractor tyres are combined to create unique musical machines which emit a discordant array of moans, squeaks and chimes. Kenchington’s work offers a contemporary manifestation of a long history of…

Trinity Apse Church Nave, Edinburgh

Thu 1 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Fri 2 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 29 more dates

Stephen Bird: My Dad Was Born On The Moon

A rare opportunity for UK audiences to see a large body of work by Stephen Bird. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of English pottery, but now living and working in Australia, Bird’s practice encompasses a colourful array of expressive, humorous and sometimes profane pottery figures, Toby Jugs and decorative…

The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 558 1200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 558 1200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 16:00

Mon 5 Aug

Free / 0131 558 1200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 26 more dates

Synthetic Biology: Where Organic Meets Digital

In this lecture demonstration Alan Murray, Head of the School of Design at ECA, shows us how synthetic biologists, designers, artists, engineers and computer scientists can work together.

Edinburgh College of Art

Thu 29 Aug

£6 / 0131 473 2000

back to top

Talk: Colin Wiggins on the work of Ana Maria Pacheco

Colin Wiggins, Head of Education at The National Gallery in London, will give an introduction to the work, themes and concerns of Ana Maria Pacheco.

St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy, Edinburgh

Mon 12 Aug

Free / 0131 650 0900

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 19:00 – 21:00

The Scottishness of Art over Two Centuries

In ten works, this exhibition concisely explores the competing romanticism, rationalism and realism of Scottish art from 1750–1970. If Walter Scott created a literary idea of Scotland as the site of the romantic 'other', painters sought the images that would do the same for visual art. The exhibition begins with…

Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh

Fri 5 Jul

Free / 0131 557 4050

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00

Sat 6 Jul

Free / 0131 557 4050

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 16:00

Mon 8 Jul

Free / 0131 557 4050

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 18:00
…and 47 more dates

The Vodnjan Collective: Croatia Scotia

The Vodnjan Collective comprises ten artists based in Scotland: Annie Broadley, Hans K Clausen, Paul Clowney, Tessa Clowney, Amanda Egerton-King, Alexander Hamilton, Diana Hoare, Susie Johnston, Susanna Laing and Anna Welsh. To coincide with the admission of Croatia to the European Union in 2013, Croatia Scotia…

Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 225 6540

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 5 Aug

Free / 0131 225 6540

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Tue 6 Aug

Free / 0131 225 6540

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 22 more dates

This Land

This Land presents a beautifully alternative view of the Scottish landscape through works by artists with a diverse range of practices, including Henry Coombes, Andy Holden, Hannah Imlach, Michael Reisch and Iain Sarjeant. Initially located for the festival beside the City Art Centre, The Travelling Gallery…

Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh

Fri 23 Aug

Free / 0131 529 3930

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Sat 24 Aug

Free / 0131 529 3930

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00

Tue 27 Aug

Free / 0131 529 3930

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 11:00 – 18:00
…and 3 more dates

Witches and Wicked Bodies

Witches: if they weigh the same as a duck, does that mean they're made of wood? Find out how myths, fears and notions about witches have been communicated in the visual media in this major new exhibition of depictions of witches and witchcraft over the past 500 years, featuring artists from Dürer, Goya and Blake to Paula…

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two, Edinburgh

Sat 27 Jul

£7 (£5) / 0131 624 6200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Sun 28 Jul

£7 (£5) / 0131 624 6200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00

Mon 29 Jul

£7 (£5) / 0131 624 6200

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

  • 10:00 – 17:00
…and 97 more dates back to top