Listings: Visual art

Ilana Halperin: The Library

New work by New York-born artist Halperin, who is interested in the relationship between geological time and human experience. She's the first contemporary artist to receive an Artist's Fellowship at the NMS, and this exhibition features found objects, minerals, artworks created by natural processes and a 1.3-ton…

Katri Walker: An Equilibrium Not of This World

Scottish artist Katri Walker is attracting increasing attention for her multi channel audio-visual installations which are equally at home in the worlds of contemporary art, portraiture and documentary film-making. North West, presented by Peacock Visual Arts at the 2011 Edinburgh Art Festival drew on the landscape of…

Paul Rooney and Leeds United

The work of both Leeds United and Paul Rooney explores notions of narrative, myth, identity and authorship. In 2011 they began working on a project that began to scrutinise, fictionalise, and mythologise each other’s practice. This exhibition extends that relationship and deliberately blurs the edges between the work of…

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…

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…

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…