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Artmag | Aug 12 2022

ARTS NEWS
Keeping you in the picture A round-up of the best exhibitions and events across Scotland

SIX OF THE BEST
Top picks Dates for your diary

PERFORMING ARTS
Live & online Theatre, Film, Folk, Classical, Opera & Dance

SUBJECT MATTER
It’s official: ‘Visual art does not sit within the core programme of the International International Festival’

ART & TRAVEL
Germany’s industrial heartland transformed through art

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ART BOOKS
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IMAGE ANALYSIS
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PHOTO-SPREAD
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Catch up on all the latest exhibition news and reviews across the Scottish art scene and further afield.

J D Fergusson, Head of Margaret Morris, conte (a mix of graphite or charcoal and wax or clay)

Cool and Collected: 100 years of Art at Gracefield Arts Centre Dumfries

12 August 2022

Curated by Scottish artist, writer and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie, Centennial: Art from the Gracefield Collection at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries features key styles, movements and artists over the last century.

Helen Moore, 'Mackenzie’s Post', oil on canvas

Helen Moore’s Big Skies of Caithness at Upright Gallery Edinburgh

11 August 2022

Taking the striking landscape of Caithness as her starting point, Helen Moore: While I Was Waiting at Upright Gallery in Edinburgh explores human impacts on rural space.

Nick Potter, 'Red Earth 1', mixed media on board

Summer, Second Time Around at Zenwalls Gallery Peebles

11 August 2022

The Late Summer exhibition at Zenwalls Gallery in Peebles features work by fifteen artists.

Beside Still Waters: Jessie Ann Matthew and Jonathan Gibbs at Burnside gallery & frames

11 August 2022

Burnside Gallery in Selkirk is showcasing two artists who are linked by their interest in sculptural shape and line: Jessie Ann Matthew and Jonathan Gibbs.

Beth’s New Fifteen at Eion Stewart Fine Art Stonehaven

10 August 2022

To mark the gallery’s 25th anniversary, Eion Stewart Fine Art in Stonehaven has Beth Robertson Fiddes: Storm & Still – its first solo show in five years with the accomplished landscape and seascape artist.

Paul Ritchie, 'Gulls Fishing The Flood Tide', mixed media

Featured Artist for August at Larks Gallery is Paul Ritchie

10 August 2022

Featured artist in August at Larks Gallery in Ballater is Aberdeenshire-based Paul Ritchie, whose mixed media paintings incorporate a combination of unconventional techniques to evoke a highly-charged atmosphere.

Alfons Bytautas RSA, 'Beyond Words', acrylic and collage on board

Twice the Enjoyment at Scottish Arts Club Edinburgh

10 August 2022

There are two exhibitions to enjoy at the Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh, with paintings by Judith Bell and collage by Alfons Bytautas.

Rosanne Goes Solo at Aberfeldy Gallery

10 August 2022

Rosanne Barr at Aberfeldy Gallery is a solo show by one of Scotland’s most prominent landscape artists.

Ann Oram (left) and Jenny Matthews. Image Robert Perry

UNIONGallery Edinburgh’s Festival Oasis of Calm

10 August 2022

Jenny Matthews & Ann Oram RSW: In the Company of Flowers at UNIONGallery in Edinburgh is the two artists’ first joint exhibition.

Reading MacDiarmid at The Line Gallery Linlithgow

10 August 2022

In the centenary year of the first appearance in print of Hugh MacDiarmid, The Line Gallery in Linlithgow explores the work and life of the great Scottish 20th-century poet and political pioneer.

Painting the Town Big: Martin Churchill at Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock

9 August 2022

Martin Churchill: Urban Landscape at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock includes large-scale paintings of architectural subjects displayed together here for the first time.

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Lyon & Turnbull’s Big-Name Festival Programme

9 August 2022

Edinburgh sale room Lyon & Turnbull’s Festival programme includes a dynamic line-up of works by some of the most important, established names in contemporary and post-war art.

Handmade in Ayr Comes with Genius Included

27 July 2022

A weekend of art, craft and design, Handmade in Ayr, is set to take place at Robert Burns’ Birthplace Museum in Alloway.

West End Fair Makes a Capital Return for 2022

26 July 2022

Edinburgh’s annual West End Fair makes a welcome return to the leafy grounds of St John’s Church on Edinburgh’s Princes Street.

Leila Riszko (Assistant Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland admires the artwork 'Two Forms in Echelon', 1961, bronze. Image Neil Hanna Photography www.neilhannaphotography.co.uk

Edinburgh Art Festival 2022 Has So Much to Show

19 July 2022

The 18th edition of the Edinburgh Art Festival brings together over a hundred artists in 35 exhibitions throughout the city, complemented by an online programme and newly-commissioned artworks, many of them already featured on this website.

Norman Edgar RGI , 'At The Seaside II', watercolour and gouache

Looking Good on Paper: Lyon & Turnbull’s July Programme

11 July 2022

Following a busy June, Edinburgh sale room Lyon & Turnbull’s summer programme continues with two fascinating auctions – Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs, and Paintings & Works on Paper.

Olga Krasanova (Invited Artist, Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop), 'A Warrior'

Pittenweem Arts Festival Returns to Harbour

6 July 2022

One of the biggest regional events of its kind in the UK, the Pittenweem Arts Festival is back with over a hundred artists and makers from across Britain showing in almost eighty venues.

Art in the Garden 2022 is a Reality at New Hopetoun Gardens

5 July 2022

Art in the Garden 2022 at New Hopetoun Gardens in West Lothian features original outdoor art installed in twenty display gardens throughout July and August.

Capital Looks Up to Visiting Giraffes This Summer

4 July 2022

Edinburgh’s extraordinary heritage and cultural diversity are being celebrated in an unusual way: a trail of forty individually-designed giraffe sculptures around the city.

Fran Lebowitz. Image copyright Brigitte Lacombe

New York-ing the World with Fran Lebowitz

29 June 2022

Review: The New York-based author and commentator Fran Lebowitz visits Edinburgh’s Usher Hall to offer her sardonic take on life.

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Herbie Rides Again at The Playhouse Edinburgh

8 August 2022

Review: Impossible to describe in anything other than modern-legendary terms, enduring jazz pianist Herbie Hancock visits the Edinburgh International Festival with a set including glowing career highlights.

A Burning Dance Through a Life

8 August 2022

Review: Physicality and humour combine with technical accomplishment in Alan Cumming’s one-man journey through the life of poet Robert Burns.

Fringe by the Sea at the Brunton, Musselburgh

27 July 2022

As Edinburgh enters its Festival season, neighbouring Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre has nineteen shows as part of its Brunton Fringe Festival and Summer Programme.

L-R Hannah Jarrett-Scott as Paula and Dani Heron as Maureen

Byrne Brings Back 1960’s Paisley, from Underwood Lane to Baker Street

20 July 2022

Review: Artist and playwright John Byrne revisits early-1960’s Paisley in Underwood Lane, inspired by his late friend Gerry Rafferty, and a companion piece to The Slab Boys.

John Scofield at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Assembly Hall. Image Greg McVean

Raising the Standards: John Scofield in Edinburgh

20 July 2022

Review: Edinburgh’s Jazz & Blues Festival presents the stellar veteran jazz guitarist John Scofield and his trio, reworking standards from his native America, by Leonard Bernstein, Neil Young, Jimmy Webb, and The Grateful Dead, among others.

Aping the Ape – Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre

18 July 2022

Review: SCENA Theatre’s one-man production of Franz Kafka’s commentary on ‘civilisation’ and its relationship to animals is based on a fascinating premise.

Aryana Ramkhalawon plays a ruthless politician in Exodus. Image Pete Dibdin

A Reputation on the Edge at National Theatre

11 July 2022

Exodus by the National Theatre of Scotland explores how far a politician will go in seeking office.

Dancing the Edinburgh International Festival

11 July 2022

Three of the highlights of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival are dance productions.

The cast of Private Lives, Photo: Fraser Band

Living the Private Life at Pitlochry Festival Theatre

11 July 2022

For the first time in over thirty years, Pitlochry Festival Theatre is staging a glittering new production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. The celebrated comedy follows

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