The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is the latest (and last) of a phased re-opening of the National Galleries of Scotland buildings. To mark this, a new exhibition looks at how 2020 has shaped our lives.
The City Art Centre re-opened on Saturday 12th September after a lockdown of six months. ArtMag went along to take a socially-distanced look at the new exhibitions.
Dovecot Studios launches its first on-site exhibition since lockdown with this postponed exploration of Mid-Century Modern design, extending its run until at least the end of 2020. Supported by The Dovecot Foundation and organised by the Fashion and Textile Museum, London.
Leith School of Art launches its end of year exhibition online for the first time ever, allowing viewers to see and buy work from the students of eight different year-long courses and the Graduate Residency programme.
JW58 is the second online exhibition in the Ullapool gallery’s programme for 2020, now open for viewing until lockdown restrictions are lifted. Two narratives on the same journey, 75 years apart, connect in the same exhibition, one written and one painted.
Instagram hosts a virtual gallery space as Ingleby Gallery locks down until further notice. The Gallery is showing an online exhibition of artworks that would never typically be seen together.
This online exhibition at The Scottish Gallery also exists within a closed gallery space. It offers a glimpse into the working life of artist Ross Ryan and makes connecting with an audience in lockdown look easy.
Pine’s Eye is a response to calls for humanity to think more ecologically. Twelve international artists present an impressive exhibition curated and supported by Talbot Rice Gallery and The University of Edinburgh.
Note: currently closed until further notice. ‘saracen go home’ is a new installation by artist and writer Sulaïman Majali, showing as part of Collective Gallery’s Satellites development programme for emerging artists and producers based in Scotland.
The MacKinnon Collection has been acquired for the nation in a joint effort from National Galleries Scotland and National Library of Scotland. This is the taster exhibition for a photography collection spanning 100 years of Scottish life and culture.
The City Art Centre brings Edinburgh artist Mary Cameron (1865-1921) back into the spotlight. Taking up the entire first floor, many of Cameron’s works shown are from private collections, rarely seen in public and brought together for the first solo exhibition since her death in 1921.
The first-ever retrospective exhibition of the Portuguese-born, UK-based artist opens in Edinburgh: a major, independently-curated exhibition, organised in conjunction with other galleries in England and Ireland.
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings are now on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh until March 2020 – the conclusion to a year-long nationwide exhibition and Scotland’s largest-ever exhibition of the artist.
This year’s Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show moves to a new venue at Apex Waterloo Place. Now in its 17th year, the show raises vital funds for Macmillan Cancer Care and gives us all the opportunity to own an original piece of affordable contemporary art.
ArtMag attended the Edinburgh launch of the 27th French Film Festival UK at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
Edinburgh Printmakers has commissioned artists Alberta Whittle and Hardeep Pandhal to create new work for its autumn exhibition responding to the heritage of its Castle Mills site.
This major retrospective exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum brings together an impressive collection of McCartney’s work from her early days as a portrait photographer of musical icons to more intimate portraits of friends and family.
Dovecot Studios and the Crafts Council bring the tapestries and design work for Grayson Perry’s ambitious architecture and tapestry project to Scotland for the first time.
The City Art Centre presents the first-ever major retrospective of Victoria Crowe as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Art Festival. Victoria Crowe: 50 Years of Painting gathers over 150 works from private and public collections, taking up three floors of Edinburgh City Council’s largest exhibition space.
Cryptic presents Below the Blanket, a sensory series of visual, sonic and kinetic installations. Featuring new work from visual artists and composers who have all spent time in residence at Flow Country, part of The Peatland Partnership’s Flows to the Future Project (led by RSPB Scotland) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The leading Scottish composer of his generation celebrates turning 60 with five performances at the heart of the Edinburgh International Festival. This culminates with the world premiere of his Symphony No.5: ‘Le grand Inconnu’ and shows off MacMillan’s talent to compose for both voice and orchestra.
Summer at ECA is a programme of free exhibitions and events, taking place mostly on-site at the ECA campus at Lauriston Place. This includes the ECA Festival exhibition of postgraduate work and forms part of the Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s summer exhibition is a comprehensive history of 400 years of collage. This is the first-ever survey exhibition of collage in art, and part of the Edinburgh Art Festival programme.
The Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh is showing recent work from four artists for its Festival Exhibition this August: David Mach, Fiona Maher, Ian Stuart Campbell and Andrew Grieveson.
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