Edinburgh Art Festival 2016

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Edinburgh Art Festival 2016

Edinburgh Art Festival, founded in 2004, quickly became UK’s largest, most spectacular annual festival of visual arts. Presenting Scotland’s leading galleries’, museums, and artist run spaces, along with new public art commissioned by already established and emerging artists and an innovative program of special events. A large portion of the festival is free to attend.

A record 300,000 individuals attended over 40 exhibitions and 20 venues throughout August 2015. This year, visitors can attend 46 unique exhibitions spread out all over the city. Exhibitions include Commission Programme, Platform: 2016, Permanet Commissions, Partner Exhibitions, Pop Up Exhibitions and events, and more.

A map outlining the location of most of the exhibitions

Date

Running from July 28th to August 28th, 2016

Location

Various venues all over Edinburgh

Here are some of the recommended exhibition and activities:

Commission Programme: Dazzle Ship

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Ciara Phillips’ Every Woman, co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and 14-18 NOW, is the fourth in a series of ‘Dazzle’ ship designs developed by contemporary artists to commemorate the First World War.

Designed not to camouflage, but to distort a ship’s appearance when viewed through a telescope, ‘Dazzle’ was developed by the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson to counter the threat posed by German U-Boats. Using strongly contrasting blocks of colour, stripes and curves, dazzle designs transformed ships into a confusing array of multi-directional shapes, making it difficult to gauge a ship’s direction or speed.

Date

Monday—Sunday

2 June—28 August 2016

Location

MV Fingal,

Prince of Wales Dock

Leith, EH6 7DX

The Dazzle Ship is located a short signposted walk from Ocean Terminal or The Shore. It is best viewed from Ocean Drive and Prince of Wales Dock. There is no access on board. A small display on the history of Dazzle is located at the end of the Prince of Wales Dock.

Permanet Commission: Callum Innes - The Regent Bridge, 2012

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The Regent Bridge is Callum Innes's first light-based work: a simple intervention which floods a dark tunnel on Calton Road with colour to reveal the magnificent architecture of the Regent Bridge above. Working with architect and lighting artist Gavin Fraser, of FOTO-MA Lighting Architects, Innes has evolved a scheme that transforms the flat sides of the lower arch at street level into an illuminating plinth of floating colour. The work follows a series of set rules to create a structured and yet deliberately random order of coloured light, revealing and lifting the giant curve of the arch.

Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Ingleby.

Date

Accessible 24 hours a day. Best experienced in darkness.

Location

The Regent Bridge, Calton Road

Under Waterloo Place,

Edinburgh, EH8 8DL

 

Children & Families - Dazzle T-shirts Workshop (ages 7-11)

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This summer Edinburgh Art Festival are running a series of creative art workshops in libraries inspired by Ciara Phillips’ Every Woman, the fourth in a series of contemporary “dazzle” ships, currently berthed in Leith Docks.

Take inspiration from the Dazzle Ball held in 1919 inspired by the Chelsea Arts Club to design and paint your own “dazzled” T-shirts and props looking at shapes, patterns and optical illusions. You will be sure to “dazzle” everyone you know!

Suitable for ages 7-11 (all welcome, room for grown-ups too)

Date

Wed 20th July 2:00 - 3:30pm

Wed 27th July 1:30 - 3:00pm

Location

Various venues

 

Activities & Events - Art Early: Fruitmarket, Dovecot, Talbot Rice Gallery (Family – all ages welcome)

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This year, we are hosting a specially programmed Art Early for families and children of all ages. A family-fun arts event inspired by our Art Late programme, join us for a morning of activities at venues across the city, culminating in a summer picnic.

This Art Early will include visits to 3 of our partner galleries’ exhibitions. We will meet at Fruitmarket Gallery at 10am for a reading of Miroslav Sasek’s This is Edinburgh followed by a session making small sculptures inspired by the Damian Ortegaexhibition. All actvities will be led by trained young people from their youth programme, Fresh Fruit. We will then continue on to Dovecot gallery for an activity tour of their exhibition The Scottish Endarkenment, Art and Unreason, 1945 to the Present. This will include a torchlit treasure hunt, using UV torches you will need to find secret and invisible codes hidden around the whole gallery. Find the secret message, crack the code and learn all about the exhibition. The morning will conclude at Talbot Rice Gallery with a viewing of Alice Neel: The Subject and Me and a picnic in the courtyard of the Old College buildings.

Date

Sat 13 August 10:00 - 12:30pm

Location

Various venues

 

Pop-Up Exhibitions & Events - Helen McCrorie: The Clock in Commune

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The Clock in Commune is a multi-screen video installation developed by artist Helen McCrorie for The Glasite House; an A-listed former worship house of the Glasite religious sect. This experimental film essay follows contemporary communities of men in Scotland, conducting ancient rites that mark succession and the passing of time: a rural pagan fire-ceremony at Hogmanay and the ordination of a Passionist priest.

Weaving together spectacles from former dominant belief systems in Scotland with intimate domestic ritual and routine, this playful collage of moving image reflects on shifting perceptions of time.

Date

11 – 14 August

Thu & Fri, 10am – 5pm 


Sat & Sun, 11am – 6pm

Location

The Glasite Meeting House

33 Barony Street,

Edinburgh, EH3 6NX

Platform: 2016 – Performance: Made to be Broken

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Created specifically for Platform: 2016, Made to be Broken combines sculptural objects with a series of performances which explore the destructive force that is central to creation - in collaboration with Jamie Robson.

Date

Friday 5 August, 6pm

Saturday 13 August, 12pm

Location

Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk

9–11 Blair Street,

Edinburgh, EH1 1QR