Visual Arts Ric Kasini Kadour was artist in residence at MERZ during January and February 2020. This interview outlines his Schwitters’ Army project involving 200 collages from 24 countries. The interview reveals several similarities between MERZ and Ric’s work in Canada and … Rick Kasini Kadour : Schwitters’ Army at MERZ
Visual Arts During her extended residency at MERZ Julia Zinnbauer researched, filmed and edited a film on the Scottish Borders’ based architect Peter Womersley. Julia’s earlier films had connected modernist architecture in the United States with the James Bond movies and had … Julia Zinnbauer : Peter Womersley Architect
Visual Arts Coming soon for World Collage Day the 200 or so envelopes in which the Schwitters’ Army collages arrived at MERZ in January. Collages by named artists inside and sometimes on the outside of the envelopes and packages. While at each … WORLD COLLAGE DAY, 9th May
Visual Arts Denise Zygadlo and Amy Marletta’s exhibition of collages and their work on the Hannah Höch art-house opened on 21st December at the Museum of Model Art. A further opening is scheduled for Boxing Day afternoon (2:00-4:00pm) otherwise by arrangement till … Denise Zygadlo & Amy Marletta : As the moon sees it
Visual Arts An exhibition to return to, again and again. Andy McDowall’s ’40 years behind the lens’ opened at MERZ on Friday 20th. Andy will be in the gallery most afternoons from 1:00-3:00pm till 4th January to talk you through forty years … Andy McDowall : 40 years behind the lens
Visual Arts Ally Wallace was our second Funded Artist in Residence at MERZ, staying from September to November in 2019. In this film Ally outlines the influence of local buildings and textile industries on his research, his approach to working and the … Ally Wallace : Factory Lines
Visual Arts Ally Wallace was our second Funded Artist in Residence at MERZ, staying from September to November in 2019. In this film Ally outlines the influence of local buildings and textile industries on his research, his approach to working and the … Ally Wallace : Factory Lines
Visual Arts Jane Frere introduces her exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Exit – 100 Days of Khaos is on till the 27th October. The exhibition also features animation by Georges Eloi Thibault who worked closely with Jane over a period of seven months. Jane Frere : Exit – 100 days of Khaos
Art in Scotland Visual Arts Jane Frere introduces her exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Exit – 100 Days of Khaos is on till the 27th October. The exhibition also features animation by Georges Eloi Thibault who worked closely with Jane over a period of seven months. Jane Frere : Exit – 100 Days of Khaos
Art in Scotland Visual Arts Artist in Residence at MERZ from mid-June till mid July Jason Maracani has been exploring the countryside in Upper Nithsdale with artist and guide Alice de Ville. Jason joined Alice to contribute work on a Bothy on the Southern Upland … Jason Maraconi : Tactile Shapes
Visual Arts Emerging from the social, geo-political and environmental uncertainty of the ‘Anthropocene’ – Fraɡˈmɛnt (Terra non-firma) brings together two recent recipients of Lateral Lab’s Robert Callender International Residency for Young Artists, Russell Beard and Stephen Kavanagh. In this joint exhibition, … Stephen Kavanagh : FRAG’MƐNT (TERRA NON-FIRMA)
Visual Arts Aurélie Fontan is a sustainable fashion designer focused on biodesign and ethical manufacture processes. Her graduate collection Tensegrity demonstrates the positive combination of craft and technology, essentially based on science imagery and disciplines. One of her pieces is entirely grown … Aurélie Fontan : Tensegrity
Visual Arts Pithos (one possible story of our lively material) presents existing and new works by artist Louise Mackenzie, following a three-year period of intense research within the laboratories of the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University and ASCUS Labs at Summerhall, … Louise Mackenzie : Pithos
Visual Arts Andrew Brown, founder of Edinburgh’s 369 Gallery, introduces the artists represented by the gallery in this second Summerhall exhibition featuring the men from 369. Andrew appraises the work of the women and men together in this extended interview. Andrew Brown : 369 Gallery
Visual Arts Shiela Mullen is one of the women artists celebrated in the 369 Remembered exhibition running at Summerhall till the end of 2018. Sheila Mullen is a Scottish painter who lives and works in Scotland. She was born on 24 January … Sheila Mullen : Studio
Visual Arts Pat Douthwaite, Lil Neilson, Carole Gibbons, Lys Hansen, Sheila Mullen, Rose Frain, Joyce Cairns, Fiona Robertson, Irina Zatulovskya, Caroline McNairn, Fionna Carlisle, Olivia Irvine Sat 03 Nov 2018 – Sun 23 Dec 2018 11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday) The 369 Gallery was founded … Robert McDowell, Emily Grieve and Roddy Martine : 369 remembered – the women
Visual Arts LIFE DURING WARTIME is a survey of paintings exploring themes of military, social and political conflict around the world dating from the artist’s appointment as the Imperial War Museum’s official artist for the Gulf War of 1990-91. On at Summerhall … John Keane : Life During Wartime
Visual Arts Venue: Anatomy / Dissection Room corridor & stairwell, Summerhall CAT (Creative, Aesthetic,Transgression) started life several years ago as a social media project. The CAT mask became an emblem of protest spread via social media in 2014. CAT masks, handmade by … Jane Frere : #PROTESTMASKPROJECT
Visual Arts KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by … David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that Schwitters’ last (place of) work, the MERZ Barn in Elterwater, Cumbria might be bought by … David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts This a conjectural model of Schwitters’ last day at the MERZBarn in Elterwater. Only … it seems the final flourish of plaster across the corner (all that remains in the Barn after the wall’s removal to the Hatton), was added … Martin Green & David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Visual Arts SATELLITE Visual Arts Scotland in association with Summerhall are delighted to present the work of eighteen of the hottest emerging talents on the Scottish Art scene. Since its inauguration in 2015 our Graduate Showcase has celebrated the finest emerging artist … Andrew MacKenzie : Satellite, VAS
Visual Arts Andrew MacKenzie introduces the work of the eighteen artists selected for the Satellite exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh, from May to July. The clip features eight of the artists discussing their work and the contribution VAS is making to their early … Visual Arts Scotland : Summerhall ‘Satellite’ Compilation
Visual Arts Over the last thirty years, and guided by wind-born currents and sand born by the run-off from Winter rains, Roland Chaplain has carefully crafted The Beach at Woodhall Loch, adjoining Laurieston Hall. Roland Chaplain : The Beach
Visual Arts Using Tintoretto’s creative presence and the atmosphere engendered by his great masterworks, studying their subtlety and responding to them with drawings and paintings of his own, Pulsford attempts to re-live Tintoretto’s experience of inventing them. War Memorial Library Gallery, Summerhall 11:00–18:00 (NOT … Mark Pulsford : Alla Presenza di Tintoretto/In the Presence of Tintoretto
Visual Arts Married for 51 years, Dawson and Liz Murray share a great passion for plants and have spent the twenty-one years since they moved to Fife designing a beautiful garden which provides a constantly changing source of inspiration for their work. … Liz & Dawson Murray : The Romance of the Garden: Fragments and Memories
Festivals Visual Arts Sarah Stewart is one of 84 artist/makers opening their studios for visitors between 26-28 May. Sarah is based in Wigtown, Scotland’s Book Town and her recent work engages various forms of printing with some images based on typewriters and their … Sarah Stewart : Spring Fling 2018
Visual Arts Denise Zygadlo lives and works in Scotland. Her work includes drawing, printing, performance and installation. Trained in printed textiles, Denise worked with several design studios, notably Jenny Frean Associates, now First Eleven, before moving from London to Dumfries in 1980. … Denise Zygadlo : Prints and Drawings
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Well-known bioartists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr (The Tissue Culture & Art Project) present their landmark work Pig Wings (2000). Advances in tissue engineering, xenotransplantation and genomics promise to render the living body as a malleable mass. Questioning the effect … Oron Catts : Pigs Wings + Work in Progress
Summerhall Exhibitions Visual Arts Ting-Tong Chang: Sciennes Galleries, Summerhall Using robotic devices to simulate living animals, P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness brings lifelike characteristics to lifeless animal bodies. The sophisticated mechanism of each automaton contain within them a notion that life can be … Ting-Tong Chang : P’eng’s Journey to the Southern Darkness
