The Royal Scots Regimental Museum’s annual outreach exhibition opened at Out of the Blue this morning. Depute Lord Provost Cllr Lezley Cameron (right) helped launch the event.
This year’s exhibition focuses on the Quintinshill rail disaster of 22 May 1915, in which 227 people died including 216 officers and soldiers of the 1st/7th (Leith Battalion) on their way to the Gallipoli campaign.
The idea that visiting a gallery can be a healing balm is manifested in Shipping Roots, by Keg de Souza. This is the current exhibition at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden.
From the first moment you enter the building, your nostrils and lungs are filled with the deeply calming aroma of eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is widely used as a natural cold remedy, by decreasing mucus and expanding the bronchi and bronchioles of your lungs.
This is interesting: the Ingleby Gallery’s virtual viewing room, part of its Instalments series, in which local artist Jessica Harrison describes the thoughts and techniques behind her transformations of found objects.
In this installation, the reworked pieces form two separate series; one playing with Bone China Figures of women, the other with classical statues as pictured and supposedly available in Online Shopping.
Christopher Spencer’s exhibition at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall has been extended till Thursday – sustained, it seems, by an inexhaustible font of outrage.
You, Me & Cold War Steve (The International Exhibition of the People) brings together three years’ scorn (2019–21) in the form of 50 artfully manipulated photomontages.
Spencer’s style draws on Hieronymus Bosch’s eye for infernal detail, and the exuberant savagery of Hogarth and Gillivray.
Since 1981, the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) John Kinross Scholarship has afforded 10 students of art and/or architecture the chance to live and create in Florence for 3 months.
A few years later, an Academician’s bright spark saw works created during these Italian sojourns added (mandatorily) to a collection held by the RSA. Said hoard has swelled over the years until achieving national significance – who said you can’t have too much of a good thing?
‘The Art of Hospitality’ is a refreshing idea of what the Fringe could be, outside the hands of the big operators and showcasing the creativity of Edinburgh’s people.
Michael Worobec, an entertaining and talkative host, welcomes the visitor into his home on Claremont Crescent (Venue 109), a beautiful Georgian townhouse over three floors, and is on hand to provide first-hand commentary on his life, inspirations, and art practice as well as musings on the themes of architecture, nature, tourism, and much more.