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Marie-Michelle Deschamps has created a new installation and sound-work called Don’t trip over the wire ... ! for the Collective Gallery, writes Rhys Fullerton.
It’s part of The Satellites Programme – a scheme for the development of emergent artists based in Scotland who are at pivotal points in their careers. Deschamps, who graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, has only recently started practising in sound.
A work donated by the ‘Anonymous Book Sculptor’ raised over £2,000 at auction in the Macmillan Art Exhibition and Sale earlier this week. Proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support.
It will remain free to view in Bonham’s 22 Queen Street showroom (Venue 216) until the show closes at 4.00pm tomorrow.
The work is fashioned from a copy of Newman and Leeds’ The Textbook of British Butterflies and Moths, first published in 1913.
At a time of year when one can easily feel overwhelmed by the volume of marketing hoopla surrounding cultural events in the capital, it comes as a pleasure to find the modest virtues of patience and quiet concentration in an exhibition on Howe Street.
Working Collective artists Marion Barron, Sheila Chapman, Trevor Davies and Ruth Thomas return to the basement Edinburgh Ski Club with new works, following the success of last year’s inaugural group show New Lines in the same venue.
Broughton-based commedian Craig Hill demonstrated a number of ways to use a brush this lunchtime.
The technique shown on the right was probably the most practical, despite a conspicuous lack of rubbish nearby needing to be swept.
Hill had joined Council street-cleansing task force staff Stuart Hamilton and Kevin Manson to promote the fourth year of CEC’s scheme to better manage flyposting in the city.
‘Concept’ plans for the demolition of 52–52a Annandale Street and their replacement by flats went on display this afternoon for public consultation.
The ideas have been worked up by planners Jones Lang LaSalle and architects Covell Matthews for the Glasgow-based developer Westpoint Homes.
Some 120 bedrooms in 60 flats are proposed with five storeys (including a penthouse) above ground-floor level. There are 47 car parking spaces intended on-site, and five on-street visitor spaces.
Doug Simpson has contacted us asking for Spurtle readers’ help in solving a local mystery.
He is a Broughton Place-based photographer working on a project involving small (150 x 200 mm) enamelled signs like the ones shown here.
They are attached to the walls and railings of buildings around central Edinburgh and Leith, with a few in the Broughton area.
The ones pictured on this page appear in Abercromby Place, Dublin Street Lane, Hart Street, and on Leith Walk Primary School.
Spurtle had high hopes of The Alternative Edinburgh Walking Tour on Saturday.
With five minutes to go before the scheduled start, we’d asked the guide what it was about the tour which made it alternative.
‘Well,’ he replied, ‘it doesn’t really go anywhere. And we don’t set out to inform or entertain.’
Payment was to be by voluntary donation – audience members giving as much or as little as they wished.
As recently reported here, getting the right number of the right-sized communal bins in the right places is only half the battle when it comes to keeping New Town streets clean.
Next you have to fill them correctly, and find a way to get the Council to clear up the results of any spillage or misuse.
Meet James Craig Page: self-taught artist, pop-up speakeasy host and clairvoyant medium.
Page is normally based in Dunbar, but during the Festival period you can find him in a cellar below Dofo’s on Blenheim Place.
Here he is exhibiting his paintings by day, alongside an occasional vintage clothes boutique; and by night welcoming musicians, poets, performers and other thirsty free spirits from the Church of Gloss until 5am.
The event venue is called Amma, after the deity of the Dogon tribe in Mali.
‘It is wonderful to think what a turn has been given to our whole Society by the fact that we live under the sign of Aquarius – that our climate is essentially wet.
‘A mere arbitrary distinction, like the walking-swords of yore, might have remained the symbol of foresight and respectability, had not the raw mists and dropping showers of our island pointed the inclination of Society to another exponent of those virtues.