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BLOOM WITH A VIEW

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Lynne Harkes's wonderfully well-observed 'bee's-eye views' of flowers and petals caught our attention back in March when she exhibited at Bon Papillon on Howe Street (Breaking news, 13.3.12).

Now she's back again, with a new exhibition at the Dundas Street Gallery (6 Dundas Street) from 6–16 September.

'MAVERICK TALENT OF EXUBERANT GIFTS' – SAX SHAW (1917–2000)

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An exhibition at Whitespace Gallery this month looks at the work of Edinburgh-based Sax Shaw, a leading light amongst Scottish artists of the 20th century.

Shaw's career encompassed watercolour painting, tapestry and stained glass as his predominant media. However, he also turned his hand to theatrical design, church furnishings and vestsments, murals, mosaics and other decorative arts.

KENYA TRIP LEAVES PARTNERS HUNGRY FOR MORE

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Drummond Community High School’s partnership with Muthambi Boys and Girls Schools in Kenya received a huge boost this summer with the visit of four senior students and three staff from Drummond, writes Partnership coordinator Annie Scanlon. A lot of hard work and support from local organisations (including the Spurtle) resulted in this 10-day visit.
 

CLOSE UP AND PERSONAL

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A new exhibition will begin soon at Bon Papillon, which means you have just 5 days in which to admire the extraordinary paintings of Rachel McKean there until 7 September.

McKean – a gifted cellist with an interest in art restoration – is from Edinburgh and is in the last year of her MA Hons in Fine Art.

AMBIGUOUS AND INTRIGUING: 'THE WAITING PLACE'

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One of the quiet highlights of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival is surely Andrew Miller's The Waiting Place, set not far away from Ronald Rae's recumbent lion in St Andrew Square, writes John Ross Maclean.

This severely charming structure in black, recycled cedar and metal – described variously as 'a pavilion/bothy/kiosk/folly' for 'people waiting for diffent things to happen' (the latter a quotation from Dr Seuss's Oh the Places You'll Go) – also serves as a Festival venue.