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Courtyard Commission 2024: A Shift in Perception

Susa Joy Joy

'When I think of TRANSFORMATION my thoughts immediately take me to the beauty of our minds ability to transform emotions – for better or worse – due to how we choose to think. We all know it can... [more]

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End of Pier Show

Charlie Stiven

A reflection on Brexit and its... [more]

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Some of Summerhall

Will Knight

Will Knight’s background in Architecture has instilled in him the importance of people and place, and the significance that one’s environment, has on their understanding of community and... [more]

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Tarogramma

Damien Cifelli

Damien Cifelli is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the fictitious land of Tarogramma, a hidden world that explorers have long searched for in vain.His work is focused on fictional... [more]

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You Are Magic

Pilar Garcia de Leaniz

Pilar Garcia de Leaniz is a freelance award-winning illustrator and graphic designer and teaching fellow at Edinburgh College of Art.Leaniz' works stem from a belief in the link between... [more]

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The Bone Library

Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan was the Gavin Wallace Fellowship writer in residence at Summerhall from February 2019 to February 2020. During the Fellowship, she worked on a new book of poetry, The Bone Library, and a... [more]

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Protest Mask Project

Jane Frere

The CAT - standing for Creative, Aesthetic Transgression - came first as a social media experiment for the selfie generation. Frere's cat masks have travelled from China and Iran, across Europe to... [more]

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Meena Bazaar 2017

Urdu Park: Axial Margins

Meena Bazaar is a collaborative work by nine artists (Bina, Parveen, Rabina, Reshma, Ritu, Sabina, Sabrun, Shehzadi, Sunita) – homeless women living with their children in a government-run night... [more]

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Stage Set

Fraser Gray and Martin McGuinness

Often using found materials, industrial painting processes and traditional techniques, Fraser Gray and Martin McGuinness employ the processes themselves to construct meaning from what we see,... [more]

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The Odyssey

John Kindness

John Kindness presents a series of works based on Homer's epic.Inspired by James Joyce's version of the Odyssey, Ulysses, Kindness draws on the detailed nature of the writing to inform the... [more]

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Paintings by Nihad Al Turk

Nihad Al Turk

Many of Nihad Al Turk's deeply psychological compositions, informed by readings in literature and philosophy, can be read as allegorical self-portraits.Central to his work are the thematic... [more]

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Wall Drawing No. 1

Roger Elliot

Wall Drawing No.1 explores the perception of the expressive potential of rational structures. It is not to be stood in front of, but rather moved around, from right to left and then back again. By... [more]

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Courtyard Commission 2023: High Hopes

Nathan Price

2023’s courtyard commission has been awarded to recent graduate Nathan Price, a mixed media installation artist based in Scotland. Price’s work captures an intense feeling of fun, excitement and... [more]

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Feminine Futures

Curated by Adrien Sina

Avant-garde expressive & abstract dance‘Feminine Futures’ exhibitions explore dance history in the feminine during the first half of the 20th century, unfolding new research perspectives... [more]

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The Demarco European Art Foundation

For over half a century Richard Demarco has been closely involved with the Edinburgh International Festival. As an artist, gallery director, conference organiser and teacher, he has been a potent... [more]

Viewing available by appointment with Richard Demarco's office only