Edinburgh Art Festival 2006
27 July - 3 September 2006
Over 30 galleries will take part in this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, which will complement and run concurrently with Edinburgh’s other major festivals in August.
The galleries will exhibit a range of new and existing artwork, including:
- work by internationally renowned artists,
- works loaned from some of the world’s most prestigious and important collections,
- artistic talent from Scotland and
- exciting collaborative projects by artists working across different media including site-specific installations.
Among the highlights of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival are major ‘blockbuster’ exhibitions planned by Scotland’s national arts organisations. These include:
- Beyond the Palace Walls at the Royal Museum exhibits over 170 amazing works of Islamic art dating from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries, all taken from the walls of the winter palace in St Petersburg, and many of which have never been seen before outside Russia.
- Paintings by Italian artist Canaletto at the Queen’s Gallery.
- An extraordinary exhibition of paintings by one of art’s great, but unsung heroes – Alan Elsheimer – at the National Gallery of Scotland.
- Laura Ford’s child-like suits of armour at the RSA on the Mound.
- Celebrated impressionist Vincent Van Gogh at the city’s Dean Gallery.
- The largest exhibition of rare lithographic prints to date (around 130 prints) exploring the history of French posters from the early 19th century Romantic period through to Art Nouveau at the City Art Centre. This exhibition includes fifteen of the most famous works by Toulouse-Lautrec, including the large poster La Goulue, which he designed in 1891 for the Moulin Rouge.
- Twentieth century American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Australian born sculptor and former special effects artist Ron Mueck, best known for Dead Dad – a haunting sculpture of the corpse of his father – at the Royal Scottish Academy Building
- Robert Ryman’s white paintings in the naturally lit gallery at Inverleith House on display for the first time in Scotland.
Recognised up and coming artists exhibiting new work include:
- Moyna Flannigan at doggerfisher, whose new portraits are a mix of fantasy with an undertow of both slapstick and social commentary
- This year’s ‘Beck’s Futures’ winner Matt Stokes at the Collective, with a newly commissioned piece relating to Edinburgh’s music scenes and subcultures (Stokes is also performing a unique off-site pipe organ recital of experimental transcriptions of underground music in one of Edinburgh’s greatest landmarks St Giles’ Cathedral on the Royal Mile)
- American artist Lauren Kirkman’s cobbled street installation piece at the Corn Exchange Gallery
- Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam’s at the Fruitmarket Gallery showing newly commissioned video work.
Major group exhibitions include seven artists’ work using traditional Japanese woodblock techniques at Patriothall at WASPS and over twenty internationally recognized artists exhibiting at The Talbot Rice Gallery.
Some of the Scottish artists taking part include:
- Painter Andrew Mackenzie at the Amber Roome Gallery;
- David Batchelor at the Ingleby Gallery will be exhibiting two large-scale light chandeliers off-site at a dramatic setting in Edinburgh;
- Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley at Edinburgh Printmakers;
- Barbara Rae at the Scottish Gallery.
- E m e r g e D have commissioned young Scottish artist Scott Laverie to create a pavilion in which to host a four week creative programme of sound art, temporary installations and sculpture by up-and-coming local artists.
Amber Roome Contemporary Art
Atticsalt
Bourne Fine Art
City Art Centre
Collective Gallery
Corn Exchange Gallery
Dean Gallery
Doggerfisher
Edinburgh Printmakers
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
E m e r g e D Edinburgh
The Fruitmarket Gallery
In the Fields, Studio for New Media Art
Ingleby Gallery
Inverleith House
Merz Gallery
Open Eye Gallery
The Queens Gallery
Royal Museum & Museum of Scotland
Royal Scottish Academy Building
Royal Scottish Academy
The Scottish Gallery
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Sleeper
Stills Gallery
Talbot Rice Gallery
Travelling Gallery
WASPS Patriothall Gallery
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