Emergence
An exhibition of work produced on this year's ESW's Sculpture Courses programme
Friday 9 July, 6-8pm
(refreshments will be served)
Saturday 10 July 10am-4pm
Free admission
Featuring work completed during courses in Wood Carving, Stone Carving, Clay Portrait, Clay Modelling,
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Papermaking, Working with Found Objects, Metal Sculpture, Working with Glass and Dis-Place.
Staff and tutors will be on hand on the Friday night to give further information about the course programme.
Black Spring
Thursday 24 June, 7-9pm
A one night only event at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
This event will showcase work by a diverse group of creative practitioners including spoken-word, artists’ films, performance, poetry and sound.
Artists: Sophie Orton, Stuart McAdam, Colin Herd, Derek Lodge, Jessica Curry, and Johannes Sailor
‘Black Spring’ is inspired by the Henry Miller book sharing the same name. The novel is divided into sections, of subversive, self-revelation and free association:
"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only" Henry Miller, Black Spring
This event is intended to support offbeat projects, introduce a group of young, and some more established artists, to each other and a wider audience, but is also intended to bring a new audience to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
This event is part of the Annuale 2010, 19 June – 4 July 2010 www.annuale.org |
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Image: Stuart McAdam |
An exhibition by Telford College’s 2010 Contemporary Art Practice graduates:
Cabin Fever
Opening Event:
Friday 28 May, 6pm-8pm
Exhibition open:
Saturday 29 May to Wednesday 2 June, 10am-5pm
The 2010 HND Diploma show for graduating students of the Contemporary Art Practice course at Edinburgh’s Telford College takes place at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
“This innovative and brilliant course has culminated in an interesting and diverse collection of art works which include sculpture, painting, video and installations.”
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Dialogues
Hatchings - Karen Lyons and Rachel Maclean
An exhibition of new work supported by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop featuring artists, Karen Lyons (Leeds) and Rachel Maclean (Glasgow).
Hatchings features the works of two female artists, Karen Lyons and Rachel Maclean. The timing of the exhibition has been of particular inspiration to the concepts behind it. At Easter time we are now bombarded with an endless stream of kitsch commercialism, mawkish imagery and sugary products to encourage unbridled consumption. Hatchings seeks to parody this contemporary condition and present an alternative Easter message.
EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES:
Saturday 10 April to Tuesday 20 April 2010
Opening hours: 12-6pm daily
Artists Talk: Sunday 18 April, 2pm
Patriothall Gallery, 1D Patriothall, off Hamilton Place, Edinburgh EH3 5AY
Admission: Free
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Karen Lyons and Rachel Maclean
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ESW / eca 2009 Graduate Bursary:
Shona Macnaughton: ‘The Good Room’
Shona Macnaughton will present a new body of work produced whilst undertaking the graduate ESW / eca bursary during the past three months.
The good room is a space to keep, a preserved room, not for living. If you have a good room you are preserved, you live. In the good room all is still. In the good room you display things. Things that show you at your best. In the good room nothing happens. In the good room you can show where you have been. You have been lots of places.
www.shonamacnaughton.com
Event: Presentation on the work exhibited/ crit, Thur 1 Apr, 4pm*
Viewing dates: Thur 1 - Sun 4 Apr 2010, 10.30am - 4.30pm daily except Sunday - by appointment only.
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Shona McNaughton
‘Earth Views (Wonderful Painting)’ 2010
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* Booking – places for the presentation on the work, on Thursday 1 April at 4pm are limited to 15 - phone 0131 551 4490 or e-mail admin@edinburghsculpture.org to ensure your place.
Dialogues - The Omega Workshop
Emily Fogarty and Ewan Sinclair
New work supported by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Artists’ Talk:
Saturday 17 October 2pm - 4pm
Exhibition Open:
Sunday 11 October to Sunday 25 October
Open daily: 12 - 5pm |
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Venue: Patriothall Gallery, 1D Patriothall, Off Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY
This year’s Dialogues presents, new work by Emily Fogarty and Ewan Sinclair produced under the title “Omega Workshop”. Appropriating the name from the Bloomsbury Group’s design enterprise both artists have plundered consumer culture in search of fragments and motifs to bend to their means. Whether it is the pattern of a curtain in the background of an episode of Smiley’s People, Swatch watches or segments of adverts gleaned from the internet they have adapted these sources into a colour-saturated, 80’s infused paean to domestic design and its glossy products. Although sharing sources their approaches are very different, Ewan Sinclair’s use of contemporary technology contrasting with Emily Fogarty’s more traditional modes of production results in an interesting conflict of craft vs digital.
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Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
An exhibition of poetry and sculpture created as part of a project to help raise awareness about issues surrounding domestic abuse.
Exhibition Open Now until
Wednesday 7th October
10am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays
At Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
During the summer of 2009 young people from Liberton and Carrick Knowe primary schools, Leith Academy and Boroughmuir High School, Woodlands School and Cannongate Youth Project worked with three poets and three sculptors using the mediums of both sculpture and poetry to explore issues surrounding domestic abuse. The project has been funded by the City of Edinburgh Council in collaboration with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Visitors on Saturday 26th September will also be able to see round Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop as part of the annual Doors Open Day.
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Children at Liberton Primary working on their sculpture. Credit: Allison & Bray. |
An exhibition of work to support Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s plans to
create a new international centre of excellence for contemporary sculpture.
In 2008 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop invited some of Scotland’s best known painters and printmakers to make small bronzes in limited editions at Powderhall Bronze Foundry. Paintings and prints will be exhibited alongside the commissioned sculptures.
The proceeds from all works on show in this unique exhibition will go towards the new
sculpture centre which will provide the ideal environment for supporting artists and
promoting public access to the arts.
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New Members Production Awards 2009
Monday 6 April - Saturday 23 May
ESW is delighted to announce that the New Members Production Awards for 2009 have been awarded to: Ailsa Lochhead, Darren Farquhar and David McAllister. The three artists will be given a small grant and the opportunity to work in ESW's Project Space for seven weeks. |
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ESW Artists in Residence 2009
Artists in residence in 2009 are Kate Ive (ESW/ECA Bursary Award) and Ruth Barrie (ESW/RSA Research Award).
ESW/ECA Bursary Award
Kate Ive has been awarded the Graduate Bursary Award funded by ESW and Edinburgh College of Art. The bursary enables graduates from the School of Sculpture to have a studio at ESW for three months, a fee towards materials, tailored professional development and mentoring by ESW’s staff team. The aim is to help artists at the very start of their career by offering support, space to work and access to ESW’s artist networks.
Image: Kate Ives “Veils” detail, 2008, Photo Credit: Kate Ives |
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ESW Research Award 2009
Selected from nearly 60 artists exhibiting in the Royal Scottish Academy's New Contemporaries show, Ruth Barrie is the winner of this year's Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Research Award receives a one month residency in ESW's Pavilion, plus a year's free membership providing access to facilities, support and a network of practising artists at ESW.
"Ruth's sculptural work dealt with domestic and human themes in a bold and playful way. The simple manipulation of materials seemed to speak of complex family relationship structures and the domestic environment. Whilst seemingly insignificant and slight, the sculptures took a quirky pop at domestic bliss." Derek Sutherland, ESW Artistic Programme Committee
RSA New Contemporaries featured graduates selected from the 2008 Degree shows by a team of RSA Members, led by Professor Will Maclean RSA. The graduates were selected from the six schools of architecture and five main colleges of art in Scotland: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Elgin (Moray College of Art). The ESW Research Award is selected by ESW's Artistic Programme Committee - an elected committee of practising artists from ESW's Membership.
'The Reckoning' Part One
Sierra Metro
Saturday 13 to Sunday 28 June,
1-5pm, Tuesdays to Sundays
Free admission
A joint initiative set up by Kings ARI in Melbourne with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, the second part opens in Melbourne in September 2009.
The sun rises, there is air to breathe, water to drink, and land to stand on, but for how much longer? Our fears have been directed upon the more dramatic and glamorous enemies without. Despite warnings, we persist with the senselessness of lemmings, blithely running towards the abyss. Regard the pretty pass our short-termism has brought us to. There will be a Reckoning.
An exhibition of new work by four Australian artists; Danica Chappell, Tamsin Green, Kel Glaister and Jackie McNamee, and four Scottish artists; Darren Farquhar, Jessica Harrison, Jonathan Owen and Derek Sutherland |
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Venue: Sierra Metro, Ground Floor North,
22 West Harbour Road,
Granton,
Edinburgh EH5 1PN
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This project is supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts
With support from The Scots Australian Council.
www.sierrametro.com
'The Reckoning' - Artist Talk
Wednesday 24th June
6pm at Sierra Metro.
The Reckoning is an exhibition of work by artists from Edinburgh and Melbourne jointly organized by Kings ARI and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
The second part opens in Melbourne in September 2009.
Derek Sutherland and Danica Chappell, two of the participating artists in The Reckoning, discuss the work in the exhibition.
Sutherland's work uses low-tech ostensibly mundane materials to create unexpected configurations and arrangements.
Chappell is a Melbourne-based spatial practice artist with roots in photography, video and installation. Her work, which is expressively formal in appearance, underpins concepts of oppressiveness in an overtly balanced manner.
Venue: Sierra Metro, Ground Floor North,
22 West Harbour Road,
Granton,
Edinburgh EH5 1PN
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This project is supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts
With support from The Scots Australian Council.
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