Come walk the streets with us and find hidden, subversive works of art among the shops and cafes. (g)HostCity is a new ‘virtual festival’ – an exciting programme of audio performances that you experience on your own time using a smartphone or MP3 player. Includes new work by Momus, Alan Bissett, Jenny Lindsay, Jim Colquhoun [...]

Ashley Nieuwenhuizen was born in Johannesburg in 1984 and lives and works in Dundee and Fife. Graduating with a First Class Degree, with Distinction in September 2010 from the Master of Fine Art Programme at Duncan of Jordanstone, Ashley Nieuwenhuizen continues to investigate the fantastical and scientific realms that serve to amalgamate features and aspects [...]

A sunlit summer room. Light streams on glass cases as the removers in overalls tape the head, neck and torso of a a horse skeleton.

BiDiNG TiME is an international experiment to make music theatre in 2012. This installation launches the process and shares a story. Its an adventure with a deadline with many opportunities to take part. What are you waiting for?

In partnership with Pleasance & Summerhall

A unique collection of materials from the foremost French artist of his generation. Descriptive tours provided free on arrangement with Director of Heart Fine Art, Paul Robertson.    

ECA graduate Clare Flatley has been invited to exhibit her work ‘The Black Gates’ as part of the Summerhall Programme 2011. ‘My degree show piece demonstrates my explorations into the absorbent and reflective qualities of surfaces, particularly the immersive power and apparent depth of a black surface. My aim was to create a passing point [...]

Slow Dancing is a series of 43 larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers from around the world, displayed on multiple screens. Each subject’s movement (approximately 5 seconds long) was shot on a specially constructed set using a high-speed, high-definition camera recording at 1,000 frames per second (standard film captures 30 frames per second). [...]

Summerhall in Edinburgh (festival Fringe venue 26), was for a century the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.  Ingrid Christie has photographed the site and derived a large series of potent images, many of which are now on show at Summerhall. They tie in with several major themes in her artworks.  One is making cross-cultural [...]

James Howie, who died early in July, was one of the most important Scottish artists, who established a reputation in the London art world in the 1960s.    He had established a well-deserved reputation as a successful British artist.   He was a prize-winner in the first John Moores’ exhibition in Liverpool in 1957 and, although he [...]

ZWART Creative Bureau presents ‘(dis)ambiguation’. Featuring the work of three award winning young artists, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Ashley Niewenhuizen and Stephanie Richardson, the exhibition presents a collection of sculptural investigations that challenge genetic normality, investigate the fragility of form and identity and focus on each artist’s fascination with hybrid creatures.   Jamie Fitzpatrick is a sculptor [...]

La Biennale di Venezia nel Mondo, – Craigcrook Castle with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs &  Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh ‘Paul Neagu Performance on Inchcolm Island’, The Demarco Gallery Edinburgh Arts Summer School, 1972. This year, the committee for the world famous Venice Biennial of Modern Art decided to open the Italian Pavilion to [...]

Mapping The Burning Lands by Robert Powell  – a collaboration with Yellowback Productions: Robert Powell, Grigor Sloss and Peter Warburton Going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down, this award winning Scottish artist explores utopias, dystopias and the astonishing mundane.

A sanctuary for the secular world, or a sculptural work of romantic science fiction… Please explore and stay as long as you like.  This piece is a prelude to the augmented-reality Quantum Physical project by Fringe First winner, Laura Cameron-Lewis.  For a glimpse of the bigger story, see the Quantum Physical page at  www.virtualfestival.org. Parallel Lines [...]

Curated by Sandy Moffatt – This exhibition is showing in both Edinburgh & Brussels with support of the Scottish Government – ‘event photographs’ by Richard Demarco. An exhibition entitled Scotland in Europe: Europe in Scotland celebrating both Richard Demarco’s 80th birthday and marking his unique contribution to the understanding of Scottish and European culture. Previously [...]

ZWART Creative Bureau presents ‘(dis)ambiguation’. Featuring the work of three award winning young artists, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Ashley Niewenhuizen and Stephanie Richardson, the exhibition presents a collection of sculptural investigations that challenge genetic normality, investigate the fragility of form and identity and focus on each artist’s fascination with hybrid creatures. Stephanie Richardson was born in 1989 [...]

We are pleased to announce a joint Summerhall artist residency for artists Tim Taylor & Kenny Watson A.K.A Jim Arcola who will be engaged in the creation of site-specific work inspired by the unique site that is  the former Dick Vet – an environment in transition. Kenny Watson a.k.a Jim Arcola, is an Edinburgh based [...]

We are pleased to announce a joint Summerhall artist residency for artists Tim Taylor & Kenny Watson A.K.A Jim Arcola who will be engaged in the creation of site-specific work inspired by the unique site that is  the former Dick Vet – an environment in transition.

One of Britain’s leading calligraphers, Susie is known both for her traditional skills in writing with quills on vellum and for her innovative use of the Chinese brush as a writing tool. Susie’s formative years as a calligrapher were spent in Hong Kong, where she developed her passion for Chinese art and language.   Susie [...]

This exhibition is inspired by the history of the Edinburgh Festival since 1947, and the lives of artists such as JOSEPH BEUYS (who famously said ‘Kunst ist Kapital’ and ‘Show your wounds’ ) and TADEUSZ KANTOR, along with the practitioners of his Cricot 2 Theatre Company (two of whom, Andrzej and Teresa Welminski, directed the Rose Bruford College [...]

Developed over an 18 month period of conversation and questions, The Soldier’s Song offers an intimate screen karaoke liaison with a currently serving soldier.

Traumatikon is a feast for the imagination, and offers a Kantor-like experience, akin to the Dadaist happenings at Café Voltaire, with aspects of Russian Constructavist theatre. The result of a master class conducted by Andrzej Welminski and Teresa Welminska, with Counter-Active. Created in collaboration with, visual artists and former members of the internationally acclaimed Cricot2. [...]

Summerhall will transform into a vibrant multi-arts centre throughout the Fringe. This iconic landmark building will inspire a number of creative special projects, acknowledging the relationship between the sciences and arts, and will pay tribute to the buildings historic past as the Royal Dick Veterinary School Managed by View Forth Consultants, throughout the month of [...]

“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you”, the invisible woman recounts.

When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old forgotten dance, the ocean, a flavour and me.