Exhibitions Archive

In response to the focused nature of our degrees, Wondering People was started as a student run curatorial initiative to provide anyone, from a politics student to an art student who may feel... [more]

Curated by: Nina LehrfreundAnn Marie Gilmore spent her formative years in Alloway before studying at the Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. After several nomadic... [more]

The Highlight Arctic multi-arts exhibition at Summerhall mixes film and artists' work in an integrated exploration of the turbulent relationship between humans and the landscape of the circumpolar... [more]

“For seventeen years now, my work has been mainly concerned with HIV/AIDS in an African context, and BIRD is only one of three bodies of work in that time not referencing that humanitarian problem.... [more]

Garvald Artists present a vibrant collection of abstract artwork by John Black. John is Autistic and combines his innate understanding of colour with his intuitive active mark-making to create... [more]

Coup de Théâtre - a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture.It investigates notions of the unexpected, the sudden and the unpredictable translated through visual, immersive and sensory... [more]

‘Ideas of Beauty’ is an exhibition organised by Edinburgh’s Democratic Camera Club. Beauty is a difficult word for many artists. It is associated with cliché, with the ‘chocolate box’... [more]

This exhibition is a celebration of that which is just beyond the view of what is seen. It is that emergent presence that sometimes take the form of a still life and sometimes a landscape - an... [more]

In Women Like Us, visual storyteller Thana Faroq opens a window into the lives of 15 women and their experience of the war in Yemen: their struggles, their aspirations, and their ambitions. The... [more]

MESH is a group of emerging artists from diverse backgrounds who studied together on the Combined Studies (Art and Design) BA Degree at Edinburgh College of Art. The group was formed in 2011 to... [more]

The exhibition presents a selection of works on paper by Aleksandra Zawada since 2014 to date. Hand scribed with modest means on paper, drawn from the interconnection of thoughts, forms, transcripts... [more]

Featuring multi-disciplinary works by friends and loved ones recently passed.Group Show Artists: Emma Hermann Smith Abigail Mclellan, Jean Hendry, Graeme Gilmour, Roger ElyDeath... [more]

A re-working of Ian Smith’s Good Grief installation originally made for the National Review of Live Art with tributes made by Angie Dight. You are invited to leave your own tributes to... [more]

There is an old African proverb – ‘It takes a village to raise a child – meaning, children need the input and support of their whole community to grow into well-rounded adults. But... [more]

Haroon Mirza has won international acclaim for installations that test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current. He devises kinetic sculptures, performances and... [more]

Joseph Beuys, one of the great artistic geniuses of the 20th century died in 1986, thirty years ago. To this day he is exhibited more than any living artist and there continue to be hundreds of... [more]

Laure Prouvost presents a series of video works focusing on the relationship between the physical body and the spatial limits of the screen. These individual works spill and react against one another... [more]

'Company’, curated by Florida for Annuale 2016 (organised by Embassy gallery), is an exploration of the position of curating within expanded artistic practice and the role of the... [more]

“At 11am, Captain McKay had seen from our crows nest a flag waving on top of a distant black island, and now he could just see with the telescope the fore and main topgallant masts of the... [more]

Retina International Photography Festival returns for its third year to Scotland’s festival city, celebrating the best of photography from round the world in fifteen exhibitions featuring over 60... [more]

Florian Schwarz’ deep dark _ pale blue-project accompanies a gigantic astronomical research-project to observatories around the globe - and to the people living under those majestic night skies.... [more]

This year’s Edinburgh College Creative Arts End of Year Exhibition (EYE) is bigger than ever, bringing together the combined talents of the HND students from 3D Design (Interiors), Animation,... [more]

Isabel Rocamora's Imaging Faith centres on Faith, a film triptych which intimately observes the act of worship of the three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem. Set in the wilderness of the Holy Land... [more]