7th Edinburgh Art Festival programme unveiled

Wednesday, 02 June 2010

Somewhat atypically, summer is warming Scotland up in time for the annual Edinburgh Art Festival. This year 48 galleries, 11 participating for the first time, come together under the umbrella organisation directed for the past three years by Joanne Brown. EAF showcases a selection of emergent Scottish talent and names already well established on the international art scene.

A new EAF strand, funded by the Scottish Government’s Expo Fund, gives this year’s edition additional weight with three artist commissions. The stairwell of the Dean Gallery has been chosen to site a new work by Turner-prize winner Richard Wright – the painting will be unveiled on 30 June. Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new installation will be shown at the City Observatory. And Martin Creed is building an artwork into the famous Scotsman steps near Waverley Station. Building complications, due to the historic nature of the site, will mean that this will not be completed until December. However, the Fruitmarket Gallery is showing his work in the gallery throughout the festival, following his first solo show in Scotland earlier this year at Glasgow’s Common Guild.

David Sherry (City centre public space) Ross Christie (City centre mobile gallery), The Confraternity of Neoflagellants (Norman Hogg and Neil Mulholland) (Late night procession across the city), Joan Mitchell (Inverleith House), Craigie Aitchison (Talbot Rice Gallery), Barbara Rae (Dundas Street Gallery & Open eye Gallery), Victoria Crowe (The Scottish Gallery), Julie Roberts (Tablot Rice Gallery), Iran do Espirito Santo (Ingleby Gallery) are just some of the other artists showing during the festival.

Edinburgh Art Festival – Thursday 29 July–Sunday 5 September

http://www.edinburghartfestival.com

Brochure published end June