Visual Arts features archive

The Scottish Arts Council is proud to support the many exciting visual arts projects and activities on the go throughout Scotland.  Browse through this list of past features and select one by clicking on the image or hyperlink to read more. Features include profiles of artists and visual arts venues and organisations

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Edinburgh Art Festival; 5 August - 5 September 2009 A taster of film and video works on during the Edinburgh Art Festival. All featured artists are supported by the Scottish Arts Council Visual Art New Work fund.

The Travelling Gallery celebrates its 30th birthday this August with a new exhibition. about the seaside.

Alt-w A fund to develop new web-based or digital artworks, devices and creative applications

Martin Boyce selected for Venice Biennale 2009 Martin Boyce, Visual artist, has been selected to represent Scotland at the 2009 Venice Biennale...read more

Visual arts artists

Commonwealth Suite, Collective Gallery Commonwealth Suite features two new Collective film commissions from Jordan Baseman and Henna-Riikka Halonen....read more

Rob Churm's upcoming show at GoMA Rob Churm was a recipient of the Scottish Arts Council Visual Arts Creative and Professional Development Award 2008/09....read more

Karen Cunnigham's Scottish Arts Council funded Amsterdam Residency Glasgow based artist Karen Cunningham introduces her residency...read more

Katy Dove Supported by a Scottish Arts Council funded residency at Platform.

Matt Hulse Supported by a Scottish Arts Council / Scottish Screen Artist’s Film & Video Award.

~in the fields Scottish Arts Council New Media Residency at Abertay.

Darren Farquhar Darren Farquhar is a performance artist based in Edinburgh.

Lyndsay Mann Her practice can be viewed as existing at the intersection of two individual characters…

New York and Amsterdam residencies An update from visual artists’ residencies in New York and Amsterdam in 2008 - Rob Kennedy and Karen Cunningham tell us about their experiences so far.

Claire Todd The performers that Todd collaborates with come from different walks of life...

The Lonely Piper Lonely Piper is my artistic nom de plume. He's a man whose physical age is 32...

Deborah Beeson Co-founder of the A96 Artist Collective based in Elgin, Morayshire

Erica Eyres Canadian artist, living and working in Glasgow

Eva Merz For Glasgow based Danish artist Merz it's life that is the art. Ordinary people's life, whether street skaters, homeless people or council estate dwellers.

Katie Orton What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control?

Alex Dunn Have a look at the work of Alex Dunn - described as 'art characterised by control and restraint'.

Agnes Nedregard Currently the artist in residence at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.

Hideko Inoue The paintings of Japanese artist Hideko Inoue investigate notions of people, place and time.

Craig Coulthard Craig's work looks and feels like the noticeboard of your local 'local history society' - imbued with facts and connections between obscure persons and events.

Margaret Diamond Explores her interest in social systems and processes through a broad range of media.

Gordon Brown Gordon Brown's works pose bizarre narrative scenes depicting a strange, compromised paradise.

Dawn Youll Dawn Youll creates vignettes in ceramic exploring themes of urban ubiquity.

Kate Owens & Tommy Grace Owens and Grace share a curiosity with the decorative and its relatively low esteem in a contemporary design environment.

Henry Coombes One of six artists representing Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in June, and a 2007 Creative Scotland Award recipient.

Ally Wallace Ally Wallace's sculptures and installations use limited means to craft simple forms with high visual impact.

David Sherry In David Sherry's works, the mundane world of objects and actions collide with the dreams and aspirations of another reality.

Merlin James Glasgow-based artist Merlin James's shifting repertoire of imagery includes landscape, apparent abstraction, and transcription from earlier artists.

Kevin Reid Scottish artist Kevin Reid draws on locality, story telling and colloquialism looking to the everyday for inspiration in favour of art historical references.

Ilana Halperin Ilana Halperin is an American artist now based in Glasgow where she is an Honorary Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art.

Fiona Jardine Writer and artist whose installations draw upon a range of literary and art historical sources, notably early Modernist writers and sculptors.

Lisa O'Brien Audio and visual installations exploring time and space.

Duncan Marquiss Unique and innovative artist featuring works on paper and film.

Michael Stumpf More on his sculptural pieces drawing on a wide range of cinematic and literary metaphors.

Sarah Lynch Studio based photography using materials such as wire, thread and paper.

 

Torsten Lauschmann Artist, filmmaker and live performer who celebrates glitches and out-takes.

Mick Peter Glasgow based artist indulges in sculpture's sleight of hand and scope for visual deception.

Claire Barclay  Seemingly incongruous materials are composed into poetic and menacing installations.

Lucy Skaer  Ambiguous paper drawings using ink, enamel paint and gold leaf.

	Duncan Campbell   Several interconnected strands of practice from this Glasgow based artist.

Andrea Roe Andrea Roe's work looks at the nature of human and animal biology, behaviour, communication and interaction within specific ecological contexts.

	Victoria Skogsberg   Victoria SKogsberg's work is based on research and issues surrounding the paranormal.

	Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan Collaboration exploring the mythic potential of art, and how art can exist as an event in a particular space and time.

	Katy Dove Kaleidoscopic compositions produced using a combination of the handmade and the digital.

	Camilla Low Glossy surfaces of paint on wood or metal, or crisp-cut Perspex combine with the shape and form to create seductive objects.

Karla Black Sculptural pieces, often using familiar domestic materials such as Vaseline, clothing and flour, produced by Glasgow based artist.

	Kate Davis  Pencil drawings by Kate Davis, creating a weightless lyricism, imbued with a distinct personal style.

	Hayley Tompkins  Small-scale unframed watercolour drawings that are literally 'rough around the edges'.

Ellen Munro Munro’s work relates tangentially to memories or stories she has picked up over time.

Alex Frost Frost’s practice spans the spectrum of the sculptural, from the miniature to the monumental, the decorative to the architectural.

	Sally Osborn Read more Sally Osborn's work, a study of subjectivity, of intuition, suggestion, attraction, possibility and materiality.

Venue of the month

Fife Contemporary Art and Crafts The reincarnation of Crawford Arts Centre moves to St. Andrews.

	Stills gallery  Edinburgh based centre for contemporary photographic and digital arts.

	Inverleith House Based at Edinburgh's top free tourist attraction, Inverleith House supports both established and emerging artists.

	McManus Galleries Based in Dundee, McManus Galleries houses one of Scotland's most impressive fine and decorative art collections.

	Dundee Contemporary Arts Read more on this contemporary art and film centre based in Dundee.

	Tramway Showcasing new and established artists, Tramway also works as a network hub centre for Glasgow as well as international organisations.

	Glasgow Print Studios One of the largest UK publishers of original prints, Glasgow Print Studios works to encourage the art of printmaking.

	Taigh Chearsbhagh Based in Isle of North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Taigh Chearsbhagh combines the strengths of community involvement with innovative education programmes.

	Project Ability Read more on this innovative organisation that aims to promote access to the arts.

	ShowCASe venues: City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery Read more on one of the UK's leading temporary exhibition space and why visitors understanding is of high importance at Talbot Rice.

	Own Art featured venues: Dundee Contemporary Arts Edinburgh Printmakers Glasgow Print Studio Peacock Visual Arts

	Dundee Contemporary Arts & The Fruitmarket Gallery Internationally renowned centre for contemporary arts, works with a converted fruitmarket with an international reputation for presenting major artists to show 'Somewhere, Everywhere and Nowhere'.

	Glasgow Sculpture Studios  Read more on this centre that works to promote the development of sculpture and to help artists create a professional and sustainable career.

	Collective Gallery Read more on this gallery which provides primary art spaces and supports emergent practice and new art in Britain today.