Another month has flown by and it’s time for another round up of all things art related in Edinburgh this March.
EVENTS
Exploring Sisters! with Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani Fruitmarket, 13 March 4-6 pm
A group discussion of Petra Bauer’s film, Sisters!, currently being exhibited at Fruitmarket (see below), alongside reading Françoise Vergès’ critically acclaimed book, A Decolonial Feminism.
Edinburgh Printmakers’ Friday Drop-In Creative Sessions
A relaxed way to get into the creative spirit and meet new people at these weekly sessions: 14 March 11am-1pm Linocut with Edinburgh Printmakers’ Events Coordinator Caitlin Whitaker; 21 March 11am-1pm Sensory drawing with Yasmeen Kahn; 28 March 11am-1pm Animation with Louisa Wilde.
Travelling Gallery Collective, 14 March 10am-5pm
Artists Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott drive the wheel of their unique gallery-bus to Edinburgh. With a focus on their film After Glass, the one-day exhibition presents their research at St Andrews Botanic Garden, where they have been working as artists in residence.
Fresh Fruit: Nüshi Workshop Fruitmarket, 14 March 6-8pm
Learn about the female script Nüshu, at this workshop “led by young people, for young people”. Looking into Portia Zvavahera’s exhibition at Fruitmarket (see below), this is a space to explore the relationship between contemporary art and identity, language and cultural practices.
Professor Melissa Terras’ inaugural lecture on digital innovation and creativity ECA, 19 March 5:15-7pm
In this ECA lecture, Professor Melissa Terras puts forward the case for the importance of art and art institutions in the UK’s quest for digital innovation and will argue that the art school has a central role to play in future technological endeavours.
Fresh Fruit: Printmaking workshop Fruitmarket, 28 March 6-8pm
In a chatty and relaxed creative space, this workshop encourages anyone between 18-30 to dip their toes into the world of printmaking and explore how prints might be used to tell stories.
Screening of Lyndsmay Mann’s film As You Were Fruitmarket, 29 and 30 March (various timings throughout the day)
Mann’s experimental film centres itself in the grey area between professionalism and personal experience, featuring conversations with maternity specialists about their own experiences giving birth and looking at the role of personal experience within institutions.
EXHIBITIONS
Petra Bauer: Sisters! Fruitmarket, until 23 March
Watch Bauer’s 2011 film, where she explores racism, misogyny, violence against women, and classism and highlights the importance of solidarity in political and personal ways.
adam taylor: our mountain &gallery, until 29 March
Thoughtful, minimalist compositions characterise Taylor’s debut solo exhibition, which considers what dreamscapes and the absence of humanism might look like. The conflict between peaceful natural space and the difficulties of dedicated artistic production is a key thread joining these pieces.
Jerwood survey III Collective, until 4 May
A biennial exhibition shining a light on 10 up-and-coming artists, selected for the power with which they capture pressing issues of today, from climate change to colonialism. These artists’ commissions span across disciplines, creating an exciting preview of what the future of the art scene may look like.
Handle with Care Tonic Gallery – Anne Ferguson Building at the West General Hospital, until 15 May
Edinburgh Printmakers and NHS Lothian’s Charity Tonic Art have collaborated for an exhibition whose focus is care, exploring its significance in meaningful and expressive ways. It’s not often there’s an art exhibition in a hospital, so be sure not to miss this one!
Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa Fruitmarket, until 25 May
With ‘Zvakazarurwa’ ‘revelations’ in Shona, see how Zvavahera has translated her dreams into artworks, each unique in style and vigour.
Ian Hamilton Finlay Modern Two, until 26 May
Look into Finlay’s life and creative practices at Modern Two’s new exhibition – as an artist, sculptor, poet and gardener, Finlay was certainly a polymath.
Walker & Bromwich: Searching for a Change of Consciousness Talbot Rice Gallery, 15 March-31 May
Socialism and animism come together at this exhibition which burrows into the spirit of nature, showing the reality of environmental degradation whilst inspiring social change through community and collective actions.
Trading Zone 2025 Talbot rice gallery, 15 March -31 May
Student-focused works respond to the concept of the ‘Trading Zone’, a term coined to investigate how scientific collaboration might enable the interaction and cooperation of seemingly separate worldviews. Works featured here include students from fine art and design to creative writing.
Inked Up: Printmaking in Scotland City Art Centre, until 1 June
Spanning from the 18th Century to contemporary works, this exhibition showcases the diverse range of printmaking techniques and highlights the bold and liberating possibilities of such an art form.
The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives Dovecot Studios, until 28 June
The Dovecot displays a collection of paintings by Scottish artists of the early 20th century, showing their radical new approaches to using colour and paint.
Rooting: Ecology, Extraction & Environmental Emergency in the University’s Art Collection Main Library, until 15 November
Combining pieces from the University’s 350-year-old Art Collection with contemporary pieces, the exhibition explores the climate crisis through pieces acquired by the University. The University’s own relation to this crisis also emerges, as the exhibition focuses on key themes of economic and colonial interests, exploring the pressing need for both collective and individual climate action.
Bruce McLean: I Want My Crown Modern One, until 23 November
McLean presents a witty insight into human expression and the medium of sculpture through this celebratory exhibition. Taking aspects of social interaction such as gesture or manners as its target, McLean encourages us to think about the oddities of human behavioural etiquette.
Photo by Nick Mailer Photography.