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Archive : 2005

Craig Richardson

Sleeper, Edinburgh

24 November 2005

Architect Neil Gillespie discusses the work of Craig Richardson at Sleeper.

In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love

CCA, Glasgow

15 November 2005

A tour round the exhibition with its curator, Tanya Leighton.

Garry Fabian Miller

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

27 October 2005

Caroline Broadhurst, Gallery Manager at the Ingleby Gallery, talks us through this new body of work by Garry Fabian Miller.

Venice Biennale 2005

Venice, Italy

21 October 2005

A three-day tour of one of the most exciting, prestigious and significant contemporary art festivals in the world, the Venice Biennale.

ArtInsight

City Inn, Glasgow

18 October 2005

A discussion about the contemporary art market with gallerist, Kenny Shackter, as part of a new initiative to encourage new collectors to the art market, ArtInsight.

WASPS Studio Visit

WASPS Studios, Edinburgh

29 September 2005

A special visit to WASPS Artists’ Studios in Stockbridge. We will be visiting artists Michael Craik, Di Hope, Lorna Fraser, Stella Auchinleck, Shelagh Atkinson and Gerry McGowan.

Barbara Kruger

Tramway, Glasgow

21 September 2005

John Calcutt, writer and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, and Lorraine Wilson, curator at Tramway, discuss Barbara Kruger’s exhibition, Twelve.

Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinbrugh

28 July 2005

Philip Long, Senior Curator at the Gallery of Modern Art, will take us on a personal tour of the first museum exhibition to explore, in depth, Francis Bacon’s striking portraits of friends, lovers and other artists.

Little Sparta

Dunsyre

24 July 2005

A visit to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s thought-provoking garden, Little Sparta.

Evergreen

Inverleith House, Edinburgh

30 June 2005

Paul Nesbitt, Director of Inverleith House, will be talking us through the current Evergreen exhibition which brings together 18 of the artists who have had solo shows at Inverleith House in the past couple of decades.

Alan Kilpatrick

Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh

26 May 2005

Edinburgh-based artist Alan Kilpatrick talks about his solo show Shadows and Tall Trees at Amber Roome Contemporary Art.

Spin Around the City 2005

Various Venues, Glasgow

30 April 2005

A tour of the highlights of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art.

Pass the Time of Day

Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

21 April 2005

Video artist Billy McCall explores Pass the Time of Day, an exhibition of video and slide works curated by Paul Rooney.

Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch

doggerfisher, Edinburgh

31 March 2005

Painter Andrew Mackenzie examines works on paper by international artists, selected by gallery owner Susanna Beaumont for the exhibition Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch.

Andy Warhol: Self Portraits

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

24 February 2005

Writer and lecturer Jean Wainwright discusses Andy Warhol’s self-portraits at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA).

Ronnie Heeps

Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

27 January 2005

Artist Ronnie Heeps describes his work in a solo show at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh’s new artist-run space.

FIELDTRIP!

Various Venues, Edinburgh

22 January 2005

An exclusive tour of galleries in Edinburgh organised by Spin, the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) and their associates Blood, to coincide with the CAS exhibition, ShowCASe.