27 August 2009 at 6pm
Spin is taking part in the Edinburgh Art Festivals Art Late on Thursday 27 August from 6-9pm – a city-wide end of Festival party with gallery openings, tours, music, artists performances and live readings. We will be giving a tour of the highlights of this years festival and is one of three tours taking place on the night.
Art Late begins at 6pm at the Ingleby Gallery with a collaborative performance from musician Wounded Knee and dancer Ianthe Wright. Later, two contrasting tours will set out from the gallery leading people round the Festival offering different experiences of the exhibitions: The Giving Tour and the Blank Canvas Bike Tour.
Our Spin tour, led by Rosie Lesso, will set out from Talbot Rice Gallery at 6pm and is an introduction to exhibitions including Jane and Louise Wilson and Joseph Kosuth (Talbot Rice Gallery); Eva Hesse (Fruitmarket); Rough Cut Nation (Scottish National Portrait Gallery) and Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi (doggerfisher).
To sign up for Art Late or to join one of the three tours (please note there are limited places), click on the link below to get your invite:
http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/09-festival-programme/events/art-late/
29 May 2008 at 6pm
We visit The Fruitmarket Gallery to see the first major solo exhibition of work by Lucy Skaer.
Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films, often combining them in installations of all three. Her work always begins with an existing image or representation, which she works and reworks, transforming them while retaining a sense of their original meaning and physical form.
Using optical distortion, scale, and immense detail, her drawings are constructed not with the desire to represent an original object but rather with the intention of eliciting a certain experience of reality absent in the primary source: the moment of encounter between image and observer. Skaer’s work underscores that usually overlooked instant in which a viewer recognises an image as an image.
This exhibition is the most substantial presentation of Skaer’s work to date, and offers a chance to assess the development of her practice. Drawings dating from 2001 to 2008 are shown alongside film, installation and sculpture.
Lucy Skaer was one of the six artists chosen to represent Scotland at the 2007 Venice Biennale. She was also shortlisted for Becks Futures in 2003. Joining us to explore the exhibition will be Stacy Boldrick, Adult Education Coordinator at the Fruitmarket Gallery.
19-23 October 2007
A weekend trip to the oldest and most prestigious contemporary art festivals in the world, the Venice Biennale. Held every two years, the Biennale is an excellent opportunity to see works by leading, international and up-and-coming contemporary artists. Over 65 countries take part, and an estimated 900,000 people are likely to visit in 2007.
There are two main strands to the Venice Biennale: the Giardini which houses 30 permanent national pavilions. Tracey Emin will be representing Britain in the Giardini, only the second female ever to represent the UK at the Biennale with a solo exhibition (the first was Rachel Whiteread in 1997). There is also a large, international exhibition curated by the Biennales director which takes place in the buildings of the adjacent, formal naval dockyard, known as the Arsenale. This years director is the American Robert Storr, the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York.
Other Biennale exhibitions take place in venues spreading across the city of Venice. Scotland will be presenting the work of six artists, in an exhibition curated by Philip Long, Senior Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The selected artists are Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain. The works will be housed in the Palazzo Zenobio, home to the Armenian Cultural Institute in the Dorsoduro district of Venice.
Northern Ireland’s presentation will feature the work of Willie Doherty in a show curated by Hugh Mulholland, and Wales will show the work of Richard Deacon, Merlin James and Heather & Ivan Morison, curated by Hannah Firth.
We will visit the best of what the Venice Biennale 2007 has to offer.
