26 May 2006 at 6pm
This month, Spin: Edinburgh will visit Anatomy Acts, a comprehensive exhibition fusing art, science, history and medicine. There are over 160 exhibits on loan from a vast array of museums and universities across Scotland. We will be focusing on the contemporary selection, which includes specially commissioned work by Christine Borland, Joel Fisher and Claude Heath.
Joining us will be the exhibitions curator, Dr Andrew Patrizio, who will provide a valuable insight into the commissioned works that each present a unique view of this absorbing subject matter.
Patrizio’s selection is far more urbane than Gunther Von Hagen’s Bodyworlds and less sensationalist than Damien Hirst’s Hymn. We will have the chance to discuss the inspiration provided by the world of art and science which makes these works so exciting.
24 June 2004 at 6pm
See what Edinburgh’s art students have been up to this year, with a tour around the highlights of the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show. This is the biggest extravaganza of new work in the annual calendar, and well worth dipping in to.
Your host for this month’s Spin will be Andrew Patrizio, Director of Research in Art and Design at ECA and recently a buyer for the Contemporary Art Society. Andrew has a refreshing and thoughtful approach to looking at contemporary art. Some of you will remember his bad jokes from last year at the Gallery of Modern Art and the Collective Gallery . . .
He will be joined by Catriona Grant, an acclaimed Scottish artist working in lens-based media. Catriona teaches in the Photography department, and has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as further afield (her recent work has been shown in Basel and New York). She was featured in Portfolio 37 last year.
26 June 2003 at 6pm
For this month’s gathering you are invited to meet at 6pm in the Collective Gallery on Cockburn Street, where our guest-host Andrew Patrizio will introduce the current exhibition of drawings and paintings by London-based artist Jessica Voorsanger.
The Collective is an interesting example of a non-profit, contemporary artists’ agency and gallery. It initiates and collaborates on exhibitions and projects in Edinburgh and internationally. The Collective Gallery represents emergent Scottish-based artists, supporting their work and the work of other artists, within the context of an international programme.
27 February 2003 at 6pm
This month, we look at one of the country’s most famous private collections of contemporary art. Andrew Patrizio, Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art, will help to explain some of the ideas behind the works.
