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/
26 June 2008 at 6pm
We will be looking at the work of Scottish artist Janice McNab who is exhibiting a new series of paintings, in her first solo show at doggerfisher since 2001.
McNab takes the term, ‘chocolate box painting’ and its supposed suggestion of bad taste, literally. She has used the plastic moulded trays found inside chocolate boxes as the starting point for her paintings. Unassuming plastic, mass-produced packaging melds into strange landscapes. Perspective shifts and the ambiguous dips, troughs and peaks masquerade as mountainous terrain, sometimes suggesting a lunar landscape with perilous ravines and moody lakes.
McNab is very strongly preoccupied with the nature of ‘reality’ and ‘truth’ and how we experience images in these terms. Working from research photographs that she takes herself and, spending a lot of time looking at and thinking about other images, she seeks to find the exact building blocks of the kinds of images we understand to represent the ‘real’.
We are delighted that Janice McNab will be joining us to discuss her exploration of this territory of the so-called ‘chocolate box painting’.
29 November 2007 at 6pm
This month, we will visit doggerfisher to see the work of Ilana Halperin.
In Towards Heilprin Land, volcanic stories gathered from the Smithsonian Institution in the USA, collide with polar encounters from a fragile landmass in the far north. The nature of love is explained by a geoscientist; volcanologists talk about their long-term relationships with volcanoes from around the world and an eco-expedition aboard a ship to north-east Greenland is charted through a new series of drawings, photographs, watercolours, etchings, videos and text.
Ilana Halperin has a curiosity about the physical world. She has an interest in fathoming out the nature of geological change and the movement of time in relationship to her own life, encounters and travels. Projects often involve travelling to remote locations and performing actions or poetic gestures.
Joining us will be Ilana Halperin to discuss Towards Heilprin Land and to talk about her fascination with the relationship between geological phenomena and daily life. She will also give a performance on the evening – a very special treat for our Spin members!
24 February 2006 at 6pm
This month presents an opportunity to see and discuss work by a group of young artists in one of Edinburgh’s most ambitious commercial galleries, doggerfisher.
doggerfisher opened in 2001 with a solo show of new work by Edinburgh College of Art graduate, Jonathan Owen. In a four-star feature in The Guardian, Elizabeth Mahoney wrote: ‘If it was in London, New York or Berlin, Edinburgh’s new contemporary art gallery doggerfisher, wouldn’t make headlines. But in Scotland, where an art scene flourishes without a network of commercial galleries supporting work other than painting, it is causing something of a stir.’
Five years on from this article, doggerfisher’s Director, Susanna Beaumont, is taking the gallery and its artists across the globe from Europe to the States. Not only is Beaumont promoting a high calibre of innovative practitioners, but she is still one of the leaders of this field.
There will be an opportunity to talk to Jonathan about his work in the show and reconsider Susanna Beaumont’s fascination for artists working in the medium of paper.
31 March 2005 at 6pm
Liquid Soft, Lightning Touch brings together work by seven artists: Markus Amm, Vanessa Baird, Shannon Bool, Myriam Holme, Olaf Quantius, Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Tam van Tran. The show offers a rare opportunity to see a wide range of artists hitherto mostly unknown in Scotland – doggerfisher Director Susanna Beaumont has come across them on her travels to Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA.
Susanna’s own passion for works on paper and her interest in notions of expanded drawing are evident in this fascinating selection. Unfamiliar geologies, uncanny folkloristic narratives and enigmatic graphic strategies speak of exotic mental and geographical landscapes. And yet the practice of drawing has a kind of universality – there is something humane in the act of drawing and mark-making which resonates across cultures.
We will be joined by Andrew Mackenzie, who is one of Scotland’s most interesting painters. His abstract landscapes have a restrained, crystalline quality that has attracted a great deal of attention in Scotland and London, including the Contemporary Art Society’s Artfutures exhibition. His forthcoming shows include Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2005 and Merz Gallery, Edinburgh, May 2005. Andrew works freelance in gallery education and contributes to many aspects of the National Galleries of Scotland Education programme and will bring the invaluable insight of an artist to our discussion.
27 March 2003 at 6pm
This month’s event takes place at doggerfisher, where the Gallery’s Director, Susanna Beaumont, will be on hand to give an introduction to the current exhibition of works on paper Soft Sun Down. We will also be talking to artist Louise Hopkins.
