What’s On Past Exhibitions

Preview event: Friday 16 June 6-8pm 'All in good taste' takes a look into what makes people identify a place as home. With a wide variant in style there is an exploration from each artist into where they perceive to be their home - within country, themselves or objects.

Opening night Saturday 20 May, 6pm Closing festivities Saturday 3 June, 3pm till 8pm > Have a look at the detailed programme of the festivities here ! ALL AT ONCE' is something you can chant at the end of a music gig instead of 'one more tune'. The themes of this show include (but are not exclusive to): who is crazy? who is sane?,…

Preview Friday 28 April, 6pm “Running Up That Hill” is an exhibition showcasing the progressing art practices of third year Edinburgh College of Art students from the four disciplines of Painting, Intermedia, Sculpture and Photography. The exhibition encapsulates a variety of perspectives reflecting the exciting diversity of ways in which our generation is approaching contemporary art practice. From the navigation of…

Exhibition and Book Launch: 22nd of April 5-6pm Artists Talk. 6-8pm Book Launch and exhibition. 7.30pm Musical performance by “Sink”, videos, short films and projections. What if stillness in the life room is only a context, like silence is to music? Alan McGowan's expressive life paintings explore the relationship between our perceptions, the movement of life all around and the attempt…

Preview on the evening of Friday 24 March. Solo exhibition by Lynn Ahrens This is an exhibition of  figurative paintings which embody in themselves the situations they are in, which revive current concerns with cultural memory and myth.

Preview on the evening of Friday 24 March. An exhibition of paintings, handcrafted prints and other artwork by Rona MacLean, Aileen Grant and other women artists. 'No Woman Is An Island' is an annual exhibition. In this, its fifth year, the exhibition features work by Gillian Murray, as well as regulars Aileen Grant, Cat Outram and Rona MacLean. Several other…

Preview on the evening of Friday 24 March “The saviour of the world is you” In 2016 Anima started as a collaboration between Basia Mindewicz and David Mola. We have been using symbology of orthodox iconography as a creative source of inspiration, focusing on the meditative process of art making. In Anima 2017 our aim is to express the inner…

Preview evening: Saturday 4 March 6.00 - 8:00pm Each year, the 4th Year Painting Department at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, present an interim exhibition of their work. This year marks the seventh year in a row that the exhibition has been installed at The Scot-ART in St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh. The exhibition is organised in its entirety by the…

Join us in celebrating the diversity of resident makers in St Margaret's House at our festive Makers' Fair 2016.  Beautiful handcrafted gifts made by Scot-ART tenants, with a wide selection of textiles, paintings, jewellery, prints, and pottery on sale. This year the Makers' Fair will be set in all 3 galleries: Gallery 1 - Ceramics / Stone & Sculpture / Jewellery...…

Just because we are young, doesn't mean we don't have anything to say… Positive Transitions is a project that helps young people to make a great start as they begin secondary school. We are consulting 860 young people as they start secondary school in Edinburgh and this exhibition features their art work and comments.

A short definition of AntiFucktArianism: A group of anonymous artists who employ,  found objects, leafleting, stickering, film Collage, and other cheap n' cheerful, quick n' nasty or even sly and devious ways to protest against/undermine and shine a light on the tactics of - FucktArianism. The control exerted by ‘The FucktArians’, the  ‘Above’. The elites who own the money supply and…

Opening event: Friday 11th of November, 6:30pm Capturing the light, revealing the wonders of the world, photographic exploration is at the heart of the F8 group. From landscape to montage, from portrait to macro, from Iceland to Orchids, every image full of creative inspiration. Eleven photographers with contrasting styles and eclectic skills have united to exhibit a rainbow of photographic excellence. Iceland…

Opening event: Friday 11th of November, 6:30pm Martin Metcalfe's 4th exhibition has embraced outsider art to express his feelings on a marginalised & disenfranchised people in Western society. He tries to focus on the childlike and the strange in an attempt to remind the world of it’s humanity.

Opening event: Friday 11th of November, 6:30pm Upward Mobility is an Edinburgh based charity providing support and opportunities for adults with learning difficulties and autism. As well as providing tailored support services, we have a growing reputation for our curriculum of creative workshops, educational activities and vocational programmes. Since 2006, we’ve been encouraging our students to develop confidence, imagination and life…

Opening Event: Saturday 22 October, 2pm Art and design exhibition including work by Mix graduates from Dundee Textile students from Edinburgh College William J. Gall Jane Crisholm

Rhythm and Line is a collection of recent acrylic paintings and collage work on canvas by Lorna Nisbet. The work encompasses how the rhythm of life is criss-crossed by lines, breaks, intersections which continually transform the human and animal landscapes by applying unexpected texture and depth.

Opening Event: Saturday 22 October, 2pm - 5pm First solo exhibition by Aileen A. Paton. ‘Collective amnesia’ was originally a term that indicated how quickly we as a nation or group of nations forget. In other words, we never learn from history. Also termed ‘social amnesia’, it might be explained by our tendency nowadays to suffer from information overload, or ‘hyperconnectivity’.…

Opening event - Sunday 16th October, 3pm - 6pm Pop up audio visual exhibition   Voices of Italian women who moved to Scotland over the last 20 years Created by Charioteer Theatre Curated by Carlo Pirozzi and Donatella Camedda An audio visual exhibition on migrant women. We focused on women immigrated to Scotland in the last 20 years and we asked them to tell…

Link Up Women’s Support Centre This beautiful quilt is the culmination of a series of craft workshops by the Link Up Women’s Support community in collaboration with one of our members, Lorna Fogden which all our members have contributed to. The work explores themes of growth and the seasons of change we can go through with our mental health.  The…

Opening event: Saturday 1st October 1pm - 4pm Refreshments and nibbles provided – all welcome! Visual Artist Unit commits itself to the dual aims of supporting emerging artists based in Scotland and improving public engagement and access to contemporary art for the wider community. Each year, VAU hosts an Annual Members Show in a different location, showcasing individual works by…