Artists are moving away from a fascination with internet and digital work and back to the skills of craft, sculpture and painting, the curator of a major new art show in Scotland has declared.
Lydia Yee, one of the curators of the British Arts Show which opens in Edinburgh this weekend, said one of the themes of the show, which takes over three major galleries in the city and features more than 40 artists, is that artists are returning to traditional skills and materials in a move from the "virtual to the real".
The show, which runs every five years, tours to different locations in the UK and in its last edition attracted more than 400,000 visitors.
Ms Yee said: "I think one of the things that we are seeing, because of the constant interaction with the internet, artists are moving away from that, and making more use of painting, sewing, sculpture or making ceramics.
"However a lot of the research and material for the work could not have been done without the internet."
The show, which runs from 13 February to 8 May, is being staged at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.
The show features works of painting, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, film and video, large-scale installation and ceramics.
Artists include the 2013 Turner Prize-winner Laure Prouvost, the Scottish filmmaker Rachel Maclean, the artist Linder, who started her career at the centre of the Seventies punk scene in Manchester and Turner Prize-nominees Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Ciara Phillips.
Ryan Gander's installation Fieldwork (2015) has taken over the main exhibition space at Talbot Rice Gallery, where 32 objects from the artist's personal collection will revolve on a conveyor belt, only visible through a 1m square aperture in the gallery wall.
A full-scale airplane propeller is rotating at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, as part of an installation by Broomberg and Chanarin.
The show's curators are Anna Colin, co-founder and co-director of Open School East and Associate Curator at Fondation Galeries Lafayette and Lydia Yee is Chief Curator at Whitechapel Gallery and was previously curator at Barbican Art Gallery.
Broomberg and Chanarin’s large-scale installation Dodo (2014), features a World War II bomber plane propeller spinning on a large metal frame.
Dodo was first shown in Mexico, and has not been seen in the UK until now.
The site-specific painting by Jessica Warboys being shown at SNGMA is part of her series of ‘Sea Paintings’ and was made recently by the artist at Skateraw Bay in East Lothian.
Feed Me (2015) is a film by Rachel Maclean.
The Glasgow-based artist graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009.
It shows a nightmarish, candy-coloured world that Maclean has created in this film is populated by a cast of ever-changing, grotesque characters, each played by Maclean herself, using costumes and prosthetic aids.
The gallery version of Feed Me is being shown in Scotland for the first time.
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