EDINBURGH Art Festival has announced the first details of its 2019 programme.
Running from 25 July to 25 August, and presenting its 16th edition, Edinburgh Art Festival is the global platform for the visual arts as part of Edinburgh’s world-famous August festival season.
There will be world premieres of new work from international and UK based artists including Samson Young at Talbot Rice Gallery, Joana Vasconcelos at Jupiter Artland, Hanna Tuulikki at Edinburgh Printmakers and Caroline Achaintre at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
The festival will take in works by Anya Gallaccio at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Grayson Perry at Dovecot Studios, James Richards at Collective and David Batchelor at Ingleby Gallery.
New work will also be presented by Lucy Wayman and Adam Benmakhlouf at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop,Mary Hurrell at Jupiter Artland and Yokocollection at Edinburgh College of Art
Real Music presented by the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery is Hong Kong artist and composer Samson Young’s first exhibition in Scotland and his first major solo show in the UK.
www.edinburghartfestival.com
A LIVE artwork, inspired by Nan Shepherd’s seminal The Living Mountain, is to be staged in the Cairngorm mountains from 30 May to 2 June.
Into the Mountain has been developed over the past six years by artist and choreographer Simone Kenyon, in collaboration with hundreds of women who live and work in the Cairngorm Mountain Range.
Nan Shepherd’s celebrated book charting her own journeys into the Cairngorm Mountain Range.
Written in the 1940s during the Second World War, the Aberdeen writer’s book remained unpublished until 1977, and has recently been championed by nature writers, including Robert Macfarlane.
She has recently been chosen as the image for the Scottish £5 note.
Each Into The Mountain performance is open to just 30 audience members, whom will be led in small walking groups through Glenfeshie.
The groups will converge, at which point they will witness a choreographed performance by five dancers.
Their performance will be accompanied by a vocal score composed by artist Hanna Tuulikki, which will be performed by the Into The Mountain choir, made up of women local to the Cairngorms and led by vocalist Lucy Duncombe.
www.intothemountain.co.uk
A NEW show at the CCA Glasgow examines the impact of city planning and government welfare policies.
Shadi Habib Allah’s exhibition examines how "local areas adapt and survive in response to changes of city planning and strategy over time".
The artist works across film, sculpture, sound and installation.
Art in the show includes a large scale floor-tiled piece called 70 days Behind Inventory and a new series of sculptures Measured Volumes, which mimic the hollow forms of grocery wrapping.
Ainslie Roddick, CCA curator, said: “It has been a pleasure to work with Mophradat and the Hammer Museum LA to support this commission with Shadi.
"It was very serendipitous that throughout the process of working with Shadi, our own area has changed so drastically, with the facades of many of our neighbouring buildings shifting purpose and meaning over the past year.
"Shadi’s work on local economies, welfare and civic space are important questions for our programme to explore, as we think about how the problems associated with austerity and regeneration play out on local and global levels."
The exhibition will be accompanied by two tours on 25 May.
www.cca-glasgow.com
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