The Museum Without A Home: An Exhibition of Hospitality at the Chrystal Macmillan, conceived and curated by Oxfam, Amnesty International and Student Action for Refugees, seeks to celebrate small acts of kindness which have a big impact on the lives of refugees. The exhibition holds various items, all donations from Greeks to refugees who have […]
Hussain Akrad’s art presents a shattered impression of humanity, combining a lurid, dream-like sense of displacement with vividly focused images of a harsh and destructed reality. Currently displayed at Coburg House is his latest collection – Belonging: Lost Voices – which illuminates his experience of conflict and displacement from his home in Darra, Syria. Having […]
On Wednesday, Scottish Dance Theatre came to Festival Theatre to present for one night only Process Day & The Circle, two acts of contemporary dance performed by a group of 12 dancers to a striking electronic score. Process Day is abstract and stunning. Through intense contortion and movement, it is able to express a kind […]
January the 16th saw the 1st birthday party of Clitbait, an intersectional feminist website run by University of Edinburgh duo Lilah Hyman and Laila Ghaffar. The website presents essayistic meditations, journal entries, visual artworks, and poems that explore every facet of the broad spectrum of intersectional feminist thought. The first birthday party was a testament […]
Tucked away at the top of Calton Hill is the old observatory tower, now housing an art space called Collective. The current exhibition – The Collective Museum – documents L’Atelier de l’Observatoire’s mission to encourage contemporary arts in Morocco, to initiate a Moroccan collective memory, and to explore alternative narratives of Morocco’s past. The space is […]
This semester has seen an outstanding array of exhibitions and arty events around the city; as the days have grown darker and the air cooler, our artists have stood their ground and ceaselessly provided an abundance of content for our art writers to cover. The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery has this semester seen […]
This month, the Royal Scottish Academy presents its 193rd annual exhibition, showcasing the very best works from its academicians across Scotland. Earlier this week I headed over to Prince’s Street to see what the Academy had to offer. I walked through the building’s enormous columns and into the gallery, finding a maze of open-plan rooms […]
For this edition I wanted to bring St. Margaret’s House, one of Edinburgh’s most important but lesser-known galleries, into the spotlight. Regularly holding impressive exhibitions as part of an innovative wider mission, St. Margaret’s House is one of my favourite spots in Edinburgh. So I undertook the hour-long walk from Marchmont to the dark side […]