Sekai Machache’s exhibition The Divine Sky is hosted by Stills Gallery, a small exhibition space hidden amongst the shops and cafes on Cockburn Street, ideal to those who wouldn’t travel purely to see a gallery. To access The Divine Sky you had to walk through an exhibit called The Nature Library. The rationale of this exhibition was to connect people to […]
National Gallery Scotland, Modern One. Until October 10th 2021 Fredrick Douglass asked: What is a slave to the fourth of July? The most photographed American in the 19th century, yet frequently forgotten by history, Douglass was born into slavery, became a free famed orator, novelist, statesman, philosopher, intellectual and freedom-fighter. International acclaimed artist Isaac Julien creates […]
Wild and Majestic: Romantic Visions of Scotland has a huge scope, looking at a period in history from the Jacobite uprising to the Victorian era. There are various themes and topics explored, each of which could generate a whole exhibition in themselves; there is an impressive amount of detail. The exhibition begins with the aftermath […]
This is Grayson Perry’s first major solo exhibition in Scotland. The Julie Cope of the title is a fictional ‘every woman’ from Essex, and the exhibition explores the story of her life through four large tapestries. The Dovecot is a challenging space for this exhibition. The low ceilings in their downstairs gallery mean the tapestries […]
This August, while taking a pause from all those comedy and theatre shows, or while fighting you’re your way across the Royal Mile, take refuge amidst some visual art on display in every corner of the city. While the big names of Impressionism and Surrealism take over the National Galleries, smaller venues and pop ups […]