ROYGBIV&B takes its name from the acronym for the colours of the rainbow, and the interlinking choral voices singing within a web of loudspeakers are meant to represent the idea of that spectrum.
The city-wide Edinburgh Art Festival brings together a diverse line-up of some of the best UK and international artists in a programme of exhibitions, one-off performances and special events at some of Edinburgh’s most unique venues.
American Artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinct digital photography style, unconventional bold imagery. We speak with him about his ongoing practice.
Nina Fowler has been shortlisted for prizes including The Jerwood Drawing, The BP Portrait and Longlisted for the The Aesthetica Art Prize. She is represented by Galerie Dukan and her work is included in private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Asia.
Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist, Sterling Ruby. Possessed of a profound material sensibility, Ruby’s art speaks in a language inspired by sub-cultural phenomena ranging from urban gangs, and prison systems, to craft and the history of quilt-making.
This solo exhibition by Paris-based Lebanese painter Walid El Masri reflects a departure from the artist’s ongoing Chair series. In this work an inanimate object provided a point of entry for meditative contemplations on life.
GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design is a pioneering institution bringing new insights into Russian art, design and culture. This summer GRAD presents Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, an exhibition examining the changing face of Soviet design from the 1917 Revolutions to Perestroika.
For this new solo exhibition, Durham has created an installation that covers the entire gallery space of Parasol unit foundation. The ground floor display is a vivid explosion of industrialisation.
Istanbul’s Galeri Zilberman small but effective exhibition of Rosen’s work is well-timed; particularly so because Rosen’s close following of Istanbul’s Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 has provided the inspiration for the centrepiece to the show.
Mechanica is a dark yet beautiful take on natural forms by mechanical intervention: an industrial version of life. Each piece is the result of months of searching for parts and features.
In Unlock Art: What’s So Funny? Tamsin Greig investigates how humour became central to many of the art movements of the past 100 years. The film examines how artists employed humour in their work to ridicule the status quo.
This exhibition showcases five artists who put the medium of drawing at the centre of their practice. They explore issues of documentation, representation, scale and the process of drawing.
This distinctly international exhibition, at Baltic’s sister gallery; Baltic39 (colloquially known as “B 3 9”), centres around such a rare shared subject, or more specifically “entity”: the moon.
The Hepworth Wakefield presents its largest exhibition yet: an extensive survey of Austrian artist, Franz West’s work, collated and developed with the artist before his death in July 2012.
Tate Britain’s exhibition is organised in a roughly chronological sequence, with rooms taken over by themes reflecting Kenneth Clark’s life and work – his supremely privileged upbringing and career as Director of the National Gallery.
SohoCreate arrives in London this June for the first time. The event brings together the country’s top creative minds, ensuring various disciplines and talents are celebrated in today’s competitive, revenue driven economy.
Elizabeth Neel focuses on the concepts of shifting familiarity and the nature of abstraction. At Pilar Corrias, she presents new visual studies in controlled chaos that perpetuate this interest.
New York-based artist Stephen Hall is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Born in Scotland, the painter has spent many years refining his talent and now produces spectacularly bold and provocative pieces.
Gazelli Art House’s focuses on the idea that the only thing constant in life is change. Feeding into this concept are the works by John Wynne and Yoonjin Jung that explore one’s inner “movement” in relation to their surrounding.
