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Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in our 11th season, Nightpiece has screened over 335+ short films from the UK and across the world since 2014. 

Sea Yellow by Orange Night

Sea Yellow by Orange Night

Recent drawings and paintings on show by Edinburgh artist Ginny Elston. 

Open Studios at Beaverhall Art Studios

Open Studios at Beaverhall Art Studios

An opportunity to see behind the studio doors of four local artists and makers. 

Dog Life Drawing

Dog Life Drawing

Escape the hubbub of the Fringe and spend a relaxing hour sketching in the company of canines. 

Paperwork

Paperwork

Last year EdinburghGuide. 

Dying Psychological Silhouette

Dying Psychological Silhouette

Dying Psychological Silhouette is an exploration of the boundaries of theatrical expression, intertwining elements of movement, drama and costume to delve into Plato’s philosophica… 

Drag & Draw

Drag & Draw

An art class with a difference! We host life-drawing sessions with drag queens as models, so it’s essentially half-art class and half-drag show. 

The Art of Hospitality

The Art of Hospitality

Following the success of last year’s show, Michael will again open his three-story Georgian townhouse to visitors for a limited period. 

A Feast of Life Drawing

A Feast of Life Drawing

Free exhibition of international artists brought together by the SBLDC weekly online sessions with models and artists from four continents. 

Paradigms Art Exhibition

Paradigms Art Exhibition

Paradigms contemporary painting exhibition features vibrant new work from four Edinburgh-based women artists. 

Craw Caw

Craw Caw

Following Under a Lime Sky at last year’s Fringe, Blackflowersstudio returns with Craw Caw the second of Irene Jordan’s crow series of drawings, collage, paintings and sculptur… 

160th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography 2024

160th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography 2024

Edinburgh Photographic Society’s first international photography exhibition was shown in 1861. 

Causey Lines Four

Causey Lines Four

For one week only, this unique and exciting exhibition is not to be missed. 

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

The 70+ artists/makers of the buzzing Coburg House open their studios to the public. 

Artists @ Patriothall

Artists @ Patriothall

A selling exhibition by professional artists based at Patriothall Studios. 

360° Street Art Exhibition, Spray Paint Tasters and Affordable Art Sale

360° Street Art Exhibition, Spray Paint Tasters and Affordable Art Sale

Outdoor 360° wrap-around street art exhibition at Quality Yard in Leith. 

This is No Safe Space: Art in Capitalist Realism

This is No Safe Space: Art in Capitalist Realism

$65 billion USD worth of art was sold last year, yet 95% of artists can’t make a living. 

A Mist of Midges

A Mist of Midges

This show covers the subjects of birth, family relationships, highland invasion, human intervention, the battle and the future of midge species with its interaction with the human … 

Dovecot After Hours

Dovecot After Hours

Join us at the world-renowned tapestry studio after hours. 

Tania Kovats: SEAMARKS

Tania Kovats: SEAMARKS

Tania Kovats’ ongoing series SEAMARKS, multiple seascapes captured in brushstrokes, drawings and ceramic, is being expanded with the creation of a new tapestry by Dovecot Studios… 

Ibrahim Mahama: Songs About Roses

Ibrahim Mahama: Songs About Roses

The first-ever solo exhibition in Scotland of the work of Ibrahim Mahama: a Ghanaian artist acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that address the cu… 

Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song

Chris Ofili: The Caged Bird's Song

Dovecot Studios’ major tapestry with Chris Ofili will return to Scotland in summer 2024. 

Panoramas: The World in 360°

Panoramas: The World in 360°

Two hundred years ago the first virtual-reality experiences were born in Edinburgh, not from digital technologies, but from the mastery of painted perspective, the control of space… 

Allure of the Light

Allure of the Light

Light plays the key element in the work of both artists. 

15 – Equinox

15 – Equinox

Contemporary Edinburgh artist Davy Macdonald celebrates his 15th annual solo exhibition with a stunning new collection of abstract, conceptual and figurative oil paintings. 

300 Paintings

300 Paintings

Winner of eight Australian Fringe Festival awards. 

An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location

An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location

Indulge your wanderlust in the company of Sir John Lavery. 

West End Fair

West End Fair

Since 1984, the West End Fair has offered an incredible offering of artists, designers and makers, each who sell only their own handmade work. 

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990

Be inspired by stories of collaboration, creativity and rebellion. 

Healing Our Child Within

Healing Our Child Within

We all have a broken part of us that longs to belong and be healed. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Media, the production company of filmmaker Al Carretta, have been filmmaking disruptors since 2010. 

Created to Be Creative

Created to Be Creative

Salvation Army artists from across the UK explore what it is to be creative in expressing their Christian faith. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

The Art of Ecclesiastical Heraldry. 

Aspects of Edinburgh (The Dene)

Aspects of Edinburgh (The Dene)

In a new series of abstract, conceptual and fine art oil paintings, contemporary Edinburgh artist Davy Macdonald showcases a stunning new collection of work inspired by the Dene. 

Paperwork

Paperwork

Last year EdinburghGuide. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Basia Mindewicz, Director of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, explains the artistic techniques and spiritual inspiration behind one of the most venerated forms of sacred art. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Michael and All Saints

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Michael and All Saints

The Art of Vestment. 

Four Cut Sunflowers

Four Cut Sunflowers

‘When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’. 

Correspondences

Correspondences

Correspondences is a poetic, reflective and colourful art show of works on paper and in other media by Benet Haughton. 

Addicts and Those Who Love Them

Addicts and Those Who Love Them

Behind every addict is someone traumatised by loving them. 

Under a Lime Sky

Under a Lime Sky

Blackflowersstudio gallery presents drawings, paintings and sculpture from I Jordan’s early ‘Crow’ series. 

Immrama: Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama: Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life. 

Cathedral Song School Tours

Cathedral Song School Tours

The Cathedral Song School is decorated with murals by Phoebe Traquair, painted between 1888 and 1892. 

New Look Waverley Local Artist Takeover

New Look Waverley Local Artist Takeover

Local artist Elle Johnston is taking over New Look Waverley’s Windows with a bespoke Festival Fringe window, designed and painted live by Elle herself! Graduating from Edinburgh Un… 

Leith Makes Good

Leith Makes Good

Leith Makes Good. 

Phoebe Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre

Phoebe Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals at Mansfield Traquair Centre. 

Causey Lines

Causey Lines

Irene Campbell, Kate Henderson and John Nowak once again bring colour with a dash of monochrome to the Whitespace Gallery in Edinburgh Southside’s historic East Crosscauseway. 

Clay 2023

Clay 2023

A vibrant show of contemporary ceramics by our resident and guest artists celebrating the versatility of clay. 

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

The 70+ artists/makers of the buzzing Coburg House open their studios to the public. 

360° Street Art Exhibition, Spray Paint Tasters and Affordable Art Sale

360° Street Art Exhibition, Spray Paint Tasters and Affordable Art Sale

Quality Yard brings you a free outdoor 360° wrap-around exhibition of creative street art and graffiti by nationally and internationally exhibited artists. 

Star Stripe Skyscape

Star Stripe Skyscape

An exhibition of past paintings, prints and drawings refreshed by the new series, Star Stripe Skyscape, ethereal skies brought under control by the symbols of army and power. 

A Snake in the House Means the Family Will Never Want

A Snake in the House Means the Family Will Never Want

Opening with a voice note of the artist’s mother reflecting on overwork, xenophobia and cultural invisibility through the semiotics of the snake and the ingrained tendency of Hek… 

Drag & Draw

Drag & Draw

An art class with a difference! We host life-drawing sessions with drag queens as models, so it’s essentially half art class and half drag show. 

Seymour Mace Does Drawring

Seymour Mace Does Drawring

I draw pictures of the things that live in my head. 

Jamie Primrose: Visions of Edinburgh – 20th Anniversary Showcase

Jamie Primrose: Visions of Edinburgh – 20th Anniversary Showcase

The best-selling contemporary Scottish artist’s eagerly anticipated retrospective of over 50 stunning oil paintings, inks and prints. 

Scottish Art and Aperitivo – Thursday Lates

Scottish Art and Aperitivo – Thursday Lates

Discover Scottish Women Artists and new perspectives on Scottish art with recent graduates from Scotland’s major art schools. 

Aglow

Aglow

A passage of light or striation of colour that glows within main body unites the works by Dundee-based painter Robert McGilvray and Edinburgh-based glass-artist Alison Jardine. 

You Can Call it Confirmation Bias

You Can Call it Confirmation Bias

A performance grounded in friendship and a desire for objects to predict the future. 

In/Outside: Visible Things

In/Outside: Visible Things

There are things that are visible and invisible in this world. 

Shoot the Cameraman

Shoot the Cameraman

Shoot the Cameraman. 

Scottish Women Artists

Scottish Women Artists

Offering a fresh history of Scottish art since 1750, this exhibition spotlights key artists, all of whom are women. 

West End Fair

West End Fair

This year’s fair runs from 31st July to 27th August in the grounds of St John’s Church. 

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits

Popular and provocative, Grayson Perry makes art that deals with difficult and complex ideas in an accessible and often funny way. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in its ninth consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Exhibition: The Art of Illumination. 

The Infinity of Eight

The Infinity of Eight

Eight: The symbol of the infinite; of ancient understandings, timeless and boundless. 

Say You're With Me – Piano and Creative Coding

Say You're With Me – Piano and Creative Coding

Algorithms are art. 

Sagas and Seascapes

Sagas and Seascapes

Norse stories form the inspiration for this performance by Nordic Viola. 

Who I Am: The Bugle Creative Group With Ciara Menzies

Who I Am: The Bugle Creative Group With Ciara Menzies

The Bugle is a project supporting people affected by homelessness and its surrounding issues to express themselves in art and writing. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Painting the Way of the Cross. 

Pan Gu

Pan Gu

Pangu is a 50-minute physical dance play based on a Chinese mythic story in the Classic of Mountain and Seas. 

Our Colourful Cities

Our Colourful Cities

An afternoon of live painting by contemporary Spanish artist David Escarabajal, offering a unique insight into his bold, expressive, and experimental fine art techniques. 

Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!

Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!

Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others… 

158th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography

158th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography

First run in 1861, this exhibition is one of the oldest and longest running photographic salons in the world. 

Exhibition: Loving Earth Project

Exhibition: Loving Earth Project

The Loving Earth Project, started by a few Quakers in 2019, now comprises over 400 textile panels exploring responses to climate change and environmental breakdown. 

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

Artists' Open Studios and Exhibition

The 70+ artists/makers of the buzzing Coburg House open their studios to the public. 

The West End Fair

The West End Fair

The West End Fair returns to the stunning grounds of St John’s Church. 

Causey Lines Four

Causey Lines Four

Returning to Edinburgh Southside’s historic East Crosscauseway, Irene, Kate, Tricia and John once again bring colour with a dash of monochrome to the Whitespace Gallery. 

Pentalogia Feminina

Pentalogia Feminina

Paola Mcclure, Gillian Murray, Leena Nammari, Louise Ritchie, Jill Skulina present: Pentalogia Feminina. 

Phoebe Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre

Phoebe Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre

Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel, and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. 

What! Art Collective Team Exhibition

What! Art Collective Team Exhibition

Contemporary arts in a historic setting. 

Arcadia at the Crescent

Arcadia at the Crescent

Following on from the success of last year’s Fringe show, Michael will again open his Georgian townhouse to visitors. 

Paperwork

Paperwork

Last year EdinburghGuide. 

The Worst Thing You Could Do

The Worst Thing You Could Do

‘Unsettling yet captivating’ (Alt A Review). 

Megalith

Megalith

Rocks. 

The Big Love Exhibition (Contemporary Street Art By Sleek)

The Big Love Exhibition (Contemporary Street Art By Sleek)

Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art. 

Twa

Twa

A twisted, memoiristic fairytale, blending theatrical storytelling, with Flore Gardner’s animated and live (on-stage) drawings. 

Verse

Verse

A double-bill of two contrasting pieces: In/visible from calligrapher and choreographer Chiharu Kuronuma, and Tranquilizer from juggler Teruki Okamoto. 

Ascending Light

Ascending Light

Peter Davis works from the almost deserted location of Silwick in West Mainland of Shetland, where he is surrounded by unobstructed seaviews and dramatic cliffs. 

Duncan Shanks | Riverbank – Landscape of Sorrow and Hope

Duncan Shanks | Riverbank – Landscape of Sorrow and Hope

Duncan Shanks finds his subject in his riverside garden in the Clyde Valley, painting the changing seasons with an emotional engagement that chronicles the constant cycle of loss a… 

Kirsten Coelho | Uncertain Cadence

Kirsten Coelho | Uncertain Cadence

Australian ceramicist Kirsten Coelho presents her first solo exhibition, Uncertain Cadence, with The Scottish Gallery. 

Raphael Magister Raffaello

Raphael Magister Raffaello

World-renowned tapestry studio Dovecot presents the life and work of Renaissance Master Raphael (1483–1520) in a landmark digital exhibition and tapestry marking his 500th annive… 

Robert Blomfield: Student of Light 

Robert Blomfield: Student of Light 

Following the recent deposit of the landmark archive of acclaimed street photographer Robert Blomfield (1938–2020) at the Centre for Research Collections, this exhibition celebra… 

Alison Kinnaird: Art in Glass – a Closer Look

Alison Kinnaird: Art in Glass – a Closer Look

Alison Kinnaird is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and musician. 

Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life

Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life

This incredible retrospective spans 20th-century British artist Hepworth’s entire career. 

Grayson Perry – Julie Cope’s Grand Tour

Grayson Perry – Julie Cope’s Grand Tour

Written on an arch, Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry, gives the sense of entering a house, secret garden or place of habitation. 

Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley

A visit to a Bridget Riley exhibition is the closest thing to a "trip" a non-narcotic taker can experience. 

Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage

Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage

The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art play host to the first-ever survey exhibition of collage in the world. 

Picasso's Women

Picasso's Women

Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured. 

David Huntsberger: Big Nothingness

David Huntsberger: Big Nothingness

David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke. 

The Birds#1. Corpses

The Birds#1. Corpses

Alfred Hitchcock has already firmly established that birds are terrifying beyond doubt. 

The Nutty Professor and His Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and His Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Bubble-lovers will rejoice in this fun, immersive spectacle lead by the energetic assistant Ms Squeaky Bottom and the Nutty Professor himself. 

On Ego by Mick Gordon

On Ego by Mick Gordon

Many theatre companies oversell their wares with outrageous hyperbole. 

AART

AART

As Mikey (Andrew Bridge) welcomes you to thePleasance Green, he’s very chatty, dressed in an unusual combination of sports shorts, a yellow jumper and a sparkly poncho. 

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

The Fruitmarket Gallery boasts “World class contemporary art at the heart of the city”. 

Celts

Celts

The Celts exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland is well worth a visit. 

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Children’s entertainment should be brimming with energy, lovable and over-the-top characters, and enchanting tricks. 

Show Your Hope

Show Your Hope

Show your Hope is a mobile art exhibition by Dutch storyteller Mr Martin who has been travelling all over the world with a van full of paintings since 2003. 

Lee Miller and Picasso

Lee Miller and Picasso

Edinburgh is a hotbed of street performance, pushy flyerers and hill-related exhaustion at this time of year. 

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