Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Private View of XX – Collective at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Tonight

ContemporaryArtETC.com in association with Edinburgh’s Telford College are delighted to announce the opening of XX – Collective at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop this evening.

XX – Collective is the first ever HND Contemporary Art Practice Grad Show anywhere in the world and is the culmination of the collective efforts of the qualification development team, teaching staff and most importantly students over the past 4 years.

The exhibition features , painting, video, sculpture, drawing and performance by 9 artists each of whom present their unique view of the world.

Opening at 6pm this evening the exhibition will run daily from 10 – 6 until Wednesday the 3rd June

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop @ WASPs presents: Lyndsay Mann and Ewan Robertson

Lynsay Mann & Ewan Robertson

TBG&S Installation, Dublin 2008 Casimir in Monoceros, 2007

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents a two person exhibition featuring new work by Edinburgh based artists Lyndsey Mann & Ewan Robertson will open tomorrow night 13th Novemebr at Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge.

Lyndsay Mann and Ewan Robertson share a sensibility in their approach to materials, each following diverse areas of research which leads to both multi-disciplinary processes and practice.

This new recent work by Ewan Robertson further explores interests in physicality: it’s material nature; constituents; fabric and status lying somewhere between the experiential and the physical, between object and installation. Drawn together from individual strands as diverse as mechanical music, the LA coastline, vehicles and props in non-violent action, linear systems / events / narratives, the work has a slow-burn feel and has almost self-formed into a singular sense or entity speaking about presence, silence and shadow. Like a newly uttered visual sentence it seems caught perpetually in the moment before thought condenses and meaning is fixed. It feels like a momentary clearing in fog that quietly subsumes but shows light traces of its tangential origins.

Lyndsay Mann’s work explores the most fundamental aspects of our experience: desire and dread, faith and futility. She follows simultaneously intuitive and pragmatic routes within her enquiries, often employing labour intensive processes in her work; using simple and inexpensive materials to suggest an environment of appropriation and a submission to process, manipulating familiar materials removed from their common context simulates a ritual. Mann’s writing, which is integral to her practice, falls somewhere between a manifesto and a self-help text, taking the form of suggested hypotheses or personal statements, neither definitive nor absolute. Abstracted from larger texts, she creates mantra-style sound bites within the works. Most recently she has developed this through sound recording during her residency at Stills gallery.
For Mann, combining multi-dimensional elements of her practice creates a dialogue which the viewer interrupts and becomes party to, assigned a role within the created dynamic to produce event, experience, and witness.

Opening: Thursday 13th November 6-8pm

Dates: 14th-30th November
Exhibition open: Thursdays to Sundays only
Opening times: Thursdays & Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays and Sundays 12-5pm

There will be an artists’ talk on Sunday 23rd November from 2-3pm at WASPS, Patriothall.

Entry to the exhibition and talk is free.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop at WASPS, Patriothall in Stockbridge.
WASPS, 1D Patriothall, Off Hamilton Place
Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5AY

Magazine 08 @ Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

MAGAZINE 08: Positive Critical Imagination is an exhibition of work by an array of international artists curated by David Arlandis and Javier Marroqui at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. The show is the third part in an ongoing curatorial investigation looking at artists who offer concrete solutions to social problems. Alongside the exhibition is a series of workshops and seminars discussing the concerns of the exhibition details of which can be found at www.edinburghsculpture.org

The project features work by:

Superflex and Copenhagen Brains, Elske Rosenfeld of Big Hope, Oliver Ressler, Andreja Kuluncic, Recetas Urbanos, Wochenklausur, SociƩtƩ RƩaliste and Marta de Gonzalo & Publio PƩrez Prieto.

The exhibition is open until the 24th of August, Thursday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop launches fundraising campaign

Yesterday saw the launch of a public appeal by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) fundraising campaign. ESW has already secured 90% of the funding needed to realise their vision for a world class contemporary visual art facility with 30 artists studios, specialist research, development and workshop spaces as well as project and education spaces which will further enhance their already successful community and outreach programmes

If you would like to know more about the new building and ESW’s or if you would like to support directly support the project by making an online donation then please click on the following link.

http://www.edinburghsculpture.org/new_build.html

Last of the Public Artists

We are delighted to announce that the Private View of the last ever HN Public Art Diploma Exhibition will Take place on Friday the 23rd May 2008 at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Please see below for details.

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During the installation we will bring you upt date news and images of progress and events.