Edinburgh Art Festival

In it's 5th year the Edinburgh Art Festival is developing into a major international visual art event. The Festival works in partnership with the city’s galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present the best, most exciting and intriguing in the modern and contemporary visual arts. The programme offers more than 130 exhibitions and events presenting a wide-ranging selection of artworks by both international and Scottish artists in a variety of traditional and non-traditional settings.

Festival Dates

2008: 25 July – 3 August

Richard Hamilton, Study for 'Portrait of Hughy Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland' 1964 (oil and collage on photograph on panel 61 x 61 cm, copyright Richard Hamilton)

Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures

With work selected by the artist, this is the first exhibition of Hamilton’s exacting portrayal of political actions, movements and figures which have shaped our lives.
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Tracey EMIN b.1963, My Bed, 1998 (Mattress, linens, pillows, rope, various memorabilia, 79 x 211 x 234), Saatchi Gallery, London, copyright The Artist

Tracey Emin: 20 Years

Tracey Emin is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation, yet remarkably this is the first retrospective exhibition of her work to be held in the UK.
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Big Things on the Beach

New, curated, interactive art space The Garden Gallery explores the relationships between people and art, creating a dialogue in the environs of Edinburgh’s wonderful city beach.
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The Golden Record: Sounds of Earth

The Collective Gallery has invited artists and performers to make content for a contemporary version of the Golden Record, a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft.
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