Edinburgh Art Festival
JULY 29 – SEPT 5, 2010
Established in 2004 EAF is Scotland’s largest annual celebration of the visual arts and provides an international platform for the city’s many galleries and artists.
The 2010 EAF presents work spanning over five centuries from Dutch landscapes through French Impressionists to Turner Prize winners and a new generation of Scottish artists which are being exhibited in private and public galleries and in a variety of found spaces across the city. It features UK debuts for leading international artists, the only UK showings of international exhibitions and a wide variety of new and specially created work.
Running from 29 July to 5 September the 2010 Festival offers over 150 exhibitions and events including the EAF’s first ever commissions - three artworks and four interventions supported by the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund. The popular Art Late also returns (towards the end of the Festival) and is this year complemented by 13, the centrepiece of an EAF programme created by and for young people.
The programme offers more than 130 exhibitions during the month long festival and events presenting a wide-ranging selection of artworks in a variety of traditional and non-traditional settings. The wide range of visual art on show in over 50 locations in Edinburgh contains work to suit all tastes and interpretations of what art is and what it can be.
The Edinburgh Art Festival is consolidating and building upon the city’s reputation as a vibrant destination for the visual arts. the Edinburgh Art Festival works in partnership with the city’s artists, galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present the best, exciting and most intriguing in modern and contemporary visual art. The festival showcases UK debuts by major international artists, new work by leading British Artists, public art and a host of temporary exhibitions across the city.
EAF offers special late night gallery openings together with specially programme events, featuring music, performance and curated tours in venues across the city. 13, a new art late by and for young people, will take place on Friday 13 August with the traditional ART LATE taking place on Thursday 26 August.
“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." - Roy Adzak
Featured videos
The Stairwell Project by Richard Wright
2009 Turner Prize winner, Richard Wright will compose a large-scale, wall-based work within the newly decorated Dean Gallery. The work will be situated within the west stairwell of the gallery, which provides a beautiful and challenging architectural backdrop for Wright's work.
