Edinburgh Art Festival
JULY 29 – SEPT 5, 2010
Established in 2004, 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.
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.
The festival finishes in style each year with Art Late – one final night of fun – a festival fling of late night exhibitions, lives performances, screenings and tours staged by an array of Scottish and International artists.
“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." - Roy Adzak
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Art Late
The Art Festival for Scotland's only late night gallery openings in addition to a range of visual arts events, featuring music, performance and specially curated tours in multiple venues across the city.
Caravan Gallery
The Caravan Gallery is a gallery in a caravan and visual arts project documenting the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. Eager to examine clichs and cultural trends, the artists are particularly drawn to absurd anomalies and curious juxtapositions, typical of places in transition and in the process of reinventing themselves. For the Edinburgh Art Festival the artists produced a new body of work exploring the Edinburgh region - as well as Glasgow and around - as part of an ongoing collaboration with Street Level Photoworks , Glasgow.
