Join us for Creative Connect, an informal networking event designed to bring artists together to share ideas, collaborate and build meaningful connections. This event also serves as an introduction to the new Artist Development Programme at Summerhall Arts.
Open 10am-5pm Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out is an artist memoir that explores the visualization of loss; the relationship between the creative act and healing by interrogating the drawings and paintings of artist Janet McKenzie made since the diagnosis of her husband Michael Spens’s Stage 4 cancer in 1996. The inscrutable works create a visual narrative …
You and Me and Everyone is an exhibition of portraiture exploring identity, representation and connection through the artwork of learning-disabled, autistic and neurodiverse artists.
Nicole Tait and John Newey will be onsite to draw your portrait. Come along, meet some Garvald Artists and take away your very own unique portrait.
Join the Garvald Media Team for a Shimmering photo shoot. Inspired by their artwork collection Shimmering, The Media Team will be on hand with range of colourful fabrics, camera, and lots of encouragement to get you to strike a pose and embrace your inner model. You will receive your digital portraits to keep and share.
Scotland is now experiencing relative 'Sea-level Rise'. All future projections expect the rate of this rise to speed up due to climate change /rising ocean temperatures This art installation represents the sea level in the Summerhall Edinburgh area around 20,000 years in the future.
Broken Silence is a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together art, activism, and academic reflection to explore women’s bodies, voices, and choices. The exhibition invites audiences to engage with themes of autonomy, safety, and freedom of expression through a diverse array of creative contributions.
Comedian-turned-artist Sam Kissajukian creates bold, emotionally charged works that explore the intersections of mental health, creativity, and self-perception. In ‘Paintings to Sleep On’, Sam experimented making paintings while in specific emotional states to see how they translate visually.
Summerhall Arts launches its inaugural group show, celebrating professional visual artists working across all mediums. This vibrant exhibition showcases the breadth of contemporary artistic practice.
Summerhall Arts Surgeries is an artist development initiative led by Summerhall Arts. Running throughout the Fringe, the Surgeries will see 8 lead artists and collectives showcase excerpts of unfinished work to an audience of peers and industry figures, split between 2 events.
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON DOOR Current Line-Up Nadine Shah | DEADLETTER | George Clanton | The Moonlandingz | Du Blonde | Heartworms | Anna Erhard | Honeyglaze | Do Nothing | Getdown Services | Crocodiles | Bubble Tea & Cigarettes | Horse Jumper Of Love | Deary | La Sécurité | The Orchestra (For Now) | …
Age Guideline: 14+ Warnings: Themes of war and death (Korean War / frontline scenes), loud noises Tether (WIP) is a work-in-progress sharing of a powerful new collaboration between South Korea’s Theatre SAN and Scotland’s Wonder Fools. Part ceilidh, part storytelling and a good night out. Spanning sixty years and three generations, the play weaves together …
