The Edinburgh Reporter April 2019 issue

12 GENERAL WHAT’S NEWS ON
The Edinburgh Reporter
Theatre | Art | Music | Shows | Festivals
Day by day guide
Park. You might even see the
Stones In His Pockets
Tue 2 – Sat 6 April | King’s Theatre
A small village in rural Ireland
is turned upside down when
a major Hollywood film studio
descends to make a historical
blockbuster on location. Tickets
£18.50-£32 Evenings 7.30pm
| Matinees Wed & Sat 2.30pm
Running time (approx.): 1 hour 42
minutes Age: 14+
4 April 2019 Gilded Balloon
Basement at Rose Street Theatre
7.30pm
As Fringe preview show season
kicks off, Rose Theatre at Gilded
Balloon Basement will present
two acts : Max & Ivan and Wis
Jantarasorn & Megan Shandley.
The two UK comedy acts will
offer a little preview of their 2019
Fringe shows.
Advance tickets only £5.
Being a Woman in Science -
Changed Times?
16 April 2019 6.00-7.30pm
So many female scientists have
changed our understanding of the
world, yet around half the population
struggles to name a woman
in science. Questions need to be
asked! What attracts women to
science, what are their experiences
and why are they not more
visible?
Join us for a fascinating discussion
with current and former
RSE Presidents, Prof Dame Anne
Glover and Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell
Burnell and RSE Young Academy
of Scotland member Dr Silvia
Paracchini as they discuss their
experiences of being women in
science.
Part of the Edinburgh Science
Festival.Tickets 0131 226 0005
Classical Rush Hour
on Wednesdays at Le Monde
with Edinburgh Quartet Armenia
via Denmark: 17 April 2019,
5.30pm Selections of Armenian
and Danish folk music miniatures
arranged for string quartet, alongside
music by Tchaikovsky
Victorian Edinburgh: Powerhouse
of the Empire?
World Heritage Day Lecture with
Professor Sir Tom Devine
Edinburgh World Heritage has
organised a World Heritage Day
Lecture by Scotland’s pre-eminent
historian. Sir Tom will explore
the extraordinary success of late
Victorian Edinburgh – as banking
house to the British Empire, as
patron of the arts and architecture,
and as a city of considerable
luxury and opulence.
18 April 2019 6.00pm for about
1 hour at The Royal College of
Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen
Street,.
19 April 2019
There will be an Easter Egg
hunt at Starbank Park. Lots of
eggs to be found in our Walled
Spring Garden. Suggested donation
£3 per child or become a
member of Friends of Starbank
Easter Bunny!10:30 to 11:30 am.
Aimed at children aged 3-8 years.
Something to book ahead for May
Cyanotype & Bookbinding
Workshop Sunday, 12 May 2019
from 10.30am -4.30pm at Granton
Hub Madelvic House, 33 Granton
Park Ave, EH5 1HS To book a place
search Eventbrite. In this collaborative
workshop, Artist Kit Martin
(www.kitmartinphoto.co.uk) and
Bookbinder Cass Barron, will
introduce the cyanotype process
and guide you in creating a range
of prints onto paper and fabric,
before binding a selection into
a number of unique and usable
books. Beginners are welcome.
AT THE TRAVERSE
A Play, A Pie and a Pint from 9
April to 18 May 2019
Our three choices are -
Chic Murray - A Funny Place for
a Window featuring the comedian
looking back on the last day of
his life at the glittering but flawed
career he enjoyed.
The Mack by Rob Drummond
allows some discussion about the
building so ravaged by fire on two
occasions that its very future is
in doubt.
Toy Plastic Chicken which
involves a bomb scare, a toy
chicken and Edinburgh Airport
and is apparently based on a true
story.
A play, a pie and a pint of
beer/125ml glass of house wine
or a regular glass of Pepsi, Diet
Pepsi, lemonade, orange juice,
filter coffee or tea
A vibrant mix of themes, characters
and stories Lunchtime and
evening performances
Easily digestible 50-min play
packages
To book t 0131 228 1404
https://www.traverse.co.uk/
At National
Museum of Scotland
Getting the Robots exhibition
ready for opening.
| Photo Neil Hanna
16 April 2019 at 8.00pm as part
of the ROBOTS exhibition. The Future
is Robot with Timandra Harkness.
Join the writer, broadcaster
and comedian to find out how design
and programming decisions
will affect our future with robots. t
0300 123 6789 to book
Around the Galleries
The Fine Art Society
are holding two exhibitions
of paintings by contemporary
artists Victoria Orr Ewing - Ebb
& Flood and Emma Alcock - Quietude
until 6 April. The Dundas
Street Gallery is downstairs
from the Fine Art Society. From
10-27 April, Dundas Street
Gallery is transformed into a
sensory room, an art installation.
InnerVerse is a colourful
and emotional dialogue which
resonates the inner rhythms of
life and the human condition. A
visual conversation relatable to
everyday living and the journey
to appreciate more of life.
Arusha Gallery
13A Dundas Street EH3 6QG t
0131 557 1412 Casper White 12
April to 5 May 2019.
Torrance Gallery
36 Dundas Street EH3 6JN have
their Spring Show from 6 April
to 11 May 2019. More details from
mail@torrancegallery.co.uk or t
0131 556 6366
Birch Tree Gallery
23A Dundas Street EH3 6QQ t
0131 556 4000
art@birchtreegallery.co.uk
Open Tue-Fri 11.00am-6.00pm
Sat 11.00am - 4.00pm
Liberating Scale6 April to 4
May 2019
Laura Boswell (linocut and
wood block hand-inked prints)
Rachel Holian (porcelain)
Matthew Draper Roaming,
Crepuscular Rays series no 12019
pastel on paper H:79cm
W:107.5cm Price on Application
The Scottish Gallery
SOUND OF RAASAY Matthew
Draper 3 - 27 Apr 2019
'My fascination with the Island
started some 23 years ago
when I first moved to Scotland.
It was the same year the Skye
Bridge was opened. For some,
the bridge was a controversial
scheme, but nevertheless, it
offered the ease of access to the
Island and meant that my first
tentative trip exploring the West
Coast of Scotland was a relatively
easy, although unplanned
extension to my journey. For the
first time I experienced the rugged,
dramatic and varied landscape
of this unique Island and
regular trips have occurred year
on year allowing me to further
explore that particular wilderness.'
Matthew Draper, 2019
David McClure White Chimney
Stacks, Ardrossan1954
gouache H:49.5cm W:37cm
Price on Application
ART AND INDUSTRY -
ARDROSSAN TO MILLPORT
David McClure 3 - 27 Apr 2019
The exhibition is curated by
Robin McClure of works by David
McClure RSA, RSW (1926-1998)
featuring selected works on paper
from the 1950s.
Anthony Bryant Large Ash
Vessel AshH:36cm D:80cm
Price on Application Photograph:
Steve Tanner
Wood
3-27 April 2019 - an exhibition
showcasing both objects and
furniture from: Roger Bennett,
Anthony Bryant, Martin Cook,
Roland Fraser, Hans Henning
Pedersen, Kathryn Hinton,
Andrew Holmes, Owen Jones,
Eleanor Lakelin, Grant McCaig,
Lawrence Neal, Jim Partridge
& Liz Walmsley, Angus Ross and
Edward Teasdale.
Open Eye Gallery
5-29 April 2019 Alice McMurrough
PAI RGI RSW McMurrough
studied at Glasgow School of
Art to 1978 She has won many
awards and in this exhibition she
will show more of her concern
with the way that ideas, observations
and dreams are researched,
edited and translated into visual
statements. Her paintings have
a curious and bewitching air as
they are often set in spiritual and
timeless worlds.
Peter Thomson RGI RSW
Glasgow based Thomson is
known for his figurative and landscape
based oil paintings.
&Gallery
- JFK Turner Solo Exhibition 6
April to 1 May 2019 JFK Turner’s
work is concerned with the
unnoticed ephemeral elements
of everyday life; found objects,
marks, stains and the natural
effect of time. The objects Turner
collects from the street form the
basis of the work.
The paintings are not abstract
– they are based on something
from the real world – for example
a rubber band, a screwed-up
piece of paper, or a flap on a
cardboard box. These are nonobjects,
just the remnants of
life.
The works are closer to objects
than traditional paintings. If
paint is used it is house hold
paint that is poured, smeared
and allowed to congeal and
crack – like spilt paint on a
pavement. In addition to paint
Turner uses found materials
– wax, plaster, photographs,
paper, discarded books and
clothes. Working on wood
allows the surface to be attacked
by scratching, sanding
and stabbing. This adds to the
works physical quality – like a
collagraph printing plate or a
religious icon.
Turner takes objects and
elements from the real world,
combines them together to create
another object. The ordinary
becomes unusual and other.
At The Grilli Gallery
20A Dundas Street EH3 6HZ
Mixed Exhibition until 20 April
2019 Marion Drummond PAI
Gail Pope, Rona Lee and Jean
Feeney
Charles Avery will exhibit at the
Ingleby Gallery this month
At Ingleby Gallery
27 April to 13 July 2019
Since 2005 Charles Avery’s
practise has focused on a
fictional Island; an all-encompassing,
immersive investigation
of the fabric and possibilities
of another place. Through
drawings, texts and objects
Avery describes the inhabitants,
architecture, philosophies,
customs and idiosyncrasies of
this imagined territory.
With accents of the Scottish
Hebrides and East London, the
Island is situated at the centre
of an archipelago of innumerable
constituents. Its capital is
the port city of Onomatopoeia:
originally a stepping off point
for pioneers and travellers,
turned bustling boomtown,
turned citadel, turned depression
ravaged slum, turned
regenerated city of culture.
It has many eras, all encompassed
by a monumental city
wall separating it from the dark
and violent wilderness beyond.
Charles Avery’s exhibition;
The Gates of Onomatopoeia,
includes several new drawings
and a large sculpture.
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