FILM – FEUVA

STRATEGY GET ARTS 1970

Strategy Get Arts

DATE: FEB 26, 2019 6:45PM – 8:45PM · ADMISSION FREE. DONATIONS WELCOME
VENUE: West Court, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

Strategy Get Arts: In Conversation with the Artist Alexander Hamilton (60 mins)

Q & A after the film.

Strategy: Get Arts was held in the summer of 1970 at Edinburgh College of Art. This ground-breaking exhibition was curated by Richard Demarco and featured works by Joseph Beuys, and other canonical figures of post-1945 art such as Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke and Günter Uecker.

The film features archive photographs by George Oliver of this important event and takes the form of an interview between the artist Alex Hamilton (an assistant during the exhibition) and Dr Christian Weikop, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary German Art at ECA.

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* Drinks reception

Alex Hamilton and Christian Weikop

COMING SOON

Dec 12, 7:00PM

Christmas Party 2023

FEUVA CHRISTMAS PARTY! Music, drinks, nibbles, a raffle and the ART QUIZ Date: December 12th 2023 Time: 7pm to 10pm Venue: Scottish Arts Club, 24 Rutland Square EH1 2BW Cost: £20 per person for fundraising Tickets will be on sale through Eventbrite

CELEBRATIONEVENT

January 4, 2019/by Edith

Evolution House - Boardroom DISCUSSION, FILM

GLENROTHES ARTWORKS OF DAVID HARDING

Children play around David Harding sculpture in Glenrothes

DATE: SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 6:30PM · ADMISSION £5*
VENUE: Room 5.21 (Boardroom), Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE

FILM SCREENING

Concrete Safari (dir. Carolyn Scott + Andy Sim)

Glenrothes was founded 1948, largely to serve the coal industry, and it is Scotland’s second post-war new town. In 2018 Carolyn Scott and Andy Sim were commissioned to make this short documentary about the influential artworks of David Harding as Glenrothes Town Artist.

CONVERSATION

Glenrothes, Concrete and Community: Andrew Demetrius in conversation with David Harding

David Harding’s practice as Town Artist in Glenrothes from 1968-78 has been documented by Andrew Demetrius who is a curator and PhD researcher at St Andrews University. Discussion will examine how Harding’s work was shaped by the environment and community in which he lived, and reflect upon the creation and legacy of town art in Glenrothes.

* Wine reception after the event

COMING SOON

Dec 12, 7:00PM

Christmas Party 2023

CELEBRATIONEVENT

September 11, 2019/by Edith

Evolution House - Boardroom DISCUSSION, FILM

LOUDOUN: DOCUMENTARY FILM

DATE: november 19, 2019 6:30PM · ADMISSION £5*
VENUE: Room 5.21 (Boardroom), Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION

Loudoun – a film about Landscape Design in Scotland around 1700 (37 mins), with short talk by producer/director Margaret Stewart

Margaret Stewart is Honorary Secretary of FEUVA and a Lecturer in Architectural History at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Loudoun is a documentary film by staff, students and recent graduates of Edinburgh College of Art. It is about the origins of landscape design in Scotland around 1700.

It begins by telling the true story of how two boys in 1690 find a way to commemorate their dead parents by designing a garden. The film was shot at Lennoxlove Castle in East Lothian, and at various outdoor locations. The film illustrates a great but little-known national heritage of vast formal designed landscapes in Scotland around 1700. These were modelled on the great park at the Palace of Versailles.

The film demonstrates the wide-ranging talents of students and staff at Edinburgh College of Art – it includes animations, live action scenes, drone footage of landscapes and specially recorded music.

* Wine reception after the event

COMING SOON

Dec 12, 7:00PM

Christmas Party 2023

CELEBRATIONEVENT

September 11, 2019/by Edith

Adam House basement theatre EVENT, FILM, In Real Life, SCREENING

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Adam House basement theatre EVENT, FILM, SCREENING

Screening: Alan Johnston, Beyond the Flow

Get your tickets for Beyond the Flow here

In 2022 FEUVA made this documentary film about Alan Johnston’s exhibition at the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney.

Andrew Parkinson, the Pier’s Curator, explains Alan’s inspirations – the Orkney landscape and its archaeological sites.

Alan Johnston was born in Scotland in 1945; he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art between 1967 and 1970. Latterly he was Professor at the College where he obtained a reputation for instilling in his students a sense of the boundless possibilities of art as well as paving the way for Scottish artists such as Douglas Gordon and Callum Innes to find a place on the international stage.

Alan has been at the forefront of contemporary art in Scotland since the 1960s, and has exhibited his fine abstract art in galleries across the world, most frequently in Germany, The Netherlands and especially Japan.

Alan Johnston in his own words:

My work explores spatial contexts and relations through drawing and architectural construction, reflecting on the spatial and tactual implications in architecture where perceptual notions are rendered as common factors in sight and touch. This field is closely related to the work of Patrick Geddes, Philosophical Generalism, and Gesamtkunstwerk. This is a comparative context, which has its roots in the practice of art, architecture and visual thinking in the West and the East, and relates to concepts and practices such as Wabi Sabi. I engage in collaborative initiatives in art and architecture with Professor Shinichi Ogawa, Tokyo, and Neil Gillespie, Edinburgh.

The film was made in May 2022. It records the exhibition at the Pier Gallery which brings together a group of paintings from the 1980s with a series of new works, and a drawing made directly on the gallery wall.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including Alan Johnston, the Curator of the Pier Arts Centre Andrew Parkinson, and FEUVA Trustee and filmmaker Margaret Stewart.

Get your tickets for Beyond the Flow here

April 11, 2023/by Edith

Christmas Party 2023

Christmas Party 2023

Christmas Party 2023

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