DATE: DEC 14, 2017 7:00PM – 9:30PM · ADMISSION £10
FEUVA CHRISTMAS PARTY 2017
FEUVA is proud to announce a very special evening at Evolution House boardroom with magnificent views of Edinburgh Castle. Members and friends can enjoy complimentary wine and finger food, accompanied by world class musicians. There will also be an Art Quiz with a special prize for the lucky winner.
VENUE: Boardroom, Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
Muriel Spark 1984
DATE: JAN 25, 2018 6:30PM – 9:00PM · ADMISSION £5
VENUE: BOARDROOM @ EVOLUTION HOUSE, 78 WEST PORT, EH1 2LE
Bill Hare, a Trustee of FEUVA, is an Honorary Fellow of The University of Edinburgh who specialises in the History of Scottish Art. He is also a writer and curator with many publications and exhibitions to his name. He has recently written a book on the work of Alexander (Sandy) Moffat and will present an illustrated lecture on his research for this publication entitled– Facing The Nation- The Portraiture of Alexander Moffat.
Wine reception after the event.
DATE: FEB 08, 2018 2:00PM – 4:00PM · ADMISSION £5
Dear Friends
Our next scheduled event on 8th February is a visit and talk about the University’s unique and extraordinary Anatomical Collections – a rare insight into the history of collecting at one of the world’s great and historic schools of medicine. The visit will be lead by Joan Smith and Malcolm MacCallum.
Joan Smith is distinguished artist who formerly lectured in anatomical drawing at ECA. She has conducted research into medical casts and their role in art education, including the famous ‘Smugglerius’ in the ECA cast Collection. Joan is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies at ECA.
Malcolm MacCallum is curator of the Anatomical Museum at UoE, he has researched the rich medical history of collections held in Scotland’s museums.
Please meet at the Old Medical School, Teviot Place at 2pm. Places are limited to 10 so please email me m.c.h.stewart@ed.ac.uk to reserve a place as soon as possible.
Thank you, I look forward to seeing you on the 8th February.
VENUE: Old Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG
DATE: FEB 22, 2018 6:30PM – 8:00PM · ADMISSION £5
VENUE: BOARDROOM @ EVOLUTION HOUSE, 78 WEST PORT, EH1 2LE
For a week in April 1884, Edinburgh University celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary with a series of lavish ceremonies and social events, also involving the town council and the student body. There were dinners, receptions, fireworks, football matches, illuminations, and a torchlight procession, as well as the award of honorary degrees to scientists, scholars and public figures from all over the world.
Prof. (Emeritus) Robert Anderson takes us through the Tercentenary Festival with the help of rarely seen visual records.
Wine reception after the event.
DATE: MAR 14, 2018 2:00PM – 4:00PM · ADMISSION £5
The next event on our annual programme will be a visit to the Musical Instruments Collections at St. Cecilia’s Hall. Margaret Stewart and Dr Jenny Nex will describe and illustrate their collaboration in making a documentary film about architecture and landscape design in Scotland around 1700. Music plays a vital role in bringing mood, texture and cultural context to the film. We will see some clips and an animation from the film, and see some musical instruments of the period.
VENUE: St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry St, EH1 1NQ
DATE: MAR 22, 2018 6:30PM – 9:00PM · ADMISSION £5
VENUE: BOARDROOM @ EVOLUTION HOUSE, 78 WEST PORT, EH1 2LE
‘Basil Spence: the Dunbar connection.’
Spence’s perspective for his harbour housing scheme at Dunbar is a well known image. However, his involvement with the burgh, which spanned some twenty years, was much greater than this particular development, in both professional and personal terms.
Clive B Fenton is an architectural historian living in Edinburgh. He was research fellow for the Percy Johnson-Marshall archive project at the University of Edinburgh, and for the Basil Spence archive project at the RCAHMS/University of Warwick. He is currently Secretary of DoCoMoMo Scotland, an organisation dedicated to the study of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Wine reception after event.
DATE: APR 19, 2018 4:00PM – 5:00PM · ADMISSION £5
Jane Furness, MA DipILS MCLIP, is Academic Support Librarian for Edinburgh College of Art. Jane will lead an interactive hands-on workshop exploring some of the 1500 books in the ECA collection of artists’ books. Jane will focus on works by Scottish makers or with a Scottish theme or heritage.
Jane has promoted the collections for 10 years. Prior to working at ECA she was Librarian at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for 7 years.
Numbers are limited to 20, so please let Margaret know if you will be attending (email: m.c.h.stewart@ed.ac.uk). All welcome, and please bring a guest.
VENUE: Teaching Room 5.21 (formerly Board Room), Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
DATE: OCT 12, 2018 7:00PM · ADMISSION FREE, TICKET HOLDERS ONLY
THE ART OF CHANGE
-from the Irish abortion referendum to Brexit, the role that art can play in the national conversation.
Tessa Giblin, the Director of Talbot Rice Gallery of the University of Edinburgh, will reflect on artists and their relationship with institutions of power, with particular focus on what art can do in the face of Brexit and the 8th Amendment on the Irish constitution.
VENUE: West Court, Edinburgh College of Art, EH3 9DF
DATE: NOV 27, 2018 7:00PM – 8:00PM · ADMISSION £5
Chris Duffy from The Auchtermuchty Food Museum tells the story of how the purchase
of a battered cookbook in 1983 snowballed into a journey of obsessive collecting. In
How to make an Omelette he shares items from the collection as he tries to answer one
question – WHY?
Tuck into a tasting menu that includes books, manuscripts, artworks and documentary
objects from the 15th Century to the present day.
Eclectic and eccentric this talk tells a story of food, life and one collector’s search for
answers.
VENUE: Teaching Room 5.21 (formerly Board Room), Evolution House, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
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.
Reserve seats on Eventbright
* Drinks reception
Alex Hamilton and Christian Weikop