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ARTISTS FILMS MAY 11 2021:

DATE: May 11, 2021 18:00PM – 19:00PM ·

ARTIST ALEXANDER MOFFAT

by Andrew  Michael and Chester Briscall Harvey

VENUE: Online event:

Andrew Michael is based in Edinburgh and London with experience in short film production for both drama and documentary. He has produced films that have gone onto their selection at festivals both in the UK and Europe. Andrew aspires to be a producer-director of short-form documentary content.

Born in Canterbury, Chester Briscall Harvey is graduating this year from The University of Edinburgh specialising in Film and Television production. His focus has been largely in the camera department but has also written and directed shorts. After graduating, Chester hopes to break into the industry as a camera assistant.

andrew michael Film and TV student ECA 2021

Renowned Scottish portrait painter Alexander (Sandy) Moffat discusses painting and process with art historian Bill Hare.

Filmmakers Andrew Michael and Chester Briscall-Harvey worked with The Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Artists to document this fascinating discussion, sharing Sandy’s unique insight into the evolving world of portraiture, and its relevance in contemporary Scotland.

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Self Portrait – Alexander Moffat – Title still from Film By Andrew Michael and Chester Briscall Harvey

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THE 2021 DAVID TALBOT RICE MEMORIAL LECTURE

THE 2021 DAVID TALBOT RICE
MEMORIAL LECTURE

BY PHILIP LONG, OBE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND

“The Love of Scotland: artistic fascination with Scotland’s landscape as a source for creative inspiration and ideas for centuries.”

The Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Arts (FEUVA) are delighted to announce the David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture 2021, a prestigious public lecture held annually within The University of Edinburgh.

This year the speaker is Philip Long OBE. Prior to his appointment to the National Trust for Scotland, Philip Long was the founding director of the V&A in Dundee where, under his leadership, the museum received international critical recognition. Formerly he was a senior curator at the National Galleries of Scotland.

Past speakers, who are leading figures in the arts and culture, have included Ms Fiona Hyslop, formerly Scottish Minister for Culture and External Affairs, Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Tessa Giblin, Director of the Talbot Rice Gallery and Sir Tim O’Shea, the former principal of the University of Edinburgh.

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  • Author James Robertson in the sitting room at Brownsbank
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A film by Carolyn Scott and Andy Sim with music by Steven Gellatly.

In 2019, a quarter of a century after he lived there, the author James Robertson returned to Brownsbank, former home of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of 20th-century Scotland’s greatest cultural figures. The two years James spent in the tiny cottage were life-changing. In this short film, he reflects on MacDiarmid’s legacy, and the continuing national importance of a seemingly insignificant place just a few miles from Biggar.

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From Masterplan to Reality

From Masterplan to Reality

Jupiter Artland collaboration, by architect Ben Tindall

Venue: Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, University of Edinburgh
Accessibility: the theatre is wheelchair accessible

(Please let us know so a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan – PEEP – can be prepared)

Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm Lecture starts at 18:30

This event is free, but a donation of £5 is suggested.

Book your tickets here

Architect Ben Tindall takes us through the process of working with the owners of Jupiter Artland, from initial concepts to the finished Visitor Facilities and changes to the main house. Ben is particularly interested in the practice of working with artists and craftspeople. His fascinating talk includes some of the problems that threatened the project.

Tindall was brought up with an architectural background, trained as a carpenter in Denmark and has run his own practice since 1982. He works throughout Scotland and the UK for a wide variety of clients and on a broad range of work, ranging from the Queen’s Gallery at Holyrood to plans for the new settlement of An Camas Mòr in the Cairngorms. His interests in history and an enthusiasm for good workmanship, patina and colour are hallmarks of the practice.

To find out more about Jupiter Artland visit their website:
https://www.jupiterartland.org/

A photograph of The Temple of Apollo by Ian Hamilton Findlay at Jupiter Artland

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David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture 2022

David Talbot Rice
Memorial Lecture 2022

Professor Juan Cruz, Principal
Edinburgh College of Art.

Photo of Juan Cruz' work at an exhibition of his work from the catalogue

November 3rd at 6:30 pm.
Lecture starts at 7:oo pm for 45 mins, followed by Q&A

West Court, Edinburgh College of Art,
Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF

Before joining RCA in 2014, Professor Cruz held positions at Liverpool School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College. He has taught at other institutions around the world and was Artist’s Fellow at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge.
Professor Cruz is an artist who employs a broad range of approaches to his work, including video, performance, text and site-specific works.
He is a member of the Tate Liverpool Council, a trustee of the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition Trust and a Director of the International Awards for Art Criticism.

Tickets Free at this Eventbrite link

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The David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture 2022

The David Talbot Rice
Memorial Lecture 2022

Professor Juan Cruz, Principal,
Edinburgh College of Art.

November 3rd at 6:30 pm.
Lecture starting at 7:oo pm followed by a Q&A


Photo of Juan Cruz' work at an exhibition of his work from the catalogue

Before joining RCA in 2014, Professor Cruz held positions at Liverpool School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College. He has taught at other institutions around the world and was Artist’s Fellow at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge.

Professor Cruz is an artist who employs a broad range of approaches to his work, including video, performance, text and site-specific works.

He is a member of the Tate Liverpool Council, a trustee of the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition Trust and a Director of the International Awards for Art Criticism.

Tickets are FREE and can be obtained at this Eventbrite link.


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FEUVA Christmas Party 2022

Design for christmas party invite by C Paine

FEUVA continues to uphold ECA’s long tradition of Revel and Christmas cheer.

When?

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM GMT

and Where?

Scottish Arts Club, 24 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, EH1 2BW

Make sure you have a ticket for this event, get them here!
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Touchstones: Jake Harvey Film Screening

Jake Harvey RSA, is widely known and admired for works such as the MacDairmid Memorial near Langholm, and his contribution to An Turas on Tiree, Western isles. He was born in Kelso in the Scottish Borders where he still lives and works. In his own words:

‘My creative stimulus comes from many sources but frequently evolves from drawing things seen and imagined, from lived encounters with the landscape and, in the reductive process of carving, from embracing the tangential ways of making that evolve. … sculptures carved in basalt, granite, marble and porphyry relates to a material and a way of working it. In a broader context it links to my aim to create simple sculptural forms; works of distilled essence that invite deliberation from the viewer; sculptures made by a process of paring down and refining in terms of both form and concept.’

This film illustrates Jake’s approaches to his work. It feature the landscape around Yetholm which he describes as having  been the recurring fundamental influences on his work, a spell in India researching and sourcing stone, his working methods in his workshop/studio and the origins of his  creative thinking which range from geology to poetry and from landscape to artistic theory. His forms are often in resistant material that he works with sensitivity to expose their colour, texture and formal properties. These simple abstract forms are carefully positioned in the landscape or have bases specially devised for them. Jake studied at Edinburgh College of Art between 1966 and 1972, and later became Head of the School of Sculpture there for eleven years and is now Emeritus Professor of Sculpture.

To reserve seats:

Please book through Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/touchstones-jake-harvey-tickets-580482678317

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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

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ECA Graduate Show 2023

ECA Graduate Show 2023

A celebration of 2023 graduate’s work across the schools of Art, Design,
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Music.

There are a range of different opportunities – music – fashion – art – on different dates.
Some shows require tickets; the Graduate shows do not. If you are interested in buying tickets for any of the events, this link is the best to use.

Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF

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