PAST EVENTS

The Film Premiere of the film "Michael Snowden in his Studio" With an interview by Robin Paine MFA, Chair Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Arts. A visit to the extraordinary studio of eminent sculptor Michael Snowden Situated in a former silversmith's workshop in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh. The studio is a repository of a life's work.  Michael also taught sculpture at Edinburgh College of art from 1965 - 1995. The film ends with a tribute to Michael from a former student, Jill Watson MRSS.

Speaker:  Robert Wilson CEO Creative Scotland, Founder Jupiter Artland Date:        19th October 2023 At 18.30 Venue:     Main lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art

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 […]

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.

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. Read on . . .

The David Talbot Rice Memorial Lecture 2022 Professor Juan Cruz, Principal, Edinburgh College of Art. November 3rd at 6:30 pm. 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.

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. As a trained carpenter, 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.

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.

Excursion

Ed Hollis

Lindy Richardson

Dir. Margaret Stewart

Book launch

Film & Discussion

Talbot Rice Lecture

Dr Elizabeth Cumming

Hamilton & Weikop

Chris Duffy

Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery

Jane Furness, Librarian

Dr Clive Fenton

Dr Jenny Nex and Margaret Stewart

Prof Robert Anderson

Joan Smith and Malcolm MacCallum

Bill Hare, Art Historian

Music, food, wine, and quiz

Presented by Dr Sharma and Dr Grout

Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea, Principal & Vice-Chancellor of University of Edinburgh

Featuring the work of students from Art, Design, and ESALA

Robin Paine

Professor Robert Anderson

Professor Viccy Coltman

Rare viewing

New acquisitions

A true tale of passion and scandal in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Artists Robin Paine and Stephen Howard Harrison

Sean Rainbird lecture - ‘Use it or Lose it: Collections and their Public in an Age of Austerity’.

500 students, 9 days, 5 venues

The Fashion Show returns to the Sculpture Court, Main Building ECA with 5 shows

Bill Hare is co-curating with Professor Andrew Patrizio the exhibition at the Dovecot Gallery in Infirmary Street

Speech exploration

An illustrated talk by Robin Paine.

A wax sculpture named Fatima

Sound artists

Filmmaker