Welcome to Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is Scotland’s largest annual festival of visual art and has something for everyone. Established in 2004, the Festival works in partnership with the city’s artists, galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present the best, exciting and most intriguing in modern and contemporary visual art.
Coleman and Hogarth awarded Expo Emerging Artist Commission
Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth are to follow their recent Frieze Art Fair project with a commission for the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival. The new work, Staged, will be a multi-channel video installation incorporating stage-managed performances with live events filmed around the city by CCTV cameras, transforming the Edinburgh Festival into a mise-en-scène and the visitors, tourists and locals into players. Produced by Collective Gallery, the work will be shown in a city-centre venue.
To see the Press Release and more information, please go to the New Section.
Call for proposals for the 2010 Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival's open invitation to museums, galleries and artists to submit proposals to be part of the 2010 Festival! Please click here for a submission form and to see the full News article.
Richard Wright awarded 2009 Turner Prize
Edinburgh Art Festival congratulates Richard Wright on winning this prestigious award! Wright's next major work will be unveiled at the next Edinburgh Art Festival 2010.
For the full article, please go to the News. For a video of the interview with Wright on the 2010 EAF commission, go to Pocket Festival.
2010 Art Festival 29 July - 5 September
Dates of next year's Festival have been confirmed, and with an extra week there will be even more opportunity to see our exhibitions, take part in events and appreciate the dynamic visual arts scene of the City!
2010 Expo Commissions Announced
Details of three major Edinburgh Art Festival commissions, supported by the Scottish Government’s Expo Fund, were recently announced. Internationally acclaimed Scottish artists Richard Wright and Martin Creed will each make a new work: Wright will make a major new painting at the Dean Gallery and Creed is set to create a public work in the centre of the city. The third commission will introduce Scotland’s new generation of visual arts talent to the international audience at the summer Festivals.Go to our News section to see more information about the commissions.
To download the Press Release for the 2010 Expo Commissions click here.
For full information on all of 2009's exhibitions and events vist our 09 Festival Programme page above. For podcasts, videos and images, check out our Pocket Festival page. You can also join us on Facebook and MySpace
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To find out about all of Edinburgh's Festivals visit www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk
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