Welcome to Edinburgh Art Festival
29th July - 5th September
The 2010 programme is announced! To download the details click here. Or click on the 2010 Festival Programme link above to browse through all exhibitions, commissions, events and children's activities.
Join us for a vibrant few days of activities as we celebrate the visual arts in Edinburgh, download the Opening Itinerary here.
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.
2010 Commissioned Art Works
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth
Following their recent Frieze Project for the Frieze Art Fair 2009 with a commission for the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival. The new work, Staged, produced by Collective Gallery, will be installed in the City Observatory, at the top of Calton Hill. Staged is a multi-channel video installation combining live video with pre-recorded footage. It will function as a digital camera obscura, transforming Edinburgh into a mise-en-scène and the visitors, tourists and locals into players. Staged will be open to the public from 30 July to 15 August, 2010.
Richard Wright
The most complex and ambitious painting to date by 2009 Turner prize-winner, Richard Wright, was unveiled at the Dean Gallery on 30 June 2010. The painting is located in the west stairwell of the Dean Orphan Hospital, now the Dean Gallery, which is part of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The striking black on white design was created in an intensive four-week period and is accompanied by time delay video of the installation of the work, and essay by curator Keith Hartley.
Martin Creed
One of Scotland's most highly regarded and popular artists. Martin Creed's work is generous and direct and captures the public imagination while also attracting critical acclaim for its thoughtful, accessible approach. The Festival exhibition Down Over Up at The Fruitmarket Gallery provides a context for the development of the commission - a major new work of public sculpture for Edinburgh’s historic Scotsman Steps. This commission is part of a renovation of the Steps and will be opened later in the year. Meanwhile designs for the Steps can be seen at the gallery.
2010 Commissioned Performances and Interventions
Deveron Arts
David Sherry: Health + Safety Effects: building on an artist residency earlier in the year, Deveron Arts now presents three new, specially created performances by Sherry on the theme of Health + Safety: Cleaning Change, Mirror Man and Left Luggage (1, 3 & 7 August) and launches the artist's A-Z of Health & Safety publication (4 August).
Confraternity of Neoflagellants
An Unco Site! 7 August at 11pm; this neomedievalist flash mob involves a mash-up of Robert Burns's Tam O'Shanter, The Party (starring Peter Sellers, 1968), Night of the Living Dead (1985), The Fall's Live at the Witch Trials (1979) and Howard Rheingold's book Smart Mobs (2002). it is curated by the Confraternity of Neoflagellants and produced by lightmotiv.
Ross Christie
Mobile Art Gallery - in support of local artists Ross Christie is mounting his mobile, pedal powered market stall and travelling throughout Edinburgh with local artists' prints, multiples, fanzines, artists self made books and lots of affordable artist made goodies...
Embassy Gallery
A specially created art magazine will be available across the city throughout EAF participating venues.
To view current information on all our commissions click on the 2010 Festival Programme, then Commissions or Performance & Interventions. The events are constantly evolving so don't forget to check the site for up to the minute details. To download the Press Release for the 2010 Expo Commissions click here
Commissions made possible by funding from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund
For full information on all of 2010's exhibitions and events visit our 2010 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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