Tag: FORM

Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Closed from the 23rd of December 2023 – 3rd of January 2024 inclusive.

Mella Shaw is an artist and an environmental activist using themes of balance, tipping points, fragility, and loss to raise awareness and inspire change.

In this work her focus is on the overuse of marine sonar which is having a devastating effect on particularly deep-diving whale species that rely on echolocation. This sonar is used by the military and by companies searching for new gas and old reserves. With permission from Nature Scot Mella has made her own clay body using bone-ash from the remains of a Northern bottlenose whale beached on the West Coast of Scotland. She has used this to make large-scale sculptural forms inspired by whales’ tiny inner-ear bones.

A Sounding Line is a rope dropped from a boat to the seabed to measure depth at sea. Here Mella has wrapped her sculptures in red rope that resonate with sonar pulse. Visitors are encouraged to touch the ropes that are wrapped around the forms, thereby feeling the vibration travel in their bodies and to reflect on the lived experience of the whales themselves.

The installation is accompanied by a short film documenting a return journey taking one of the unfired sculptural forms back into the Sea in South Uist, Outer Hebrides. The film is showing in the Sciennes Gallery directly opposite this space.

Funded by Creative Informatics and Creative Edinburgh With thanks to Theodore Koterwas, David Evans, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Summerhall Arts.

Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Closed from the 23rd of December 2023 – 3rd of January 2024 inclusive.

A solo exhibition of contemporary sculpture that redefines the Male Gaze concept thought-provoking sculptures, showcasing the artist’s unique perspective on gender, culture, and identity. This collection of works invites you to witness the dynamic evolution of Camila Ospina Gaitan’s sculptural practice. From the ethereal translucence of ‘Glass Breast’ to the fabric prints and vivid visual narratives like ‘Susanna and the Elders No.1’ the artist confronts historical patriarchal narratives in diverse settings, drawing inspiration from Laura Mulvey’s essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative.’

This exhibition delves deep into the intricate interplay of materiality, language, and historical references while offering a distinct political viewpoint and statement. Through these artworks, Gaitan encourages a profound dialogue on the control, objectification, and reclamation of the female form.

Camila Ospina Gaitán’s work traces a deep exploration of materials and shapes, which becomes a powerful vessel for exploring the intricate nuances of gender. The Colombian artist says that her work started from the stereotyping and objectification of Latino women in an international context and has become a more general work that questions the ongoing colonial perception of the female body. She weaves different cultures Japanese, Colombian, and the UK with historical characters and contemporary iconography, offering a poignant and visually stunning commentary.

Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Closed from the 23rd of December 2023 – 3rd of January 2024 inclusive.

What is Left Behind unveils the previously unopened to the public Post Mortem Room as a new gallery space, bringing together Emma Hislop’s practice and the history of the room within the Royal Dick Veterinary School.

Hislop invites an autopsy of synchronicities. Unpacking imagery from myth and lore surrounding Summerhall and Rosslyn Chapel; a stone horse from Summerhall to Roslin, a divinely inspired stone carving shrouded in murder and tangled in science, serpents and staffs confused through history between Asclepius and Caduceus. High art meets low, science meets myth. What was once fact is now twisted through time, what is left behind are relics and their tangled ancestral roots.

Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Closed from the 23rd of December 2023 – 3rd of January 2024 inclusive.

Ono is exploring the theme of utopia, an ideal world in imagination. Ono’s recent focus has been scalable artwork–multiplying with molds and assembling pieces complete units which would fit into any kind of space. In the future she would like to enlarge her work beyond art pieces and into architecture to push the boundaries between art, architecture, and ceramics.

Composition is the series of large scalable work that Ono started during her residency program in Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop in 2023. The idea was to use the same material to create different shapes, starting from simple shapes and gradually increasing components so that the form becomes more complicated. Composition IV, which is showing at Summerhall, is created from the same pieces of material used in Composition I,II and III.

Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm

Closed from the 23rd of December 2023 – 3rd of January 2024 inclusive.

Foreign Objects investigates our relationship to the concept of pain, and the institution of medicine, both modern and historical. Utilising the clinical aesthetic, the works hope to mimic the perfected nature of the modern medical environment, whilst incorporating corporeal forms and materials associated with the human body. In combining these elements, the body is re-inserted into the clinical as the inextricable relationship between the two is brought to the surface.