City Art Centre & Talbot Rice Gallery, featuring ShowCASe
ShowCASe features over 150 contemporary fine art and craft works acquired by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) over the past four years. This month we feature the two venues that are jointly hosting the exhibition; City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery.
For further information about ShowCASe visit our projects section.
The City Art Centre, located in the heart of Scotland's capital, occupies a former Victorian warehouse now transformed into a modern gallery. It is both home of the City's collection of Scottish Art, and one the UK's leading temporary exhibition spaces.
Since opening in 1980, the City Art Centre has mounted a huge range of exhibitions from rare Egyptian antiquities to the most innovative contemporary art, from Michelangelo drawings to Star Trek.
The scale and range of the programme has made the gallery one of Britain's most visited exhibition centres. The City's fine art collection consists of around 3500 works of Scottish art: paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture and tapestries, including works by McTaggart, Fergusson, Peploe and Eardley.
The City Art Centre's licenced café can provide you with a cup of tea or coffee, or a three-course meal.
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Talbot Rice Gallery, established in 1975, is named after David Talbot Rice, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh from 1934 - 1972. The Gallery has a commitment to showing exhibitions of work by Scottish and International artists, promoting knowledge, understanding and new ideas, through thematic exhibitions, events and publications.
Talbot Rice presents up to five major exhibitions per year in the White Gallery showing a variety of painting, sculpture, drawing and installation. |
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Recent major shows include Steven Campbell, Kenny Hunter and Janice McNab. Object Lessons, an historical exhibition displaying highlights from the University's collections was recently on show at the Gallery - now available to view on line in the Georgian Gallery.
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The exhibition spaces consist of the round room, a unique architectural space linking the White and Georgian galleries on the upper level. The permanent collection is housed in a new-classical room designed by William Playfair accessed through the White Gallery.
As a University Gallery, the Talbot Rice has a broad education purpose, including a programme of regular tours, lectures and seminars that accompany each exhibition. The aim of the education service is to enhance visitor enjoyment and understanding of the exhibitions. |
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City Art Centre
2 Market Street
Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
Tel: +44 (0)131 529 3993
Email: ian.oriordan@edinburgh.gov.uk
Talbot Rice Gallery
University of Edinburgh
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
Tel: +44 (0)131 560 2210
Email: info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk | |