Edinburgh Art Festival
The Edinburgh Art Festival is a relatively new addition to Edinburgh's August Festivals line-up, but it fills a longtime gap. Visual art somehow seemed obscured by the creative mayhem of the rest of the festival before the galleries clubbed together and launched their own festival within the Edinburgh Festival.
The Scottish Government announced £250,000 expo over two years for the Edinburgh Art Festival in August 2009. This includes support for three commissions for this year's EAF:
- 2009 Turner Prize Winner Richard Wright's "Stairwells Project", which involves painting the spiral stairwell of the former orphange building which is now the Dean Gallery
- 2001 Turner Prize Winner Martin Creed's "Scotsman Steps" Project, a historic artery between Old and New Town Edinburgh
- work by an emerging Scottish artist
EAF Modus Operandi
Generally, the EAF encourages artists to submit work through "open invitation" (proposal deadline is 8 March 2010). It states:
"The EAF is unlike other visual art festivals in that it does not commission the exhibition programme. Instead it encourages the development of a broad range of ambitious, high quality, visual art initiatives through a process of open invitation followed by rigorous selection"
Past Edinburgh Art Festivals have included off-beat events in and out of galleries such as late night culture crawls, experimenta, and art installations as well as numerous exhibitions of local, national and international artists and groups. Both commercial and public galleries have participated.
Edinburgh Art Festival 2010
- Full programme to be announced
- Edinburgh Art Festival news
Past Edinburgh Art Festivals