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TWENTY FIVE
28 Jan - 31 Mar 2023 Twenty-Five, a celebration of the gallery’s 25th birthday. One work by 25 artists each of whom held an exhibition in one of the 25 years, 1998-2023. Read more

Craig Murray-Orr | new paintings & old sculpture
11 - 16 Oct 2022 An exhibition by Craig Murray-Orr at Cromwell Place for London's Frieze Week. Cromwell Place Gallery 5 4 Cromwell Place London SW7 2JE Murray-Orr’s tiny paintings are postcard-sized panels of colour, tone, and fastidious mark-making. At first glance they appear to be made with a fluid, almost casual ease - and... Read more

Peter Liversidge | an echo
8 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 Peter Liversidge’s exhibition an echo, opening at Ingleby in Edinburgh this autumn, explores a theme that has concerned his work for nearly 20 years. It’s an idea that is currently under the spotlight in The Double, a compelling exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, which... Read more

Lorna Robertson | thoughts, meals, days
25 Jun - 24 Sep 2022 This summer Ingleby presents an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow based Lorna Robertson. It will be her first solo show at the gallery and promises to reveal the remarkable range and energy of her work across scale and subject, combining monumental canvases with tiny fragments. Robertson's gestural, expressive, and... Read more

Katie Paterson | Requiem
9 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 In the centre of the gallery (a simple, light-filled cube some eleven metres square) stood a single plinth. On it, sat a large jar, a glass urn, the ancient form of funerary vessel. Around the walls a long shelf held a series of small vials, 370 of them in all,... Read more

James Hugonin
29 Jan - 26 Mar 2022 This exhibition marks the end of James Hugonin’s most recent series, collectively titled Fluctuations in Elliptical Form, a sequence of eight paintings begun in 2015 and completed at the end of 2021. Seven of the eight paintings are reunited in this exhibition. For the last four decades, James has pursued... Read more

Moyna Flannigan | Matter
2 Oct - 18 Dec 2021 Moyna Flannigan’s paintings of figures, always women, are an amalgam of memories, experiences and ideas, drawn from history, mythology and popular culture. Their identity or essence remains ambiguous, as if they were passing through, or suspended just out of reach. Notes of incidental humour are balanced by a darker, almost... Read more

FRANK WALTER | MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
29 Jul - 25 Sep 2021 In recent years Antiguan artist Frank Walter (1926-2009), has emerged as one of the most distinctive and intriguing voices of Caribbean art of the last 50 years. At the 2017 edition of the Venice Biennale - where Walter’s work was presented as Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural pavilion - Hans-Ulrich Obrist... Read more

Jonathan Owen
29 May - 17 Jul 2021 Jonathan Owen is best known for his interventions into ‘found’ antique sculptures, a process of re-carving and reinventing defunct marble statuary in an attempt - as he puts it - “to subvert and puncture this familiar rhetoric, and so to reactivate the object through transformation rather than destruction, to make... Read more

Kevin Harman
28 Apr - 22 May 2021 An exhibition of monumental new glassworks by Kevin Harman. Positioned somewhere between painting and sculpture the Glassworks often appear to have some sort of reference to the places in art history where nature and abstraction collide such as Turner’s seascapes or Monet’s Giverny, but their origin is in the much... Read more

Caroline Walker: Janet
3 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 Caroline Walker (born Dunfermline, Scotland, 1982) has become known for her striking canvases of women, specifically of women at work. These fragmented narratives, glimpses of women going about their lives in both public and private environments, begin as photographic snaps (often taken covertly) which are later worked up into lustrous,... Read more

HOME
5 Aug - 19 Sep 2020 ANDREW CRANSTON | MOYNA FLANNIGAN | KEVIN HARMAN | KATIE PATERSON An exhibition of new work from Scotland. Read more

The Unseen Masterpiece
13 Apr - 17 Jul 2020 'The Unseen Masterpiece' is an exhibition that isn’t an exhibition. Every day one work by an artist from the gallery's 22 year history will be published in a rolling sequence - a tribute to all of our favourite things. Read more

Marine Hugonnier: TRAVEL POSTERS
1 Feb - 28 Mar 2020 Marine Hugonnier is an artist whose work researches politics of vision. Across film, photography and work on paper she engages with an on-going questioning of the gaze and of image-making procedures. Although French, she partly grew up in the US and studied philosophy and anthropology before becoming an artist. These... Read more

Garry Fabian Miller: Midwinter Blaze
12 Oct - 20 Dec 2019 For the past thirty-five years Garry Fabian Miller has worked without a camera, making images entirely in the darkroom and using the techniques of early nineteenth century photographic exploration to experiment with the possibilities of light, as both medium and subject. Since the mid 1980s Miller has patiently developed methods... Read more

David Batchelor: My Own Private Bauhaus
24 Jul - 28 Sep 2019 ‘My Own Private Bauhaus’ is an exhibition that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius in 1919. It is, in Batchelor’s words ‘a phrase that has been hanging around the studio for a few years’ and pays tribute to the movement through Batchelor’s personal... Read more

Charles Avery: The Gates of Onomatopoeia
27 Apr - 13 Jul 2019 27 April - 13 July 2019 Exhibition opening Friday 26 April, 6 - 8pm Since 2005 Charles Avery’s practice has focused on a fictional Island; an all-encompassing, immersive investigation of the fabric and possibilities of another place. Through drawings, texts and objects Avery describes the inhabitants, architecture, philosophies, customs and... Read more

Sometimes I disappear
2 Feb - 13 Apr 2019 Ingleby Gallery’s 2019 exhibition programme opens with an exhibition of photography. Four artists who use self-portraiture as a kind of challenge to both confront, and yet avoid, the viewer's gaze. In doing so something of themselves is simultaneously revealed and concealed; exposed but held back. It is a beguiling contradiction... Read more

Andrew Cranston: But the dream had no sound
27 Oct - 21 Dec 2018 Painting is a form of time travel, of conjuring up the past. Places, spaces people and imagining new possibilities. It is magic. - Andrew Cranston Andrew Cranston once described himself as a storyteller of sorts, though without a clear story to tell. He draws on a variety of sources including... Read more

Jacob's Ladder
26 Jul - 20 Oct 2018 In the words of Arthur C. Clarke: 'Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.' This is an exhibition celebrating mankind's relationship with space and our enduring attempts to fathom the unfathomable. Included are rare historical... Read more

Callum Innes: Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue
12 May - 14 Jul 2018 Callum Innes took part in Ingleby’s very first exhibition in July 1998 and 20 years on this exhibition of his newest Exposed Paintings, opens this new chapter in the gallery’s history. Innes’ process, in which the controlled hand of the artist is balanced by the potential chaos of chance, has... Read more

TWENTY
12 May - 20 Oct 2018 An exhibition to celebrate 20 years of the gallery and the opening of our new premises in the old Glasite Meeting House at 33 Barony Street. ROGER ACKLING; DAVID AUSTEN; CHARLES AVERY; DAVID BATCHELOR; BEN CAUCHI; SUSAN COLLIS; THOMAS JOSHUA COOPER; ANDREW CRANSTON; SUSAN DERGES; IAN HAMILTON FINLAY; RICHARD FORSTER;... Read more

and per se and: part XXVI - 12th C. Manuscript, Gospel of Luke & Mark Wallinger
11 - 21 Apr 2018 and per se and our year-long sequence of exhibitions, where one work is paired with another for two weeks at a time, finally reaches its concluding part this week with a remarkable 12th Century manuscript - the Gospel of Luke - joined for the 26th and final instalment by the... Read more

and per se and: part XXV - Alexander Gorlizki & 12th C. Manuscript, Gospel of Luke
28 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today the vivid pictorial world of Alexander Gorlizki's works-on-paper is paired with a remarkable 12th Century manuscript; the Gospel of Luke. Gorlizki’s... Read more

and per se and: part XXIV - Floral Arabesque & Alexander Gorlizki
14 - 24 Mar 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today a seventeenth century Indian drawing of a floral arabesque is joined by the work of Brooklyn and Jaipur based Alexander Gorlizki.... Read more

and per se and: Part XXIII - Howard Hodgkin & Floral Arabesque
28 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today Howard Hodgkin’s painting Tide, 2015-2016 is joined by a seventeenth century Indian drawing of a floral arabesque. Howard Hodgkin, who died... Read more

and per se and: part XXII - Liliane Tomasko & Howard Hodgkin
14 - 24 Feb 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From 14 February Liliane Tomasko’s some.day is joined by one of Howard Hodgkin’s final paintings, Tide, 2015-2016. Howard Hodgkin, who died aged 84... Read more

and per se and: Part XXI - Sean Scully & Liliane Tomasko
31 Jan - 10 Feb 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. This phase of the exhibition sees Sean’s Scully’s painting Blue Blue joined by Liliane Tomasko’s some.day. Over the course of the past year... Read more

and per se and: part XX - Celtic Head of a Man & Sean Scully
17 - 27 Jan 2018 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today a 2,000 year old carved stone head of Celtic origin will be joined by Sean’s Scully’s painting Blue Blue. On paper... Read more

and per se and: XIX - Peter Liversidge & Celtic head of a man
13 - 21 Dec 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. This phase of the sequence sees Peter Liversidge’s gilded mask and stone effigies joined by a 2,000 year old antiquity: a carved stone... Read more

and per se and: Part XVIII - Alexander Calder & Peter Liversidge
15 Nov - 2 Dec 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today Alexander Calder’s celebrated circus is joined by two new works by Peter Liversidge: a gilded mask and a group of small... Read more

and per se and: part XVII - Frank Walter & Alexander Calder
25 Oct - 4 Nov 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. For the last 15 years of his life the Antiguan artist Frank Walter lived and worked in a hillside shack, removed from ordinary... Read more

and per se and: part XVI - Rose Wylie & Frank Walter
11 - 21 Oct 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. Rose Wylie is an artist whose work has found wider acclaim and critical recognition late in life. Since her 80th birthday in 2014... Read more

and per se and - Part XV: Louise Bourgeois & Rose Wylie
20 - 30 Sep 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. Louise Bourgeois’ Sainte Sébastienne is a female incarnation of the famous martyr, besieged by an onslaught of arrows, arranged across her headless torso... Read more

and per se and: Part XIV - St. Sebastian & Louise Bourgeois
6 - 16 Sep 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. This phase of the series brings together two interpretations of one of the most recognisable symbols of human endurance and suffering - Saint... Read more

and per se and: Part XIII - Ragnar Kjartansson & St. Sebastian
22 Aug - 2 Sep 2017 For the 2017 Edinburgh Art Festival Ingleby gallery reaches the half way point of its year-long sequential exhibition and per se and, where one work is paired with another for two weeks at a time across a stretch of twelve months. Part XIII of the sequence brings together two strangely... Read more

and per se and: part XII - Giorgio Morandi and Ragnar Kjartansson
8 - 19 Aug 2017 For the 2017 Edinburgh Art Festival Ingleby gallery reaches the half way point of its year-long marathon and per se and – a sequential exhibition where one work is paired with another for two weeks at a time across a stretch of twelve months. Fittingly, for an exhibition that is... Read more

and per se and: part XI - James Hugonin and Giorgio Morandi
26 Jul - 5 Aug 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. For this phase of the sequence James Hugonin’s Fluctuations in Elliptical Form (I) will be joined by a classic still life by Giorgio... Read more

and per se and: Part X - Agnes Martin & James Hugonin
12 - 22 Jul 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. In this phase of the sequence an exquisite work on paper by Agnes Martin will be joined by a new painting by James... Read more

and per se and: part IX - Callum Innes & Agnes Martin
28 Jun - 8 Jul 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. In this phase of the exhibition a painting by Callum Innes will be joined by a classic work on paper by Agnes Martin.... Read more

Exhibition - and per se and: part VIII - Richard Forster & Callum Innes
14 - 24 Jun 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. In the current phase of the sequence a seascape triptych by Richard Forster, in pencil on paper, is joined by a new painting... Read more

and per se and: part VII - Susan Collis & Richard Forster
31 May - 10 Jun 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. For part VII of the sequence three crumpled sculptures, in graphite and paper, by Susan Collis will be joined by a triptych of... Read more

and per se and: part VI - Ben Cauchi & Susan Collis
17 - 27 May 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. In the current phase of the sequence, three monochromatic ambrotypes of crumpled paper by Ben Cauchi will be joined by three crumpled sculptures,... Read more

and per se and: part V - Laurence Sterne & Ben Cauchi
3 - 14 May 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. From today the black page of Laurence Sterne’s THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY will be joined by other monochromatic black pages;... Read more

and per se and: part IV - Katie Paterson & Laurence Sterne
19 - 29 Apr 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. Katie Paterson’s ALL THE DEAD STARS, is a work of epic proportions, charting the 27,000 stars that have died in our Universe since... Read more

and per se and part III - Albrecht Durer and Katie Paterson
5 - 15 Apr 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. The starting point was, Mark Wallinger’s film THE END, which was joined in the gallery by Albrecht Dürer’s THE APOCALYPSE, an extraordinary volume... Read more

and per se and part II - Mark Wallinger & Albrecht Dürer
22 Mar - 1 Apr 2017 and per se and is a rolling sequence of exhibitions where one work is paired with another for two weekly periods, across a stretch of 12 months. The starting point was Mark Wallinger’s epic film THE END, which is currently screening on the hour, 11am-4pm Wed-Sat. On Wednesday 22 March... Read more

and per se and part I - Mark Wallinger
3 - 22 Mar 2017 In the early years of the 19th century the English alphabet was considered a system of twenty seven characters, and any schoolroom recitation of ABC’s would end with the 27th letter ‘&’ …and per se and. Of and by itself and: a connecting symbol, linking one thing with another. In... Read more

David Austen
30 Nov 2016 - 28 Jan 2017 Satellite exhibition at Ingleby 6 Carlton Terrace 30 November 2016 - 28 January 2017 (by appointment) Ingleby, Booth L1 Miami Beach Convention Center 1- 4 December 2016 Ingleby is closed 16 December 2016 - 4 January 2017 (inclusive) For the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach Ingleby Gallery will... Read more

Exhibition - Ian Hamilton Finlay: Early Works (1958 - 1970)
11 Oct - 26 Nov 2016 It is exactly fifty years since Ian Hamilton Finlay moved to Stonypath, the little farm deep in the Pentland Hills which became Little Sparta, one of the finest artist-gardens of all time and one of Scotland’s greatest 20th century artworks. Finlay arrived at Stonypath in the early days of October... Read more

Jonathan Owen - Edinburgh Art Festival 2016
28 Jul - 24 Sep 2016 Commission at Burns Monument ends 28 August 2016. Jonathan Owen's exhibition at Ingleby will continue, by appointment, until 24 September 2016. Jonathan Owen’s presentation for the 2016 Edinburgh Art Festival comprised an exhibition of new drawings and sculpture alongside a major sculptural commission - one of seven works commissioned by... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson has created the final installation for the Billboard for Edinburgh project
18 May - 28 Jul 2016 Katie Paterson has created the 30th and final work for Ingleby Gallery's public art project Billboard for Edinburgh. Paterson's billboard image is one of her Ideas sentences. These are short haiku-like statements reveal some of Paterson's most exciting and seemingly impossible ideas. Paterson has gone on to realise a number... Read more

Kevin Harman: No Man's Land
2 Apr - 21 May 2016 Kevin Harman’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery presents a first cohesive look at the series of glassworks on which he has been working for the last two years. Positioned somewhere between painting and sculpture these large format abstractions are at once seductively beautiful and challengingly physical. Like much of Harman’s previous... Read more

Andrew Cranston: paintings from a room
6 Feb - 26 Mar 2016 Cranston is a storyteller of sorts, without a clear story to tell. His work is seductive in terms of its use of narrative and humour, but it is the humour of Samuel Beckett or Buster Keaton, always touching on the strangeness and pathos of ordinary life. He draws on a... Read more

Jonny Lyons: Dream Easy
6 Feb - 26 Mar 2016 Lyons's practice explores the fragility of friendship and adventure through performances documented by photography and film. He creates ingenious and mischievous devices which are presented - having fulfilled their one purpose - as relics of the event, together with the photographic evidence. The photographs, however, are not simply documentation of... Read more

Resistance and Persistence
28 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 Agnes Martin | Cy Twombly | Edmund de Waal | Francesca Woodman | Giorgio Morandi | James Hugonin | Jane Bustin | Rachel Whiteread | Richard Forster | Richard Long | Richard Serra | Roger Ackling | Sean Scully Resistance and Persistence takes its title from Sean Scully's essay on... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Lisa Oppenheim
7 Nov 2015 - 26 Feb 2016 Lisa Oppenheim's Billboard for Edinburgh installation will be unveiled in early November. Oppenheim combines both analogue and digital photographic techniques to create her film and photographic work, drawing on and questioning the traditions of still and moving image picture-making. Oppenheim's billboard installation will be on display until the end of... Read more

James Hugonin - Binary Rhythm: Paintings 2010 -2015
10 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 James Hugonin’s exhibition at Ingleby Gallery will celebrate the completion of his Binary Rhythm sequence. Seven of the nine large paintings that Hugonin has made over the past six years will be exhibited, all identically sized and each continuing the artist’s unique exploration of the dualities of order and chance... Read more

Charles Avery: The People And Things of Onomatopoeia
28 Jul - 3 Oct 2015 As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015, Ingleby Gallery presents a major solo exhibition by Charles Avery entitled The People and Things of Onomatopoeia. The Island is located in the middle of an archipelago of innumerable constituents, and its heart is the port of Onomatopoeia. This town was once... Read more

Craig Murray-Orr: Thirty Small Paintings

A presentation of new paintings by Craig Murray-Orr
30 May - 4 Jul 2015 Craig Murray-Orr was born in 1942 in Lower Hutt on the southern edge of New Zealand's North Island and studied at the Ilam School of Fine Art in Christchurch in the early 1960s. In 1968 he came to London and a few years later found himself arriving on a blind... Read more

Ben Cauchi: Echo Chamber

A solo presentation of new and recent work by photographer Ben Cauchi.
30 May - 4 Jul 2015 Ben Cauchi uses long outmoded techniques to make unique photographs with a strange and spectral beauty. In doing so he has revitalised those traditional ways of making and seeing within the context of the present-day world. His work is made using the very earliest photographic techniques producing one-off positives on... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Kay Rosen
21 May - 30 Sep 2015 Kay Rosen's is the latest artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's public art project. Rosen's simple but powerful new text piece This Means War... draws our attention to the danger of global warming ahead of a crucial United Nations conference in Paris in December 2015. Since the Kyoto... Read more

Frank Walter

Major solo exhibition of Antiguan artist Frank Walter
28 Mar - 23 May 2015 Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter, self-styled 7th Prince of the West Indies, Lord of Follies and the Ding-a-Ding Nook, was born in Antigua in 1926. Prodigiously talented as both a writer and artist, his undeniable genius was flawed by delusions of aristocratic grandeur, namely a belief that the white slave owners... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: David Batchelor
23 Feb - 21 May 2015 David Batchelor is the latest artist to create a work for the Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. Batchelor's billboard installation coincides with a major display of his Monochrome Archive (1997-2015) at Whitechapel Gallery and his inclusion in the group exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society... Read more

ABJAD
24 Jan - 21 Mar 2015 Jane Bustin, Kevin Harman, Paul Keir and Jeff McMillan An exhibition of four artists who, in their sometimes sideways approach to abstraction, balance conceptual concerns with an intuitive touch. Read more

Billboard For Edinburgh
6 Dec 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 Billboard for Edinburgh Gallery I & II (closed: 21 December 2014 - 4 January 2015) Over the past six and a half years, Ingleby Gallery’s public art project Billboard for Edinburgh has invited 26 artists to make a large-scale work for Edinburgh’s city centre. The Billboard for Edinburgh project was... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Richard Long
6 Nov 2014 - 23 Feb 2015 Richard Long was the 26th artist to create a work for the Billboard for Edinburgh project. Through his unique approach to making work, Long has redefined arts relationship with the landscape. His Billboard for Edinburgh installation was a text and image work that has developed from an six day walk... Read more

Thomas Joshua Cooper - Scattered Waters : Sources Streams Rivers
11 Oct - 29 Nov 2014 Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. He was born in California in 1946, of mixed Jewish and Cherokee descent, but has lived in Scotland for many years. He is the founding Head of Photography at Glasgow School... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Charles Avery
30 Jul - 6 Nov 2014 Charles Avery is the 25th artist to create a work for the Billboard for Edinburgh project. Avery has designed a new text piece which derives from the posters and billboards found in his drawings of the fictional dystopian city of Onomatopoeia, part of his celebrated epic project The Islanders. Charles... Read more

Katie Paterson: Ideas
27 Jun - 4 Oct 2014 Katie Paterson’s exhibition for GENERATION and the 2014 Edinburgh Art Festival was her first solo exhibition in Scotland and one of the most significant presentations of her work anywhere to date. In selecting key works from the last few years, alongside a series of new projects, the exhibition demonstrated Paterson’s... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Martin Boyce
16 May - 30 Jul 2014 Martin Boyce was the 24th artist to create a work for the Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. Boyce’s billboard installation Projectile Sun originates from a series of photographs the artist took on a airplane several years ago. During the flight, the sun appeared on the bulkhead of the plane,... Read more

Richard Forster: Modern
3 May - 21 Jun 2014 Richard Forster’s approach is seemingly straightforward, a deliberate choice of the most ordinary of mediums, but his resulting pencil drawings, made with an intense level of skill and a lonely determination over many months, ask awkward questions about the transition of such a deeply private activity into the public realm.... Read more

John Smith: The Girl Chewing Gum
1 Mar - 19 Apr 2014 Showing alongside Jonathan Owen's sculptures and drawings, is a screening of avant-garde British filmmaker John Smith's seminal film The Girl Chewing Gum. Shot in a single take on a street corner in Hackney in 1976, it presents Smith's brilliant and de-stabilising direction of ordinary life, opening up a fascinating conversation... Read more

Jonathan Owen
1 Mar - 19 Apr 2014 Jonathan Owen’s work, in both two and three dimensions, involves reducing and rethinking existing objects and images. He employs a kind of elegant vandalism to reconstruct and reinvent his ‘material’, transforming something found into something new. His sculptures begin as relics of another time: 19th Century marble statues that he... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Jamie Shovlin
18 Feb - 16 May 2014 Jamie Shovlin was the 23rd artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery’s public art project Billboard for Edinburgh. Shovlin's billboard text comes from a notice placed in microfilm copies of the Tehran Times denoting missing or damaged content in the archive. In an unusual take on the Billboard for... Read more

Ellsworth Kelly - Twelve colour prints from the artist's own collection
11 Jan - 22 Feb 2014 Ellsworth Kelly is one of the undisputed giants of 20th century American Art. Aged 90 he is still making work at the top of his powers. For this exhibition, he has selected twelve prints from his own collection to form a concise retrospective of over 40 years of abstract printmaking. Read more

Once upon a time and a very good time it was...
28 Nov - 21 Dec 2013 A group exhibition featuring works by: David Austen David Batchelor Thomas Joshua Cooper Ian Davenport Susan Derges Ian Hamilton Finlay Kevin Harman James Hugonin Callum Innes Ellsworth Kelly Peter Liversidge Garry Fabian Miller Harland Miller Winston Roeth Sean Scully Alison Watt & selected antiquities from Africa, China and Oceania Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: David Austen
14 Nov 2013 - 18 Feb 2014 David Austen was the 22nd artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's public art project Billboard for Edinburgh. Austen's text-based billboard installation was on display for three months until 18 February 2014. As part of the project, Austen also realised his image Love Town as a signed and numbered... Read more

Iran do Espírito Santo: Aside
12 Oct - 16 Nov 2013 This is Iran do Espírito Santo's second exhibition at Ingleby Gallery and it follows on from his successful solo presentation as part of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival. Espírito Santo presents four new gigantic glass sculptures, alongside a series of delicate paintings made directly onto the gallery walls. Both series... Read more

Peter Liversidge: doppelgänger
1 Aug - 21 Sep 2013 In recent years London-based artist Peter Liversidge has become known for his polymathic approach to exhibition-making, inundating curators with pages of proposals which are sent via the post. The proposals start life on an old manual typewriter, typed at his kitchen table. Brimming with ideas for projects, performances and artworks... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Peter Doig
25 Jul - 14 Nov 2013 Peter Doig was the 21st artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. His installation marked the start of the sixth year of the project. Doig's billboard installation coincided with a major new exhibition of his work at the National Galleries of Scotland as... Read more

Garry Fabian Miller: The Middle Place
2 May - 13 Jul 2013 In 1976, aged just 19, the artist Garry Fabian Miller embarked on a body of work now known as Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, a series of photographs taken from the roof of Fabian Miller’s home at Clevedon, near Bristol, looking west across the waters of the Severn Estuary.... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Marine Hugonnier
1 May - 24 Jul 2013 Marine Hugonnier was the 20th artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. On first glance, Hugonnier's subtle image appears to be simply a black rectangle but on closer inspection clusters of white stars slowly reveal themselves. Hugonnier's image is a found photograph, purchased... Read more

Songs of Innocence and Experience
8 Feb - 14 Apr 2013 This exhibition of work by Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), Forrest Bess (1911-1977), and Frank Walter (1926-2009) presents three unique and uncompromising figures from the story of 20th century art. Each worked in isolation, outside the conformity of their respective societies: in Cornwall in the 1920’s; Texas in the ‘50’s and Antigua... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: John Stezaker
6 Feb - 30 Apr 2013 John Stezaker was the 19th artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. Stezaker's billboard image Blind was on display from February until the end of April 2013. Stezaker's billboard image was typical of his work, a simple yet highly engaging collage made using... Read more

Harland Miller: Overcoming Optimism
3 Nov 2012 - 26 Jan 2013 For Harland Miller’s first exhibition in Scotland, Ingleby Gallery presents a group of new paintings alongside a selected survey of the artist’s work across several years. Common to all of these paintings is a basic structure of shape borrowed from decades of Penguin paperbacks: a motif that automatically suggests a... Read more

Kevin Harman: when a tree falls
3 Nov - 22 Dec 2012 Kevin Harman’s inaugural exhibition at Ingleby Gallery presents a new sculpture, Forever, alongside a series of 1 Pixel Portraits. Harman’s new series, 1 Pixel Portraits, are printed blocks of pure, flat colour which record the compressed data taken from found images of portraits. Chosen solely for the quality of their... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Susan Hiller
31 Oct 2012 - 6 Feb 2013 Susan Hiller was the 18th artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's public art project, Billboard for Edinburgh. Hiller's installation evolved from her Homage to Marcel Duchamp series in which she explores the phenomena of 'aura photographs'. Hiller's billboard installation was on display for three months and as part... Read more

Ian Hamilton Finlay - Twilight Remembers
2 Aug - 27 Oct 2012 For Edinburgh Art Festival 2012 Ingleby Gallery present a major exhibition by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006). Drawing on the artist's work in many mediums and across several decades, the exhibition celebrates one of Scotland's most important 20th-century artists. The exhibition begins with a re-discovered moment of genius by... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Craig Coulthard
2 Aug - 31 Oct 2012 Craig Coulthard is the 17th artist to create a billboard installation as Ingleby Gallery's public art project enters it's fifth year. Coulthard's billboard was unveiled in early August and will be on display throughout the Edinburgh Art Festival and until the end of October. Coulthard's installation coincides with an Ian... Read more

Callum Innes: Works on Paper 1989 - 2012
28 Apr - 14 Jul 2012 Callum Innes' works in oil paint on canvas grace the walls of many museums worldwide, and have been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications for over two decades, but for just as long he has made many, though much less frequently seen, exquisite and surprising series of works on... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Anya Gallaccio
24 Apr - 31 Jul 2012 Anya Gallaccio was the 16th artist to contribute to Ingleby Gallery's public art and print publishing project. Gallaccio's work is the latest in a series of photographs in which the artist has used a medical scanning microscope to create her image. This series has included close-up images of insects, grains... Read more

Alec Finlay: 5 poem-objects
17 Mar - 21 Apr 2012 Gallery II Alec Finlay is an internationally recognised artist, poet and publisher whose work crosses a range of media and forms, from sculpture and collage, to audio-visual, neon and new technologies. Born in Scotland in 1966 and currently based in Newcastle, England, much of Finlay’s work reflects on our interaction... Read more

The Armory Show - New York
8 - 11 Mar 2012 Pier 94 Booth 607 David Austen David Batchelor Susan Derges Iran do Espírito Santo Tommy Grace Ian Hamilton Finlay Richard Forster Callum Innes Peter Liversidge Jeremy Millar Harland Miller Garry Fabian Miller Jonathan Owen Katie Paterson Winston Roeth Kay Rosen Alison Watt Read more

Roger Ackling
3 Feb - 21 Apr 2012 Like his friends and colleagues Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, Roger Ackling belongs to the generation of artists who graduated from St Martins School of Art in the late 1960s challenging traditional notions of sculptural production. Sculpture, they decided, could be anything they wanted it to be: a walk in... Read more

Andrew Miller
3 Feb - 10 Mar 2012 Gallery II Andrew Miller is a Glasgow based artist working across a variety of media – drawing, sculpture, photography and site-specific installations. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making Miller seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity between notions of form and function. He works with the... Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Ruth Ewan
Ruth Ewan is the 15th artist to create a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh project. 2 Feb - 24 Apr 2012 London-based artist Ruth Ewan is the 15th artist to contribute to Ingleby Gallery's public art and print publishing project. The inspiration for Ewan's 10 x 13.5ft billboard has developed from Ewan's recent research into the Socialist Sunday School movement. The Socialist Sunday School movement emerged in Britain at the end... Read more

Alison Watt: Hiding in Full View
An exhibition of new work by Alison Watt. 5 Nov 2011 - 28 Jan 2012 Hiding in Full View presents a new group of paintings by Alison Watt alongside a new collection of poems by Don Paterson, both looking to the work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman for their inspiration. Read more

Billboard for Edinburgh: Ryan Gander
Ryan Gander is the 14th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh project. 31 Oct 2011 - 2 Feb 2012 Ryan Gander was the 14th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh project. Gander created a new photographic work for the installation. The image shows a shirt breast pocket with a small piece of notepaper poking out. The text displayed on the notepaper describes details of... Read more

Mystics or Rationalists?
4 Aug - 22 Oct 2011 Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach - Sol LeWitt It is 40 years since Sol LeWitt published his famous Sentences on Conceptual Art: a sequence of 35 statements that defined personal parameters for the making and understanding of conceptual art. Sentence... Read more

Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker is the 13th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's exciting public art project, Billboard for Edinburgh. 1 Aug - 31 Oct 2011 Cornelia Parker is the 13th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh project. Parker's billboard image is a photograph of a new Red Hot Poker Drawing made especially for the project. Parker makes her Poker Drawings by folding layers of A4 paper then, as the title... Read more

Gravity's Rainbow
21 May - 23 Jul 2011 The title of this exhibition is borrowed from that of a novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon. We are grateful to David Batchelor for pointing out Pynchon’s use of ‘borrowed’ adjectives as imaginative prompts to suggest very specific and vividly recalled colours “drowned man green” for example, “deep cheap... Read more

Ugo Rondinone: Billboard for Edinburgh
28 Apr - 31 Jul 2011 Ugo Rondinone was the 12th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh public art project. Rondinone's billboard installation I don't live here anymore was be on display for three months from April - July 2011. As part of the project, Rondinone also realised his Billboard image... Read more

Winston Roeth
30 Mar - 14 May 2011 At first glance Roeth’s panels of painted slate and wood appear very simple: flat planes of colour that look a certain way, but which shift in the changing light or as you move around them. They are exquisitely painted in thin layers of tempera – skins of colour that build... Read more

Jonathan Owen
30 Mar - 14 May 2011 Jonathan Owen specialises in a kind of elegant vandalism. In a series of new “drawings”, photographs found in books of civic sculptures are gently erased, leaving a ghostly trace. A group of new sculptures work in a similar way. Small found wooden figures are intricately carved to create a disjointed... Read more

Craig Murray-Orr
10 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 Craig Murray-Orr was born in 1942, in Lower Hutt on the southern edge of New Zealand’s North Island. He studied at the Ilam School of Art in the 1960s and since 1968 has lived in North London. Two thirds of his life then has belonged to the edge of Hampstead... Read more

Bethan Huws: Billboard for Edinburgh
1 Feb - 27 Apr 2011 Welsh artist Bethan Huws (b.1961) was the 11th artist to make a work for Ingleby Gallery's 10ft x 14ft billboard. Bethan Huws grew up speaking both Welsh and English. Her work, which takes various forms including drawing, sculpture, film and installation, often has a strong interest in language and communication.... Read more

A Little Bit of Magic Realised
24 Nov 2010 - 29 Jan 2011 Shadow Catchers at the Victoria & Albert Museum (13th October 2010 - 20th February 2011) is one of this Autumn’s most successful exhibitions, presenting the work of five international photographers (Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Adam Fuss and Floris Neusüss) who have pioneered new techniques in camera-less photography:... Read more

Antony Gormley
11 Nov 2010 - 1 Feb 2011 British sculptor Antony Gormley is the tenth artist to participate in Ingleby Gallery's Billboard for Edinburgh project. Gormley is best-know for his public artworks and sculptural installations which often take the human form as a starting point. Throughout his career, Gormley has continued to draw, exploring the immediacy and intuitiveness... Read more

James Hugonin
30 Sep - 20 Nov 2010 For the past 22 years James Hugonin has made just one painting each year. From his studio in the Cheviot Hills, in the Border country between England and Scotland, Hugonin works constantly on these intense evocations of colour and light, comprised of thousands of tiny coloured marks fluctuating across the... Read more

Iran do Espírito Santo
29 Jul - 25 Sep 2010 Espírito Santo’s personal interpretation of the minimalist aesthetic has been described by The New York Times as “a pure form of visual perception” and by Frieze magazine as a means to “sort out the chaos of everyday experience”. And yet, despite this distinguished profile on the world stage, Iran do... Read more

The Hidden Place
29 Jul - 25 Sep 2010 A site specific wall painting at Ingleby Gallery. The Hidden Place is an alternative map of Scotland. Place names tell of old cultures, of history, geography, industry, religion and myth. Scottish place names have their origin in several languages; Gaelic, Pictish, Norse, English, French, Latin and Scots. In The Hidden... Read more

Kenny Hunter: Billboard for Edinburgh
28 Jul - 11 Nov 2010 Glasgow-based artist Kenny Hunter presents a new text-based work for Ingleby Gallery's public art project, Billboard for Edinburgh. Hunter's chosen text 'The Quick and the Dead' is a English phrase that originates from the King James version of the Christian Bible. The word 'Quick' is an older form of the... Read more

Adam McEwen - Billboard for Edinburgh
12 Apr - 27 Jul 2010 Adam McEwen was the eighth artist to create a work for Billboard for Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery's unique public art project. Easily misread, McEwen's billboard entitled I Hate You was inspired by a song of the same name by the sixties American garage band The Monks. McEwen's billboard text has been... Read more

Sean Scully: Iona
12 Apr - 19 Jun 2010 An exceptional exhibition of paintings and photographs by one of the world's leading painters. The centrepiece of this show will be Scully’s giant triptych Iona; painted in the artist’s studio in New York in 2004-2006 and shown here for the first time in the UK. Read more

The Thrill of it All
23 Feb - 10 Apr 2010 Every element in an exhibition of work by Peter Liversidge begins at the artist’s kitchen table with Liversidge sitting alone writing proposals on an old manual typewriter. These hand-typed pages, present an array of possible and impossible ideas for performances and artworks in almost every conceivable medium. In a sense... Read more

Events and Performances for Peter Liversidge: The Thrill of it All
23 Feb - 10 Apr 2010 Thursday, 11th March, 6pm Proposal No.90 and Proposal No.23 Gin Performance, following which Peter Liversidge will give a motivational speech to Scottish business leaders (Ingleby Gallery) Friday, 12th March, 12noon Proposal No.120 Retribution Gospel Choir (Ingleby Galery) Saturday, 13th March, all day Proposal No.87. Peter Liversidge will drive all available... Read more

Jonathan Monk - Billboard for Edinburgh
1 Feb - 10 Apr 2010 Jonathan Monk is the seventh artist to create a work for Billboard for Edinburgh, Ingleby Gallery's unique public art project. Jonathan Monk's work frequently references avant-garde art of the 1960s and 70s. Monk's text-based billboard installation pays homage to conceptual artist Keith Arnatt who passed away in 2008 at the... Read more

Garry Fabian Miller: The Colours
27 Nov 2009 - 30 Jan 2010 The words of the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams “You don’t take a photograph, you make it” are given new meaning when applied to the work of Garry Fabian Miller. Miller is one of a small band of international photographers who have come to prominence over the past 20 years for... Read more

Ceal Floyer: Billboard for Edinburgh
26 Nov 2009 - 31 Jan 2010 Ceal Floyer's billboard image is typical of the artist's work. Floyer has used a readymade or found object - in this case a digital image file regularly used on websites or software applications - to form the basis of her installation. Floyer's work often forces the viewer to do a... Read more

David Austen: My love, I have been digging up my own bones in the garden again
8 Oct - 22 Nov 2009 An exhibition of work by David Austen presents an invitation to step into a parallel existence… a strange and fragile landscape populated by figures, flowers, trees, abstractions, words and signs; woven across painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture and film. It is a fragmented but distinct encounter, in which each object and... Read more

Tacita Dean - Billboard for Edinburgh
4 Aug - 26 Nov 2009 Tacita Dean will be the fifth artist to take part in Ingleby Gallery's unique public art project. At the centre of Tacita Dean's image is a large stone from a megalithic tomb or dolmen. The image comes from a series of works in which the artist photographs ancient burial sites... Read more

Callum Innes: I look to you
4 Aug - 2 Oct 2009 Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries. Innes was short-listed for the Turner... Read more

Ian Hamilton Finlay
19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 A major exhibition of sculpture and wall paintings from the estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay, one of the leading conceptual artists of the twentieth century and one of Scotland’s most original artists of all time. The exhibition coincides with the opening of Hortus Conclusus, Finlay’s last major work for Little... Read more

Cerith Wyn Evans: Billboard for Edinburgh
6 May - 30 Jul 2009 Cerith Wyn Evans has created a new text piece for the Ingleby Gallery's public art project. The launch of this new work and limited edition print coincided with Wyn Evans' exhibition at Inverleith House gallery in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens in Spring 2009. Read more

Francesca Woodman
3 Apr - 13 Jun 2009 Francesca Woodman is one of the most distinctive photographers of the last 50 years. She died in 1981 aged just 22, but during her brief yet extraordinary career she created an enduring body of photographic work that continues to fascinate and influence today. The figure of Woodman herself appears frequently... Read more

Tommy Grace: Dummy
2 Apr - 12 Jun 2009 Ingleby Gallery is very pleased to announce Dummy, our first solo exhibition by Tommy Grace, in our street-level space, Gallery II. For this show, Grace draws on his alter-ego as a graphic designer, using the design industry’s standard dummy text Lorem Ipsum as his starting point for a series of... Read more

Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
13 Feb - 28 Mar 2009 Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing takes its title from a work by the Belgian born artist Francis Alÿs. In his short film Paradox of Praxis I, the artist pushes a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City: at 9.15am he is battling with the traction of... Read more

Bob & Roberta Smith: Billboard for Edinburgh
6 Feb - 7 May 2009 Bob and Roberta Smith have produced a new painting which has been realised as Ingleby Gallery's third Billboard for Edinburgh installation. The billboard image references The City of Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government's controversial Tram project. Bob and Roberta Smith have also produced a limited edition print which relates... Read more

Luca Frei
5 Dec 2008 - 2 Feb 2009 Luca Frei’s work can be seen as a series of games that he invites us to join in, only to discover that he has changed the rules, confounding expectations but offering interesting alternatives. His installations of two- and three-dimensional works may have the semblance of recognisable things such as trees,... Read more

ELLSWORTH KELLY: Plant Lithographs from the Artist's Collection
5 Dec 2008 - 7 Feb 2009 Ellsworth Kelly, 85 this year, is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Since the 1940s he has explored the possibilities of abstraction to create paintings and sculptures which reveal an extraordinary vision. Kelly's skill in working with form, colour, space and line to create monumental visual statements is a... Read more

Rachel Whiteread: Billboard for Edinburgh
29 Oct 2008 - 5 Feb 2009 Rachel Whiteread is the second artist to create a billboard image for Ingleby Gallery's exciting public art project. Whiteread's image takes inspiration from her recent installation Place at the Hayward Gallery, London. The gallery will publish an original limited edition print by each artist relating to the billboard work. For... Read more

Ruth Claxton: Postcards
3 Oct - 19 Nov 2008 Ruth Claxton is concerned with ways of seeing, what can be perceived, and what may be beyond our comprehension. This, her second solo exhibition in Scotland and her first at Ingleby Gallery, presents a group of 9 recent works (previously shown at the Barber Institute in Birmingham earlier this year).... Read more

Untitled (seascape)
3 Oct - 22 Nov 2008 Richard Forster’s drawings are of an instant in the spreading tide line of surf; the swift gliding of the collapsed wave is fully alive; one seems to feel the slippery water, tepid to the touch, the moment is both enshrined and indifferent; the event is endless. The tidal scene is... Read more

Susan Collis
31 Jul - 24 Sep 2008 This is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Susan Collis, an artist born in Edinburgh but now living and working in London. Playing on the fact of our newly finished gallery, Collis' exhibition may appear at first glance to be nothing more than the neglected aftermath of a previous... Read more

Kay Rosen: Huen
30 Jul - 26 Sep 2008 This is the first exhibition in Scotland by American artist Kay Rosen who has been exploring the possibilities of words as images for over 25 years. She delights in the small shift; the subtle change that subverts meaning and reveals the unexpected. In her paintings, drawings, wall works, collages and... Read more

Mark Wallinger: Billboard for Edinburgh
30 Jul - 28 Oct 2008 Turner prize winner Mark Wallinger is the first in a new quarterly series of public art projects for a billboard on the gable end of the Gallery. He is followed by Rachel Whiteread in November 2008, Bob & Roberta Smith in February 2009, and Cerith Wyn Evans in April 2009.... Read more

Richard Wright & Samuel Beckett
28 Jun - 5 Jul 2008 Wrights choice for this exhibition was Samuel Beckett's minimalist masterpiece 'Quad II', which was screened as a continual, large-scale projection. 'Quad II' was made by Beckett as an experimental play for television in the 80s in which 4 anonymous, white-gowned and hooded figures process in repetitive, shuffling loops - only... Read more

Callum Innes & Hiroshi Sugimoto
14 - 21 Jun 2008 The penultimate exhibition in our series of 26 pairings was a juxtaposition of one new work by Callum Innes - a startling yellow 'exposed' painting harking back to his most simple work of the early 1990s - alongside an inky black and seductively enigmatic seascape by the Japanese master photographer... Read more

Peter Liversidge & Fischli + Weiss
31 May - 7 Jun 2008 The 24th 'pairing' presented 8 photographs from a new series, 'Zoo Polaroids (Barcelona)' by Peter Liversidge, alongside projections of Fischli + Weiss' seminal films 'Der Rechte Weg' (The Right Way) 1983, and 'Der Geringste Widerstand' (The Point of Least Resistance) 1981. Internationally celebrated Swiss artists Fischli + Weiss (b. 1952,... Read more

Jonathan Monk & Keith Arnatt
17 - 24 May 2008 Our 23rd 'pairing' was a collaborative installation by two of the most interesting conceptual artists of their respective generations, Jonathan Monk and Keith Arnatt. Monk's work frequently references other artists and particularly those making conceptual work in the 60s and 70s. Here he pays homage to one of the largely... Read more

Cornelia Parker & Marcel Broodthaers
3 - 10 May 2008 The pairing of Cornelia Parker & Marcel Broodthaers in this, the 22nd of the year long series of 26 'pairings', is a celebration of two artists who share a belief in the power of poetic transformation. Both artists have what Jessica Morgan has described as 'a humorous and conceptually savvy... Read more

Ian Davenport & The Simpsons
18 - 26 Apr 2008 Davenport likes the Simpsons, but not necessarily in the same way as the rest of us - he sees something else there which is more often taken for granted. The expression and relationship of colour is central to his work, and as he described in an interview with artist and... Read more

Andrew Grassie & Daniel Buren
5 - 12 Apr 2008 The 20th in our year-long series of exhibition pairings was perhaps the most clear distillation yet of the premise behind the programme - Andrew Grassie and Daniel Buren presented a complete engagement with the space, and with each other. Following our invitation to contribute to the series, Andrew Grassie asked... Read more

Ori Gersht & Jan Brueghel the Elder
22 - 29 Mar 2008 The 19th in our series of exhibition 'pairings' presented a large, previously unseen photograph from Ori Gersht's 'Cypress' series, alongside a tiny landscape painting on copper by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1967, Ori Gersht now lives and works in London. He studied... Read more

David Austen & Man Ray
8 - 15 Mar 2008 Emmanuel Radnitzky, known to the world as the artist Man Ray, was born in 1890 in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1915, following his first exhibition in New York, Man Ray met Marcel Duchamp and together with Francis Picabia they formed the New York Dada. Tate Modern's current exhibition 'Duchamp, Man Ray,... Read more

Alexander Gorlizki & Indian Spells: Drawings from the Nineteenth Century
22 Feb - 1 Mar 2008 New York based British artist Alexander Gorlizki chose to show a group of new paintings alongside a selection of rare 19th Century Indian drawings which are believed to have been used as healing 'spells'. This was the first time Gorlizki's work was seen in Scotland. Gorlizki's works on paper originate... Read more

Susan Derges & Hildegard von Bingen
9 - 16 Feb 2008 Photographer Susan Derges elected to show alongside the 12th century visionary Hildegarde Von Bingen. Derges' newest works are a remarkable continuation of her exploration of the possibilities of her camera-less photography. Made at night, in the open air, using the natural world as her darkroom she is drawing both on... Read more

Howard Hodgkin & Edgar Degas
26 Jan - 2 Feb 2008 Like all our series of artist 'pairings' (this was the 15th of the 26) the premise of this exhibition was a simple one - a conversation between objects. In this case, a new and previously unseen painting by Howard Hodgkin alongside a little painting, 'La Femme de Candaules' by 19th... Read more

Brian Catling & the head of 'Bobby Awl'
12 - 19 Jan 2008 Brian Catling (born in London, 1948) is an extraordinary artist, but this is just one of many guises; he is also a published poet and academic, and is currently Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin in Oxford. Though he has taught sculpture for many years, his work most often... Read more

Ceal Floyer & Dan Flavin
15 - 22 Dec 2007 Ceal Floyer's work takes many forms but it is always imbued with her own very particular sense of humour and a keen awareness of the absurdity of life. Floyer creates concise sculptural installations that are deceptive in their apparent simplicity - never quite what they seem, but never pretending to... Read more

Marine Hugonnier & Matthias Fayos
1 - 8 Dec 2007 The 12th in our series of 26 exhibition pairings: Marine Hugonnier (b. 1969 in Paris, lives and works in London) studied philosophy and anthropology before establishing herself as an artist whose films, photographs and installations have recently been given solo exhibitions at some of the world's most prestigious museums and... Read more

Tommy Grace & Kate Owens
17 - 24 Nov 2007 The 11th in our series of 26 exhibition pairings was a new site specific installation by Tommy Grace and Kate Owens. Owens & Grace (b. 1979) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 and are two of Scotland's most exciting emerging artists. The pair are founder members and curators... Read more

Thomas Joshua Cooper & David Bellingham
3 - 10 Nov 2007 The 10th in our series of 26 exhibition pairings was Thomas Joshua Cooper and David Bellingham. Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. A nomadic artist, his extraordinary photographs are made in series at significant points around the... Read more

Ian Hamilton Finlay & Cerith Wyn Evans
18 - 27 Oct 2007 The 9th in our series of 26 exhibition pairings juxtaposed a previously unseen wall painting by Ian Hamilton Finlay and a new neon installation by Cerith Wyn Evans. Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925 - 2006) needs little introduction. A unique and at times controversial figure within 20th century British art, Finlay... Read more

Richard Forster & Richard Artschwager
5 - 12 Oct 2007 The 8th in our series of 26 exhibition pairings presented a new graphite drawing and sculptural relief by Richard Forster alongside two specifically chosen works: an etching and a wall sculpture by Richard Artschwager. Social, cultural and art historical concerns inform Richard Forster's work, and whilst impressively consistent, it adopts... Read more

Garry Fabian Miller & Edmund de Waal
21 - 29 Sep 2007 The 7th of our year long series of 26 pairings presented new bodies of work by the camera-less photographer Garry Fabian Miller and potter Edmund de Waal - although potter seems a somewhat inadequate description of an artist whose work most usually takes the form of large scale composite sculptures... Read more

James Hugonin & Howard Skempton
7 - 15 Sep 2007 The sixth in our series of 26 exhibition pairings presented a new painting by James Hugonin alongside a new piece of music by the celebrated composer Howard Skempton. Michael Harrison, director of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, has observed that Hugonin's abstract paintings 'ask us to slow down, and to look, and... Read more

Francesca Woodman & Richard Serra
24 Aug - 5 Sep 2007 Francesca Woodman lived a tragically brief life. She comitted suicide at the age of 22 but in the few years that account for her career she created an enduring body of photographic work that continues to fascinate and influence today. Woodman appears frequently in her exquisitely odd and unsettling silver... Read more

David Batchelor & Nikolai Suetin
9 - 23 Aug 2007 'The monochrome is a subject that has interested me for a long time, partly because it's the dumbest form of painting that could possibly exist. Anyone can make a monochrome: it really doesn't require craft or skill of any kind at all. The difficult thing is how to make a... Read more

Rachel Whiteread & Robert Burns' Breakfast Table
28 Jul - 9 Aug 2007 Rachel Whiteread (b.1963) is internationally renowned as one of the greatest British artists of her generation. Casting familiar objects in raw materials such as plaster, rubber, concrete and resin, she transforms them into monuments to absent owners, and the traces of their anonymous lives. Whiteread is still perhaps best known... Read more

Sean Scully & Alberto Giacometti: Walls of Aran, Head of Diego
14 - 21 Jul 2007 'On the left is Giacometti, if not the greatest sculptor of the 20th century, in the top five of greatest sculptors of the 20th century, obviously Italian. He made figures out of bronze and plaster, a very obsessive artist like myself, not a particularly experimental artist; he ended up making... Read more

Eight Days
1 Jul 2007 - 8 Jul 2008 Over the course of one year, Ingleby Gallery's 10th in existence, there were 26 exhibitions at the old address - 6 Carlton Terrace. Envisaged as a series of collaborations, each presented the work of a contemporary artist in relation to something else: be that the work of another artist (historical... Read more

Roger Ackling & Richard Long: HANDS ON, HANDS OFF
30 Jun - 7 Jul 2007 Roger Ackling and Richard Long met as students at St Martin's School of Art in 1966. Their first collaboration came ten years later in the shape of a cycle ride by tandem through France, a shared experience that led to each artist creating individual bodies of work. It took another... Read more

Peter Liversidge: Fair Proposals
10 - 17 Jun 2007 In June 2007, Peter Liversidge and Ingleby Gallery were awarded an exhibition in Art Statements, a prestigious selection of one-person exhibitons within Art Basel 38. During his time in Basel, from Sunday 10 June to Suday 17 June, Peter presented his project Fair Proposals. Each day he completed a performance... Read more

For They Know Not What They Do
12 May - 23 Jun 2007 This was Liversidge's first solo exhibition at Ingleby Gallery, and the first substantial showing of the artist's work in Scotland. In one gallery were paintings and installations relating to his enduring fascination with the North Montana Plains, and in the second, a large group of works on paper which offered... Read more

Dark Light - Alison Watt
9 Feb - 5 Apr 2007 Dark Light, an installation by Alison Watt, is the result of 2 years work funded in part by a Creative Scotland Award from the Scottish Arts Council. Viewed from the outside 'Dark Light' is a starkly simple sculpture: a beautiful and exquisitely pared down metal cube with a door hidden... Read more

Winston Roeth
2 Nov - 22 Dec 2006 The first exhibition in Scotland of paintings by New York based artist Winston Roeth. At first glance Roeth's painted panels of wood or slate appear very simple: flat planes of colour that look a certain way, but which shift in the changing light or as you move around them. They... Read more

Anna Barriball
15 Sep - 28 Oct 2006 This was Anna Barriball's first exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery and her first solo show in Scotland. She worked closely with the gallery spaces to create a significant body of new work for our exhibition. Barriball's work inhabits a fluid territory, somewhere betwixt and between the two disciplines of drawing... Read more

Peter Liversidge: Festival Proposals
1 - 30 Aug 2006 From 1st to 30th June 2006, artist Peter Liversidge typed and posted Proposals for the Edinburgh Festival to the Ingleby Gallery. From the sublime to the ridiculous, 105 proposals were made and sent. Whilst 2 were suspected casualties of the Great British postal service, the surviving 103 were collated in... Read more

David Batchelor: Candela V & VI
1 Aug 2006 - 1 Jan 2007 David Batchelor's 'Candelas V & VI', two spectacular suspended clusters of plastic household bottles, each of which contained a low energy bulb, were installed by the Ingleby Gallery side by side in a pair of gated cloisters at the imposing Old Royal High School building on Regent Road in Edinburgh... Read more

Thread
28 Jul - 9 Sep 2006 1.(noun) spun out filament of cotton, 2. (verb transitive) pick ones way through (maze, streets etc) 3. (noun) the ~ (course) of life, hang by a ~, be in a precarious state, 4. (noun) gather up the ~s; bring divisions of subject etc. into relation after separate treatment. 5. (noun)... Read more

Azure
16 Jun - 22 Jul 2006 Susan Derges is one of the leading and most respected photographers working in Britain today. Like contemporaries Christopher Bucklow, Adam Fuss and Garry Fabian Miller, her work looks back to the very origins of photography. Using the raw materials of light and chemically sensitised paper, Derges pushes the boundaries of... Read more

GREEN ELECTRIC MORNING
28 Apr - 3 Jun 2006 This, David Austens 3rd solo exhibition at the Ingleby gallery, presented recent paintings and works on paper alongside a new suite of 25 etchings published under the title GREEN ELECTRIC MORNING. Memory, unfulfilled longing and a kind of black surrealist humour all have their place, but in whatever manner and... Read more

Ellsworth Kelly - Editions: 1972 - 2005
17 Mar - 22 Apr 2006 At the beginning of 2006, three exhibitions were devoted to Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most singular and influential American artists of the 20th century. Tate St Ives hosted an exhibition of paintings chosen from their own and private collections alongside a selection of plant lithographs; the Serpentine Gallery in... Read more

Jon Schueler: Five Decades
26 Jan - 11 Mar 2006 Jon Schueler was born in Milwaukee in 1916 and studied at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1951 he moved to New York where his mentor Clyfford Still introduced him to Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. By 1957, Schueler was established as a leading figure... Read more

Alan Shipway
3 Dec 2005 - 3 Jan 2006 This exhibition by Alan Shipway showed recent paintings alongside delicate works on paper - small improvised collages that provide his first inspiration for the larger works on canvas. Shipway makes paintings that have a simple rigour, a clarity, and a great economy of means. They are essentially abstract, yet tied... Read more

EDITION
15 Nov 2005 - 14 Jan 2006 An exhibition devoted to limited edition prints by some of our favourite artists. The selection mixed gallery artists with invited guests in an eclectic display of pure and simple quality: an exhibition that sought to prove world-class contemporary art needn't cost the earth. The selection had no themes or agendas... Read more

Exposure: Garry Fabian Miller
23 Sep - 5 Nov 2005 Our third solo exhibition by Garry Fabian Miller presented his most recent series of cameraless photographs 'Exposure', made in response to time spent on the Hebridean Island of Tiree. To mark this extraordinary new body of work we published the book 'Exposure' with an essay by Ian Warrell, Curator of... Read more

Ian Hamilton Finlay: L'Idylle des Cerises
29 Jul - 17 Sep 2005 This exhibition marked the 80th birthday of one of Scotland's greatest artists, Ian Hamilton Finlay. For the first time, Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Gardens joined forces with Ingleby Gallery to stage 2 major exhibitions of Finlay's work. These, together with an exhibition curated by Ingleby Gallery at the... Read more

Sean Scully
26 May - 23 Jul 2005 In the last 20 years Sean Scully has emerged as one of the true giants of modern painting. The natural heir to America's colour field painters of the 1950s, and to the dense moodscapes of Mark Rothko in particular. His work has been exhibited and collected by most of the... Read more

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
17 Mar - 7 May 2005 We stole a line from Barnett Newman for our group exhibition 'Who's Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue?'. It followed on, in a way, from a successful show held a couple of years ago under the banner 'White' - although as the title suggests, it provided an opposite view. This... Read more

Callum Innes
4 Nov - 18 Dec 2004 Over the past 10 years Innes has emerged as one of the most single minded and successful painters of his generation. His work has a very visible presence at the forefront of the international art world and hangs in many important museum collections worldwide from the Guggenheim Collection in New... Read more

Roger Ackling
23 Sep - 30 Oct 2004 This exhibition was our first by Roger Ackling. Installed by the artist in a response to the gallery spaces, many of the works were tiny sculptural objects no more than 2 inches in size. Working with driftwood and everyday objects - clothes pegs, reels, doorknobs, often in combination with elastic... Read more

Alison Watt
5 Aug - 11 Sep 2004 This exhibition was our first solo show by Alison Watt (her last major one person exhibition being 'Shift' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2000) although we have represented her exclusively for the past five years. Three new large canvases, 'Hood', 'Flow' and 'Flexion' were hung alongside... Read more

From Here to Eternity
20 May - 24 Jul 2004 From Here to Eternity plotted a path from planet earth out into the bigger picture, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, through the work of 5 internationally celebrated artists whose work was positioned at different points along the journey. It began with earthly things: a Richard Long stone sculpture -... Read more

Thomas Joshua Cooper: rock, water, tree
18 Mar - 8 May 2004 We have worked with Cooper since 2001, and included his work alongside Richard Long and photographs from the Paul Nash archive in our exhibition LAND, but this was our first solo exhibition. To mark the occasion Cooper prepared and printed a remarkable group of 12 pictures which spanned the places... Read more

Ellsworth Kelly: Currency
29 Jan - 6 Mar 2004 This exhibition juxtaposed Ellsworth Kelly's most recent suite of lithographs [published in 2001 by Gemini G.E.L] and currency forms from West Africa dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, their authors unknown. Though ostensibly pure abstractions, all Kelly's works have a basis in reality, stemming from his unique observations of... Read more

Patrick Heron
4 Aug - 11 Sep 1999 The sad death of Patrick Heron earlier this year brought to an end plans that we were making for an exhibition of his recent work. However, as a tribute to this great British artist, we are proud to present the first ever showing of his very last work - The... Read more

Modern Masters 1
26 May - 3 Jul 1999 The first in an annual series of exhibitions devoted to recent acquisitions of paintings and drawings by 20th century British masters. Modern Masters 1 will include work by Augustus John, Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood. Ingleby Gallery 6 Carlton Terrace Edinburgh EH7 5DD Read more

Summer Sculpture
26 May - 3 Jul 1999 For the home and garden. A mixed show of work in wood and stone by sculptors who incline to the philosophy that less is more and simplicity is strength. Including new work by Richard Bray and Emily Young. Ingleby Gallery 6 Carlton Terrace Edinburgh EH7 5DD Read more

Jeffrey Blondes
7 Apr - 15 May 1999 Jeffrey Blondes is an American-born painter who has lived and worked in France since 1981. He has exhibited in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco as well as in Paris and London. Until now the subject of his intensely observed landscapes has been found in the few square miles that... Read more

Rupert Spira
7 Apr - 15 May 1999 Stoneware bottles, vases and bowls by one of the leading potters of his generation. Spira acknowledges a debt to his early mentor Michael Cardew, yet his own work has an uncompromising individuality: a marriage of uncomplicated forms and subtle glazes which combine to make ceramics of a rare and deceptively... Read more

Susan Derges & Patricia Macdonald
17 Feb - 27 Mar 1999 Patricia takes photographs from an aeroplane with Angus Macdonald as pilot. The result of this collaboration are presented uncropped and unmodified, showing startling, apparently abstract patterns on the surface of the land and sea. Susan Derges' photograms are made at the other end of the earth by laying photographic paper... Read more

Hylton Nel
17 Feb - 27 Mar 1999 Hylton Nel lives and works in the tiny South African village of Bethulie, though the inspiration for his hand-built ceramics is as likely to come from ancient China or 18th century England as from the life that he finds on his doorstep. His work expresses an irreverent and deeply intuitive... Read more

Christmas 1998
1 - 23 Dec 1998 An exhibition of small works by Scottish artists to benefit CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people. Including new work made specially for the exhibition by: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, John Byrne, Robert Callender, Alan Davie, Kenneth Dingwall, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jake Harvey, Ian Howard, Eileen Lawrence, Marian Leven, David Mach,... Read more

Andy Goldsworthy
11 Nov - 19 Dec 1998 An exhibition to coincide with the unveiling of Andy Goldsworthy's inspired contribution to the new Museum of Scotland and a rare opportunity to see a show of his work in the country that Goldsworthy has made his home. Our exhibition will combine works made over the last 10 years with... Read more

Julian Stair
11 Nov - 19 Dec 1998 Julian Stair makes the best sort of functional art. His strong, simple tableware in porcelain and red stoneware sits as easily on a domestic dinner table as in the collections of the British Council, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He makes forms that are clean and clear and satisfyingly... Read more

Craig Murray-Orr
30 Sep - 31 Oct 1998 Craig Murray-Orr was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1942 and has lived in London since 1968. This summer he is in Tanzania, at the behest of the British council, exhibiting wood carvings at Dar Es Salaam's National Museum. Our exhibition will show carved and assembled sculptures alongside a... Read more

Howard Hodgkin
5 Aug - 12 Sep 1998 Howard Hodgkin is one of the leading painters of his generation and one of the most original artists working in Britain today. This, our festival exhibition, concentrates on his hand-coloured etchings and lithographs. It is Hodgkin's first show in Scotland since his 1990 exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of... Read more

Opening Exhibition
1 Jul - 1 Aug 1998 An exhibition concentrating on leading Scottish artists who have seldom shown commercially north of the border. This selection will include new work by Craigie Aitchison, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Callum Innes, John McLean, Margaret Mellis and Ian McKenzie Smith. Ingleby Gallery 6 Carlton Terrace Edinburgh EH7 5DD Read more

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