Alyth Burn in Spring by Jonathan Mitchell Is from His Exhibition 30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry

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Alyth Burn in Spring by Jonathan Mitchell is from his exhibition 30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry. See ARTS NEWS. Autumn Exhibition ‘Gleam into Leaf’ 22 August – 23 October

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dinburgh’s City Art ECentre reopens on Saturday September 12 with two exhibitions. City Art Centre at 40: Highlights from the City’s Art Collection (until Oct 18) marks the gallery’s 40th anniversary, while Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s (until Jun 6, 2021) evokes a period of social, political and economic change. Widely recognised as one of the finest in the country, the City’s dating back to 1899 and over the collection numbers over 5,000 past 40 years it has hosted over 500 The next live auction online by artworks ranging from some of exhibitions. Highlights have included the Edinburgh branch of Lyon & Gold of the Pharaohs (1988), Abstract Turnbull is Jewellery, Watches the earliest views of Edinburgh to & Silver (Sep 15), featuring a works by many of Scotland’s leading Expressionist Paintings from MOMA stunning array of period bangles, contemporary artists. They include New York (1981) and Michelangelo neck chains, bracelets, pendants, major historical figures such as Allan Drawings (1994) as well as solo shows rings, brooches, earrings and Ramsay, the pioneer photographers by Scottish artists and craftmakers more. This is followed by African Hill and Adamson and the Scottish such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Oceanic Art and Antiquities Colourists as well as contemporaries (1987), Peter Howson (2007) and (Sep 16). Pictured: Luvale mask such as John Byrne, Alison Watt and Victoria Crowe (2019). Pictured: John (Zambia), carved wood, coffee- Adrian Wiszniewski. Duncan (1866-1945), Tristan and Isolde bean eyes, est. £400-600 The City Art Centre occupies a (detail), tempera on canvas, 1912 www.lyonandturnbull.com refurbished, five-storey warehouse www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk

The Academicians’ Gallery in the Royal Scottish Academy reopens on Thursday September 10 and viewing slots can now be booked online. The Academicians’ Gallery is the year-round exhibition space showing works for sale by eminent members who are elected by their peers and who are Scottish by birth or residence. The RSA relies on artwork sales as a source of income to fund its year-round programme of exhibitions and events. Pictured: David Michie, The River Bank, 2009, screenprint www.royalscottishacademy.org

Flinn with coastal August September October and harbour scenes, Michael Ewart with FINE ART GALLERY picturesque scenes of coastal towns and villages and Tricia Barna with atmospheric acrylic paintings. NEOS is happening Newcomers are this year, with painter and printmaker some changes, due Anne Skinner to Covid19. We have printed maps (pictured: Coastline), with a list of figurative artist Garry participants on the Harper, printmaker/ back. These are writer/poet Hugh available from Bryden, mixed media participants, from

the middle of A year round guide to landscape artist Jackie the artists & makers in Winds of Change at the Whitehouse the North East of August. Our book is Scotland Gallery in Kirkcudbright (Sep 12- Stevenson RSW, Jonathan Stockley alan b hayman on the website as a Oct 31) is a mixed group exhibition with small, detailed studies of rural, downloadable PDF. urban and industrial landscapes and journey to st kilda featuring both long-standing gallery The Glasgow Print Studio is www.resipolestudios.co.uk regulars and some new names. Peter Dworok with landscapes in oil. The exhibition also includes ceramics, showing John Byrne at 80 (until Oct loch sunart | acharacle | argyll | ph36 4hx www.northeastopenstudios.co.uk Returning regulars are landscape 30), featuring works by the revered artists Amanda Phillips, Heather mosaics and textiles. www.whitehousegallery.co.uk Scottish playwright, writer and artist. Davies and Margaret Evans, Clare All produced at the studio’s facilities, which Byrne has been using since aken from an ongoing series the 1970s, the works include a new Tbased on a 2019 trip to Italy, Ross selection of exclusive, hand-coloured Miller: Reflections at Edinburgh’s screenprints. Pictured: Night Owl, screenprint with watercolour, An Evening Sky

Upright Gallery (until Oct 1) features ) drawings inspired by sculptures in the varied ed. of 10 Vatican and Florence. Describing an Also showing is David Eustace: impromptu day trip to Rome before Dear John, A Thirty Year Portrait, SCOTTISH B.1953 ( catching the last train back to Pisa, featuring a limited edition portfolio where he was staying, Miller says: of twelve photographic portraits of Byrne taken over a 30-year period. Clare Blois “I rushed around on foot to see as much as I could. It was manic, and I The edition is printed on hand-made think that comes across in the work Japanese paper and presented in a Upcoming Auctions through the frantic mark-making hand-made clamshell archival box. of some of the quicker sketches. David Eustace has photographs in the 19 September / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery I’ve been feeling my way through collections of the Scottish National www.brownandturner.co.uk 17 October / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery Portrait Gallery and the Glasgow 14 November / Contemporary Art Auction depicting a figure as opposed to Complimentary Valuations available by appointment 14 November / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery measuring the proportions of a face.” Museum of Modern Art. 12 December / Christmas Jewellery Auction Pictured: Vatican figure study, mixed www.gpsart.co.uk 01835 863445 | [email protected] 12 December / Antiques, Fine Art & Jewellery media www.uprightgallery.com

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30 Years, 30 Paintings at Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry (Sep 12-26) features new WWW.NOMADSTENT.CO.UK works by the Scottish landscape painter Jonathan Mitchell, who uses mainly oils in the Northern European tradition of painterly realism. His images often feature a ‘contre-jour’ lighting perspective where the viewer is looking directly at the sun. This enables heightened tonal contrasts and vivid shadows. Pictured: Autumn Light, Caddam Wood www.eastudios.com

The famous yellow signs will be appearing around the region with artists’ numbers on them, and R U G S & I N T E R I O R S you are asked to treat studios as you would a small shop by WE BUY & SELL, CLEAN & REPAIR wearing a mask, using hand N e w , o l d & a n t i q u e o r i e n t a l sanitiser and observing social r u g s , c a r p e t s & k i l i m s distance guidelines. Pictured: Sculpture by Lois Carson www. northeastopenstudios.co.uk/ artists-search

From Montrose basin to the In the Abbeyhill area of Banffshire coast, members of North Edinburgh over 40 members of East Open Studios (NEOS) are the Colony of Artists will this getting ready to welcome visitors (Sep year welcome visitors to a socially 12-20). For the first time in its 17-year distanced exhibition weekend 298 Portobello High St history, this year’s event in ‘blended’, dubbed The Garden Party (Sep 19 & Portobello with some artists and craftmakers 20). www.colony-of-artists.com Edinburgh opening their studios as normally as Also in Edinburgh, you can book EH15 2AS possible, others asking that you make a free time-slot to visit Coburg an appointment and some opting to House Studios (Sep 19 & 20), where 07835 813689 create show online. A printed map you’ll find several floors occupied Tues-Sat 10-5, Sun 12-4 velveteasel.co.uk has been produced with members’ by painters, printers, jewellers, 21 St Leonard's Lane, EH8 9SH [email protected] locations and contact details, while textile artists, ceramicists and more [email protected] the most up to date info is on the 0131 662 1612 showing and selling their work. artists’ search page below. www.coburghouse.co.uk 10 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 11 Arts News

found in her South Queensferry Beggars Would Eat Birds at Dundee WEEKLY ONLINE gallery, Allium. The show will also Contemporary Arts (Sep 12-Nov 15) is EXHIBITIONS SERIES feature a selection of work by a newly commissioned body of work in potter Wayne Galloway. Pictured: which Whipps explores the histories of Distant Trees various plants and minerals in different www.kirstinheggie.com parts of the world. Through installation, photography, film and sound, he tuart Whipps makes work about reflects on how people have worked Pete Monaghan with materials over vast periods of September 14-20 Sthings he does not understand or skills that he does not already possess, time. www.dca.org.uk a practice of curiosity and learning which results in projects slowly Kirstin Heggie: Beyond at the unfolding as he acquires knowledge Dundas Street Gallery (Sep and skills. 18-23) is the first solo exhibition In recent years he has restored of remembered and imagined a 1979 Mini with the assistance of landscapes and seascapes by the former British Leyland workers, learned Edinburgh-based artist, whose to make geological thin sections at the Iwan Gwyn Parry MA RCA semi-abstract style captures the University of Birmingham and worked September 21-27 ever-changing weather and light with a 17th century sign language in layers of colour and texture. devised by Sir Christopher Wren. Kirstin’s work can normally be If Wishes Were Thrushes,

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by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, they Part of the Hotel Eilean Iarmain on were originally opened in 1903 the isle of Skye, Gallery An Talla by entrepreneur Miss Catherine Dearg has reopened with the annual Cranston. After falling into disrepair, exhibition by local landscape and they were purchased and extensively wildlife artist Derek Robertson BA restored by the Willow Tea Room RSW SSA SAA IWS (until Oct 14). Trust and reopened in 2018. With artists encouraged to run the www.mackintoshatthewillow.com gallery themselves, Derek turns a corner of it into a working studio, where visitors can watch him at work. Photo Rachel Keenan Photography Derek is a multi-award winning artist with work cotland’s most famous tearooms, in collections in over 50 WINDS OF CHANGE SMackintosh at The Willow in countries. He has written 12TH SEPTEMBER - 31ST OCTOBER 2020 Glasgow, reopens on September 16 and illustrated numerous WWW.WHITEHOUSEGALLERY.CO.UK after a successful appeal for financial books and presented support to meet a shortfall caused by several TV programmes enforced closure because of Covid. about his work. A world renowned heritage Pictured: Orcas building and the only surviving www.derekrobertson.com tearooms designed in their entirety FLAT CAT GALLERY and cafe MIXED EXHIBITION JAMES FRASER RSW: 5 - 28 Sept Over 40 artists and makers & MIXED EXHIBITION All work for sale online. Gift shop and café/takeaway service. James Fraser RSW Mon-Sat 9.30-5, Sun 10-5. Closed Tues-Wed

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The Royal Glasgow Institute of the at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Fine Arts (RGI), which was founded Degree Show. in 1861 to promote contemporary The three recipients – sculptor and art and artists in Scotland, has environmental artist Charlotte Hayes, Kirstin announced this year’s winners of the painter Megan Squire and visual artist RGI Graduate Award for emerging and photographer Charlotte Elizabeth Heggie artists showing outstanding work Roberts – were selected by a judging panel which included artist and RGI President Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Hon FRIAS, HRSW. Pictured: Megan Squire, Masked figure ‘Beyond’ www.theroyalglasgowinstituteof Pictured: Juliet Seger’s MA Design Contemporary Abstract Landscapes thefinearts.co.uk for Change portfolio explores social and environmental practices in the 18-23 September clothing industry. Her work highlights he annual Edinburgh College of the ever-present role of human TArt Postgraduate Degree Show touch in manufacturing. To illustrate features work by around 170 students this she covered her hands in paint Dundas Street Gallery of disciplines including Contemporary while sewing, resulting in dramatic, 6 Dundas St imprinted designs demonstrating Edinburgh EH3 6HZ Art Practice, Contemporary Art Theory, Design for Change and the human connection to garments. www.kirstinheggie.com Architectural and Urban Design. www.degreeshow.eca.ed.ac.uk

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Stacked, laminated As the son of a and curved oak sawmill owner, staves interlock Rob Elliot to make the solid spent many shell of this striking childhood drinks cabinet by hours making Graham Murdoch things from Blending traditional techniques of GM Furniture wood. Today with modern concepts, Design. Simple on specialising Daniel Brophy of Black Box the outside, the in elm, he Furniture designs and makes top door opens brings out the custom furniture for living to create a serving natural beauty and work spaces using native counter and LED in its shapes Scottish timbers sourced from lights automatically and grain to create functional, yet artistic furniture. sustainable and well managed illuminate behind a rear Pictured: Four-seat table in an arched, brick-laminate forests. Pictured: Console table mirror and beneath two tumbler shelves. construction with polished pebbles forming the yin- in ebonised oak There are also two suspended, leather-lined trays yang symbol under toughened glass. www.blackboxfurniture.com for glassware. www.gmfurnituredesign.co.uk www.robelliotfurniture.com Hand-made for you & your home

This cigar tray by Frazer A. Reid of Fife-based FAR Patrick Green of Elements Creative Workshop designs furniture Cabinet Makers is made of Scottish walnut with mainly with wood, but also uses cast metals, glass and stone, using a removable stainless steel dish. He also makes sandblasting and burning techniques to add detail, texture and an beautiful mirrors with burr oak, elm and yew frames This stunning ‘Orca’ dining table by Robin Runciman of Wildwood occasional sense of mystery. While so far most of his work has been in any size and shape you need as well as cabinets, Scotland combines toughened glass, inlays, stitches, live edges and ‘bones’ for external use, he is now beginning to explore the ‘great indoors’. household utensils, outdoor benches and even to subtly mimic one of nature’s most incredible creatures. The curved, www.elementsworkshop.co.uk surfboards. www.farcabinetmakers.co.uk ‘finned’ ends allow seating for up to eight.www.wildwoodscotland.co.uk 18 | 11 September | Issue 130 11 September | Issue 130 | 19 Art & Travel Art & Travel

outside Belgium such as Tintoretto, Bosch and Rembrandt. The museum’s Bruegel collection is the second largest in the world. (The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has the largest, since most of his paintings were bought by members of the ruling aristocracy of Bruegel’s time, the Austrian-based Habsburgs.) Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), Des Caresses, 1896, oil on canvas (Fin de Siècle Museum) Bruegel (c.1525/1530-1569) is While Paris was the epicentre of the Museum, which houses the world’s famous for his glorification of the art world around the turn of the 19th most extensive collection of works by landscape, depictions of rural life and 20th centuries, Brussels was also the Surrealist, René Magritte (1898- and of the humble peasant as the a thriving artistic hub. To illustrate 1967), the most important Belgian embodiment of Flemish identity, the point, the Fin de Siècle Museum painter of the 20th century who while his darker side reflected on the (in French, the period is known as spent most of his life in Brussels. Over struggle between good and evil or the ‘end’ of the century) showcases 200 works displayed over several contained critical social comment. Belgian artists, sculptors and floors form a chronological and You can also visit the Bruegel photographers who are less known thematic journey through his life and Box, a room where three immersive internationally because they did not work. videos, each based on a painting, are leave ‘provincial’ Brussels projected onto the walls from floor to make their name in to ceiling. In addition, the Google Paris. Brussels Cardboard Viewer provides a 360° Covering the period experience of The Fall of the Rebel 1868 to 1914, these Angels, in which the painting seems to include the symbolism come to life. of Fernand Khnopff www.fine-arts-museum.be and Leon Spilliaert, the hyper-realism of Henri Museum of Ancient Art beauty The Magritte Museum de Braekeleer, the social realism of Constantin Atop the Mont des Arts (Arts Hill), From Flemish Masters to a pantheon to Meunier and the multi- the Royal Museums of Fine Arts disciplinary genius of plastic, art museums in the Belgian capital of Belgium is the country’s leading Henry van de Velde and The Victor Horta-designed theatre in Bozar cultural institution and home to show seven centuries of art and design. James Ensor. A selection the national art collection, which is of works by their international bit French but not buildings than anywhere else and a divided into three sections. Famed for his subversive imagery, contemporaries, such as Paul Gauguin, France, a little Dutch but vibrant design industry, it has much to which anticipated Pop Art and Auguste Rodin, Pierre Bonnard and not Holland, Belgium has offer culture-vultures. The Museum of Ancient Art has a conceptual art, Magritte worked in Alphonse Mucha, sets the Belgian historically marked the Throw in the Grand Place remarkable collection of paintings and a variety of media, including oils, scene in a wider context. transition from Latin to (Europe’s most beautiful square?), the sculptures from the 14th to the 18th gouaches, drawings, sculptures, www.fin-de-siecle-museum.be Anorthern cultures, making Brussels a Royal Saint Hubert Galleries (with centuries, including ground-breaking painted objects and graphic art. The fitting centre for EU member states. Europe’s tallest shopping arcades) work by the Flemish Primitives and museum also has advertising posters, A giraffe in a wine glass? A limbless With one of Europe’s powerhouse and the gleaming, silver Atomium paintings by Flemish masters such as vintage photographs and films torso on a beach? An eagle wearing national art collections, an entire (one of Europe’s most recognisable Bruegel, Rubens, Jordaens and Van directed by Magritte himself. a jacket? It must be the Magritte museum dedicated to its most landmarks) and you can’t fail to come Dyck as well as some masters from www.musee-magritte-museum famous artist, more Art Nouveau away impressed.

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12 June – 25 August SUMMER EXHIBITION Mixed Summer Show ONLINE AND Meet the Masters at the Dynasty Palace. Photo: Willem van Puyenbroeck Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fall of the Rebel Angels (Royal Museums of featuring new work by IN GALLERY Fine Arts of Belgium) including: the following artists: 18 AUGUST - 17 SEPTEMBER Down the slope from the Mont des A few hundred yards from the and its ultra-bright colours echoed Mary Louise Butterworth JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON O.B.E Arts is the Bozar Centre for Fine Atomium, the Art & Design the psychedelic age. Top designers Stuart Buchanan MARGARET EVANS OPENING HOURS JANET McCRORIE 10.00 - 17.30 Arts (Beaux-Arts – get it?). Designed Atomium Museum (ADAM) pays and artists such as Andy Warhol took David E Johnston RSW ALAN WILSON TUESDAY - THURSDAY by Victor Horta (see ART NOUVEAU), homage to all things plastic. Based on to the medium, which eventually LYNN HOWARTH Kate Steenhauer PETE MORRISON the sprawling, multi-level building collector and plastic artist Philippe came to the end of its golden age Shelagh Swanson JOHN BATHGATE itself is a work of art, with galleries, a Decelle’s private collection, the only with the oil crisis of 1973.

182 BATH STREET GLASGOW G2 4HG theatre and a cinema. The expansive one of its kind in the world, and www.adamuseum.be T: 0141 333 1991 E: [email protected] W: WWW.GLASGOWGALLERY.CO.UK exhibition spaces host up to ten augmented by loans from galleries In the Parc du Cinquantenaire (named shows a year and have recently and other private collectors, ADAM’s for the 50th anniversary in 1880 of featured Jeff Wall, Frida Kahlo, Gilbert mesmerising display of artworks, Belgian independence), the Art and SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARCHITECT-ARTISTS and George, Prints in the Age of furniture, mannequins, wall pieces, History Museum is a vast, temple- Bruegel and many others. household items and electrical goods like building housing art www.bozar.be recalls plastic’s heyday in the pop and artefacts from prehistory to the LIGNE ET COULEUR culture of the 1960s, when it was At the foot of the long stairway mid-8th century, including relics leading from the Mont des Arts to seen as the expression of a new era the city centre, the Dynasty Palace Drastic plastic in the Art & Design Atomium Museum (ADAM) hosts multimedia exhibitions which immerse visitors in famous Flemish paintings, as the walls and floor become projection screens. Now showing is Meet the Masters – The 360° Experience, in which Jan Van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel and Peter Paul Stuart Buchanan Stuart

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from Egypt, the Near East, Iran and Classical antiquity. DESIGN There are also non-European For the best in Belgian design, from treasures from China, Asia, the fashion to interiors, head for the SPECIALIST in and around the Islamic world, Inuit culture, Dansaert district SHIPPERS Rue Antoine Dansaert and the Place pre-Columbian central America Saint-Géry. The Soho of Brussels, this OF FINE ART and Oceania, while European & ANTIQUES previously rundown area was adopted decorative art includes by enterprising designers attracted • Fragile, large or awkward tapestries, Art Deco, Art by cheap warehouse and retail space. – wherever in the world it needs to go Nouveau, silverware, ceramics They proceeded to transform it into • Affordable, customised and glassware. a modish mecca, from haute couture crates that deliver art works safely www.artandhistory.museum studios to second hand luxury clothes • International & UK boutiques. delivery services • Cover against loss www.downtowndansaert.be or damage 0131 201 2244 Joe McIntyre 22 Aug to 19 Sept 53 Elm Row, Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH7 4AH Prehistoric jewellery in the Art and History Museum Further info www.visitflanders.co.uk/destinations/brussels www.packsend.co.uk/edinburgheast 80th Birthday Exhibition ART NOUVEAU Brussels is the capital of Art Nouveau, and it only takes a few minutes strolling around the city to be struck by the legacy the www.galleryq.co.uk Queen’s Hotel Buildings, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU 01382 220600 movement left in the city’s buildings. Practically everywhere you look there are ornately shaped facades, sculpted stonework and decorative wrought iron, all embellished with nature-inspired motifs. Art Nouveau flourished between 1890 and 1910 as a reaction SHOP ONLINE against rampant industrialisation and its airy, light-filled style was FOR CLICK & COLLECT adopted in civic buildings and in the homes of a new middle . . class. Its influence spread as far as Antoni Gaudi in Spain and

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THE EDINBURGH ART BOOK I draw flowers every day on In a burning building I would my iPhone and send them to save a cat before a Rembrandt. my friends, so they get fresh “These are the streets of “Edinburgh’s unique Alberto Giacometti flowers every morning. I have never my childhood revealed character - old and David Hockney and adorned by the new, architectural taken a city‘s very own artists in and scenic, urban and a wonderful variety of coastal - is beautifully picture I’ve colour and style.“ captured by its artists.” My work is completed Painting is the intended. - Iain Glen - Rory Bremner best way I’ve by the viewer. found to get along They’re with myself. Other titles in the series Bridget Riley always better THE CITY THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS ARTISTS Robert Rauschenberg

A Burst of Colour or worse. SEPTEMBER SUSIE HUNT Diane Arbus OCTOBER TONY GRIFFIN I don’t mind saying I find it difficult to square up the money and the fame with the art and integrity. Damien Hirst

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CANALSCAPES : One must go on working silently, Colour is the place where our brain meets the universe. HOLLAND SCOTLAND VENEZIA trusting the result to the future. Paul Cezanne John Lowrie Morrison OBE Vincent van Gogh At The Archway Gallery from 8 August I’m often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am. Eveninglight, Cannaregio Canal, Venice Canal, Cannaregio Eveninglight, Gerhard Richter Take me. I am the drug. Salvador Dali Painting is self- It is not my intention to make discovery. Every good Haystack Hens and Beehives, Putten, Holland Putten, and Beehives, Hens Haystack Sunset Canal Dunardry Crinan Lock artist paints what he is. anything comprehensible. Jackson Pollock The Archway Gallery René Magritte 7 Union Street, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8JS | 01546 606894 www.thearchway.co.uk www.facebook.com/david.atherton.524 Source: Art is the highest form of hope & other quotes by artists, pub. Phaidon G lamis Gallery GALLERY 2 6 Kirk Wynd . Glamis . DD8 1RT

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From a series which also includes Liverpool, Dublin and Cambridge, The Edinburgh Art Book lets us see the city 1 through the eyes of over 50 artists, who have captured its unique character in a beautiful collection of contemporary images 2 4 in a wide variety of styles and media. Here is a selection. (Ed. Emma Bennett, pub. UIT Cambridge, £14.99, www.uit.co.uk) 1. Richard Briggs, Towards Edinburgh Castle 2. Emily Ingrey-Counter, Arthur’s Seat 3. Moy Mackay, Ramsay Gardens 4. Tomasz Mikutel, The Cowgate 5. Alasdair Banks, Edinburgh Fireworks 6. Francis Boag, Edinburgh Castle 8 7. Blythe Scott, Victoria Street 8. Lydia Bourhil, The Auditorium Inside the Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street 9 9. Karen Warner, Leith Towerblock

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