THE SCOTTISH ENDARKENMENT: Art and Unreason 1945 to the Present

THE SCOTTISH ENDARKENMENT: Art and Unreason 1945 to the Present

(Featuring new work by MFA lecturer Graham Ramsay and a number of MFA alumni)

Opening night: Thursday 12 May 6 - 8pm.

Exhibition runs from 13 May 2016 to 29 August 2016

Dovecot Gallery
10 Infirmary Street
Edinburgh EH1 1LT

Image credit: Jock McFadyen 'Calton Hill'

This thematic exhibition, curated by Bill Hare and Andrew Patrizio of The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Dovecot, provides a radically new and fascinating presentation of the shared concerns which have obsessed many of the most important Scottish artists since the end of World War Two. The Scottish Endarkenment explores a wide range of disturbing and provocative topics, from ever-escalating international conflict, social inequality and unrest, gender identity and sexual prejudice – all fired by the dialectical struggles within the Scottish psyche between good and evil, Self and the Other. All these subjects are imaginatively treated within a variety of different interpretations and mediums – from the out-and-out horrific to the darkly satirical. Included amongst the forty or so exhibits are works by major Scottish artists including David Shrigley, Joyce Cairns and Steven Campbell.

Full list of artists:
Beagles & Ramsay, John Bellany, Christine Borland, Joyce Cairns
Steven Campbell, Robert Colquhoun, Fred Crayk, Ken Currie
Alan Davie, Kenneth Dingwall, Pat Douthwaite, Joan Eardley
Graham Fagen, Boyle Family, Helen Flockhart, Luke Fowler
Douglas Gordon,, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Lys Hansen, Kevin Harman
Louise Hopkins, Georgia Horgan, Kenny Hunter, Matthew Inglis
William Johnstone, John Kirkwood, Shona Macnaughton
Chad McCail, Jock McFadyen, Wendy McMurdo, Jonathan Owen
Eduardo Paolozzi, Katie Paterson, Julie Roberts, David Shrigley
Simon Starling, Kerry Stewart, Peter Thomson, William Turnbull
Alison Watt, Richard Wright