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PRINTS BY ANNE RUSSELL – REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON
I’d like to start with a warning. Some of the photos of the exhibition on this page really don’t do justice to Anne Russell’s works, so I'd encourage all readers to go and look at the originals for themselves.
There is something refreshingly enjoyable about Russell’s prints. They are not overly stylish or lavish; they are simple but still have a visual flair, which drifts seamlessly from one technique to another.
SEPA MAY STEP IN
Some people may have thought that the fight to save 1–6 Canonmills Bridge is now a lost cause (Breaking news, 29.1.16), but die-hard campaigners have not given up hope.
Bill Geary, a civil engineer and local resident, believes he’s found a new angle on the controversy which could involve the intervention of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
The Great Storm of 14 October 1881 claimed the lives of 189 men, most of them fishermen from Eyemouth (129) and Burnmouth (24), but 17 originating from Newhaven.
Three of those Newhaven men are remembered on adjacent gravestones in Rosebank Cemetery:
DAVID HILL CONSIDERS FORTH STREET AND BROUGHTON PLACE
Lightness and possibility inform the morning air as I head past the metropolitan cathedral towards Broughton. The limpid weekend sky seems charmed by April’s delicate breeze, and the few distant clouds, lurking to the north like languid spectres, hold no fear.
This early azure feels like a promise, or perhaps a screen on which to project the day’s al fresco fantasies.
As you read this, Issue 251 of the Spurtle is speeding from the presses like rattlestanes off a tourist’s sunhat.
Distribution will mostly begin tomorrow, but may not be complete until early next week due to weekend and May Day bank holiday arrangements.
By jingo, it’ll be worth waiting for, though.
Freedom from Torture is a charitable medical foundation for the care of victims of torture.
Its local Edinburgh group is currently preparing for a biennial fund-raising walk from Stockbridge to Balerno on Saturday 21 May, and would like you to join in.
Participants can walk the full 9.3 miles to the foot of the Pentlands, or bail out at Slateford (4.5 miles), Colinton (6 miles), or Currie (8 miles) from where buses can be caught back into Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh International Festival is the first summer festival to announce its full 2016 programme, writes Rhys Fullerton.
Broughton-based shows are all at the Edinburgh Playhouse, and one of the highlights is a two-night residency for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós.
Council Leader Andrew Burns today issued an unconditional apology to pupils, families and carers for the disruption and anxiety caused by ‘negative developments in the school estate’.
Seventeen PPP1 Edinburgh schools closed earlier this month owing to concerns about their construction (Breaking news, 9.4.16). Some, including Drummond CHS, have since reopened with limited areas still out of bounds.
The St James Centre will cease to trade next month, closing a 40-year chapter in our collective story of shopping, eating, parking, flirting and petty pilfering on the inside of a Brutalist landmark.
The lovely people who manage the area are waving goodbye with a three-day event starting tomorrow, at which members of the public will be encouraged to share their memories.
REVIEW: DRAWING FOR A REVOLUTION AND A LAUGH
Arusha Gallery have had a busy 2016 so far, but surprisingly this is their first exhibition of the year. It has been well worth the wait.
Drawing for a revolution and a laugh is Mark I’Anson’s first solo exhibition since 2012. It doesn’t blow you away – it draws you in slowly and subtly, and it really is quite special.