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The Unesco Week of Sound - Edinburgh is coming to Edinburgh College of Art 🎵
A programme of talks, workshops, performances and more.
📅 16 – 20 October 2023
Tickets are free – see the full programme and book
🔗 https://digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/weekofsound/
Change*able* - A Technicians' Exhibition
This week, we've had the ECA Technicians exhibiting in the Sculpture Court, a celebration of their work and creative practice ✨
💬 "The Technicians Exhibition gives us a chance to meet and share our own artistic practice with one another. It helps us to build connections and learn from one another.”
It finishes tomorrow, so there's still time to check it out if you're in ECA - open 10am - 4pm.
📸 Work by Holly Morton and Laura Reed, Malcolm Cruickshank, and Catriona Gilbert
Thinking about studying at Edinburgh College of Art? Come along to the Undergraduate Open Day this Saturday 7 October! Explore ECA, The University of Edinburgh and our vibrant city 🌟
Can’t make it? There is another Open Day on Saturday 28 October.
Book your place for both dates now 🔗
https://edin.ac/2XUrPw3
Six 2023 ECA graduates have been shortlisted for the ARTS THREAD Global Design Graduate Show 2023 in collaboration with Gucci 🌟
Anna Simon – BA (Hons) Textiles
Clementine Murdoch – BA (Hons) Textiles
Lijia Yang – MA Illustration
Ammna Sheikh – BA (Hons) Intermedia
Remi Jablecki – BA (Hons) Painting
Silvana Roth - BA (Hons) Animation
The public vote is open until Wednesday 11 October - you can vote for one person from each category within each of the four areas.
Place your vote here 🔗 https://www.artsthread.com/events/globaldesigngraduateshow/
Congrats Anna, Clementine, Lijia, Ammna, Remi and Silvana! 👏
A new sound walk installation at Edinburgh Castle maps Scotland’s involvement in the creation of Zimbabwe’s streetscapes 🎧
Nzira Yeparuware, which translates to ‘a path upon a rock’, was created by artist and 2023 ECA graduate Tanatsei Gambura, in partnership with ECA’s Dr Kirsten Carter McKee, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER).
Find out more 🔗 https://edin.ac/46bammr
📸Image courtesy of Historic Scotland © Rob McDougall
The latest exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery are closing this Saturday 30 September 📣🌟
If you haven't had the chance to see them yet, don't miss out. The gallery is open daily 10am to 5pm and is open to all.
🔹 Jesse Jones - The Tower
🔹 Lawrence Abu Hamdan - 45th Parallel
🔹 Hephzibah Israel - மொழிபெயர்ப்பு / the nature of difference
Find out more - https://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/
📸 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, '45th Parallel', 2022. Installation view. By Sally Jubb
Open Mic Night! 🎙️🎵
Join us for an evening of original live songs at the Wee Red Bar, from up-and-coming musicians from the Reid School of Music.
Plus spaces for visiting performers who would like to take to the stage - set up will be two mics, piano and a guitar.
Free and all welcome! Book on Eventbrite 🔗 https://edin.ac/47KBKsZ
A reminder to join us for the ECA Welcome Fair from 2pm today in the West Court! ✨
📍 ECA West Court, Wednesday 20 September, 2pm - 5pm
It'll be a great opportunity for new and returning students to meet other students and staff, and learn about societies and organisations at ECA, the University and Edinburgh, and how to get involved.
🔗 https://edin.ac/3qUE9k2
Join the Reid School of Music for its Welcome Concert: Dreamstate - New music for viola and guitar by Graeme Stephen 🎵
📅 Thursday 21 September, 7pm
📍 Reid Concert Hall
Open to all - book on Eventbrite 🔗
https://edin.ac/3EJS7c0
New and returning ECA student! Join us THIS WEEK at the ECA Welcome Fair ✨
📍 ECA West Court, Wednesday 20 September, -2pm - 5pm
You'll get to meet other students and staff, find out about societies and organisations and learn more about opportunities to get involved in the creative community here in Edinburgh.
Find out more 🔗 https://edin.ac/3qUE9k2
Save the date for ECA's Open Mic Night! 🎙️🎵
📅 Thursday 28 September, 7pm - 10pm.
Join the Reid School of Music for an evening of original music, live at the Wee Red Bar.
Free and all welcome - book on Eventbrite 🔗 https://edin.ac/47KBKsZ
ECA PhD student and artist Matthew Attard will represent the Maltese Pavilion at the prestigious Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition in 2024 👏
Matthew’s art installation is titled I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP. The 60th edition of the Art Biennale will open on 20 April until 24 November 2024.
Congratulations, Matthew!
Find out more 🔗 https://edin.ac/48aRHc3
📸 Photos from Matthew's earlier, related work, as he continues to develop I WILL FOLLOW THE SHIP
Join us at ECA for Pivot, an exhibition by Emily Speed ✨
This still-developing work is from Speed's time exploring archive material documenting the annual Revel at ECA, looking at how students have created their own spaces and identities within the institution.
📍 ECA Sculpture Court, Saturday 16 to Friday 22 September
Weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 11am - 4pm
The exhibition is open to all - please book your visit on Eventbrite 🔗 https://edin.ac/3r2kZJf
ECA Welcome Fair ✨
New and returning students, join us at the ECA Welcome Fair on Wednesday 20 September, 2pm - 5pm
You'll get to meet other students and staff, find out about societies and organisations and learn more about opportunities to get involved in the creative community here in Edinburgh.
Find out more on Eventbrite 🔗 https://edin.ac/3qUE9k2
New ECA students - the University Principal's Welcome is today in McEwan Hall.
⏰ 11.30am (doors open at 11am)
⏰ 2.30pm (doors open at 2pm)
This optional event is a great way to celebrate the start of university! You will also be able to watch the 2.30pm live stream online or on campus.
Find out more 🔗 https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/new-students/start-university/welcome-week/events/welcome-ceremony
Welcome to ECA to all our new and returning students!🎉👋
Here at ECA, there are a range of events organised to help you settle in, including tours, meetups, welcome talks, creative workshops and more.
They're all listed in the University Events App - download it here 🔗 https://edin.ac/3KRBiir
We're excited to invite our new students and their parents/supporters to our Parents and Supporters Welcome event at McEwan Hall on Sunday 10 September, 10:30am to 5pm. The event will feature talks from senior members of staff, presentations on student wellbeing, security and safety as well as student-led tours. Find out more 👉
https://edin.ac/3P5Kstc
Welcome Week starts on Monday 11 September and we can’t wait to meet all of our new students and welcome back those returning for another year 🌟👋
Here at ECA, there are lots of events organised to help you settle in, including walking tours, welcome talks, meet-and-greets and more.
You can find everything listed in the University Events App. Download it now and start planning your week!
🔗 https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/new-students
Architect, artist and 2023 ECA PhD graduate, Dr Xuechang Leng, has worked with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) and Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland to create artwork for care homes that were significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the full story 🔗 https://edin.ac/47Wg6Sk
New music volunteer database📣🎶
A new nationwide music research volunteers database - set up by ECA's Professor Katie Overy and Dr Judith Okely, Edinburgh Napier University - is open now to volunteers with any type of musical experience.
Read more and sign up 👇
🔗 https://edin.ac/47PoeE6
Professor Katie Overy, Reid School of Music, is collaborating with Dr Judith Okely, Psychology, Edinburgh Napier University, to set up a nationwide music research volunteer database.
Last day! Our August Graduate Show closes at 4pm today ✨
You'll find the exhibition in ECA's Evolution House and North East Studios 📍
You can also see our graduating students' work on our Graduate Show website - check out their profiles to learn more about their projects and inspiration 🔗 https://edin.ac/3CII04Z
📸 Installation by Xinyue Song (MA Contemporary Art Practice), photo by Maverick Photography
Have you visited our August Graduate Show? We’re open late tonight and tomorrow night until 8pm ✨
Join us and discover the work of our graduating students in art, design, architecture and landscape architecture.
📅 19 - 25 August
📍 Edinburgh College of Art
Book your visit 🔗 https://edin.ac/44QXIZk
📸 From our opening night by Sally Jubb Photography
Are you following us on Instagram? 📸
We've been showcasing our graduating students' work through our Graduate Takeovers series. They share more about the inspiration behind their projects, behind-the-scenes content, and their plans for after graduation.
Here's a selection from the Graduate Takeover series so far with more to come 🌟
1.Leanne Menezes
2. Tony Rastapana
3. Jiayi Chen
Our Instagram handle is edinburghcollegeofart.
https://www.instagram.com/edinburghcollegeofart/
We're open! 🎉
Join us at the ECA August Graduate Show until Friday 25 August and discover the work of our postgraduate students.
📍 Evolution House and North East Studios (Lauriston Campus)
📅 Saturday 19 - Friday 25 August 2023
⏰ 10am - 4pm daily, with late opening on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 August until 8pm
Look out for our Events Assistants who can direct you when you arrive and pick up a map so you don't miss anything!
Book your visit 🔗 https://edin.ac/44QXIZk
A new generation of design and artistic talent are set to reveal their stand out creations at the celebrated Edinburgh College of Art’s Graduate Show.
Looking for weekend plans? The ECA August Graduate Show opens TOMORROW at 10am! ✨
Join us and discover the work of the next generation of creative talent in art, design and architecture.
📍 Edinburgh College of Art
📅 Saturday 19 - Friday 25 August 2023
⏰ 10am - 4pm daily, with late opening until 8pm on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 August
Book your visit 🔗 https://edin.ac/44QXIZk
Can you believe what you hear? When is a voice or sound authentic? Check out the new Design Informatics exhibition at Inspace Gallery, a show of artists working with sound and emerging technologies to explore deep fake audio
📅 5 - 28 August 2023
Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival🌟
More info 🔗
The Sounds of Deep Fake Exhibition 5-28 August 2023, 10am-5pm daily Inspace gallery Can you believe what you hear? When is a voice or sound authentic? This exhibition, curated by the Institute for Design Informatics, brings together exciting experimental artists including Martin Disley, Theodore Kot...
ECA August Graduate Show✨
The ECA August Graduate Show is opening this weekend! Have you spotted our posters out and about in Edinburgh?
Join us and discover the work of the next generation of creatives from art, design and architecture.
📍 Edinburgh College of Art, Saturday 19 - Friday 25 August 2023
10am - 4pm daily, with late-night opening on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 August until 8pm
Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 🌟
Book your visit 🔗 https://edin.ac/44QXIZk
📸 Featured work by Ziheng Jiang (MA Illustration), Renée Bus (MA Contemporary Art Practice), and Junaina Valappil (MA Contemporary Art Practice).
A reminder that the International Awards for Art Criticism 2023 is open now 🌟✏️
Candidates are invited to write a review of 1,500 words or 2,500 Chinese characters on any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in the world or online between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023.
The first prize is €10,000, with three runner-up prizes of €3,500. Deadline 20 September 2023.
Find out more and submit your entry 🔗 http://www.iaac-m21.com/
The ECA August Graduate Show is coming soon ✨
Save the date! Join us and discover the work of our postgraduate graduating students in art, design, architecture and landscape architecture.
📍 Edinburgh College of Art
📅 19 - 25 August 2023
Find out more and book 🔗 https://edin.ac/44QXIZk
The International Awards for Art Criticism 2023 is now live 🌟✏️
Candidates are invited to write a review of 1,500 words or 2,500 Chinese characters on any contemporary art exhibition held anywhere in the world or online between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023.
The first prize is €10,000, with three runner-up prizes of €3,500. Deadline 20 September 2023.
Find out more and submit your entry 🔗 http://www.iaac-m21.com/
Congratulations to Ammna Sheikh, Ffion Williams, and Tanatsei Gambura, who were selected from this year’s ECA Graduate Show as recipients of the University of Edinburgh Art Collection Graduate Show Purchase Prize 2023 🌟
The artists all received a fixed fee in exchange for a piece of their work which will be added to the University of Edinburgh Art Collection.
Read more about the prize and each of the recipients’ projects 🔗 https://edin.ac/3rJ10iL
An Edinburgh art historian has helped build an immersive, digital recreation of ninth century Baghdad for a bestselling video game series.
Congratulations to Matthew O'Dea, Ewan Booth, Lizzie Emrich-Mills, Izzy Pleasance, and Josie Harrison, graduating and fourth year students in BA (Hons) Graphic Design, who have been awarded a New Blood Pencil in the D&AD New Blood Awards 👏
✏️Matthew’s project, Top Trumps - My Mix, is a new concept for Top Trumps designed to target music fandoms. Fans can turn their personal playlists into a unique Top Trumps deck inspired by bootleg mixtapes.
✏️Izzy’s project, Call for Captions, is a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of closed captioning within entertainment.
✏️Lizzie's project, Top Trumps: The Home Cooks Recipe Pack, reinvents the card game as a recipe resource and celebration of personal stories involving food, cooking and dining.
✏️Ewan's animation, IMAX: Seeing Is Believing, aims to excite audiences about the cinematic IMAX experience.
✏️Josie's project, It's Healthcare for Hey Jane, is a public campaign to share facts about abortion with a focus on medication
They’ll find out which Pencil they’ve won at an awards ceremony tomorrow, Thursday 6 July. Watch it live from 7pm on the D&AD New Blood website 🔗 https://edin.ac/3ps8CW9
📸 Matthew O’Dea: Top Trumps - My Mix
Now open at the Talbot Rice Gallery✨
The latest exhibitions at the Talbot Rice Gallery are now open in Edinburgh, featuring Jesse Jones' The Tower, (2022) and Lawrence Abu Hamdan's 45th Parallel (2022), with Hephzibah Israel’s intervention, the nature of difference.
📍 Free entry and open to all until 30 September
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am to 5pm
Find out more 🔗 https://edin.ac/3z9fcj8
📸 Jesse Jones, 'The Tower', 2022. Performance in installation shot. Courtesy of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh. Photo: Sally Jubb
In Edinburgh next week? Join us on Thursday evening for a performance from Plus Minus Ensemble in the West Court in our Main Building 🎵
Hear recent works by Purton and Armstrong featured alongside arrangements of 14th-century polyphonic compositions by Anthonello de Caserta.
🎵 Plus Minus Ensemble concert: music for cello and live electronics
📍Thursday 6 July, 7pm, ECA West Court - free and open to all.
Tickets and more info 🔗 https://edin.ac/46nRpNR
A brilliant two evenings in the Wee Red Bar last week for our Graduate Show Music Gigs 🎶✨
Graduating student performers from the Reid School of Music showcased their skills and original songs. Congratulations to the performers and thanks to everyone who came along!
Find out more about their work on the Graduate Show website 🔗 https://edin.ac/3CII04Z
Festive break 🎄✨
Our social channels are taking a break from today until 4 January and won’t be monitored.
ECA and the University are closed from 5pm on Thursday 22 December, reopening on 4 January at 9am.
🔗 Support and services are available over the break:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2022/festive-holidays
Season’s greetings to everyone in the ECA community, and see you in January! 💚
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We'd like to welcome all our new and returning students this Welcome Week. We have a series of events to help get you started and more information can be found in our UoE Events app here ➡ https://edin.ac/3dqMq8l. We'll be in contact via email as well, so keep an eye on your inboxes for any further updates. As arrangements for Her Majesty The Queen’s Lying-at-Rest in St Giles' Cathedral continue, there may be travel disruption due to road closures through Edinburgh city centre. #edwelcome #welcomeweek #edinburghcollegeofart #edinburghuniversity #universityofedinburgh
The second instalment of this year’s ECA Graduate Show, with work from postgrads in Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Art and Design, opens tomorrow, Sat 20 August! 🥳 Opening hours: Sat 20 – Fri 26 August: 10am – 4pm daily Wed 24 & Thurs 25 August: late opening until 8pm More information and to book your free tickets ➡️ https://edin.ac/3Pr48Xh
The second instalment of our 2022 Graduate Show opens on Saturday 20 August! Featuring work by postgraduate students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art and Design, the show runs until Friday 26 August. Find out more and book your FREE tickets here: https://edin.ac/3Pr48Xh
We can't wait for you to see the work of our amazing graduating students at this year's graduate show, opening Saturday 4th June. If you can't make it to the show itself, fear not for we've launched our fabulous graduate show website, featuring work across the many disciplines at ECA, so you can peruse at your leisure. Take a look here ➡️ https://edin.ac/3CII04Z #ECAGraduateShow #ecashows #degreeshow #art #design #music #architecture #landscapearchitecture #artcollege
ECA Jewellery & Silversmithing students are selling their Limited Edition ranges for one week only 22 - 28 November. All pieces will be made to order and shipped to UK addresses before Christmas. Postage and packaging are included in the final prices. https://giftshop.ed.ac.uk To see the work in person, visit our pop-up Tue 23 - Fri 26 November in Albertinas (next to The Café at ECA). Please contact the student makers directly via email for any product or shipping queries. All orders should be placed via the web shop. Special thanks to Graphic Design students for designing the visual identity and product packaging (with Gary Rowan designing the social media graphics). And thank you also to the staff at the University of Edinburgh Shop for supporting the sale.
🎉 We are delighted that our 2021 Graduate Show website has been shortlisted for a Drum Award for the Digital Industries in the Best Website Design category! Thanks go to Parkhouse Agency and the CAHSS Digital Innovation Team at the University of Edinburgh for helping us realise our ambition to create one of the best graduate portfolio platforms around. ➡ https://eca.ed.ac.uk/news/graduate-show-website-shortlisted-major-international-design-award
ECA has always been a place of experimentation and collaboration, celebrated for enabling students from different disciplines to work alongside and with each other, and for creating strong linkages with other institutions.
We trace our history back to the Trustees’ Academy founded in the 1760s which, over the course of the next century, operated from some of the most iconic buildings in the city, including the University’s Old College and what is now the Royal Scottish Academy.
The first Professorship in an ECA subject area was created for Music in 1839 in the name of John Reid, with the Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art founded some forty years later, the first of its kind in the British Isles and a turning point in the teaching of the History of Art.
Following the establishment of the Reid Concert series in 1841, which continues to this day, the Reid Concert Hall was built in 1859.
We’ve been known as Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) since 1906, following a major reorganisation of higher art education in Scotland. At the time, we were governed by the city Council and divided into four Schools: Drawing and Painting, Design and Crafts, Architecture, and Sculpture.
We moved into what is still our Main Building in 1909, when the first of our annual Revel parties took place and, by 1913, our Cast Collection had been installed in the Sculpture Court.
The war years of the twentieth century saw fluctuating staff and student numbers, but progress too with the establishment of The Andrew Grant Bequest, allowing students to travel abroad and supporting the creation of new public art and artefacts through a Fellowship scheme.
Our Fine Art degree was established jointly with the University in 1946, as a unique combination of art practice and art history, and continues to recruit strongly. It was followed two years later by a similar degree in Architecture, wherein a new post - the Forbes Chair of Architecture - also served to strengthen links between the two institutions.
In 1960, ECA became independent of the city Council and, the following year, appointed the painter William Gillies as Principal, the first time that a former student of the College held this position.
Our next quarter century saw the development of the estate around the Main Building, as well as increased collaboration with industry and Heriot-Watt University.
Talbot Rice Gallery, named after the visionary art historian David Talbot Rice, opened in 1975, and the Wee Red Bar the following decade.
In 2009, sixty years after Raymond Gordon Brown first took up the Forbes Chair, the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) was formed by the coming together of these disciplines across ECA and the University.
In 2011, ECA formally merged with the University of Edinburgh, bringing together all five subject areas: architecture and landscape architecture; art; history of art; design; and music.
The merger also saw the establishment of the University of Edinburgh Art Collection, some 2,500 works of art drawn from the University’s original, 400-year old art collection, and the College’s collection of prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture.
As we move ahead, our top priorities for ECA are our people and their environment, both on-campus and online. In May 2017, ECA was awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, following on from ESALA's Bronze Award of 2014.
We will continue to celebrate diversity and creativity, which makes our College a very inclusive and distinctive place to work and study.
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