Edinburgh Art Festival
edinburgh art festival annual visual art festival held edinburgh scotland august coincides edinburgh international fringe festival art festival established receives public funding creative scotland kim mcaleese appointed festival director succeeding sorcha carey carey director collective edinburgh edinburgh international festival began significant visual art exhibition included early year exhibition included french artist pierre bonnard édouard vuillard retrospective three scottish colourists samuel peploe francis cadell leslie hunter rembrandt thereafter acknowledgement festival authority visual art needed emphatically represented festival series partnership forged festival society art council great britain royal museum scotland national gallery scotland university edinburgh royal scottish academy exception looked beyond art scotland contributed declared part festival’s international aim exhibition bring work foreign artist scotland cultivated interest scotland amongst wealthy collector patron around world visual art existed outside programme edinburgh festival presented instead across wide range organisation city permanent gallery artistled initiative left many gallery visible profile august time programming substantial exhibition campaign newspaper scotland sunday brought together representative group gallery director first visual art festival piloted organisation produced festival guide commission collaborative project celebrate promote exhibition edinburgh museum gallery august creating collective united marketing platform showcase artistic programme since edinburgh art festival grown scotland largest annual visual art festival comprising exhibition across venue festival also commissioned cocommissioned major artwork around city artist including martin creed callum innes richard wright susan philipsz following scaled offering due covid pandemic edinburgh art festival launched hybrid programme summer festival included work isaac julien archie brennan emeka ogboh alberta whittle sekai machache christine borland andrew gannon karla black alison watt among others writing art newspaper tim cornwell noted black life matter movement continues resonate strongly weekend postcovid opening edinburgh art festival eaf venue festival include royal botanic garden jupiter artland fruitmarket edinburgh sculpture workshop national gallery scotland edinburgh annuale official website