Inverleith House
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Inverleith House is a contemporary art gallery situated within Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden in the suburb of Inverleith.[1]
History
Designed in 1774 by David Henderson for the Rocheid family,[2] Inverleith House was the official residence of successive Regius Keepers (directors) of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh until it became the founding home of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,[3] from 1960 to 1984.[4] Since 1986 it has run a continuous programme of temporary exhibitions spanning visual art and botanical science under the auspices of the Garden, which recognises the need for art as well as science in our appreciation and understanding of the natural world, making it pre-eminent amongst botanic gardens today, in this respect.
Inverleith House was refurbished in 1990 and again in 2004, to improve visitor access and to introduce new educational facilities, with support from National Lottery Funds administered by The Scottish Arts Council, which also supports the exhibitions programme. This award-winning programme invites artists of major international standing to exhibit in Scotland for the first time and presents work by those based in Scotland on an international stage, attracting new audiences for contemporary art. Its twentieth anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with and exhibition of botanical drawings from South India (1826-1853) and solo exhibitions by Roni Horn, Rudolf Stingel, Robert Ryman, and Douglas Gordon.[5]
This award-winning programme invites artists of major international standing to exhibit in Scotland for the first time and presents work by those based in Scotland on an international stage, attracting new audiences for contemporary art.
Exhibitions
2014
Tony Conrad:Invented Acoustical Tools 1969 25 October 2014 - 18 January 2015
Isa Genzken: Botanical Garden 19 July – 28 September 2014
Corin Sworn 12 April - 29 June 2014
Alex Dordoy 19 January - 23 March 2014
2013
Dan Colen: The Illusion of Life 12 October to 24 November
Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations 13 July – 22 September
Ciarra Phillips: And More, Nature Printed and Rory McEwen: The Tweed Road 4 May to 23 June 2013
Dereck Roberts: Northern Paintings 9 February to 14 April 2013
2012
Andy Hope 1930: When Dinosaurs Become Modernists November 1, 2012 to 20 January 2013
Philip Guston: Late Paintings25 July – 7 October 2012
William Mckeown/Remarkable Trees 12 May to 8 July 2012
Luke Fowler, with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes 12 February - 29 April 2012
2011
Thomas Houseago: Outdoor 29 July 2011 - 21 June 2012
Andrew Kerr: So Ensconced and Maya Deren 12 November - 22 January 2012
Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show (Indoor) 14 May - 3 July 2011
Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville 27 July - 2 October 2011
Claude Cahun, Sue Tomkins 27 February - 24 April 2011
2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz 31 October 2010 - 6 February 2011
Joan Mitchell 27 July - 3 October 2010
Vincent Fecteau and Forests and Gardens of South India: Hugh Cleghorn (1820 - 1895) 15 May - 4 July 2010
Victoria Morton with films by Anne-Marie Copestake 14 March - 2 May 2010
2009
Hayley Tomkins: Autobuilding 21 February to 19 April
Cerith Wyn Evans 9 May - 5 July 2009
Raffle’s Arc Redrawn : Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 9 May - 5 July 2009
John McCracken 6 August - 11 October 2009
Karla Black: Sculptures with paintings by Bet Low 14 November to 14 February (2010).
2008
Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures 31 July - 12 October 2008
Christine Borland, Graham Fagen, Simon Starling (Plant Exhibition Hall): What is Life 12 July - 31 August 2008
Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study and John Hutton Balfour 1808-1884: Nature Study Sat 3 May - Sun 6 Jul 2008
Tony Swain: Impure Passports and Nick Evans: Primary School 16 February - 20 April 2008
Neville Rae: A Town for Tomorrow 16 February - 20 April 2008
2007
Smith/Stewart: Enter Love and Enter Death 3 November 2007 - 3 February 2008
William Eggleston: Portraits 1974 28 July - 14 October 2007
John Cage, Merce Cunningham: No Fixed Points 1 May - 8 July 2007
Jeremy Millar: Plum Tree Blossom 1 May - 8 July 2007
Lilian Snelling 1 May - 8 July 2007
Juergen Teller: Awailable 27 January to 15 April 2007
Andrew Millar: Sixes and Sevens 27 January to 15 April 2007
2006
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural 2 November 2006 - 14 January 2007
Robert Ryman 27 July - 1 October 2006
Rungiah and Govindoo : South Indian Botanical Drawings 1826-1853 9 April - 9 July 2006
Rudolf Stingel 9 April - 9 July 2006
Roni Horn: Angie and Emily Dickinson 21 January - 26 March 2006
2005
Marck Leckey: Jackin’ World 6 November - 8 January 2006
Keith Farquhar: New Work 6 November 2005 - 8 January 2006
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Sentences 29 July - 23 October 2005
Carl Andre, Adam Barker-Mill, Lothar Baumgarten, Graham Fagen, Douglas Gordon, Alan Johnston, Callum Innes, Agnes Martin, Rory McEwen, Thomas Struth, Cy Twombly, Ruth Vollmer, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Richard Wright: Evergreen 2 April - 3 July 2005
Mat Collishaw 15 January - 13 March 2005
2004
Robert Therrien 7 August - 31 October 2004
-Closed For Refurbishment-
2003
Julian Schnabel 9 August - 26 October 2003
Gary Rough: Mantelpiece 31 May - 27 July 2003
Simon Periton: Mint Poisoner 31 May - 27 July 2003
Andy Warhol: Private Drawings from the 1950s 19 April - 25 May 2003
John Hutton Balfour’s Botanical Teaching Diagrams (1845-1879) 5 April to 25 May 2003
Jim Lambie: Kebabylon 25 January - 23 March 2003
2002
Kevin Henderson: Zebra 9 November - 22 December 2002
Cy Twombly 9 August - 27 October 2002
Alan Charlton 14 June - 28 July 2002
Cathy Wilkes 12 May - 9 June 2002 The Dapuri Drawings 12 May - 28 July 2002
Ruth Vollmer 24 March - 5 May 2002
Hellen Van Meene: Japan Series 12 January - 10 March 2002
2001
Stella Ross-Craig: Drawings of British Plants 28 October 2001 - 10 March 2002
Ed Ruscha: The Maountains 12 August - 14 October 2001
Franze West: Meeting Points Recent Outdoor Sculptures 12 August - 14 October 2001
Ulrich Ruckriem 2 June - 29 July 2001
Lucy Mckenzie, Paulina Olowska: Heavy Duty 14 April - 27 May 2001
Stanley Kubrick: Still Moving Pictures 1945-1950 21 January - 1 April 2001
2000
Bloomberg New Contemporaries: John Askew, Anna Barriball, Jennifer Beattie, Richard Bradbury, Gail Burton, Don Bury, Josephine Butler, Justin Carter, Phil Collins, Mike Cooter, Robert Currie, Eric, Alastair Hadley, Llana Halperin, Lucy Harrison, Sharon Hughes, James Ireland, Nicalaj Bendix, Skyum Larsen, Jeffrey Ty Lee, Johannes Maier, Andrew Mania, Marta Marce, Nathaniel Mellors, Miyako Narita, Mick Peter, Ben Pruskin, Jewyo Rhii, Hideatsu Shiba, Tomoaki Suzuki, Melanie Titmuss, Beata Veszely, Emily Wardill, Edward Weldon. 18 November - 7 January 2001
Lawrence Weiner: Time + Place 12 August - 29 October 2000
Laura Owens: New Work 17 June - 30 July 2000
John Hutton Balfour’s Teaching Diagrams (1845-1897) 17 June - 30 July 2000
British Art Show 5: Art and Language, Martin Boyce, Glenn Brown, Martin Creed, Liam Gillick, Lucy Gunning, Graham Gussin, Anna Hunt 8 April - 4 June 2000
Dom Hans van Der Laan 29 January - 19 March 2000
1999 Absolut Open: Ian Balch, Ross Birrel, David Blyth, The Cocktail Party, Chris Evans, Sarah Felton, Marianne Greated, Claudine Hartzel, Louise Hopkins, Andrew Kerr, Steve Hollingsworth, Dagg/Hunter, Rob Hunter, Henry Kondracki, Michele Lazenby, Peter Lynch, Jake McKinney, Scott Myles, Sally Osborn, Alex Pollard, Alan Shipway, Stephen Sutcliffe, Keith Thompson, Aeneas Wilder, David Williams, David Wishart, Ben Woodeson 21 November 1999 – 9 January 2000
Agnes Martin 15 August – 31 October 1999
John Mclaughlin: Paintings and Prints 15 August – 31 October 1999
Richard Wright: New Work 20 June – 1 August 1999
Paul Morrison: New Work 20 June – 1 August 1999
Graham Fagen at the Botanics 27 March – 1 May 1999
1998
Family: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Richard Billingham, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hamilton, Tim Head, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Emma Kay, Paul Miller (AKA DJ Spooky), Tatsuo Miyajima, Marc Quinn, Lisa Roberts, Simon Starling, Georgina Starr, Racheal Whiteread, Sam Taylor-Wood 13 December 1998 – 31 January 1999
Angus Hood and Christine Frew: New Work 18 October – 29 November 1998
Roger Ackling: The Black Sun 18 October – 30 November 1998
Carl Andre: 12 Isohedra 15 August – 4 October 1998
Melissa Kretschmer: Tsunami 15 August – 6 September 1998
Myron Stout 13 June – 26 July 1998
Richard Tuttle: Grey Walls Work 8 June – 20 July 1998
David Austen: New Work 9 May – 7 June 1998
Indian Botanical Drawings: 1790-1850 9 May – 26 July 1998
Susan Derges: The River Taw and Paul Kier 21 March – 26 April 1998
1997
In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday 13 December 1997 – 15 February 1998 Adam Barker-Mill: Photosynthesis 25 November 1997 – 16 March 1998
Theories of the Decorative- Abstract and Ornament in Contemporary Painting : Beatriz Milhazes, Fabian Marcaccio, Ingo Meller, David Reed, Philip Taaffe, Juan Usle, Leslie Wayne 30 October – 30 December 1997
1996
Cecilia Vicuna – Precario: Words & Thread 26 October 1996 – 5 January 1997
Absolut Blue and White: Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Catriona Grant, Gary Rough, David Shrigley Cecilia Vicuna: Precario- Words and Thread 16 November 1996 – 5 January 1997
British Art Show 4: Mat Collishaw, Anya Gallaccio, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst
Callum Innes: 1990-1996 10 August – 6 October
1995
Chris Drury: Vessel, Sculpture 1990-1995 2 December 1995 – 4 February 1996
Tina Modotti 7 October – 19 November 1995
Alan Johnston: Haus Wittgenstein/ Inverleith House 12 August – 30 September 1995
1994
Lothar Baumgarten: Conservatory 5 April – 16 October 1994
The Flora of China I 7 April – 23 1994
Flora Danica: Porcelain from the Royal Danish Court, with the Garden’s Copy of Flora Danica 13 August – 16 October 1994
Raymond Booth: Japonica Magnifica 11 May – 24 July 1994
Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society- Botanical Art from the Lindley Library, London 11 May – 24 July 1994
1993
'Seed of Memory: Paintings from Utopia- Songlines From the Central Australian Desert 27 November 1993 – 30 January 1994
Beatrix Potter: A Victorian Naturalist 22 May – 1 August 1993
1992
The Banksias: 52 Watercolour drawings by Celia Rosser 27 November 1992 – 30 January 1993
Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography 3 October – 22 November 1992
Herman de Vries: The Real Works 16 August – 27 September 1992
Peter Randall-Page: Sculpture and Drawings 18 April – 21 June 1992
Walter Hood Fitch: Drawings and Lithographs 18 April – 21 June 1992
1991
Herman de Vries: Flora 10 August – 20 October 1991
Redoute’s Roses: The Original Watercolour Drawings on Vellum (1798-1814) 10 August – 15 September 1991
Margaret Stones: The Flora of Louisiana 6 July – 8 September 1991
1990
Andy Goldsworthy: Sculpture 1976-1990 1 August – 28 October 1990
Chris Drury: Shelters and Baskets 17 March – 29 April 1990
1989: Closed for refurbishment
1988
The Botanical Paintings of Rory McEwen(1932-1982) August 1988
Sun Gardens: The Cyanoptypes of Anna Atkins (1799-1871) August 1988
Drawings by Susanna Stuart Smith with an outdoor sculpture by George Wylie
A Garden in the Desert: The Ethnobotany of Dhofar with Watercolour
The Botanical Cabinet: Drawings from the RGBE Archives
1987
A Fascination for Funghi August 1987
1986
Margaret Stones: The Ascreavie Watercolours
John Hope (1725-1786) August 1986
Publications
Baumann, Daniel, Black, Karla, Hertling, Pati, Hayley Tomkin ‘Autobuilding’, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Behlen, Beatrice, Garginlo, Vincenzo, Hardman-Jones, Jerry, Hubbard, David, Kosaniuk, Hjdla, Steinfeld Daniela, Alan Charlton, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Black, Karla, Munder, Heike, Nachwort, Hans Annette, Nesbitt, Paul and Stanley, Micheal, Karla Black, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2010
Bradely, Will, Simon Periton, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ, The Modern Institute Glasgow and Walter Koenig Books London, 2003
Cuthbert, Caroline, Rory McEwen ‘The Botanical Paintings’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh in association with The Serpantine Gallery, London, 1988
Dean, Tacita, Nesbitt Paul, and Vettese, Anglea, Roni Horn, Angie and Emily Dickinson, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006
Foster, Hal, Francis, Marc, Richard Hamilton ‘Protest Pictures’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2008 Francis, Mark, CY Twombly, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Frauenfelf/Basel, Robert Ryman at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2006 Giorno, John and De Salvo, Donna, Andy Warhol ‘ Private Drawings from the 1950s’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2003
Harrison, Sarah and S. Pounde, Amy, Rudolf Stingel ‘Lourve (after 5am)’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006 Hopkins, David, Kevin Henderson ‘Zebra’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2003
Johnston, Alan, with texts by Nesbitt, Paul, Gooding, Mel, Masheck, Joseph, MacDonald, Murdo, and Hearn, Lafcadio, Haus Wittgenstein, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1999
Kaehler, Kai, Andrew Kerr, Royal Botanic Garden, 2011
Larrat-Smith, Philip, Nesbitt, Paul and Noltie H.J, Nature Study Louise Bourgeois John Hutton Balfour, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2008
Larrat-Smith and Nesbitt, Paul, Joan Mitchell, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2010
Leu, Suzanne and Elliot, Fiona, Robert Ryman, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2006
Morgan, Susan, Laura Owens- ‘New Work’ John Hutton Balfour- ‘Botanical Teaching Diagrams’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2000
Morton, Victoria, Wright Richard, Victoria Morton, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Gooding, Mel, Callum Innes, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1996
Nesbitt, Paul and Gooding, Mel, Myron Stout ‘Apollo’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1998
Introductory text by Nesbitt, Paul, Smith/ Stewart ‘Enter Love and Enter Death’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2009
Tomkins, Sue, Sue Tomkins ‘Long Hand’, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2011
Noltie, H. J., Robert Wight and The Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2007
Noltie, H.J., The Dapuri Drawings- Alexander Gibson and the Bombay Botanic Gardens, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2002
Noltie H.J. Indian Botanical Drawings, The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1999
References
- ^ Botanic Garden Edinburgh, The Royal. "Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh". Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
- ^ http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst8730.html
- ^ Fletcher, Harold R., Brown William H, The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, Edinburgh, 1970, pp 256
- ^ http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house
- ^ http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house