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Open Eye Gallery

Located in the New Town an equal distance from both the National and Portrait Galleries, Open Eye produces a programme of around 32 exhibitions a year, focusing on contemporary, fine and applied art, including sculpture, ceramics and jewellery. In the past, it has exhibited fine art works by Elizabeth Blackadder and Alberto Morocco, with applied art exhibitions from the likes of Kaori Tatebayashi and Rebecca Halstead. Its sister premises, Eye Two, specialises in modern European and American printmaking, and has displayed works by Albers, Matisse and Picasso, as well as contemporary artists such as Blake, Hockney, and Rauschenberg. Note: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, as of 17 March 2020 the gallery is closed to the public until further notice.

What's On @ Open Eye Gallery

Finlay Trevor: Showcase

Finlay Trevor: Showcase

3 Apr 2026 - 25 Apr 2026

Finlay's practice begins in the landscape of the North West Highlands of Scotland. Since graduating in 2025, he has expanded his work across the wider Gairloch area, painting people whose lives are inseparable from the land they work and inhabit. In these portraits, figures become extensions of the landscape itself, shaped and weathered by place.
Susie Leiper: An Infinite Unknown

Susie Leiper: An Infinite Unknown

3 Apr 2026 - 25 Apr 2026

An exhibition inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, reflecting his deep passion for mountains and landscape painting, a fascination shared by Susie. Through her inventive mountain abstractions, she seeks to evoke the sensation of mountainous landscapes: a strangeness that hints at the sublime, and an impression that gestures toward the infinity of things. Susie Leiper paints and writes on everything from vast walls and canvases to small pieces of wood and artist books. A keen hillwalker, Susie came to painting through a fascination with Chinese landscape art where the emphasis is strongly on the mountain. She is also known as a calligrapher and lettering artist, sometimes combining text and paint, sometimes separating the two. Navigating between the monumental and the miniscule.

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