Group Exhibition

Home to the world-renowned Edinburgh College of Art, the Scottish Portrait Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland, Scotland’s capital is awash with art and sculpture.

That’s without even mentioning the pop-up art galleries across the city. Just ask Yulia Kovanova, an Edinburgh-based artist from the latest crop of the city’s emerging talent.

Kovanova spent her childhood in Siberia on the shores of Lake Baikal, where European influences interweave with Asian. The region’s extraordinary natural vistas moved her to appreciate and experience the beauty of nature in its various guises; the area’s rich and colourful tapestry of culture inspired her to travel continents, exploring relationships between human and nature.

This is how she ended up in Scotland’s capital where she looks at the relationship between humans and nature, expressing her findings through drawing and painting.

Following her 16-piece exhibition at the Arusha Gallery over November and December last year, Yulia has new works on show as part of E.D.S. Gallery’s new group exhibition.

Working from the notion that everything is interconnected, she has recently been focused on creating artworks together with nature -- where nature and artist playing equal roles in a dialogue of creation -- in contrast to a more commonly adopted approach where the human ‘bends’ nature, perceiving it as ‘other’.

It’s not just fresh talent making a name for itself in Scotland’s capital. There are new spaces cropping up all the time to satisfy Edinburgh’s insatiable love of art. The E.D.S. Gallery itself is a newcomer to the city’s art scene, having opened its doors in June 2013. It typically showcases an eclectic mix of contemporary work from homegrown and overseas talent.

Run in conjunction with The Edinburgh Drawing School, The E.D.S Gallery emphasises the importance of drawing as the starting point of all painting. The resulting collection is a fabulous array of high quality work, from distinguished artists such as George Gilbert RSW, Harry Holland, Stephen Mangan, Ken Currie, Hilary Gauci, Nancy Turnbull, Walter Awlson and many more.

The gallery is rapidly establishing itself as a haven of beautiful and varied work; and with the aim of introducing at least one new - distinguished and established - name to the Edinburgh audience each month.

E.D.S. Gallery
13A Great King Street
Edinburgh EH3 6QW United Kingdom
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From 11am to 6pm

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