(pictures > of exhibitions do not necessarily relate to the text beside them)

TRULY ENORMOUS
3/8/03 - 30/8/03

Quite simply: big artworks. Artists were asked to submit a very large work in any medium.
The have painted directly onto the walls, blasted dinosauric images on to stone, enlarged 
hipnotic doodles and collaged out of seaweed.
Anne-Marie Culhane has punctured the walls to make a lacework butterfly.
Paul Balligall has enlarged one of his tavern woodcuts.
Nic Newton has created a tank made of bubbles or over-frothed Instant whip.
Polly Verity's wire sculptures set of Bridget Riley-like patterns.
Chris Mcginn 3D stone-blast fragments refer to prehistoric life forms
Claire Brady took an A4 'maze' design she made and enlarged it to fill an entire wall.
And Jo Salter encapsulated seaweed in tissue, preserving it's colours which are backlit by
a large hole in the wall.

It's the last show at New ST. Sad, sad. But many thanks to all who have exhibited in this 
strange and sometimes awkward space, braving the rub of nightclub. Daytime and nightime 
visitors have been presented with true variety at the rate of a show almost every 2.5 weeks.



THESE FOOLISH THINGS
An exhibition of stained glass by
Carrie Paxton
2/7/03 - 23/7/03

Since completing her Post Grad diploma at Edinburgh College of art three years ago, 
Carrie Paxton has been a regular exhibitor. Her work has been displayed in galleries 
from Creiff to London and as far afield as Korea. This show at New St, however, is her 
first solo exhibition and pulls together work from the past three years along with completely 
new material.

Carrie uses a unique technique which she has developed over the last few years. 
Rather than using sheets of coloured glass as is traditional, she fuses plain window 
glass with ground coloured glass, enamels and paint. The result is an array of vivid, 
luscious colours with a real depth.

Carrie's previous work was largely inspired by '50s fabric prints, advertisments and 
souvenir-shop kitsch. Her latest pieces, however, draw from natural forms and experiment 
with 3-dimensional shapes and functional designs. 

Private View: Wednesday 2nd July 6 - 8pm

Tel: 0131 667 3731
E-mail: carrie-louis@blueyonder.co.uk



THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: 12 April - 3 
This show of work by artists who have previously shown at out of the blue 
or had studios here will relect the variety of talent in the building now 
and that which has passed through before. 



B E W A R E ' I U M Feb 28th - Mar 17th Opening night Thu 27th 7-9pm Barry McLaren & Jamie Mcneill 
Barry is presently studying Mnemonika: the study of his own memory though arrangement of fragments 
from places his feet have taken him. Jamie: Nature has it's uses to man but is man any use to nature? 
Jamie explores this and other issues while imperceptibly nature takes roots through the fabric of urban 
space. Organic work from Jamie; ruminations on fearlessness from Barry.



22nd November-15th December: opening night Friday 29th November 7-9pm
PROCESS:: Grace Maran, Paul Macgee, Craig Coulthard, Mary Trodden, Mikel Krimmins, Heather Craig 
and Carolan Alexander are the artists involved in Djinniditto’s “Process” exhibition at the Bongo 
Club, 22nd of November to 15th December 2002. “Process” is as much an experiment as it is an 
exhibition. The 7 artists will install their own work on the 22nd November and will then use the 
following week to develop the exhibition. A group show responding to it’s own corporate self, 
cross-fertilising, works interacting in reponse to their space! The focus is completely on the 
individual. Individual reactions and ideas. Individual opinions and direction. This is a working 
exhibition for the first of it’s three week run and will be open to the public throughout.



DOLLS
Jennie Dear
1st-19th November
Often used as an example of the sheer quality and professionalism of studio artists at out of the 
blue Jennie Dear produces haunting, charming and life-like ceramic dolls often based on real 
individuals. Some find them ‘spooky’, some find them to be friendly little spirits; their 
individual characters and mona lisa-like cryptic smiles are alive. 
Most of Jennie’s doll are based on studies of real people. This show exposes the process by which 
they are made and allows close inspection to appreciate the subtleties of character that they all 
individually have. This show at the Bongo has been long-awaited.



I KNOW WHAT I SAW: Andi MacDonald
11th - 29th  october
Captured in stills in their natural habitat nearly comprehensively for the first time visitors, 
performers, artists, punters and other unidentified flotsam congregating for the annual fringe 
gathering fest at the infamous Bongo Club. Andy MacDonald saw and recorded it all as official 
resident Bongo photographer. Relive the recent past, check out the happy people in this 
exhibition celebrating almost certainly the last Bongo Fringe Cabaret at New St.



ENCORE
26th Sept - 2nd Oct 
New St will host 3 Portuguese artists exhibiting as part of ENCORE, 
a one week 4 venue event involving 15 artists as part of a residency/exchange scheme which 
took place at the 3rd Nimes Biennale in France. Portuguese artists Patricia Almeida and 
Tania Duarte will create a video piece and Pedro Fonseca will be exhibiting a 
night-club-appropriate light box.
Sept 28th Opening Event The opening night will take form as an event with an 
open top double-decker linking the 4 venues on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 28, beginning 
with Wasps @ Patriot Hall 17.30, taking in the French Institute & Ocean Terminal and 
culminating at the Bongo Club 21.00 – 22.30.



AMERICAN PRIDE
5th Sept - 22nd Sept
Opening night Thursday 5th 7-9pm.
American Pride ~ fisheye portraits from San Francisco and Scottish Pride ~ Fisheye 
Projections by Liz Tainsh.
In yer face photographs taken at Pride whilst visiting San 
Francisco last year.



OVERKILL INDULGENCE: Elph aka Brian MacFeely

Aug 	2-26 Fringe Festival Exhibition
From the murky depths of the underground graffiti scene comes Elph’s one ‘writer’ show. Many will 
recognise the style of characters that have adorned the city for the past eleven years, and all 
will be amazed to see the breadth of talent exploding before their  eyes. Canvases, screens, walls, 
computers, toys...nothing is safe from subversion by the obsessive Elph. Mixed medias - 
screenprints to wall painting on the subject of Russia, Japan, Gundam, Winos, Mexican wrestlers, 
beards, old men with big noses and fighter pilots. A multi-lingual, interactive expose of one of 
Edinburgh’s secret endemic talents. 

Have a sneaky digital preview on www.akaelph.com, now come to the exhibition and let your jaw 
drop at ‘overkill indulgence’. 



C00L OBJECTS
Aug 2-26

An eclectic mix of works in 2 and 3D on show in the cafe/bar area.  Cool Objects gives a taste of the 
diversity of work produced by artists working in the thirty-one studios above and below the Bongo Club.

"small scaled but perfectly formed." Jo



OUT NOW
Friday 28th June- Tuesday  16th July
Degree shows: Blink and you’ve missed them. Following on from last years successful LOCATE show from 
final year students from Edinburgh College of Art, here is a selection of exciting new graduate work 
from the painting department.
Students exhibiting include Sam Griffin, Craig Coulthard and Judith Hastie. There is a highland alien 
wilderness landscape theme, penguins and lego toys. Mostly painting with attendant video. 
Hot talent NOW.



SYMBOL LIFE
Friday 7th - Tuesday  25th
SHOK and SEAK: 2 of Europe's big names in the graffiti art world create a new work and young New York 
photographer, Olivia Malone exhibits work documenting life in Queens, New York.

Urban Art Official's purpose is to promote urban culture, primarily through street based art involving
 graffiti, contemporary graphic design, photography and video installations. There is a heavy focus on 
the mixing of media and with each exhibition there is an attempt to use other art forms such as music, 
dance, theatre and fashion.



SIMUNYE
Fri May 24 - Tues June 4
Artwork by participants in out of the blue's cultural youth exchange project beytween Scotland & South Africa 
with Mamelodi township. The exhibition space will become a studio for a second mural to be completed; the first 
was created in South Africa in January. Photographs will document the 3 year project supported by The 
Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, The British Council, Scottish Arts Council, Arts & Business, Cuckfield 
Property Group & Tiso the Outdoor Specialist.



!OBJECT! 
Thu April 25 - Tues May 21st
Object to... objects of desire and/or consumption that involve exploitation, corruption or environmental damage: 
This exhibition has 2D  and 3D works that expose or illustrate human and environmental damage associated with 
global production. Expect direct and indirect action. Annual Mayday politically motivated exhibition sponsored 
by the Edinburgh Mayday Committee hopes to stimulate enquiry into the ethics of the corporate world.



'and you will know us by the trail of FLESH'
Fri April 12 - Tues April 23
Opening Night Sun 14th Apr 
7 - 10pm (with DJs)
A diverse collection of photography and multimedia on the subject of the human body by students mostly from 
Napier University. Investigating those temples we live in, coated in skin to keep the outsides out and the 
insides in. Anonymous, individual, personal or uniform, it's the only one you got unless you are lucky sheep 
Dolly. A great opportunity to preview students work at a vital experimental stage.



CONSTRAINT
Thu March 28 - Tues April 9 
Opening Night Thur 28th 7-9pm
New St studio artist Patti McGonigal exhibiting at the Bongo Club for the first time. Parveen Adams said in 
her essay Female Bondage, 'Female fetishism is the norm of human sexuality. That is why it is invisible.' 
Patty develops figurative compositions that incorporate the paraphenalia of restriction in order to question 
fetishism and the state of sexual tension from a female perspective.



BEHIND THE SCREENS
7 March - 26 March 
Opening Night Thur 7th March
working animatronic props that have starred in recent films by local film makers
animatronics · storyboards ·  conceptual art · cgi  · prosthetics · head casts · clockwork models

out of the blue presents Behind the Screens in the New Street Exhibition Space (at the Bongo Club) from 
Thursday 7th March. This exhibition takes a look at the intricate and varied crafts employed by special 
effects artists and film makers to realise their fantastical visions. 

The majority of the work featured comes from the award winning and Bafta Nominated (for outstanding craft) 
film Frog by local writer-director Steven Morrison.  A dark fairytale set in a mysterious forest, Frog 
relied heavily on the innovative use of a wide range of differing techniques to bring the unreal and the 
surreal to life. The displays include clockwork eyes, giant frog creatures operated by air pumps, control 
cables and puppetry as well as wide range of elaborately constructed props. There will also be a display 
and behind the scenes photographs from Morrison's latest film Tarquin Slant (in post production). 

Other work includes  entries by computer graphics artist Berg Saetre, prosthetics make up designer 
Stephen Murphy (currently working on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) 
and additional animatronics by Alasdair Imrie.



CRUDE CUTS - PAUL BALLINGALL 
16 February - 5 March 
OPENING NIGHT: Fri 15 7pm - 9pm
Self-taught lino-meister and club artist Paul Ballingal shows this large collection of lino 
cuts drawing on nocturnal activities for inspiration. Raw, gritty, timeless, bawdy and medieval, 
lino is the stark but sensitive media to express the average night out experience. Paul has 
used some of these images as logos and on posters for some of Edinburgh’s most noteable clubs 
over the last 15 years.



SHIEL YULE 
11 - 14 February
artwork on an airborne skating theme coincides with club night FLIPPIN on FEB 14th 10pm-3am in 
aid of the Edinburgh Ramp Fund. Mini-ramp plus film premiere on the night



ARTHUR’S SEAT - EXPLORING PLACE
25 January - 9 February
OPENING NIGHT: 24 January
5pm - 7pm Holyrood Park Ranger’s Lodge
6pm - 8pm New St Exhibition Space
8.30pm moonlit walk to Arthur’s Seat 

ARTHUR’S SEAT EXHIBITION VENUES:
New Street Exhibition Space
11am - 5pm Monday to Saturday (enter by Bongo Club) 
Film projections can be viewed from the street at night
(some works can be viewed during club/performance hours)

Museum of Edinburgh - Street side display cases - all day and night
140 Canongate

Holyrood Park Rangers Lodge    
11am - 4.30pm Monday to Saturday

This exhibition event is the result of the first residency working with Arthur’s Seat exploring 
how people see and experience this place NOW.  The exhibitions include performance, sculpture, 
text and poetry, sound work, print, film and painting by local and national artists directly 
responding to this site.  Artists have drawn from the rich geology, history and ecology of 
Arthur’s Seat,  as well as more direct personal responses to what it means and how it feels to 
have ‘a mountain in the city’.  

The enthusiasm for the project and the breadth of work has been overwhelming.  The project also 
includes artwork produced as a result of workshops, work with  local people and collaborations 
between artists.  Participating artists include: Jade Stout (artist) Elliot Brook (visual 
artist) Julian Le Bas (painter) Stephen Johnston (photographer) Ben Phillips (visual artist) 
Jayne Wilding (writer) Gerry Cambridge (writer) Ruth Barrie (film) Irfan Merchant (writer) 
Alicia Conde (film) 

The exhibition will also launch a free booklet on the project funded by the Millennium 
Commission.  The residency and exhibitions are funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and 
supported by Historic Scotland and out of the blue Trust.  The lead artist, Anne-Marie Culhane 
hopes to enable future residencies for other artists on this site.

CONTACT ANNE-MARIE FOR MORE INFO 0131 558 9889/07769 951878  wook5@hotmail.com



SURVIVAL
Thurs 10th January - Mon 21st January
Opening  night Thurs 10th January 
Work on paper by Jacki Macdonald. Passionate and powerful work in charcoal and paint by local 
artist Jacki Macdonald. SURVIVAL is of the time of making.   It traces a period of life 
experience crossing boundaries between personal /cultural /transpersonal elements.    
Intrinsic to the work is the socio/political environment within which she exists.  Often 
severe and stark these hard carved images force their way out of the picture surface while 
suggesting a depth beyond.  The work attempts to communicate through symbols and perhaps 
touch something other.



THE RECYCLED FURNITURE EXHIBITION - AT THE COLLECTIVE GALLERY
Jan 8th to Jan 11th inclusive
12.00-5.00pm

The Recycled Furniture Project takes broken or discarded furniture and materials and repairs 
and rebuilds them.  The project is run by four artists: Chad McCail, a painter,  Eliza 
Gilchrist, a sculptor, and Neil McArthur, a furniture maker  and group support worker/artist 
Trish Millar who work with young ex-homeless people who have recently been re-housed into 
unfurnished accommodation. The project has been a great success which has led to funding for 
a feasibility study to explore the options for  turning the project into a self-supporting 
social enterprise.



Airtime Agreements
Thurs 20th Dec - Tues 8th Jan
Opening Event: Sun 23rd 8pm - 3pm

This is an exhibition of photographs by Dominic Travers celebrating the
appropriation of the built and custom built environment by skateboarders and pushbike riders.
Edinburgh and the surrounding area is rich in locations or "spots" where skaters and riders 
can hone their skills, either in the streets and squares, or at the Livingston park. The
pictures are shot in crisp light eliminating the need for flash and with fast shutter to
freeze the action. Film is carefully chosen to bring out the colours of graffiti in the bowls
and the textures of the local stone. The riders however, are the true stars of this show, 
often risking life and skin for the sake of the picture.

Edinburgh's wealth of talent is on display having been encouraged (and in some cases bribed!)
to go higher, bigger, faster, and to attempt tricks in locations never ridden before.
Edinburgh's public architecture continues to provide new expanses of smooth paving with
steps, rails and drops to play with. The result is a series of images examining the
relationship between the architects and the culture of street sports.



22 Nov - 4 Dec 
A FOOT SQUARED: created in the city

The title of this exhibition covers an exibition swap between New St Studios and the Glasgow
Independent studios. Designed to inform as well as inspire, the motivation is to show what
tenant folk at ootb and GI do, how diversely skilled they are, how ootb and GI support this
and what else goes on in (and indeed well beyond) the building. Both studios have been given
square foot glass cases boxes donated by Ikea. The first exhibition showcasing out of the
blue has a other components, mainly photography designed to show all the activities emanating
from out of the blue! A tall and impossible order. Extra components are: Innovative displays
of photographic material under at least 4 headings: studios, personnel, projects and clubs
and artworks created in workshops leading up to the South Edinburgh Carnival.

Creative Space needed to: record, paint, draw, construct, choreograph, write, collaborate,
programme, animate, carve, sing, arrange, stitch, compose etc.

6 Dec - 18 Dec Glasgow Independent studio artists exhibiting at out of the blue

plus!
13 Dec - early Jan out of the blue studio artists exhibiting at the Project Room at the
Gkasgow Independent studios (opening night 13 Dec 7pm

22 Nov - 4 Dec out of the blue studio artists exhibiting at out of the blue 
(opening on the Square Foot week launch night 22 Nov 6 - 9pm)



NUDE
3rd Nov - 13th Nov
Opening Night Friday 2nd Nov 7pm-9pm

The ever popular Life Drawing classes in the Cutting Room really get going during the autumn
and winter months.  The class has been running longer than we have been in this building,
allowing artists to develop their own skills in an unled environment. Following the success
of last year's Still, we showcase new and diverse styles of work from many artists.



THE SUPERMEN

Fri 19th October - Tues 28th October

out of the blue welcomes Glasgow-based artist Steven Anderson. Steven uses imagery from
glossy publications, magazines and newspapers especially those of the heroic male as a basis
for his drawings. Taken from their publication environment and transposed to the gallery,
these images become ambiguous: heroic, violent, sensual or beautiful.



NEUPOP INTERNATIONAL presents FLICKER MACHINE 

Fri 28th September- Tues 16th October

Whatiz this NEUPOP? Soap powder, dance craze,
new cereal or the resurgence of Pop art revisited (should we

click HERE for further information about our exhibition space.

 enquiries to exarchive@outoftheblue.org.uk