Edinburgh
DOVECOT GALLERY
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- Marking five years since the death of Elizabeth Blackadder, explore a vivid and celebratory exhibition examining the artist’s enduring fascination with colour.Description
Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour
Jusqu’au 14 nov. 2026
- Founded by Oscar and BAFTA-winning costume designer John Bright in 1965, legendary London based Cosprop specialises in period costume for film, television and theatre. Through his work as a costume designer, a costumier, maker, advisor, collector and historian, Bright’s intelligence and eye for detail is in thousands of film, television and stage productions. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition features many costumes never seen in public before. Helena Bonham Carter in A Room with a View, Meryl Streep in Out of Africa, Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey, Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and Leslie Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Cosprop is synonymous with dressing iconic characters in award-winning films and television. This exhibition is a celebration of sixty years of Cosprop’s creativity and an opportunity to see behind the scenes of this celebrated costume house. Through stunning costumes, accessories and sketches, the visitor will learn the design and making process from script-to screen. Leading costume designers and actors will share their thoughts on favourite costumes, showing how Cosprop brought these magical moments to life. The exhibition will be accompanied by a beautiful, richly illustrated book celebrating sixty years of Cosprop, written by former V&A film curator Keith Lodwick, and with a foreword by Dame Judi Dench.Description
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop
Jusqu’au 9 janv. 2027
Prochainement
- See the immense scale of the Bayeux Tapestry in Scotland as a full-size print is unrolled across the length and breadth of DovecotDescription
Bayeux on the Balcony
21 nov. 2026 – 9 avr. 2027
Expositions récentes terminées
- Explore how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped and how Biba earned its spot as the brand that epitomises 1960s and 1970s fashion.Description
The Biba Story: 1964–1975
Terminée le 27 juin 2026
- The Biba Story explores how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to become the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped and how Biba earned its spot as the brand that epitomises 1960s and 1970s fashion. The exhibition explores the history of Biba, from the first simple shift dresses, to the glamorous devoré wraps, sequinned bodices, leopard print coats, trouser suits, floppy hats and feather boas that came to epitomise the Biba look. Under its legendary founder Barbara Hulanicki, it was a phenomenon that has never been replicated. Lasting just over 10 years, it remains influential to this day and interest in this cult fashion and lifestyle label has never waned.Description
Biba | Lunchtime Tours
Terminée le 25 juin 2026
- Acclaimed artist David Remfry brings his lyrical artistic vision to Edinburgh, featuring 30 evocative paintings, including a sensitive portrait of his friend, Alan Cumming and his first-ever tapestry, created with Dovecot Studios. Known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers and his drawings of neighbours and friends from his 20 years living in New York, Royal Academician David Remfry is adept at recording both people and place. He has long been fascinated by textiles, modelling colour and pattern in his paintings through furnishings, and the drapery and folds of fabric on the body. The exhibition features paintings and drawings chosen to convey the sense of dialogue implicit in the work of the tapestry studio and between the artist, subject, and space. Remfry is constantly observing the world around him, and in doing so, connecting memory with place before committing his perceptions to paint. From hotel interiors to crowded dance halls and even undefined spaces, he approaches his compositions as something to be carefully considered, framed, or even erased, giving equal weight to what surrounds the subject as to the subject itself. The works on display span five decades of Remfry’s career, from McGilchrist Sisters, begun in 1971, to the new tapestry Chandelirium, completed in 2026. Works in the exhibition are available to purchase.Description
David Remfry: In Residence
Terminée le 13 juin 2026
- Featuring works by artists including Antonio Lopez, Kenneth Paul Block and Steven Stipelman, the exhibition explores how fashion illustrators bridged journalism and fine art at a moment when the illustrated image still rivalled photography.Description
Drawing on Style: Original Fashion Illustration
Terminée le 11 avr. 2026
- Featuring 69 artists from nine countries and showcasing over 90 separate tapestries, the exhibition highlight the skills and experience of British Tapestry Group members.Description
Picking up the Thread: The Past, Present and Future of Tapestry
Terminée le 14 févr. 2026