Meet the Collections Managers TAGS: Course reading | Library Resources Plus | pop up library Hannah and I can’t wait to meet some of our users tomorrow, when we do our Pop Up Library session on the 1st floor of the Main Library. We will …Continue reading →

There’s no business like show business TAGS: ECA Collection | ECA Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | Tiina Lilja Tiina Lilja recently graduated in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. Earlier this year, we acquired two of Tiina’s paintings for the University Art Collection as she was an artist we had been …Continue reading →

All in a name (nearly) TAGS: Andrew Brown | Arts | regulations | students A notice from 1827 reveals certain privileges that were available if: Your name was STEWART Your surname was SIMPSON You were a Highlander acquainted with the Gaelic language These seem …Continue reading →

Happy Graduation Day! TAGS: Emma Smith | graduation | Graham Dey | Sheila Fleet   Today we have lots of celebrations as a number of alumni, colleagues and friends celebrate graduations. Among them are Graham Dey who was Welfare Officer and music guru at …Continue reading →

Casting in Retrograde TAGS: cast collection | Deborah Marshall | Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | students Deborah Marshall is a final year Sculpture student at Edinburgh College of Art. Deborah discusses her work for the ECA Degree Show 2014, which investigates the Cast Collection.  Casting in Retrograde – a diptych, …Continue reading →

Blood, Sweat and Photoshop – Preparations for the Degree Show TAGS: Degree Show | Edinburgh College of Art | Tiina Lilja Tiina Lilja is a final year Painting student at Edinburgh College of Art. Earlier this year, we acquired two of Tiina’s paintings for the University Art Collection as she was …Continue reading →

Dusting for prints… TAGS: cast collection | Edinburgh College of Art | edinburgh college of art cast collection | Edinburgh University Art Collection | finger prints | morgan kinne We all like to pretend that no-one touches the things in museums. Fact is, like it or not, people do. We have been working with ECA Postgraduate student Morgan Kinne …Continue reading →

Art Collections at the Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Party TAGS: ECA | Isobel Turley | Sculpture Party Zane by Isobel Turley The annual Sculpture Party is part of ECA legend. Organised by the Sculpture department, it raises money for the School of Art Degree shows and takes …Continue reading →

Calling all ECA alumni! TAGS: 1956 | alumni | Dog | ECA | ECA Theatre Group | James Bridie