Summerhall presents a season of interrogative exhibitions from local and international contemporary artists as part of its 2024 Festival Fringe Programme. The exhibitions: Flux, Hard Art, Paintings of Modernia, Restoration, The Medium of Madness and This Living Hand celebrates creativity and the unusual.

The group exhibition features work by Michael Ho, Michael E. Smith, Joseph Yaeger and Michelle Uckotter. Playing with imagery drawn from cinema alongside other mass cultural tropes, the artists are aligned in their production of works which are both disquieting and sympathetic, ambiguous
yet uncanny.

For thirty years, multidisciplinary artist Sonya Clark has focused her work on the African diaspora in the United States to confront, elucidate, and reframe its history. She often undertakes this exploration through everyday fibre materials – most notably hair, flags, found fabric – and craft practices. In her work, craft and community are intertwined; her participatory projects promote new collective encounters across racial, gender and socioeconomic divisions.

This focused exhibition considers Henry Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall, during and immediately after World War II. From the London Underground, where Moore drew figures sheltering from the bomb raids, the walls of these spaces came to absorb his attention in an altogether new way, becoming scene-setters, and key components of his drawings.