Barbara Rae, 'Peat Bank, South Erradale (West Highland Landscape)', 1987. © the artist. City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

Out of Chaos: Post-War Scottish Art 1945-2000

The post-war era was a period of seismic shifts – political and social, scientific and cultural. Out of Chaos: Post-War Scottish Art 1945-2000 explores how artists in Scotland responded to these changing times. Charting the years between the late 1940s and late 1990s, this survey exhibition showcases evolving approaches to figurative and landscape subjects, the growth of abstraction and pop art, and the development of new media. Selected from the City Art Centre’s permanent collection, the exhibition features key pieces that address themes of landscape and nature by artists including William Johnstone, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Joan Eardley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Rae, Victoria Crowe and Elizabeth Ogilvie.