Dean Gallery, Edinburgh Art, Photo, Architect, Location, Date, Image

Dean Gallery Edinburgh

Belford Rd Building, Edinburgh New Town Architecture – design by Terry Farrell architect

Dean Gallery Edinburgh Building

Location: The Dean, 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh
Date built: 1999
Design: Terry Farrell & Co, architects

Refurbishment of former Orphanage.

The original building was designed by Hamilton and built in 1833.

Address: 6 Dean Park St, Edinburgh, Lothian EH4 1JW

Phone: 0131 332 1777

Terry Farrell & Co. were also responsible for the recent masterplan for both The Dean Gallery and the adjacent Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – SNGMA – former John Watson’s School by Burn, 1825, involving co-ordinated sculptures, etc.

photo © Adrian Welch

The compact Dean gallery café and bookshop nestleunder the towering bronze Paolozzi figure. The interiors are painted in vivid colours.

Architect Terry Farrell, Edinburgh projects page.

photograph © David Churchill

Contact The Dean Gallery: +44 (0)131 624 6200

The building houses the Gallery of Modern Art’s Dada and Surrealism collections. It also contains many works by Edinburgh-born Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. This Edinburgh gallery is located just to the East of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Dean Gallery, Edinburgh: image © Tim Soar

Sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi offered a collection of prints, drawings, maquettes, moulds and the contents of his studio to the Dean Gallery in 1994. The gallery includes an artist’s library.

image © David Churchill

The conversion was undertaken by the architect Sir Terry Farrell (architect).

The gallery was opened in 1999, opposite the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, which is its sister gallery. In 2011 the buildings were renamed Modern Art Two and Modern Art One respectively. The conversion of the building into a gallery was designed by Terry Farrell.

Since its opening it has housed the Paolozzi Gift, a collection of his works given to the Gallery of Modern Art in 1994 by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. It contains a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art and literature, much of which was given by Gabrielle Keiller. It is also used for temporary exhibitions.

source: wikipedia

Edinburgh Art Galleries
National Gallery of Scotland

photograph © Adrian Welch