Visual Arts As part of the GENERATION programme, which celebrates 25 years of Scottish contemporary art, Perth Museum and Art Gallery held an exhibition of works by Scottish painter Alison Watt. Drawn from a selection of paintings between 1986 and 2014, Watt’s subject … Alison Watt : Paintings 1986 – 2014
Visual Arts As part of GENERATION, Scotland’s largest series of exhibitions, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has been taken over by the works of some of Scotland’s key artists from the last 25 years. A mixture of older works and … Julie-Ann Delaney : GENERATION at Modern One
Visual Arts Artist Daniel Djamo explores various endings within his Briggait exhibition, Before the End. Utilising film and photography, Djamo explores someone’s life through their obsessive note-taking of their finances, ending with their funeral costs, the last 12 months of his nannie’s … Daniel Djamo : Before the End
Visual Arts One week left to catch Edinburgh Printmaker’s exhibition ‘No Fixed Abode’, which explores the idea of home and homelessness. Artists from the gallery have teamed up with The Big Issue to engage in a discussion with vendors and produce works in … Judith Liddle : No Fixed Abode
Visual Arts Holly Keasey introduces the work of Sam Burford, Mehreen Murtaza and Deimantas Narkevicius, in the group show ‘To Sail Beyond The Sunset’. Each artist presents their own interpretation of concepts from science fiction, such as time travel. Rather than showing … Holly Keasey : To Sail Beyond The Sunset
Visual Arts By creating sculptural works using materials and found objects such as vitamin pills, light bulbs, water or rocks, alongside art materials such as bronze, glass and resin, artist Vanessa Billy explores society’s relationship with manufactured goods, and the social and … Vanessa Billy : Sustain, Sustain
Visual Arts TalkSeePhotography held a curatorial slam at Glasgow’s CCA allowing curators, artists and anyone with an interest in creative practice to present a series of ideas exploring photographic and curatorial practice. This provided a platform for idea sharing and discussion, and … Seonaid Daly and Ben Rush : Curatorial Slam
Visual Arts Entering its final week, Cotoneaster horizontalis, by artist Anna Oppermann (1940 -1993) presents the highly celebrated 1984 ensemble Cotoneaster horizontalis (Anticommunication design) exhibited for the first time alongside drawings, prints, collages, documentary films and archival material. The exhibition explores two … Anna Oppermann : Cotoneaster horizontalis
Visual Arts CCA presents This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds, a show exploring the practices of two different artists, Glasgow-based Rebecca Wilcox, and Guatemalan artist Manuel Chavajay. Each practice is very different, but both explore the significance of working together and … This Might Be a Place for Hummingbirds
Visual Arts To congratulate Dundee on its UNESCO City of Design designation, we’re showing a clip from Channel Six Dundee’s archive in 2001. Abertay University’s magnificent Dare-to-be-Digital summer competition helped to foster up-and-coming games designers in the city. Dundee City of Design : Dare to be Digital
Visual Arts Curator of Glasgow’s SWG3 Gallery, Simon Gowing, introduces the work of artist Dominic Samsworth. Salting The Mirage explores the value of objects, in this case focusing on the value of objects within the leisure industry. Samsworth has covered the floor … Simon Gowing : Salting the Mirage
Visual Arts Rae-Yen Song introduces Yaka Collective’s four venue exhibition ‘So It Is’, which takes place across the Briggait, the Arches, the Cleland Lane Churches and the Arena. The collective pulled together the work of 30 arts graduates, ranging from 2010 up … Yaka Collective : So It is
Visual Arts Leith Art Walk showcases the work of local artists by utilising local flats as exhibition spaces, offering the public a unique viewing experience, and artists the chance to engage with the community. For one day, the artists showcased sculpture, prints, … Raquel Tejero : Leith Art Walk
Visual Arts Wendy McMurdo introduces the third year of the Jill Todd Photographic Award, which is an annual award that showcases the work of emerging photographers from Photography and Arts Degree programmes in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The award … Wendy McMurdo : Jill Todd Photographic Award 2014
Visual Arts Inspired by the work of painter Alexander Moffat, particularly his piece ‘Poets’ Pub’, painter Ruth Nicol explores the landscapes of seven Scottish poets; Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig, Sorley Maclean, George MacKay Brown, Robert Garioch and Iain Crichton Smith. In … Ruth Nicol : Three Rivers Meet
Visual Arts Dave Hammond joins writer Donald Murray and artist Doug Robertson, to discuss their collaboration for the book ‘The Guga Stone: Lies, Legends and Lunacies from St.Kilda.’ Visual artist Douglas Robertson was born and brought up on the east coast of … Donald Murray and Doug Robertson : Wordplay Festival
Visual Arts Summerhall is hosting an exhibition featuring a mixture of sculpture, prints and sketches by the late George Wyllie. Summerhall’s Technical Director, and friend of Wyllie, Pete Searle discusses the work of Wyllie, including the artist’s dedication to involving the public … Pete Searle : George Wyllie at Summerhall
Visual Arts Artist Fiona Wilson discusses the inspiration and the methods that go into making her prints for her bird-lady series, as part of this month’s Glasgow Print Studio Featured Artist. Working in monochrome, Wilson creates images of woman with birds or … Fiona Wilson : Glasgow Print Studio
Visual Arts An Enhanced Sense of Place, or A.E.S.O.P, is an interactive installation that consists of nine LED displays, each connected to an RSS feed and displaying real-time updates from around the globe. Acting like a compass, each message display points at … Nigel Johnson : A.E.S.O.P
Visual Arts It’s the last seven days of Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens’ Night in the Garden. Allowing the public a rare chance to experience the gardens at night, the event will present a trail for people to follow, and create a new and … Malcolm Innes : Night in the Garden
Visual Arts Andy McDougall, Director of Edinburgh Art Fair, introduces the 3 day event, which hosts a huge selection of national and international exhibitors. Showcasing the best in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, and much more, the art fair gives audiences the opportunity to … Andy McDougall : Edinburgh Art Fair
Visual Arts Artist Tessa Lynch presents a portrait of a city living artist in her show, Café Concrete. Lynch explores her commute through Glasgow, focusing on the emotional impact of the city’s built environment, and how to express this through sculpture, whilst … Tessa Lynch : Café Concrete
Visual Arts Writer, curator and art critic, Mika Hannula, presents his book ‘Tell It Like It Is – Contemporary Photography and the Lure of the Real’, as part of TalkSeePhotography’s workshop series. Hannula explores our understanding of contemporary photography through the discussion … Mika Hannula : Tell It Like It Is
Visual Arts Artist and poet Alec Finlay presents his exhibition ‘a-ga : on mountains’, which consists of a selection of poems and a series of wooden blocks, a letter on each, arranged in such a way they spell the name of a … Alec Finlay – a-ga : on mountains
Visual Arts When Joyce Laing first started in the field of art therapy, not much research had been conducted to find out what kind of impact it could have on a patient. Laing had observed the development of certain patients’ work and … Joyce Laing : Art Therapy
Visual Arts Artists Aoife McGarrigle and Iede Reckman present their joint exhibition, Over/Athrá, currently showing in the Briggait, Glasgow. The pair met on Glasgow School of Art’s M.Litt course and found similarities in their work such as an interest in geometric shapes. … Aoife McGarrigle and Iede Reckman : Over/Athrá
Visual Arts Danish artist Jesper Christiansen presents FOUND DRAWINGS, an exhibition of drawings which were originally shown as part of a large exhibition back in Denmark, called GO BACK. The works on show were nearly thrown out during a house move, but … Jesper Christiansen : FOUND DRAWINGS
Visual Arts The Lighthouse Late is an event celebrating design, music and film, and features a whole host of artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Landscape architect, performer and filmmaker Liva Dudareva, introduces urban consultancy and art collective, Metasitu, which is comprised of herself … Liva Dudareva : The Urbanography Series
Visual Arts Glasgow Print Studio’s featured artist is Gregor Smith, whose work studies the interesting landforms of Scotland and Norway. Smith starts by creating rough sketches of his scene, building up on this work in watercolours or etching. His recent trip to … Gregor Smith : Glasgow Print Studio
Visual Arts It’s the final week of Gregor Wright’s exhibition, Dinosaur Expert I’m Feeling Lucky. Wright combines several subjects such as chance, logic or fantasy with one narrative, Science Fiction. The final exhibition combines sculpture, painting and installation with a wide variety … Gregor Wright : Dinosaur Expert I’m Feeling Lucky
