Category Archives: Exhibitions

Tape Letters Scotland is set to launch a series of new audio-visual exhibitions in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, showcasing the use of audio cassette as a mode of long-distance communication by the Pakistani diaspora in Scotland between 1960–1980. Drawing directly from both first-hand interviews carried out by the project team and the informal, intimate conversationsContinue reading “New audio-visual exhibitions, Tape Letters Scotland, Set to Tour Central Scotland”

Edinburgh’s Stills Centre for Photography has announced that from 19th October 2024 the first and only analogue photobooth for public use will be opening at the gallery. Loved back in their heyday by everyone, including big names such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono to John and Jackie Kennedy, and flourishing again in the 21stContinue reading “Stills Centre for Photography Opens Scotland’s Only Current Analogue Photobooth “

Scotland’s biggest contemporary art market, Art Car Boot Sale, returns this October, with over one hundred of Scotland-based contemporary artists featured as a curated showcase by the Patricia Fleming Gallery. The Gallery, based in Glasgow’s East End, advocates for the representation of emerging artists, and is delighted to include Leah Moodie, a recent Edinburgh College ofContinue reading “Glasgow’s Tramway to Host of Sixth Edition of Art Car Boot Sale This Autumn”

Tania Kovats is a UK artist with a strong connection to Scotland, having her works permanently installed at the Fruitmarket Gallery and Jupiter Artland. She was the Guest Curator at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2018 and is currently Professor of Drawing and Making at DJCAD, University of Dundee. SEAMARK, that will be unveiledContinue reading “British Artist Tania Kovats’ Seamark Tapestry Unveiled at Dovecot Studios”

As part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow Life has  announced an exhibition of new work by the artist duo Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien (Philippines and US) for Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) – Offerings for Escalante. Occupying GoMA’s main gallery, in the building that was originally built in the 19th century as aContinue reading “Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art Announces New Exhibition – Offerings for Escalante”

This summer Fife arts organisation, SPACE TO BREATHE, will host the centenary exhibition of the ground-breaking British painter Sheila Girling. Over 70 large scale paintings and collages of the artist, dating from the 1970s to the 2010s, will on sale at Bowhouse, Fife. Her talent as a painter embraces American abstraction while remaining rooted in a distinctiveContinue reading “Exhibition of British Painter Sheila Girling to Open in Fife This Summer “

This Spring, for the first time in the 10 year history of its Square Print Sale, when ithas featured over 1600 images and 24 themes, Magnum Photos partners with  literary magazine Granta, for its upcoming sale. Titled Fable, the sale explores the symbiosis between visual and written narratives and comprises 85 images that will beContinue reading “Magnum Photos and Granta in Collaboration Across Photography and Literature”

Glasgow born George Wyllie, one of Scotland’s most beloved artists, has been celebrated in the town he made his home, Greenock, with the Wyllieum –  a bright and airy new space dedicated to his work and legacy. Overlooking the surrounding hills and the spectacular Firth of Clyde at Customs Quay in Greenock, the submarine greyContinue reading “Wyllieum Museum in Greenock Shines Light on Work of Artist George Wyllie”

Following the 35th edition of Edinburgh Science Festival (ESF), the world’s first and still one of Europe’s biggest festival of its kind, not only were dates for the 2025 Festival announced, but so was the name of its new Director, Hassun El-Zafar. Hassun El-Zafar will lead the Edinburgh Science (ES) education charity, its education work inContinue reading “Edinburgh Science Festival Announces New Director after its 35th Anniversary”

Edinburgh locals and those with a connection to the city are invited to share stories and memories of the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, now redeveloped as the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute (EFI), as part of a new participatory writing project,  Words from the Wards, at this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF). Alongside the publicContinue reading “Edinburgh International Book Festival Invites Stories of Former Royal Infirmary”