Scottish Art Events - What Not to Miss in October 2014

In Dundee Contemporary Arts, an exhibiton by Heather Phillipson accompanies the Discovery Film Festival. Working across most of the disciplines, Phillipson’s variously excited, poignant and brash (in the best way) works will be exhibited as part of the youth-oriented film festival held annually at DCA and running this year from Saturday 25 October til Sunday 9 October.

Already open and finishing on the 25 October, the Common Guild in Glasgow exhibits the final part of its Scotland+Venice re-presentations with Duncan Campbell’s films. On display are two films that play one after the other on a 90 minute loop that will start at 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm, with an additional screening at 4.30pm on Thursdays.

Also already into its run at the time of print and on until 2 November, Gregor Wright’s exhibit in the CCA spreads itself across foam figures, clay dinosaurs and wall drawings. Several events accompany this exhibition, including a screening of 1980 sci-fi flick Death Watch (Wed 8 Oct 2014, 7pm) and a Halloween symposium – 7pm, with free t-shirts.

Heading Southside to the Queenspark Railway Club, from 2-25 October Michael White exhibits drawings he made while on Jobseeker’s, using the related documents and correspondences as his substrate. Over at Tramway, Alan Michael presents new paintings and photo based work as part of the last run of GENERATION exhibitons – on until 26 October.

For those with a spare half hour, it would be wise to head to Kendall Koppe and Mary Mary. In Kendall Koppe, Josh Faught exhibits heavy knitted blankets, with their pockets for book shaped and see-through forms with covers stuck on their fronts and backs – finishing 30 October. Upstairs in Mary Mary, it’s less cosy with the immediately chemical smell and rungless ladders of Aleana Egan’s installation – on throughout the month.

Over in Edinburgh, Jim Lambie’s GENERATION exhibition is in its last few weeks in the Fruitmarket, closing on 19 October. Heading to the Mound, the RSA are displaying the work produced by the recipients of the Residencies for Scotland programme. The first half of the exhibition ends on 5 October, then the next set of artists are exhibited from 11 October til 9 November.

With the Edinburgh Art Festival a month gone, there’s still a last chance to catch Owen Logan’s EAF exhibit at the Stills gallery. As part of a group show The King’s Peace: Realism and War, Logan’s Masquerade: Michael Jackson Alive in Nigeria (2001-2005) plays against straight documentary photography and, with a strange humour draws parallels between Jackson’s biography and the recent history of conflict in post-colonial Nigeria.

There are also the last few free events that have been arranged across several venues as part of this summer’s GENERATION programme. On the evening of 9 October at the Scottish National Gallery, Bobby Niven and Graham Fagen will deliver artist’s talks. The next day in Glasgow, Raydale Dower will present a performance in Tramway – 10 October, 7pm. Back to Edinburgh but this time to the Scottish National Gallery where on 13 October Dr Sarah Lowndes will deliver a lecture on Art and Music in Glasgow Since the 1970s. In the same venue on 23 October, Martin Boyce will discuss the 2002 installation Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, which he recreated for GENERATION.