This Week in Scottish Art: British Art Show & More

In Transmission tonight (9 Feb) at 7pm there is an event to discuss the need for a Glasgow free-sheet. The organisers wonder if there’s a need for a round-up of the free and non-profit DIY events in the city, covering music and art. This might also provide a platform for longer form radical and politicised writing about music and art.

This week in the Glasgow Project Room, there is a performance by artists Alice Brooke and Beatrice Loft Schulz, titled Dual Habit. It takes place on Wednesday (10 Feb) and Friday (12 Feb) at 11am, and Saturday and Sunday (13-14 Feb) at 12pm. Beginning on the hour, the performance lasts for a half hour.

Later tomorrow (10 Feb), you can catch up with An Attempt to Articulate, the annual Work in Progress Show from Communication Design students at Glasgow School of Art. Touted as 'a degree show dress rehearsal', the works spans photography, web design, typography, illustration and more. Previewing tomorrow from 6pm in Glasgow's Whisky Bond, with some fancy gin and beer sponsors, the exhibit continues until 13 February.

Transmission hold a discussion on Glasgow free-sheets on Tue 9 Feb 

In Glasgow this Thursday, 11 Feb, there’s screenings taking place from 7.30pm as part of Tramway’s Breaking Joints. Taking its title from a rendering technique in animation, the event features a series of works made between 2012-15 that are animated or influenced by the medium. Breaking Joints places emphasis on 'a new generation of artists [who] mediate depictions of physical and psychological space, positioning the viewer in an uneasy world of illusion and trickery.' Tickets are £5/3 and bookable here.

Moving onto Friday, 12 Feb, there is an exhibition of sculpture, painting and collage by London-based Mary Wintour and Glasgow-based Emma McLuskey, over at CCA. With their Intermedia space slot, Wintour’s paintings – based on edited and fused found images – are combined with McLuskey’s sculptures, which look directly towards the sculptural relationship between form, colour and narrative. The preview takes place on Friday 12 Feb from 7-9pm – check CCA’s website for the days the exhibition is open to visitors.

British Art Show in Edinburgh

Also this Friday, a preview event for British Art Show 8 takes place across Inverleith House, Talbot Rice and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Now on its eighth edition, as the title suggests, there’s a dual emphasis on the virtual realities of new media, alongside some work that is based more obviously on craft and handmaking techniques. This means Edinburgh-based Rachel Maclean’s hyperreal green-screen produced video work is included along with the hand-tufted woollen work of Caroline Achaintre. The preview takes place at Talbot Rice Gallery from 7pm, with the show then continuing across the three venues until 8 May.

This Saturday, 13 Feb, the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop hosts an event arranged by Embassy. For this, Glasgow-based artist Sarah Rose leads a workshop on the less reliable and immediate means of communicating, such as gossip, fables and rumours. Participants are invited to take part in these exchanges and advised to bring along a means of documenting them. After this, the materials will then be worked upon within the group. Free event, book tickets here.

Art exhibitions in Dundee

In Dundee this week, there’s the start and end respectively of two exhibitions. Starting in Generator is the annual Members’ Show, curated from an open call, and previewing on Friday at 7pm. In DCA, meanwhile IC-98 comes to a close, with the Finnish artist duo having rearranged the main gallery space with projections of their intricate, hand-drawn and digitally animated work.

We finish this week with an event that’s now returns-only in terms of tickets: in Collective this Thursday, there is the last screening as part of its Opacities series. Proposing a way of understanding artworks that increases (rather than decreases) potential experiences and readings, the last screening presents three recent video works from 'master collagist' and experimental artist Lewis Khlar, collaborative Canadian artist-duo Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, and Polish artist and musician Wojciech Bąkowski. This event is sold out on Eventbrite, so keep and eye on the event page for tickets becoming available.