Scottish Art Events and Exhibitions: February 2023

In Glasgow, Elizabeth Price’s exhibition SLOW DANS opens the Gallery of Modern Art’s 2023 programme. The three multi-channel video works explore the relationship between labour, class, fashion and gender in the UK, including the legacies of the mining industry. SLOW DANS continues until 14 May.

In Glasgow’s Southside, I’ve never met anyone quite like you before at Queens Park Railway Club brings together a kaleidoscope of works by contemporary painters based in Scotland. Open by appointment until March, the exhibition includes works by Neil Clements, Erica Eyres and Merlin James. 

Asuf Ishaq’s first solo show in Glasgow opens on 2 February at The Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Gallery. In Articles of Home, Ishaq revisits personal archives and draws on his experience of childhood migration to unravel themes of cultural and geographical dislocation and reinvention. The exhibition closes on 22 February.

At the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Into The Distance brings together a number of artists who have received the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award since its creation in 2006. As well as a presentation of new work by the 2021 award winner Paige Silverman, there will be current works by previous winners including Mina Heydari-Waite, Aleksandra Zawada and Shipei Wang. The exhibition continues until 1 March.

In Dundee, the Cooper Gallery at the University of Dundee presents an exhibition of works by the late filmmaker Harun Farocki. Consider Labour brings together a selection of the pioneering artists’ films and filmic essays, which think through forms of visible and invisible labour in global contexts. The exhibition opens on 3 February and continues until 1 April.