Scottish Art Events & Exhibitions: September 2023

On the Isle of Bute, Mount Stuart opens a major presentation by Glasgow-based artist and curator Sekai Machache titled Svikiro. Machache has created a series of short, gestural films that suggest alternative readings of the past and present, imagining a model for a decolonised future archive built on collaboration. The exhibition continues until 29 October. 

In Glasgow, as part of Platform’s Made in Easterhouse festival, Ashanti Harris will present A Carnival of Overlapping Histories, which will be on display until December. Made in collaboration with residents of North-East Glasgow, the exhibition celebrates Caribbean, African and Asian family lineages and communities and how they are entangled with Scotland’s own history. The exhibition opens on 9 September.

The Common Guild’s anywhere in the universe project concludes this month with a series of intimate sculptures titled FOR WHAT WE HAVE by Welsh artist Sean Edwards. Installed at Cardonald, Ibrox and Hillhead libraries, the sculptures reflect on the artist’s childhood memories of public libraries, drawing also on material from Glasgow’s archives. The gallery will publish a book on the project the following month, with contributions from writers including Chitra Ramaswamy and Lola Olufemi. Edwards’ sculptures are available to view until 30 September. 

Curated by 16 Nicholson Street, Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage brings together new and existing works by 14 womxn artists working with collage, alongside an emerging artists’ residency and publication. The exhibition features artists including Alberta Whittle and Claire Barclay and is on public display at Patricia Fleming Gallery until 16 September. 

iota, in Glasgow’s west end, opens a group show on 2 September titled From the Big Splash to the Last Splash Glasgow. The exhibition, curated by Toby Messenger, features artists including Beagles & Ramsay and Carole Gibbins and continues until 16 September.