Scottish Art Events and Exhibitions: August 2022

Edinburgh Art Festival continues throughout August, with five core commissions and a plethora of exhibitions and events taking place as part of the partner programme. Highlights include Platform: 2022, a group exhibition of four emerging Scotland-based artists, and Pester & Rossi’s sited installation Finding Buoyancy at Bridge 8 Hub at Wester Hailes. 

At Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, the collectives Cooking Sections and Sakiya present In the Eddy of the Stream, a collaborative endeavour that draws attention to the breakdown of ecosystems through the destruction of plant life and the subsequent harm caused to human and animal life. The exhibition continues until 18 September. 

At Glasgow's iota, Rowena Comrie presents RADICALITIONISTS, where she channels forgotten or dismissed social revolutionaries through the medium of abstract painting. Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions present ROOM, a graduate exhibition led by thirteen students from the 2020 cohort of the school’s MLitt Fine Art Practice course. Until 10 September, CCA Glasgow holds We Are Compost / Composting the We, an exhibition by a trio of artists: Alexandra Toland, Asad Raza and Désirée Coral.  The three artists create separate works entangled with one another by an identification with the cyclical nature of the composting process. 

At Dundee Contemporary Arts, Manuel Solano opens their first solo show in the UK on 27 August. The Berlin-based artist uses painting to recall and celebrate the formative moments of youth and how family and popular culture influence them. 

In partnership with Street Level Photoworks, The Rockfield Centre in Oban is exhibiting Fishing the Minch, a series of photographs documenting everyday life in Stornoway by David Gordon, shown in their entirety for the first time since 1980. The exhibition continues until 13 August.