Art Events & Exhibitions in Scotland: September 2021

Early in the month, the newly refitted Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh will hold an online panel discussion event for their in-real-life retrospective exhibition of the work of sculptor Karla Black. Black's work combines cosmetics, over-the-counter medicines and packaging, with paint, plaster and paper, keeping them all as raw as possible. 8 Sep, 6.30-8pm, free; RSVP via Eventbrite

While Edinburgh Art Festival has ended, until 18 September the Festival exhibition by Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist Sekai Machache continues at Stills. Across drawing, performance, moving image, sound and photography, Machache’s exhibition The Divine Sky tells “a complicated history of lived and ancestral experience that sees Machache reclaiming space both physical and psychic.” Tue-Sat until 18 Sep, 10am-5pm, free

Throughout September, the painter Flo Brooks is showing in Tramway. His elegantly frenetic figurative paintings come from a semi-autobiographical narrative of queer and trans experience. In this recent body of work, titled Angletwitch, Brooks turns to rural South West England where he grew up, in particular the marginalised spaces and communities there. Tue-Sun until 3 Oct, 10am-5pm, free

On 17 September, the CCA in Glasgow unveils REFLECTIVE JESTER: IT'S JUST A FEELING, the first solo show of Christian Noelle Charles. Curator Alaya describes that the show “draws on [Charles’] personal history and connection to dance and jazz. The visual legacy of the Jester and jazz legends such as Cab Calloway become symbols for Christian to examine and locate her own expression and identity. This space of rehearsing, of watching and being-watched creates an appealing question of the overexposed self." Tue-Sat until 16 Oct, 11am-6pm, free

Also from 17 September in David Dale in Glasgow, there’s Kate Frances Lingard’s exhibition tender spots in hard code… fraught with potential, fragile with indecision. For this, Lingard has made a card game as a way into thinking about competition, collaboration and care in the digital commons. Thu-Sat, 12-6pm, free

Our September issue features an interview with the Okinawan artist Chikako Yamashiro, whose work potently responds to the traditions, culture and occupation of her homeplace. DCA will also host several online events as part of the exhibition, including an online reading group (23 Sep), an online screening of the film Chinbin Western (24-26 Sep) and a curator’s talk between Kirsteen Macdonald and Yamashiro (30 Sep). Exhibition runs until 21 Nov, Wed-Sun 11am-6pm (7pm Thu), free ticketed

On 23 September, LUX Scotland in collaboration with Tramway in Glasgow will host an outdoor screening of the works of Ukhumbula Khuphi (Where Do You Remember?) and Ukhumbula Kanjani (How Do You Remember?). These works powerfully put in question the architecture of Glasgow and its relationship with slavery and colonialism.