Scottish Art Events & Exhibitions: June 2024

June is a busy month for Scotland's art crowds, with the return of Glasgow International as well as Scottish undergraduate and graduate degree shows

Article by Harvey Dimond | 29 May 2024

The Glasgow School of Art’s undergraduate and graduate shows take place across multiple venues in the city from 30 May to 9 June, while Edinburgh College of Art's degree show opens a day later, on 31 Maycontinuing until 9 June. In Dundee, the Duncan of Jordanstone degree shows take place from 25 May to 2 June. In Aberdeen, The Gray's School of Art degree show takes place later in the month, between 8 and 15 June.

Glasgow International returns to the city this month after a three-year hiatus. Opening to the public on Friday 7 June, for the next two-and-a-half weeks over 45 exhibitions and projects will take place across Scotland’s largest city. Highlights include Camara Taylor’s exhibition [mouthfeel] and Delaine La Bas’s Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding at Tramway; artist duo Josie KO and Kialy Tihngang’s film and sculptural installation fir gorma at 5 Florence Street and Alexis Kyle Mitchell and Ima-Abasi Okon at 83 Portman Street. Performances and one-off events include American musician Kali Malone at Glasgow Cathedral on 21 June at 9pm.

Elsewhere in Glasgow, a new exhibition by Peter McCarey at iota, titled The Syllabary, features visuals, readings and streamings of a 3D poem in over 2000 parts. Opens 8 June and continues until 22 June. Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, illustrator Pirkó Édes will present an exhibition at Out of the Blue Drill Hall, which explores her experience of being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2022. You can catch Beyond My Forehead, a Star – Astrocytoma Diary between 24 and 28 June.