Scottish Art Highlights: April 2026

Despite the recent devastating blows to Glasgow’s visual art scene, artists and arts organisers are persevering. At Horsepower, a new DIY exhibition space in the East End, Unidentified Fabulating Object is open 10-26 April. This solo show by India Boxall unites sculpture, drawing, textile and moving image, and explores the interconnectedness of nature and artificiality through the metaphor of the moth. 

Meanwhile, Riso Club – an international postal project dedicated to risographs led by designer Gabriella Marcella – presents 400 designs from across the world in an exhibition at the Glue Factory Galleries (10-19 Apr). Alongside the vibrant display, RISO CLUB 100 will run a series of artist-led workshops to teach visitors about the risograph process.

At Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Gallery, Black Waters: Inference to The Veil draws on Black feminist methodologies and Black scholarship. The collaborative exhibition shows work by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery, two Glasgow-based artists, who situate Glasgow within postcolonial discourse and examine counter-strategies for resistance and refusal. On view until 25 April. 

Over to the capital, where Susan Aldworth undermines anti-immigration narratives in Belongings at Edinburgh Printmakers (2 Apr-28 Jun). Through her sculptural installation, Aldworth situates her grandmother’s migration over 100 years ago in the context of people seeking refuge from war and violence in the contemporary moment. Alongside, there will be a display of artworks created by migrant groups in Edinburgh. 

Extraction – a group show that examines how energy systems influence culture – opens at Jupiter Artland on 11 April. Featuring works by Irish sculptor John Gerrard, the late Carol Rhodes and French artist Marguerite Humeau, amongst others, Extraction taps into Jupiter Artland’s landscape, where traces of the shale gas industry, North Sea oil economy and contemporary renewables can be found. Runs until 26 July.

In Dundee, site-responsive artist Leah McDonald presents C’MERE at the artist-led exhibition space, Generator Projects. C’MERE probes the subjects of class and identity, and questions who has the right to engage with visual art. It’s open until 3 May.