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ArtShop of Horrors: Rachel Maclean's Mimi in Perth
If you go down to Perth High Street today, you’ll be in for a big surprise. Amongst a string of shops, most of which sell products that capitali... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: March 2025
Lighter days bring a feast of visual art, as exhibition openings abound this month in Edinburgh. From 8 March, celebrate the centenary of Scottish artist Ian... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
ArtYoung Team: RSA New Contemporaries 2025 preview
How are emerging artists and architects responding to generation-defining moments such as technological advances, climate catastrophe and shifting cultural i... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: July 2025
From 12 July until May 2026, works by Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick and Robert Mapplethorpe are on view at the National Galleries of Scotland: Modern One.... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: December 2025
December marks the final chance to catch Shen Xin’s solo presentation at Collective, Edinburgh. Rooted in themes of migration and belonging, Highland E... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
ArtPoor Things @ Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Stepping into Poor Things at Fruitmarket, I run into the exhibition’s co-curator, Dean Kenning. After polite introductions, I nod towards a kinetic scu... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
ArtEdinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2023: The review
On the last day of the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) degree show, there is a palpable frenzy animating the campus. Visitors weave between extraordinary disp... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: January 2026
Supported by the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Partnership, Edinburgh Art Festival HQ is the temporary home to a quilt panel commemorating the life of Derek Al... Read more »| Updated 2 months ago -
BooksBest Friends Forever?: Sarvat Hasin on new novel Strange Girls
On the front cover of Sarvat Hasin’s Strange Girls, two women cram into a photobooth: their legs are suggestively in view, but they are cut off at the ... Read more »| Updated 11 days ago -
ArtIshiuchi Miyako: Capturing Defiance
Stills has been dipped in silver and a deep cobalt blue. Haunting photographs divergent in size have been waywardly hung, mimicking the disobedience of their... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
ArtA Mosaic of Memories: Norman Gilbert at Tramway
Walking into Tramway is like coming home. A colourful stew of nostalgia and sentimentality, it is hard to not feel warmed and nourished by the current retros... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
ArtGlasgow School of Art Degree Show 2023: The review
I love overhearing the honest thoughts of fellow exhibition visitors. Often witty in their reflections, sometimes these discussions feed into my writing beca... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
ArtSay No! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal @ Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews
At St Andrew’s Wardlaw Museum, Say No! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal foregrounds art as a protest tool. It’s an exhibition that mobilises yo... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
ArtPower Play: Inside Perth Museum's new Macbeth exhibition
A stone’s throw from Birnam Wood and Dunsinane Hill, Perth Museum became the permanent home of the Stone of Destiny in 2024. T... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
ArtGetting started in Scotland's art scene
Breaking into Scotland’s visual art scene can feel like a daunting task, especially if you have no direct contacts to show you the ropes. Fortunately, ... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: October 2025
Two DIY exhibitions arrive at artist-led galleries in Edinburgh this month, kicking off at EMBASSY. Open from 3 until 26 October, sculptor Lily Lavorato pres... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
ArtArt Night, Dundee: Shadowy sirens & sea creatures
This year’s iteration of the long-running Art Night was also its first to take place outside of London. Instead, Art Night 2023 was hosted by Dundee&rs... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
ArtMaud Sulter and The Living Archive of Diaspora
“It’s not a retrospective, it’s a continuation,” reflects writer, editor and curator Pelumi Odubanjo on the exhibition Maud Sulter: Y... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
ArtFragile Beauty: GLASS at Perth Museum
Perth’s relationship to craft runs deep. Once known as a ‘Craftis Toun’ in Medieval times, it has long been an epicentre of making, a ... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
ArtLinder Sterling's Alternative Aristocracy
At the time of writing this, the feminist-punk artist Linder Sterling is taking a scalpel to her source material to conjure a photomontage for The Skinny's M... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: June 2025
It’s degree show season, baby! By the time the June issue reaches you/the streets, you may just be able to catch the tail end of the Degree Show 2025 a... Read more »| Updated 10 months ago -
ArtBacks To The Wall: Glasgow, Community and AI Murals
When I first moved to Glasgow, I pieced together the city through its murals. Through my homesickness, I found Saint Mungo and his resurrected robin near the... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
ClubsThank You for the Music: Queer Elders’ Memories of Fire Island
Today, Scotland’s queer scene tends to be a pop-up affair, with the likes of Femmergy and Hot Mess making waves across the central belt, but there was ... Read more »| Updated 8 days ago -
ArtEdinburgh Art Festival: Jesse Jones’ The Tower
Inside a usually sun-drenched room at the Talbot Rice, a mesmerising ritual unfolds. Comprising a film, sculpture and performance, The Tower explores the int... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: February 2025
At The Hunterian in Glasgow, Digging in Another Time: Derek Jarman's Modern Nature (until 4 May) finds inspiration in the multidisciplinary artist&... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: April 2025
On 19 April, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood arrives at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Bringing together works by over 60 feminist avant-garde and contemp... Read more »| Updated 12 months ago -
FestivalsPortrait of an Erased Estate: Aqsa Arif's Raindrops of Rani
Aqsa Arif jogs my memory. It’s 2004, and in a flash between The Simpsons and Hollyoaks, a shot of grey, high-rise concrete buildings, scattered wi... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: September 2025
If, like me, you’re on an Edinburgh Art Festival comedown, then don’t fret. September will keep you busy with plenty of new exhibitions, pop-ups ... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase revival: Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊
We’ve been captivated by Rae-Yen Song’s practice ever since Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform in 2018. Guided by Daoism, the artist explores dias... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: November 2025
AI, the politics of surveillance and data extraction are the focus of a new solo exhibition by Felicity Hammond at Stills Centre for Photography. From 6... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago