Dreams of the everyday: paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston

By Greg Thomas, 04.07.2025

Andrew Cranston '(This infinitesimal twinkling of) tiny signs' (2021). Image courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery

Curated by feted desiger Jonathan Anderson, Pier Arts Centre's new exhibition brings together two celebrated painters from different eras, connected by their shared delight in ordinary, often domestic realities. Greg Thomas writes...

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John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture

By Lena Kammerer, 01.07.2025

John Bellany, 'Self-Portrait', (1965). University of Edinburgh Art Collection © The John Bellany Estate

John Bellany’s celebrated self-portraits serve as a powerful narrative device in the City Art Centre's current show, charting the artist's personal and artistic journey over five decades, from the early 1960s to his death in 2013. Lena Kammerer introduces five self portraits from the exhibition...

 

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Interview: Faisal Saleh, founder of Palestine Museum Scotland

By Neil Cooper, 11.06.2025

Haya Ka'abneh, 'Spring Mourning', (2024). Courtesy of Palestine Museum Scotland.

Palestine Museum Scotland has opened in the heart of Edinburgh's commercial gallery district. Neil Cooper meets the Museum's founder, Faisal Saleh...

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View of Aberdeen

By Lena Kammerer, 10.06.2025

William Mosman’s ‘View of Aberdeen'. Courtesy of Aberdeen Art Gallery.

"At its heart, View of Aberdeen succeeds because it does not try to mythologise the city. It does not sell a story of gritty resilience, industrial decline or windswept romance (though all of that is in there if you want to find it). Instead, it focuses on the human-scale details; the roller skates, the Tennents glass, the bakery sign, the photographs and paintings of the city and its people" writes Lena Kammerer for Scottish Art News...

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Meet the Gods

By Neil Cooper, 03.06.2025

Stone and Cupid Peekaboo, film still, courtesy of the artists

Commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery, 'Meet the Gods’ staged a one-day riot of living pageantry on the streets of Dundee, curated by Jeremy Deller and Laura McSorley, and planned in collaboration with students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and University of Dundee. Neil Cooper attends...

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Acts of Creation: On Motherhood in Art

06.05.2025

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, installation view, 2025, DCA. Photos by Ruth Clark

Curated by Hettie Judah, this powerful Hayward Touring exhibition addresses one of European art history's blind spots, presenting artworks that explore the true realities of motherhood. Jen McLaren reviews...

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