Art in Scotland TV

Renowned conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, brings a text piece to the dry stone dyke wall of the garden at Lust and the Apple Gallery, in Midlothian. Curator and owner of the gallery Paul Robertson, muses over the message ‘This As …

Malcolm and Leel are young emerging artists from Korea who have been based in Scotland for the last few years. Attracted to the intimacy of hidden and inaccessible areas, Malcolm and Leel create small delicate interventions into buildings. Works will …

As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, artist Charles Avery creates an element from his fictionalised island, a project he has been working on for the last ten years. Focusing on the old port town of Onomatopoiea, Avery transports a …

The Talbot Rice Gallery hosts the first Scottish showing of work by Hanne Darboven (1941 – 2009), an artist who has drawn much interest and intrigue in her work over the years. Featuring a series of framed works from Darboven’s …

Fabienne Hess draws inspiration for her TRG3 project, Hits and Misses (from the archive), from the University of Edinburgh’s Collections, which have been undergoing extensive digital archiving since 2012. Hess has responded to the collection by creating three elements to …

Artist Sara Barker unveils her permanent commission for Edinburgh’s Jupiter Artland, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Barker works with a variety of materials and methods to create her sculptures, drawing inspiration from the outside world and organic …

Artist Anne Hardy takes familiar materials, objects and sounds and transplants them into the domestic space of the Common Guild gallery. By doing this, Hardy challenges our perceptions of these objects, and creates an environment that seems at once familiar, …

Artist Lauren Gault introduces a series of sculptures set within the grounds of Jupiter Artland as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Fusing her sculptural work with her interest in the resonance of ordinary materials, Gault has created a …

Artist Phyllida Barlow turns the Fruitmarket Gallery spaces upside down with a new series of large and dominant sculptures in her exhibition, Set, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. Responding to the spaces, Barlow’s monumental pieces sit, stacked, …

Inside / Outside Shelter / Play: Shelters in the hospitals’ campus, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Jephson Robb and Peter Richardson of ZM Architecture have designed three …

Director of Edinburgh Art Festival Sorcha Carey, introduces this year’s festival programme at a special launch in the Dovecot Studios. The festival takes place in venues all around the city, showcasing a mix of well known and up-and-coming artists, contemporary …

100 Flowers: Bringing Flowers back into the clinical environment, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The 100 Flowers project is a response to the restriction of real flowers …

Dignified Spaces: Supporting conversations – creating non clinical spaces, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The Dignified Spaces team was led by Alex Hamilton and included Fremi Arts, …

Since moving to the United States in 1975 and taking up American citizenship, Dublin-born Sean Scully has become established as one of New York’s leading contemporary artists. East Coast Light, an early work, was exhibited in Cork in 1973 during …

Generator Projects committee member Alison Scott, presents the gallery’s newest exhibition, Hold, Sway. Featuring the work of Scott Brotherton, Carla Scott Fullerton, Rosemary Hogarth, Hannah Lees and Laura McGlinchey, the exhibition explores the liminal space between sculpture and painting, and …

Graphics Bank: Involving children and young people in the personalisation of the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Four artists worked with …

Podium Landmarks: Supporting journeys and way-finding through busy corridors in the multi-use parts of the hospitals, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Graphical House, Haa Design and artist …

Beacon: Bringing the whole landscape of Scotland into the adult wards, one of six commissioned projects for the new South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion led a team of artists to …

Dorine Aguerre, Isobel Lutz-Smith & Marija Nemcenko present Home Away From Home, an exhibition looking at the ‘otherness’ that is often present in quite ordinary spaces. Located in an underground shop, the exhibition aims to peel back the layers of …

Cold on the outside examines the importance of dialogue among artists surrounding contemporary painting today. It focuses upon the work of five painters that has evolved through such discussions after spending an intense period together in rural Norway. Cold on …

Artist Lauren McGhee introduces Below, the other things we can talk about, at this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. A small blacked-out basement holds an immersive installation of video and objects choreographed by light. Light projection functions as a …

This house has been far out at sea is a group exhibition exploring language and the act of story telling. Artists and writers look at the process of story telling and its participatory values. This house has been far out …

Artists Collette Rayner and Robyn Benson present new work in their exhibition Structural Proposition ≥ Sensible Reasoning, which explores the transition between the proposition, representation and the actual. The work looks at the act of model making, ownership and craftsmanship, …

Artists Emily Shepherd and Ellie Harrison explore our relationship with money whilst eating food made to look like money. Based on the ethos of Death Cafe, a reproducible event on the subject of death in a cafe environment, MONEY M€AL …

Artists Callum Monteith and Alex Rathbone chose their favourite bar as the setting for their exhibition State of Mind/Hot Box, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. State of Mind/Hot Box was part of the Glasgow Open …

Artists Daniele Sambo and Hannah Brackston introduce their exhibition Yard, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. This exhibition will take the form of a structural installation occupying and re-imagining a front garden of one of the …

Through our work with Irish arts organisations and Culturefox, we have a special arts clip featuring the work of Scottish artist, Karla Black, at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art. Karla Black is regarded as one of the pioneering contemporary …

Birthe Jørgensen’s exhibition Riotous Exuberant Green and the Dutiful Beating of One’s Heart has come out of a recent residency at the Danish Institute in Athens, exploring the work and archive of surrealist Nicolas Calas, who was based in Athens …

Chris Macinnes has transformed his bedroom into a white cube gallery for the exhibition SimStim, as part of this year’s Glasgow Open House Art Festival. Working with three other artists, Stephanie Mann, Sam Dransfield and Aymeric Tarrade, the show featured …

Abigale Neate Wilson and Fionn Duffy introduce their work Bleachfield, based in and drawing inspiration from the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. The collaborative project (Alex Kuusik, Josie Rae Turnbull, Mikey Cook & Sharif Elsabagh also showing work) draws together research on …