Hopepunk at the Abertay Digital Graduate Showcase 2021

The Abertay Digital Graduate Show features a smorgasbord of brilliant projects. There are over 100 digital projects in the online exhibition, which spans videogames, interactive technologies, animation, digital design, and more. These are all created by the honours students at Abertay University’s School of Design and Informatics. This year, the showcase was held at V&A...

Art Night

Art Night is a festival that utilises unusual public spaces to bring art to those who might not normally set foot in a gallery. Starting on 18 June and running until 18 July this year’s festival includes a series of billboards by Guerrilla Girls, as well as new work by Alberta Whittle, Isabel Lewis, Oona...

Staring Death In The Face – Jo Spence: From Fairy Tales To Phototherapy

On a recent trip to Bristol I was introduced to the Arnolfini, the main contemporary arts centre and gallery in the city. On the day of my visit a number of exhibitions were taking place, including A Picture Of Health: Women Photographers From The Hyman Collection and Jo Spence: From Fairy Tales To Phototherapy.  I...

Pretty Ugly: A Non-Binary/Trans Masc Perspective

The Pretty Ugly exhibition at Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow, is the first ‘women’s art’ show I’ve been to since I came out as non-binary/trans masc. I’ve inhabited the borderland between female and male before, but this is the first time I’ve been affirmed by my peers. So much has changed since the last time I tried...

After The Dinner Party, Saltspace

After so many months of empty galleries and cancelled shows it was a relief to step into Saltspace Gallery on the High Street, Glasgow on 27 April and see some real-life physical art.Curated by Saltspace member Lesley McDermott, an art teacher and visual artist currently studying at Glasgow School of Art, the show was a...

Let’s Climb Through This Grief Together: Emma Talbot’s Ghost Calls at Dundee Contemporary Arts

“Let’s climb through this grief together. It’s so much bigger than us. The sorrow of our age, the sorrow of all time… Do you hear ghost calls?” the large silk painting asks, as it stretches across the gallery floor. “A teary lament for human existence, a shout out to the living to take more care...

A Trace Is Not Enough, In Defence Of Tracing

Last summer I bought myself a tracing pad, basically a slim lightbox that I could comfortably sit and trace on. It was about £50 from Hobbycraft and I love it intensely. I am also a little bit ashamed and embarrassed every time I use it.Tracing is controversial in the art world. It’s one of those...

Talking About Writing What She Said

I attended my first Frieze Session while painting. In my new studio I set up my laptop and half-listened to Amy Sillman in conversation with Andrew Durbin; an hour long Zoom interview between the prolific New York painter and the new editor of Frieze art magazine – one of the upper echelon of visual art...

The Women Who Sculpted Scotland’s Public Art (Who I Hadn’t Heard Of Before This Week)

One of my favourite things about public art is discovering the artist (and story) behind pieces you’ve been walking past your entire life. As my interest in sculpture has deepened so too has my curiosity. Here are five Scottish female sculptors whose names I learnt this week. Hannah Frank, b. 1908Hannah Frank was an artist...

The Honesty of the Money Shot: An Interview With Hannah Beresford

Would you open an OnlyFans account for your art practice? Gray’s School of Art master’s student Hannah Beresford’s increasingly sexually explicit paintings have led her to the platform, the first artist we’ve come across using the site in such a way. Here she talks to Ana Hine about the role of the artist in the...