This exhibition brings together a wide range of drawings from the revolutionary artistic period of the Italian Renaissance. Head along to discover 80 artworks from over 50 artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, alongside lesser known artists. There’s also 45 drawings on display that have never been shown in Scotland before.
From Life
18 October-1 November. Entry free. The Fine Art Society, 6 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6HZ.
Born in 1929 in Romania, artist Avigdor Arikha was forcibly deported to the concentration camps of Transnistria in the Second World War before being moved when he was 15 to Jerusalem where he was schooled and taught mainly by teachers who had escaped Germany. By the time of the 1950s, Arikha had already established himself among the artists and intellectuals of Paris. With family, friends and everyday life as his subjects, Arikha’s work is celebrated for its immediacy and spontaneity.
https://www.thefineartsociety.com/exhibitions/237-avigdor-arikha-from-life/
Above Ground
25 October-14 November. Entry free. Upright Gallery, 3 Barclay Terrace, Edinburgh, EH10 4HP.
Bringing together Andrew Radford’s assemblages and Susie Redman’s weavings, the artwork on show focuses on the natural and built environment as well as our impact on it. Radford’s works tend to reuse old food packaging to create tiles that are stained with natural colouring while Redman grows and gathers her own fibres along with natural objects to create intricate, sculptural woven pieces.
https://www.uprightgallery.com/
Marina Grize, Ditta Baron Hoeber and Olivia Ji
18 October-15 November. Kendall Koppe, 36-38 Coburg Street, Glasgow, G5 9JF.
This exhibition embodies a spirit of exchange and collaboration by showing the work of three different artists. The works on display cover a variety of artistic disciplines such as painting, drawing and photography to show the differing techniques of the three artists on display.
https://www.margotsamel.com/exhibition/ditta-baron-hoeber-marina-grize-hoeber-and-olivia-jia/
Afternoon Hearsay
18 October-7 December. Entry free. The Common Guild, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5 0YX.
Afternoon Hearsay is Peng Zuqiang’s first solo exhibition in Scotland and it centres on a new three-channel film installation of the same name, co-commissioned by The Common Guild and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. Accompanying the film visitors can explore ‘Deja Vu’, an installation combining film projection, text, sound, and a small clay sculpture and ‘Autocorrects’, a video installation that plays with the format of a pop music video.
https://thecommonguild.org.uk/
From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity
18 October-15 February. Entry free. Wardlaw Museum, 7 The Scores, St Andrews, KY16 9AR.
Scotland has its own unique place in the world and represents a nation that is constantly changing, and being changed, by its people on a local and global stage. Uncover Scotland’s identity through the creativity of its artists and see how Scottish art explores, expresses and embodies change.
http://boswellartcollection.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/from-these-parts/
Hard Edges Soft Layers
18 October-30 November. Entry free. Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, G1 3AH.
Glasgow based artist and writer Jessica Ramm explores vulnerability within motherhood in her exhibition at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. She has created new works that have come from her personal reflections, alongside research into female collective action, histories of witchcraft as well as portrayals of motherhood in art.
https://www.mhfestival.com/events/jessica-ramm-hard-edges-soft-layers/
Brave Spaces
18 October-8 November. Entry free. Trongate 103, Glasgow, G1 5HD.
Bazooka Arts and Glasgow Print Studio, building on the success of their partnership in previous years, have put together an exhibition of screenprints produced through their collaboration. The organisations worked together to deliver community-based programmes in North Lanarkshire that have culminated in this exhibition. The works on display explore the role creativity can play in fostering comfort and how the arts and creativity can support mental health and wellbeing, among other themes.
https://www.mhfestival.com/events/brave-spaces/
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
18-30 October. Entry free. Six Foot Gallery, Pentagon Business Centre, Washington Street, Glasgow, G3 8AZ.
Sandor Nagy was a Hungarian-born, Scotland based visual artist whose life and work were inseparably woven with his love of nature, his hunger for knowledge and his profound belief in the transformative power of art. Working across photography, painting, and land art, his practice combined a deeply personal vision with themes of ritual, myth and spirituality.
https://sixfootgallery.co.uk/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-sandor-nagy/
Do Not Disturb!
20 October-20 November. Entry free. Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8AP.
Each image on display is a collaboration between the individual and the photographer, conceived to depict aspects of their feelings, memories, fears and hopes – whether good, bad, indifferent, poetic or humorous.
https://www.mhfestival.com/events/do-not-disturb/
