Doors Open Days East Renfrewshire 21-22 September. Entry free. Various locations across East Renfrewshire (see event website for details).
The Doors Open Days festival hits East Renfrewshire this weekend giving you access to loads of interesting places completely free. Some of the highlights include Barrhead Foundry, Eastwood House, The Carswell Centre and Studio Two Six One, among others. https://www.
doorsopendays.org.uk/ OST! 21 September-2 November.
Entry free. Ingleby Gallery, 33 Barony Street Edinburgh, EH3 6NX. Richard Forster is known for his meticulous, photo-realistic pencil drawings which have been featured in distinguished collections worldwide, in galleries such as the TATE in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 comes to the fore in his latest body of work that sees him return to working in sculpture and on paper. https://www.inglebygallery.
com/ (Image: Richard Foster) ‘Fragments of a Method’ 21-22 September. Entry free. Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2 Dawson Road, Glasgow, G4 9SS.
Between 2020 and 2023, artist Elke Finkenauer drew and described 5,279 things from her studio following three rules: embrace mistakes; avoid new purchases and bypass value-judgements. The result is a mixture of gestural, fast drawing captured on repurposed and cast-off paper. http://www.
glasgowsculpturestudios.org/ Intentional Pauses (and Unforeseen Gaps) 28 September. Entry free.
Dundee Contemporary Arts , 152 Nethergate, Dundee, FF1 4EA. This exhibition/workshop offers emerging artists the opportunity to programme screenings and events as a way to explore and interrogate new ideas in a collaborative and supportive environment . https://luxscotland.
org.uk/programme/events/intentional-pauses-and-unforeseen-gaps-season-1 Two Step: Exhibition 21 September-11 January. Entry free.
Platform Glasgow, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow, G34 9JW. Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor began their collaboration after meeting and discovering one another’s practice while on residence at the Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover in 2017. Since then, their similarities have generated a trust in creating together.
For their latest exhibition, they’ve used the vast scale of the exhibition wall, as well as site specific areas around the building, to celebrate their two-step collaborations. https://www.platform-online.
co.uk/whats-on/event/1036/ Return of the Native 21 September-4 October. Entry free.
Birch Tree Gallery, 23A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QQ. Inspired by the poem by John Killick, and building on the success of the 2022 exhibition at Birch Tree Gallery, this exhibition explores the profound synergy between poetry and visual art. Each artwork in this exhibition was conceived and created in response to the rich imagery and emotional depth of the poem.
https://birchtreegallery.co.uk/return-of-the-native/ Falkland Art Trail 28-30 September.
Entry free. Various locations across Falkland. The artists and crafters of Falkland are inviting visitors to explore their studios this month.
Spend the day in Falkland wandering between studios and discover new work, get insight into the creative process and even perhaps purchase or commission a piece of art. https://www.facebook.
com/groups/2001509686851001 In and around campus 21-29 September. Entry free. Macrobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA.
To mark his retirement, Peter Hancock has put together a selection of photographs taken in and around the university campus since his arrival in 1987. Hancock’s aim in his photography is to make people look again at how beautiful our world is. There’s landscapes and wildlife, snow, mist and moonlight.
https://www.macrobertartscentre.org (Image: Peter Hancock) The Creature Collective 21 September-2 December.
Entry free. V&A, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ. Artist Donna Wilson has spent 20 years making this display that embodies a sense of nostalgia and the playfulness of childhood, storytelling and folklore.
Head along to meet over 100 creatures, all of which have been made by hand and are brimming with the artists’ lifelong passion for craft and making. https://www.vam.
ac.uk/dundee/whatson/events/donna-wilson-s-creature-collective Design Dispensary 21-29 September. Entry free.
V&A, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ. Delving into the inspirational work of local designers and their processes, Design Dispensary showcases four free zines produced by writer-in-residence Sam Goncalves and designer Martin Baillie. Take a deep dive into the work of local designer Hannah Sabapath and discover the bookend’s role as a decoratively functional object at home and in the workplace, all part of Dundee’s Design Festival.
https://www.vam.ac.
uk/dundee/whatson/events/dundee-design-festival-the-design-dispensary.
