11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
New exhibition to inspire young people to think and act creatively
Jupiter Artland's stunning Ballroom Gallery has been transformed into a zoo of hybrid animals formed from textile and clay. Artist Jonathan Baldock has transformed the likes of penguins, giraffes, crabs and elephants into fantastical hybrids of folkloric and mythological creatures. The title of the exhibition takes the old Norse word 'wyrd' to not just mean strange or different but as an exceptional otherness that is tied to destiny, fate and transformation.
Your Art World
10 May-2 November. Entry free. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL.
Young people across Scotland have created a dazzling range of artworks for this exhibition. Groups of school children have made inspiring installations while individuals responded to an open call to share their art with the world. At the heart of the exhibition is a goal to inspire and empower young people to think and act creatively while also trying to demystify the creative process and make art accessible to everyone.
Watercolours of our Beautiful Fife Coast
10-28 May. Entry free. The Scottish Fisheries Museum, St Ayles Harbourhead, Anstruther KY10 3AB.
Yolande Kenny's latest exhibition in Fife has been inspired by the coastlines in the kingdom. Her artworks include small details and portray stories, particularly of how the local animals and birds relate to people going about their everyday lives. Each scene on display in her paintings exemplifies how we all fit into the world together.
Works in Progress
10-15 May. Entry free. Whitespace, 76 East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, EH8 9HQ.
Works in Progress is an exhibition of collaborative artworks by students at the University of Edinburgh. The works on display were created through, and in response to, a series of intergenerational conversations between each pair of students. The exhibition aims to foster dialogues between different student populations and raise awareness for the unique challenges faced by older students.
You're a House of Many Rooms and All the Secrets Deep Entombed Within You, I Know a Few
10-13 May. Entry free. Sett Studios, 127 Leith Walk, EH6 8NP.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the artists on display have explored ideas and meanings around parts of ourselves and other people. Each of the artists on show uses a different discipline to explore the theme making for a vibrant and diverse exhibition.
Grid
10-18 May. Entry free. Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Leith, EH6 6ET.
Grid is a collection of exciting new works from painter and printmaker Alan Chapman and contemporary jeweller Eleanor Symms. Discover multi-layered, complex and vibrant artworks that combine structure and geometry with colour and impression and see how these two disciplines can come together.
Solange Pessoa
10 May-22 September. Entry free. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE.
Solange Pessoa (Image: Solange Pessoa)
A major new presentation from one of Brazils' most renowned living sculptors is on show at Tramway. This solo exhibition is her first major presentation in a UK institution and consists of large-scale sculptural forms made from ceramic, bronze and Hebridean fleece produced between Glasgow and Minas Gerais, Brazil. There's several clusters of sculptures set up around the vast gallery space that have all been inspired by diverse materials and forms ranging from seedpods, nests, plant life, erratic boulders and Scottish bronze age standing stones, to large-scale sculptures from raw sheep's wool.
DIG 2025: RADIOMATON
14-17 May. Entry free. 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE.
Delving into truth, construction, media contamination, fake news and the body's role in perceiving information, RADIOMATON is an immersive, participatory digital installation that invites participants to step into a photo-booth-like cubicle where they are challenged to simultaneously repeat words from a live radio broadcast and mimic on-screen gestures.
Julie Brook: Artist talk and screening
16 May. Entry from £6.50. The House Arts Collection, 108-110 Napierhall Street, Glasgow, G20 6HS.
Since 1989 Julie Brook has been living and making artwork in remote landscapes in Scotland and has also made sculptural interventions in landscapes further afield - working in Italian and Japanese quarries as well as different parts of the desert in Libya. Brook is holding a talk, presentation and screening of a short selection of some of her work on film as well as a short documentary of her life and process.
Coming Storm
10-11 May. Entry free. Leith Makers, 105 Leith Walk, Leith, EH6 8NP.
Coming Storm (Image: Esther Cohen)
Artist Esther Cohen has put together a collection of hand painted tiles, some created back in 2023, as well as new works made this year. Combining her love of dramatic landscape painting with her father's heritage as a respected ceramicist, Cohen has produced original hand painted tiles that capture the beauty of the Scottish seascape and landscape. Alongside the original tiles, the exhibition has a number of woodblock and limited edition prints to discover.
