Childhood Dreams: An Interview with Wendy McMurdo

By Greg Thomas, 01.06.2026

Wendy McMurdo. The Digital Mirror. Photo Credit Stewart Armitt. Courtesy of Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.

Ahead of an upcoming solo show at the National Galleries of Scotland's Portrait gallery, Greg Thomas meets the groundbreaking photographer Wendy McMurdo...

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Scotland + Venice is back

By Susan Mansfield, 18.05.2026

Bugarin + Castle, Nocturnal Amusements, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.

Scotland returns to the Venice Biennale after a four-year pause. Susan Mansfield writes from the opening of the Scotland + Venice Pavilion…

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Interview: Bugarin + Castle on bringing Shame Parade to Venice

By Lena Kammerer, 14.05.2026

Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.

Bugarin + Castle’s exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia explores the complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice. Lena Kammerer meets artists as they prepare for the opening of Shame Parade for Scotland + Venice, and learns about the diverse source material that has informed the show and how it all began with a silent cemetery in North Manila…

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Making art through the constraints of a structurally ableist world

By Shalmali Shetty, 02.05.2026

DCA, We Contain Multitudes, Install image. Photo Credit: Ruth Clark, courtesy of Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA).

We Contain Multitudes at Dundee Contemporary Arts shows ‘how bodies are shaped and constrained in different ways by the same structures’ writes Shalmali Shetty

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Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine at the V&A Dundee

By Shalmali Shetty, 23.04.2026

Leena Nammari with her artwork 'Absence does not mean forgetting'. Photo by Grant Anderson

The V&A Dundee’s exhibition brings together Palestinian hand-embroidered material culture from the 19^th century to the present day, with each object bearing witness to everyday life, identity, resilience and economic and political shifts. Shalmali Shetty visits…

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Unravelling the riddle of William Johnstone

By Beth Williamson, 19.04.2026

William Johnstone, 'A Point in Time' (1929/1937). © the artist's estate. Image credit: The National Galleries of Scotland

Beth Williamson, author of a new publication about William Johnstone, shares why a cultural biography tracing the life, influences and impact of this enigmatic Scottish artist and educator was long overdue…

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