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Mary Lydon selected as Emerging Scottish Artist of the Year 2025

By Susan Mansfield, 30.10.2025
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Mary Lydon, ‘The Sun is low’ In loving memory of Yana Pavlova. Tapestry; wool, cashmere, cotton, 108 x 160cm

Glasgow-based Ukrainain artist Mary Lydon has been selected as the Fleming Collection's Emerging Scottish Artist of the Year. Susan Mansfield meets the artist as she prepares for the display of her work at Scotland House, London. 

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New Voices in Craft: Emerging Makers Recognised by Visual Arts Scotland

20.10.2025
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Silverware crafted by Scott Smith. CONTINUE READING

How Lies the Land? Folkestone Triennial 2025 Highlights Scottish Art

10.10.2025
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Hanna Tuulikki, Love (Warbler Remix). Photo by Matt Rowe.

Collective director Sorcha Carey’s knowledge of Scottish art shines through her curation of the 2025 Folkestone Triennial, with new works by Scottish artists Katie Paterson, Hanna Tuulikki and Rae-Yen Song. Susan Mansfield finds out more…

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Interview with Lindsey Mendick: Jupiter Artland Presents Growing Pains in Dundee

05.10.2025
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Lindsey Mendick at Growing Pains exhibition, Dundee.

Lindsey Mendick’s talks to Jennifer McLean about her new installation 'Growing Pains' - an imagined estate agency in Dundee and a deeply personal return to her teenage years, exploring class, identity and social mobility and the aspirations and fears of young people.

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Helen Douglas & Jake Harvey – Meeting Point within the Lewisian Review

22.09.2025
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Photograph of Lewisian gneiss from Meeting Point within the Lewisian.

Greg Thomas discovers Helen Douglas’s Sand Swept Rock and Jake Harvey’s sculptures in Meeting Point: within the Lewisian, on show at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist.

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Glaswegians Exhibition Brings Glasgow’s Hidden Photography Archive Back to Light

By Neil Cooper, 15.09.2025
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Neil Cooper speaks to Alistair McCallum about Glaswegians, the groundbreaking Cranhill Arts photography and poster project, as it returns to public view at Street Level Photoworks.

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