Head along to the Lughnasadh Music and Art Festival
https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/lughnasadh2025/
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The Garden
1-30 August. Entry free. Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP.
Artist Sian Davey and her son Luke spent three years transforming her garden into an immersive wildflower haven during which time their garden wall became a community space for shared stories. Inviting others in, they managed to capture moments of reflection, love and connection which lead to the birth of The Garden - a place for heartbreak, joy and everything in between.
https://stills.org/exhibitions/sian-davey-the-garden/
Coburg House Summer Open Studios
1-3 August. Entry free. Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6ET.
This summer Coburg House [[Art]] Studios marks a major milestone - 20 years since it opened its doors to the public for its renowned biannual Open Studios events. Coburg House is home to over 70 artists, designers and makers and across its four floors of working studios, visitors can discover a thriving hub of creativity that has become one of Scotland's leading artist collectives.
https://www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on#/open-studios/
Andy Goldsworthy - Fifty Years
26 July-2 November. Entry free. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL.
Taking over the upper and lower galleries in the Royal Scottish Academy building for the summer is Andy Goldsworthy's Fifty Years exhibition. There's over 200 works such as photographs, sculptures and expansive installations as well as several major new works that have been created onsite specifically for this exhibition.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/andy-goldsworthy-fifty-years
Into the Wild
26-27 July. Entry free. Leith Makers, 105 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NP.
Featuring work from three Edinburgh-based artists, this exhibition explores the natural, mystical and dark aspects of the world around us. Dani's work explores the relationships animals have with their natural environment while Dee's work imagines creatures tasked with curating natural spaces and keeping their inhabitants happy and healthy. Jim on the other hand is influenced by the darker, more feral parts of nature.
https://leithmakers.co.uk/
Switch Track
26 July-9 August. Entry free. Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ.
Victoria Morton – Switch Track (Image: Victoria Morton)
The period between 1995 to 2025 represents 30 years of painting since artist Victoria Morton graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, with this exhibition featuring a selection of works from that spell. It carefully draws upon sketchbook materials, paintings and mixed media works from different points in time. There's painting, sculptural assemblages, photography and sound work which covers the variety of Morton's practice.
https://gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/victoria-morton-switch-track/
Shifting Surfaces
28 July-11 October. Entry free. Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LT.
Immerse yourself in the inspirations and collaborations between Victoria Crowe and Dovecot Studios and mark a major milestone in the career of one of Scotland's most distinguished contemporary artists. Journey through a rich relationship of texture and textiles while overlooking Dovecot's studio where these masterpieces were created.
https://dovecotstudios.com/whats-on/shifting-surfaces
Millais In Perthshire
26 July-30 April 2027. Entry free. Perth Art Gallery, 78 George Street, Perth, PH1 5LB.
New for 2025, this exhibition is a private collection of rarely seen artworks and personal belongings of prominent Victorian artist John Everett Millais and his Perth-born wife Euphemia 'Effie' Chalmers Gray. As part of a long-term loan from the artist's great grandson, this display explores the profound connections between Millais and Perthshire, a landscape that inspired several of his most celebrated works.
http://www.culturepk.org.uk/millais
We are the Witches, We are, Hear
1-30 August. Entry free. The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, EH3 5BB.
Discover textile artwork from 70 female artists who aim to use their craft to challenge, disturb and disrupt. Running throughout the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the exhibition explores the concept of the witch as female divinity, female ferocity and female transgression.
https://www.thehouseofsmalls.com/
Eden
26 July-11 August. Entry free. The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow, G1 5HZ.
Rooted in the language of nature, Michelle Campbell's work uses the natural world as a source and platform to navigate and express her own experience of the world. The exhibition charts the meeting points between mind and matter, feeling and form, chaos and clarity and invites viewers to enter not only into the natural imagery but into a way of seeing, and sensing that is fluid, raw and vivid.
https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/events/eden-michelle-campbell/
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