Art worth seeing
14 January 2025
Despite tough times for the arts and uncertain funding, Scotland’s galleries are continuing to stage interesting and ambitious exhibitions. Susan Mansfield selects some of the must-see shows of 2025.
Susan Mansfield
All about the art?
8 November 2024
As the Turner Prize turns 40, some critics are suggesting it has run its course. Susan Mansfield visits this year’s show to gauge the health of the UK’s biggest art prize.
The invisible magic of design
13 September 2024
As Scotland’s national design festival gets underway in Dundee, Susan Mansfield explores how we became a design-conscious nation.
CloseUp: Lesley Franklin
30 August 2024
Lesley Franklin explains to Susan Mansfield how she made the leap from art collector and school principal to running the Fraser Gallery in St Andrews.
The Best of the Fests
30 July 2024
With the world’s largest arts festival happening in Edinburgh in August, the only question is where to start. Veteran festival critic Susan Mansfield selects highlights for Artmag readers from across the Festivals.
All Things New
11 June 2024
As another new generation of artists bursts out into the world, Susan Mansfield picks some of the art highlights from the Scottish degree shows.
The New Philanthropists
13 May 2024
As public funding for the Arts hits the doldrums, Susan Mansfield meets some of the individuals and organisations who not only collect art but choose to support artists to do what they do best.
Many Happy Returns
12 April 2024
2024 is a bumper year for anniversaries. Susan Mansfield invites galleries and art organisations celebrating significant milestones to pause for a moment’s reflection.
A Celebration of Craft
19 March 2024
As Scotland’s makers take their work to the UK’s international showcase of craft, Susan Mansfield visits London to take the temperature at Collect 2024.
CloseUp: James Knox – Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation
9 October 2023
James Knox is director of the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, which is the largest collection of Scottish art outside Scotland
All in the mind
6 October 2023
The links between creativity and mental wellbeing are long established, but complex. Some of the participants in this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival talked to Susan Mansfield about what making art means for them
Back in the frame
1 September 2023
Markéta Luskačová, whose extraordinary work is currently on show in Edinburgh, is just one of a number of pioneering women photographers who are at last being recognised for their achievements. Susan Mansfield finds out more.
CloseUp: Andrew Haughton
1 September 2023
Andrew Haughton is owner and manager of The Nomads Tent in Edinburgh, which directly imports ethically sourced carpets, rugs, furniture and artefacts from the Middle East, Asia and North Africa.
New directions
11 August 2023
Director of Edinburgh Art Festival Kim McAleese spoke to Susan Mansfield about the changes she has made, and how she hopes to make the Festival stand out in a crowded marketplace.
CloseUp: Andy Fairgrieve
4 August 2023
Susan Mansfield meets the man coordinating a major Scottish programme of international artist residencies.
Changing the tune
4 August 2023
Nicola Benedetti’s first programme for the Edinburgh International Festival reveals a determination to make concerts more accessible, but she must be careful not to alienate the faithful.
Photographing Eardley at Kirkcudbright Galleries
10 July 2023
Kirkcudbright Galleries’ new exhibition features Glasgow artist Joan Eardley’s paintings, and sheds new light on the artist’s life by way of photographs taken by her friend Audrey Walker.
Minding the gap
7 July 2023
While women now outnumber men by 2:1 in art schools, opportunities are far from equal in the art world. Susan Mansfield looks at two exhibitions addressing the gender gap.
CloseUp: Pinkie Maclure
7 July 2023
Pinkie Maclure is a contemporary artist working in stained glass. Her debut solo exhibition, Lost Congregation, is currently at CCA in Glasgow.
CloseUp: Juan Cruz
2 June 2023
As part of our series of Gallery-related profiles, Juan Cruz, principal of Edinburgh College of Art, talks to Susan Mansfield.
A one-night wonder?
24 May 2023
As Dundee prepares to host the first ever Art Night to take place outside London, we ask if 24 hours in June can pave the way for a new way of experiencing contemporary art.
CloseUp: Lucy Askew
24 May 2023
As part of our series of Gallery-related profiles, Lucy Askew, Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, talks to Susan Mansfield.
Bring on the Talent: Scotland’s 2023 Graduate Shows
22 May 2023
This is the time of year when Scotland’s new generation of creatives display their final year’s work in diverse disciplines around the country.
