🇪🇺 Cinephiles - join the largest film jury in Europe. 🎬Watch & vote for your favourite LUX Audience Award nominee. 🔹Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen 🔹Great Freedom, by Sebastian Meise 🔹Quo Vadis Aida?, by Jasmila Žbanić 👉luxaward.eu ⏳ 25 May

Contemporary art can power social change and this year's Scotland + Venice PDP participants are ready to step up to the challenge of art changing the world. 👉 scotlandandvenice.com/news/press-rel…

My solo show Arusha Gallery is now on until 24th July in #Edinburgh ! Mike Darling, Tobermory Creative Scotland Women Arts Scot #art #exhibition #paint #peinture #arte #peinturecontemporain

More #Cromarty #Fishertoun must have been spoken in one day than for decades today, as dozens of visitors read aloud my #poem #Hunger in the #Courthouse garden. Very touched 🙏🌹. The #installation is still on tomorrow as part of the #OpenGardens w/e. Women Arts Scot #poetry

Absolutely fleeing at the fact my debut novel Weak Teeth is going to be published by Polygon Books next year! Thanks so much to editor James Crawford and my agent Sara Langham, I am so excited to share my dark and toothy book with folk 🦷🦷🦷 The Bookseller thebookseller.com/rights/polygon…

If you happen to be walking along an East Lothian beach this week there’s a good chance you’ll stumble across some incredible sand art being created by one of the nature artists at the European Land Art Festival. Artist Sean Corcoran at Tyninghame #ELAF2022 #SandArt #Scotland

Cornflowers and daisies - I’ve used a combination of wet and dry media in this one (acrylic, ink, pencil and collage)

The Blue Peter Book Award has ended. As a winner, I'm sad. It gave children a vote and a voice and it was accessible to children who are not often included in literary spaces. The closure has led to me deciding to do something very stupid. I'm thinking of starting a prize.

Prepping our Edinburgh International Book Festival workshop on memoir with Marjorie Lotfi Come and join us to read from/chat about thought-provoking books by Chitra Ramaswamy @ScribePedersen & catherine simpson Tickets still avail here bit.ly/3bJF8LT

Today we are delighted to announce the participants of Satellites Programme 2022 following our open call and selection process earlier this spring: Thomas Abercromby, Rabindranath X Bhose, Kaya Fraser and Matthew Rimmer.

Excitement in Orkney as we unveil Margaret Tait's new plaque in Kirkwall today! If you've never heard of Margaret Tait, read on to discover more about the life of this incredible avant-garde film maker and the first Scottish woman to direct a feature length film ⤵🧵

Need an unusual #ChristmasGift ? 🌲 Or how about treating yourself to an hour of arty/literary fun among like minds online? 🌲 Book now to join Eleanor Bird and myself on Dec 28th, or just save the date now and book later! 🌲🌲🌲 #TwelveDays Women Arts Scot eventbrite.co.uk/e/473483370507

“Dreams of my Washroom” 40x50cm - oil on canvas - is now available through the Royal Scottish Academy annual exhibition online❤️: rsaannualexhibition.org/artists/1289-k…

From spoken word to animated etching, this year's Annual Exhibition contains a diverse mix of inspiring moving image work, including Tatties and Typhoid Ham by Kate Steenhauer 🔗Explore moving image: ow.ly/KZUa50OzpLc 🎥Kate Steenhauer, Tatties & Typhoid Ham (excerpt)

Excited to be partnering with GalGael Trust one of the four organisations helping deliver our new 'Uncertain Futures' residency programme! 👉Artists will receive: Woodwork lessons Community garden Studio at GalGael Cumulative group exhibition! Apply:saltspacecoop.co.uk/uncertainfutur…

Admiring the haul from this year's Cymera Festival 🤩 Definitely glad I increased my book budget this year!

⌛There's just one week left to view our 197th Annual Exhibition!⏳ From printmaking to porcelain, bronze to birch plywood, the show celebrates a variety of mediums, and is the longest-running and largest exhibition of contemporary art in Scotland: ow.ly/mjgx50OEg76

Head over to Instagram from 12 noon for a celebration of the novelist, short-story writer & the first Black woman in South Africa to publish a novel, Miriam Tlali - courtesy of Illustration Students from DJCAD, UoD #OpenTheDoor #MiriamTlali Image below by Niamh Critchley