Susan Mansfield

1 week ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

Landmarks - Border Voices: Alexander Moffat, Ruth Nicol, Alan Riach, Hawick Museum ★★★★Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, various venues, Hawick ★★★★Hawick can seem a long way from anywhere to the driver stuck behind a tractor on the A698.

1 week ago | artmag.co.uk | Susan Mansfield

How did you become an artist? As a child I loved drawing, I was quite obsessed about it. There was a big cupboard in the kitchen and I got myself set up in there with a little desk churning out reams and reams of drawings – always pictures of women. From school I went to Glasgow School of Art and then, in 2007, to the Royal College of Art in London. It never really occurred to me to do anything other than be an artist, I think I’ve always been quite single-minded.

2 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Dundee Contemporary Arts ★★★★★Depth of Field, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow ★★★★Metaphors of birth and nurture are common in descriptions of creativity, from the conception of an idea to the labour of bringing it into the world. At the same time, the notion has long been held (more by men than by women, it should be said) that actual conception and birth are enemies to art.

3 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

Walker & Bromwich: Searching for a Change of Consciousness, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh ★★★★Trading Zone 2025, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh ★★★Andrew J Brooks: TOLL – Five Years On, The Paper Factory, Edinburgh ★★★★Neil Walker and Zoe Bromwich have a well established art practice, but this is the first gallery survey of their work because their projects generally happen out in the world, after lengthy periods of social engagement.

3 weeks ago | scotsman.com | Susan Mansfield

After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024, Stills, Edinburgh ★★★★Christian Noelle Charles: Wait A Minute?!!, Glasgow Print Studio ★★★Francis Macdonald: My Dog & Other VIPs, Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline ★★★It was the economist Francis Fukuyama who described the fall of the Berlin Wall, the moment which marked the triumph of Western liberalism over Communism, as “the end of history”.