This Research Seminar brings together five scholars whose work is at the centre of recent investigations into the entangled histories of modern art, architecture and… Read More »24 April 2026: Entangled Histories: Art and Archives between Algeria and France, c.1945 to the present
How can we explore archives differently? What can we learn about our sources when we engage with them creatively? In what way does creative practice… Read More »13 April 2026: Stitching and Collaging the Archive: Creative Research Workshop
We are delighted to announce a special private viewing and visit to The Debtor’s Portal, the largest solo exhibition to date in the UK by… Read More »12 March 2026: Bahar Noorizadeh Film Screening and Guided Exhibition Tour
Wednesday 24 September 2025, 4pm to 5.30pm School III, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews Painter and filmmaker Elda Cerrato is one among several… Read More »24 September 2025: On Painterly Vitalism: The Work of Elda Cerrato at CAyC – Research Seminar with Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Screening and Q&A with Mara Polgovsky Wednesday 24 September 2025, 2.00-3.30pm School II, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews For seven days and nights… Read More »24 September 2025: Malintzin 17 (Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky and Mara Polgovsky, 2022)
22nd – 23rd of May 2025 The Centre for Global Postsocialism together with the Centre for Art and Politics and the St Andrews Centre for… Read More »22 May 2025: (Re)framing Crimea: Family Archives and Letters of Solidarity
Friday April 11th, 11am-1pm, Old Union Diner, North Street Join us for presentations, discussion, and an opportunity to look at modern and contemporary prints by African… Read More »11 April 2025: African and African Diaspora Printmaking in Scotland
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 1-2pm, Old Union Diner, 79 North Street The domestic plays a key role in photographic histories and contemporary photographic art practice.… Read More »22 April 2025: Domestic Relations, Domestic Rhythms: Contemporary Photography and the Home, Research Talk with Dr Jane Simon
The Centre for Screen Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Art, is delighted to welcome to St Andrews the artist and filmmaker Jyoti… Read More »16 April 2025: We Come In Peace, They Said: Film Screening and Q&A with Jyoti Mistry
Monday 14 April 2025, 4-5pm, Saunders Room, School of Art History, 79 North Street, St Andrews The growing popularity of the voice in contemporary art… Read More »14 April 2025: In the Labyrinth of the Mouth: The Voice as an Artistic Material and Medium, Research Talk with Dr Sandro Weilenmann
Join us to celebrate the last day of the Travelling Gallery exhibition Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu… Read More »21 February 2025: Between Women Closing Event with Jenny Brownrigg, Alicia Bruce, Christian Noelle Charles, Yanru Dong, Lydia Heeley, Weitian Liu and Alistair Scott
Between Women takes images made by the photographer Franki Raffles from her base in Edinburgh during the 1980s and 1990s as a starting point to… Read More »17-21 February 2025: Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu, Travelling Gallery Exhibition
An afternoon workshop for Pre-doctoral, Post-doctoral, and ECR researchersThursday 12 December, 2-5pmSchool of Art History, University of St Andrews, 79 North Street, Barns-Graham Room, or… Read More »12 December 2024: Researching Queer, Trans, and Feminist Approaches to Art and Visual Culture
Please join the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art for this talk and group discussion with Dr Magdalena Holdar, Senior Lecturer of Art History and Curatorial… Read More »22 November 2024: Curating the Classroom as a Studio
Wednesday 6 November 2024, 4:15pm to 6:00pm, School III, St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews We are delighted to be hosting Everlyn Nicodemus for… Read More »6 November 2024: St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art Inaugural Artist in Conversation with Everlyn Nicodemus
With Dr Grant Hamming, Dr Natalie Phillips and contributors to Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism, Friday, November 1 2024, 4-5.30pm, online. Join the meeting via this… Read More »1 November 2024: The Visual Culture of Trumpism – An Online Roundtable
Join us for this interactive Object Handling Session led by the St Andrews Preservation Trust, 3.30-5.00pm, Seminar Room 2, Arts Building, University of St Andrews,… Read More »6 June 2024: St Andrews and Empire: Object Handling Session
Learning Loft, Wardlaw Museum, University of St Andrews, 3.45-5.30pm BST (GMT+1)/10.45am-12.30pm AST. Free but please book tickets via Eventbrite. Please join us for this in… Read More »5 June 2024: A Hymn to the Banished – Artist Annalee Davis in conversation with Dr Jillian Sutherland and Dr Ariadne Collins
Thursday May 23rd, 2-4pm GMT Online (MS Teams) – http://tiny.cc/epn3yz Organised by the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the East African Museum of Art… Read More »23 May 2024: The Missing Link: The History of Eastern African Modernism Told by East African Art Historians
Saturday 23 March 2024, 2-4m Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4EA Fee, booking via Eventbrite We are living in a time that is… Read More »23 March 2024: Care, Healing & Regeneration, Looking North x Dundee Contemporary Arts