Events

All are warmly welcome to join us for this Lunch and Lecture with Professor Antawan Byrd, Hebdomadar’s Room, University of St Andrews, 12pm-3pm. Free but… Read More »8 June 2026: Being Seen Listening: Photography, Pan-Africanism, and the Public Sphere

All are warmly welcome to join us for this Artist Talk by Camila Ospina Gaitán on Monday 1 June 2026, 5.30-7pm, School V, St Salvator’s… Read More »1 June 2026: Camila Ospina Gaitán Artist Talk

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

Join us for a screening of The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing and workshop with Theo Panagopoulos and Hannan Jones on Thursday 2 April at 11.30am-4pm… Read More »2 April 2026: Unearthing the Colonial Flower Archive

All are invited to keep the *Week of Sustainability* going with a Mobile Print Studio workshop led by Curator Rachel Grant from Aberdeen’s Peacock &… Read More »23 March 2026: Net-Zero Press x @79 Makerspace POP UP

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

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

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