August 2026 | Newsletter

Footage from a degraded colour VHS tape shows a drag queen dancing on stage. She wears yellow blonde hair, a white tiara and tutu dress against an embroidered blue curtain behind her. — Ingrid Ryberg, ‘An Army of Lovers’ (‘En armé av älskande’, 2018). Courtesy of the artist.

Our monthly newsletter includes news, our upcoming programme and up to date Opportunities, Recommendations and Resources. Find our August 2026 Newsletter by following this link.

Job Opportunity: LUX Scotland Learning Programme Manager

Opportunities Deadline 1 September 2026

LUX Scotland are recruiting for the role of Learning Programme Manager.

Making Myth from the Margins I Workshop with Moira Salt

Workshop 16 September 2026

Moira Salt leads this free workshop using myth and myth-making in the landscape.

'Dying images and queer utopian memory' | Ingrid Ryberg on Moving Images Within Precarious Structures

Writing

We invited author and director Ingrid Ryberg to respond to Moving Images Within Precarious Structures, framing the programme through her own research and filmmaking practice to consider how different modes of moving image and multiple layers of precarity demonstrate and resist the erasure and loss of intersecting cultural-political struggles.

Funding and scaling artists' moving image

Resources

Artists Tako Taal and Alexis Kyle Mitchell and film producer Pinky Ghundale respond to set questions on the subject of 'funding and scaling artists' moving image'.

August Advice Sessions

Event 14 — 20 August 2026

We offer free online advice sessions for artists who are based in Scotland and are not in education, aimed at developing a wide-ranging dialogue around your practice.

“the sensation of which was only ever more joy” | Jamie Crewe’s ‘Defiling Rain’

News 4 August 2026

In June 2026 LUX Scotland and the University of Edinburgh Art Collection took part in Glasgow International presenting a new experimental work and performance by Jamie Crewe.

Reflecting on MAXIMUM TILT: a festival of artists’ moving image

News 5 August 2026

Across Midsummer this year LUX Scotland and the University of St Andrews Department of Film Studies presented and hosted a new festival of artists’ moving image, MAXIMUM TILT, programmed by artists Andrew Black and Anne-Marie Copestake.

LUX Scotland Summer Closure 2026

News 15 July 2026

LUX Scotland will be closed from Monday 24 August for a summer break for one week.

LUX Scotland’s visiting lectures and tutorials

News 1 July 2026

LUX Scotland presents introductory talks and tutorials with students at Scotland’s Art Schools and Universities.

Image description: Footage from a degraded colour VHS tape shows a drag queen dancing on stage. She wears yellow blonde hair, a white tiara and tutu dress against an embroidered blue curtain behind her.