ART HIGHLIGHTS

Tarek Lakhrissi

Accompanying his Festival-long exhibition at Collective is the oneoff BEAST!, a performance work by Lakhrissi which explores historical interpretations of gay people and those in the Global Majority as being somehow monsters.

n French Institute, 26 August.

Leonor Antunes

Germany-based Portuguese artist Antunes brings us the apparent length of a floor area with sculpture which aims to dismantle traditional boundaries between art, design and craft. nFruitmarket, until 8 October.

Lindsey Mendick

Tapping into Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde concept and the intensity of anxiety dreams is Shitfaced, Mendick’s first solo show in Scotland, which tackles troubling issues with candour and wit. n Jupiter Artland, 15 July–1 October.

Jesse Jones

Peter Howson

When The Apple Ripens is a large-scale retrospective of this London-born Scottish painter whose instantly recognisable work has covered areas such as the working men of Glasgow and war in Bosnia.

n City Art Centre, until 1 October.

Alberta Whittle

This largest showing of Whittle’s work to date, create dangerously makes connections with colonialism and climate crisis, particularly highlighting Scotland’s complicity in racial supremacy.

n National Galleries Of Scotland: Modern One, until 7 January.

The Tower is part two of a trilogy first launched at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Based on the writings of medieval female mystics, it explores stories of women who were murdered back then for the crime of heresy.

n Talbot Rice Gallery, until 30 September.

Mayflies

A clear TV highlight from last Christmas was the BBC’s adaptation of Andrew O’Hagan’s 2020 novel about lifelong friendship and what lengths you’d go to in order to help out a pal on the brink. Switching between rumbunctious youthful times and ‘sensible’ middle-aged lives (Tony Curran, Martin Compston and Cal MacAninch played three of the gang), it succeeded in being heart-breaking and uplifting all at the same time. O’Hagan is joined here by the drama’s screenwriter Andrea Gibb and executive producer Claire Mundell to discuss their journey in taking this story from page to screen.

(Brian Donaldson) n Edinburgh College Of Art, 22 August, 2.15pm.