This weekend, Visual art

A local festival with a range of activities and musical concerts, exhibitions, craft fairs and a daily café and sporting competitions.

Contemporary hyper-realistic oil paintings created by the Nuneaton-born artist. The works are bittersweet touching on themes of nationhood, iconography and celebrity culture.

The RSA's 187th annual exhibition is on a theme of 'Between the Late and Early', and invited artists include John McLean, Ashley Nieuwenhuizen and Gabriela Fridriksdottir.

Showcase for graduates of DJCAD, working in a variety of media; a chance to see the work of future art stars of Dundee.

Make a wee silver trinket box and decorate it with embossed silver and coloured stones.

Lighting installations made from folded paper by Glasgow-trained designer Kyla McCallum.

A retrospective of the work of the photo-journalist, who worked for the Picture Post, featuring images of the second world war and the post-war experiences of ordinary people. Among the display are Gorbals Boys from 1948 and Holiday Camp, Yorkshire from 1953.

A weekly story reading event, brought to you by Simon Oldfield and Elizabeth Day. Each time, a new line-up of authors, artists, actors and cultural commentators read aloud from contemporary and classic literature.

A solo exhibition featuring a selection of images taken with subjects being submerged in specially-created giant water tanks. Recent subjects have included tropical butterflies and cut flowers.

Contemporary works in various media by graduating artists including Fatma Bucak, Juno Calypso, Robert Crosse, Nicky Deeley, Bee Griffith and Terry Ryu Kim.

Multimedia installation which creates a domestic space from a sequence of interacting, moving photographic images.

Works by 19th and 20th century British artists including the Glasgow Girls and Boys, the Scottish Colourists and the Bloomsbury Group, as well as works by contemporary artists.

Portraits from the century of Scotland's great transformation, 1750–1850, including Nasmyth's deliberately and stylishly unfinished picture of Robert Burns, Danloux's all-action portrait of Admiral Duncan keeping a cool head in the middle of a sea battle, Raeburn's picture of Walter Scott as king of the hill, before…

A display featuring rare costume and stage set designs from the era of The Ballets Russes, as well as porcelain works.

New works in paint and using images from National Geographic magazine, incorporating works made by children during workshops which the artist ran at Glasgow's Red Road Family Centre.

Debut solo exhibition by Glasgow artist exploring the concept of the 'sky pillar', by which the heavens supposedly communicated with the earth.

Abstract landscape-inspired paintings from Shetland.

Work by by HNC student photographers from Edinburgh College.

Art from third year students of the University of the West of Scotland. All work in the show is for sale.

Art exploring the mythical 16th century Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean.

Work by abstract autobiographical artist Lainey Waddell.

Photographs and large-scale graphic images produced by the London-based artist and first winner of the AzkoNobel Photography Award at the Royal College Of Art. His works rupture photographic conventions through manipulation.