A giant spider has landed in Perth as part of a new link-up with the prestigious Tate Modern gallery.
The alien-like creature was created by renowned French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, best known for her sometimes terrifying large-scale structures.
It features in a new exhibition of her work at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, which has been loaned from the Tate in London.
The display has been brought to Perth as part of the Artist Rooms initiative, which put outs more than 1,600 modern and contemporary works, jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, to museums across the country.
The aim of the programme is to encourage more young people to check out the displays and get involved in creative projects.
Since Artist Rooms was launched in 2009, more than 40 million have visited more than 150 displays at around 75 galleries.
This is the only chance to see the Bourgeois works in Scotland for the foreseeable future.
Rhona Rodger, senior collections officer at the George Street museum, said: “We have been so excited about hosting this exhibition.
“When you get up close to the pieces you can really see the work that has gone into them,” she added. “They are incredibly beautiful and quite awe inspiring.
“Its difficult to say how many visitors this will bring in, but we do expect the display to be very popular.”
Bourgeois, who died in 2010 aged 98, is described as one of the world’s most influential artists.
Often autobiographical, her work explores themes such as birth, childhood, death, love, loss and fear.
Although her career spanned seven decades, she was most prolific in later life when she created her famous spider sculptures.
When a version of the Spider sculpture sold for £6.6 million in 2011, it became the most expensive artwork created by a woman.
However, that sum was eclipsed when the 9ft-high arachnid was re-auctioned at Christie’s for a record-breaking £22 million in 2015.
One of Bourgeois’s final projects involved a series of watercolours in collaboration with British artist Tracey Emin.
The exhibition at Perth runs until November 18.
