Julie Brook is an artist whose work is inextricably linked to the environment that she inhabits; she is drawn toward a physical connection to the landscape through sustained observation and...
While there’s a lot of laughter in the faces of the ‘modern lesbians’ of Rachel Adams' new exhibition The Modern Lesbian at Contact, the overarching story is one of gay...
In the Cooper Gallery’s new show Estrangement, the work of four emerging international artists delivers a filmic installation that portrays a haunting, fragmentary view of the world. Larisa Daiga’s stone...
In the Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, a magnetised Jack Black accidentally erases all the tapes in Mos Def's video store. In a harebrained attempt to conceal this from...
From the mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth, the Arts and Craft Movement stood for artistic craftsmanship over the increasing superfluity of industrial mass production. The latest offering from...
The Jill Todd Photographic Award is a new national award for emerging photographers in Scotland. Jill Todd was a talented young photographer who tragically died of cancer in her 20s,...
There’s nowt like a right good blether with your chums. Artists, flatmates and bosom pals, Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid set up their popular radio show specifically to devote time...
Do you remember the future? It took place some time between the late Victorian period and the invention of the internet and was a kind of cult led by prophets...
Co-ordinated by Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh, Annuale 2012 looks to be as varied and exciting as ever, with plenty of grassroots arts events and activities happening all over the city....
Everyone knows we Brits have a mild obsession with social class. Though we congratulate ourselves that the class system is now eroding, artist Jeremy Deller recently starred in a BBC...
David Dale Gallery and Studios recently moved premises. From their old venue in Glasgow’s sunny Bridgeton area in the east end they moved all the way to Glasgow’s sunny Bridgeton...
Switching between autobiography and historical inquiry, the work of New York-based artist Moyra Davey was last seen in Glasgow at 2010's Glasgow International Festival. Her film My Necropolis (2009) was...
It seems only right that artist Scott Myles’ first major solo show in the UK would take place at Dundee Contemporary Arts. A Dundonian himself, Myles graduated from Duncan of...
You’re in safe hands with Generator Projects. The gallery’s inclusive ethos is so anti-scenester it deserves a medal. And it’s no coincidence that this haven of the weird and wonderful...
It’s that time of year again, when the cream of last year’s graduation crop exhibit at the RSA New Contemporaries. It’s where the public is introduced to some of the...
Artist Luke Fowler is best known for his documentary films about radical thinkers on the fringes of society. Made using largely found footage, his 2006 film Pilgrimage From Scattered Points...
Alex Dordoy graduated from the Painting and Printmaking department of the Glasgow School of Art back in 2007 and was soon picked up by the Modern Institute, who represent, amongst...
For 18 months Such and Such gallery has been an important element of the vibrant art scene in and around Leith Walk. One of the first spaces of its kind...
Artists & Designers: Fruit Tree Foundation Needs You! You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar array of Scottish songwriting and recording talent to make an...
Patria O Muerte (Homeland or Death). The subtitle, A Photographic Exhibition of Cuba, explains the seemingly simple premise behind this solo exhibition by Dundee photographer Ross Fraser McLean. In 2009...
