Lucy Skaer @ The Fruitmarket

Skaer's largest solo show to date, and also her most convincing, this exhibition suggests the Glasgow-based artist's creative muse is moving into full blossom, the aesthetic rigour of her investigations making for a satisfying show that rewards contemplation. Recreating found images using a plethora of delicate and painstaking techniques, Skaer betrays a fascination with image as raw information - to be deconstructed, mutated and then reassembled. She attacks her subject with gusto; notwithstanding the masochistically repetitive nature of the methods used to achieve her ends, images such as The Great Wave (Expanded) - a monumental recreation after Hokusai composed of thousands of tiny black spirals - are sensitive statements that underline Skaer's deep interest in the mechanics of perception, memory and visual familiarity. Her sculptural work too, is both incisive and beautiful in the way that visual motifs are dilated along the third dimension; the source information sublimated by the very process of its expatiation. A show of real substance then, and an important milestone for this young artist. [Mark Shukla]