Dirk Bell @ The Modern Institute
By . Published 25 January 2011
What starts with a bitten apple, is followed by a star, proclamations of freedom, love and freelove? Apparently, not just the Bible but also Dirk Bell's new show at The...
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Clusterbomb @ Patriothall Gallery
By . Published 20 January 2011Notwithstanding the occasional guidebook erroneously, and rather hilariously, describing Stockbridge as ‘bohemian’, it’s probably fair to say that the area’s art scene is bland and commercially focused. That’s why this...
Artur Zmijewski: Democracies @ Tramway
By . Published 19 January 2011Set against a backdrop of nationwide public concern over government funding cuts, and a heightened political engagement within the art world, Artur Zmijewski’s Democracies seems especially pertinent right now. The...
Michael White – So Miami!! @ The Duchy Gallery
By . Published 11 January 2011When is a lumpy plaster erection falsely elevated by a platform a challenge to the edifice of penis as phallic signifier, and when is it just another cock? With one...
A Little Bit of Magic Realised: Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
By . Published 11 January 2011In the words of photographer Matt Hardy, "Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph." Today’s world is...
Min Angel @ Corn Exchange Gallery
By . Published 07 January 2011Exploring the grey areas of life, language and perception through a mixure of drawings, sculpture and collage, artist Min Angel delves into the art of making art. Linguistic relationships and...
Ellie Harrison @ Market Gallery
By . Published 07 January 2011Looking through the wide windows of Duke Street’s Market Gallery the interior more resembles a shop window display than an art exhibition. The main attraction of Ellie Harrison’s piece is...
Childish Things @ Fruitmarket Gallery
By . Published 07 January 2011Pin-pricking the nostalgic bubble that surrounds our memories of childhood, the Fruitmarket Gallery’s latest show presents our formative years as an unsettling period of social conditioning, vulnerability and sexual taboos....
The Ethics of Encounter @ Stills
By . Published 05 January 2011Although set within the formal paradigm of the documentary film, the works in the second part of the Stills Gallery’s exhibition are not didactic or explanatory in their content. In...
New Work Scotland 2010: Nicolas Party & Catherine Payton @ Collective
By . Published 05 January 2011Successful conceptual art should (of course) contain a strong concept, but – crucially – it must convey that concept to the viewer. Unsuccessful conceptual art fails to engage the viewer...
Tacita Dean @ The Common Guild
By . Published 15 December 2010The Tacita Dean exhibition in The Common Guild is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland in over a decade and it’s worth making the trip to the gallery in...
Jonathan Horowitz @ DCA
By . Published 13 December 2010For the screening of Jonathan Horowitz’s 20-minute film Apocalypto Now, the audience is seated in a chamber that’s declared entirely carbon-neutral and impeccably eco-friendly. We’re gathered here to see a...
Midnight Clear @ Frame Creative
By . Published 10 December 2010Another art gallery is exactly what Edinburgh’s New Town doesn’t need. However, Frame Creative marks an exciting departure from the stuffy, often repetitive, commercialism to which its neighbours are prone....
Be the Hammer or the Anvil @ Generator Projects
By . Published 09 December 2010There’s an all new, all female, committee at Generator Projects, Dundee. Their first show, Be the Hammer or the Anvil, is a similarly all female affair that includes artists Rachel...
Laura Yuile @ The Duchy
By . Published 02 December 2010As with many independent galleries in Glasgow, The Duchy is an old shop front in the east end. A five minute walk from George Square, the gallery and its adjacent...
Another World @ Dean Gallery
By . Published 26 November 2010More of a way of thinking than a style, Surrealism encompasses sculpture, painting, literature, photography and film. Spanning several countries and evolving over almost five decades, it is a sign...
Simon Starling @ The Modern Institute
By . Published 24 November 2010Simon Starling's show at The Modern Institute is just the kind of essayist rubbish that I've come to expect from the 'vibrant' Glasgow art scene. I'm sure I'm supposed to...
Robin Thomson @ Generator Projects
By . Published 01 November 2010Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Robin Thomson returned to Dundee recently for a two-week gallery residency at Generator Projects, putting together an epic and immersive video and sculptural installation. This multi-screen...
New Work Scotland 2010 @ Collective
By . Published 25 October 2010New Work Scotland kicks off again, and first up we have considerably dissimilar Glasgow based artists Shelly Nadashi and Jacob Kerray. Originally from Israel, Nadashi graduated from the MFA programme...
Christen Købke @ National Gallery of Scotland Complex
By . Published 12 October 2010Sitting modestly beside the vast Impressionist Gardens exhibition at the National Gallery complex, one might wonder if the Christen Købke exhibition has received many visitors. Scarcely known outside his homeland,...
