Alex Frost @ Sorcha Dallas
By Suzanne Neilson. Published 19 November 2008
The first gallery is sparse, containing only two works: a wall-hung ceramic mosaic of a cereal that claims to lower cholesterol, and, on a column in the centre of the...
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Gregor Laird @ Q! Gallery
By Lucy Nicholas. Published 24 October 2008A key motif in the stylised landscapes of Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals, the Edinburgh artist/designer/DJ’s offering to this year's Glasgay!, is that of mediation between apparently opposing forces. This motif...
Ernst Logar @ Peacock Visual Arts
By Jaco Justice. Published 22 October 2008The transparency of the Scottish oil industry is tested by Austrian artist Ernst Logar
Lila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
By Nancy Katz. Published 10 October 2008Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated annual exhibiting programme. For me, laughs...
RSA Research Exhibition
By Annika Kristensen. Published 09 October 2008Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Academy was, from its modest outset,...
Emergent Artists: Christy Cole And Manu Kurewa
By Sam Stead. Published 03 October 2008Of the hundreds of artists that step out of its doors each summer, Glasgow School of Art chooses to bring a couple back every now and again and showcase their...
Kate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
By Rosamund West. Published 16 September 2008A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the words “I...
Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller @ The Fruitmarket
By Nancy Katz. Published 18 August 2008Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good, invincible or scared shitless. This...
Alexander Heim @ Doggerfisher
By Jennifer Felton. Published 18 August 2008Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with earthenware bowls mounted at varying...
Andrew Grassie @ Talbot Rice Gallery
By Rebecca Pottinger. Published 18 August 2008Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brainstormers. Described as elliptical orbits, the disorientating shunt of...
MAGAZINE 08 - Positive critical imagination
By Nina Goldberger. Published 11 August 2008The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most prominent curators, Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis. I...
If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you @ The GRV
By Rebecca Pottinger. Published 25 June 2008For the next 30 days, climbing the stairs to the GRV’s Studio Two takes you right into the liminal spaces at the edge of humanity – or so the kids...
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2008
By Celia Sontag. Published 22 June 2008Make sure you capitalise on this opportunity to immerse yourself in Edinburgh’s largest creative melting pot
other things seen, other things heard @ Market Gallery
By Sam Stead. Published 20 June 2008It hits upon entering the space, the vinyl spoiler immediately forcing you to read the work in a very particular way. Which is a shame as the work presented here...
Lucy Skaer @ The Fruitmarket
By Mark Shukla. Published 09 June 2008Skaer'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...
Cornelia Parker @ Ingleby Gallery
By Rosamund West. Published 20 May 2008Cornelia Parker’s exhibition in the Ingleby Gallery forms part of the ambitious year-long programme of one-week exhibitions in celebration of the gallery’s tenth birthday. The stellar cast of the programme...
Rodney Graham Band - ABC - April 25
By Osmond Byrne. Published 02 May 2008Canadian ‘photoconceptualist’ Rodney Graham can’t, in his own words, “paint his way out of a paper bag”. He has, however, forged a successful career out of fusing such disparate artistic...
A. Vermin
By Jenny Richards. Published 23 April 2008The artist-run initiative A.Vermin has set up camp in The State, a dingy, wood-panelled drinking establishment. The show, entitled A Stranger Home and curated by Alhena Katsof, invites six artists...
An Exhibition In Waiting
By Nina Goldberger. Published 23 April 2008An Exhibition in Waiting at Glasgow’s Tramway is what will comprise Rachel Mimiec’s newest exhibition, Looking Out, Looking In. This temporary collection is the product of a two-year residency in...
Freee @ Collective Gallery
By Daniella Watson. Published 23 April 2008The tone of this exhibition is both meaty and rousing, drawing in visitors with a catchy simplicity reinforced by the use of primary red and blue emulsion paint as a...
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