Towards Heilprin Land @ doggerfisher

Ilana Halperin's exhibition at Doggerfisher, 'Towards Heilprin Land', takes the viewer on a visual journey to the frozen landscape of Greenland. Halperin has created a series of drawings, watercolours, etchings, photos, videos and text. Some are from a boat trip she made to Greenland, some from memory of a country she knows well from visits made while en route to New York from Glasgow, while others come from her imagination.

These images include cross-sections of icebergs, etchings of glaciers and video footage of ice-laden seas. Through these images she shows her interest in vulcanology, geology and geological time. The exhibition also includes a wooden panelled area, said to be a recreation of a section of the boat in which Halperin sailed to Greenland, complete with a cubby hole containing a world atlas and books on volcanoes and Polar exploration.

The whole exhibition expertly evokes the feel of the Polar North, helped by the timing of the exhibition. The wintry North Sea wind blowing up Leith Walk and the slate-grey skies visible from the gallery's skylights, coupled with the ice-white of the gallery walls, all help evoke feelings of an Arctic winter. Don't forget your scarf and gloves. [Michael Kynaston]