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Richard Forster - Untitled #54 (Seascape)

Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton @ Ingleby Gallery

Art :: Feature 03 Nov 2008

Rosamund West: On the floor of the Ingleby's Gallery 2 lies a spunk-like trail of mother of pearl droplets inset into the boards. This remnant of the inaugural exhibition, a fragment of Susan Collis’s subtly entrancing show of tiny interventions in semi-precio...

Kate Davis - Outsider, on at the Sorcha Dallas gallery

A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part II: Sorcha Dallas interview

Art :: Feature 01 Oct 2008

Rosamund West: Firstly I’d like to ask you about how you got here, what the steps were that you took to own your own commercial gallery just a decade after leaving art school? Well, I graduated from drawing and painting at Glasgow 10 years ago, and about six m...

A selection of Sandy's zines

Sandy Christie - Local Hero

Art :: Feature 05 Sep 2008

Paul Mitchell: "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Of course, Turner-winning art galactico Tracey Emin thinks American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley failed, as it were, to see the bigger picture, with her oft quoted perspective that "Taste cannot ...

Gilbert and George

When Art and Fashion Collide: Master Pieces

Fashion :: Art :: Feature 08 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Installation 1: Gilbert & George by Tatty Devine The biform, eccentric world of art stars Gilbert & George has been delightfully extended to incorporate a range by London-based jewellery geniuses, Tatty Devine. Highlights include gin bottle p...

Altered States of Paint

Altered States of Paint @ DCA

Art :: Feature 17 Jul 2008

Andrew Cattanach: Altered States of Paint is one of those rare curatorial gems not often seen outside of London. There is a certain implicit logic to the selection of works that is so understated that it can only be put down to curatorial intuition. And on first viewing...

GSA degree show

Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2008

Art :: Feature 07 Jul 2008

Andrew Cattanach: It’s the end of another academic year and the Glasgow School of Art is showcasing its recent graduates in the annual degree show. Another batch of Fine Art students are given over to the public gaze after four years of hard graft. The idea is tha...

Despair

A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part 1

Art :: Feature 07 Jul 2008

Daniella Watson: You would think that embarking on life in a creative industry would be all about focus and determination. And it is, naturally. But it is also necessary to bear in mind the need for survival without recourse to anything too soul-destroying, so it's a g...

Radiohead

GSA Student Turns Radioheads

Art :: Heads Up :: Feature :: News 24 Jun 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: Earlier this year, when Radiohead invited fans to remix tracks from their latest In Rainbows album for nowt, the response was vast and varied. It is unlikely, however, that any bedroom producer went to the extraordinary and ingenious lengths of Airdrie...

Dundee Degree Show 2008

Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show 2008

Art :: Feature 02 Jun 2008

Rosamund West: The first of 2008’s Scottish degree shows presents an expansive and riotous survey of Dundee’s new blood within the labyrinthine confines of Duncan of Jordanstone College. The scale of the show is truly astounding, even when compared to tho...

Asking For It

Asking For It

Art :: Feature 23 Apr 2008

Rosamund West: There has become something of a standard in the exhibiting of art made outwith the European tradition whereby the work of a variety of artists of common origin is imported and displayed in the apparently neutral surroundings of the pristine Western art...

Gi: Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art

Art :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

This month's Glasgow International Festival looks set to present a truly dazzling array of exhibitions, events and happenings throughout the city's wide variety of grassroots venues and alternative spaces. Now in its fourth year, the festival will next...

Print the Legend - The Myth of The West

Art :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

Rosamund West: For this grand Fruitmarket exhibition curator Patricia Bickers has brought together a truly stellar cast to explore her personal preoccupation with the Western. While the starting point is the filmic genre, the true line of argument lies in the notion ...

Studio Project 10 at the Market Gallery

Art :: Feature 06 Mar 2008

Rosamund West: Located in Glasgow's Dennistoun, the Market Gallery has spent the last eight years and several different voluntary committees, striving to create a reputation both for itself and for the artists to whom it offers exposure and a post-graduation space in...

Andrew Rae: Characters

Of Beasts and Machines

Art :: Feature 05 Feb 2008

Leigh Pearson, Rosamund West: Andrew Rae's illustrations will be recognisable from a wide variety of media including MTV ads, TV's Monkey Dust, and his own book 'Of Beasts and Machines'. London-based, he works as a commercial illustrator both freelance and within the Peepshow colle...

Smith/Stewart- Enter Love and Enter Death

Art :: Feature 06 Jan 2008

Rosamund West: Superficially, this should not be the kind of work which encourages verbosity. That, at least, was my first impression. Then, spending a little time in the rooms of Inverleith House, first alone then later, on a return visit, in company, it became appa...

SURVEY-ing past, present and future

Art :: Feature 07 Dec 2007

Jay Shukla: Hidden away at the northernmost tip of the city, the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has never been the most visible of institutions, despite its workshops and much sought-after studio spaces serving as the creative headquarters for some of Scotland's bes...

Where do we go from here? New Work Scotland Programme 2007

Art :: Feature 07 Nov 2007

Jenny Richards: When finding your feet post-degree show, away from student electro nights and the daily rush home for lunchtime Neighbours, the number one most loathed question must undoubtedly be: "So what exactly are you going to do now?" However, these words, loade...

Alex Hartley

Art :: Feature 08 Sep 2007

Rosamund West: Alex Hartley's solo show is a mixture of photography and installation over the two floors of Market Street's Fruitmarket Gallery - although some of the photography has small constructions imposed upon the surface of the prints. Does this render it inst...

Naked Ambition

Art :: Feature 09 Aug 2007

Jay Shukla: The Naked Portrait is a rather unassuming – almost modest - title for this summer's blockbuster exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. If it's nakedness you want, it's nakedness you'll get. In fact the NPG has given us a right eyef...

Aernout Mik - Shifting Shifting

Art :: Feature 10 Jul 2007

John Millar: This vital and necessary show at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh consists of four video based installations marked by a firm sculptural intelligence. The work of Aernout Mik is loaded with a fractal complexity, one meaning shifting into another an...

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