Art :: Review 19 Nov 2008
Suzanne Neilson: 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 room, a small misshapen oven-baked polymer clay sculpture of a carton of rice milk. T...
Art :: Review 24 Oct 2008
Lucy Nicholas: A 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 is manifest in a variety o...
Art :: Review 22 Oct 2008
Jaco Justice: The metaphors come thick and slick in Austrian Ernst Logar’s Invisible Oil exhibition, understandable to a city whose life is traditionally dictated by the non-polar substance. A transparent oil barrel takes centre stage, and by its side Logar ha...
Art :: Review 10 Oct 2008
Nancy Katz: Lila 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 engendered here are inherently personal, linked to ...
Art :: Review 09 Oct 2008
Annika Kristensen: Concealed 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, always doomed to disappoint. Showcasing the work of ten artists...
Art :: Review 03 Oct 2008
Sam Stead: Of 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 progress thus far. In the third edition of the annual Emergent Artists programme, 2006 gradua...
Art :: Review 16 Sep 2008
Rosamund West: A 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 want” outlined upon the top, backwards. On the other side of the room stands a...
Art :: Review 18 Aug 2008
Nancy Katz: Everybody 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 exhibition does all these things. Now, admittedly for some...
Jennifer Felton: Heim’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 heights. These thick, earthy bowls hold jewel-like incrustati...
Rebecca Pottinger: Walking 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 the collection of photo-...
Art :: Review 11 Aug 2008
Nina Goldberger: The 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 managed to pick their brains for...
Art :: Review 25 Jun 2008
Rebecca Pottinger: For 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 from the MA Contemporary Art Theory at the ECA would like us to believe. With its wholly affi...
Art :: Review 22 Jun 2008
Celia Sontag: The mark of a strong ECA degree show tends to be measured by the extent to which the students can imprint the studios and spaces of the Lauriston Place building (and more recently Evolution House) with their own individual vision. They must, in a very ...
Art :: Review 20 Jun 2008
Sam Stead: It 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 is capable of engaging with a wider set of concerns than the link between memory and the o...
Art :: Review 09 Jun 2008
Mark Shukla: 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 contemp...
Art :: Review 20 May 2008
Rosamund West: Cornelia 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 includes such world-renowned names...
Art :: Review 02 May 2008
Osmond Byrne : Canadian ‘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 strands as sculpture, photography, ...
Art :: Review 23 Apr 2008
Jenny Richards: The 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 to respond to the unique venue, encouraging fluid inter...
Nina Goldberger: An 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 the Tramway’s very own Hidden Gardens,...
Daniella Watson: The 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 backdrop for the performance props and text on two of the gallery walls. Like the bill...
