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Cycling Up the Hill with My Dad

Cycling Up the Hill with My Dad

(3 stars)9 Jul 2009

MIXED MEDIA This father and daughter exhibition features ceramics by David Heminsley and textiles by Claire Heminsley. The pair undertook a cycling trip together in order to start planning their joint exhibition. Intended as a contemporary show with…

Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth & André Thomkins

Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth & André Thomkins

(3 stars)11 Jun 2009

MIXED MEDIA Sculptures and drawings by Leeds-born, LA-based Thomas Houseago are exhibited alongside those of the late Swiss friends and collaborators Dieter Roth and André Thomkins. Nearly two generations apart, the artists enter into anachronistic…

Lorna Macintyre: Sentences not only words

Lorna Macintyre: Sentences not only words

(3 stars)11 Jun 2009

MIXED MEDIA Glasgow artist Lorna Macintyre exhibits silver gelatin prints, copper and wood sculptures, and a short looped video piece. ‘Naïve composition’ is a small black and white photograph which acts as a coda to an installation of four wood and…

Neil Clements: Built. Lacking

Neil Clements: Built. Lacking

(3 stars)14 May 2009

Formerly lauded for his painterly investigations into modernism and death metal, Glasgow-based artist Neil Clements evinces traces of a finely distilled practice. Gone are the guitars and idols; only Clements’ interest in formalist art production…

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

(3 stars)30 Apr 2009

This exhibition’s title is taken from a poem by Shelley but also references a song by post-punk group Scritti Politti. Glasgow-based artist Michael Wilkinson adds new cultural meaning through an intelligent array of aesthetic play. Encountering a…

Paul Wunderlich

Paul Wunderlich: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper From Six Decades

(3 stars)16 Apr 2009

REVIEW MIXED MEDIA Compass Gallery’s museum-style six-decade retrospective of this German-born octogenarian visual artist is a voice from the past, articulating the development of style, technique and medium across the last century and into this, and…

Stage Fright

Stage Fright

(3 stars)16 Apr 2009

Stage Fright is a collaboration between CCA and theatre company Suspect Culture exploring the nature of theatricality through the work of Luke Collins, Felicity Croydon and Sharon Smith (Max Factory), Jonny Dawe and Nick Powell (OSKAR), Graham Eatough…

Graham Fagen: Sombodyelse

Graham Fagen: Somebodyelse

(4 stars)5 Mar 2009

REVIEW MIXED MEDIA Living up to the promise of its name, The Changing Room’s move to the Tolbooth has led to the gallery’s being successfully reconfigured within a historic setting. In keeping with this theme of recontextualisation, Somebodyelse is a…

Alex Pollard and Clare Stephenson: The Dirty Hands

Alex Pollard and Clare Stephenson: The Dirty Hands

(4 stars)5 Mar 2009

MIXED MEDIA In this two-person show paintings, collages and free standing objects have been constructed into mise-en-scènes enabling fantastic characters to act out their scripts. Entering the space, one is immediately impressed. Brushstrokes of…

Timecode

Timecode

(4 stars)19 Feb 2009

MIXED MEDIA (GROUP SHOW) ‘Time’ may not seem like the most original theme for an exhibition, but in this case it’s, well, timely. 2009 marks DCA’s tenth birthday and their current show is designed to usher in a celebratory year culminating in the…

Eva Rothschild

Eva Rothschild

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Fri 19 Dec REVIEW SCULPTURE AND MIXED MEDIA You may experience a frisson of excitement upon entering Eva Rothschild’s exhibition at the Modern Institute. At first glance, it may seem that you’ve stumbled into…

Spencer Finch: Gravity Always Wins

Spencer Finch: Gravity Always Wins

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

MIXED MEDIA A little fluffy cloud made of translucent plastic filters hangs low, back-lit by a line-up of fluorescent tubes, recreating the summer afternoon light of Emily Dickinson’s home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Blue may be the saddest of…

Unreliable Witness

Unreliable Witness

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

MIXED MEDIA Who says the world isn’t flat? Not, one suspects, any of the six artists playing with personas, pseudo-science, imagined histories and parallel universes in a show that creates a set of brand new myths made in their own (self) image. The…

Alex Frost: Compassion Fatigue

Alex Frost: Compassion Fatigue

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

The packaging from healthy breakfast cereals, eye drops, tooth polish and intensive moisturising lotion may not sound like promising subject matter for contemporary art, but Alex Frost's excellent new exhibition consists of works based on just these…

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

Abraham Cruzvillegas creates work that reflects his upbringing in Ajusco, a district of Mexico City developed by migrants from the countryside attracted to work in the city's building trade, who used their knowledge to collaboratively construct their…

Mladen Stilinovi?: On Money, Zeroes, etc

Mladen Stilinovi?: On Money, Zeroes, etc

(4 stars)3 Jul 2008

MIXED MEDIA CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 19 Jul According to the Croatian artist Mladen Stilinovic, there is no art without laziness. A series of photographs entitled ‘Artist at Work’ shows his theory in action: Stilinovic lying in bed, looking melancholy…

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show

Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show

(4 stars)19 Jun 2008

MIXED MEDIA Edinburgh College of Art, until Tue 24 Jun Information overload, autonomy, inquiry, provocation and dissent. Not themes as such, but rather loose strands in the willfully disparate expanse that makes up this class of 2008…

Stranger on the Sea

Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show (Group Show)

(4 stars)19 Jun 2008

MIXED MEDIA Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 22 Jun While locating good work by up-and-coming artists at an undergraduate show can feel like you’re searching for a needle in a haystack, at the Glasgow School of Art MFA show, as might be expected, the work…

X (Group show)

X (Group show)

(3 stars)19 Jun 2008

MIXED MEDIA Recoat, Glasgow, until Wed 2 Jul The title of this group show in the intimate space of Glasgow’s Recoat shop-come-gallery is a reference to the venue’s tenth show, but it also suggests a lot about the work on display. There’s no apparent…

Michael Stumpf: Glöckchen Whiplash

Michael Stumpf: Glöckchen Whiplash

(4 stars)19 Jun 2008

MIXED MEDIA SCULTURAL INSTALLATION Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Sat 5 Jul There are two identical wall paintings, apparently of sunsets, in Michael Stumpf’s new exhibition. Why two sunsets, and no sunrise? Part of the strange mix of disparate…

Haptic

Haptic (Group show)

5 Jun 2008

MIXED MEDIA (DESIGN) The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Wed 18 Jun–Mon 29 Sep Kenya Hara, from Tokyo’s Nippon Design Museum, has suggested a new model for design: ‘Whilst affirming scientific progress, I would like to propose that we use not technology, but the…

Kirsty Whiten

X (Group Show)

22 May 2008

MIXED MEDIA Recoat Gallery, Glasgow, Sat 31 May–Wed 2 Jul Life can be tough for a young gallery, particularly when it comes to finding its niche. Yet, this has not been a problem for the team at Recoat Gallery, who are gearing up for their tenth…

Ernst Caramelle

Ernst Caramelle

(4 stars)24 Apr 2008

PAINTING AND MIXED MEDIA Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Sat 17 May Constructed from arrangements of geometric shapes, Caramelle’s paintings exhibit a judicious use of colour, which he uses to manipulate the illusion of perspective and space. While these…

James Green: You Are Still Here

James Green: You Are Still Here

(3 stars)27 Mar 2008

PAINTING AND MIXED MEDIA Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh, until Thu 10 Apr John Merrick, otherwise known as ‘The Elephant Man’, is the unusual starting point for Royal College of Art graduate James Green’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. What from…

Madonna considers split with Warner Bros

22 Aug 2007

Tour promoter Live Nation are aiming to tempt Madonna away from the only record label she has ever been signed to, with a deal that would encompass her recordings, touring, merchandise and other business needs. As the world’s biggest live event…

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