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In the wake of the 2011 Turner Prize nominations and ahead of the degree show season, we look at the legacy of the ECA and GSA

The legacy of Scottish arts institutions ECA and GSA

An examination as degree shows and 2011 Turner Prize approach

27 May 2011

When David Shrigley spoke in 2010 about how the arts institutions in Glasgow were crucial to his creative development, he may have been bemoaning the impending threat of arts cuts, but his intervention nonetheless speaks volumes about where art…

Simon Baker - Close-Up

Simon Baker - Close-Up

16 Oct 2008

‘I think you can probably see this exhibition on two levels,’ says Simon Baker, co-curator of Close-Up, a new show exploring the history of close-up photography. ‘There’s the obvious and rather marvellous aspect suggested by the scenes before us, which…

Simon Starling’s Project for a Masquerade

Simon Starling’s Project for a Masquerade

Complex sculptural meditation features a star-studded cast

3 Nov 2010

The pan-global plot of Simon Starling’s latest work is as labyrinthine as a Cold War spy thriller. The quiet elegance of the GSA-trained 2005 Turner Prize winner’s Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) / Mirror Room similarly references both real and…

Best of a decade: Respectable in the Noughties

Best of a decade: Respectable in the Noughties

2 Dec 2009

Much of the most powerful art produced in Scotland in the 1980s–1990s developed in angry reaction to the political situation and tapped into our radical, left-wing and egalitarian traditions – it’s no accident that the most popular works of that period…

Close Up

Close Up

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM ‘Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.’ The early 18th century poet Alexander Pope’s wrote that, perhaps in a moment of peevishness. Between Pope’s witticism and writer and critic William Hazlitt’s…

What is Life?

What is Life?

Scottish sculptors take on biological investigation

(4 stars)31 Jul 2008

Exploring a common interest in plants and scientific enquiry, Inverleith House curator Paul Nesbitt has drawn together works by Scottish sculptors Christine Borland, Graham Fagen and Simon Starling. In a bold and considered move, he’s chosen to eschew…

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