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Five reason to love... David Shrigley
17 May 2013
The 2013 Turner judges praise his ‘macabre intelligence and infinite jest’ - here's why we love him
He’s a homeboy at heart In an interview with The List in 2010, Shrigley spoke of his love of the Dear Green Place: ‘I moved to Glasgow as a teenager, and I’ve lived here more than half my life now. I don’t consider Leicester, where I’m originally from…
Peles Empire: F X G
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15 May 2013
Multidimensional reproduction of a Peles Castle's ceramic sculpture by established artists
One possible first thought upon entering the gallery and witnessing this exhibition is that its hanging doesn't appear to have been finished. Against the austere walls of this old industrial space, featureless rectangles of concrete hang unlabelled and…
Julie Brook's made, unmade
15 May 2013
Fascinating multimedia installation calling upon all senses to enter landscapes' wilderness
For this large-scale multimedia collaboration with Dovecot Studios, Julie Brook has attempted to bring the wilderness with her and site it within a darkened gallery space. Although she lives on Skye, it’s the hot desert tones and ambience of her working…
The Foamy Saliva of a Horse by Carol Bove
15 May 2013
Concise, erudite and illumaniting installation which will absolutely draw you in
This exhibition at The Common Guild presents Carol Bove’s work for the first time in Britain. With an adept and highly poetic consideration of the gallery space, the show displays a variety of found objects, from driftwood, peacock feathers and…
The Middle Place presented by Garry Fabian Miller
15 May 2013
Step into the timelessness of nature captured by the world acclaimed Bristolian photographic artist
The Middle Place is Bristolian photographic artist and gardener Garry Fabian Miller's personal viewing area from which he can eyeball the seasonal synergies which have made him an acclaimed international artist. It's best to start upstairs with this…
Ciara Phillips: And More
15 May 2013
Canadian-born and Glasgow-based artist presents new collection of screenprints
X marks the spot in Inverleith House's latest show in which a contemporary artist responds to work in the RBG's archival holdings of botanical-based art. Arriving just in time for the sun to belatedly shine, and running alongside 'Nature Printed'…
Outwork by Stephen Sutcliffe
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14 May 2013
Ambitious new show from the Glasgow video artist
One only has to look at the names on the spines of the books projected on the two large side-screens that flank a central one in Stephen Sutcliffe's large-scale film installation to get where he's coming from. Philosopher Jacques Derrida, semiotician…
Picture gallery - Animation Sketchbooks by Laura Heit
22 Apr 2013
The art book showcases the in-progress ideas from some of the world's most inventive animators
Creating any piece of animation requires a huge amount of work, most of which never finds its way before an audience. Academic and artist Laura Heit aims to change this by presenting the sketches of over 50 contemporary animation luminaries in her new…
Mariana Castillo Deball - What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch we kept
17 Apr 2013
Works based on anthropological detritus from Mexican artist
Anthropological detritus forms the bulk of 'What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch we kept', a new body of work by Mexican artist Deball, which was co-commissioned by Cove Park and the Chisenhale Gallery in London, where it transfers later…
David Batchelor's Flatlands highlights the artist's painted and drawn pieces
17 Apr 2013
Show of artist's two-dimensional work puts colour centre stage
Renowned for many years for his sculptures using lightboxes and pieces of reclaimed detritus from city streets, the Dundee-born, London-based David Batchelor didn’t show his drawings and paintings in public until a show at Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice…
Drawn Away Together
17 Apr 2013
Group show including work from Alan Shipway, Paul Keir and Rachel Barron challenges from outset
This group exhibition challenges from the outset. It opens onto what seems to be the back of Neil Nodzak’s ‘Unbuilt’, an installation of constructed wood and painted boards that surround the entrance to the gallery. You are immediately engaged by their…
William E Jones
17 Apr 2013
Film works based on archive documentary footage from Los Angeles-based provocateur
Three film-works by this Los Angeles-based provocateur take notions of power drawn from archive documentary footage, then, by recontextualising each one via collaging, cut-ups and other treatments, liberates them from their authoritarian…
Marilene Oliver: Confusao
17 Apr 2013
Impressive works of the human body based on MRI and PET scan material
In the accompanying literature, Londoner Marilene Oliver provides an impressively idea-packed insight into the layers of conscious metaphor in her work. One line has particular relevance to what she does: ‘playing with disillusioned promises that…
Rachel Mimiec: Plough
17 Apr 2013
Show that blurs the boundaries between community and solo practice
When GoMa's soon to be outgoing associate artist Rachel Mimiec led workshops with children at the Red Road Family Centre Nursery, her own line of inquiry with blocks of colour led to 'Plough', a body of work in which pages from issues of National…
Edinburgh Art Festival launches for 2013
16 Apr 2013
Packed programme features talents such as Robert Montgomery, Peter Liversidge and Christine Borland
It’s no small coincidence that as the sun finally appears, the Edinburgh Art Festival has launched its programme for 2013. Colourful and smile-inducing, the programme features great venues, major new solo exhibitions and some enticing new commissions…
Alexis Marguerite Teplin - He, Ho, HA, hmmm . . .
25 Mar 2013
Inflexible, unsubtle and flat exhibition of unapologetically abstract paint and sculpture works
Alexis M Teplin’s second exhibition at Mary Mary Gallery is an eclectic display of rough and unapologetically abstract works. With heavy modernist styling, the show consists of patchwork painting works, unstretched and impenetrable, and lumpy…
Scottish National Portrait Gallery offers kids a chance to Sleepover Under the Stars
22 Mar 2013
Storytelling, snacks and songs part of the gallery's special overnight event
Standing in The Great Hall at the entrance to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, you’re surrounded by, well, greatness. Busts and statues of important figures loom over you, while above your head, tiny stars cover the ceiling, reminding us of the…
Jutta Koether - Seasons and Sacraments
19 Mar 2013
Large-scale reimagining of Nicolas Poussin back catalogue
The back catalogue of 17th-century painter Nicolas Poussin isn’t the most obvious frame of reference for German iconoclast Jutta Koether, but when she was taken to see his The Seven Sacraments at the Scottish National Gallery, something clicked. The end…
Ongoing art project Economy explores relationship with commerce and transactions
19 Mar 2013
Meticulously curated two-site exhibition
Economy isn’t so much an exhibition. It’s not even two exhibitions. It’s an ongoing project, a conversation and a meticulously-curated attempt to build an echo chamber of ideas and artistic experiments about our relationship with commerce and the…
Tickling Jock
19 Mar 2013
Billy Connolly, Ronnie Corbett and Stanley Baxter feature in this comedic portrait exhibition
It would be thoroughly glaikit for anyone to criticise Tickling Jock for not including much in the way of the modern Scottish comedian. For this is very much a portrait of the way our nation’s funny men and witty women once were: knee-deep in the music…
Wendy Ramshaw: Room of Dreams
19 Mar 2013
Touring exhibition celebrates work of artist, designer and jewellery-maker
Reflecting Miguel de Cervantes’ belief that to ‘protract great design is to ruin it’, artist, designer, jewellery-maker and goddess of the festooned gate Wendy Ramshaw is contemporary applied art’s elusive matriarch. Ramshaw’s extraordinary career is…
Group exhibition Ink celebrates art of drawing
19 Mar 2013
Includes works by Rembrandt, Tiepolo, Guercino, Poussin, Goltzius and Alexander Runciman
This powerful exhibition showcases a variety of works from a diverse collection of artists including Rembrandt, Rubens, Piranesi and William Henry Playfair. From fast, energetic sketches depicting movement and form, to the meticulous draughtsmanship of…
Flickering Lights
19 Mar 2013
Rachel Maclean cartoon pop-vid bravura a highlight of film and video show
`Up in the Lower Church Gallery end of Summerhall, three very different video works are in motion as part of this superb arts space’s latest exhibition programme. David Bellingham’s ‘An Object Revolving Around a Day / An Object Revolving Round Events…
Programme for the Edinburgh International Festival 2013 puts artists and technology centre-stage
12 Mar 2013
Tod Machover, the Wooster Group and Oper Frankfurt among the EIF programme highlights
A crowd sourced orchestral work by boundary breaker Tod Machover is just one of the many highlights of this year’s Edinburgh International Festival programme. Set over three weeks this August, the EIF’s line-up includes an homage to Allen Ginsberg with…
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
19 Feb 2013
Astonishing archive of body-themed work including Sarah Lucas, Otto Dix and Matthew Barney
From the moment you step into the first corridor and meet an opening tease of Magritte, it’s hard not to be overwhelmed physically and mentally by this major mix-and-match collection of 20th and 21st century work. And that’s really how it should be for…
