Visual art

But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet?

9 Mar 2010

Los Angeles-based artist, Frances Stark, uses collage on paper and canvas board to create gentle and visually pared down works which often leave large areas of the surface white and empty. She covers the rest with textual inscriptions and juxtaposes…

Dürer & Italy

4 Mar 2010

This new exhibition of engravings by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) focuses on the influence of the German artist on his Italian contemporaries, which included Raphael. The exhibition presents astonishingly detailed engravings and woodcuts by the…

Peter Liversidge: The Thrill Of It All

4 Mar 2010

Liversidge has built up a reputation on the back of his ‘proposals’ for artworks and this latest exhibition is a series written for, and realised at, the Ingleby. His suggestions to the gallery’s owners range from the tangible (proposing to paint the…

Year of the Tiger

2 Mar 2010

This giant flaming cat is currently stalking the north bank of the Clyde. The 12 feet tall mural has been painted along a Clyde Street wall, very near to the closed down Barfly venue, by South of England-based design company McFaul Studio. It’s one of…

Alexis Marguerite Teplin - 5cm Higher

23 Feb 2010

‘Femininity’ is central to Alexis Marguerite Teplin’s work, currently on show at Mary Mary. Refreshingly, this exhibition does not engage with depressing pastel coloured clichés of femininity, but contains art that expresses the ‘feminine’ in its most…

Lindsay Grime in Central Station showcase

23 Feb 2010

The List is teaming up with Central Station, the online hub for visual artists, to showcase some of the most promising young artists at work in the UK today. For the first in this series we’ve selected the work of illustrator and ceramicist Lindsay…

Martin Creed - Things

23 Feb 2010

There isn’t generally a lot of humour to be had in contemporary art exhibitions, but Martin Creed’s new exhibition at the Common Guild can be counted among the finest exceptions. Seventeen of Creed’s works, which are always numbered rather than titled…

New Diane Arbus exhibition set for Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

23 Feb 2010

If Diane Arbus hadn’t slashed her wrists in 1971 aged 48, who knows how her work might have developed. As it is, the New York-based photographer became an underground icon, lionised for her untimely death as much as the warts and all portraits of…

Life Long

18 Feb 2010

The Arches Off-Site strand continues with this peformance piece from Glas(s), which celebrates the 52-year marriage of Tillie and Ronnie Jeffrey, who met at Paisley Town Hall in 1952. The show movingly explores what it means to share a lifetime with one…

My Black Hole

17 Feb 2010

The second in a series of production residencies at Washington Garcia is a collaborative work by Glasgow-based artists Erica Eyres and Michelle Hannah. The pair spent the winter working in the gallery to produce a new photographic series as well as a…

Drawing for Instruction

10 Feb 2010

While the presentation at first appears haphazard, Drawing for Instruction draws the viewer deep into the space on a journey through an Edinburgh history of buildings, musical instruments and even the brain. Edinburgh College of Art displays a…

Duncan Campbell - Make It New John

10 Feb 2010

The iconic gull-winged DeLorean DMC-12 sportscar, famed for its appearance in the film Back to the Future, was the object of affection that triggered Glasgow artist Duncan Campbell’s initial interest for his new film. A nostalgic amalgam of 1980s…

New Territories 2010

10 Feb 2010

The cutting edge dance and performance festival returns to Glasgow for its tenth outing. This year’s programme of specially commissioned work by international artists includes premieres of work by Australian performance installation artist Fleur Elise…

Peter Liversidge - The Thrill of It All

Work in process

10 Feb 2010

‘I propose to give a motivational speech to Scottish business leaders.’ Hand-typed, darkly humorous and posted to the gallery, this proposition typifies London-based artist Peter Liversidge’s now established way of working. It sits among a host of 159…

Steffi Klenz: Nummianus

10 Feb 2010

Red-bricked Lego blocks build up seemingly endless façades of vacant terraced houses – boarded up, echoing displacement and post-industrial decline, they fail to bare remnants of the lives of previous inhabitants. These are the kind of dead houses where…

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution

3 Feb 2010

Warmly welcomed into the exhibition space by Shane Waltener and Cheryl McChesney Jones’ colourful ‘Stepping and Stitching’ you might feel comfortable enough to take a seat and knit or knot a contributory piece to this collaboration between an artist and…

Magne F: Alpha Beta

1 Feb 2010

While many people will remember Magne Furuholmen as the keyboardist in 1980s Norwegian band A-ha, few will realise that he has had a concurrent career as an artist, having first exhibited in 1989. This dual vocation has been a large part of his life…

Toby Paterson: Consensus and Collapse

1 Feb 2010

The fear of knocking over an exhibit – along with mistaking an artwork for a bench or a light switch for a sculpture – is a point of comic reference frequently bandied around in relation to the physical experience of contemporary art galleries. This…

Darren Banks: Soothsayers / Oonagh Hegarty: Tabloid Alchemy

27 Jan 2010

It’s Hell in there. Or at least it sounds like it. From the moment you step into Sierra Metro’s concrete darkness at the edge of town, you’re hit with a barrage of mind-melding visual and aural loops, from Italian goresploitation flicks to bug-eyed…

Alexis Marguerite Teplin - One foot in the past

26 Jan 2010

Voluptuous, salacious and lavishly overshooting the decorative, Alexis Marguerite Teplin’s paintings are as visually arresting as they are referentially dense. Boundless pleasures can be sourced from the unpacking of their rich montages, and the…

Vivienne Edgar: Nature With Nature Within

26 Jan 2010

Contemporary artist Vivienne Edgar uses mixed media and texture to explore the beauty, pattern and seduction found in nature in a unique way. The exhibition also features a ‘secret garden’ that will appeal to the more traditional eye by showing images…

New Faces

21 Jan 2010

Recoat kicks off 2010 with a group exhibition under the theme of Modern Character Design. The show highlights the importance and validity of this new area of design and development, and includes contributions from Elph, Andrew Rae, FiST, Jon MacNair and…

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution

20 Jan 2010

This touring exhibition brings together 19 contemporary practitioners to explore how craft practice can generate a modern and timely response to current social debates. Award-winning jeweller Esther Knobel and ceramicist Neil Brownsword are among the…

LOVE

19 Jan 2010

Love showcases the work of three artistic partnerships: Glasgow-based duo Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, married but independent artists Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton, and recently married ‘living sculptures’ Gilbert and George. The exhibition…

STHLM ‘go away to come home’

19 Jan 2010

Award-winning photographer Jannica Honey traded living in Sweden for an Edinburgh Uni photography course and the pleasures of Leith docks almost a decade ago. However, as her latest exhibition shows, the ideas of dislocation, remembrance and comparison…