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Snakes and Ladders by Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray

(5 stars)24 Apr 2008

Sometimes it’s more fun to ignore the explanatory gallery text and have a good look at the work. This seems an obvious enough way of dealing with art objects, but usually makes for lazy viewing and reviewing on the part of the critic. But it is…

Street + Gallery

National Gallery Complex, until Sun 4 May

(3 stars)10 Apr 2008

We walk past them everyday. Some of us slow down briefly and spare a few coins. But how many of us slow down and spare a thought for their hopes, dreams and concerns. For the ‘Street + Gallery’ outreach exhibition The National Galleries of Scotland…

Go west: Print The Legend

Go west: Print The Legend

(4 stars)13 Mar 2008

The idea of the American West once stretched out like a great virginal expanse of prairie, a fantasy only limited by imagination and the Pacific Ocean. This myth is not only an American obsession, but one that the whole western genre film-viewing world…

Doggerfisher

GROUP SHOW, Doggerfisher

(3 stars)13 Mar 2008

Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until Sat 26 Apr Doggerfisher’s annual group show brings together work by recent graduates and more established artists. Refreshingly, the gallery unites the six artists via an interest in formal concerns with space and…

Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius

Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius

31 Jan 2008

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY The name Ansel Adams is virtual shorthand for landscape photography at its finest. A shy child prodigy, home-schooled and self-taught to read and play music at the age of 12, the teenaged Californian first experienced…

Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz

Anthea Hamilton and Thomas Kratz

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

INSTALLED PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES Mary Mary, Glasgow, until 26 Jan There is a history of sexed-up artistic collaborations in 20th century art, a long line of cosy twosomes that come together for occasional aesthetic satisfaction. The work on show by…

Carol Rhodes

Carol Rhodes

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

Carol Rhodes’ meditative, repetitive approach to landscape painting could be linked to artists such as Friedrich, Corot, Monet or Cezanne, each in their own way sharing an obsession with the genre, though, as the artist Merlin James points out: ‘Rhodes…

Joan Eardley

Joan Eardley

(4 stars)4 Jan 2008

PAINTING Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, until Sun 13 Jan The peculiar psychology which leads many notable artists’ works to only truly be appreciated after they have died is hard to explain, with the premature passing of an artist lending an…

Openended Group: Moves

(3 stars)4 Jan 2008

INSTALLED DIGITAL FILMS CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 12 Jan After a spate of uninteresting exhibitions that have attempted to turn the CCA into a ‘major platform for electronic and digital work’, we are faced with another technologically interesting but…

Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake

(4 stars)29 Nov 2007

ILLUSTRATION Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, until Tue 1 Jan When you take an illustration away from the text it was created for, the lone image can quickly become a very dire prospect or can leave the viewer scratching their head…

Convulsive Illustration

Convulsive Illustration

29 Nov 2007

An exhibition of work that creates a ‘creeping feeling of the sinister and scabrous . . . in an attempt to keep the conventions of commercial art at pox-ridden arm’s length’. Twelve artists exhibit their work, including Georg Barber, Silvia Battista…

Jason Nelson

Jason Nelson

29 Nov 2007

PRINTMAKING, FILM The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 22 Dec The Collective Gallery’s annual New Work Scotland exhibition this year showcases, among others, the work of Dundee-based artist Jason Nelson. Born in the ex-mining town of Kelty…

Monika Sosnowska: Display

Monika Sosnowska: Display

(5 stars)29 Nov 2007

INSTALLATION / SCULPTURE Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 8 Dec Stripping architecture of its purpose and concentrating purely on the aesthetic possibilities of public space, the work of Monika Sosnowska plays games with the formalities of…

Roman Signer - Action man

(4 stars)29 Nov 2007

Since the 1970s Swiss artist Roman Signer has been making eccentric kinetic art, enlivening both himself and found objects with elemental forces such as wind, fire, water or explosives. At first glance, Signer’s clowning around seems to lack substance…

Ten Decades

Ten Decades

(3 stars)29 Nov 2007

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE City Art Centre, Edinburgh, until Sat 19 Jan Like a weighty history text, this commemorative retrospective, celebrating the centenary of Edinburgh College of Art, is exhausting. While seepage thankfully dapples its linear…

The Openended Group: Moves

The Openended Group: Moves

29 Nov 2007

FILM INSTALLATION CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 12 Jan In response to the CCA’s ethos of promoting electronic and digital work, the OpenEnded Group exhibits a series of ‘moving image’ works exploring the relationship between choreography, space and…

Thomas Houseago

Thomas Houseago

29 Nov 2007

SCULPTURE The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 5 Jan LA-based, Leeds-born Houseago makes his Glasgow debut at the Modern Institute with slashed and scraped figurative works, sculptures that amalgamate stylistic elements from Cubism…

Tom Phillips: A Humument

Tom Phillips: A Humument

29 Nov 2007

An exhibition depicting how Phillips transformed an obscure Victorian novel (A Human Document by WH Mallock) into a postmodern masterpiece. A Humument is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential artist’s books of the last 50…

Monika Sosnowska

Spanning the void

1 Nov 2007

Think of post-war Eastern European modernisation and what comes to mind? Invariably, it is the drab, rashly executed housing blocks, service pavilions, train stations and shopping centres that inspire Monika Sosnowska, leading the Polish artist to…

Roman Signer: Works

Roman Signer: Works

1 Nov 2007

Roman Signer’s sculptural happenings, devoid as they are of nostalgia, reference or history, are usually received with a marvellous grin. Conventional narrative is displaced by simple Signer happenings such as a floating plastic bag, a rolling barrel.

Duncan Marquiss: The Clay Wall

Duncan Marquiss: The Clay Wall

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

To see our insides on the outside disrupts our idea of self. Blood and vomit repulse us because they muddy our notions of the self/other split, and expose the fragile nature of our subjectivity. It is this state of troubled subjecthood, and most…

Gary Fabian Miller

Gary Fabian Miller & Edmund de Wall

(2 stars)4 Oct 2007

Repetition, when performed by the human hand, will always be peppered with tiny differences. This is evidence of man’s failing against the machine, yet there is, of course, unexpected pleasure to be found in human error. It is a subject of fascination…

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

4 Oct 2007

Duncan Marquiss: The Clay Wall Marquiss has quickly become a respected and influential artist working in Scotland, and has recently received a Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen Artists Film and Video Award to continue working in the medium of film.

Beyond the Surface

20 Sep 2007

California-based photographer Andrew Printer’s work explores issues of queer identity in relation to intimacy, risk and suspicion in a post-Aids environment (his ‘Touch Me’ series), and takes a sideways glance at the notion of queers being accepted by…

Bridge artwork bought for exhibition

7 Sep 2007

The National Galleries of Scotland has bought a photographic artwork of the Forth Rail Bridge, which will become the centerpiece of a new exhibition in Edinburgh. The work by German artist Dieter Appelt, Forth Bridge – Cinema.Metric Space (2002), was…

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