Visual art, Exhibition

Frances Stark: Collage

19 Mar 2010

But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet? Los Angeles-based artist, Frances Stark, uses collage on paper and canvas board to create gentle and visually pared down works which…

Glasgow Art Fair 2010

19 Mar 2010

Glasgow Art Fair Now back for its 15th year, Glasgow Art Fair has long painted a colourful canvas for those interested in buying and selling art, and this year looks set to be no different. Setting its trademark white tented pavilion in Glasgow’s George…

Laura Aldridge: Cats Are Not Important

19 Mar 2010

You cannot view this exhibition in any other way than through the lens created by its title: Cats Are Not Important. Glasgow-based, ex-Transmission gallery committee member Laura Aldridge exhibits knot-tied sculptures in pastel hues arranged against…

The Printmaker’s Art

19 Mar 2010

The oft misunderstood art of printmaking is represented here by masters of the craft, both Scottish and international. Visitors may struggle to find the darkened room down in the basement where the 30 plus collected prints are situated, but it is well…

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…

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…

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…

Love - Sorcha Dallas interview

Affair of the art

14 Jan 2010

As exhibition titles go, you could hardly get more intriguing or evocative than Love. Yet, as Sorcha Dallas, proprietor of one of Glasgow’s most exciting contemporary spaces, points out, the name of the gallery’s first group show of 2010 is more than a…

Garry Fabian Miller: The Colours

9 Dec 2009

There is something strikingly elemental about Garry Fabian Miller’s practice. Fascinated by the photographic process, Miller has received acclaim for his investigations into the possibilities of camera-less photography – an intrigue that reduces his art…

Salt of the Earth

19 Nov 2009

There are a few surprises at what might have been a straightforward showcase of some of Scotland’s famous faces by Craig Mackay. The first revelation is that not all the usual suspects are present, and the second is the inclusion of a few famous faces…

Bik van der Pol: It Isn't What It Used To Be And Never Will Be Again

Art out of nothing

15 Oct 2009

Dutch duo Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol’s current exhibition at CCA is the culmination of a two-month residency at Cove Park. There’s no beating around the bush here: it isn’t what is used to be and never will be again. Deal with it. Derived from…

Hitlist: Visual art

The fortnight's most fascinating artworks and exhibitions

15 Oct 2009

Running Time, Taking Liberties: John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, David Austen: My love, I have been digging up my own bones in the garden again, Torsten Lauschmann: The Darker Ages, Charlie Hammond: The New Improvement Scheme, Lara Favaretto, An Entangled Bank

The Enlightenments

Don’t expect worship of Enlightenment rationalism from the artistic crowd

21 Aug 2009

A curious exhibition, The Enlightenments. As the extra ‘s’ suggests, it isn’t a homage to the art of the 18th century, and it doesn’t offer a single rational view of what ‘enlightenment’ might mean. The catalogue for this year’s International Festival…

The Tale of Genji

Japanese woodblock printing

20 Aug 2009

Drawn from the Henry Dyer collection of Japanese art, this exhibition features reproduced pages from the 1857 woodblock printed album, Murasaki Shikibu Genji Cards, inspired by Ryutei Tanehiko’s serial novel Fate Murasaki and A Rustic Genji, itself a…

Visual Art Hitlist

Our pick of the week's exhibitions

14 Aug 2009

Self-Made Cavalcade, Milestone, Jane and Louise Wilson: Unfolding the Aryan Papers, The Creative World of Alan Davie, The Enlightenments, The Discovery of Spain, Eva Hesse: Studiowork

Top 5 Things To Do This Week

14 Aug 2009

Bloody Beetroot (clubs), Inglourious Basterds (film), Emergent Artists (Visual Art), Soulsavers (music), Christopher Brookmyre (books)

5 Questions for Go Reborn

13 Aug 2009

Five things to see and buy at go reborn A rotating showcase of work by Scottish artists, designers, writers and fashionistas. A temporary pop-up Godiva shop taking the best of designers and newcomers from Godiva Boutique. Furniture that charts…

Emergent Artists - Glasgow School of Art

13 Aug 2009

Four years ago, the exhibitions department at the Glasgow School of Art initiated a programme to support early career artists based in Glasgow. Selected artists are given the opportunity to exhibit new work in one of the beautiful high ceiling studios…

Made in God's Image

Defending the GOMA exhibition that brings together the Bible and the LGBTI

10 Aug 2009

Anthony Schrag looks a bit stressed out when we meet. It’s been a big couple of weeks for the Gallery of Modern Art’s artist in residence, for reasons you may well have heard of. Made in God’s Image, a community outreach exhibition he organised to…

Collaborative exhibition by Baldvin Ringsted and Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir

6 Aug 2009

The inside of a grand piano has been painted black and raised onto short legs. Black growth infiltrates its entrails. This is the first collaborative piece by Baldvin Ringsted and Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, and will form the central piece for their…

MAGAZINE 09: Creative Spaces

6 Aug 2009

Inspired by Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s plans to create an international centre for contemporary sculpture, three artists have been invited to explore the notion of creative space within ESW’s existing premises. The artists will particularly focus on…

Milestone

Provocative exhibition accompanying a live stone-carving project

6 Aug 2009

Entering the quad of the Edinburgh College of Art feels a bit like discovering yet another ill-placed tram construction site. The air is full of the drone of power tools, and dust clouds settle in your hair and mouth. Milestone is an unconventional…

The phenomenon of DIY art environments

6 Aug 2009

Ever since conceptualism broke through in the 1960s, regular gallery interiors, be they extravagantly antique pieces of architecture or ice-cool white cubes, have lost their power to imprison work within their over-bearing walls. In the last couple of…

This is Now: From Drawing to Contexture

Well-stocked ragbag from a new wave of textile artists

6 Aug 2009

The first impact of this show, and the most enduring, is the overwhelming urge to touch. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the artworks are more tactile than, say, a series of oil paintings.