Visual art, Issue 559

Torsten Lauschmann

Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Fri 6 Oct

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND FILM There is something refreshing about an exhibition by an artist that can be read as a strong collection of differing voices and styles, avoiding the rush towards self-branding that most art workers take. Torsten…

Callum Innes - From Memory

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 Sep-19 Nov

PAINTING Abstract painting initially appears to have had a tempestuous and polarised history of either obsessively concealing or proudly parading its own creative process. From Mondrian’s sleek matrix paintings, to Pollock’s grandious splatterings…

Jeremy Deller - Edited rushes

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 23 Sep-28 Oct

FILM AND INSTALLATION It would be easy to start this small preview with the words ‘2004 Turner Prize winner’, but it’s much better to let it nestle near the middle of a the first sentence next to a comma. The fabric of Deller’s work unfolds like a…

Artbeat

Gossip, chat and rumour from the gallery floor

Congratulation to Craig Mulholland for being awarded the Scottish Arts Council and Screen and Artists Film and Video Award. The money will go towards developing his successful experiments with digital film, evidenced in his exhibitions at last year’s…

Hitlist

The best exhibitions

Killing Time Graham Fagan and Graham Eatough collaborate on an excellent project that brings together theatrical elements, installation, performance art and sculpture. The artists set up dramatic situations that references plays by Osborne, Beckett…

Group 7

New art from a collection of artists who have previously shown in the Pentagon. The work includes a series of small landscapes by Stuart Mackenzie, figurative art by Craig Peacock, new work from Ernesto Vaz, cityscapes by Martin McInally, and work from…