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Visual Art, Issue 561

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The best exhibitions

17 Oct 2006

Callum Innes - From Memory An excellent exhibition of abstract canvases painted by the Edinburgh-born artist. The paintings demonstrate a solid awareness of the history of abstract art, drawing on the best elements of abstract expressionism, post…

No more multicoloured mud

It’s hard to please The List’s art critic, but one

16 Oct 2006

Is there a place for High Modernist Art in Scotland? Was there ever? ‘New York stole the idea of Modern art’, we are told hyperbolically by various writers, ‘and Scotland got left with the Scottish Colourists and their ilk.’

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Peter McCaughy

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas

(3 stars)12 Oct 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION This slick little show continues the annual ‘outing’ of the talents of GSA staff members. The exhibition is pared down this year, which means that there is space to consider the objects, enough room to look for…

Dalziel + Scullion

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, until

(2 stars)11 Oct 2006

FILM INSTALLATION The new exhibition The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer by Dalziel + Scullion at Kelvingrove continues their use of a minimal, ‘hands off’ approach to whichever medium they employ. This attitude is one of the most successful aspects…

Sue Spark - Confection

The Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh, until Thu No

(5 stars)11 Oct 2006

PAINTING A carved frieze high on the exterior of the Corn Exchange building shows the stages between planting and harvesting grain and its eventual route to market. The exuberant quasi-Baroque narrative is populated by putti-esque figures - small…

Andrew Sunley Smith - Migratory Projects

Andrew Sunley Smith - Migratory Projects

(4 stars)10 Oct 2006

INSTALLATION, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM Migratory Projects, by Australian artist Andrew Sunley Smith, loosely explores migration and survival, via records of journeys through Australia. Along with documentary photographs, items from the journeys are…

Douglas Gordon

Opposites attract

10 Oct 2006

I’m sitting in front of a blank screen, worrying about writing a piece on Douglas Gordon. I’m clear what I want to say: I hope to persuade sceptics and wavering readers that Gordon is one of the most interesting artists working anywhere in the world.

Nick Evans

10 Oct 2006

SCULPTURE Glasgow-based sculptor Nick Evans was the fourth artist to be awarded Tate St Ives artist in residence. Steven Cairns caught up with him before the opening of his four-month solo show to talk about his work, its developments and working in…

Robin Arsenault - Dinnae

UBU (off site), Glasgow, until Fri 20 Oct

(3 stars)10 Oct 2006

INSTALLATION As you enter the gloomy Dennistoun flat, the big band music of ‘Tap Your Troubles Away’ from Mack and Mabel rings out. A small circle showing dancing legs and feet is projected on a screen, as though we are peeping through a hole, but…

Scottish Collectives and Young Athenians

Establishing emerging art

10 Oct 2006

Visiting a gallery in Berlin recently, I arrived at an artist-led space, which, despite supposedly being open for an hour, was still closed. After strolling around and returning two hours later they were just opening shop, only to discover that their…

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