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Dundee's Ignite festival 2012 showcases theatre, contemporary art and dance
16 Apr 2012
Featuring Jon McGregor, Scott Myles and Boris Gerrets
As if the launch of the Edinburgh Art Festival programme was not sufficient this issue, visual art innovations are going on right across the country. Internet megalith Google has launched a partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland to bring…
Glasgow International 2012 - 8 Scottish-based artists to watch
29 Mar 2012
Featuring Christine Jones, David Galletly and 85A collective
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns this month with some of the best-known names in contemporary art showing their work in one of the most vibrant cities in the world. To mark the festival’s launch we’re celebrating the success of…
FOUND and Aidan Moffat collaborate on new project #Unravel
29 Mar 2012
Installation based on events from Moffat's life
As the old saying goes, there are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth. Or in the case of Aidan Moffat’s latest storytelling project, there is his version, her version, and somewhere, maybe lost forever in the mists of time, the…
Jeremy Deller on Sacrilege - interview
29 Mar 2012
The Turner Prize-winning artists discusses his latest exhibitions, including one for the GI
This is what Jeremy Deller will say, pre-embargo, about Sacrilege, the large public artwork that he’s unveiling on Glasgow Green as part of Glasgow International: ‘It’s a large public art work.’ This is what he will say if you try the Cunning…
Jennifer Gregor, organiser of A Little April Foolery - opinion
29 Mar 2012
Events are being staged in opposition to restrictive event licencing laws
Imagine a country where every artistic event, from painters exhibiting a few pieces in cafés to readings in bookshops, had to be licensed. Even if it’s tiny. Even if it’s free. That could be Scotland after 1 April. New legislation on Public…
How to become a lomographer
29 Mar 2012
Six quick steps to becoming a hipster snap artist
Follow the rules The 10 Golden Rules set down at lomography.com provide some helpful guidelines in regards to stylish snapping. They are: Take your camera everywhere you go Use it anytime – day and night Lomography is not an interference with your…
Profile: Music, fashion and wedding photographer Kat Gollock
29 Mar 2012
The Edinburgh-based photographer on her approach to photography
I can remember the first photo I took that someone commented on. It was of my dad standing in front of some usual holiday vista in France. Both Mum and Dad commented on how good a photo it was, but it was the first time they really meant it.
Profile: photographer Takeshi Suga, aka Sugar Crisp
29 Mar 2012
Japanese-born, Glasgow-based music photographer
Takeshi Suga (aka Sugar Crisp) is a Japanese-born photographer now living in Glasgow. He takes photographs for the Fence Collective, NME and himself and mixes digital photography with the use of analogue cameras such as the £45 Diana Mini First…
George Wyllie: A Life Less Ordinary
28 Mar 2012
Valuable retrospective of the Whysman's work
Environmental art may be all the rage these days, but, as with the soon to be mothballed Collins Gallery, George Wyllie was way ahead of the curve. While best known for huge public spectacles The Straw Locomotive and The Paper Boat, as well as a…
Edinburgh Art Festival announces 2012 programme
27 Mar 2012
Susan Philipsz and Donald Judd among the visiting artists
Edinburgh Art Festival launched its ninth annual programme today by announcing an impressive catalogue of exhibitions that will be put on throughout the city Thu 2 Aug-Sun 2 Sep.
Visual artist Folkert de Jong on what art means to him
27 Mar 2012
The sculptor shares his thoughts ahead of an exhibition at the GI
For me, art is about life and the human condition. It’s a very efficient medium to communicate about life and our individual position in it. I see the art exhibition space as a podium on which I can communicate with an audience. The audience becomes a…
Emory Douglas - Creator of iconic imagery behind Black Panther Party
26 Mar 2012
GI show from American Black Power movement linchpin
‘In Revolution one wins, or one dies.’ When this slogan appeared aloft Emory Douglas’ image of a couple of beret-clad African-American guerrillas on a big-screen back-drop at major concert halls around the world, it was a far cry from the roots of…
Practice of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles examines mortality
21 Mar 2012
Glasgow Sculpture Studios show takes on English riots and drug crimes
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles arrived in Scotland for her three-month Glasgow Sculpture Studios residency just as the riots kicked off in England last year. She travelled down to pick up debris from the aftermath, which will be used in her exhibition…
Kelly Nipper's Black Forest show set for Glasgow International
21 Mar 2012
Vast installation incorporating dance, ceramics, textiles and print
For all the apparent complexities of Los Angeles artist Kelly Nipper’s oeuvre – her commitment to Labanotation, the system used for analysing dance, or her interest in geometry – a fairly simple conceit lies at its heart. For Nipper, human movement…
Rosalind Nashashibi makes film with Scottish Ballet
21 Mar 2012
Glasgow-trained artist's film in conjunction with Glasgow International
Acclaimed for her 16mm films, the works of Glasgow-trained artist Rosalind Nashashibi often examine the formation of ad-hoc communities, issues of staging and the use of theatricality in altering the commonplace. Poring affectionately over her material…
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans the subject of Common Guild Exhibition
21 Mar 2012
The show promises to showcase the breadth of his artistic output
People have been making pictures for thousands of years, and 150 years ago the photographic process was added to that vocabulary. German-born, London-based artist Wolfgang Tillmans makes no distinction between a photograph and a painting, but he chooses…
Alec Finlay show at Edinburgh's Ingleby Gallery
21 Mar 2012
Quintet of ‘poem-objects’ reflects ideas of memory through biography
To subtitle mention of the artist with the fact that he’s the son of Ian Hamilton Finlay is to run down his own acute artistic sensibility without cause. Yet it’s inescapable here, because this quintet of ‘poem-objects’ reflects ideas of memory through…
Alison Turnbull
21 Mar 2012
Constrained pieces exploring ideas of order and chaos
Order and chaos, Alison Turnbull’s work implies, are both simple functions of human perspective, with her seemingly very precisely constrained pieces actually subject to no more than the artist’s own arbitrary designs for them. In large part that’s a…
Photographer Alan Dimmick - interview
14 Mar 2012
The Scottish photographer discusses his artistic habits and history
What was the first exhibition you went to see? I recall as a very young lad going to the ‘Art Galleries’ at Kelvingrove a lot with my Mum in the late 60s – just remember being amazed. The Robert Mapplethorpe show at the old Stills in the High Street…
Pádraig Timoney – Shepard Tone
14 Mar 2012
Deceptive and frustrating mixed media show with no clear theme
Shepard Tone offers an eclectic mix of painting, photography and mixed media wall-based work, seemingly with little in common. The title describes an auditory illusion of continually descending or ascending pitch. As expected, the exhibition is…
Central Station: Elliott Burns
14 Mar 2012
ECA graduate fascinated with contemporary landscapes
After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2011 Elliott Burns returned home to Hertfordshire so that he could gain experience working for London art galleries. Alongside these commitments he has continued to exhibit, showing pieces in London and…
Ellie Harrison and Oliver Braid collaborate on weekly podcast The Ellie & Oliver Show
5 Mar 2012
An informal approach to discussions of art, pop philosophy and more
The Ellie & Oliver Show is the result of a collaboration between Glasgow-based artists Ellie Harrison and Oliver Baird. Running since the start of the year on Culture Lab Radio, the episodes are broadcast every Friday lunchtime and discuss topics such…
Construct
29 Feb 2012
Group show of work by Barbara Kasten, Alan Michael, Daniel Sinsel and Ricky Swallow
Construct brings together four artists, Barbara Kasten, Alan Michael, Daniel Sinsel and Ricky Swallow, in a study of manipulation and alteration as the method for constructing new images. Swallow’s quirky sculptures, which open the show, display…
Jane and Louise Wilson
27 Feb 2012
Major new film installation of surveillance-related work
Jane and Louise Wilson are no strangers to going behind closed doors. In ‘Face Scripting – What Did the Building See?’, a major new film installation that forms the centrepiece of this body of surveillance-related work, they cast themselves as…
Luke Fowler (with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes)
17 Feb 2012
Film installation references RD Laing
‘We are actors in a play... whose plot we don’t know... and whose end I dare not imagine.’ These words, delivered by iconoclastic Glasgow-born ‘anti-psychiatrist’ RD Laing, not only form the opening gambit of ‘All Divided Selves’, Luke Fowler’s latest…
