Location: set your location

Visual art

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

Morag Macdonald's work involves repetitive mark making

Morag Macdonald's work involves repetitive mark making

Artists from North Uist and her exploration of shape and line

24 Feb 2011

Originally from North Uist in the Western Isles, Morag Macdonald graduated with a degree in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. Since then, while developing her own projects, she has tutored a range of English and Gaelic visual…

No Wave filmmaker Vivienne Dick discusses New York in the 1970s

No Wave filmmaker Vivienne Dick on 1970s New York - interview

The influential filmmaker behind She Had Her Gun All Ready reminisces

18 Feb 2011

List: Could you tell us a bit about when you started making your early films like She Had Her Gun All Ready and the scene at the time? VD: Well, it was editing and everything at home where I was living on the Lower East Side and I didn't think when I…

Craig Murray-Orr

Craig Murray-Orr documents self-imposed exile in the wilderness

New Zealand-born artist captures magnificent isolation

(3 stars)18 Feb 2011

There’s a sense of magnificent isolation as you go walkabout in New Zealand-born Craig Murray-Orr’s first show for a decade, that says much about self-imposed exile in the wilderness. Both Henry David Thoreau’s novel Walden and the sprawl of Jack…

Fruitmarket fêted Jean-Marc Bustamante exhibition Dead Calm

Fruitmarket fêted Jean-Marc Bustamante exhibition Dead Calm

Documentary snapshots of back roads and deserted Ballardian swimming pools

16 Feb 2011

As a large-scale exhibition of his work comes to the Fruitmarket fêted artist Jean-Marc Bustamante talks to Neil Cooper about his need to get out of the studio You won’t find many people in Jean-Marc Bustamante’s work. If you can see the wood for the…

Why Edinburgh remains unrivalled as a festival city

Why Edinburgh remains unrivalled as a festival city

A huge number and variety of festivals take place each year

16 Feb 2011

In 1961, a theatre director made a proposal. It was his opinion that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was getting too big. It would be much better, he said, ‘if only ten halls were licensed’. Nobody listened. Had the director been able to travel…

Portraits of a nation

The most significant works of art in Edinburgh

Scotland's National Galleries are home to many major works

16 Feb 2011

What’s your idea of true art? The perfect peachy bums of The Three Graces? Football mastermind Sir Alex Ferguson rendered in cut-up red postcards? A stern-faced ice-skating minister? Whatever tickles your artistic fancy, you can be sure to find it in…

New Territories

New Territories festival centres on work by Black Market International

Performance art festival in Glasgow and Aberdeen

11 Feb 2011

One thing the annual New Territories festival has never done is stand still. This year, the longstanding National Review of Live Art may have vanished, but the newly branded This Is Performance Art strand has risen from its ashes with an ambitious…

Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz: Rape Me

Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz: Rape Me

The new exhibition from Berlin-born artist’s exposes instinctive nature of work

11 Feb 2011

The work of German artist Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, says the press release accompanying his latest show in Glasgow, concerns itself at least partially with ‘the aesthetics of destruction’. It’s hard to ascertain from the limited contact The List has…

Rosemarie Trockel

Provocative exhibition from Rosemarie Trockel both haunting and unnerving

Drawings, collages and book drafts makes for powerful show

(4 stars)11 Feb 2011

This provocative exhibition of Rosemarie Trockel’s works on paper is at once haunting and unnerving; the German artist’s handling of dark and sometimes uncomfortable subject matter successfully challenging the viewer through the blurring of reality and…

Central Station: Laura Duncan

Artist Laura Duncan explores themes in sexuality

Aberdeen artist aims to show sex in a more positive manner

11 Feb 2011

Laura Duncan is currently working towards her BA in Photographic and Electronic Media at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. At the moment she is exploring themes in sexuality and how to show sex in a more positive manner. She is also interested in…

Glasgow’s Tramway among winners at 2010 GaGA Awards

Glasgow’s Tramway among winners at 2010 GaGA Awards

National Theatre of Scotland also win at Glasgow audience development awards

4 Feb 2011

Thursday’s GaGAs 2010 highlighted some of the outstanding achievements of Scottish cultural organisations over the past year. The awards are part of organisers Culture Sparks’ ongoing endeavour to encourage intelligence and innovation throughout…

The Art of Sex

Sex in art: Four examples of Scottish eroticism

The Wicker Man, Young Adam, Love Made Easy and The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania

1 Feb 2011

You can find good examples of Scottish eroticism without having to wallow through smut. The List picks four artworks that are worth seeking out for some homegrown, highbrow kicks

Alternative Valentine's Day presents and ideas

Alternative Valentine's Day presents and ideas

Four unique and romantic ways to celebrate this year

26 Jan 2011

Being a List reader you’ve had the infinite good taste to pick a partner who can’t be doing with the corny hearts, flowers and factory-line V-Day dining experience we’re sold as ‘romance’. All well and good, but how on earth do you celebrate February…

The Inventors of Tradition profiles traditional garments and social histories

The Inventors of Tradition profiles traditional garments and social histories

Exhibition charts history of textile industry in Scotland

(4 stars)26 Jan 2011

That ubiquitous ‘Scotland with Style’ byline invented by city marketing in Glasgow gets renewed historical validation in this exhibition that is many things woven into one. Inventors of Tradition is an archival show of the Scottish textiles industry…

Dirk Bell - Powerful exhibition plays with imagery of magick and mysticism

Dirk Bell - Powerful exhibition plays with imagery of magick and mysticism

Works invoke old-fashioned ideas of belief systems, ritual, myth and healing

(4 stars)26 Jan 2011

There is something otherworldly about the energy that Dirk Bell has conjured up in this space: a droning sound reverberates, the inorganic steel structures are sanded down to a holographic shine, and devoid of human presence, technology will sustain…

Seeing Ian Hamilton Finlay's work indoors proves claustrophobic

Seeing Ian Hamilton Finlay's work indoors proves claustrophobic

Exhibition of work by polymath behind Little Sparta garden is hymn to nature

(3 stars)26 Jan 2011

There’s something slightly claustrophobic about seeing Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work indoors. As anyone who’s basked in the glories of the radical polymath’s Little Sparta garden in Dunsyre near Edinburgh will be aware, Hamilton Finlay was so at one with…

Artist Hanna Tuulikki - From T-shirt designs for The Wire to free-folk

Artist Hanna Tuulikki - From T-shirt designs for The Wire to free-folk

Sussex-born Anglo-Finn soundtracked Simon Yuill Stackwalker

26 Jan 2011

Hanna Tuulikki’s first love is to sing. Her second love is to draw. The Sussex-born Anglo-Finn thus juggles her time as artist, illustrator and musician in Glasgow where she stayed after studying environmental art at the GSA. Alongside still or…

Rosemarie Trockel exhibition set for Edinburgh's Talbot Rice gallery

Rosemarie Trockel exhibition set for Edinburgh's Talbot Rice gallery

Major show from influential German contemporary of Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman

14 Jan 2011

Rosemarie Trockel’s creative output is as diverse as it is prolific. She is a highly regarded visual artist whose work has been showcased around the globe. In earlier years she teamed up with fellow feminist voices in Cologne to establish a…

Jonathan Horowitz: Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum

Jonathan Horowitz: Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum

Colourful response that lends a quietly inclusive wit to its world-changing intent

(4 stars)14 Jan 2011

Don’t be fooled by the apparent dryness of the title of this major solo show by one of the most provocative American artists of the last 20 years. Rather than mimic the worthy but dull, opaque works that populate the United States Holocaust Museum…

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Journey of Parisian artist from the punk performance early work to lyrical, introspective and politi

(4 stars)14 Jan 2011

Echoing the words of his hero Gustave Flaubert, Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s first solo exhibition in Scotland is testimony to the notion that ‘Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; only faith and freedom.’ Parisian Chaimowicz’s art shares…

New Work Scotland Programme: Nicolas Party & Catherine Payton

New Work Scotland Programme: Nicolas Party & Catherine Payton

A series of site-specific works from two very different artists

(3 stars)14 Jan 2011

For the second instalment of the New Work Scotland Programme, artists Nicolas Party and Catherine Payton provide the Collective with a series of site-specific works. However, this manipulation of the gallery space is where the similarity between the…

Central Station - Anne Doble: Artinkulate

Central Station - Anne Doble: Artinkulate

Intricacies with healthy Scottish/nautical flavour

14 Jan 2011

Anne Doble is a self-taught artist/designer-maker, running her own business, Artinkulate, from her home in Portknockie in the North East of Scotland. Prior to this she had a long career in retail management and latterly qualified as an anaesthetic…

James Hugonin

Borders-based artist James Hugonin's network of coloured grids

Quietly insistent solidity and strength to Hugonin’s minimalism

(3 stars)12 Jan 2011

Music and movement is at the heart of this display of eight works by the Borders-based artist to mark his 60th birthday. Identical in scale and scope, each canvas painstakingly maps out an interlocking network of coloured brick-shaped grids that dance…

Christine Borland

Christine Borland's Cast From Nature culminates in a recasting of a 19th century sculpture

Talitha Kotzé attends a public casting session

10 Jan 2011

Talitha Kotzé attends a public casting session by Christine Borland and talks to the sculptor about her new show, which culminates in a recasting of a 19th century sculpture What viewers can watch here from an anatomy theatre-like CCTV room is the…

The best upcoming events in Scotland 2011

The best upcoming events in Scotland in 2011

Highlights of the 2011 cultural calandar from Film, Music, Comedy, Theatre and Visual Art

3 Jan 2011

Huge gigs, inspiring theatre productions, comedy legends and two cute little waving bears – just a few of the things coming up in ‘11 that we can barely contain our excitement about

1,339 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feed