Visual Art, Painting & Drawing

Alison Watt - The dark fold

The dark fold

27 Feb 2007

If the substance of all painting is light, then artist Alison Watt has got a dark sense of humour. Perhaps best known for her luminous oil paintings of shapely white calico fabrics and creamy brocade drapes, Watt has quietly spent two years creating her…

Neil Clements: Paranoid

SouthSide Studios, Fridge Gallery, Glasgow (viewing by appointment Sat 14-Sun 29 Apr)

23 Apr 2007

PAINTING AND INSTALLATION The small, dimly lit Fridge gallery acts like a mausoleum for Glasgow-based Neil Clements to create a painting, light and sound installation that takes an image of Op Art heroine Bridget Riley and the emergence of the…

Hanneline Visnes

22 May 2007

PAINTING (Picture: Possessions) Belgian-born, Glasgow-based artist Hanneline Visnes’ paintings record the tension between abstraction and representation, pattern and spontaneity - a play of opposites that has come to characterise a slightly…

Tom Phillips

Big picture

1 Nov 2007

Tom Phillips Widely considered a touchstone of postmodernism, Tom Phillips’ artistic project, ‘A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel’, has achieved cult status since its initial publication in 1970. One day, Phillips went into a book shop with the…

Sarah Cameron

27 Nov 2006

An exhibition of landscape and seascape paintings by the Edinburgh-based artist, showing work inspired by Cameron’s recent travels from the North of Scotland to Greece and Iran.

Alasdair Gray - art review

4 Oct 2007

To cherry pick from one’s own oeuvre sounds delightfully painful, a self indulgent task requiring sticky fingers and a good eye. It should be someone else’s enviable job, especially when the artist in question is Alasdair Gray, one of Scotland’s most…

Simon Carroll

Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgo

13 Mar 2007

CERAMICS, PAINTING AND PRINTS The alchemy and leap of imagination that’s involved when throwing, decorating and firing a humble pot is not to be underestimated. Each glaze - whether ice-cream pink or emerald green - begins life as inert grey swill…

Callum Innes - From Memory

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 19 Nov

11 Nov 2006

PAINTING Let’s just get it out the way quickly - there are some bad paintings in this mini-retrospective of Edinburgh-based Callum Innes at the Fruitmarket Gallery. Well, two at a push. This exhibition continues to receive such high praise (he’s both…

Art collection sells for £188m in New York

8 Nov 2007

A collection of art works, including paintings by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, have sold for £188 million after going under the hammer in New York. Matisse’s 1937 painting L’Odalisque, Harmonie Blueue, set a new record fetching £16 million at…

Bacon rent set to reach £9m in auction

4 Sep 2007

A painting by Francis Bacon is expected to fetch £9 million when it is put up for sale by the Royal College of Art. Bacon had given a painting to the RCA to rent one of the college’s studios in 1969, after his own had burned down. The original…

Aron Tarjani and Miranda Whall: If I Open My Eyes I Might See Teeth

Washington Garcia, Glasgow, run ended

12 Feb 2007

VIDEO INSTALLATION The second offering from the Glasgow artist-run collective Washington Garcia brings together video and film work by Hungarian artist Aron Tarjani and Cardiff-based Miranda Whall. (Their first exhibition, a month ago, featured…

Friedrich

Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 3 Feb 2

20 Dec 2006

PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION Friedrich - Marcus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer, Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers The seven artists in this upcoming exhibition ‘Friedrich’ are united geographically…

Friedrich

11 Dec 2006

An exhibition by a group of artists using Casper David Friedrich's darkly Romantic landscapes as subject matter. Artists include Marcus Amm, Helene Appel, Eva Berendes, Ellen Gronemeyer Alex Heim, Karin Ruggaber and Nicole Wermers.

Three

11 Nov 2006

An exhibition of paintings by Glasgow painters David Sillars, Michele David and Eva Gustavsson. The artists examine how the application and removal of paint creates layers of time and suggested landscapes that are trapped beneath the skins of their…

GROUP SHOW, Doggerfisher

13 Mar 2008

Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until Sat 26 Apr Doggerfisher’s annual group show brings together work by recent graduates and more established artists. Refreshingly, the gallery unites the six artists via an interest in formal concerns with space and…

Carol Rhodes

4 Jan 2008

Carol Rhodes’ meditative, repetitive approach to landscape painting could be linked to artists such as Friedrich, Corot, Monet or Cezanne, each in their own way sharing an obsession with the genre, though, as the artist Merlin James points out: ‘Rhodes…

Export ban imposed on £2m Turner

13 Nov 2007

A watercolour painting by Turner, considered by experts to be one of the finest in its medium, has been banned from going on sale abroad until next year to give the UK a chance to retain it. The painting is a view of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland and…

Music hidden in da Vinci’s Last Supper?

12 Nov 2007

A computer expert claims to have discovered music hidden in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper. By superimposing the five lines in sheet music over the painting, Giovanni Maria Pala said a 40-second composition then becomes…

Feral Kingdom

18 Oct 2007

DRAWING, PAINTING, FILM AND SCULPTURE CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 10 Nov There seems to be little or no relationship between the works showing at Feral Kingdom in the CCA – all conceptual and aesthetic decisions seem almost arbitrary. It is true that…

Artist reveals hidden initial on Che artwork

9 Oct 2007

The artist behind the iconic artwork which immortalised Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in black, white and red has revealed a secret initial in the picture to identify the work as his own. Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the image from…

Major Bacon exhibition set for Tate calendar

21 Sep 2007

A collection of Francis Bacon’s artwork will be the highlight of a host of exclusive exhibitions lined up for Tate Britain next year. It will be the first large exhibition of the artist’s work shown in Britain for 25 years, showcasing around 60…

Dan Miller: Stockade

20 Sep 2007

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, until 24 Sep One has to wade through the familiar sophomoric references to modernist architecture, ‘dazzle’ camouflage and death to arrive at the germ of what is an interesting talent, in the…

Lennon portrait attracts £45,000 bid

3 Sep 2007

A portrait of John Lennon by Scottish artist Peter Howson has received a bid of £45,000 – 50% higher than the painter’s valuation. The portrait will go on show at the John Lennon Northern Lights Festival in Durness in Sutherland at the end of…

Hirst skull sold for £50 million

31 Aug 2007

Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull is officially the world’s most expensive piece of contemporary art, after it was bought for £50 million. An unnamed investment group bought the skull, which is covered with 8,601 diamonds, in a cash-only deal…

Anonymous Hirst work auctioned for £200

29 Aug 2007

An anonymous auction surprised art dealers when it transpired that a bidder who offered £200 for ‘lot 15’ had actually bought a little-known Damien Hirst painting. The auction saw art connoisseurs eagerly await the painting, which was being sold…