Visual art and Previews

Ambitious outdoor arts festival Roofless

Artists Olivier Grossetete and Sumit Sarkar to create public art projects over the next year

22 May 2012

They say if you’re going to think, think big, and that’s exactly what Roofless, Scotland’s all-new outdoor arts festival is doing, with impressive scale and great purpose. Plotted initially in five locations, and bringing together professional artists…

Giants in the Forest: The natural art project putting sculpture into Scotland's woods

Massive project undertaken as part of the Year of Creative Scotland

9 May 2012

In a country where much of our creativity is inspired by the incredible natural environment around us, what better year to launch our unique project, Giants in the Forest? Looking down on us from tree tops will be massive wicker heads, seeded and…

Preview of 2012 - Martin Creed: All the Bells

Turner Prize winner invites Brits to ring in the Olympics

6 Jan 2012

Controversial he may be but conceptual artist Martin Creed has always been brutally honest with the paying public. His most famous work to date, Work No. 227: the lights going on and off, did exactly what it said on the tin and helped the Glasgow-raised…

Interview: Kirsty Whiten

Breeder Badlands show at Edinburgh Printmakers

19 Dec 2011

What made you want to be an artist? The uniform. And the pension plan. Your new solo show, Breeder Badlands, explores the complexities of the familial unit. What was the original inspiration for the exhibition? This work is really personal – friends and…

Gayle Chong-Kwan: The Obsidian Isle

The photographer talks about her latest exhibition, inspired by the blind third century poet Ossian

15 Nov 2011

The Obsidian Isle documents a fictional island on which exist Scotland’s lost and destroyed buildings and places. What inspired this? As part of a photography award I received in 2009 I had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Scotland. I…

Glasgay!: Re-Invention

Exhibition and workshop aimed at gay and trans comic fans

19 Sep 2011

The idea of gay culture in comics is nothing new, with handfuls of uptight academics frantically pointing out the homoerotic sub-tones of Batman and Robin’s cartoon exploits since the 1950s. The foundations of X-Men arguably lie in the civil rights…

Central Station - Laurie Hastings

16 Sep 2011

Laurie Hastings is an illustrator and printmaker, striving to produce images that capture and communicate the imagery and narrative of a text. People are often central to the images Laurie creates: she enjoys conveying an emotion or a certain tension…

Interview: Jeremy Millar on exhibition Mystics or Rationalists?

Artist discusses his contribution to Ingleby Edinburgh Art Festival show

10 Aug 2011

How far do you agree with Sol LeWitt’s comment that ‘conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists’? I think I’d tend to agree: they’re certainly rather more mystics than rationalists. Art isn’t rational, but it can be mystical. What is…

Interview: Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan

Artists talk about The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value exhibition

3 Aug 2011

It sounds like the (thankfully unpublished) wheezy plotlines to one of Anthony Buckeridge’s Jennings... adventures. Posh Edinburgh private school – one time cradle to dastardly turncoat bullies – gets taken over by bohemian artists with a hidden agenda.

Precious Light - David Mach interview

Artist's first major Scottish exhibition in years at Edinburgh Art Festival 2011

6 Jul 2011

It’s just after 9am in Forest Hill in South London. The denizens of this leafy area have walked their children to school and boarded their commuter trains. In David Mach’s messy but unfussy two-floored studio, two handfuls of assistants and technicians…

Shadows of the Divine features works by John Bellany and John Byrne

A collection of modern religious art pieces at the New College gallery

27 May 2011

This selection of works of modern religious art includes work by a number of well-known artists including Scottish greats Craigie Aitchison, John Bellany, Peter Howson, Ken Currie and John Byrne as well as Graham Sutherland and Elisabeth Frink. These…

Festival of Museums set for nationwide celebration of Scotland’s culture in May 2011

Music, storytelling and period fashion among highlights of new festival

1 May 2011

From the Groam House Museum in Ross-shire and Portsoy Bothy in Banffshire, to the Annan Museum in Dumfries and Galloway, the Festival of Museums features an eclectic and colourful range of concerts, talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions taking…

Jupiter Artland opens its season with a new Charles Jencks exhibition

The ourdoor 'art park' also features work by Anthony Gormley

25 Apr 2011

You know that spring has sprung when Jupiter Artland opens its doors with a new season – and this year’s artistic bloom looks to be just as exciting as their last. Launching with special exhibition Metaphysical Landscape by landform artist, philosopher…

Robbie Thomson on Cryptic Nights project Inducer

Collaboration with Sarah Milne and Jack Wrigley

20 Apr 2011

What was the inspiration for your new project ‘Inducer’ with Sarah Milne and Jack Wrigley? ‘Inducer’ is an extension of our interest in experimental musical instrument design and an attempt to create a crude, mechanical form of electronic music.

Scottish artists Alberto Morrocco, William Littlejohn and David McClure feature in Kinblethmont Gallery exhibition

14 Apr 2011

The artists Alberto Morrocco, William Littlejohn and David McClure were all contemporaries who painted in distinct modern styles influenced both by European painting and the Scottish tradition epitomised by the Scottish colourists. Much acclaimed in…

Interview - Janie Nicoll on returning to community arts festival Streetland

The Glasgow-based artist tells us why it matters

28 Mar 2011

At last year’s Streetland festival in Govanhill you could really feel the buzz: from the visual arts to the films and talks being created, worked on or looked at. I was creating artwork for the outside of a building on West Moreland Street but went…

Interview - Artist Shelly Nadashi

Glasgow Transmission show continues interest in puppet shows

21 Mar 2011

Your new installation continues your interest in puppet shows – how did that fascination come about? The first puppets’ performances I saw were in Hungary when I was traveling in 2000. They have some very authentic but contemporary puppetry there. I…

Jeremy Millar on new exhibition Resemblances, Sympathies and Other Acts

Celebrated artist on how the past informs his new exhibition

24 Feb 2011

Jeremy Millar has just been listening to PJ Harvey’s new album prior to talking about his forthcoming show at the CCA in Glasgow. Somehow the other-worldly, transcendent qualities of this most hypnotic of singer-songwriters fits in with Millar’s…

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…

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 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…

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…

National Galleries of Scotland to unveil collection of Jeff Koons' works in Artist Rooms

The American neo-pop artist's crazy career milestones

3 Jan 2011

As the National Galleries unveils the collection of Jeff Koons’ works in Artist Rooms, we consider some of the American neo-pop artist’s crazy career milestones 1: The Equilibrium Series The spiritual offspring of his idol Andy Warhol Koons first…

Sophie Macpherson solo show at Sorcha Dallas

The artist on her fascination with live performance

3 Jan 2011

You get the impression Sophie Macpherson likes to keep moving, both creatively and personally. This certainly seems to be the motivation behind the Aylesbury-born GSA-trained artist’s forthcoming solo show of texts, posters, a video and a 16-mm film at…

Lydia Corry and Caroline Walker: Love is an Ocular Sickness

Different approaches to exploring history of representing woman

23 Nov 2010

The symptoms of mental illness have often been used to describe the state of being in love. Plato discussed love as a serious mental disease. Lydia Corry and Caroline Walker established the concept of their show by rummaging through his writings on love…

Martin Campbell - Central Station

Glasgow artist's workshops encourage instinctive and quick decision making

23 Nov 2010

Originally from Benbecula in the Western Isles, Martin Campbell now lives in Glasgow and is currently in his final year of the product design course at Edinburgh College of Art. As part of his final year project he is looking at ways of getting people…

Childish Things explores surrealist use of childhood themes in art

Edinburgh Fruitmarket exhibition features works by Louise Bourgeois, Susan Hiller and Jeff Koons

15 Nov 2010

From St Paul’s assertion of adult intent to the Corinthians to Rousseau’s call for clemency towards its fundamental freedoms (‘childhood is the sleep of reason’), notions of childhood and childish behaviour have long fascinated and divided artists. To…

Yo! Picasso: Beside Picasso / Picasso’s Women

Ramshorn Theatre presents two plays focusing on artist's turbulent life

15 Nov 2010

Picasso is taken out of the gallery and on to the stage as the Ramshorn presents two plays focusing on the turbulent life behind the canvas. Yo! Picasso! opens with the artist’s death, as he enters into a state of limbo and is met by Sabartés, his long…

Revealing the Invisible: The Art of Stansfield / Hooykaas from Different Perspectives

Exhibition represents spiritual homecoming for Dutch artist Madelon Hooykaas

15 Nov 2010

When Revealing the Invisible opens at Glasgow’s CCA and Street Level, it will be a spiritual homecoming for Madelon Hooykaas. While the CCA may be unrecognisable from its origins as all-purpose arts lab the Third Eye Centre, it was here in 1974 that the…

Central Station - Enda O’Donoghue

Irish artist explores themes found in photographs found online

15 Nov 2010

Enda O’Donoghue is an Irish artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2002. He originally studied computer programming before changing to visual art and has worked professionally as a web designer, internet developer and in various dotcom…

Min Angel's exhibition Poise inspired by music and synaesthesia

Emerging artist's Corn Exchange show showcases drawings, collages and objects

27 Oct 2010

Unknown thrills lie in the cracks of experience, and Min Angel’s radar is set to pick up these disjunctures and feelings of ‘in-betweenness’. Her first solo show, Poise, at the Corn Exchange showcases drawings, collages and objects with prop-like…

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan

: Direct serious action is therefore necessary

10 Sep 2010

This specially commissioned exhibition for CCA is an absurd intervention of collaborative artworks created in response to the architecture and history of CCA itself. Glasgow-based artists Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan often uses absurdity to explore…

The Bone Collector

Nick Evans: Anti-Autonome

1 Sep 2010

Although he’s been a practising artist since leaving Glasgow School of Art in 2000 with a degree in Sculpture and Environmental Art, Nick Evans traces the beginning of his current mode of practice back to 2006, when he completed an eight-month residency…

Emma Wilson: Pumpkinsputnik

Central Station

1 Sep 2010

Pumpkinsputnik is the creative outlet of Emma Wilson, designer-maker. Emma graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 1995 and became a jeweller, making silver and enamel jewellery, before taking a career break to raise her young family.

Cutting Words

1 Sep 2010

The Scottish Lettercutters association presents this exhibition of sandblasted, hand-cut text engravings in stone, wood and glass by artists such as Ian Newton, Jane Raven, Gillian Forbes and Sheena Devitt. Number 10 Gallery, Royal Terrace…

Amnesty International Urban Art Exhibition

Syrkus, Rekor, Derm, Conzo, Mark Lyken and Elph

20 Aug 2010

Urban art created onsite at a live event at the start of the festival by Syrkus, Rekor, Derm, Conzo, Mark Lyken and Elph as part of Amnesty’s festival-wide campaign to highlight the need for freedom of expression all around the world. C soco Urban…

Robert Barry's Words and Music

19 Aug 2010

Robert Barry, who wilfully abandoned painting in 1967 to become one of the central figures of conceptual art, is having his first solo showcase Words and Music in Glasgow. Dematerialising the art object, Barry developed a practice producing ephemeral…

A Drawback

16 Aug 2010

The phenomenon of drawing has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, with many artists now returning to producing, exhibiting and selling contemporary drawings. This exhibition by Perennial Art celebrates the diversity and richness of the practice and…

Atsuo Okomoto: Faraway Mountain

Japanese stone sculptor presents 12 pieces sculpted from same block

12 Aug 2010

The first UK solo exhibition by Japanese stone sculptor Okomoto showcases the technique of ‘war modoshi’, or splitting and returning, and features 12 pieces sculpted from the same block which can then be pushed together to reform the original piece. The…

Garage

12 Aug 2010

This new site-specific, collaborative exhibition developed during a series of micro-residencies in a New Town garage features work by UK-based international artists including Rebecca Key, Holly Fulton, Thomas MacGregor and Bob Moyler, and hosts various…

Recalling Lines: New Work by Robert Reddick

12 Aug 2010

An exciting new exhibition of drawings made by Reddick since Project Ability’s move to new studios in Trongate 103. The artist’s work is characterised by shaky lines, lending them a certain ambiguity and sense of movement. Project Ability, Centre…

Sara Mackillop and Mary Redmond shows set for DCA

Two thematically similar exhibitions focus travel and the everyday

11 Aug 2010

It’s better to travel light during hard times. Whether back-packing in exotic climes or taking a walk around the block, you never know what you might find. This is a notion that two very different but opaquely complementary shows opening at DCA…

The Songbird

Giant Productions's sound poetry at the Botanic Gardens

6 Aug 2010

Glasgow’s Giant Productions makes its Fringe debut with this interactive tone poem about an exotic songbird captured by a ruthless logger. Set against the stunning backdrop of the Botanic Gardens, and performed by a pianist, cellist and two actors, the…

Thomas Carlile's Landscapes of Memory

Public art exhibition spread across the city interpretable by touch phones

5 Aug 2010

Keen-eyed observers will spot a number of black and white square barcodes amidst the shop signs and fly posting that decorate Edinburgh’s streets. But what is their purpose? Rachael Cloughton explains: The first one I saw was stuck to the concrete…

The Forest Café celebrates tenth birthday

Volunteer-run café is a true original in Edinburgh

5 Aug 2010

The Forest Café’s tenth birthday, happening mostly on Saturday 14 August, but spreading its shambolic, joyous tentacles throughout the rest of the month, is one of those true causes for celebration. That an entirely volunteer-run, hippy-hearted…

Richard Healy: Shapes and Things - five questions

Sierra Metro artist on his influences and attitudes

5 Aug 2010

In their exhibition at Sierra Metro artists Richard Healy and Gemma Holt explore the language of design through sculptural pieces, site-specific film installation and architectural techniques. Here Richard outlines his influences and attitude towards…

Edinburgh exhibition by Portobello-based blind artist Rosita McKenzie

Photos that capture the desired essence of an image.

5 Aug 2010

Diverse series of photographs by Portobello-based artist McKenzie, who has been completely blind since the age of 12 and homes in on people’s personalities and ‘pure essences’ to capture the desired image. Her subjects include Edinburgh’s Makar, Ron…

Mandy Edwards: a Celebration

A look at the social landscape and development of Glasgow's East End

5 Aug 2010

This documentary project by photographer Mandy Edwards looks at the social landscape and development of Glasgow’s East End ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games through 50 portraits of local shopkeepers, workers and owners of local businesses that are…

Profusion of painting at 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival

Richard Wright, Joan Mitchell and Julie Roberts head up painting programme

4 Aug 2010

Painting has inspired some epic declarations over the years. In the 1960s Donald Judd declared the medium dead. In 2005 Young British Artist Damien Hirst advised people that they were more important than paintings. And this year, in light of the…

William Wegman and Edward Weston mark City Art Centre reopening

EAF presents first major Scottish show from two great photographers

27 Jul 2010

Celebrating the reopening of the City Art Centre after a period of refurbishment are two photographic exhibitions by American artists: Edward Weston, one of the great classical photographers of the 20th century, and the contemporary photographer William…

Natura Sensus explores relationship between plants and people

Edinburgh-based 'Hortisculpturist’ Mairi Gillies at Art Festival

27 Jul 2010

5 words to describe your show at Atticsalt In the image of nature. 4 visual artists who should be better known than they currently are Jessica Harrison, Jock Mooney, Stuart MaCaffer and Rabiya Choudhry. 3 shows in this year’s Edinburgh Art…

Steph Marsden launches exhibition space this August

Magpie Design Industries creator opens shop in Edinburgh

22 Jul 2010

Working mainly in wood, Steph Marsden produces handmade contemporary, sculptural furniture and design-led accessories. Steph studied design and cabinetmaking at Adam Smith College, Kirkcaldy and in 2007 was awarded the Haldane UK Design Scholarship. She…

Richard Wright at Edinburgh Art Festival

7 Jul 2010

Richard Wright has always been a man to think outside the box. A Turner prize-winner, commended for ‘rejecting the canvas’, he’s done just that with his latest masterpiece. Commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival, Wright’s latest creation has been…

Sitting and Looking showcases furniture design from Jim Partridge, Liz Walmsley and El Ultimo Grito

2 Jul 2010

One of the more eclectic exhibitions in this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival is this group show at Dovecot, curated by internationally acclaimed furniture designers Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley. Alongside work by the pair, who have worked together for…

Another World shows Surrealist work by Dali, Magritte and Miro

23 Jun 2010

When you’re 16 and teenage dream states are everything, being strange is all the rage. For the easily-led adolescent, distorted realities where worlds collide and melt out of shape into hallucinogenic symbols of the inner id can’t help but flood through…

Mark Handforth - sculptural exhibits at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

23 Jun 2010

Hong Kong-born, Florida-based artists Handforth is known for his sculptural explorations of the urban environment, which often display a surreal quality. His latest exhibition features a number or large-scale sculptural works in the splendid surrounds…

Here We Go Magic embark on 2010 UK tour

16 Jun 2010

Not since zeppelin-eyed sex-warlock Paul Daniels first vanquished the beautiful Debbie McGee has the term ‘magic’ been so closely allied with a hotbed of yearning, birdsong and fantasy. Here We Go Magic’s versatile disco-folk is passionate, hopeful and…

Central Station - Sanna Dyker

16 Jun 2010

Sanna Dyker is an Illustrator currently based in Dundee and a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. She says of her work: ‘Small things catch my eye and I can’t let them go without turning them into a story either scribbled as a…

Edinburgh festivals line-ups announced

28 May 2010

Whatever your cultural poison, Edinburgh’s festival circuit has it covered

Seafood theme to East Lothian’s 3 Harbours Arts Festival 2010

20 May 2010

Kirstin Innes finds out why East Lothian’s 3 Harbours Arts Festival has a whole new fishy wing

Nathan Coley gives free talks about work with Philip Long

20 May 2010

The Turner-nominated Dundonian talks about his work with Philip Long, curator at the Gallery of Modern Art. Among the topics for discussion will be 2007’s illuminated sign-work There Will Be No Miracles Here, one of the works that earned him the Turner…

The lure of Iona for artists Mhairi Killin and Sean Scully

18 May 2010

Iona is one of those places. If you’ve been, you’ll understand why it’s an inspiration to seekers of enlightenment the world over. If not, the allure of the tiny Hebridean island a five-minute ferry ride from Mull is almost impossible to explain. Beyond…

Allotment brings Jen Edgar, Susannah Armitage and Alice Ladenburg to Govan Cross Shopping Centre

18 May 2010

The fourth and final instalment of the arts bar with its fusion of live performance, visual art and music features work by over 20 artists over two nights. The showcase includes contributions from emerging artists and designers, including Jen Edgar and…

Vincent Fecteau's first public UK exhibition

18 May 2010

For his first exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, Californian artist Vincent Fecteau has selected six sculptures created from layers of papier-maché, over which acrylic paint has been applied. The wall-mounted sculptures are reversible and can…

Johan Grimonprez's first major UK exhibition at Fruitmarket

14 May 2010

The Fruitmarket will have executed something of a coup by the end of the month, becoming the first British gallery to exhibit Johan Grimonprez’s latest work, ‘Double Take’. Its origins can be found in the artist’s best-known film, ‘Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’…

Dutch Landscapes presents work from Aelbert Cuyp, Nicolaes Berchem and Meyndert Hobbema

14 May 2010

The Queen’s Gallery ‘goes Dutch’ for the coming months with this remarkable collection of 42 classic works from the Netherlands, including paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Nicolaes Berchem and Meyndert Hobbema. The artists’ attention to detail and ability to…

Johan Grimonprez exhibition at Fruitmarket Gallery

6 May 2010

The Fruitmarket will have executed something of a coup by the end of the month, becoming the first British gallery to exhibit Johan Grimonprez’s latest work, ‘Double Take’. Its origins can be found in the artist’s best-known film, ‘Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y’…

Central Station showcase: Libby Day

4 May 2010

Raised in Scotland designer Libby Day initially studied interior design and visual merchandising, working in the UK for companies such as Top Shop and Debenhams, before progressing to New York to work for Macy’s 34th Street, French Connection and Hugo…

Adrian Wiszniewski: This Foreign Land

4 May 2010

Glasgow School of Art-trained artist Adrian Wiszniewski is well known for his highly personal figurative paintings and drawings and intriguing landscapes. This exhibition features some 21 paintings and drawings, including a range of large-scale oils and…

Streetland taking art to the streets at Glasgow International

21 Apr 2010

Time was, the streets seemed paved with community artists, purveyors of grassroots festivals in neighbourhoods well beyond the centres of excellence that stole their thunder. The swingeing funding cuts of the 1980s that attempted to stamp out…

David Noonan: Spiel

21 Apr 2010

Washington Garcia has taken operations off-site for three weeks to present the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Australian artist David Noonan. For the exhibition, Noonan, whose work blends myth, fact and fiction in a diverse range of found imagery…

Glasgow International - Happenings and performances

16 Apr 2010

Whether reflecting or informing current art world vogues, the plethora of events and performances in the Glasgow International programme assures an energy that will distinguish it from the conventional biennial format. Presenting mock symposiums…

Linder - King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea)

15 Apr 2010

Legendary visual artist and Morrissey pal Linder discusses her epic new performance piece and eagerly awaited exhibition with Neil Cooper What are words worth? ‘Glamour’, for instance, is a Scottish derivative that comes directly from the word…

Confrontation: Cranach and Dix

15 Apr 2010

As face offs go, it’s a pretty good one. In the red corner is Lucas Cranach’s 16th century painting ‘Venus and Cupid’ – with its naughty faced Cupid and languid nude lady mother Venus, the goddess of love. In the blue corner is Otto Dix’s 1932 ‘Mädchen…

Jimmie Durham - Glasgow International

15 Apr 2010

Sculptor Jimmie Durham’s work is informed by politics and an immersion in his surroundings. Liz Shannon talks to him about his practice The renowned American sculptor Jimmie Durham has not shied away from using local materials in the creation of his…

Kurt Jackson

15 Apr 2010

Cornwall meets the west coast of Scotland in a new exhibition currently running at the capital’s Dovecot Studios. The show, which is being curated by Louise Jones of Truro’s Lemon Street Gallery, features more than 70 works by the celebrated Cornish…

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900

7 Apr 2010

After 40 years, the Glasgow Boys are finally to be the subject of a major exhibition in the Dear Green Place. But don’t let the group’s name mislead you. Jean Walsh, the exhibition’s co-curator, explains: ‘The Glasgow Boys didn’t all attend Glasgow…

Scottish arts news bulletin March 2010

31 Mar 2010

Photographer Rankin is to pay homage to the Scottish Highlands in upcoming book Rankin: A Photographic Essay of The Macallan Estate (£40) to be published in May this year. Rankin was commissioned in 2008 by the folks at Macallan to create a limited…

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010

31 Mar 2010

This year’s festival, inspired by the theme of past, present and future, includes a new video installation by Douglas Gordon citing his own landmark work 24 Hour Psycho; an Artists Rooms showcase of work by legendary German artist Joseph Beuys; outdoor…

Rufus Wainwright's upcoming tour features set designed by Douglas Gordon

31 Mar 2010

The son of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and brother of kooky chanteuse Martha brings his baroque pop to town for these two Scottish dates, including one at the freshly spruced up and reopened Usher Hall. Rufus will be doing his thing in front…

Life, Death and Sex

22 Mar 2010

If you haven’t already checked out the inaugural exhibition from the capital’s newest art gallery, you’d better get your skates on. Life, Death and Sex features figurative works by emergent Scottish artists Christine Clarke, Sarah Green, Sarah Wilson…

New Diane Arbus exhibition set for Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

23 Feb 2010

If Diane Arbus hadn’t slashed her wrists in 1971 aged 48, who knows how her work might have developed. As it is, the New York-based photographer became an underground icon, lionised for her untimely death as much as the warts and all portraits of…

Lindsay Grime in Central Station showcase

23 Feb 2010

The List is teaming up with Central Station, the online hub for visual artists, to showcase some of the most promising young artists at work in the UK today. For the first in this series we’ve selected the work of illustrator and ceramicist Lindsay…

Life Long

18 Feb 2010

The Arches Off-Site strand continues with this peformance piece from Glas(s), which celebrates the 52-year marriage of Tillie and Ronnie Jeffrey, who met at Paisley Town Hall in 1952. The show movingly explores what it means to share a lifetime with one…

My Black Hole

17 Feb 2010

The second in a series of production residencies at Washington Garcia is a collaborative work by Glasgow-based artists Erica Eyres and Michelle Hannah. The pair spent the winter working in the gallery to produce a new photographic series as well as a…

Peter Liversidge - The Thrill of It All

Work in process

10 Feb 2010

‘I propose to give a motivational speech to Scottish business leaders.’ Hand-typed, darkly humorous and posted to the gallery, this proposition typifies London-based artist Peter Liversidge’s now established way of working. It sits among a host of 159…

Alexis Marguerite Teplin - One foot in the past

26 Jan 2010

Voluptuous, salacious and lavishly overshooting the decorative, Alexis Marguerite Teplin’s paintings are as visually arresting as they are referentially dense. Boundless pleasures can be sourced from the unpacking of their rich montages, and the…

Vivienne Edgar: Nature With Nature Within

26 Jan 2010

Contemporary artist Vivienne Edgar uses mixed media and texture to explore the beauty, pattern and seduction found in nature in a unique way. The exhibition also features a ‘secret garden’ that will appeal to the more traditional eye by showing images…

New Faces

21 Jan 2010

Recoat kicks off 2010 with a group exhibition under the theme of Modern Character Design. The show highlights the importance and validity of this new area of design and development, and includes contributions from Elph, Andrew Rae, FiST, Jon MacNair and…

STHLM ‘go away to come home’

19 Jan 2010

Award-winning photographer Jannica Honey traded living in Sweden for an Edinburgh Uni photography course and the pleasures of Leith docks almost a decade ago. However, as her latest exhibition shows, the ideas of dislocation, remembrance and comparison…

Love - Sorcha Dallas interview

Affair of the art

14 Jan 2010

As exhibition titles go, you could hardly get more intriguing or evocative than Love. Yet, as Sorcha Dallas, proprietor of one of Glasgow’s most exciting contemporary spaces, points out, the name of the gallery’s first group show of 2010 is more than a…

Duncan Campbell: Make It New John

‘Ello John got a new motor?

12 Jan 2010

Meet John DeLorean. It’s a name that swaggers with the charismatic if somewhat clichéd machismo of a pulp fiction hero, self-made, aspirational sort, all sports cars and girls, with an Icarus-like downfall plotted in. DeLorean was all too real, however…

Back to the future - Toby Paterson interview

7 Jan 2010

It’s amazing what you find when you’re clearing up old debris. While rummaging through materials for his forthcoming retrospective alongside new work at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, former Beck’s Futures winner Toby Paterson discovered a Super 8…

Three American Artists: Randy Bolton, Michael Krueger & John Schulz

6 Jan 2010

We’re accustomed to American imagery pervading our own culture, but these three critically aware artists – whose work is displayed at the Glasgow Print Studio this month – themselves scrutinise and re-imagine American printed imagery. Bolton explores…

Turner in January

6 Jan 2010

It’s the start of a new year, which means another chance to enjoy the annual display of JMW Turner watercolours at the National Galleries. The collection was bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, and the work ranges from early topographical wash drawings to the…

Carla Scott Fullerton: Breadthless Lines

17 Dec 2009

Fullerton’s exhibition of new work in the Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ project gallery and ambitious new outdoor sculpture marks the end of her Graduate Fellowship with GSS. Her work is shaped by her sensitivity to materials and often references…

Keith Farquhar: Nudes in Colour

4 Dec 2009

Brand new venue Hyperground showcases new work by Edinburgh-based artist Farquhar over a single weekend. For each piece in the exhibition, a naked body has been painted, digitally photographed, then sent to a specialist workshop where the torso has been…

BP Portrait Award 2009

24 Nov 2009

For some years now, the BP Portrait Award has proved to be one of the most popular exhibitions in the National Galleries’ calendar – people just love it. In terms of the contemporary Scottish visual art scene, however, portraiture is a rarity. So what…

The Collector's Art

19 Nov 2009

This exhibition showcases works from two private collections featuring prints, drawings and paintings of British and German art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Joan Eardley, J.D. Fergusson, Ian Fleming, Emil Orlik, Barbara Rae…

The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing

29 Oct 2009

Time was when the only thing artists drew was the dole. With a return to the dark ages of Tory government imminent, the halcyon days of the unofficial fortnightly grant that allowed an entire generation of Thatcher’s children to explore their creativity…