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Affordable Art: Getting Started - Hugo Brown

Affordable Art: Getting Started - Hugo Brown

29 Apr 2010

Buying and owning art can bring both pleasure and profit, and you don’t need stacks of cash to get started. We begin our guide with some tips from an established collector...

Christoph Büchel: Last Man Out Turn Off Lights

Christoph Büchel: Last Man Out Turn Off Lights

(5 stars)29 Apr 2010

Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s new work at Tramway shows timely poetic serendipity with the volcanic ash floating through Western Europe’s empty airspace. Büchel has blown up a defunct aeroplane to set up a fictitious scenario showcasing a futile…

Carla Scott Fullerton: Lines Have Edges / Heather Cook

Carla Scott Fullerton: Lines Have Edges / Heather Cook

(3 stars)29 Apr 2010

In contrast to the white walled professionalism of its neighbour Mary Mary, Ten till Ten’s project space retains signs of its original usage as an office suite. Woodchip wallpaper and a coordinating carpet form the backdrop for an exhibition of new work…

Affordable Art: Moyna Flannigan

Affordable Art: Moyna Flannigan

29 Apr 2010

For her dark and slightly disturbing painted caricatures, Flannigan – who was born in Scotland but received her MFA from Yale – has built something of a cult following. www.doggerfisher.com/artists

Affordable Art: Alice Myers

Affordable Art: Alice Myers

29 Apr 2010

A Jerwood Photography Award winner in 2008, Myers – an Edinburgh College of Art graduate – produces photographic series which take in action portraiture and documentary urban landscapes. www.alicemyers.net

Affordable Art: Luke Fowler

Affordable Art: Luke Fowler

29 Apr 2010

Primarily known for his video works, which have won him the Derek Jarman Award and the Donald Dewar Prize, and have been broadcast on Channel 4. www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/9

Affordable Art: Craig Mulholland

Affordable Art: Craig Mulholland

29 Apr 2010

Born and based in Glasgow, Mulholland uses a variety of media and his work takes many forms, incorporating video, music, sculpture, text, sound works and drawing. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/3

Affordable Art: Ellie Harrison

Affordable Art: Ellie Harrison

29 Apr 2010

About to complete an MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Harrison produces art that encompasses high-concept installation, sculpture and printed work. www.ellieharrison.com

Affordable Art: Alex Frost

Affordable Art: Alex Frost

29 Apr 2010

Frost’s drawings and ceramic reliefs are painstakingly composed, particularly the hand-pixellated effect of his continuing series of Blind Drawings. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/11

Affordable Art: Jonathan Owen

Affordable Art: Jonathan Owen

29 Apr 2010

Found photographic collages, papier mache drainpipes and grand metal sculptures are all part of the Liverpudlian Owen’s diverse output. www.doggerfisher.com/artists

Affordable Art: Paul Chiappe

Affordable Art: Paul Chiappe

29 Apr 2010

A Kirkcaldy-born graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Chiappe produces pencil-drawn reproductions of old black and white photographs. www.paulchiappe.co.uk

David Shrigley at Kelvingrove

David Shrigley at Kelvingrove

(4 stars)21 Apr 2010

A wee stuffed dog standing upright on its back feet with a placard that says ‘I’m dead’ welcomes you to the Study Centre in Kelvingrove Museum. Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley has replaced the objects usually on display in the vitrines and drawers…

Gerard Byrne: A Thing Is a Hole in a Thing It Is Not

Gerard Byrne: A Thing Is a Hole in a Thing It Is Not

(4 stars)21 Apr 2010

Newly commissioned, the title for this multiple screen video installation by Irish artist Gerard Byrne is taken from a statement by American minimalist Carl André. Lauded for his fictional reconstructions articulated in relation to modernist aesthetics…

Linder - King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea)

Linder - King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea)

(4 stars)21 Apr 2010

Linder is probably best known as the creator of the artwork for Buzzcocks’ 1977 album Orgasm Addict. Thirty years on, King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea) demonstrates the breadth of her practice through drawings, photography, collage and sculptural…

Streetland taking art to the streets at Glasgow International

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…

Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro

Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro

(3 stars)21 Apr 2010

‘If I was alone in here,’ one visitor is overheard to admit, ‘I would touch myself.’ Perhaps the exclamation is a little loud, and extreme, but there is undoubtedly something unendingly seductive about Gordon’s characteristically dark…

David Noonan: Spiel

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

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…

Back to the Future

Glasgow International - Mark Cousins meets Douglas Gordon

15 Apr 2010

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns this fortnight with a mouth-watering programme of work by over 50 artists in venues across the city, based around the theme ‘past, present, future’. Opening the festival, internationally renowned…

Identity Parade

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

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…

Past, Present, Future

Glasgow International 2010 highlights - Katrina Brown interview

15 Apr 2010

GI director Katrina Brown introduces some of the festival’s themes and highlights This year’s festival takes place across a vast array of spaces and places in Glasgow, from major museums and regular contemporary art venues to temporary sites and…

A Sense of Place

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…

Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys

Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys

(4 stars)15 Apr 2010

This exhibition of work by postwar German artist Joseph Beuys features a selection from the ‘Braunkreuz’ series: drawings, the legendary fat chair, and his objects in vitrines. Beuys’ signatory mediums of felt, fat and copper, chosen for their…

Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer – Blue Purple Tilt

Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer – Blue Purple Tilt

(3 stars)15 Apr 2010

Neon fly posting arrests the eye as you venture into Talbot Rice, the gritty and harrowing statements creating a sense of nervous expectation. The main room displays several of Holzer’s large-scale paintings depicting declassified US military documents.

Spring Exhibition 2010

Spring Exhibition 2010

(4 stars)15 Apr 2010

Edinburgh’s newest gallery’s spring exhibition presents an outstanding selection of work by Scottish-based artists as well as one or two pieces from future exhibitors that contrast and complement their neighbours. The show encompasses a range of work…

Kurt Jackson

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…

Sophiegetseverywhere

Sophiegetseverywhere

15 Apr 2010

Sophie Stubbs aka sophiegetseverywhere studied Visual Communication at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2007. Her work explores the messages that are portrayed within the fashion industry, and the ways in which these ideals are inflicted on the…

Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880–1900

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

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…

Artists Rooms: Diane Arbus

Artists Rooms: Diane Arbus

(4 stars)31 Mar 2010

An accusation often levelled at Diane Arbus is that she was an indulged rich girl who voyeuristically exploited the poor, the disabled and the sexually deviant in her work. Certainly the black and white photographs that comprised her ‘contemporary…

Lauren Gault: Lacks

Lauren Gault: Lacks

(4 stars)31 Mar 2010

Lauren Gault's sculptural and film works have an impressively assured air for an artist working at such an early point in her career. Pastel-hued objects, both lumpen and ornate, command the Duchy’s perfectly proportioned gallery space, comprising a…

Arthur Steward & Richard James Moat: Elsewhere

Arthur Steward & Richard James Moat: Elsewhere

(3 stars)31 Mar 2010

There’s a certain aesthetic similarity between the austere, monochromatic works of each artist in this joint exhibition, but their intentions appear to be the precise opposite of one another. While Moat’s pieces consider naturally created forms, they’re…

Zixiao Chang: Endless Sky

Zixiao Chang: Endless Sky

(3 stars)31 Mar 2010

Former ECA Masters graduate Chang's large-scale screen prints, currently on display at Edinburgh Printmakers, are a feast for the eyes. The eight pieces depict heavy skies, airy spaces and light rain expertly processed with translucent printing…

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010

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

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…

Alex Frost: The Connoisseurs

Alex Frost: The Connoisseurs

(4 stars)23 Mar 2010

There’s much to sniff out in this multi-faceted collection of classical trash, made manifest here in multiple strands of work. At its centre is one of two title pieces, a flock of giant reproductions of noses that, in their pursuit for olfactory…

Victoria Morton

Victoria Morton

(4 stars)23 Mar 2010

In the basement of Inverleith House there’s a screening of Anne-Marie Copestake’s 1999 film on Victoria Morton to accompany this large exhibition of work by the artist. At one point in the film Morton asks all-female art/punk troupe Chicks on Speed…

I Belong To Glasgow: David Shrigley

I Belong To Glasgow: David Shrigley

22 Mar 2010

I moved to Glasgow as a teenager, and I’ve lived here more than half my life now. I don’t consider Leicester, where I’m originally from, as home anymore. Glasgow is my home. There’s always so much going on in Glasgow. You can go to really good art…

Killing Curves: Lynn Ahren

Killing Curves: Lynn Ahren

22 Mar 2010

Killing curves Scottish artist Lynn Ahrens’ figure painting carries murderous intent. Paul Dale chats to him about his work Glasgow-born, Edinburgh-trained, and under- appreciated painter Lynn Ahrens likes to talk about the human figure. ‘My work has…

Central Station: Mhairi Sharp

Central Station: Mhairi Sharp

22 Mar 2010

Our showcase of up-and-coming young talent in association with Central Station focuses on the work of Mhairi Sharp, currently in her final year studying sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art. Her physical objects, text-based works, photography and…

Life, Death and Sex

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…

Frances Stark: Collage

Frances Stark: Collage

19 Mar 2010

But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet? Los Angeles-based artist, Frances Stark, uses collage on paper and canvas board to create gentle and visually pared down works which…

Laura Aldridge: Cats Are Not Important

Laura Aldridge: Cats Are Not Important

(3 stars)19 Mar 2010

You cannot view this exhibition in any other way than through the lens created by its title: Cats Are Not Important. Glasgow-based, ex-Transmission gallery committee member Laura Aldridge exhibits knot-tied sculptures in pastel hues arranged against…

The Printmaker’s Art

The Printmaker’s Art

(3 stars)19 Mar 2010

The oft misunderstood art of printmaking is represented here by masters of the craft, both Scottish and international. Visitors may struggle to find the darkened room down in the basement where the 30 plus collected prints are situated, but it is well…

Glasgow Art Fair 2010

Glasgow Art Fair 2010

19 Mar 2010

Glasgow Art Fair Now back for its 15th year, Glasgow Art Fair has long painted a colourful canvas for those interested in buying and selling art, and this year looks set to be no different. Setting its trademark white tented pavilion in Glasgow’s George…

Central Station: Eggmachine

Central Station: Eggmachine

19 Mar 2010

This week’s showcase of what’s hot in the contemporary art world is eggmachine, the alter ego of Gerry Thomson, who runs the woodworking shop at Glasgow’s Southside Studios, where he also creates work. Gerry, who graduated from Glasgow College of…

But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet?

But what of Frances Stark, standing by itself, a naked name, bare as a ghost to whom one would like to lend a sheet?

(3 stars)9 Mar 2010

Los Angeles-based artist, Frances Stark, uses collage on paper and canvas board to create gentle and visually pared down works which often leave large areas of the surface white and empty. She covers the rest with textual inscriptions and juxtaposes…

Peter Liversidge: The Thrill Of It All

Peter Liversidge: The Thrill Of It All

(4 stars)4 Mar 2010

Liversidge has built up a reputation on the back of his ‘proposals’ for artworks and this latest exhibition is a series written for, and realised at, the Ingleby. His suggestions to the gallery’s owners range from the tangible (proposing to paint the…

Dürer & Italy

Dürer & Italy

4 Mar 2010

This new exhibition of engravings by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) focuses on the influence of the German artist on his Italian contemporaries, which included Raphael. The exhibition presents astonishingly detailed engravings and woodcuts by the…

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