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Highlights from 2012 art college degree shows in Scotland

Highlights from 2012 art college degree shows in Scotland

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Napier and Dundee degree shows

25 May 2012

As Scotland's art colleges prepare to open the doors on their annual degree shows The List gets a sneak preview of some of the most eye-catching work on display.

Tracey Emin

Golden years - Tracey Emin

Edinburgh International Art Festival

22 Jul 2008

As the leading female light of Britart, Tracey Emin has been revered and rejected in equal measure. Writer and broadcaster Bidisha has a few words of scorn for the detractors and reflects on the already profound legacy she will leave behind It’s been…

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…

Ambitious outdoor arts festival Roofless launches

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…

Tom Phillips - Word and image

Tom Phillips - Word and image

(5 stars)15 Nov 2007

In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips went on a shopping expedition in Peckham, casually looking for a book to play with and adapt. Chance led him to a copy of WH Mallock’s A Human Document, an obscure and relatively forgotten Victorian novel, which the…

8 Scottish-based artists to watch in 2012

Glasgow International 2012 - 8 Scottish-based artists to watch

Featuring Christine Jones, David Galletly and 85A collective

29 Mar 2012

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…

Peter Blake: Venice

Peter Blake: Venice

Poptabulous exhibition of screenprints inspired by La Dominante

(4 stars)21 Jul 2009

When Art went POP!, Peter Blake defined a very British view of how the 60s swung. Collaging trash iconography with pop star royalty, all involved were bestowed with mutually acquired cult credibility. Forty-odd years on from Sergeant Pepper, the…

Visual art: In the frame

Visual art: In the frame

The most significant works of art in Scotland

15 Sep 2008

Glasgow and Edinburgh’s galleries and museums play host to some of the most famous art works in the world. David Pollock selects the ten you cannot afford to miss.

Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips

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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…

Jonathan Monk

Jonathan Monk

(3 stars)8 May 2008

INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE, PAINTING Tramway, Glasgow, until Sun 18 May ‘Something No Less Important Than Nothing’ and ‘Nothing No Less Important Than Something’ are the first Scottish shows by Jonathan Monk in a decade, though actually it’s the same…

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