Visual art, Stewart Smith

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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Twilight Remembers

6 Aug 20125 stars

Outstanding overview of work by a remarkable artist

Poet, artist, avant-gardener; the late Ian Hamilton Finlay is best known for Little Sparta, the Pentlands garden he created with his wife, Sue. From this remarkable realm, populated by Greek gods, French revolutionaries, pastoral images and military…

Glasgow DIY Festival

17 Sep 2009

The city shows off its talented underground arts scene

Without wishing to play down the significance of Franz Ferdinand’s commercial breakthrough, arguably the real story of Glasgow rock in the ’00s has been the rise of the DIY gig scene. Nuts & Seeds got the ball rolling by booking weird, noisy and fun…