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Nick Evans: Solar Eyes
19 Feb 2013
Monumental sculpture show is genius in its conception and meticulous in execution
One enters the exhibition through a dusky and dramatic pyramid passageway. The suspense of discovery hangs thick in the air before a big volcanic hall is reached. Inside, stories of a distant past echo with predictions of the future. Nick Evans has set…
Lauren Gault's Sweet Ensilage is an ambitious collection of found objects
24 Jan 2013
The Glasgow-based artist creates pieces that explore theories around sight and seeing
The Glasgow-based artist creates objects that explore theories around sight and seeing Lauren Gault’s exhibition title Sweet Ensilage is in a strange way seductively suggestive of a particular state of being: a state of ‘sweet ensilage’. The show draws…
George Wyllie: In Pursuit of the Question Mark
17 Dec 2012
Fabulously upbeat mix of sculptures, drawings and paintings from Scottish scul?tor
Perhaps best known for his public sculpture depicting a clock on running legs outside the Buchanan bus station in Glasgow, the late George Wyllie has become a household name in Scotland. His work has always been populist, accessible and life-affirming…
Rembrandt and the Passion
16 Nov 2012
Exhibition considers Entombment Sketch in relation to Rembrandt's other work
Rembrandt might be a household name but whenever there is an opportunity to stand in front of his work it brings a renewed understanding of what a master he was in portraying the human condition. This prolific Dutch artist had a disciplined printmaking…
Ten emerging artists from Scotland
30 Oct 2012
Including Nick Evans, Torsten Lauschmann, Ashley Nieuwenhuizen and more
Producing six of the last 15 Turner Prize winners – among them Martin Creed, Richard Wright, Susan Philipsz and Simon Starling – the Scottish art scene is an incubator for new international talent. Talitha Kotzé introduces ten of the best
Ten galleries and visual art institutions in Scotland
30 Oct 2012
Tramway, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Fruitmarket Gallery and more
National Galleries of Scotland. Four sites across Edinburgh house the national collections. Among the permanent highlights are work by Titian, Rembrandt and the great surrealists. Gallery of Modern Art. A grand neo-classical building in the middle of…
Andrew Kerr: Delmess was Charged
19 Oct 2012
An easy-to-like exhibition of the Glasgow-based artists paper-based works
It is hard not to like these acrylic works on paper. Unframed and pinned to the white wall they sit comfortably, owning the space, yet not too precious. Pigments in a muted tonal range have been moved around on the small-scale canvas in an automative…
Laura Aldridge: Things Held Inside / The New Sea
18 Oct 2012
Experiments in fabric imbued with a sense of unfulfillment
Like protest banners or sails on ships, a range of fabrics have been sewn and stitched together, screenprinted and hand painted. Stretched across planted poles and anchored down with heavy concrete, their seeming functionality – of protest placards…
Alistair Frost: Image Coming Soon
20 Sep 2012
Exhibition themed around leisure and laziness feels uninspiring and disaffecting
There is a leisure agenda here, activities actively postponed: ‘image coming soon’. The process of contemplation – thinking, planning, daydreaming, future presence – manifests in hammocks turned canvases. Interludes of motivational music disrupt the…
Glasgow Women's Library hosts group exhibition 21 Revolutions
7 Sep 2012
The show features works from Karla Black, Jacki Parry, Helen de Main, Sharon Thomas and Corin Sworn
Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) has grown from a grassroots project launched in 1991 in a small shopfront in Garnethill into an accredited museum and a hub for women’s and equalities information in Scotland. The exhibition 21 Revolutions celebrates a…
The Clipperton Project
10 Aug 2012
An uninhabited island becomes an idea at the 2012 Edinburgh Art Festival
Clipperton is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. To a group of modern day expeditionaries this island has also become an idea. In March this year 20 artists and scientists from eight different countries embarked on a…
James McLardy - The Swan and Hostage
3 Aug 2012
Enjoyable exhibition questioning the inherent value and fakeness of sculpted pieces
James McLardy’s solo show 'The Swan and Hostage' is the result of his six-week residency at the Duchy gallery in the east end of Glasgow. The title echoes the pub-like feel to the gallery’s name and location: the swan symbolises the beautiful, the…
Iconic America artist Carolee Schneemann appearing at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2012
28 Jul 2012
Artist known for discourses on the body, gender, sexual expression and liberation
Carolee Schneemann, the iconic American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, gender, sexual expression and liberation, is exhibiting at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival. Her seminal works, ‘Meat Joy’ (1964), ‘Fuses’ (1967) and…
Katja Strunz: Dynamic Fatigue Test
28 Jul 2012
Thought-provoking exhibition of metallic sculpture and works on paper
Metal fatigue is the progressive and localised structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loadings. Berlin-based artist Katja Strunz has set up fatigue tests in the gallery to determine how materials will hold up during…
Lotte Gertz: New Work
14 Jun 2012
Hand stitched canvases give value to these paintings
New Work by Lotte Gertz is a surprisingly beautiful, yet unassuming exhibition. Murky shades of green, grey and blue paint have been pushed and swirled around the canvases. Traces of a second layer appear visible through the cloth – revealing a…
Lis Rhodes: Dissonance and Disturbance
14 Jun 2012
Showcase of artist's film work from last four decades
‘It is dangerous to step out of line – and lethal not to,’ declared Lis Rhodes, British filmmaker and artist, whose work is political, feminist, visually rich and powerfully poetic. Tramway showcases a cross section of her films from the last four…
Practice of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles examines mortality
21 Mar 2012
Glasgow Sculpture Studios show takes on English riots and drug crimes
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles arrived in Scotland for her three-month Glasgow Sculpture Studios residency just as the riots kicked off in England last year. She travelled down to pick up debris from the aftermath, which will be used in her exhibition…
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans the subject of Common Guild Exhibition
21 Mar 2012
The show promises to showcase the breadth of his artistic output
People have been making pictures for thousands of years, and 150 years ago the photographic process was added to that vocabulary. German-born, London-based artist Wolfgang Tillmans makes no distinction between a photograph and a painting, but he chooses…
Alasdair Gray: City Recorder
19 Dec 2011
Fantastic exhibition of drawings chronicling Glasgow's past
For one year in 1977, at a time when many of Glasgow’s famous old industries were closing, Alasdair Gray was commissioned to capture the life of the city in ink, watercolour, acrylic and oil on paper. Glasgow’s local history museum, the People’s Palace…
Henrik Håkansson: The End
9 Dec 2011
Video installation centres around death of several flies
Its body cracks under the whip. Wings tear apart, legs fall open, torso flinching, and its head flops lifeless to one side. The momentous instant of the death of the fly is elongated, scored and played back on a grand scale. Then another appears. The…
Thea Djordjadze - Lost Promise in a Room
15 Nov 2011
A considered display of sculpture and objects in effective, minimalist setting
Strange objects roughly sculpted in plaster, propped up against walls, placed in corners and laid out in unusual places, are contrasted against minimalist lines of steel and smooth mirrored cubes. A lump of chicken wire is securely contained in a…
Transmission Gallery Group Show
15 Nov 2011
Sam Derounian, Graham Kelly and Conor Kelly shine in local artist showcase
A commendable group show brings together new work by nine Glasgow-based artists at the Transmission Gallery. Without a didactic theme to tie the exhibition together the viewer is free to contemplate works individually and to make subtle links with…
Ciara Phillips: The only rule is work
21 Oct 2011
Exhibition the result of a three-month residency at Kendall Koppe, inspired by Sister Corita Kent
‘The only rule is work’ is one of ten accommodating rules for students and teachers developed by artist and educator Sister Corita Kent. Ciara Phillips’ exhibition is the result of her three-month residency in the gallery space where she shared a…
Graham Fagen: Missing
21 Sep 2011
Moving video installation running parallel to the Tramway's Andrew O'Hagan-penned theatre production
Graham Fagen’s moving video diptych Missing explores the experience of going missing, and what it is like for those left behind. Commissioned by the Scottish National Portrait gallery, it is produced in partnership with the National Theatre of Scotland…
Alan Reid: Boudoir Concrete
16 Sep 2011
Delicately balanced clashing of art and design
Looking for all the world like propaganda posters for Nazi leisure organisation Kraft durch Freude, Alan Reid’s representational drawings of lissome young bodies appear to promote healthy living and sexless appeal. Lithe bodies are interrupted by…
