Alexander Kennedy

Patrick Wolf

Do you believe in magic?

12 Feb 2007

Vicious little Dorothy Parker got it right when she said that the term ‘artist’ is overused, and that the category of ‘art’ is not elastic. It isn’t fashionable to say this, of course, where a restrictive version of ‘inclusion’ has meant that we can all…

Charlie Hammond

Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Sat 3 Mar

12 Feb 2007

PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY There is both an undeniable sense of conceptual precision and a wicked sense of humour informing the work of Charlie Hammond at Sorcha Dallas. The selection of work on display bears the marks of its making - but…

Group Show: Hot Rock

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 24 Feb

12 Feb 2007

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATION Seven international artists question the cultural value of the very recent past and an always uncertain future in Hot Rock at the Transmission. The show brings together work by Monika Grzymala, Andreas Hofer, Brian…

Aron Tarjani and Miranda Whall: If I Open My Eyes I Might See Teeth

Washington Garcia, Glasgow, run ended

12 Feb 2007

VIDEO INSTALLATION The second offering from the Glasgow artist-run collective Washington Garcia brings together video and film work by Hungarian artist Aron Tarjani and Cardiff-based Miranda Whall. (Their first exhibition, a month ago, featured…

Venice Biennale

Six of the best

30 Jan 2007

Congratulations to Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain, who have been selected to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art, after months of deliberation. The Scottish show, which will…

Venice Biennale - who's going

Six of the best

30 Jan 2007

Congratulations to Charles Avery, Henry Coombes, Louise Hopkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Tony Swain, who have been selected to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale of Art, after months of deliberation. The Scottish show, which will…

Simon Periton

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 24 Feb

29 Jan 2007

WORK ON PAPER It is easy to find superficial anti-art and anti-aesthetic urges in Simon Periton’s spray painted collages and assemblages on show at The Modern Institute. The materials he takes his inspiration from appear to have been ripped from…

Lorna Macintyre

Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Fri 23 Feb

29 Jan 2007

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY When the natural and unnatural are understood to be artificial concepts, the art object that takes this bleak state of affairs at its word is equally bleak. Lorna MacIntyre’s sculptures, photographs and drawings…

Julie Roberts

A woman's work

16 Jan 2007

After a century of feminism and post-feminisms, the word ‘woman’ has been constructed and deconstructed in such an enormous collection of philosophical and psychoanalytic tomes by some of the world’s greatest minds (Freud, de Beauvoir, Lacan, Kristeva…

Metal Bridge, The

Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Sat 20 Jan

16 Jan 2007

DRAWING, FILM, INSTALLATION. The Metal Bride - Group Show This small group show brings together the work of four artists - Steven Claydon (London), Thomas Helbing (Berlin) Craig Mulholland, and Duncan Marquiss (who both live in Glasgow). The…

Lorna Macintyre

Mary Mary, Glasgow, Sat 20 Jan-Fri 23 Feb

9 Jan 2007

INSTALLATION It’s advisable that when the figurative and the abstract meet they should do so in the clear empty spaces of the latter, otherwise the aesthetic object falls into the cheap embrace of anthropomorphism. The man-made material and the…

Pick of 2006 - Hot 100

Top 50

12 Dec 2006

The List’s Hot 100 celebrates the people who have made the biggest impact on cultural life in Scotland over the past 12 months.

Pick of 2006 - Hot 100

100 to 51

12 Dec 2006

I can admit it now: I was a fool to set up the Hot 100. When you think of the broad spectrum of cultural activities that we cover in The List, from film and music through to eating out, shopping and occasionally sport, it’s clear that the number of…

Review of the year

Art editor Alexander Kennedy looks back at the yea

11 Dec 2006

It’s difficult to have a balanced opinion about a year where all the big names came back to roost in the large galleries and museums in Scotland, and what is usually referred to vaguely as ‘up and coming’ work by younger artists was mostly unimpressive.

Planting the Tele - Group Show

Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 13 Jan 2007

6 Dec 2006

MIXED MEDIA How many artists does it take to make a good group show? One could opt for a witty retort or just say it right out: ten. Planting the Tele brings together a host of art workers in an exhibition curated by Glasgow-based artist Haley…

Planting the Tele

Mary Mary, Glasgow, from Sat 25 Nov-Sat 13 January

27 Nov 2006

INATALLATION, FILM AND WORKS ON PAPER Glasgow has seen very little of Hayley Tompkins of late, but she has returned in a curatorial capacity in Planting the Tele at Mary Mary Gallery, bringing together new work by seven artists: Anne-Marie Copestake…

Northern City (Between Light and Dark) - Group Show

Northern City (Between Light and Dark) - Group Sho

27 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM With increasing contemporary interest in Edinburgh’s role as the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment, this new exhibition hopes to examine how the capital played a major role in the birth of…

Catherine Sullivan

CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 27 Jan 2007

27 Nov 2006

FILM INSTALLATION LA-based artist Catherine Sullivan’s films attempts to reveal the psychic glue that holds the subject together and binds it to society. By re-staging a highly charged traumatic event in her film ‘Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land’…

Callum Innes - From Memory

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 19 Nov

11 Nov 2006

PAINTING Let’s just get it out the way quickly - there are some bad paintings in this mini-retrospective of Edinburgh-based Callum Innes at the Fruitmarket Gallery. Well, two at a push. This exhibition continues to receive such high praise (he’s both…

Giles Bailey - Sound Examples for 'Average Performance' Experiments

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 18 Nov

11 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE What are we other than a bag of warped memories with some genitals attached? The decentered subject that was heralded almost 40 years ago is a theoretical construction that has just not caught on. The postmodern subject…

Cezary Bodzianowski

Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 25 Nov

11 Nov 2006

VIDEO INSTALLATION A convex mirror throws back your warped image from the corner of a space. You could be standing on the platform at Cowcadens watching yourself waiting for the tube, or standing in Cezary Bodzianowski’s exhibition at Sorcha Dallas…

No more multicoloured mud

It’s hard to please The List’s art critic, but one

16 Oct 2006

Is there a place for High Modernist Art in Scotland? Was there ever? ‘New York stole the idea of Modern art’, we are told hyperbolically by various writers, ‘and Scotland got left with the Scottish Colourists and their ilk.’

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Peter McCaughy

GSA Annual Staff Show - Christine Borland, Thomas

12 Oct 2006

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND INSTALLATION This slick little show continues the annual ‘outing’ of the talents of GSA staff members. The exhibition is pared down this year, which means that there is space to consider the objects, enough room to look for…

Dalziel + Scullion

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, until

11 Oct 2006

FILM INSTALLATION The new exhibition The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer by Dalziel + Scullion at Kelvingrove continues their use of a minimal, ‘hands off’ approach to whichever medium they employ. This attitude is one of the most successful aspects…

Lucy McKenzie

Alexander Kennedy examines the temporal loops, sty

28 Sep 2006

Eternal return The recent programme of exhibitions at the Talbot Rice has dished up some of the strongest and most memorable shows in Edinburgh of late. Pat Fisher, the curator, has managed to create an environment that most artists thrive in. Now…

Karl Haendel - Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor

Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Sat 14 Oct

28 Sep 2006

DRAWING There is something so obvious (a reactionary might say philistine) about treating everything with the same level of attention and/or contempt. The ‘high’ and the ‘low’ have been so expertly conflated in the best art and in the worst visual…

Group7 - Group Show

The Pentagon, Glasgow until Fri Nov 3

28 Sep 2006

The Pentagon acts as an alternative to the tradition gallery space, the supposed credibility of the old water flat student set up, and the established artist-run spaces located around King Street. Group7 brings together the work of seven painters, who…

Torsten Lauschmann

Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Fri 6 Oct

18 Sep 2006

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND FILM There is something refreshing about an exhibition by an artist that can be read as a strong collection of differing voices and styles, avoiding the rush towards self-branding that most art workers take. Torsten…

Jeremy Deller - Edited rushes

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 23 Sep-28 Oct

18 Sep 2006

FILM AND INSTALLATION It would be easy to start this small preview with the words ‘2004 Turner Prize winner’, but it’s much better to let it nestle near the middle of a the first sentence next to a comma. The fabric of Deller’s work unfolds like a…

Black Sun

18 Sep 2006

French artist, documentary filmmaker and author Hugues de Montalembert describes his life after he was attacked in his apartment in New York and blinded with paint stripper. This is less the story of an artist coming to terms with his blindness (and all…