Claire Mitchell

Richard Strachan

20 Sep 2007

PAINTING Amber Roome, Edinburgh, until Thu 4 Oct As verdigris slices through neon lime, which in turn is edged with bright jade, Richard Strachan’s pragmatically titled ‘Green/Yellow’, becomes a crystalline image that seems to take you deep into the…

Touching the void

6 Sep 2007

There’s something about the term ‘the void’ that grates ever so slightly. The mention of it conjures up, at best, the Jungian notion that we humans are empty vessels into which experience is poured. The term is so overused that when you meet it in the…

Picasso on Paper

23 Aug 2007

They say that all is fair in love and war – although the word ‘fair’ seems a little humdrum when you take in the remarkable collection of works exhibited in one of the Festival’s undeniable big guns. Throughout a selection of around 120 graphic works…

William Eggleston: Portraits 1974

16 Aug 2007

No matter what decade you were brought up in, the 1970s are absolutely dripping with glossy, honey-hued nostalgia. And it’s exactly this kitschy, colour-saturated era that William Eggleston has captured in his 1974 photographs on show at Inverleith…

Nathan Coley

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

‘It’s a big sculpture talking about the invisibility of things, and I think that’s beautiful,’ says Nathan Coley. He is talking about his 2006 work ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’, a six-metre high structure with the title phrase illuminated across…

Alex Hartley

Edinburgh International Art Festival

19 Jul 2007

This year’s Festival will see the Fruitmarket Gallery boarded up by a giant poster-style replication of the real façade hidden underneath. The screen-printed faux frontage has been created by artist Alex Hartley, and comes with seven climbing routes…

Tender Scene: Group Show

17 Jul 2007

SCULPTURE, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND DRAWING TENDER SCENE - GROUP SHOW The Changing Room, Stirling, until 11 Aug (Image: Gregor Wright) Maybe it’s the red and white gaffer-taped maze of scaffolding in the Victorian shopping arcade that…

The Jerwood Photography Awards

3 Jul 2007

PHOTOGRAPHY With the Jerwood Photography Awards partnership with Portfolio Magazine, it seems only right that the touring exhibition of the four 2006 winners should come to Edinburgh. Paul Winch-Furness’ series of photographs of Milton Keynes are…

Peter Liversidge

8 May 2007

‘It’s kind of like when you are a child, and you really want a certain toy, but can’t have it, so you make your own version instead,’ says London-based artist Peter Liversidge of his own homemade versions of everyday and perhaps not-so-everyday things…

Alex Pollard: Black Marks

8 May 2007

SCULPTURE AND WORK ON PAPER Major Tom’s a junkie, and John Wayne Gacy’s a serial killer - it’s no wonder that clowns get a bad rap these days, and that bozophobia is apparently running rife amongst the seemingly sanest of folk. But in Alex Pollard’s…

Group Show: Lutz Fezer, Kevin Hutcheson & Clunie Reid

Transmission, Glasgow, until Sat 12 May

23 Apr 2007

WORK ON PAPER A grid work of duct tape only heightens the sense of fetishisation across Clunie Reid’s ‘Something Bold, Something Insane, Something Snivelled, Something True’ that pulls you in from the street and into a flood of familiar imagery at…

Roderick Buchanan

The Dear Blue/Green Place

27 Mar 2007

When good Catholic boy Mo Johnston signed up for Rangers in 1989, he was stepping into pretty dangerous territory - teetering gingerly on the razor-sharp knife-edge that is a specifically Glaswegian sectarian divide, where deep-seated prejudice is often…

La Femme de Nulle Part - Group Show

Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, until Sat 28 Apr

13 Mar 2007

FILM, SCULPTURE AND PRINTS In the past, any woman who wandered from the respectable path, or whose intelligence dared question the male forces that be, was usually then classified as an unholy hysteric, and was either excommunicated or ‘treated…