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Peacock Among the Ruins
22 May 2007
INTERIOR DESIGN DCA hosts Peacocks Among the Ruins, co-curated by Glasgow-based designers Timorous Beasties as part of the Six Cities design festival. The exhibition brings together a rich selection of contemporary design with antiquated textile…
Wael Shawky
27 Mar 2007
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Mar-Sat 21 A
VIDEO INSTALLATION Collective Gallery’s exhibition program resumes with a solo show of work by Egypt born Wael Shawky. Shawky’s work is multifarious but deals primarily with culture and religion, juxtaposing, comparing and contrasting one with the…
Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Wayward Thinker
13 Mar 2007
Trenton Doyle Hancock:
PAINTING DRAWING SCULPTURE Trenton Doyle Hancock is a storyteller and mythmaker - a highbrow comic book artist struggling with a complex psyche and an unruly inner child. His conviction is admirable, developing a narrative based on characters that…
Nick Evans
12 Feb 2007Mary Mary, Glasgow, Sat 10 Mar-Sat 14 Apr
SCULPTURE Fresh from his solo show at Tate St Ives, Nick Evans returns to Glasgow to exhibit new work - his first exhibition in his representative gallery’s new Dixon Street space. Evans’ practice has developed a great deal since his early…
Peter Howson - Andrew: Portrait of a Saint
12 Feb 2007
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, until Sun 4 Mar
PAINTING DRAWING Peter Howson’s recent works have carried a strong religious theme. This exhibition is evidence of that, featuring as it does a large number of paintings, drawings and sketches, all dedicated to the Scottish patron saint. Howson…
Goya - Monsters and Matadors
29 Jan 2007
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, until Sun
ETCHING There is something unsettlingly contemporary about the etchings on display in this exhibition; they are vivid and raw. Goya’s ‘Disasters of War’ is the centrepiece to this modest collection, and rightly so. The important series, not published…
David Shrigley
20 Dec 2006
DCA, Dundee, until Sun 21 Jan 2007
DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND VIDEO David Shrigley’s drawings are synonymous. He is famous for absurdities with a helping of schoolboy humour. But it is his sculptures that are most memorable in this mini-retrospective. Cast aside the ‘but is it art?…
Christine Borland
23 Nov 2006The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 2 Dec-Sun
SCULPTURE INSTALLATION A mid-career retrospective of Christine Borland’s work has been awaited on home turf for sometime - mainland Europe having seen retrospectives in the late 90s. So, a review, in the capital, arrives with great anticipation…
Andrew Reid
11 Nov 2006
INSTALLATION The Changing Room, Stirling, until Sun 7 Jan 2007 The window of The Changing Room is transformed into the vitrine of a manufactured socio-cultural artefact. Andrew Reid’s installation - an almost entirely grey model - is a mixture…
Cezary Bodzianowiski
27 Oct 2006Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Sat 28 Oct-Sat 25 Nov
PERFORMANCE, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY Cezary Bodzianowski returns to Glasgow from his native Poland to exhibit works made in the city for his solo show. Although a relative stranger to the UK he previously exhibited in 2005 alongside Sue Tompkins and…
Nick Evans
10 Oct 2006
SCULPTURE Glasgow-based sculptor Nick Evans was the fourth artist to be awarded Tate St Ives artist in residence. Steven Cairns caught up with him before the opening of his four-month solo show to talk about his work, its developments and working in…
