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Art :: Review 18 Aug 2008
Nancy Katz: Everybody likes a little emotional manipulation. We pay for drugs, roller coasters and horror movies because they make us feel something, whether it be good, invincible or scared shitless. This exhibition does all these things. Now, admittedly for some...
Jennifer Felton: Heim’s first solo exhibition in the UK questions the role of nature within the urban environment. The main wall of the gallery is interjected with earthenware bowls mounted at varying heights. These thick, earthy bowls hold jewel-like incrustati...
Rebecca Pottinger: Walking into Andrew Grassie’s first Scottish solo show feels a little like jumping head first into a masterclass for procrastinating postmodernist brainstormers. Described as elliptical orbits, the disorientating shunt of the collection of photo-...
Art :: Review 11 Aug 2008
Nina Goldberger: The Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents its annual show this August, ‘Magazine 08’, curated for the first time by two of Spain’s most prominent curators, Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis. I managed to pick their brains for...
Fashion :: Art :: Feature 08 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Installation 1: Gilbert & George by Tatty Devine The biform, eccentric world of art stars Gilbert & George has been delightfully extended to incorporate a range by London-based jewellery geniuses, Tatty Devine. Highlights include gin bottle p...
Art :: Preview 22 Jul 2008
Rebecca Pottinger: Fuelled by ambition of gargantuan proportions and driven with an intent in line with the joviality and ingenuity to which we have become so accustomed during August, this year's Art Festival sees Collective firmly propel The Golden Record – Sound...
Sam Stead: Edinburgh and Glasgow, two cities sitting on opposite sides of a small nation: it’s barely necessary to go into the age-old series of jokes, comments and clichés that set the two apart despite their actual geographical proximity. Presenti...
Art :: Preview 20 Jul 2008
Nancy Katz: Scottish artist Jane Frere will present perhaps one of the most thought provoking exhibitions of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Reactionary inter-disciplinary debate will range from the politics of displacement, and most specifically the 1948 Palestinian ...
Art :: Feature 17 Jul 2008
Andrew Cattanach: Altered States of Paint is one of those rare curatorial gems not often seen outside of London. There is a certain implicit logic to the selection of works that is so understated that it can only be put down to curatorial intuition. And on first viewing...
Art :: Feature 07 Jul 2008
Andrew Cattanach: It’s the end of another academic year and the Glasgow School of Art is showcasing its recent graduates in the annual degree show. Another batch of Fine Art students are given over to the public gaze after four years of hard graft. The idea is tha...
Daniella Watson: You would think that embarking on life in a creative industry would be all about focus and determination. And it is, naturally. But it is also necessary to bear in mind the need for survival without recourse to anything too soul-destroying, so it's a g...
Art :: Preview 01 Jul 2008
Brian Spears: Sara Sinclair’s Back Garden Biennale, which is now in its second year following its inception in 2006, brings together a culturally diverse group of artists and exhibits their works in the grounds of her own home. The Back Garden Biennale is inte...
Art :: Review 25 Jun 2008
Rebecca Pottinger: For the next 30 days, climbing the stairs to the GRV’s Studio Two takes you right into the liminal spaces at the edge of humanity – or so the kids from the MA Contemporary Art Theory at the ECA would like us to believe. With its wholly affi...
Art :: Preview 25 Jun 2008
Brian Spears: The highly recommended art event of the weekend must surely be PLAGUES, a for-one-night-only performance of new work by artist Donald Urquhart, jointly commissioned by Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery and London’s Studio Voltaire. A so-calle...
Art :: Heads Up :: Feature :: News 24 Jun 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: Earlier this year, when Radiohead invited fans to remix tracks from their latest In Rainbows album for nowt, the response was vast and varied. It is unlikely, however, that any bedroom producer went to the extraordinary and ingenious lengths of Airdrie...
Art :: Review 22 Jun 2008
Celia Sontag: The mark of a strong ECA degree show tends to be measured by the extent to which the students can imprint the studios and spaces of the Lauriston Place building (and more recently Evolution House) with their own individual vision. They must, in a very ...
Art :: Review 20 Jun 2008
Sam Stead: It hits upon entering the space, the vinyl spoiler immediately forcing you to read the work in a very particular way. Which is a shame as the work presented here is capable of engaging with a wider set of concerns than the link between memory and the o...
Art :: Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 11 Jun 2008
Lucy Martin: Acclaimed as 'Scotland's strangest band' experimental pop band FOUND are living up to expectations by involving themselves in Chinese Music at Midsummer, a free promenade performance which hopes to bring together elements of an ongoing exhibition (Dial...
Art :: Review 09 Jun 2008
Mark Shukla: Skaer's largest solo show to date, and also her most convincing, this exhibition suggests the Glasgow-based artist's creative muse is moving into full blossom, the aesthetic rigour of her investigations making for a satisfying show that rewards contemp...
Art :: Feature 02 Jun 2008
Rosamund West: The first of 2008’s Scottish degree shows presents an expansive and riotous survey of Dundee’s new blood within the labyrinthine confines of Duncan of Jordanstone College. The scale of the show is truly astounding, even when compared to tho...
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