It’s ten years since opera critic Jeremy J Beadle penned Will Pop Eat Itself?, detailing the plagiarist tactics of the Kopyright Liberation Front, M/A/R/R/S, Technotronic and Jive Bunny. Believing they had overcome the hip-hop copyright crisis, record corporation lawyers suddenly… Continue Reading →
Sorcha Dallas and Marianne Greated opened the countless doors of Glasgow’s nomadic gallery Switchspace in February 1999. Dallas’ West End tenement became host to the first of over 15 shows. Tiring of appeasing stairhead neighbours and of watching telly in… Continue Reading →
Ryan Doolan, Born 1976, Irvine, Scotland. “Lois Lane was a Modern Athenian” – Robert McCall, Vanity Fair, July 2001. Shallow, catty, flamboyant and image-obsessed, the Earls of Marchmont had an inside joke called ‘Modern Athenia’, two worlds which they invoked… Continue Reading →
Martin Boyce, Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours, Tramway, Glasgow, Until 19th January 2003. Adrian Wiszniewski, Dream On, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Until 24th December 2002. Boyce’s brooding installation of chain-link fencing, modern… Continue Reading →
Richard Wilson: Irons in the Fire Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Until 14th December 2002 “Personally, I have always considered Richard Wilson to be the finest British landscape painter of the late eighteenth century”, quipped art historian David Hopkins. Judging by… Continue Reading →
Sittin’ on down, Old Paint is a little teacherish for his years, but he’s solid without taking himself for his own statue. A Brooklyn guy with 6 pairs of eyes and a heart that won’t lie, a little nasty beauty… Continue Reading →
Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. Unlock that funky chaindance. Tension mars the prettiest face. Suit the action to… Continue Reading →
Jordan Baseman, EF103 603, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Until 23rd May 2o02 Salla Tykka, Cave, Tramway 2, Glasgow. Until 8th June 2002 Helsinki based Salla Tykka is one of a number of young Scando artists… Continue Reading →
Win Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together 28 Leven Street, Tollcross, Edinburgh. Edinburgh’s abysmal lack of independent artist initiatives has been confronted lately with discreet domestic organisations such as Magnifitat, Tag Team Experiment and a spattering of large group… Continue Reading →
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