Transmission, Glasgow Errantly over determined high definition digitally manipulated images bearing their Photoshop scars as fangs parade the Transmission like Tretchikoff dinosaurs. Tales of the expected, they look like paintings but aren’t. In the main gallery, these huge LaserJet prints… Continue Reading →

12th November 2005 – 28th January 2006, CCA, Glasgow. An exhibition featuring a substantial film programme, In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love forthrightly presents itself as intellectually challenging and time-demanding. It sprawls geographically and chronologically… Continue Reading →

                      Kinross and Perthshire, Scotland March to November 2005 ‘Pit bulls are bought by those spectacular tattooed fuckwits, you know. It’s a shark on a leash, isn’t it, this pointy… Continue Reading →

Fruitmarket Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Edinburgh Castle 30 July — 25 September 2005 While running counter to global technocratic culture, spiritualism customarily acts as a dramatic subterfuge. Tantalizing us with the anticipation of spectral spectacle is the key… Continue Reading →

As the People’s Republic of China enters the 51st Venice Biennale for the first time this year – staging an exhibition in the Arsenale complex and the Vergini Garden – Scotland makes its third independent appearance since the Scottish Sculpture… Continue Reading →

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Anderson hacks technologies and spaces, making things and places do things that they weren’t designed to do. She playfully reappropriates media, lending it a performative drama. It’s a cut-up tactic purloined from William Burroughs,… Continue Reading →

Scotland burst out of Caledonia onto the international art scene at the beginning of the eighties with the Newer Glasgow Boys spearheading England’s bid for global New Image supremacy. But Scotland didn’t really come its own, commercially or artistically, until… Continue Reading →

Like many of her local peers, Glasgow artist Katy Dove works with unadorned playschool media. Colouring-in shapes with felt-tip pens and watercolour, she produces the kind of delicate forms and biomorphic sketches last seen alive in the abstract Plexiglas and… Continue Reading →

Aurora, Edinburgh – Alberta Whittle and Robin Scott Collective Gallery, Edinburgh – Lee O’Connor and Rabiya Choudhry. Edinburgh’s artist-led galleries have been particularly responsive lately to a growing tendency among local artists to fouter with decoration, heraldry and pageantry. In… Continue Reading →

The Embassy, Edinburgh, UK   The Embassy has an unenviable job competing with the imposing Salisbury Crags, a magnet for Edinburgh’s spiritual dissidents, from the Beltane fire of the Pagans to the tub-thumping of Covenanters. ‘Fire and Brimstone’ is a… Continue Reading →