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 →
O the most violent Paradise of the furious grimace! Not to be compared with your Fakirs and other theatrical buffooneries. In improvised costumes like something out of a bad dream, they enact heroic romances of brigands and of demigods, more… Continue Reading →
Thu 12 – Sat 14 July 2004 Opera House, Manchester, England Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-A, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal… Continue Reading →
…….is a question oft asked by dull-witted tourists in Scotland’s capital. Sadly, Sergeant ‘Tam the Gun’ McKay hasn’t let one off for a bit, (the shops on Princess Street complained of shoogling… Continue Reading →
Cornerhouse, Manchester 6 March to 17 April 2004 Cornerhouse’s visual arts director Kathy Rae Hauffman has come in for much criticism from local artists in the past year. The cry of ‘New Media New Danger’ has echoed around town as… Continue Reading →
In Room Three: the Eating Parlour on the front ground floor, infancy is awakened by enlightenment, and – as in adolescence – opinions are formed and sides taken. The room consists of bold contrasts; back or forth – even the… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since the domestic Bert & Ganddie gallery drew its net curtains to the public. Gallant Ganddie diligently poked around for a vacant space for a new project, all the while encountering the usual problems with finding… Continue Reading →
Hostile images abound of missionaries who participated in the global spread of secularism. Scots sport pundit Archie McPherson expressed disdain for heathen missionaries: “An atheist sermon is an unprovoked bellum; hit seeks tae wyle, tae gadge, tae broubatter, tae steer,… Continue Reading →
FULLERTON, Michael Scottish painter of portraits, landscapes, and fancy pictures, one of the most individual geniuses in European art. Born in Glasgow, he showed an aptitude for drawing early and first was encouraged by his mother, who was a woman… Continue Reading →
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