The Edinburgh Arts Festival (EAF) www.edinburghartfestival.org (27th July- 3rd Sept) entered its third year with a packed programme of exhibitions, events, talks and walks. Although distinctly devoid of extraordinary shows, a few EAF highlights included David Batchelor at The Palm… Continue Reading →

Established in 2003, The Embassy (www.embassygallery.co.uk) incorporated the key protagonists behind two Edinburgh-based artist-initiatives of the early 00s: Win Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together – a carnivalesque cooperative that occupied temporary spaces – and Magnifitat (www.magnifitat.net) – an… Continue Reading →

Where the Wild Things Are Dundee Contemporary Arts 10th June -13th August 2006 While crossing the border between human and animal kingdoms, DCA superficially mimics the wares of the watercolour-challenged currently emerging from hibernation to display their plumage at a… Continue Reading →

Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 4th December 2004 – 30th January 2005. Thomas Hirschhorn’s latest project sees him collaborating with Marcus Steinweg, Gwenaël Morin and his theatre company within the confines of the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris – an event… Continue Reading →

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 →