Lily of Blythenhale Andro Semeiko Artist Book Launch and Talk Saturday 3 December 15.00 – 17.00 Talk by Donald Rayfield at 16.00 Lily of Blythenhale is an artist book, which tells a multilayered visual story by Jessica Wilkes Award holder…
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Catalogue text for Ross Downes Other People’s Problems Project Space, Leeds Opens September 9th 2011 Aug 22, 2011
Comments closedGlasgow Has Built This Text and This Text Has Built Glasgow ————————————- Exists only in the future. This is not a complete thought. It leaves you asking, ‘who or what exists only in the future’? The direct serious action…
Comments closedArtist book Unveiling: Rocket MT2010, 48 pages, edition of 500, tells a linear narrative with layered visual meaning. It features images created and compiled by Andro Semeiko, and texts specially written by Neil Mulholland and JJ Charlesworth. It is edited…
Comments closedDISCO DANCER SLAMS BLOBBY BOSS RANDAN Discoteque star Craig Coulthard has revealed that not being in a band could become boring. The opinionated Scottish songsmith refused to address claims that Bonkers…
Comments closedAlso at http://kimcolemanjennyhogarth.co.uk/texts/awfully_good.htm As a title for this exhibition, an oxymoron perfectly encapsulates the understated dynamics of its subject matter: light. The scene it sets is expressive rather than representative; it shape-shifts. The scene it sets is definitely possible.…
Comments closedBack Garden Biennale 2008 Edinburgh, Scotland Art today tends to lodge in spaces. ‘Nice space’ all intone in unison when encountering yet another opening in the great white indoors. Such spaces are significantly devoid of detail – they take little…
Comments closedRandom Son of a Bitch Uh, I feel in writing mood. What else can I say? I know. I usually get up at 6.15am in the morning because I always do. I try to make it to the 7:15am bus,…
Comments closedCommenticius Combibo (Lady Amherst’s Lesser Big-eared Ring-necked Semi-collared Bar-headed Pink-footed Red-Eyed Short-arsed Buff-bellied Fanny-tailed Ruddy-cheeked Needle-nobbed Trustafarian Bean Warbling Uphill Oystercatching Snipe) This seabird has flourished in the Isle of Man, Switzerland and North Korea where it has been saved…
Comments closedHigh Street Fighting Years The Collective Gallery has its roots in a tradition of independent and artist-led activities in Edinburgh that can be traced to 1960s organisations such as the New 57 Gallery and protests led by Alexander Moffat and…
Comments closedIn 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…
Comments closedHostile 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,…
Comments closedFULLERTON, 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…
Comments closedPersona: Cornelius and Dr. Ink Scene: The souvenir shop in the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Cornelius (coming in through the spin doors). My dear Dr. Ink, don’t coop yourself up all day in the shop. It is a perfectly…
Comments closedMainstream:Turning Piss into Lager Since 1997 Sometimes it’s hard to find time to sit down and write to people who really matter. That’s why each year, when the time comes around to write this message to you, I ask my…
Comments closedBefore I begin, I’d like to thank my latest Capitalist sponsors for the absolute restitution of my privileged access to Truth, hence my respectful reverence of Alex Pollard’s Bastardised stealth boomerang returned…
Comments closedI didn’t get where I am today without knowing good old-fashioned painting when I see it. People and their fads, eh? Still, no use kicking against the pricks. Neither Mrs. Ruskin nor myself has ever kicked against a prick. And…
Comments closedRyan 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…
Comments closedSittin’ 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…
Comments closedDon’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…
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