Keith Farquhar – Living Logo (Jannica and John) (2008) Free-standing life-sized photograph mounted on card. Actual-size cardboard cut outs, Keith Farquhar’s most recent photographic works share the manufactured haptic qualities of his sculptures. The latest in the series re-animate the…

Despite common parlance, globalisation is not a synonym for contemporary neoliberal capitalism; it is rather an historical process of cultural drift and metamorphosis. It concerns the ways in which lots of small local networks connect to form an international matrix.…

Generator in Dundee are profiling the work of dynamic duo Jason Nelson and Kevin Reid in ah-ken-ah-kin! (31st March – 29th April 2007). Recent recipient of the Scottish Arts Council’s Amsterdam Residency, Reid particularly stands out in Scotland for producing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

                      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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…